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GE Radiological Devices Prone to Hacking, Says CyberMDX
December 10, 2020
CyberMDX finds hacking vulnerability in a range of GE imaging systems.
What is CyberMDX?
CyberMDX is a specialist company with expertise in healthcare cybersecurity. CyberMDX can pinpoint vulnerabilities in any healthcare system and make the systems more secure to prevent hacking. CyberMDX help to make healthcare systems safer and hacker-proof.
What happened?
The research team at CyberMDX found hacking vulnerabilities in a range of GE imaging systems. The medical systems had unsecured communication with each other. Furthermore, hackers can potentially find the authentication credentials required for GE's maintenance protocols and thus get access to the medical equipment. This can happen because the credentials can easily be found online. Due to these vulnerabilities, hackers can get their hands on highly sensitive and private health information, modify patient data, and even affect machine operations.
"Over the past few months we've seen a steady rise in the targeting of medical devices and networks, and the medical industry is unfortunately learning the hard way the consequences of previous oversights," said Elad Luz, Head of Research at CyberMDX. "Protecting medical devices so that hospitals can ensure quality care is of utmost importance. We must continue to eliminate easy access points for hackers and ensure the highest level of patient safety is upheld across all medical facilities."
The hacking vulnerability isn't limited to one device. Several GE radiological devices have been impacted, including MRIs, CT scanners, X-Rays, and much more. You can find out which imaging systems are vulnerable by clicking here.
Since discovering the severe issue in May 2020, GE Healthcare and CyberMDX have been trying to resolve the problem together.
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In 2013 Savaye and Mandisa created the Di Fthatani Project to help local people living in Townships in South Africa overcome hunger by teaching them a simple innovative farming method called tunnel farming. This method used people's basic knowledge of agriculture to plant fresh vegetables under a tunnel and allows them to grow in a controlled environment, using less water and space than a normal garden. The vegetables planted were carefully selected based on the vitamin and mineral deficiencies present within the community, such as vitamin A and zinc.
They also ran workshops on life skills, to teach the importance of individuality and self-awareness, basic financial skills, nutrition, and entrepreneurship. Today in each township Orlando – Soweto, Alexandra – Sandton, and in Tembisa – Midrand there are three thriving tunnel farms. The education received has enabled the people of those townships to feed and provide income to their local communities. Each tunnel has provided $5,000 to date. More importantly these tunnels are self-sustaining and run entirely by the communities.
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Files < 1kb: 23 files.
Files < 100kb: 276 files.
Files < 1mb: 786 files.
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You will need to write some code that follows along an algorithm of your choice, using variables to store values.
The algorithm could look perform actions like this:
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 - Sum the number of files in each File-Size-Range-Group
 - Sum the individual file sizes for a File-Size-Range-Group total
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Cadaeic Cadenza
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Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an example of constrained writing, a book with restrictions on how it can be written. It is also one of the most prodigious examples of piphilology, being written in "pilish".
Cadaeic Cadenza has perhaps the harshest limitations on the exact words that can be used, but also results in uncommon sounding language. In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature (The Raven, Jabberwocky, the lyrics of Yes, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rubaiyat, Hamlet, and Carl Sandburg's Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme.
The limitations[edit]
When the number of letters in each word is written out they form the first 3835 digits of pi.
One / A Poem / A Raven / Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
3. 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5
While in this example each word is the same number of letters as the next digit of pi (and ten letters for the digit 0), some sections use words of more than ten letters as a one followed by another digit:
And fear overcame my being the fear of "forevermore".
3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 11
where 11 represents two consecutive digit "1"s in pi.
Taking "A" as 1, "B" as 2, "C" as 3, etc., the name of the piece itself is based on pi, as "Cadaeic" is the first 7 digits of pi, when rounded to that number of significant digits.
C a d a e i c
3.1 4 1 5 9 3
Near a Raven[edit]
The first part of Cadaeic Cadenza is slightly changed from an earlier version, "Near a Raven", which was a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".[1]
Poe, E.
Near a Raven
Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
—Mike Keith, First verse of Near a Raven
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Near A Raven,
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Copying an Existing Budget
This entry is part 8 of 16 in the series Focus Guide - BFA: Budgets
BFA supports entering data for a budget by copying the budget from an existing project. When you copy the budget from an existing project, you can choose to copy the existing project's Original, EAC, Actual, or FAC amounts and/or to apply a multiple to the Amount or Units. Furthermore, you are able to preview the rows to be copied and select which rows to include or exclude in your copy.
Using Budgets as Templates
Because of the flexibility in copying existing budgets, you can choose to create a project for the sole purpose of creating a budget with zero amounts but with line items that will be used as a "template" for other project budgets. When it is time to create a budget for a real project, you can choose which line items you want from your "template" budget through the Copy Existing option. Also, providing there is no conflict in the work-breakdown-structure of your budget, you can use the Copy Existing option multiple times. This allows you to create "templates" for sections of your budget that can be added as needed. For example, you can create a template budget that contains only "Site Construction" line items (with Cost Codes beginning in 02) and another that contains only "Electrical" line items (with Cost Codes beginning in 16) and so on. When it is time to add data to a budget in a real project, you would use the Copy Existing option to get your line items from "Site Work" and then again to get line items from "Electrical," etc. and then you would enter your amounts manually.
Note: You can copy only from a project with an Approved Budget, so even template budgets must be Approved.
To copy a budget from an existing project:
 1. From the Budget ribbon, click Copy Existing. A Retrieve Existing Budget dialog box will appear.
 2. Browse for the existing project from which you want to copy budget rows. If you want to copy the Billing Codes also, click the Copy Billings Codes? checkbox.
 3. Click Add.
 4. In the Select Import Rows box, click the Pick checkbox for those rows you want to copy.
 5. (optional) Select the Budget Source: Original, EAC, Actual, or FAC.
 6. (optional) Edit the Multiplier for the Amount or Unit as required.
 7. Click Group if you would like to group the results.
 8. Click Insert to copy the selected rows from the existing project to a new budget.
 9. In the Budget worksheet, review your copied budget and make any additions (Add New Rows), deletions (Delete Rows), and edits as needed.
 10. When you have finished entering your data, check the Revenue and Budget totals listed at the top of the columns to ensure you have entered your entire budget.
 11. Save your entries, close Excel, and return to the Spitfire Budget document.
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ICU Processes and Procedures
ICU Release Version Number Policy
ICU version number consists of up to four digits separated by dot.
 - First two digits are used for major release number. Major release numbers for C and J are always synchronized.
 - Even number at the second digit indicates an official release (e.g. 4.2)
 - Odd number at the second digit indicates a development release (e.g. 4.3.1) for next major release.
 - Third digit in an official release number indicates a maintenance update which is applicable to both C and J.
 - Incremented only when C and J have common changes, such as CLDR update.
 - For example, CLDR 1.7.1 changes are integrated into ICU4C 4.2.1 and ICU4J 4.2.1.
 - Third digit in a development release number indicates a milestone
 - ICU4C 4.3.1 -> ICU4C 4.4 development milestone 1
 - Fourth digit in an official release number indicates a maintenance update only applicable to either C or J.
 - For example, ICU4C resolved some platform specific build issues and no equivalent changes in J.
Ticket Life Cycle
Here is a description of the life cycle of an ICU Trac ticket, a feature request or a bug report, from initial submittal through implementation and review to release.
Feature Proposals and Design
 1. All API design proposals (for any additions and changes) must be proposed on the icu-design mailing list.
 2. The proposal email itself must include: (See the template subpage)
 1. The proposed (new or changed) API signature(s)
 2. A Trac ticket number
 3. A Suggested API reviewer
 4. A deadline for comments (usually one week from proposal).
 3. Background information in the proposal can be helpful if the topic is complex. If there is a lot of information, write a design doc.
 4. The API signature must be reviewed by someone before submitting, and the reviewer must reply to the posting.
 5. In the ICU core team meeting, we have a regular agenda item to confirm recent API proposals (before or after code submission). Here we confirm that someone has reviewed it and no one objects.
 6. New/changed API that is discovered to not have proposal is withdrawn at or before the API Freeze milestone.
 7. We will try to write a tool to find API additions. The idea is to add a text file to the repository with expected additions/changes, and to check the actual set of APIs against that.
 8. There should not be major API additions after the API Slush milestone. Small additions (for example, new methods on existing classes) should be ok.
 9. Major functionality/new API or disruptive changes need to be implemented on a branch. The API there must be reviewed and confirmed before merging it to the trunk.
ICU Coding Style Guidelines
The ICU coding guidelines are described in the user guide at
ICU Release Process
The release task list contains the list of things to complete when releasing a a new version of the ICU libraries.
Design Documents
Design Documents for various ICU services are maintained in the following locations:


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Climate change is real, it's happening now and to really make an impact we all need to get involved. Most 16-25 year olds want to help but many of them don't know where to start. That's why we created the Greenprint 2020. In the first initiative of its kind, Global Action Plan invited its 4500 young volunteers to collaborate to create the Greenprint 2020; a forward thinking vision of an achievable low carbon world, around the topics of Home and Life, Learning and Work, Power, Food and Travel.
Greenprint 2020 projects allow young people to take practical action to work towards achieving their Greenprint 2020 vision. It will ensure that young people are heard by decision makers and have a part to play in the transition to a low carbon world.
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Global Action Plan
Global Action Plan is the environment charity that helps people to make practical, positive changes in their workplace, home, school or community. They work with people to make the small changes that have a big impact on the things that matter. Taking action on energy, waste, water and transport has led to measurable results in the UK.
Trewin Restorick, CEO, Global Action Plan said: "The Climate Squad will be a radically different environmental initiative. It will give young people the opportunity to create their own practical initiatives that will drive change in communities and politically. The Climate Squad will alter young peoples' perception of climate change from feeling overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge to seeing the opportunities that exist for shaping a better low carbon future".

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A blockhouse is a small strongly built defensive structure built specifically to house guns and to protect the gunners and ammunition from attack. They are usually built of stone (more rarely brick) and were typically sited to command a river, harbour entrance, or anchorage, or as an outlying work to provide enfilading fire or protection to other defensive works. Accommodation within the blockhouse, if provided, was only for short-term use by the gunners or garrison. Although there was great variation in their design the main components are fairly standard, often being a tower dominating a bastion or gun platform. There may be a dry ditch or moat, or earthen defences on the landward side. They will often be recognised as (relatively) low upstanding structures.
Sites that may be confused with this class are artillery castles which are considered as a separate class of monument. Both classes filled the same defensive function, were often similar architecturally, with many being built in association with one or more of the other class; a blockhouse will be recognised as a single free-standing structure with only two or three main elements whereas an artillery castle will be a complex of several interdependent structures. In documentary sources of the 16th century the term "bulwark" is often used indiscriminately for blockhouses of stone and for earthen forts; the latter are excluded from this description and are considered as a separate class of monument.
Specifically excluded from this description are blockhouses or gun-towers forming an integral part of the enceinte of castles; the 19th century forts, built for much larger guns and usually sited further inland on high ground; the 19th century maritime forts built in the Solent; and the Martello gun-towers of the Napoleonic wars.
Blockhouses were designed solely to protect a particular feature or area by the use of artillery against an attacker similarly armed. They had accommodation only for the short-term use of the gunners or garrison. The first known example is the Cow Tower, Norwich, built in 1398, and a late example is Cromwell's Castle, Isles of Scilly, built in 1651; most were built in the first half of the 16th century.


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Integrative Organismal Biology
Beginning with grounding theory highlighting the role of the individual in evolutionary and ecological processes, the book covers theory and mechanism from both classic and modern perspectives. Chapters explore concepts such as how genetic and epigenetic variation becomes physiological and phenotypic variation, homeostasis, gene regulatory networks, physiological regulatory networks, and integrators. A concluding section illustrates these concepts through a series of case studies of life processes such as aging, reproduction, and immune defense.
Written and edited by leaders in the field who are actively engaged in teaching and research, Integrative Organismal Biology will be an important advanced textbook for students and researchers across the numerous subdisciplines of integrative biology.


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There are some things that come up for me as a teacher that I let slide, knowing that my students will get it when they get it. Having their cell phones in the classroom is not one of them! One way of setting boundaries is to let students know that behavior in the room has an impact on the other students; if a cell phone rings or vibrates, then clearly the students nearby will hear it. Also, if the student is checking for messages regularly, others will see this and may be reminded of their own lives outside of practice.
Reminding your students to leave the phones at home or in the car can be helpful. If they must bring them in, make sure there's a safe place away from the practice area for storage, and remind students to turn cell phones off.
See if you can take use opportunity as a teaching tool for your students. In a way that is comfortable for you, design a practice that highlights steady concentration. This focus on mindfulness will keep students present so their minds don't wander back to the parts of their lives symbolized by their phones. Set up class with a slow, rhythmic Ujjayi Pranayama (Victorious Breath), or perhaps design a practice with emphasis on steadiness of dristi, or focal point, and invite them to keep this focus throughout the practice. Gently remind your students from time to time to check in on the consistency of this one specific awareness.
Practice is a sacred time for all of us, away from the stress of the outer world. Choosing to concentrate—no matter how demanding or fascinating the outer world—is the practice.


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Mnemonic peg system
The mnemonic peg system, invented by Henry Herdson is a memory aid that works by creating mental associations between two concrete objects in a one-to-one fashion that will later be applied to to-be-remembered information. Typically this involves linking nouns to numbers and it is common practice to choose a noun that rhymes with the number it is associated with. These will be the pegs of the system. These associations have to be memorized one time and can be applied repeatedly to new information that needs to be memorized.
Types of Peg-word Systems
Rhyming Peg-word System
The Rhyming peg-word system is very simple, as stated above and could look something like this:
- 1-gun Visualize the first item being fired from a gun
- 2-shoe Visualize an association between the second thing and a shoe
- 3-tree Visualize the third item growing from a tree
- 4-door Visualize the fourth item associated with a door
- 5-hive Visualize the fifth item associated with a hive or with bees
- 6-bricks Visualize the sixth item associated with bricks
- 7-heaven Visualize the seventh item associated with heaven
- 8-weight (or height) Visualize the eighth item on a weight (or height) as if you are heavy (or high)
- 9-wine Visualize a glass containing the ninth item
- 10-hen Visualize the tenth item associated with a chicken.
For example, to remember the following grocery list of 10 items:
- Apple: Picture an apple being shot from a gun
- Butter: Picture yourself stomping up and down on a stick of butter
- Razor Blades: Picture a tree with razor blades for leaves
- Soap: Picture a door made from soap
- Bread: Picture bees flying from a loaf of bread as if it is a hive
- Milk: Picture a brick house with milk jugs where the bricks should be
- Cat food: Picture an open can of cat food with angel wings and a halo
- Bacon: Picture bacon on a plate
- Batteries: Picture a wine glass filled with batteries
- Orange juice: Picture a hen being squeezed, and orange juice coming out
The Major System
While it is common to link rhyming nouns with numbers, that is by no means the only system. There is also the Major system, which connects sounds to numbers. The Major System is more complicated to learn than simple rhymes or alphabetic pegs, because it associates numbers 0-9 with a specific letter or sound, then larger numbers can combine to create words out of the sounds. It is limitless in the number of pegs it can produce. Furthermore, a recent modification to the Major System introduces the concept of dimensions. The most common association between numbers and letters is the following:
- 0 = s, x, z
- 1 = t,d
- 2 = n
- 3 = m
- 4 = r
- 5 = l
- 6 = sh, ch, j, soft g
- 7 = c, k, hard g, q
- 8 = f, v
- 9 = p, b
This would make the number 33 "MM" which could be made into the word "mom" to better aid in memorization or 92 is "PN" and could become "pen."
The PAO System
The Person-Action-Object (PAO) system is the most complex. It associates all numbers 00-99 with a distinctive person, action and object. Any six-digit number can be memorized by using the person assigned the first two digits, the action of the next two digits and the object of the third. Memory grand master, Ed Cooke, reportedly has been working on the Millennium PAO system, which would create an association for all numbers 000-999. For example:
- The number 34 could be Frank Sinatra crooning into a microphone.
- 13 could be David Beckham kicking a soccer ball.
- 79 could then be Superman flying with a cape.
This would make the number 341379, Frank Sinatra kicking a cape.
The peg system is commonly used by Mental Athletes for memory competitions for events like card memorization as well as digit memorization. The peg system has also been applied in a classroom with learning disabled students. The students that used the peg system performed significantly better than the control in both immediate and delayed tests.
One complaint concerning the peg system is that it is often only applicable in mundane situations outside of the examples listed above. For example, the peg system can be used to remember grocery lists, key points in speeches, etc. However, this system can be used to remember a wide variety of objects or information. The peg system is a technique that can be applied in many different situations so as long as the information trying to be remembered is specific and tied to a unique retrieval cue, remembering can become more efficient.
- Method of loci
- Mnemonic link system
- Mnemonic major system
- Mnemonic dominic system
- Mnemonic goroawase system
- Haraguchi's mnemonic system
- Memory sport
- Higbee, Kenneth L.. Your Memory: How it Works and How to Improve It (2nd ed.). Da Capo Press. p. 158.
- "Peg-word System". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Bower, Gordon H. (September–October 1970). "Analysis of a Mnemonic Device: Modern psychology uncovers the powerful components of an ancient system for improving memor". American Scientist. 58 (5): 496–510.
- Foer, Joshua (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein-The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. New York, New York: the Penguin Group. ISBN 978-1-59420-229-2.
- Bremer, Rod. The Manual - A guide to the Ultimate Study Method (USM). Amazon Digital Services.
- Cohen, Josh. "THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE MAJOR SYSTEM FOR MEMORIZING NUMBERS". Art of Memory.
- Veit, Debra T; Scruggs, Thomas E; Mastropieri, Margo A (August 1986). "Extended mnemonic instruction with learning disabled students". Journal of Educational Psychology. 78 (4): 300–308. doi:10.1037/0022-0618.104.22.1680.
- HARRIS, L. J.; BLAISER, M. J. "EFFECTS OF A MNEMONIC PEG SYSTEM ON THE RECALL OF DAILY TASKS". Perceptual and Motor Skills. 84 (3): 721–722. doi:10.2466/pms.1922._PHONE_.
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Making Sense of SCIENCE: Going Deep to Go Far by Linking Science and Literacy Instruction
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Register for the Making Sense of SCIENCE: Going Deep to Go Far by Linking Science and Literacy Instruction webinar.
If leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today, then what can we do to facilitate deep conceptual learning, both for students and teachers?
In this webinar, Kirsten Daehler, Senior Research Associate at WestEd and Director of Understanding Science for Teaching, and Kathy Huncosky, Science Instructional Resource Teacher from the Madison Metropolitan School District, will share facilitation strategies and principles that get learners to dive deeper into science, reason about ideas in evidence-based ways, and communicate using multiple languages of science.
All teachers and teacher educators can use the strategies and principles featured to support science learning, regardless of their curriculum.
During this webinar, Daehler and Huncosky will:
- Draw examples from Making Sense of SCIENCE (MSS) professional development
- Share findings from a national randomized controlled study showing significant positive effects in science learning for teachers and their students, including English learners, students with disabilities, and students who otherwise struggle with science
- Provide tips for helping teachers and science educators:
- Keep conversations evidence-based
- Make thinking visible
- Go beyond one explanation
- Separate science ideas from individuals
- Explore ideas with words, actions, images, and symbols
- Classroom science teachers K–16
- Science instructional coaches
- Science educators
- Curriculum supervisors/consultants
- District personnel in charge of teacher professional development and inservice


With close to a quarter of the human population currently living in mega-cities (10 m +) and over half of us living in urban environments, and these figures predicted to increase further in the coming decades, ways must be found to allow urban life to resonate more deeply with natural ways of living, if the recognition that we humans are indeed part of nature is to translate into real life.
Therefore, Reverence for Life today means:
- Being able to fill your lungs with clean, fresh air in the morning, laced with the scent of roses, even in the city.
- Reducing noise pollution of the air and opening your ears to birdsong in the morning, even in the city.
- Greening our open spaces to allow the reciprocal breath of plants and humans to function to their mutual benefit, even in the city.
- designing our buildings using dimensions which resonate with nature's laws of harmony and proportion, especially in the city.
That is why we must transform our cities into havens of tranquillity and beauty and provide them with clean and healthy environments for the well-being of all.
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In Greece, dishes combining beans and grains have been served since ancient times. Originally they were offerings to pagan gods. Today, they're made to honor Greek Orthodox saints and the Virgin Mary.
Greek names for beans and grains roll off the tongue: Polysporia, Polykoukia, Bourbourelia, Fotokoliva, Koliva, Fotopapouda, Papoudia, Panspermia, Sperna, Palikaria. All are essentially the same: mixed legumes and grains made into soup or salad. Polysporia, in English "many seeds," is the most common name.
Polysporia is traditionally made on November 21, the day Orthodox Christians believe Mary was consecrated to God in Jerusalem's Temple. After her consecration, legend says Mary's family gave out beans and grains to the crowd waiting outside. Some claim Polysporia represents the beans and grains Mary's family distributed.
Others look to a more ancient origin. In Feasting & Fasting in Crete: Delicious Mediterranean Recipes (Kedros Publications, Athens, 2001), Diana Farr Louis says the origins of Polysporia go "back thousands of years and may even have been made by the Minoans. Psilakis [a popular Greek cookbook writer] compares it to the panspermia (all seeds) offered by both the Minoans and ancient Greeks to their gods in thanks for a successful harvest."
Historians link Polysporia to Demeter, goddess of the harvest, who reigned over grains, vegetation, and all fruits of the earth. From Demeter, ancient Greeks learned to plant, grow, harvest, and prepare grain. In return, they gave Demeter offerings of grain dishes similar to today's Polysporia.
Most believe it's no coincidence that modern Greeks celebrate feasts on days, and in ways, similar to pagan holidays, and that pagan offerings to Demeter morphed into Christian feast day foods. Polysporia "is child of the incorporation of ancient strong traditions in[to] the Christian religion … Since farming economy depends a lot on nature, [seed-sowing time] continue[s] to be associated and sprinkled with magic," according to Greek food historian, Mariana Kavroulaki.
Recently Bob's Red Mill, a purveyor of beans, grains, and baking products, invited me to write an article for its website. Bob's sent me a collection of products to use for developing recipes, including Whole Grains and Beans Soup Mix. The minute I saw its ingredient list, remarkably similar to Polysporia's, I immediately wanted to make a tasty, modern dish of Greek beans and grains.
After testing several versions, I settled on soup seasoned with lemon and fresh dill, a classic Greek pairing. It's so delicious, everyone who tried it wanted more. I served it with Bobota, rustic Greek cornbread with feta popular in Northern Greece (also made with Bob's Red Mill products). Bobota makes a wonderful partner for soup of any kind.
In addition to giving me products to use in developing recipes, Bob's Red Mill donated our Bob's Red Mill giveaway prize. Rest assured, I'd never recommend a product I don't personally use and love. In this case, I've been a Bob's Red Mill devotee since the 1970s. Its products are invariably fresh and designed with the home cook in mind. In Alaska, Bob's Red Mill is often the only locally available source for essential baking and cooking ingredients.
Besides its religious significance, ancient and modern, Polysporia tastes really good. I discovered Bob's Red Mill sells a Whole Grains and Beans Soup Mix, with ingredients remarkably similar to Polysporia. Wanting to know if there was a link, I asked Cassidy Stockton of Bob's Red Mill how they developed the mix. She said, "We formulated this mix using our Grande Whole Grains blend because we wanted a soup mix that contained a good variety of whole grains, as well as beans. There's no fancy story, we all just really loved the chewy texture of the grains in contrast with the beans."
When Bob's Red Mill invited me to submit a guest post, they gave me products to use for developing recipes. The minute I saw the "Whole Grains and Beans" ingredient list, I knew immediately I wanted to make a tasty, modern version of Polysporia. After several tries, I settled on a recipe seasoned with lemon and fresh dill, a classic Greek pairing. It's so delicious, everyone who tried it wanted more. I served it with Bobota, a rustic Greek cornbread with feta that is popular in Northern Greece (also made with Bob's Red Mill products).
Greek Beans and Grains Soup (Polysporia)
Greek Beans and Grains Soup is tart, chewy, creamy, herby, and all-around delicious. Paired with rustic Greek cornbread and a light green salad, it is great for lunch or dinner. If you're like me, you'll also eat it for breakfast. To make the soup vegan/vegetarian be sure to use vegetable stock or water (it's richer if made with stock).
- 3 cups diced Yellow Onion, 1/4" dice
- 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
- Freshly ground Black Pepper
- 2 Tbsp minced Garlic
- 2 cups Bob's Red Mill Whole Grains and Beans Soup Mix, rinsed under cold water
- 8 cups Vegetable or Chicken Stock, or Water
- 1 tsp Kosher or Coarse Salt
- 2 cups thinly sliced Green Onions, green and white parts both
- 2 Tbsp minced fresh Dill or 2 tsp dried Dill
- 1/3 cup fresh Lemon juice
- 1-1/2 tsp finely grated Lemon Peel
- Extra Dill for garnish
In large pot, sauté onions, lightly seasoned with salt and freshly ground black pepper, in olive oil. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Stir in Beans and Grains, stock, and 1 tsp. salt. Bring to a boil, cover, turn down heat to low, and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, or until beans are tender. When beans are done, stir in green onion, dill, lemon juice, and lemon peel. Cook for 5 minutes. Taste and add salt, freshly ground black pepper, dill, or lemon juice, as needed. Garnish with dill and serve immediately.
NOTE: You can turn this recipe into a salad. To do so, use 6 cups stock, don't cover pot while it simmers, and cook liquid down until it's almost gone, stirring regularly to prevent burning. When beans are done, stir in onions, dill, lemon juice, and lemon peel. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Rustic Greek Cornbread with Feta (Bobota me Feta)
Makes 9" x 9" cornbread; double recipe for 9" x 13" cornbread
Rustic Greek Cornbread is lightly sweetened to balance the salty feta. The rustic texture of this bread combines well with hearty soups and stews. For a more refined version, substitute all-purpose flour for corn flour.
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1/3 cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup Bob's Red Mill Medium Cornmeal
- 1 cup Bob's Red Mill Corn Flour
- 3 Tbsp Bob's Red Mill Sweet Cream Buttermilk Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Kosher or Coarse Salt
- 1-1/4 cup crumbled or diced Feta Cheese
Preheat oven to 375°F. Liberally butter sides of 9" x 9" pan.
Melt butter in medium pan. Whisk in granulated sugar, eggs, and water.
Put cornmeal, corn flour, buttermilk powder, baking soda, and salt in large bowl. Whisk ingredients together, making sure the mix has no lumps. Fold in wet ingredients, just until all ingredients are combined. Put batter into prepared pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes or just until center is set; don't overcook or the cornbread will be dry. Remove from oven and let rest 10-15 minutes before cutting and serving.
At _URL_, Laurie Constantino creates and writes about authentic Mediterranean fare using ingredients readily available in North America. Her recipes are inspired by her travels, her homes in Limnos, Greece and Anchorage, Alaska, and her vast cookbook collection. She also writes extensively about foraging and cooking with wild edible plants and mushrooms. Laurie's book, Tastes Like Home: Mediterranean Cooking In Alaska, was published in 2007; a revised edition with new recipes came out in 2011.


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John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
How could this Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford possibly interest you? Listen to him for five minutes and you will understand just how interesting and provocative he is. I first met the man before he became famous. I was studying in a summer program for college professors at Oxford University in 2001 and spent an afternoon with him along with another American science professor. Now is your opportunity to meet this gracious, humble, and very smart human.
Christians interested in the meaning of Genesis would surely wish to hear this interview about his book Seven Days That Divide the World. In his book, Lennox delves into controversial issues surrounding science and faith, answering common questions regarding apparent tensions between scripture and scientific evidence. Thoughfully consider Professor Lennox's view of how science and faith are indeed compatible.
Atheists open to frank conversations about God in the light of modern cosmology and philosophy would be challenged to doubt some things Stephen Hawking has written if they would take a few moments to listen to this engaging interview (about another book Lennox published). Lennox reflects on this statement from Hawking: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." Lennox explains just how unreasonable this claim is. Part of the problem hinges on the meaning of "nothing." But there is much more to the story.
Professor Lennox has written about the interface between science, philosophy and theology. Books on these fields of knowledge include "God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?" (2009), "God and Stephen Hawking" [a response to Hawking's co-authored book "The Grand Design" (2011)], "Gunning for God", which is on the new atheism (2011), and "Seven Days that Divide the World", which is about Genesis 1 (2011).
After listening to the interviews of Lennox, you may be inclined to register for the 2013 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith to hear John Lennox and others address the question: How did it all begin? Early-bird registration ends Friday, March 1. Save some money by acting before midnight March 1.
On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Jay Richards talks with John Lennox about his book God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway?. In this book, Prof. Lennox counters Stephen Hawking's argument in The Grand Design that "the universe can and will create itself from nothing." Is philosophy dead, as Hawking claims? Is the so-called M-theory the "only viable candidate" for a complete 'theory of everything'? Tune in and find out!
I'm using Lennox's short book God & Stephen Hawking this semester in one of my science courses at The College at Southwestern. Here is the study guide I wrote for my students. If these questions interest you then you ought to purchase the book. At least listen to the interview about the book.
 1. Hawking says scientists are now taking over the questions traditionally addressed in philosophy because that field didn't keep up with science and therefore is "dead." Hawking ends up doing philosophy himself, but poorly. Explain how by addressing Hawking's "scientism" and his failure to distinguish between scientific and philosophical questions (p. 17-22).
 2. How does Hawking confuse the distinction between gods and God? How does Christianity avoid the failed "god of the gaps" approach to science and religion (p. 22-28)?
 3. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." What's unreasonable about this central claim of Hawking's book? Discuss the meaning of "nothing," X creates Y, self-caused, law of nature (such as gravity), and self-contradiction (p. 29-35).
 4. What is mistaken about the "more science, therefore less God" slogan of atheism? Is "natural law vs. personal agency" often a false dichotomy? Illustrate with a jet engine's origin (p. 36-40).
 5. Can natural laws cause anything? Illustrate with a bank account (p. 40-44).
 6. How does the multiverse fail to support atheism (p. 47-50)?
 7. What is M-theory and why does it fail to falsify God as creator of all (p. 51-56)?
 8. How does Hawking's final chapter contradict his earlier assertion about science and "why" questions? How is "who created the laws of nature?" a different question than "who created God?" (p. 67-69).
 9. How does an analogical argument from Conway's "Game of Life" to "natural laws created us" fail (p. 69-72)?
 10. "The very existence of the capacity for rational thought is surely a pointer: not downwards to chance and necessity, but upwards to an intelligent source of that capacity." Explain (p. 73-75).
 11. How does the inductive support for Kepler's laws of planetary motion give us far more confidence in their truth than the attempt to justify M-theory as an "inference to the best explanation" (p. 76-78)?
 12. Hawking's scientific determinism implies that human free will is an illusion. How so (p. 79)?
 13. How does Lennox support the reasonableness of miracles (p. 79-96)?


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Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, zoological park owned by the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., and administered in conjunction with the Zoological Society of Cincinnati. It maintains one of the largest animal collections in the United States, with more than 17,000 specimens representing in excess of 500 species. The zoo grounds also serve as a botanical garden containing more than 3,000 varieties of plants from around the world, which are showcased in garden displays and added to the naturalistic settings of the animal exhibits. The zoo once held the record for the most births of lowland gorillas in captivity; other species, including Komodo dragons, Asian elephants, and black rhinoceroses, have also been bred successfully at the zoo. Other outstanding exhibits include those featuring the white Bengal tiger and many species of insects. The zoo's Center for Research of Endangered Wildlife conducts research on a variety of reproductive technologies and in 1995 was responsible for the first successful in vitro fertilization (resulting in a subsequent birth) of a gorilla. Founded in 1875, the Cincinnati Zoo is the second oldest zoo in the United States; it occupies a 75-acre (30-hectare) site within the city and also operates the Mast Farm, a 107-acre (43-hectare) breeding facility in Clermont county.
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Difference Between Japanese and European feudalism
japanese-pdJapanese vs European feudalism
Feudalism may vaguely refer to the form of government made up of a decentralized socio-political system where a weak monarchy tries to take control of territories under it, but not physically part of its kingdom, using reciprocal agreements with the territorial leaders.
A classic definition of feudalism refers to the European political system of the middle ages, which comprised of a set of reciprocal military, as well as legal duties they were obliged to do among the nobles who were warriors. This centered around three concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs.
Although feudalism is largely considered a European invention, a type of feudalism was invented by the Japanese, at about the same period that European feudalism was at its peak, which was completely independent of the European system. It's important to note that the two feudalistic societies exhibited some shared practices and principles, but nonetheless differed in many important aspects.
The defining feature of a feudalistic society was land ownership, and both the Japanese and Europeans had land owning castes, as well as those that didn't own land during the medieval time. Unlike European feudalism, Japanese feudalism had no true pyramid form, with a hierarchy of 'inferior' nobles being presided over by the monarch. This was mainly due to two facts: Firstly, Japanese authority was as centralized as the case was in the European nation states. Even though the majority of local aristocrats paid the emperor lip-service, Japan's rugged terrain made it hard for the emperor to have full control of the local aristocracy, making local aristocrats in Japan much more powerful than their European counterparts. Secondly, although Japan's inferior nobility (samurai) were religiously loyal to their local lords, the lords didn't give them land to own, while the European nobility got land in exchange for their time in the military. The samurai instead received an income from their local lords, depending on the produce from the lord's land.
While the samurai may have had servants, they did not work on the lands in the same way as they did in Europe. Knights in Europe had serfs who would tend to their land that they had received from the lords.
The legal structures in the European and Japanese feudalistic governments were obviously radically different. The European system was based on Roman and Germanic law, as well as the Catholic Church, while the Japanese system was based on Chinese Confucian law and Buddhism. Due to these differences, the feudal systems in Europe and Japan developed at different times.
Feudalism was to a large extent established throughout Europe by the 9th century, but it wasn't until the 12th century that it started to filter into Japanese territory.
Notably, one important similarity between the two systems, was that they were both hereditary caste feudal systems, where peasants had no chance at all of becoming part of the 'ruling clan'.
European feudalism was quite older than the Japanese system, having been established in the 9th and 12th centuries respectively.
The European system was more centralized than the Japanese system, because the Japanese emperor had no full control of the local aristocracy.
European feudalism was based on Germanic law, while Japanese feudalism was based on Chinese Confucian law.
Japanese samurais' servants didn't tend to their land like in the case of the serfs of European knights.
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How do birds pee, is it true that they don't? Urogenital system
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Peeing is a normal process in all living things. It is the method by which we expel part of the organic waste that we manufacture.
In humans, for example, we have the option of peeing as well as defecating. And not only us of course, in nature we can observe thousands of examples of this style, so we see that it is normal.
Instead, have you seen a bird pee? Many people faced with this question realize that they have never done it. And the question arises as to what method they use to expel liquids. How do they do that?
Why don't they pee like a mammal does, for example?do birds pee
We must first take into account that what is normal for one animal does not have to be for another. Not having urination may sound strange to us, but in reality, there are millions of birds that have their method of excretion.
Since there are so many specimens in the world, we can stop thinking that it is something strange, but that it is simply typical of another species.
And it is that in the end, they are not so different either, since inside they have kidneys, which is an essential organ for filtration.\
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So how do birds pee?do birds pee
The big difference is that human beings have a bladder, which is responsible for temporarily storing liquids before they are expelled. In contrast, birds lack this organ.
So, being unable to store urine, they have another method to expel it, which is through uric acid.
This ends up mixing with the digestion wastes, take into account that these animals have only one expulsion route called the cloaca. By this means, they not only expel their waste but also the expulsion of eggs or semen.
This is why your scraps often have mixed colors. The black part is organic waste, while the white part is uric acid that has also been expelled.
This method is highly effective for water control, so you don't need to drink as much. And that by storing the vital liquid, your body would have extra weight to be able to fly.
And is there a bird that urinates?do birds pee
Yes, if there is an exception, which is the ostriches. It is true that it is still different from human beings because it does not have a bladder.
But it does make a separation between feces and urine, making it unique in the animal world.
As you can see, birds do not pee like us. But that does not mean that they do not expel liquids, they simply do it in a different way.
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From Sioux Falls to Rapid City, fire weather meteorologists are watching conditions closely. And until we receive widespread, heavy moisture they'll be monitoring what is known as the Keetch-Byram Drought Index or KBDI.
It measures the amount of precipitation needed to return the soil to full saturation. It uses a system rating of zero to 800, which represents the moisture amount of zero to eight inches of water. It's what is needed to reduce the drought index to zero, which is saturation.
Much of KELOLAND is at 500 or above. The KBDI of 400 to 600 is typical of late summer and early fall.
When it gets to 600 and above, that's when intense, deep burning fires can be expected with an emphasis on downwind new fires occuring.
The highest spots are in south central, north central and northeast South Dakota. Just this week, the area near Lake Andes is also considered at 800.
It's an important number to know this time of year, whether you're harvesting or off road for hunting.
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In the two plays written by Shakespeare, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, love is the central theme of each comedy. The outcomes in his two plays incorporate the true meanings that love offers. In contrast, these two plays make the characters operate under different ways. The spirits in the Tempest work for Prospero, while in A Midsummer Night's Dream the characters in this play do not acknowledge the fairies. The way Shakespeare uses the setting and characters in the plays is different. In one instance, he uses some characters to make the plot. The magic and mystery that he includes, adds intrigue and they are the 'legs' of which he uses to make the story stand. The central theme, love, is the basis where the theme branches out to other problems, especially among the characters. His words and themes make the stories vivid and easily appealing to the imagination. He makes it so that you see the play act out in your mind. The use of settings, themes, and characters in the story both create the basis of the differences and similarities in his plays.
The two stories that Shakespeare had written, incorporated a major theme – the love between each character and the rest of each plot. Within these stories Shakespeare shows the true nature of love and forgiveness – a never ending battle. In his two stories his plot contains the variable characters within his stories. The changeability of the character's personalities leads each story to the best endings. However, the way each story uses this variable changes the outcome throughout these plays. In A Midsummer Night's Dream the interference of the fairies problems intertwines with the plot of that of the majority of the characters. Their different roles in the story play out the...
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...and A Midsummer Night's Dream both combine magic and mystery within their plots. Yet the way that they use magic is different throughout the stories. Their themes of love convey the meaning that everyone can choose what future they want and only you have the power to make it. In a sense they both have the same outcomes, but they are both respectable in their own ways. Though the outcomes that these two plays have are the same, how they were solved is the difference. When Prospero commands Ariel he controls his own destiny. While the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream control the plot, they are unknown to the mortal characters. The problems that they have control the plot of this play, while in heavy contrast, Prospero controls the plot. In conclusion, the two plays may have differences in their two outcomes, while they both convey the same theme – love and family.
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The bill is a polearm weapon used by infantry in medieval Europe. The bill is similar in size, function and appearance to the halberd, differing mainly in the hooked blade form. Other terms for the bill include English bill, bill hook or bill-guisarme.
Derived originally from the agricultural billhook, the bill consisted of a hooked chopping blade with several pointed projections mounted on a staff. The end of the cutting blade curves forward to form a hook, which is the bill's distinguishing characteristic. In addition, the blade almost universally had one pronounced spike straight off the top like a spear head, and also a hook or spike mounted on the'reverse' side of the blade. There were many types of bill. English bills tended to be relatively short, with broad chopping heads, while Italian bills (ronche) often had very long thrusting points. The English distinguished between several varieties of bill, including the black, brown, and forest bills, but the differences between them are currently not fully understood.
George Silver, writing in 1599, stated that the (military) black bill should be 5 or 6 feet (1.5 or 1.8 m) long, while the (possibly civilian) forest bill should be 8 or 9 feet (2.4 or 2.7 m) long.
One advantage that it had over other polearms was that while it had the stopping power of a spear and the power of an axe, it also had the addition of a pronounced hook. If the sheer power of a swing did not fell the horse or its rider, the bill's hook was excellent at finding a chink in the plate armour of cavalrymen at the time, dragging the unlucky horseman off his mount to be finished off with either a sword, spear or the bill itself. These characteristics also made it effective against heavily armoured infantry, dragging them into the melee or exploiting the weak points in their armour. The small point found on the trailing edge of some bills was useful for puncturing armour as well—concentrating the force of the blow onto the point.
During the 16th century when most European states were adopting the pike and arquebus, the English preferred to stick with the combination of bill and English longbow. Even in the Elizabethan period, bills were still common with levies sent to fight the Scots. The Battle of Flodden Field (1513) was a classic match between Continental-style Pikes formations (Scots) and Billmen (English).
The shorthanded bills were used by the army of historic India as well, mainly by infantrymen of Bengal. Nowadays smaller versions are used as agricultural tools and as kitchen appliances.
An agricultural version, commonly known as either a brush-ax or bush-ax, is readily available in rural hardware and farm-supply stores in the United States today. It has a 4-foot-long (1.2 m) handle, and a 16-inch (41 cm) head. It is extremely useful for clearing undergrowth and unwanted hedgerows. Both the concave and convex edges may be sharpened edges, but spear-points and back-hooks are not available. Expertly used, the brush-ax can fell a 3-inch (7.6 cm) tree with a single blow. Inexpertly used, it can pose a grave danger of accidental maiming to those standing nearby.


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Locust Grove is a National Historic Landmark on 55 acres of the original 694-acre farm established by William and Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. William Croghan was the brother-in-law and surveying partner of George Rogers Clark, founder of Louisville and Revolutionary War hero. George spent the last nine years of his life at Locust Grove, from 1809 until his death in 1818.
Locust Grove also hosted three U.S. presidents (Monroe, Jackson, and Taylor) and was a stopping point for famed explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark—George and Lucy's younger brother—upon their return from their expedition to the Pacific. Contemporary exhibits at Locust Grove tell their stories alongside those of the many enslaved African Americans who lived and worked on the farm and contributed to its success. A tour of Locust Grove is a trip back to early Kentucky history, America's era of Western expansion, and frontier farm life.
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The freezing temperatures in Florida this month added to the woes of citrus fruit growers and processors already struggling to fight the spread of crop disease.
According to early anecdotal evidence cold weather could have wiped out 10 per cent of the crop for the season. The full extent of the damage will only become clear when the USDA publishes its report in February but the futures market has already given its verdict.
On January 11, the price of frozen orange juice concentrate fell 13 percent to $1.3186 a pound on the ICE Futures US exchange. Prices recovered because the weather had not been as bad as some had feared and forecast.
But the market reaction may give a misleading picture of the reality on the ground for the Florida citrus industry.
Kristen Gunter, a spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Processors Association, said the cold weather comes in the context of weakening production in the Sunshine State.
Gunter said harvests have been hit over the last couple of years by the emergence of Citrus Greening Disease, a bacterial citrus disease first discovered in Florida that is destroying acres of valuable crops.
She said the disease is picking up steam, and no cure has been found prompting the industry in Florida to invest millions of dollars in the search for a solution.
Disease is not the only factor that has hit production in recent years. During the house price boom land was taken out of production as growers saw an opportunity to cash in their capital.
Growers are currently harvesting some frozen fruit right now but the big question mark hangs over the "Valencia" crop that is due for harvest at the end of March or early April. Gunter said growers and processors are hopeful that this premium crop will remain on the trees.
Another big worry surrounding the recent cold weather is that it may have killed off trees that farmers may be unwilling or unable to replant. It takes 7 years for a citrus tree to reach its production potential and that is a long time for a farmer to wait for a return on investment.
As for processors Gunter said that in order to mitigate for any major changes in supply or price shocks they have several strategies available to them.
These include pre-purchasing and sourcing juice supplies from other producer areas such as Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico.


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* Induction heating is clean - no contaminants are introduced and parts can be contained in vacuum or inert gas chambers.
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Applied Tajweed Course
Applied Tajweed course is the practical phase of Tajweed. After you complete the Advance Tajweed Course you are admitted to the next level. Here the teacher helps you apply the learned rules to the text of the Holy Quran and make you read accordingly. This practice makes you read fluently with Tajweed and ultimately you become confident and self-sufficient in reading the Holy Quran. In this course the teacher explains every rules while you read and then help you understand it. Thus in presence of teacher you become able to read with confident way.
The major topics covered in applied Tajweed course:
1- Tajweed Definition and Origin,
2- Ruling of Tajweed
3- Rules of Tajweed
5- Introduction to Qiraat
6- Evaluation of Tajweed
These are the major ares where the teachers focus and help you read and understand the rules of Tajweed. Once yourcomplete the course you become able to read the Holy Quran by your self no matter if you have no Arabic back ground. In-Shaa-Allah. Applied Tajweed course is basically make you able to have complete understanding to rules and recitation of the Holy Quran.


Question: Do You Put Hinges On Door First?
Which way do you install door hinges?
Here's how they work: Left-hand hinges get installed on the left-hand side of the door if you want the door to open inward with the knob on the right side of the door.
Install them on the right-hand side if you want the door to open outward with the knob on the left-hand side of the door..
Should I put hinges on cabinet door or frame first?
Always consider hinge placement before installing hinges on any cabinet door. This comes before the door is hung, and standard hinge placement measurements should be used.
Do you need 3 hinges on a door?
Usually at least 3 hinges need to be fitted on a door. Light weight internal domestic doors may be fitted with only 2 hinges. Doors with a security function need to have at least 3 hinges, as this makes them more difficult to force. … For doors over 2200mm tall, then four hinges can be used to prevent warping.
What is the best way to hang cabinet doors?
One hand holding the door, one hand screwing the screws. Take off bottom hinge first, then top, remove the door. Replace the new hinges on the door and rest the door on your spacer. The holes will line up perfectly.
Why do bathroom doors need 3 hinges?
The third(centre) hinge WILL take weight from the door. AND it will actually help PREVENT warping(one of the main reasons to have a third hinge).
How many hinges should be on a door?
The general rule used to determine the number of hinges is: Every door should be provided with at least one hinge for every 30 inches in height or portion thereof; however, more hinges may be required per chart below. For example, a 90″ door needs three hinges and a 91″ door needs four.
Do hinges go inside or outside?
Most exterior doors open toward the inside of the house. That means the hinges, which hold the door in place, are located inside the house.
Can you put a new door on an existing frame?
A door has two frames. … You can install a new door to replace an old or damaged door in two ways: Use a "prehung" door already set into a finish frame to replace the old door and jambs, or use the existing jambs and set a new door into the hinges. Either method requires some carpentry skill.
Can you replace a door without replacing the frame?
Where do you place 3 hinges on a door?
As for the 3rd hinge, you could put it in the middle, but personally I would put it somewhere more towards the top, as that is where all the weight is in the door. I would say an inch or 2 below the top hinge.


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Competition, greed and skulduggery are the name of the game if you want to eat your fill. Smorgasbord behaviour is surprisingly complex
A mathematician, an engineer and a psychologist go up to a buffet… No, it's not the start of a bad joke.
While most of us would dive into the sandwiches without thinking twice, these diners see a groaning table as a welcome opportunity to advance their research.
Look behind the salads, sausage rolls and bite-size pizzas and it turns out that buffets are a microcosm of greed, sexual politics and altruism - a place where our food choices are driven by factors we're often unaware of. Understand the science and you'll see buffets very differently next time you fill your plate.
The story starts with Lionel Levine of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Katherine Stange of Stanford University, California. They were sharing food at a restaurant one day, and wondered: do certain choices lead to tastier platefuls when food must be divided up? You could wolf down everything in sight, of course, but these guys are mathematicians, so they turned to a more subtle approach: game theory.
Applying mathematics to a buffet is harder than it sounds, so they started by simplifying things. They modelled two people taking turns to pick items from a shared platter - hardly a buffet, more akin to a polite tapas-style meal. It was never going to generate a strategy for any occasion, but hopefully useful principles would nonetheless emerge. And for their bellies, the potential rewards were great.
First they assumed that each diner would have individual preferences. One might place pork pie at the top and beetroot at the bottom, for example, while others might salivate over sausage rolls. That ranking can be plugged into calculations by giving each food item a score, where higher-ranked foods are worth more points. The most enjoyable buffet meal would be the one that scores highest in total.
In some scenarios, the route to the most enjoyable plate was straightforward. If both people shared the same rankings, they should pick their favourites first. But Levine and Stange also uncovered a counter-intuitive effect: it doesn't always pay to take the favourite item first. To devise an optimum strategy, they say, you should take into account what your food rival considers to be the worst food on the table.
If that makes your brow furrow, consider this: if you know your fellow diner hates chicken legs, you know that can be the last morsel you aim to eat - even if it's one of your favourites. In principle, if you had full knowledge of your food rival's preferences, it would be possible to work backwards from their least favourite and identify the optimum order in which to fill your plate, according to the pair's calculations, which will appear in American Mathematical Monthly (_URL_.0961).
So how do you know what to select first? In reality, the buffet might be long gone before you had worked it out. Even if you did, the researchers' strategy also assumes that you are at a rather polite buffet, taking turns, so it has its limitations. However, it does provide practical advice in some scenarios. For example, imagine Amanda is up against Brian, who she knows has the opposite ranking of tastes to her. Amanda loves sausages, hates pickled onions, and is middling about quiche. Brian loves pickled onions, hates sausages, shares the same view of quiche. Having identified that her favourites are safe, Amanda should prioritise morsels where their taste-ranking matched - the quiche, in other words.
Not surprisingly, Levine and Stange found their two-person buffet strategy didn't work when they applied it to a scenario with more people. Even so, they found that rushing into grabbing favourites is not always advisable. This time, however, they modelled two general approaches: the "boorish lout" who would always pick their favourite food and the "gallant knight" who makes selections that take into account the enjoyment of others as well as their own. They found that if any of the diners act boorish, everybody ends up with a less satisfying meal than if every person acts gallantly (_URL_.2712). So it can pay to be altruistic - but not if there are any selfish diners.
Indeed, sometimes the only way to satisfy an appetite at a buffet is to pile your plate high while you can - and here's where some engineering know-how can apply.
Software engineer Shen Hongrui, who lives in Beijing, China, found a way to fit an astonishing amount of food into one dish: piles reaching up to a metre tall. Shen had noticed that patrons of the salad buffet in Pizza Hut were asked to follow the rule: "one bowl, one visit". So he worked out how to build towers from salad items, and so maximise his haul. He even, with tongue firmly in cheek, published equations, diagrams and instructions online so others could repeat the feat.
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Thu Dec 22 18:01:45 GMT 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
"You could wolf down everything in sight, of course, but these guys are mathematicians..."
Katherine Stange is not a guy!
Tue Dec 27 17:29:23 GMT 2011 by ChrisHF
And who is Alice?
Thu Dec 29 15:24:22 GMT 2011 by hs96dlw
in my experience nowadays american guys tend to be gender neutral.
Thu Dec 29 20:22:16 GMT 2011 by Oji
"Guy" has been gender neutral in the plural for years or even decades.
Fri Dec 30 06:21:05 GMT 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
You and I have a fundamental disagreement over the use of what I consider bad English.
Sun Jan 01 15:49:34 GMT 2012 by Liza
Well, American friends of mine do use it the way Oji said, and they've all got a college degree...which doesn't make them language specialists, but they're not unschooled.
Sun Jan 01 20:46:52 GMT 2012 by Eric Kvaalen
Even the English are starting to say it. It's horrible.
Tue Jan 03 08:14:01 GMT 2012 by Liza
What's horrible? The spreading use of "guy" in England, or its referring to both sexes? I object more to the first, since they have plenty of good local alternatives. Chaps, lads,...
Tue Jan 03 20:11:06 GMT 2012 by Eric Kvaalen
I meant the use of "guys" when there are women in the group. (In this article, the "group" consisted of one man and one woman!)
I also regret that fact that the English are now using the word "guy" all the time for what we Americans call guys (males) instead of the words you mention, or "bloke". But that's just a loss of local color, it's not a gross misuse of the language like calling females guys!
There are also many good ways to refer to people without saying "guys". In this article, he could have said "but these folks are mathematicians". One expression I've heard English people say recently (and which I find cute) is "you lot" as a plural of "you".
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Simulation is the study and construction of models of various objects and phenomena.
Modeling of clothes is the creation of sketches of garments taking into account the characteristics of the materials used, the purpose of the product and the figure of a person.
Modeling is the creative process of creatingSample or sketch of the future product. From Latin, "modeling" is translated as "sample". In modeling, it is important to take into account a number of important factors. First of all, it is necessary to choose the material from which the product will be sewn, to study its properties and characteristics. In addition, you need to know all about the conditions of operation of the material and its design features.
The aim of the simulation is to produce the basic basis for further product manufacturing.
Simulation involves four main stages.
The first stage is to analyze the idea. At this stage it is necessary to determine which methods and processes will be used to manufacture the product, to study the material that will be used, to determine the uniqueness of the future product.
At the second stage of modeling, the existing basis is selected. It takes into account the planting of the product on the object, the physical characteristics of the materials, the width and length of the base.
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In this chapter, the linguistic consequences of settlement by migration are analyzed. The area of the fieldwork is a small island in the Ryûkyû or Nansei (South-western) Islands. Dialectal expressions from two settlements are examined from a linguistic geographical point of view. Linguistic geographical surveys have often ignored newly settled villages because the language there was not considered to be pure, and because information from such villages offers no keys to a historical reconstruction of the language of the area. In the survey of Tokunoshima discussed here, however, all the villages were investigated, and two villages were found which had a history of recent migrations from nearby villages. Several items showed common characteristics with the "mother" village (where the settlers came from) in spite of a separation of more than 200 years. These results may be contrasted with the situation in Hokkaido (the Northern-most island in Japan), the Japanese frontier area in the modern era.
The author also refers to the United States and Australia, and states that 200 years is not enough for a new dialect to be established. In the future, universal sociolinguistic tendencies in this field must be pursued by acquiring data from as many cases as possible from all over the world. The present study is a precursor to the recent body of work in 'new dialect' formation.
Figure 14–0. Tokunoshima
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Publication information: Book title: Sociolinguistics in Japanese Contexts. Contributors: Tetsuya Kunihiro - Editor, Fumio Inoue - Editor, Daniel Long - Editor. Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter. Place of publication: New York. Publication year: 1999. Page number: 249.
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Moving the Mona Lisa
There's an interesting article at Wired about the crazy cost of moving a major work of art. The article claims that when the Mona Lisa was moved to its more prominent spot in the Louvre last year, it cost 3.2 million British pounds to move it. And it was only moved several meters!
Here's how it worked when they moved another of da Vinci's paintings, Lady With the Ermine, from Poland to San Francisco:
The painting was shipped by air -- accompanied by two armed couriers who sat in first-class seats on either side of the Lady, who had her own first-class seat. The painting had been crated in Poland in a heat-treated wooden box, then placed in a metal container. The box had a homing device to trace it if it were lost. Perish the thought. On arrival in San Francisco, the airport had further armed security attached to an unmarked van. The painting was transported to the museum, where it was unpacked and displayed in a climate-controlled glass casing. A boundary was marked off 3 feet from the painting, beyond which viewers were not to go, Sanchez says.
And in case you're wondering where the Mona Lisa has traveled:
The Mona Lisa has been a world traveler. After getting to the Louvre by a circuitous route, it was once borrowed by Napoleon, who put it on his bedroom wall. His exile to Elba island brought it back to the Louvre. The painting was stolen in 1911 and showed up in Florence, where it originated. Then it went back to the museum, followed by a Nazi sojourn and a GI rescue, and then back to the Louvre again. It went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1963 and traveled afterward to New York, Tokyo and Moscow. Now, however, it is a permanent darling of the Louvre.


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Out of all the pinnipeds in Point Reyes, one of the most charismatic, also the one that draws the most visitors is the elephant seal, just because there's so much story to them and they're just so much more active. They really put on a show, basically, with all of the fighting, and the interactions, and the pups. There's just a lot more to see.
Elephant seals used to prehistorically be in California. So they were hunted almost to extinction. They're a great story of a species to recover with simple protection by places like national parks.
Right now, in Point Reyes is their breeding season, which is during the winter. And so a lot is going on at that time. Males show up first. They compete with each other to figure out who's going to be the alpha. Then the females show up. Within a few days, they give birth. They nurse their pups for about 28 days on average. Then they're going to wean their pup, and then they're going to leave. But while that's all going on, the males are still constantly fighting each other.
We study elephant seals and we monitor them. That means we study them year after year. And we put that data together so we can understand what's the trend of the population. Is it going up? Is it going down? Is it flat?
To do the surveys of elephant seals in Point Reyes, we have two strategies. The easiest way to count the seals is actually to be up above, so to be up on cliffs. And we're using a spotting scope. And that gives us a much wider, more on top view of the animals. And so we'll use spotting scopes or binoculars.
But sometimes we have areas where we just can't really get that kind of a viewpoint. And so we actually have to be on the beach with the animals. And we're really trying to do accurate counting. And we want to make sure we don't miss, and especially the pups that might be hiding behind the females.
Another part of our monitoring process is tagging the weaned pup. And a weaned pup is what the word sounds like, a pup that has been weaned, so the mom is no longer nursing it. And for now it's off on its own, away from the harem. And so we're going to go and try to apply a flipper tag. And we wait for that to happen because we don't want to interrupt that bonding process or the nursing process between the mom and her pup.
The best way to tag an elephant seal is to sneak up on one that's asleep and do a real quick punch into their flipper. Most of the time, they do react. It's just like if you were asleep and someone came up and pinched you. You would probably react.
So it wakes them up. They might squeal a little bit because of their surprise. But usually they calm down within a few seconds or a few minutes after it happens. Five, 10 minutes later, most the time they're back asleep.
Well, we went through that question. Why tag elephant seals? And we decided that we would tag them because it helps us to understand the exchange between the other colonies because we share our data with the other researchers at the other colonies in central California. And by doing so, we understand better the whole population of central California, which is the leading edge of growth for elephant seals.
Tags can tell you about survivorship. You know the age of the animal, you know the location where it was born. They can tell you a lot of things. Most of the tagged animals we see are from Point Reyes. That tells us that it's a more stable population and animals are coming back to Point Reyes to breed.
Elephant seals definitely need a safe place to come raise their pups. The pups can't really swim at birth for at least the few first weeks. So they need an area on a beach where they're not going to get washed out by waves. They need the safety of the sand, and they need the safety from people.
So we close the beaches to people because people are dangerous to elephant seals and elephant seals are dangerous to people. If people disturb elephant seals, that can cause them to displace pups and females and males. And if people get too close to females, they can attack them and bite them. So it's best for both to have these beaches protected.
As biologists, we do need to go into the colony where most people can't access. But we are trained to recognize for animal behavior. Also, we know how to act around them. So we know when to keep our distance and when we can maybe get a little bit closer. So we're trained really to make sure that we are not causing any disturbance that is not necessary.
Marine ecosystems are important, and it's important for us to understand them better because it's hard to study them. And so we may know a bit about the surface of the ocean, but not much about the deep ocean. And elephant seals are the bridge between the surface and the deep ocean because they dive so deep.
And when somebody goes to the beach, they just see the ocean's surface. They don't understand the depth of it. When you look at an elephant seal, and you think this animal's dove a mile under water, what is it seeing down there? How can it stay down there for an hour and a half?
So understanding the ecology of national parks is vital to what we do. It's vital to what I do as a park manager. When I'm making decisions about how we're going to manage the park, how we plan for the future, how we insure these animals are here for future generations to enjoy, how we protect people today, understanding what's going on the ground with the wildlife is absolutely critical. And that's when inventory and monitoring does for us.
The inventory and monitoring program is not a new concept. It evolved over 20 plus years in the Park Service. But we're the leaders of many agencies in implementing it. And the data that we're getting back is already being used to help us to be better stewards. It's a fantastic program, it's a model for the nation, and we do it with a little money and a lot of leverage with partners, and friends, and citizen scientists, and volunteers. Everybody's a steward.
Point Reyes National Seashore is "like pinniped heaven." Out of all of the pinniped species that use the park's coastline, elephant seals are the most charismatic. Discover how and why National Park Service scientists study the elephant seals at Point Reyes year after year.


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Asians Lead Rescue
Hindu Council responds vigorously to US Embassy bombing in Kenya
Prabha Prabhakar Bhardwaj, Kenya
Sanskrit shlokas to lord ganesha resounded through the hall as I watched the Hindu Council of Kenya joyfully inaugurate its Silver Jubilee conference on August 7. They had big plans: address challenges of Hindus in Africa, improve the image of Hindu Dharma there, and form a Hindu Council of Africa. But no sooner had the opening session concluded than an attending journalist's radio cackled wildly about a bomb blast at the US embassy. Council elders decided to continue informally with the proceedings but immediately dispatched the Youth Wing to assess damage and provide assistance.
Today the world knows all about the simultaneous bomb attacks in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam. What's less known is that Kenya President Daniel Arap T. Moi declared state mourning for five days and cancelled all functions. Consequently, the Hindu conference changed direction. Delegates from nine countries, who could not leave Kenya, did some pensive brain storming. Planned cultural activities became bhajana sessions praying for peace for departed souls and speedy recovery of the injured.
Hindus generally, and the Hindu Council of Kenya in particular, were practically first to arrive at the disaster scene. Youth donated blood, assisted hospitals in nursing, ferried the injured, collected medicines from suppliers and took them to hospitals. I spoke with David Fox, Reuters Bureau Chief for East Africa. "Hindus and Sikhs were everywhere," he said, "picking rubble with their bare hands in an effort to reach trapped people, who were mostly dead. Rescue efforts were extremely haphazard; Asians took a lead and filled the vacuum. They donated blankets, blood and food. Remarkably, during riots this community is usually targeted, so why were they the first to help in a disaster situation? It's a fact that African Kenyans resent Asians for their success in all fields. I think by this they've enormously improved their image.
When Boston Globe correspondent Andrea Useem arrived, she noticed that most rescue workers and even curious bystanders were Asians. If most victims were Black Kenyans, why so many Asians on the scene, she wondered? She learned that many rescuers came from the Hindu Council and had cancelled most of their conference to provide relief. She was also impressed by follow-up medical clinics organized at Kenyatta National Hospital by 200 doctors and nurses from the Council and the hospital.
Over 300 Hindu youth volunteers provided fresh meals and refreshments to the patients and medical staff. Hundreds of blast victims were given more specific attention, as they had received only temporary treatment on the day of the disaster. "No Asians died," Useem noted. "Doctors donated services to the blast victims, who were Black Kenyans. It was really nice to see this in a country which is often so racially segregated." Mr. Ashwinbhai, Vice-Chairman of the Council, said that since the tragedy brought together Kenyans of different races, it "enabled us to shed our earlier artificial barriers, pointing the way to a new beginning."
Kenyans took note. In the East African, journalist John Kariuki argued that resentment towards Asians "subsided considerably" after the disaster. He quoted Dr. Samuel Gatere, a Nairobi psychologist: "Their enthusiastic participation in the rescue and treatment of victims has greatly eased animosity towards them and proves that local Asians consider themselves true Kenyans." Mr. Bhat of the Council Youth Wing, noting that disaster relief was chaotic, is organizing public classes. "If people had the slightest clue about first aid or rescue work," he said, "more lives would've been saved."
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