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If you've painted a ceiling, you know the annoyance of drips: an initially smooth coat of paint collects in spots that dribble onto the floor. The drips come from a gravity-driven instability in the paint, which physicists have modeled for various liquids and surface tilts. Now Ruben Tomlin of Imperial College London and colleagues have added an electric field into the mix. Their mathematical modeling and simulations show that a strong enough field could stop the drips, an effect that might be used for thin-film cooling or to make uniform coatings in precision manufacturing.
The team's starting point is a flat slab coated on its underside with a viscous dielectric liquid like oil. In 2015, researchers studied such a setup by tilting the slab and letting the liquid run, finding they could predict the tilt angles at which drips would occur. The Imperial team approaches this problem anew. They derived a set of equations for the film's surface contour that incorporate not only surface tension and gravity, as in the 2015 study, but also the effect of an electric field applied parallel to the substrate. This field introduces stresses at the film's surface, which have a stabilizing effect akin to that of surface tension.
Based on their equations, they determined that drips appear roughly when the liquid surface transitions from being "convectively" unstable (in which a disturbance in the liquid ripples away) to being "absolutely" unstable (in which the disturbance remains localized). The researchers predicted that a relatively high field strength would be needed to prevent drips for a 2.5-mm-thick film tilted to 60° degrees below horizontal. But they think lower values might suffice in other cases that are of technological interest.
This research is published in Physical Review Fluids.
Jessica Thomas is the Editor of Physics.


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How Long Should Sex Last?
Sex can be quite a pleasurable encounter if those involved are both fully committed to the act, and come into the engagement with no prior over the top expectations for themselves or their partner. This is an activity that arguably takes place on a daily basis all around the world, and as such the various elements that are involved with the interaction cannot simply be ignored. There are a number of issues that a majority of people take into consideration whenever they are contemplating matters regarding sexual activity. The issues considered usually have to do with the quality of sex that can be had by the couple involved, including enhancing the amount of potential pleasure that they and their partner are able to receive from the experience. It should be noted that the kind of expectation that is placed on a particular encounter could potentially influence the level of enjoyment that can be had during the activity, as a result of the amount of pressure that can develop within an individual's psyche if they are distracted by too many aspects that could derail their overall focus.
One of the main questions that has been asked on multiple occasions by different people of both sexes has to do with the length of time that can be considered adequate when one is engaging in a sexual encounter. The query of how long should sex last between two ordinary individuals is one that has brought about a number of arguments that have been based on expectations, mythical conceptions, and previous experiences that have influenced the answer of the various people who have attempted to tackle it. Needless to say, a large number of people (especially men) are quite conscious about the period of time that can be considered respectable so to speak, when engaging in a sexual encounter. No person would like the reputation of an individual who is considered inadequate in bed, and as such, a lot of individuals are left feeling self-conscious about how long they are able to last in bed.
However, it should be noted that there are a number of factors that can play a role in the length of time that a sexual encounter might take up. It is crucial for one to take these elements into consideration when they are potentially judging the amount of time spent in the bedroom. Some of these factors can include:
Different people may have different levels of stamina when it comes to sexual activities. The kind of stamina that can be enjoyed by an individual will depend on a number of related factors such as the lifestyles that those involved in the encounter lead, as well as their overall health in general. The more stamina an individual is able to have, the longer they will potentially last during sex.
Products such as Viagra have become quite popular over the years as individuals look for different ways to assist them in lasting longer in bed. Needless to say, the use of such assistance can make a significant difference in the amount of time that an individual is able to last during a sexual encounter.
It should be noted that an increased period of time does not necessarily lead to an increase in the pleasure that can be experienced, and an individual should not focus on this particular element of having sex alone.

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How can I detect if a PDF needs to be OCRd?
You just received 1000 PDFs from the other side which are a mix of PDFs created from Office applications and scans. Some of the documents might have been OCRd and some not.
How can you quickly detect which files need to be OCRd?
Further, how can you pull out and separate searchable and non-searchable PDFs?
I have written on this subject previously in my article "Is that PDF Searchable?" That post included information on how to test if individual documents are searchable and offered a basic way to detect searchability across files.
Why detecting searchability is hard?
When would you call a PDF searchable? When one word is searchable? When 100 words are searchable? When a page is searchable? When all the pages are searchble? What about pictures or text inside of pictures?
I've been doing some research and in this article I offer up another way to check for searchable text.
To accomplish this, we will use the Preflight feature of Acrobat Pro. Acrobat's Preflight feature offers hundreds of different tests including the ability to check for characters on the page. Preflight can be used on a single document or it can be automated using a batch sequence.
The following workflow isn't perfect, but I offer it here to legal professionals who want to experiment with it.
In this article, you'll learn how to create a Batch Sequence to run across folders of files which will:
 1. Separate searchable PDFs from non-searchable PDFs and place them in named folders
 2. Ignore non-PDF documents
 3. Create a Summary Report of searchability
About Preflight
Acrobat Pro's Preflight feature includes several hundred detection and fix-up operations.
Leonard Rosenthal, Adobe's Standards Evangelist, blogged about using Preflight to check for searchable text in his blog post on Checking a PDF for Searchable Text.
In that post, Leonard offered a custom preflight profile which tested for searchable text.
One oddity of how Preflight works is that when conditions are met, an error is generated. Leonard's Preflight Profile, in fact, errors when searchable text is found.
I certainly found this confusing at first, but once taken into account, it is very powerful indeed.
Read the Entire Article First
Before you crazy loading up that new discovery documents you just got in, read the entire article including the caveats at the end.
Step 1: Import the Preflight Profile
In order to test for searchability, you will will need to import a Preflight Profile.
 1. Download Leonard's Text Searchable Preflight Profile from the link below:
 Text Searchable.kfp (4K)
 - Open Acrobat Pro and any PDF document
 (Preflight won't be available until a document is open)
 - Choose Advanced> Preflight
 - Click the Options buttonClick the Options button
 - Choose Import Preflight Profile... from the Options menu
 - Locate the Text Searchable.kfp file you downloaded in Step 1 above and click the Open button.
 - Close the Preflight Window
Step 2: Create Sorting Folders
You will need to create two folders; one for the PDFs which are searchable and one for the PDFs that are not searchable.
 1. Create a new folder on your desktop. Change the folder name to "Searchable"
 2. Create a new folder on your desktop. Change the folder name to "Not Searchable"
Source File Folder
In case you haven't already, copy all of your source files (the PDF files you want to check) to a folder on your hard drive. Sub-folders within the main folder are not a problem.
Step 3: Create a Batch Sequence
In this step, you'll create a batch sequence that calls Preflight and places PDFs in the folders you created in Step 2.
 1. Choose Advanced>Document Processing> Batch Processing
 2. Click the New Sequence buttonNew Sequence Window
 3. Give the Sequence a name such as "No Searchable Text"No Searchable Text window
 4. Click the Select Commands... buttonSelect Commands
 5. The Select Commands window opens.
 A) From the list at left, choose Preflight
 B) Click the Add> button
 C) Click the Edit... buttonEdit Sequence Window
 6. The Preflight Setup Window opens:
 7. A) Choose "Text can be searched" from the list
 B) In On success, Enable the checkbox and Move PDF file option
 C) Set Success folder button to your"Not Searchable" folder"
 D) In On error, Enable the checkbox and Move PDF file option
 E) Set Error folder button to your"Searchable" folder"
 F) Enable reporting
 G) Click the Save buttonEdit Sequence Window
 8. Click OK to go back to the main Edit Sequence window.
 9. In the Edit Sequence window:
 A) Change "Run Commands on" to Selected Folder
 B) Click the Browse button and locate your source file folder
 C) Click Source File Options... and deselect all the file types
 See Source File Options window picture below
 D) Set to Output location to "Same folder as originals"Edit Batch Sequence
 Source File Options
 10. Click OK to exit the Edit Batch Sequence window
Step 4: Run the Batch Sequence
By now, you should have gathered up all your source files into the folder referenced above in Step 9-A. You also have folders on your desktop ready to receive searchable and non-searchable files.
Here's how to run the sequence:
 1. Choose Advanced>Document Processing> Batch Processing
 A) Select the "No Searchable Text" Sequence
 B) Click the Run Sequence buttonRun Sequence Window
 2. The Batch Sequence will run. If you have thousands of files, you will need to get a beverage.
Acrobat will move the files into your Searchable and Not Searchable folders. In the case of a duplicate filename, Acrobat will append a sequence number and won't overwrite the original.
When complete, a report will be generated.
Step 5: Looking at the Report and Some Caveats
The process will generate a PDF Portfolio report that looks like this:
Portfolio of Report
The cover sheet for the PDF Portfolio contains summary information about all the files.
Looking closer at this report, you can see which files passed the test (were not searchable, I know that sounds weird, but that's how it works) and which didn't:
Closeup of Report
If you click on the filename link, it will open the file.
Caveats: Understanding the Report
The yellow section above shows you how "texty" the file is. In the example above, 80 text blocks were found in the file. That's not the same as 80 words, however. Depending how the PDF was created, text could be grouped by word, sentence, paragraph or page.
This process does a good job helping you identify documents which have zero searchable words, especially those that were raw image-only scanned PDFs. If the report shows a checkmark, then you will want to OCR the document.
The script is not effective in these circumstances:
 - The PDF contains a mix of searchable and non-searchable pages. For example, if you combined a PDF output from Word and one you scanned.
 - The PDF hasn't been OCRd, but may be Bates Stamped
 Bates Stamps are searchable text and would be reported.
 - The PDF contains vector text that was converted to outlines. Since the characters were converted to graphics, they won't be searchable. You'll sometimes see files like this from CAD systems, illustration tools, or page layout programs.
But, I want to be sure...
Given the caveats above, you might just want to OCR everything. Follow the instructions in my Batch OCR using Acrobat Professional article.
Acrobat will skip any pages which don't need to be OCRd and process any pages that do.
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Cypress provides a reference design for Industrial camera applications using FX3 and Lattice ECP5 FPGA with HelionVision ISP IP. This article documents the architectural, functional, and design details of this reference design for industrial camera systems. This reference design demonstrates a combined implementation of FX3 and Lattice ECP5 FPGA to interface an image sensor with the USB Host system.
The HelionVision ISP IP is implemented on the ECP5 FPGA to interface parallel/LVDS image sensors, process the image data, and stream via the GPIF-II interface of FX3.The following block diagram provides an overview of the high-level design of FX3 + ECP5 FPGA with HelionVision ISP IP supporting the camera interface.
Figure 1: System Block Diagram
The hardware consists of the main board with FX3, and ECP5 FPGA with an interface connector to attach the image sensor board. Reference design schematic and board files are attached along with this article. The main board is tested using Sony IMX-236 - HDR-60 Head-Board 1080p (3.1MP) image sensor board with Sunex Lens (Part No.: Sunex PN DSL945) connected using an M12 holder. The hardware main board has a USB Type-C connector to connect to Host systems. Boot options can be controlled using a switch that allows booting from external SPI flash or USB bootloader. The FX3 and FPGA firmware can be merged and saved in the external SPI flash.
Cypress has tested the reference design hardware features using USB Video Class (UVC) framework implemented in FX3 with 1080p@30fps and 720p@30fps video resolutions and standard UVC video controls. The prototype system with a Sony IMX 236 image sensor is tested using ECP5 FPGA code developed by HelionVision and UVC firmware running on FX3. The FX3 firmware for the reference design uses the UVC architecture described in the application note AN75779– How to Implement an Image Sensor Interface Using EZ-USB FX3 in a USB Video Class (UVC) Framework. Note that this application note implements USB Video Class (UVC) Framework for an FX3 device. The GPIF II interface settings can be configured based on the Slave FIFO interface described in the application note AN65974- Designing with the EZ-USB® FX3™ Slave FIFO Interface. Refer to the Slave FIFO write operations section in AN65974 to understand the FPGA to FX3 interface. FX3 uses the standard Slave FIFO control signals available from the ECP5 FPGA to provide write access to internal FIFO buffers that can be committed to the Host system through the DMA channel present within FX3.
Note: Cypress can help users to develop FX3 firmware to support additional features. Contact Cypress Technical Support for additional board files, FX3 firmware and FPGA files to test prototype.


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Before we get to features, let's talk about installation. You can buy the best alarm in the world, but if it's not properly installed it will invariably let you down. Consumers should always look for a sign at their installing dealer that says MECP Certified. That means that installers working at that store are Mobile Electronics Certified Professionals.
Now that you've found an MECP certified installer, what features are you looking for? Let's first talk about security features, and then convenience features, because today's full-featured "car alarm" has both. For security, let's first talk about sensors. You need a good shock/impact sensor. Besides sounding the alarm if a thief opens a door or your trunk, you want the system to detect a sharp impact, which is the job of the shock sensor. You'll want a "dual stage" shock sensor, which discriminates between a light impact (which typically provokes chirps or a voice command to stand back) and a heavy impact, which triggers the full wrath of the siren. These are some additional sensors you might want to add to your system:
- An audio sensor, to detect breaking glass
- A "radar" or field disturbance sensor, especially if you have a convertible or a pickup truck
- A motion sensor, to detect jacking or towing and a closed loop sensor, to protect a trailer, boat or bicycles
One other feature you may want to look for is transmitter range. Many transmitters have range of 100 feet or less, but systems with superheterodyne receivers, like Directed's Super HF (SHF) systems, offer range of up to a full quarter mile!
Now let's talk about convenience, because the sky's the limit! Almost anything electrical in the car can be rigged to perform by remote control from the little transmitter on your keychain. Here are 3 of them:
- Remote Start. Starts your engine with the push of a button, to warm up the engine and interior in the winter, or to run your air conditioner in the summer.
- Remote Power Windows. A nice convenience feature. When the system arms, it automatically rolls your windows up. You can also roll them down or vent them by remote control.
- Trunk Pop. Open your trunk with the push of a button.


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Eurasian Watermilfoil Myriophyllum spicatum
Where did Eurasian watermilfoil come from?
- Native to Europe, Asian, and northern Africa, Eurasian watermilfoil invaded North America in the 1940s.
- Eurasian watermilfoil has been reported in 33 states including Kansas.
- Eurasian watermilfoil has been discovered in Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Yates Center Reservoir, Lebo City Lake, Scott SFL, Antelope Lake, Clark SFL, Ottawa SFL, Washington SFL, Mined Lands #1, 7, 12, 27, Sheridan SFL, Cowley SFL, Lonestar Lake, Edgerton-Bridgewater Lake, Lake Shawnee, Topeka-Governor's Ponds, and Buffalo Park Pond in Wichita.
What does Eurasian watermilfoil look like?
- Stems branch near water surface.
- Eurasian watermilfoil has small reddish flowers above the water surface during mid-summer.
- 3-5 feathery leaves arranged in whorls (circles) on stems.
- Each leaf has 12-21 leaflet pairs (native watermilfoil has 5-10 leaflet pairs)
- Found in waters less than 20 feet deep generally in dense mats
Why is Eurasian watermilfoil a problem?
- Eurasian watermilfoil forms dense mats on the water's surface.
- The dense canopy can out-compete and eliminate native aquatic vegetation.
- The dense canopy hinders recreational activites.
How is Eurasian watermilfoil spread?
- Milfoil spreads when plant pieces break off and float on water currents.
- It can cross land to new waters by clinging to boats, trailers, and fishing gear.
- Remove all vegetation from boats, trailers, and all recreational equipment before leaving a lake.
How do we control Eurasian watermilfoil?
- It is nearly impossible to eradicate an established infestation but chemical treatment shows promise.
- Early detection of isolated populations may help prevent their spread. Your help to report new sightings and to prevent their spread is vital.
What do I do if I find Eurasian watermilfoil?
- If you discover Eurasian watermilfoil note the date and location, and contact your local Kansas Department of Agriculture office, the Emporia Research Office at _PHONE_, or email the Aquatic Nuisance Species Coordinator.
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The book of Job, especially chapter 39, implies that God created the nephesh creatures ("soulish" animals like birds and mammals) to serve and/or to please human beings. They are termed soulish because God has endowed each of them with a mind, a will, and the capacity to express and experience emotions. These animals are equipped and motivated to emotionally bond with and to nurture, serve, and please other members of their species and human beings. Moreover, these nephesh species were evidently endowed with this capacity before any human even existed, a characteristic that appears problematic for evolutionary or naturalistic scenarios.
Recently, a British team of research psychologists has published a paper announcing the discovery of a new bonding feature between humans and nephesh creatures. Their study demonstrates for the first time that human yawns are contagious to domestic dogs. For their experiment they tested twenty-nine dogs from twenty-four different breeds spanning ages two to fifteen.1 Twenty-one of the dogs yawned when they observed a human do so.
Some dog breeds were better at catching human yawns than others. For example, the Labrador breeds, known to form especially strong bonds with humans, seemed especially adept.
Such behavior indicates that dogs possess the capacity for empathy towards humans. However, the yawning response may reveal more. In human-human interactions contagious yawning is known to modulate levels of arousal. Thus, in the words of the researchers, "yawn contagion [between humans and dogs] may help coordinate dog-human interaction and communication."
The study provides yet one more piece of scientific evidence that birds and mammals really were pre-designed before humans even existed to form emotional relationships with human beings in such a manner that they could enhance humanity's well being. These animals serve and please us. More amazing still, each soulish species appears designed to serve and/or please us in a manner distinct from all others.
- M. Ramiro et al., "Dogs Catch Human Yawns," Biology Letters 4 (October 23, 2008): 446-8.


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The significance of health and wellness has actually come to the forefront of the health trade within the final decade. Health, Safety and surroundings, which is anxious with life and property should be taken critical in this profession. When a person doesn't get enough sleep, it has a detrimental impact to each system of the body, including his penis health. Achieving and maintaining health is an ongoing process, formed by each the evolution of health care information and practices in addition to personal methods and organized interventions for staying healthy.
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Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures
Electronic & Computer Engineering Dept., University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 3 July 2002 / Accepted: 19 July 2002 / Published: 23 August 2002
Abstract: Thin films of Tellurium dioxide (TeO2) were investigated for γ-radiation dosimetry purposes. Samples were fabricated using thin film vapour deposition technique. Thin films of TeO2 were exposed to a 60Co γ-radiation source at a dose rate of 6 Gy/min at room temperature. Absorption spectra for TeO2 films were recorded and the values of the optical band gap and energies of the localized states for as-deposited and γ-irradiated samples were calculated. It was found that the optical band gap values were decreased as the radiation dose was increased. Samples with electrical contacts having a planar structure showed a linear increase in current values with the increase in radiation dose up to a certain dose level. The observed changes in both the optical and the electrical properties suggest that TeO2 thin film may be considered as an effective material for room temperature real time γ-radiation dosimetry.
Keywords: Gamma Radiation; Dosimetry; Thin Films; Tellurium Dioxide; Optical Band Gap
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Arshak, K.; Korostynska, O. Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures. Sensors 2002, 2, 347-355.
Arshak K, Korostynska O. Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures. Sensors. 2002; 2(8):347-355.
Arshak, Khalil; Korostynska, Olga. 2002. "Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures." Sensors 2, no. 8: 347-355.


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Wouldn't life's challenges seem less daunting with a group of clear-eyed advisors to give you honest feedback on your dilemmas and decisions? Take a cue from organizations large and small and create your very own personal board of directors.
Every public company must have a board of directors. Some private firms and non-profits also choose to create boards. Members of these governing bodies have diverse skill sets and meet regularly to set policies, provide oversight, and keep the organization on track. This may include fiduciary duties (e.g., hiring and firing executives, setting dividend policies and payouts), setting broad goals, and ensuring the organization has the support and resources it needs.
But what, exactly, constitutes a personal board of directors (PBD)? Your PBD can be whatever you make it—a deliberate group of mentors who can help with different facets of your personal and professional life. Here are some common PBD missions:
- Serve as a sounding board for your ideas, offer advice, challenge you when PBD members believe you are off base, and encourage you to take affirmative action.
- Share their experiences and expertise, point you toward the resources you need, help you expand your network, and challenge you to grow.
- Represent a variety of skills and viewpoints to offer you a more diverse field of information. Because they employ different styles of feedback, your PBD members will likely point out things you're not seeing.
- Ensure you take in both the big picture and small details.
- Keep you accountable for your goals. If that's a function you'd like your board to fulfill, you might ask members to follow up on your progress within a given timeframe.
Create Your Team of Mentors in Four Easy Steps
Step 1 – Determine your 'why?'
The first step in assembling a PBD is to determine why you need one. Before you decide which potential mentors you'll pitch on board service, ask yourself the following questions:
- How do I want to improve and/or advance my professional life?
- What is something I want to learn about so that I'll be better at my job?
- What do I want my career/life to look like in a year? Five years? Ten years?
- What strengths do I have, and am I putting them to use?
- What are the weaknesses that might hold me back from achieving my next goal?
Once you've answered each question, think about how mentors could help you fill knowledge gaps and achieve your goals.
Step 2 – Choose your candidates
Now that you know what you want to achieve with your PBD, it's time to consider candidates. The most helpful and efficient size for your board is generally three to five mentors. This size allows you to cultivate meaningful relationships while still benefiting from a variety of perspectives.
Here's a list of desirable qualities to look for in a PBD candidate:
- Will critique you honestly to help you grow.
- Will cheer you on and encourage you.
- Is someone whom you aspire to emulate, whether professionally, spiritually, and/or personally.
- Has been where you are now and cleared similar obstacles.
- Is an expert in the industry or another area where you'd like to make more progress.
Step 3 – Recruit your team
Once you've chosen your candidates, it's time to reach out with your PBD request. Remember that you're asking people for their time and mentorship. They may not be in a position to commit right now, so it's wise to have some backups in mind. If you don't have an existing relationship with someone you'd like to appoint, ask a mutual connection to introduce you and begin cultivating a relationship.
Make sure you're prepared to talk honestly and in detail about your vision for your PBD and how each individual fits in. Be ready to answer:
- How often you're looking to connect.
- Whether you prefer to meet in person, via video, and/or in phone conferences.
- Whether accountability to goals is part of the agreement.
- The issues you'd like to focus on, such as developing a new skill.
Give your candidates ample time to consider your request.
Step 4 – Mind your manners
Your relationships with PBD members may be a bit unbalanced—at least at first—as you plumb the wisdom of people who have achieved the professional or personal goals you're working toward. There are no formal rules for setting up a PBD, but there are courtesies you should be ready to extend to these mentors:
- Anytime they give advice, whether you follow it or not, reach out to thank them for their input and let them know the outcome.
- Be gracious, and don't make every interaction about you. Connect personally—e.g., wish PBD members happy birthday, ask about their work and family, send them a thank you card, take them out to dinner occasionally.
- Work to ensure relationships continue to be valuable for both you and your mentor. As you grow and meet your goals, you may want to change the composition of your PBD. Your board members will also take on new challenges. They may no longer have the bandwidth to mentor. Leave the door open for PBD members to exit gracefully when the time comes.
With thought, preparation, and gracious follow-through, you don't need to figure it all out yourself as you work toward your goals. You can call on the collective wisdom of your very own PBD.
There's no need to go it alone personally, professionally…or financially. FJY advisors stand ready to help you create a holistic, comprehensive financial plan that supports the most important goals in your life.


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You have a resource for support, tactics, professional development, and most of all, answers. CT3 partners with school systems across the nation to give teachers a roadmap for achieving even the most ambitious and audacious goals.
It comes from sharing proven strategies in classroom management and pedagogy, and providing coaching that gets to the core of what you do and why you do it.
Teachers leverage CT3's No-Nonsense Nurturer approach to engage 100% of their students, 100% of the time. Individuals can sign up on their own via this link or schools/districts can purchase groups of licenses.
To master these strategies, teachers are supported by Real Time Teacher Coaches from their school or district. Real Time Teacher Coaching supports teachers not only in engaging with their students, but in utilizing high-leverage pedagogical strategies to ensure every student learns.
"Being a No-Nonsense Nurturer allows me to value my students, and by extension, they learn to value their learning and will have more choices after they graduate. They can get out of the cycle of poverty, violence, discrimination, and whatever else they're dealing with."
"Real Time Teacher Coaching has definitely made a huge impact on my ability to execute as a No-Nonsense Nurturer. I've got somebody on my side who's not here to evaluate me but to encourage me and to push me."


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Manx Crosses by David Wilson
Manx Crosses: A Handbook of Stone Sculpture 500 – 1040 in the Isle of Man
The carved stone crosses of the Isle of Man of the late fifth to mid-eleventh century are of national and international importance. They provide the most coherent source for the early history of Christianity in the Island, and for the arrival and conversion of Scandinavian settlers in the last century of the Viking Age – a century which produced some the earliest recognisable images of the heroes and gods of the North; earlier, indeed, than those found in Scandinavia. This, the first general survey of the material fro more than a century, provides a new view of the political and religious connections of the Isle of Man in a period of great turmoil in the Irish Sea region. The book also include an up-to-date annotated inventory of the monuments.


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Siebel Business Process Designer Administration Guide > For Developers: Understanding How Workflow Processes Are Designed > Building Long-Running Workflow Processes >
Assigning Subprocesses to End Users to Create Collaborative Long-Running Workflows
Using the subprocess step, you can configure workflows that assign interactive subprocess workflows to end users to create collaborative workflow processes. An example of a collaborative workflow is one that includes a requirement for approvals; the route the workflow takes as tasks is a route across multiple users.
Use the Step Recipient field on a subprocess step to create collaborative workflows. Assignment occurs based on the login name, not on the Position or User ID. This login name may be a literal value, it may be held in a process property or a buscomp field, or it may be the result of an expression.
NOTE: The Process Designer cannot validate the data supplied to make sure that it represents a valid login name at design time.
To assign subprocesses to end users
- Create a subprocess step.
- Right-click the subprocess step and choose Show Recipients.
- In the WF Step Recipients applet, set the Recipient Name field to the login name of the assignee (the end user who will be assigned the subprocess).


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Benefits of using mineral wool insulation:
- Fire Resistant
Delays the spread of fire, and may provide you and your family with precious extra minutes to escape.
Won't burn, or release toxic gases or smoke when exposed to high heat.
Withstands temperatures of up to 2150ºF (1177ºC) – well above heat levels of typical house fires.
- Water Repellant
After exposure to water and moisture, won't slump in the wall cavity like many conventional batt insulation products and R-value will not be affected.
Inert substance that does not support mold or fungal growth; resulting in a safer indoor environment for your home.
- Made from Stone
Created from a unique combination of stone and recycled slag – a by-product of steel production that would otherwise go to landfill.
Non-directional fiber structure and higher density for better dimensional stability and an effective barrier against noise.
- Easy Installation
Simple to cut and install
- Sound Absorbent
Non-directional fiber of ROXUL stone wool helps absorb acoustic waves and can reduce the intensity and propagation of noise.
Effectively reduces airflow and sound transmissions.


CRLs before they are needed for revocation checking allowing the client to check revocation against locally downloaded CRLs instead of having to download a CRL during the Certificate Validation and Certificate Revocation process.
A Certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities. Authorities in separate forests with two one-way trusts established.
Cross Certification
Cross certification enables entities in one public key infrastructure (PKI) to trust entities in another PKI and establish an agreement of responsibilities and liability of each party. This doesn't join separate PKI hierarchies however, entities in each PKI are subject to the policies specified in the certificates.
CSP - Crypto Service Provider
Crypto Service Providers are typically a.dll and signature file referenced in the registry and provide cryptography services used in data signing and hashing along with the generation, protection, and storage of key material.
CSR - Certificate Signing Request
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (PKCS#10) is a request file sent to a Certificate Authority (CA) to receive a certificate and contains information about the subject making the request, the subject's public key, a set of attributes, a set of X.509 extensions, and a signature. These can be generated on non-Windows devices and by using OpenSSL or a method using CMP (Certificate Management Protocol).
CTL - Certificate Trust List
A Certificate Trust List is a set of items signed by a trusted entity. A CTL is a list of hashes of certificates or a list of file names. All the items in the list are authenticated and approved by a trusted signing entity.
Delta CRL
A Delta CRL contains the list of revoked certificates since the last base CRL issuance to allow clients to maintain knowledge of revocation while using less bandwidth for that knowledge. Delta CRLs are useful if there's a lot of revocation happening that then means a large CRL to download, but less often. The disadvantages of using Delta CRLs include the time it takes for a client to read both the newest Delta CRL and the Base CRL to verify the freshest revocation list. For these reasons, we don't recommend employing Delta CRLs in most PKI implementations.
DER - Distinguished Encoding Rules
DER is a set of rules for encoding ASN.1 defined data as a stream of bits for external storage or transmission. DER-encoded certificate files are supported by almost all applications. OpenSSL and Keytool support DER-encoded certificate files.
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DES is a block cipher that encrypts data in 64-bit blocks. DES is a symmetric algorithm that uses the same algorithm and key for encryption and decryption.
Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement
The Diffie-Hellman algorithm is not based on encryption and decryption but instead relies on mathematical functions using an agreed-upon public key value and a large prime number that, when computed with their secret (private) keys, enable two parties to generate a shared secret key for exchanging information securely.
Digital Certificate
A digital certificate represents the identity of a user, computer, or program. It contains information about the issuer and the subject and also certificate-specific data such as the CA signature and its validity period. It is signed by a certification authority (CA) which vouches for the identity of the user, computer, or program based on the information in the certificate. A minimum of verified information includes Subject Name identity, the issuing authority, and validity period.
Digital Signature
A digital signature is a cryptographic technique that uses a mathematical algorithm that binds a sender's identity to a digital message or document based on a subscriber's private key. It secures the message or document and verifies the integrity of the signature allowing a Relying Party to be sure that the file or document has not been altered or interfered with.
DN - Distinguished Name
A DN is a unique name or character string that unambiguously identifies an entity according to the hierarchical naming conventions of X.500 directory service. Examples are:
 - CN - Common name, subject name (widgets.
 - O - Organization (
 - S - State (Illinois)
 - C - Country (US)
Document Signing
Document signing applies a digital signature to a document. The digital signature provides nonrepudiation where someone can't deny later that they ever signed it. Also, it denies the ability to fake a valid signature.
The digital signature:
 - Verifies the identity of the user that signed the document. Typically, this is either the last person to edit the document before distribution or the person that verifies that the content represents the views of the organization distributing the document.
 - Allows a recipient to verify that content of the document was not modified after the digital signature was applied to the document.
DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm
DSA is a public key algorithm specified by Digital Signature Standard (DSS). DSA is only used to generate digital signatures and cannot be used for data encryption. It does provide a standard used for authentication and integrity of a digital signature as well as non-repudiation where someone can't later deny having signed a document using a digital signature.
ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is an efficient approach to public key cryptography based on the properties of elliptic curves. The primary advantage of ECC is efficiency. For example, ECC keys between 163 bits and 512 bits are one-sixth to one-thirtieth the size of equivalent RSA keys. As key size increases the efficiency of ECC increases.
ECDH - Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
ECDH is based on the Diffie-Hellman algorithm using elliptic curve cryptography to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel or network.
ECDSA - Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
ECDSA is a Digital Signature Algorithm that uses keys derived from elliptic curve cryptography that efficiently provides equivalent security. It provides RSA-level security but with much smaller key sizes. For example, an ECDSA 256-bit key size secures better than the RSA 2048. The decreased bandwidth in key exchanges is an obvious advantage of ECDSA.
EFS - Encrypting File System
Encrypting File System is a feature in the Windows operating system that enables users to encrypt files and folders on an NTFS volume disk. A PKI can manage EFS with EFS certificate templates.
EKU - Enhanced Key Usage
Enhanced Key Usage is both a certificate extension and a certificate extended property value. After a computer's identity, for example, is verifiable by an issued certificate an EKU specifies the uses for which a certificate is valid.
Examples are:
 - Server Authentication =
 - Client Authentication =
 - Secure E-mail EKU=
 - Code Signing EKU=
 - Time stamping EKU=
 - Encrypting File System EKU=
 - Document Signing EKU=
A certificate issued to an entity that cannot itself issue certificates. Because the entity that requests such a certificate is sometimes referred to as the client, end-entity certificates are sometimes called client certificates.
EV – Extended Validation Certificate
An EV certificate used for HTTPS websites and software that proves the legal entity controlling the website or software package.
FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard
FIPS is a standard published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. FIPS 140-2 is the benchmark for validating the effectiveness of cryptographic hardware.
Hash or Message Digest
A fixed-size result obtained by applying a mathematical function (the hashing algorithm) to an arbitrary amount of data.
Hash Algorithm
An algorithm used to produce a fixed-length hash value of some piece of data, such as a message or session key. Typical hashing algorithms include CMAC, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-2.
HSM - Hardware Security Module
A hardware security module is a physical computing device that safeguards and manages digital keys for strong authentication and provides cryptographic operations processing. They are typically certified for physical security at various FIPS 140-2 security levels. HSMs are recommended in most PKI implementations since the CA private keys are not software-based and thus insecure, but instead are hardware-based and only available from within the HSM itself.
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
A communication protocol that uses the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and the SSL/TLS protocols to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a Web server.
Identity Assurance
There are three main methods to provide the assurance of the identity of an authorized user.
They are:
 - Something that the user knows (e.g. password),
 - Something that the user possesses (e.g. a token) or
 - Something that the individual "is" (e.g. biometrics such as a fingerprint reader.)
Intermediate CA
An intermediate CA is a CA that is subordinate to another CA and issues certificates to other CAs in the CA hierarchy. These can be Issuing CAs and Policy CAs depending on the PKI design.
Issuance is the act of an Issuing Authority in creating a certificate that is bound to a subscriber. The process requires authentication of the subscriber and/or subject.
Issuing Certification Authority
An Issuing CA is online and issues certificates to users, computers, services, and programs as well as regularly publishing a CRL. It also manages the design and publication of templates that enforce policies and procedures defined either at the Issuing CA (two-tier hierarchy) or from the Policy CA (three-tier hierarchy). An Issuing CA also services Certificate Authority Web Enrollment, NDES, CEP/CES, and others in the enrollment and distribution of certificates in a PKI or to another PKI using cross-certification, for example.
Kerberos is a protocol that defines how clients interact with a network authentication service and builds on symmetric key cryptography and optionally may use public-key cryptography during certain phases of authentication.


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Track & Field, known in Japan and Europe as Hyper Olympic (ハイパーオリンピック Haipā Orinpikku), is an Olympic-themed sports arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1983. The Japanese release sported an official license for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Players compete in a series of events, most involving alternately pressing two buttons as quickly as possible to make the onscreen character run faster. It was followed by a sequel, Hyper Sports.
In the original arcade game, the player uses two "run" buttons (or a trackball in later units that replaced buttons damaged from overuse) and one "action" button to control an athlete competing in the following six events:
- 100 Meter Dash – Running by quickly alternating button presses.
- Long jump – Running by alternating button press and correct timing for jump. Hold jump button to set angle (42 degrees is optimal).
- Javelin throw – Running by alternating button presses and then using action button correct timing for angle (43 degrees is optimal).
- 110 Meter Hurdles – Running by alternating button presses and using action button to time hurdles.
- Hammer throw' – Spinning initiated by pressing a run button once and then correctly timed press of action button to choose angle (45 is optimal).
- High jump – Running (speed set by computer) and then action button must be held down to determine angle of jump. Once in the air, the run button can be rapidly pressed for additional height.


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Many people say that their friends know them better than they know themselves. It appears that is true even among friends from the sandbox. A 30-year study from Concordia University in Canada found that childhood playmates, not the individual, are better at predicting future success and personality.
Lisa Serkin and Alexa Martin-Storey, a Concordia graduate now at the University of Texas for her post-doctoral studies, recently published a study online, the result of nearly 30 years of data that researchers started to compile in 1976. The first crop of questionnaires asked students in the first, fourth and seventh grades to evaluate themselves for qualities like aggression, likability, social withdrawal or shyness. They also asked the students to evaluate and rank their classmates for the same types of behavior.
Over the next 20 years, the researchers closely tracked the students. A follow-up was conducted between 1999 and 2003 on 700 of the original kids. The survey asked them to measure themselves against the following traits: neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.
"We were able to compare peer and self-perceptions of the childhood [behaviors] to these adult personality factors," Alexa Martin-Storey said in a statement. "We found the evaluations from the group of peers were much more closely associated with eventual adult outcomes than were their own personality perceptions from childhood. This makes sense, since children are around their peers all day and [behaviors] like aggressiveness and likeability are extremely relevant in the school environment."
Kids whose peers described them as socially withdrawn tended to be less extraverted as adults. In contrast, kids who described themselves as socially withdrawn more often were not conscientiousness rather than being particularly shy.
Children that were well-liked by their peers also exhibited high rates of agreeableness, conscientiousness and lower levels of neuroticism.
"Adult personality traits are associated with a lot of important life factors, such as health, mental health and occupational satisfaction," Lisa Serbin says. "The information from our study could be used to promote better longitudinal outcomes for children by helping kids and parents develop effective mechanisms for addressing aggressive or socially withdrawn [behaviors] and promoting more pro-social [behavior]."
Published by Medicaldaily.com


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Recently I learned of a new way to express potential form. Here's a few example sentences:
 - 今回は予測し得ないことが起きたけど、皆、落ち着いていた。
 - 自分の意見を自由に言えないなんて、普通の国ではあり得ない。
The second example I put for contrast, because it illustrates one obvious difference which is that I don't think potential forms of ある and いる exist.
In the first example, however, it's not so clear. Instinctually, from looking at these and a few other examples, I think perhaps there is a sense of impossibility here that is not present in simple できる or ～られる form, but I have trouble articulating it, and it may be a red herring anyway.
For example, change the first sentence to this:
 - 今回は予測できないことが起きたけど、皆、落ち着いていた。
Does it have a different nuance now?
Can someone elaborate on the differences between these two constructs?
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First, I think that 連用形+得る is more formal than the classical potential forms. Then, I feel a slight nuance: the 得ない form dissociates the speaker from the impossibility. Overstating, it's like When you say できない, it means you cannot do it; when you say し得ない, it means that it cannot be done.
Second, potential form of いる exists: I'm pretty sure I already heard:
"ここにいられません。すぐ出てください！" (You can't be here, go away right now!)
For ある, there is あられる, but it's some 敬語, and no more a potential indeed.
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Japanese here. The two "得ない" are same to me at least. The first example talks about "some thing that couldn't possibly be anticipated happened", and the second example talks about that "there is no way that this happens in a normal country".
They both simply express impossibility. Only the proceeding verb (predict/exist) is different.
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Well, my question is really "How is this different from using られる or ことができる for potential. I will edit the original question. – Zach Jul 12 '11 at 4:35
_USER_: oh, I see. – Enno Shioji Jul 12 '11 at 4:41
When you compare the two, the first one is just stronger than the later. In the first one, there is an emphasis on the impossibility. It kind of stands out. So you have 50% emphasis on the impossibility part, and another 50% on the 落ち着いていた part.
In the latter, perhaps the speaker has already talked about the impossibility and is not intending to place focus here. The emphasis is much more on the 落ち着いていた part now.
得ない would translate to something like "totally impossible", while できない would translate to "cannot" or something.
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list of known hosts.
 Mon Dec 4 11:08:13 PST 2006
 [grid@node1 grid]$ ssh node2 date
 Mon Dec 4 11:08:35 PST 2006
 At the end of this process, the public host name for each member node should be registered in the known_hosts file for all other cluster nodes.
 If you are using a remote client to connect to the local node, and you see a message similar to "Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding," then this means that your authorized keys file is configured correctly, but your SSH configuration has X11 forwarding enabled. To correct this issue, proceed to "Setting Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration".
 3. Repeat step 2 on each cluster node member.
If you have configured SSH correctly, then you can now use the ssh or scp commands without being prompted for a password. For example:
[grid@node1 ~]$ ssh node2 date
Mon Feb 26 23:34:42 UTC 2009
[grid@node1 ~]$ ssh node1 date
Mon Feb 26 23:34:48 UTC 2009
If any node prompts for a password, then verify that the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on that node contains the correct public keys, and that you have created an Oracle software owner with identical group membership and IDs.
E.2 Configuring Kernel Parameters
This section contains the following:
The kernel parameter and shell limit values shown in the following section are recommended values only. For production database systems, Oracle recommends that you tune these values to optimize the performance of the system. Refer to your operating system documentation for more information about tuning kernel parameters.
E.2.1 Minimum Parameter Settings for Installation
During installation, or when you run the Cluster Verification Utility (cluvfy) with the flag -fixup, a fixup script is generated. This script updates required kernel packages if necessary to minimum values.
If you cannot use the fixup scripts, then review the following table to set values manually:
Parameter Value File
semmsl semmns semopm semmni 250 32000 100 128 /proc/sys/kernel/sem
shmmax Minimum allocation:
536870912 (512 MB)
Maximum allocation:
 - Linux x86: At least 1 byte less than 4 GB, or _PHONE_.
 Recommended: More than half the physical memory.
 - Linux x86-64: At least 1 byte less than the physical memory
 Recommended: More than half the physical memory
See My Oracle Support Note 567506.1 for additional information about configuring shmmax.
shmmni 4096 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
shmall _PHONE_ /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
file-max _PHONE_ /proc/sys/fs/file-max
ip_local_port_range Minimum: 9000
Maximum: 65500
rmem_default 262144 /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
rmem_max _PHONE_ /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
wmem_default 262144 /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
wmem_max _PHONE_ /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
aio-max-nr _PHONE_ /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr
If the current value for any parameter is greater than the value listed in this table, then the Fixup scripts do not change the value of that parameter.
E.2.2 Additional Parameter and Kernel Settings for SUSE Linux
On SUSE systems only, complete the following steps as needed:
 1. Enter the following command to cause the system to read the /etc/sysctl.conf file when it restarts:
 # /sbin/chkconfig boot.sysctl on
 2. On SUSE 10 systems only, use a text editor to change the /etc/sysconfig/boot.sysctl parameter RUN_PARALLEL flag from yes to no.
 3. Enter the GID of the oinstall group as the value for the parameter /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. Doing this grants members of oinstall a group permission to create shared memory segments.
 For example, where the oinstall group GID is 501:
 # echo 501 > /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group
 After running this command, use vi to add the following text to /etc/sysctl.conf, and enable the boot.sysctl script to run on system restart:
 Only one group can be defined as the vm.hugetlb_shm_group.
 4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 on all other nodes in the cluster.
E.3 Checking OCFS2 Version Manually
To check your OCFS version manually, enter the following commands:
modinfo ocfs2
rpm -qa |grep ocfs2
Ensure that ocfs2console and ocfs2-tools are at least version 1.2.7, and that the other OCFS2 components correspond to the pattern ocfs2-kernel_version-1.2.7 or greater. If you want to install Oracle RAC on a shared home, then the OCFS version must be 1.4.1 or greater.
For information about OCFS2, refer to the following Web site:


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By Fred Kammer, S.J.
Critical to Catholic thinking is the fundamental concept of the common good. The Catechism, following Pope John XXIII in Mater et Magistra and Vatican II, defines the common good as: "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily."1 The common good applies to each human community, but its most complete realization occurs in the political community where the state's role is "to defend and promote the common good of civil society, its citizens, and intermediate bodies."2
Three Essential Elements
The Catechism notes three essential elements of the common good: respect for the individual, the social well-being and development of the group, and peace which results from the stability of a just society. The common good's conceptual roots lie in Greek and Roman philosophy as the goal of political life, the good of the city (pólis), and the task entrusted to civic leaders.3
Regarding the first essential of individual respect, the Catechism notes that all "public authorities are bound to respect the fundamental and inalienable rights of the human person."4 This means far more than the utilitarian "greatest good for the greatest number," but insists that majorities respect individual rights.
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Weekly Fraser Valley Sport fishing column; May 26 to June 2, 2014
This week we are going to build on the early season angling tactics we covered last week.
Science tells us, that during spring season, warmer water increases a fish?s metabolism and holds more oxygen. Using this knowledge, we can determine the areas of a lake will be warmer and therefore attract larger quantities of fish. Generally the north east sections of a lake receive the longest concentrations of sunlight, given that the sun shines in a northerly direction, and sets in the west.
A bottom of Silt or mud absorbs and retains more heat than sand or gravel. Countering these warming effects; are inlet streams that while adding oxygen, through the process of aeration, lower the water temperature at their confluence.
Then there are two wild cards that can throw a wrench into early season fishing: a full moon and cold fronts. The moon and its influence on fish is a subject all its own which we will cover at another time. As far as angling 101 goes, let?s just say don?t waste your time fishing under the influence of a full moon. Cold fronts, low pressure systems as the weather people call them, are ushered in with low barometric pressure. Low and falling barometric pressure puts fish off the bite and causes them to seek deeper, colder, and more pressurized water to counteract the effects of the lower barometric pressure.
At first glance this might seem like a lot to cover. It is not. Getting all these ducks in a row is no different than trouble shooting. Most of it can be done with one?s powers of observation and a compass. During the afternoon, focus on the north to north east region of the water you want to fish. Determine where the inlet streams enter the water system and avoid those areas, while looking for mud and silt covered and well weeded shallows. Pay attention to the weather and don?t fish under a full moon.
To quote a famous radio personality;?It?s just that easy.?
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Our lower mainland creeks and sloughs are slow to fair.


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We measured retinal image quality in astigmatic eyes, using the double-pass technique. We analyzed the influence of the amount of astigmatism and changes in axis of astigmatism on the eye's optical performance. Different amounts of astigmatism were obtained by variation of the cylindrical power of a lens situated in front of the eye, between 0.25-diopter (D) overcorrection and 1-D undercorrection at intervals of 0.25 D. Changes in the axis of astigmatism were obtained by rotation of the lens, which neutralizes the astigmatism in an angle of ±10° at 5° intervals. The results show the decrease in retinal image quality and the increase in the degree of image astigmatism obtained when the amount of astigmatism increases or the angle between the lens and the eye axis is other than zero. In general, the largest variations correspond to when the astigmatism changes from 0 to 0.25 D or when the axis changes from 0° to ±5°. The reduction in optical performance is smaller in living eyes than in an eye model or in an artificial eye. The aberrations present in the living eye reduce the relative loss of retinal image quality introduced by astigmatism.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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Jaume Pujol, Montserrat Arjona, Josep Arasa, and Victoria Badia, "Influence of amount and changes in axis of astigmatism on retinal image quality," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15, 2514-2521 (1998)


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ISS 2020: NASA's the Most Important Experiments
ISS & NASA have done the most important experiments of the year during 2020.
In recent days we have seen the publication of many celebratory posts that have summarized the main events of 2020. NASA also wanted to have its say, sharing an update about the most important discoveries and experiments that have been conducted in the last 12 months on the Station International Space.
Activities on the ISS are always going on and on, and every year there are many significant experiments. NASA says that there are dozens of experiments in progress at any time of the year at the same time. It includes many of a medical nature, such as studies about Parkinson's.
Over the last year of the Station – more precisely between 1 October 2019 and 1 October 2020 – more than 300 scientific publications have been identified based on data and experiments from the ISS, testifying how this laboratory is fundamental for developing research around the world.
One of the most significant discoveries of 2020 bears an all-Italian signature. It is the result of 5 years of research by the Italian Space Agency, the University of Milan and the University of Pavia. The initial experiment was conducted in 2015 by the team led by Samantha Cristoforetti.
The publication arrived in 2020 and demonstrated how the use of individual nanoparticles could counteract osteoporosis. These push the stem cells to transform into osteoblasts, therefore cells that actively contribute to good bone health maintenance.
In this case, the ISS offers a study environment that can hardly be reproduced on Earth, as its fundamental characteristics (microgravity and being outside the atmosphere) are responsible for accelerating osteoporosis in living organisms' bones., which is why it becomes easier to verify the effectiveness of the solutions studied. The results of the Italian research will have positive implications both for future astronauts and for Earth patients.
Remaining in the medical field, a study by the Canadian Space Agency MARROW examined the issue of anaemia – another typical problem of space travel – and confirmed that the loss of red blood cells is directly proportional to the time spent in space. Once back on Earth, the recovery times are between 1 and 3 months, depending on the duration of the mission. On the other hand, another experiment made it possible to discover a reliable indicator that certifies the destruction of red blood cells in human blood, a useful data to verify the actual danger of some, particularly extreme environments.
Among other noteworthy experiments, we find that relating to a drug capable of preventing the loss of lean and muscle mass through the use of myostatin, the discovery of an exoplanet by Asteria. This experiment demonstrates how using a control system with force feedback can improve the remote manoeuvrability of rovers in microgravity environments, one dedicated to the study of lightning storms and their effects on the atmosphere and much more.


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Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children : Promoting Wellness, Video-Enhanced Pearson eText — Access Card – Inge Daeschel
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Divergent evolution occurs when related species develop unique traits due to different environments or selective pressures. A classic example of divergent evolution is the Galapagos finch which Darwin discovered that in different environments, the finches' beaks adapted differently. The individual Galapagos finches looked so different from one another that he was surprised when he found that they were all related.
One of the common trends in evolution is something called divergent evolution and that's when two related species diverge and wind up looking very different. They'll have different traits even though they maybe pretty closely related. This happens because the two new species or the two related species are under the influence of different environments or under the influence of different natural selective pressures. What would be a good example of this would might be something like bats and humans. Now bats and us humans are both mammals. We share a lot of common characteristics but we also share what are called homologous structures. Our upper arm and a bat's upper limb share same bones etcetera even though they're used for different traits, different purposes.
We take a look here at a bat skeleton. you can actually see some of the common features that we share with them. We've got a rib cage, they've got a rib cage. Number of bones in the arm are the same and their wing is merely just a grossly elongated version of our fingers, our phallanges, bones here. And so that is an example of homologous structure demonstrating how we and bats illustrate divergent evolution.


update defaults configured on individual Column objects, i.e. those described at Column INSERT/UPDATE Defaults including those configured by the Column.default, Column.onupdate, Column.server_default and Column.server_onupdate parameters, will continue to function normally even if those Column objects are not mapped. This is because in the case of Column.default and Column.onupdate, the Column object is still present on the underlying Table, thus allowing the default functions to take place when the ORM emits an INSERT or UPDATE, and in the case of Column.server_default and Column.server_onupdate, the relational database itself emits these defaults as a server side behavior.
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5.8. Upgrading to New Releases
Upgrading Bugzilla is something we all want to do from time to time, be it to get new features or pick up the latest security fix. How easy it is to update depends on a few factors.
There are also three different methods to upgrade your installation.
 1. Using CVS (Example 5-1)
 2. Downloading a new tarball (Example 5-2)
 3. Applying the relevant patches (Example 5-3)
Which options are available to you may depend on how large a jump you are making and/or your network configuration.
Revisions are normally released to fix security vulnerabilities and are distinguished by an increase in the third number. For example, when 2.16.2 was released, it was a revision to 2.16.1.
Point releases are normally released when the Bugzilla team feels that there has been a significant amount of progress made between the last point release and the current time. These are often proceeded by a stabilization period and release candidates, however the use of development versions or release candidates is beyond the scope of this document. Point releases can be distinguished by an increase in the second number, or minor version. For example, 2.16.2 is a newer point release than 2.14.5.
The examples in this section are written as if you were updating to version 2.16.2. The procedures are the same regardless if you are updating to a new point release or a new revision. However, the chance of running into trouble increases when upgrading to a new point release, escpecially if you've made local changes.
These examples also assume that your Bugzilla installation is at /var/www/html/bugzilla. If that is not the case, simply substitute the proper paths where appropriate.
Example 5-1. Upgrading using CVS
Every release of Bugzilla, whether it is a revision or a point release, is tagged in CVS. Also, every tarball we have distributed since version 2.12 has been primed for using CVS. This does, however, require that you are able to access cvs-mirror.mozilla.org on port 2401.
If you can do this, updating using CVS is probably the most painless method, especially if you have a lot of local changes.
 bash$ cd /var/www/html/bugzilla
bash$ cvs login
CVS password: anonymous
bash$ cvs -q update -r BUGZILLA-2_16_2 -dP
P checksetup.pl
P collectstats.pl
P globals.pl
P docs/rel_notes.txt
P template/en/default/list/quips.html.tmpl
If a line in the output from cvs update begins with a C that represents a file with local changes that CVS was unable to properly merge. You need to resolve these conflicts manually before Bugzilla (or at least the portion using that file) will be usable.
You also need to run./checksetup.pl before your Bugzilla upgrade will be complete.
Example 5-2. Upgrading using the tarball
If you are unable or unwilling to use CVS, another option that's always available is to download the latest tarball. This is the most difficult option to use, especially if you have local changes.
 bash$ cd /var/www/html
bash$ wget _URL_
Output omitted
bash$ tar xzvf bugzilla-2.16.2.tar.gz
Output truncated
bash$ cd bugzilla-2.16.2
bash$ cp../bugzilla/localconfig*.
bash$ cp -r../bugzilla/data.
bash$ cd..
bash$ mv bugzilla bugzilla.old
bash$ mv bugzilla-2.16.2 bugzilla
bash$ cd bugzilla
bash$./checksetup.pl
Output omitted
The cp commands both end with periods which is a very important detail, it tells the shell that the destination directory is the current working directory. Also, the period at the beginning of the./checksetup.pl is important and can not be omitted.
You will now have to reapply any changes you have made to your local installation manually.
Example 5-3. Upgrading using patches
The Bugzilla team will normally make a patch file available for revisions to go from the most recent revision to the new one. You could also read the release notes and grab the patches attached to the mentioned bug, but it is safer to use the released patch file as sometimes patches get changed before they get checked in (for minor spelling fixes and the like). It is also theorectically possible to scour the fixed bug list and pick and choose which patches to apply from a point release, but this is not recommended either as what you'll end up with is a hodge podge Bugzilla that isn't really any version. This would also make it more difficult to upgrade in the future.
 bash$ cd /var/www/html/bugzilla
bash$ wget _URL_
Output omitted
bash$ gunzip bugzilla-2.16.1-to-2.16.2.diff.gz
bash$ patch -p1 < bugzilla-2.16.1-to-2.16.2.diff
patching file checksetup.pl
patching file collectstats.pl
patching file globals.pl
If you do this, beware that this doesn't change the entires in your CVS directory so it may make updates using CVS (Example 5-1) more difficult in the future.


Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica)
patriotic union colombia
The Patriotic Union or Union Patriotica (UP) is a leftist political party that was co-founded by the guerrilla group, the FARC, in the mid-1980′s and was the victim of systematic disappearances and assassinations in the late 80′s and early 90′s. 2013 marked the first time the UP announced a political candidate since 2002.
In 1984, the FARC and Colombia's government came to an agreement during the first ever attempt at peace talks that laid the foundation for the FARC and other guerrilla groups to participate politically. The deal, known as the "Uribe Agreements," would allow these rebels to "little by little live life legally in the country," according to leftist thought leader Ivan Cepeda.
At this point, a group of many different political interests including the FARC, members of the Colombian Communist Party (CCP), other rebel groups such as the ELN, and leftist leaders came together to form a leftist political coalition to oppose the two dominant political parties of the time: the liberal party and the conservative party. This new opposition party would be known as the Patriotic Union.
The UP, which denounced using force or arms to influence Colombian citizens, sought voice within the government after the liberals and conservatives shut out all opposition political groups from significant power for 16 years. The UP prioritized issues such as land redistribution, better health care and education for the poor, greater access to an increasingly censored mass media, and the nationalization of businesses, banks, and transportation systems.
In 1986, the then openly communist political group did well in the election cycle. The UP gained 350 local council seats, 23 deputy positions in departmental assemblies, 9 seats in the House, 6 seats in the Senate and 4.6% of the presidential vote. They performed better than any leftist group in Colombia's history, and better than any other third party group in over a decade.
By 1987 however, a combination of drug dealers, right-wing paramilitary groups and members of the incumbent government and army began systematically assassinating and forcing the disappearances of leaders of the communist party. Jaime Pardo, the UP's figurehead and presidential candidate in 1986, was assassinated in 1987 by a 14 year old boy who was tied to a drug dealer from the Medellin Cartel. By 1988, the UP reported that 500 of its members including Pardo and four congressmen had been assassinated.
From 1986 to 1990, between four and six thousand members of the Patriotic Union were murdered, including another presidential candidate, Bernardo Jaramillo, who was slated to run in 1990. More than 70% of all center-left presidential candidates in 1990 were assassinated as well.
Assassinations were rampant and continued throughout the 90′s and continued into the early 2000′s. One of the few surviving political leaders of the UP, Aida Avella, fled the country in 1995 after evading a third assassination attempt. Others members of the party ultimately followed Avella's lead and went into exile abroad. By 2002, the party had essentially become extinct.
In 2013, the UP resurfaced on the political stage in Colombia, though not nearly with as much fervor as it once had in the 80′s, and they elected Aida Avella to be their candidate for Colombia's 2014 presidential race while in exile in Switzerland. Though the principles that the party stands by remain similar to those they initially promoted, the UP is careful not to label themselves as communist or socialist anymore. The UP is known now as a leftist party that has hopes to build a following among the millions of Colombians currently in the exterior of the country.
The post Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica) appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.


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Mayors of major European cities have demonstrated their commitment to create a Europe where people come first.
At the EUROCITIES conference, attended by more than 500 participants, the mayors of Edinburgh, Ghent and Stockholm were the first to sign EUROCITIES Declaration on Citizens' Engagement, pledging to:
- involve citizens in a dialogue about our common future
- inspire all levels of government to create societies where people come first
- impact the way decisions are taken in Europe
As the closest level of government to citizens, cities are crucial in shaping the future of Europe. More than 90 cities have taken part in EUROCITIES 'Cities4Europe – Europe for citizens' campaign this year, which has highlighted positive examples of citizen engagement around Europe, and set examples for other cities and levels of government. 10 top citizens' messages, collected from hundreds, were also shared with delegates.
Cities have been experimenting and innovating with new forms of participatory democracy, to support traditional representative democracy. This is central to successfully respond to pressing public concerns such as climate change, social cohesion, housing and employment.


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We connect people who care with causes that matter.
We Do This by:
- Helping donors transform their charitable dreams into permanent legacies.
- Investing in our community through strategic grantmaking.
- Engaging with our community to create a better future.
- Excellence – providing the best service to all.
- Community – putting self aside for the betterment of the whole.
- Integrity – always doing the right thing.
- Integrity is our greatest asset and value trust earned with fiscal responsibility, ethical stewardship, and transparency.
- We believe access to the CFLC should be fair, inclusive, and equitable.
- We believe in purposeful and collaborative community leadership.
- We believe the perpetuity of our efforts are linked to sustainable practices.
- We believe strategy, creativity, and adaptability are keys to thriving in a constantly changing world.
As an institution permanently anchored in Lorain County, the Community Foundation strives to be an open and inclusive vehicle focused on issues important to our donors and community. We craft endowed funds and invest subsequent grants spanning a full spectrum of issues, driven largely by the collective, varied, and charitable interests of our donors. However, we recognize that the Foundation is uniquely positioned, and has a responsibility, to provide leadership on issues of importance to our community. Because we cannot anticipate what these issues might be or how we might respond, we created a Leadership Treatise to guide or actions and to serve as a community promise for our behavior. (click to view)


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Europe, which includes 50 countries and territories, has about 38 million Muslims, constituting about 5% of its population. European Muslims make up slightly more than 2% of the world's Muslim population.
Readers should bear in mind that estimates of the numbers of Muslims in Europe vary widely because of the difficulty of counting new immigrants. Nevertheless, it is clear that most European Muslims live in eastern and central Europe. The country with the largest Muslim population in Europe is Russia, with more than 16 million Muslims, meaning that more than four-in-ten European Muslims live in Russia. While most Muslims in western Europe are relatively recent immigrants (or children of immigrants) from Turkey, North Africa or South Asia, most of those in Russia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria belong to populations that are centuries old, meaning that more than six-in-ten European Muslims are indigenous.
Despite the limitations of the underlying data for Europe, it appears that Germany is home to more than 4 million Muslims - almost as many as North and South America combined. This means that Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon (between 2 million and 3 million) and more than any other country in western Europe. This also puts Germany among the top-10 countries with the largest number of Muslims living as a minority population. While France has a slightly higher percentage of Muslims than Germany, this study finds that it has slightly fewer Muslims overall.1 The United Kingdom is home to fewer than 2 million Muslims, about 3% of its total population.
The European countries with the highest concentration of Muslims are located in eastern and central Europe: Kosovo (90%), Albania (80%), Bosnia-Herzegovina (40%) and Republic of Macedonia (33%). Greece is about 3% Muslim, while Spain is about 1% Muslim. Italy has one of the smallest populations of Muslims in Europe, with less than 1% of its population being Muslim.2
Countries in Europe with the Largest Number of Muslims
Republic of Macedonia
Rest of Region
* Data for Germany, France and Bosnia-Herzegovina come primarily from general population surveys, which are less reliable than censuses or large-scale demographic and health surveys for estimating minority-majority ratios (see Methodology). As a result, the percentage of the population that is Muslim in these three countries is rounded to the nearest integer.
Note: Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding.
Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life • Mapping the Global Muslim Population, October 2009
Download the full report PDF (62 pages, 10MB)
1 This report estimates that France's Muslim population is between 3 million and 4 million based on recent immigrant data and a 2005 Generations and Gender Survey projected forward to 2009. Other sources, including the U.S. State Department, CIA World Factbook, World Religion Database and general population surveys, have variously estimated the Muslim population of France at between 2.5 million and 6 million.
2 Figures for Italy come from the 2004 European Social Survey. Similar estimates were found in other general population surveys, including the 2002 and 2007 Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Projects surveys. However, other sources have variously estimated Italy's Muslim population at between 30,000 and 1.5 million.


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You don't need to learn programming to provide help messages for your users. Excel's Data Validation feature makes it easy to add a help message to any cell in your worksheet.
For example, suppose you create an application that calculates the amount of money your company must invest in order to attain a certain value at the end of a set period. To create the application with appropriate help messages, follow these steps:
1. In D1, enter Interest Rate.
2. In D2, enter Number of Periods.
3. In D3, enter Future Value.
4. In D4, enter What you need to invest.
5. Click E1.
6. Go to Data | Validation, and then click the Input Message tab.
7. In the Title box, enter Interest Rate.
8. In the Input Message box, type Enter the interest rate per period. For example, enter =10%/4 for a quarterly interest rate of 10%.
9. Click OK.
10. Click E2.
11. Go to Data | Validation, and then click the Input Message tab.
12. In the Title box, enter Number of Periods.
13. In the Input Message box, type Enter the total number of periods in an investment. For example, for a 10-year investment that pays quarterly, you would enter 40.)
14. Click OK.
15. Click E3.
16. Go to Data | Validation, and then click the Input Message tab.
17. In the Title Box, enter Future Value.
18. In the Input Message box, type Enter what you would like to earn from this investment.
19. Click OK.
20. Click E4.
21. Enter =PV(E1,E2,,E3).
Let's say you will need $100,000 to replace the new equipment that will depreciate in 10 years. With a 10% quarterly interest rate, you would enter =10%/4 in E1, 40 in E2, and 100000 in E3. When you click each input cell, a message will pop up, letting you know how to enter each value. As shown in E4, you will need to invest $37,243.06 to reach $100,000 in 10 years.
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Themes and Motifs
The following is a brief synopsis of the themes and motifs in "Good Country People".
- Hulga vs. Manley – presumed knowledge versus the actual knowledge and experience. The main conflict in the story.
- Naivity (with 2 dots on the i) vs. Experience -Hulga represents naivity and Manley represents knowledge.
- Hulga's struggle to break the barriers of good country people (Hulga Vs. her mother) -Hulga wants to be better than a good country person but cannot break the barrier to the real world. In an attempt to gain her goal, Hulga gets her Ph.D.
1. Good Country Peoplethe reference to the perceived simplicity and innocence of the people.
2. Names-The occurrence of the symbolism of the character names is a motif.
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Culture change towards person-centred care
Guidelines for care: Person-centred care of people with dementia living in care homes
The goal of the Guidelines for care initiative is to improve the quality of care of people with dementia in care homes through a person-centred philosophy. The Alzheimer Society believes that people with dementia have the right to enjoy the highest possible quality of life and quality of care by being engaged in meaningful relationships that are based on equality, understanding, sharing, participation, collaboration, dignity, trust and respect.
Exec summary (PDF)
Culture change initiative
Person-centred language guidelines (PDF)
Person-centred guidelines about preferred language for anyone who loves, cares for, supports or works with a person living with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia.
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The Relationships Between Cuticular Hydrocarbon Composition, Faunal Assemblages, Inter-island Distance, and Population Genetic Variation in Tuscan Archipelago Wasps
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Island biogeography, Pompilidae, Polistes dominulus, Tuscan Archipelago, Cuticular hydrocarbons, Genetic differentiation
Until recently, studies examining the geographical distribution of insects in the Tuscan Archipelago have focused on paleogeography as the primary influence on species distributions. However, for flying insects such as Hymenoptera that may be able to disperse over water, current geographical location is likely to be more important in determining present distributions within the Archipelago. Here we compare mainland and island wasp populations using genetic variation and cuticular hydrocarbon composition of the vespid wasp Polistes dominulus, and species composition of wasps in the family Pompilidae. Both chemical and genetic data result in similar clustering of P. dominulus populations that reflect present geographical location. Moreover, we found current geographical distance to be significantly correlated with P. dominulus population genetic differentiation and Pompilidae faunal composition. These data suggest that dispersal over present sea distances is more important in determining population differentiation and species distribution in the Tuscan Archipelago than paleogeography.
Dapporto, Leonardo; Liebert, Aviva E.; Starks, Philip T.; and Turillazzi, Stefano. "The Relationships Between Cuticular Hydrocarbon Composition, Faunal Assemblages, Inter-island Distance, and Population Genetic Variation in Tuscan Archipelago Wasps." Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 37, no. 4 (2009): 341-348. Accessed at _URL_


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Research on Academic Degrees
NIAD-UE is engaged in comprehensive research closely related to its role of awarding degrees in a lifelong learning society. Research activities focus on current topics of higher education as well as on various systems available for obtaining of academic degrees, especially non-traditional degree programs. It makes the results of its research widely available so that they will serve as a reference for universities and higher education institutions.
1 ．The Structure and Prerequisites of Academic Degrees in relation to International Compatibility
Student mobility is growing extensive both in and outside the country while the provision of study programs is becoming diversified, as is evidenced by programs offered collaboratively by two or more institutions or through distance learning including e-learning. In this context, it is much more important for the degree-awarding institutions to ensure the academic standards of credits and qualifi cations, as well as the accuracy of any formal transcript or record of achievement confi rming these. NIAD-UE conducts research on themes concerning the comparability and compatibility of academic qualifi cations and credits, focused on higher education in Japan and other countries.
2 ．The Awarding of Academic Degrees through Credit Accumulation and Transfer
In a globalized and lifelong learning society, learning opportunities are becoming increasingly diverse. From this point of view, research is being conducted to fi nd possible measures for the assessment of learning outcomes, awarding of credits, and granting of degrees based on such diverse learning experiences. Moreover, NIAD-UE conducts research and development focused on the course classifi cation support system, which is a system for supporting eff orts to classify subjects for the awarding of academic degrees, using syllabuses in electronic form.
3 ．Follow-up Surveys of NIAD-UE Degree Recipients
NIAD-UE conducts follow-up questionnaire-based surveys among the recipients of its degrees to improve the process in Scheme I under the NIAD-UE degree-awarding system. These periodic surveys target the same cohort and are conducted at different stages, namely at one year and fi ve years after the degrees have been awarded. The questionnaire focuses not only on the recipients learning processes and patterns, but also on their careers after receiving their degrees.
4 ．Workshops and Symposia
NIAD-UE holds workshops that enable and enhance international dialogues on various topics concerning higher education, particularly credits recognition and quality assurance in degree-awarding. In FY2012, NIAD-UE held its first joint workshop with the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifi cations (HKCAAVQ), with which NIAD-UE has concluded a memorandum of understanding, providing an opportunity for the gathering of information and the exchange of opinions. It also conducted international seminars to discuss the latest higher education policies especially in Japan, Korea and the United States. Since FY2004, NIAD-UE has held regular research conferences to work in partnership with external researchers in the fi eld of higher education on comparative studies of degrees and credit systems in Japan and overseas.


From Southern California, public radio for your eyes.
The Lab of an Electron Microscope Photographer
David Scharf is a basement pioneer in the art of making some of the world's smallest things appear huge.
Scharf started tinkering with electron microscopes after hours in a lab where he worked as an electronics engineer in the 1970s.
Back then, most electron microscope photographers took out-of-focus photos of dead and dusty specimens. Their tiny subjects had to be coated in gold or platinum for the microscope to see them.
Scharf realized that living subjects could be photographed without a coating and pioneered a new technique that allowed him to take photos of the unseen world while it was still breathing.
This technique quickly catapulted him on to the pages of TIME, National Geographic and Newsweek.
Today, Scharf operates out of his Echo Park home where he's creates images and movies of organisms like jumping spiders and honeybees during his nightly sessions.
Scharf is a perpetual night owl he wakes up around 3 p.m. and works the through the night as his dog Layla lounges nearby.
When he peers into the unseen world, sometimes he doesn't know what to expect. He'll focus in on a moth fly the size of a speck of dust and uncover whole worlds.
"Each eye looked like a moon out of Jupiter or Saturn. It was like a little garden in there," Scharf said.
His electron microscope zooms in on the eyes of that one-millimeter moth fly about 1,000 times over.
"When you start looking at the complexity of all these earthlings, it's absolutely mind boggling. It still blows my mind," Scharf said.
Scharf invited me and Off-Ramp reporter Kevin Ferguson down to his lab to see how electron microscopy works.
Inside the lab
Scharf's lab is located inside his Echo Park home that he's had since the '70s.
Scharf almost always uses living subjects. When we visited, he had a few leftover Anopheles mosquitos from his a cover story for National Geographic about malaria.
Scharf often puts the live specimens into the refrigerator or sprays them with carbon dioxide to get them to stay still and mounted to a dish.
"That usually calms them down and then they wake up and their butts are glued down," Scharf said.
Then, he looks at the samples using a regular light microscope to carefully put them in place for the scan.
Scharf is always tweaking and refining his own equipment with techniques he learned as an electronics engineer.
Before he switched to digital photography, Scharf used large-format film attached to a control panel that looks like something out of "Dr. Strangelove" (pictured below).
His early images came out black and white. Scharf would spend dozens of hours painstakingly coloring them in. He spent 40 hours on an image of Ragweed pollen (pictured below).
In 1991, Scharf created a new system for colored images that uses three electron detectors at different angles. The individual detectors are calibrated to red, green and blue like older television sets.
The data from the three detectors are combined to make his multi-colored images.
Today, his system is hooked up to a computer, and the electron information is beamed straight in.
After all his years looking at the what nature has to offer, Scharf says now he just lets "the universe do what's best for me and try to hear the signals and follow."
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Rural property numbering
Rural properties are identified using a standard numbering system called RAPID - Rural Address Property Identification. The major benefit of RAPID numbering is that it saves time locating properties and occupants - especially for emergency services (ambulance, fire service, police).
How RAPID works
Properties are given a unique number based on their distance along a road from its start point or intersection with another road.
The number given to a property is calculated by multiplying the number of kilometres that property is from the start point of the road by 100.
Numbers of the right side of the road are even, those on the left side are odd.
Ongoing maintenance
Ongoing maintenance and replacement of the numbers are your responsibility. You should also control roadside vegetation so that the number remains clearly visible to passing vehicles.
If you have any questions about maintenance or position of RAPID numbers please contact us via email.
If you are subdividing, a new RAPID number will only be required for any new entrance ways created and will only be issued upon request. The existing entrance way will retain the current RAPID number and new numbers will be allocated to any new lots utilising the existing entrance way. This is because the RAPID number is based on a measured distance along a road.
Apply for or replace a RAPID number
Numbers are allocated on request where a formed entrance exists, and are usually triggered by a building consent application. Alternatively you may apply for or request a replacement RAPID number by completing the online application form.
Place your RAPID plate close to your driveway, on a letterbox, gatepost or fence facing the road.
It's not possible to change the number on request, as it reflects the distance along the road. We cannot change the number without compromising the integrity of the numbering system.
Properties on a state highway
State highway roads in the Hastings District may also have a local name for a portion of the road e.g. Korokipo Rd, Links Rd etc. The numbering works the same way and retains continuity along the entire section of the state highway within the district.
Can my stockyard or packing shed have a RAPID number?
Yes. Council is able to provide a RAPID number to any property as long as it has a formed entrance.
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