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Today is the start of National Papaya Month, which means one immediate thing: There's a papaya shake in my near future.
The beauty of papaya, the fleshy fruit that's never cloyingly sweet, is that it loves citrus as much as it loves dairy and sugar.
Drop papaya chunks into a blender with cold water and lime and you've got a tart, refreshing shake. Or blend the fruit with milk and your choice of sweetener and the result is creamy delicious.
Some of my favorite ways to enjoy ripe Florida papaya:
- Chilled, sliced lengthwise (as you might slice a wedge of honeydew melon) and served with a generous sprinkling of lime.
- Blended with water, lime juice and a touch of sugar, and poured into an ice cube tray. Pop out a frozen cube and slurp it as you would an ice pop.
- Ripened and smashed into cream or half and half with honey or sugar, and poured into a rectangular, freezer-proof container to make a homey gelato.
- Cut into cubes while still firm and simmered in a simple syrup of water and sugar with a cinnamon stick, until the fruit is tender and the liquid is thickened. Cool and serve with a wedge of cream cheese.
- Diced into a salsa, and added to chopped red onions, jalapeños, minced cilantro. Toss with lime and a drizzle of olive oil.
- Blended with either milk or water into a frothy shake. Add straw and levitate in bliss.
A few tips:
- For a sweeter fruit, look for papayas that are hot yellow and rather soft to the touch.
- Slice the fruit down the middle, lengthwise, and with a spoon scoop out the seeds. Cut the halves into sections and peel each section with a paring knife.
- Store fresh-cut cubes in a sealed container for up to four days, depending on how the ripeness of the fruit.
- You can toss the seeds or use them to grow your own papaya plant.


Mirrors And Reflections
Question submitted by Anonymous (05 July 2000)
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 I've been trying to implement a mirror system in my OpenGL engine, but I'm having trouble. I don't want to just use the negative (scaled) of the scene and redraw it, because I want to have arbitrarily oriented mirrors. How can this be done?
 Actually, it is quite simple. You need a few things to get started. First, you'll need some construction paper, a pencil, a piece of string, and a small rodent.
Next, determine the point at which your camera's vector intersects the mirror's plane (this point may not be within the mirror polygon) - a ray/plane intersection will do the trick (we'll call this point B).
Now you'll need to reflect the camera's location across the mirror's plane. To do this, you'll need your ray/plane intersection code again. Start off by inverting the plane's normal and use that as the vector for the ray. The origin for the ray is the camera's location. This will create a ray that points directly at the plane from the camera. Find the intersection of this ray with the mirror's plane. This is the closest point to the camera on the mirror's plane. From this, we create a vector from the camera's location to the resulting intersection point. This vector represents the same vector that was used in the last ray/plane intersection, but this time its length is the closest distance to the plane from the camera. Now double the length of the vector. If you add this vector to your camera's location, you'll have the camera's location reflected across the mirror's plane (this is point A.) Subtracting B from A, you get the vector V.
Your new camera will be centered on point A, using the "look-at vector" of V. To render the reflected scene through the mirror, you'll need to clip everything to the mirror's polygon and to the mirror's plane (i.e. not rendering anything behind the mirror.) When rendering, you'll also need to render the scene backwards (left-right) to account for the reflection of the mirror.
Finally, poke the pencil through the construction paper, throw the string away, and get that rodent out of the microwave!
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Static Innox Notes
Turn Any Space into Creative Space with Statically Charged Innox Notes
Static Innox Notes are the new generation notes or Sticky Notes 2.0. They stick on both sides with static electricity to all flat surfaces,which makes them more practical,versatile and long-lasting compared to traditional sticky notes. You can write on them with pencils,pens, markers and the back side is dry erasable.With Innox Notes you can turn any space into creative space!
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Innox Notes are an amazing tool for visualizing ideas and projects. The notes can be freely moved and they attach to any dry surface without leaving marks, which means they a great project management tool e.g. for Kanban, Agile, Lean, Scrum as they produce more efficient and productive internal or external meetings, conferences, brainstorming sessions, workshops, training sessions and courses.
For Office, Home, Decoration
Innox Notes have dozens of different uses. You can use them for project planning, seminars, agile methods, workshops and meetings. The notes can also be cut with scissors, which makes them an excellent tool for drawing, crafting and decoration.
1. Static Notes stick better than traditional notes to even surfaces and leave no marks
Innox Notes do not contain glue or adhesives. They stick on both sides with static electricity and full-coverage to the flat surfaces.
2. Cling to Several Smooth and Dry Surfaces
You can attach the static notes on a several different surfaces such as metal, cork board, brick, textiles, leather, paper and stone.
3. Dry Erasable Back Side
The white back side can be written on with water-based marker, wiped clean, and reused.
Innox Notes products are made of a polypropylene film with a special coating on the surface to create a long-lasting static charge. Innox Notes are 100 % recyclable, as they do not contain glue. Thus, the material can be recycled or recovered as energy without emissions!

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There Lived a Man Who Sailed to Sea
The human mind is endlessly forming associations, caused by a vast array of triggers. Tracey believes that colour is one such trigger, and questioned whether people could still guess the origin of an image if it was represented in a visually abstract manner.
In There Lived a Man Who Sailed to Sea, Tracey took seven colours from The Beatles' Yellow Submarine album cover and transcribed the opening bars ("In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea"). Using the formula 1000 pixels : 1 crotchet of musical notation, Tracey presents the lyrics as a visual score, where each colour represents a different note.
In his publication Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, Marc Augé provides the example of an airport being a non-place; it is neither here nor there, it is between destinations. Similarly, Tracey thought of the sea as a perfect non-place, but further, believed John Lennon could also be categorised as such: he does not live, but he is far from dead. His impact on this world remains, and he, too, exists in the realm of the non-place.
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Prof. Rajeev Ram
6.977 focuses on the physics of the interaction of photons with semiconductor materials. The band theory of solids is used to calculate the absorption and gain of semiconductor media. The rate equation formalism is used to develop the concepts of laser threshold, population inversion and modulation response. Matrix methods and coupled mode theory are applied to resonator structures such as distributed feedback lasers, tunable lasers and microring devices. The course is also intended to introduce students to noise models for semiconductor devices and to applications of optoelectronic devices to fiber optic communications. This course is worth 12 Engineering Design points.
Ram, Rajeev. 6.977 Semiconductor Optoelectronics: Theory and Design, Fall 2002. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), _URL_ (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


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by Jonathan Brisendine – Field & Lab Archaeologist
During the excavation process, one of the common artifacts found on historic sites is glass. So what does this tell us archaeologically other than there was glass here? We classify glass in two major categories Flat and Curved. Flat glass usually pertains to window glass, while curved or hollow usually pertains to you guessed it, bottles. Once we collect all the artifacts in field they are brought back to the lab where they are cleaned then cataloged. From this we can get an accurate amount of each type of glass that was found. Because, of the detailed records we keep of the location of our testing units both the vertical and horizontal location is known. With this information we can draw meaning interpretations from even the most ubiquitous artifacts. Seen below is an imagined example of a historic foundation and the results of the statistical mapping that we could produce once we have gathered the information of the type and frequency of glass once catalogued.
Blue indicates the location where flat glass was found while green indicated where the curved hollow glass was found. What conclusions would you draw from this information? First note the brick structure. Think about structures and where flat glass would most likely be found and why. Also, think about areas of activity inside such a structure. Where would a person store & use hollow glass such as bottles. To see how we might interpret the location of the artifacts, see the image below.


Re: IMG in PRE? -Reply
Abigail (
Mon, 13 May 1996 23:58:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Abigail <>
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Subject: Re: IMG in PRE? -Reply
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 23:58:23 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <> from "Scott E. Preece" at May 13, 96 02:22:40 pm
Scott E. Preece wrote:
++ From: Charles Peyton Taylor <>
++ |
++ | Since all spaces and letters in a monospaced font
++ | are always the same relative size, formatting works
++ | in . Add images, and all is screwed.
++ |
++ | BTW: why not use instead of pre? What is it that
++ | you're looking for in that you can't do with
++ | ?
++ ---
++ Well, PRE seems to control three separate things:
++ 1. it sets the font to monospaced
++ 2. it suppresses autofilling of lines
++ 3. it preserves whitespace as individual characters
++ TT only controls one of those. Another mode that would be
++ extremely useful is
++ 1. proportional type
++ 2. no autofilling
++ 3. preserve whitespace as provided (either by keeping
++ as individual space characters or by tabbing to the
++ indicated depth)
++ In addition to the obvious use for poetry, this would be good for
++ code, for those of us who believe code should be pretty-printed,
++ rather than monospaced. One can work around (2), by using BR at
++ the end of each line, but (3) seems to be impossible [you can get the
++ effect with incredibly tortuous use of tables as layout devices, but
++ it's not really practical...].
I've always problems in imagining how wide a space is in a
propotional font. For instance, in aligned text (both right and
left) interword space clearly differs from line to line.
++ There are also many instances where including IMG would *not* be
++ a formatting problem (the obvious one being where IMGs always
++ appear at the right of text (including the case of appearing on
++ lines of their own).
I don't think that should be a reason. If you allow something, it
should work in (almost) all cases, not in some. Generally, it will
not work, as you cannot device independently compare pixels with
character cells.


Child containers
Component: NServiceBus
NuGet Package NServiceBus (7.2 - 7.3)
Child containers are a snapshot of the main container providing an additional instance lifetime scope.
Child container scope in NServiceBus
NServiceBus creates a child container for each transport message that is received. During message processing, all InstancePerUnitOfWork scoped instances that are created are resolved as singletons within the context of the same message. This is helpful to support the sharing of database sessions and other resources with lifetimes specific to the processed message.
Objects can be configured in a child container scope using the InstancePerUnitOfWork lifetime:
 registration: components =>
Deterministic disposal
Child containers automatically dispose all IDisposable instances created with InstancePerUnitOfWork lifetime once the message is processed. This is useful for managing things like database sessions which must be disposed of properly.
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6A LITERATURE INFORMATION
SSR Book: Students are required to have an SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) book with them at all times in every class. This book can be any book chosen by the student, and does not have to be from the 6th grade book list. Students need to have this book with then at all times in case students have any free time after a test or at the end of a lesson. Students who do not have an SSR book are considered unprepared for class.
Students are expected to read independently and complete mini-projects on the books that they read throughout the school year. Sixth grade students are required to read at least 18 books in the 2011-2012 school year. An explanation of the 18 Book Standard will occur in the first week of school in the reading class of all students.

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Follo, Norway
Apollo is our proposal for the new Museum Workshop. The building follows the natural elevations and creates a threefold division of roof and space. We wanted to create a new destination, where visitors move along a path through the historic buildings on the site before reaching the new workshop museum. The shape of the building forms two sides, one with a view overlooking the forest and water, and one that surrounds a courtyard filled with functions that are connected to the workshops. The building varies in itss height and act as a filter between inside and outside. They slided walls help to define, among other things, the entrance area and the given program. The road leads to a foyer, together with a integrated café and exhibition room that is centrally located in the building, from this part moves administratively in one direction and the workshop building in the other. The building will be an extension of the path and at the same time as it is a closed workshop, it always allows visitors to walk through the building. In collaboration with Philip Box.


How Much Does It Cost To Fly A 747 Per Hour?
How much does it cost to fill a 747 with fuel?
A full one is a moneymaker.
The jets also are too big for most markets..
How much fuel does a 747 use per hour?
What happens if you put jet fuel in a car?
Conversely, Jet-A wouldn't work in a gas engine. It would be like putting diesel fuel in your gas-powered car? it just won't run. However, Jet-A could be used in diesel-engine vehicles, but it lacks some of the lubricants found in road diesel fuel.
How much fuel does a 747 burn on takeoff?
According to the Boeing website, the 747 burns approximately 12 litres per kilometre. 747 can carry as many as 568 people. It can carry up to 238,840 litres of fuel.
How much do airlines pay for fuel?
U.S. airlines spent $3 billion on fuel in July 2019, benefiting from a 4 percent decrease in the average price per gallon year-to-date relative to 2018. Spending on jet fuel was 9 percent lower than it was in July 2018, according to the Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption data from BTS.
Do pilots prefer Boeing or Airbus?
I flew the Boeing 737 for 15 years and the Airbus A320 for six years and thoroughly enjoyed both of them. Each had their strong points and their not-so strong-points. The A320 was more comfortable on long flights, due to the larger flight deck and lack of a control column (it has a side stick).
How much does it cost to fill up a plane?
On average, aircraft fill up with an estimated 3,500 gallons of jet fuel, costing an estimated $7,070 (~£5,794). However, price can vary from $4,040 (~£3,311) on the low end to $14,140 (~£11,587) on the high end.
How much does it cost to fly a 747?
The most common is by referring to a generic "operating cost per flight hour" figure. Most of the (extremely) generic references I've seen using that metric for a Boeing 747–400 are in the US$25,000 per hour range.
How much does it cost to fly a 737 per hour?
An average flight on an American Airlines 737-800 costs $2,180 per hour. The plane burns 850 gallons per hour. Fuel costs $1,028 based on Jet-A fuel costing American $1.21 a gallon. A cockpit crew of two along with five flight attendants costs around $465 an hour.
Are Pilots rich?
How much does a gallon of jet fuel cost?
170.8 Cents (US dollars) per Gallon.
Why do planes have to burn off fuel before landing?


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Galaxy Diamond Glitter Lamp
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About This Product
- Ages 12+ with adult supervision
- Size: 36 cm
- Keep upright
- Turn off regularly
- Some assembly is required
- Light bulb is included
- Voltage: 230-240V, 50Hz
- Wattage: Max 30W
WARNING: The glass lamp surface is hot when in use. For indoor use only. Keep out of reach of children.
The Lava lamp was invented by British accountant Edward Craven-Walker in 1963 after watching a homemade egg timer, which was made from a cocktail shaker filled with liquids, as it was bubbling on a stove top in a pub.
There are two liquids in the lamp that are insoluble together and have similar densities. The heat from the light bulb heats the heavier liquid at the bottom of the lamp. It absorbs the heat, expands and becomes less dense.
This change in density is small but enough for the once heavier liquid to float to the top of the lamp. As the blob of liquid moves away from the lamp it cools. This increases the density and it sinks back to the bottom of the lamp. This motion is repeated over and over again creating the continuous motion of the liquid in the lamp.
The interactions between wax and liquid are not an exact science. Your colouring may differ from the image depicted, and may change throughout use.
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wal-e Simple Continuous Archiving for Postgres WAL-E Disaster Recovery =======================.. contents:: Table of Contents Introduction ------------ WAL-E is a program designed to perform continuous archiving of PostgreSQL WAL files and manage the use of pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup. To correspond on using WAL-E or to collaborate on its development, do not hesitate to send mail to the mailing list at _EMAIL_. Github issues are also currently being used to track known problems, so please feel free to submit those. Primary Commands and Concepts ----------------------------- WAL-E has four critical operators: * backup-fetch * backup-push * wal-fetch * wal-push Of these, the "push" operators send things to storage and "fetch" operators get things from storage. "wal" operators send/get write ahead log, and "backup" send/get a hot backup of the base database that WAL segments can be applied to. All of these operators work in a context of three important environment-variable based settings: * AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or WABS_ACCOUNT_NAME * AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or WABS_ACCESS_KEY * WALE_S3_PREFIX or WALE_WABS_PREFIX For Swift the following environment variables are needed: * SWIFT_AUTHURL * SWIFT_TENANT * SWIFT_USER * SWIFT_PASSWORD * WALE_SWIFT_PREFIX With the exception of AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and WABS_ACCESS_KEY, all of these can be specified as arguments as well. The AWS_* variables are the standard access-control keying system provided by Amazon, where the WABS_* are the standard access credentials defined by Windows Azure. The WALE_S3_PREFIX, WALE_WABS_PREFIX and WALE_SWIFT_PREFIX (_PREFIX) variables can be thought of as a context whereby this program operates on a single database cluster at a time. Generally, for any one database the _PREFIX will be the same between all four operators. This context-driven approach attempts to help users avoid errors such as one database overwriting the WAL segments of another, as long as the _PREFIX is set uniquely for each database. Use whichever variable is appropriate for the store you are using... IMPORTANT:: Ensure that all servers have different _PREFIXes set. Reuse of a value between two servers will likely cause unrecoverable backups. Dependencies ------------ * python (>= 2.6) * lzop * psql (>= 8.4) * pv This software also has Python dependencies; installing with setup.py will attempt to resolve them: * gevent>=0.13.1 * boto>=2.6.0 * azure>=0.7.0 * python-swiftclient>=1.8.0 * python-keystoneclient>=0.4.2 * argparse, if not on Python 2.7 It is possible to use WAL-E without the dependencies of back-end storage one does not use installed: the imports for those are only performed if the storage configuration demands their use. Backend Blob Store ------------------ The storage backend is determined by the defined _PREFIX. Prefixes with the scheme ''s3'' will be directed towards S3, those with the scheme ''wabs'' will be directed towards Windows Azure Blob Service, and those with the scheme ''swift'' will be directed towards an OpenStack Swift installation. Example S3 Prefix: s3://some-bucket/directory/or/whatever Example WABS Prefix: wabs://some-container/directory/or/whatever Example OpenStack Swift Prefix: swift://some-container/directory/or/whatever Examples -------- Pushing a base backup to S3:: $ AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... wal-e \ -k AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \ --s3-prefix=s3://some-bucket/directory/or/whatever \ backup-push /var/lib/my/database Sending a WAL segment to WABS:: $ WABS_ACCESS_KEY=... wal-e \ -a WABS_ACCOUNT_NAME \ --wabs-prefix=wabs://some-bucket/directory/or/whatever \ wal-push /var/lib/my/database/pg_xlog/WAL_SEGMENT_LONG_HEX Push a base backup to Swift:: $ WALE_SWIFT_PREFIX="swift://my_container_name" \ SWIFT_AUTHURL="http://my_keystone_url/v2.0/" \ SWIFT_TENANT="my_tennant" \ SWIFT_USER="my_user" \ SWIFT_PASSWORD="my_password" wal-e \ backup-push /var/lib/my/database It is generally recommended that one use some sort of environment variable management with WAL-E: working with it this way is less verbose, less prone to error, and less likely to expose secret information in logs. At this time, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and WABS_ACCESS_KEY are the only secret values, and recording it frequently in logs is not recommended. The tool has never and should never accept secret information in argv to avoid process table security problems. However, the user running PostgreSQL (typically 'postgres') must be able to run a program that can access this secret information, as part of its archive_command_... _archive_command: _URL_ envdir_, part of the daemontools_ package is one recommended approach to setting environment variables. One can prepare an envdir-compatible directory like so:: # Assumption: the group is trusted to read secret information # S3 Setup $ umask u=rwx,g=rx,o= $ mkdir -p /etc/wal-e.d/env $ echo "secret-key-content" > /etc/wal-e.d/env/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY $ echo "access-key" > /etc/wal-e.d/env/AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID $ echo's3://some-bucket/directory/or/whatever' > \ /etc/wal-e.d/env/WALE_S3_PREFIX $ chown -R root:postgres /etc/wal-e.d # Assumption: the group is trusted to read secret information # WABS Setup $ umask u=rwx,g=rx,o= $ mkdir -p /etc/wal-e.d/env $ echo "secret-key-content" > /etc/wal-e.d/env/WABS_ACCESS_KEY $ echo "access-key" > /etc/wal-e.d/env/WABS_ACCOUNT_NAME $ echo 'wabs://some-container/directory/or/whatever' > \ /etc/wal-e.d/env/WALE_WABS_PREFIX $ chown -R root:postgres /etc/wal-e.d After having done this preparation, it is possible to run WAL-E commands much more simply, with less risk of accidentally using incorrect values:: $ envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e backup-push... $ envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-push... envdir is conveniently combined with the archive_command functionality used by PostgreSQL to enable continuous archiving. To enable continuous archiving, one needs to edit ''postgresql.conf'' and restart the server. The important settings to enable continuous archiving are related here:: wal_level = archive # hot_standby in 9.0 is also acceptable archive_mode = on archive_command = 'envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-push %p' archive_timeout = 60 Every segment archived will be noted in the PostgreSQL log... WARNING:: PostgreSQL users can check the pg_settings table and see the archive_command employed. Do not put secret information into postgresql.conf for that reason, and use envdir instead. A base backup (via ''backup-push'') can be uploaded at any time, but this must be done at least once in order to perform a restoration. It must be done again if any WAL segment was not correctly uploaded: point in time recovery will not be able to continue if there are any gaps in the WAL segments... _envdir: _URL_ _daemontools: _URL_ Pulling a base backup from S3:: $ sudo -u postgres bash -c \ "envdir /etc/wal-e.d/pull-env wal-e \ --s3-prefix=s3://some-bucket/directory/or/whatever \ backup-fetch /var/lib/my/database LATEST" This command makes use of the "LATEST" pseudo-name for a backup, which queries S3 to find the latest complete backup. Otherwise, a real name can be used:: $ sudo -u postgres bash -c \ "envdir /etc/wal-e.d/pull-env wal-e \ --s3-prefix=s3://some-bucket/directory/or/whatever \ backup-fetch \ /var/lib/my/database base_LONGWALNUMBER_POSITION_NUMBER" One can find the name of available backups via the experimental ''backup-list'' operator, or using one's remote data store browsing program of choice, by looking at the ''PREFIX/basebackups_NNN/...'' directory. It is also likely one will need to provide a ''recovery.conf'' file, as documented in the PostgreSQL manual, to recover the base backup, as WAL files will need to be downloaded to make the hot-backup taken with backup-push. The WAL-E's ''wal-fetch'' subcommand is designed to be useful for this very purpose, as it may be used in a ''recovery.conf'' file like this:: restore_command = 'envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-fetch "%f" "%p"'.. WARNING:: If the archived database contains user defined tablespaces please review the ''backup-fetch'' section below before utilizing that command. Primary Commands ---------------- ''backup-push'', ''backup-fetch'', ''wal-push'', ''wal-fetch'' represent the primary functionality of WAL-E and must reside on the database machine. Unlike ''wal-push'' and ''wal-fetch'' commands, which function as described above, the''backup-push


Using Presto Auto Scaling with Graceful Decommission - Amazon EMR
Using Presto Auto Scaling with Graceful Decommission
Amazon EMR release versions 5.30.0 and later include a feature you can use to set a grace period for certain scaling actions. The grace period allows Presto tasks to keep running before the node terminates because of a scale-in resize action or an automatic scaling policy request. For more information about scaling rules, see Understanding Automatic Scaling Rules in the Amazon EMR Management Guide. Presto graceful auto scaling prevents new tasks from being scheduled on a node that is decommissioning, while at the same time allowing tasks that are already running to complete before the shut down timeout is reached. Queries that are running will complete execution before the node is decommissioned. Auto scaling is not supported on instance fleets.
You can control how much time to allow for Presto tasks to complete after an auto scale shut down request is received. By default, the shut down timeout for Amazon EMR is 0 minutes, which means that Amazon EMR immediately terminates the node and any Presto tasks running on it, if required by a scale-in request. To set a longer timeout for Presto tasks on Amazon EMR to allow running queries to complete before scaling down a cluster, use the presto-config configuration classification to set the graceful-shutdown-timeout parameter to a value in seconds or minutes greater than zero. For more information, see Configuring Applications.
For example, increasing the graceful-shutdown-timeout value to "30m" specifies a timeout period of 30 minutes. After the shut down timeout period ends, the node marked for decommissioning is forcefully terminated if it is waiting for query tasks to complete, and the query fails. If the query tasks finish in five minutes, the node marked for decommissioning terminates at five minutes, provided other YARN applications have completed execution.
Example Presto Auto Scale Configuration with Graceful Decommission
Replace the graceful-shutdown-timeout value with the number of minutes appropriate for your setup. There's no maximum value. The example below sets a timeout value of 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
[ { "classification": "presto-config", "properties": { "graceful-shutdown-timeout": "1800s" } } ]
PrestoDB graceful decommission does not work on EMR clusters where HTTP connectivity is disabled, such as when http-server.http.enabled is set to false. PrestoSQL does not support graceful decommission at all, regardless of the http-server.http.enabled setting.


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so what I'm trying to do is to write a Bash script that will ssh into a server and generate new user credentials. However, it won't create the new user keys, but it can tell you if a user already exists.
echo "You entered $NAME. Is this correct?(y/n) " read AN while [ "$AN"!= "y" ] do echo "Enter the correct user name: " read NAME echo "You entered $NAME. Is this correct(y/n)? " read AN done ssh -t _EMAIL_ <


Deploy a virtualized environment deprecated
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All of this follows assumes the attendee knows how to reserve nodes and how to deploy environments.
The attendee will learn here how to deploy a xen hypervisor, how to connect and configure its virtual machines, how to tune its environments and how to record it for future deployments.
This practice uses Xen virtualization technology.
Find and deploy existing images
Where you will learn to locate environments and deploy them
Locate a suitable image
You should be able to browse through all available environments:
To deploy a virtualized environment, you must know its name registered in the Kadeploy database. This tutorial uses the lenny-x64-xen environment.
kaenv3 -l to have a look at the different environments available.
Deploy the environment
You should be able to deploy your environment as you do with other kadeploy3 environments as described on Deploy an environment
$ oarsub -I -t deploy -l nodes=2,walltime=2:00
$ kadeploy3 -e lenny-x64-xen -f $OAR_FILE_NODES -k pub_key_path
Without argument, the -k option will copy your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
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To have the -k option effective, you need generate a ssh key without password or with an agent enabled with this key. ssh-keygen -t rsa to create your public/private keys.
Initialize a simple connection to virtual machines
How to connect to one virtual machine
Where you learn how to connect to a virtual machine by usual methods... and discover automated tools
When deploying the lenny-x64-xen environment, a virtual machine is automatically started at boot. Connect as root on one node and see if it's running by the following command :
# xm list
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 977 4 r----- 37.9
domU 1 128 1 -b---- 5.6
In Xen terminology, a domU is a virtual host.
The parameters of this machine are described in /etc/xen/domU.cfg. They are defined by :
 - kernel and initrd : linux kernel and initrd with xen domU support.
 - memory : size (MB) of ram given to the node.
 - root : where is located /.
 - disk : which files contain the partitions on your virtual host.
 - name : the name of the hostname, as displayed by xm list and as given by the system itself.
 - dhcp : do we use dhcp ?
 - vif : the configuration of the network interfaces
 - on_poweroff on_restart on_crash : how should react xen hypervisor with domU
We use dhcp, it's easier to use it and to automate things. You can choose a static address, but your address will not be usable on another site when you want to deploy your environment on it.
On vif line, you will see :
 - a mac address defined under the form 00:16:3E:XX:XX:XX. It's in the Xen reserved mac range.
 - a bridge : nodes communicates with the network by a bridge created on the first network interface. You can list existing interfaces by ifconfig and know the bridge and involved interfaces details by brctl show command.
 - you can use other modes, such as router mode, see for details on network configuration.
How to know the ip given to my virtual node
In Xen terminology, a dom0 is the real host.
On the dom0, you can't discover the IP address given to your node by the dhcp server, even by network capture. But two components know this information :
 - the virtual node itself
 - the dhcp server
You can connect to the virtual node from the dom0 by use of the serial console automatically configured :
# xm console domU
To exit, it's CTRL + ]. There is no root password defined by default.
The dhcp server knows all leased IPs in its logs but is administratively restricted. dhcp-proxy (the name of the server created) parses the dhcp leases given using a grid'5000 protocol. To secure the connection with this server, a dedicated proxy named omapi-proxy is launched on the frontend and listens on 7910 port.
You can ask for the given mac address with netcat, as it :
# nc frontend 7910
00:16:3E:XX:XX:XX node-n-vm0.virtual
A script named xenconf has been created to do this job and automate the netcat processus : With the MAC-address argument, this script returns the IP address of the domU and a default hostname created as $node-$node_number-vm$vm_number.virtual.$
# xenconf 00:16:3E:XX:XX:XX node-n-vm0.virtual
A script named xenlist allows to get those informations for all of your domUs and creates a file with all IPs in it.
# xenlist
/etc/xen/domU.cfg node-n-vm0.virtual
# cat /tmp/iplist
Connect to the virtual host from dom0
The root domU account has been configured to be automatically accessible with the ssh key of root user. You can therefore connect to the domU from the dom0 :
# ssh ip_address
Connect to the virtual host from frontend
To connect from frontend, you can :
 - Define a password on the virtual nodes, and use the IP and or hostname given to it. You know how to do it from the dom0.
 - Add your public ssh key to the virtual node.
You need to copy your public ssh key on the dom0 and copy the file on the virtual node :
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scp ~/.ssh/ root@node:
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scp _EMAIL_:
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ssh _EMAIL_
Terminal.png domU:
cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys
You can also copy the key as an authorized_keys2 :
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scp _EMAIL_:.ssh/authorized_keys2
You can now connect from the frontend as root on your virtual node :
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ssh _EMAIL_
The xenkeys command allows to automatize those copies on all of your domUs. xenkeys command uses the previous iplist generated file.
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all those commands are described on and written in ruby langage. Feel free to enhance them in your environments.
How to connect to all of your virtual machines
Where you discover an automated solution to resolve all those problems.
To configure and execute a command on all of your virtual nodes, you need to apply the following algorithm :
for each dom0
do for each domU
 do read mac address in /etc/xen/*.cfg
 ask for ip with the given mac address
 copy your public ssh key on the domU
 collect the list of ip in a file
create a file with all of your domU
This algorithm, in fact, is resumed to :
 for each dom0
 do xenlist
 add iplist file to a file
The command xennodefile, on the frontend, does this job. You need three arguments :
 - a path to a list of real nodes
 - a path to the public key to install
 - a path to a file which will store the virtual machines IP addresses
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xennodefile -f $OAR_FILE_NODES -k.ssh/ -o iplist
You have now a file listing your virtual machines. You can iterate with a for-loop on it if you want.
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for vm in 'cat iplist' ; do ssh root@$vm "apt-get update && apt-get install --yes vim" ; done
Or give a password to root user on vm with the passwd command.
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Currently, the dns name of your VMs (node-XX-vmYY) is only accessible from the local site.
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Create new domU images
You should be able to create new virtual machines by different methods. Those methods include :
 - create a new virtual machine by copying the existent one and by adapting it
 - create your virtual machine with xen-tools method
 - provide your own existing virtual machine
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You have to run automatic_xen_conf.rb in de dom0 before starting your VMs to get IP address in the appropriate range.
Copy the existing virtual machine
Create a directory where you can store your new disk images :
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mkdir -p /tmp/xen/domU2/
Ensure the virtual machine you are copying is not running :
Terminal.png dom0:
xm shutdown domU
Copy disk and swap to your new storage :
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cp /opt/xen/domains/domU/disk.img /tmp/xen/domU2/
Terminal.png dom0:
cp /opt/xen/domains/domU/swap.img /tmp/xen/domU2/
Copy the original configuration file to a new :
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cd /etc/xen
Terminal.png dom0:
cp domU.cfg domU2.cfg
Edit the new configuration file and


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Lawrence has 5-years' experience with Carbon Zero Consulting following a Masters in Geology from the University of Plymouth.
Lawrence now runs the Oakham office, but can normally be found on the road carrying-out our various field activities including:
- Soil thermal conductivity surveys, our novel service to measure in-situ soil thermal properties utilized in the GSHP and power distribution sectors
- Thermal response tests (TRT) utilizing testing systems capable of testing boreholes up to 300m depth
- Water supply and open-loop Borehole testing and water sampling
- Logging of samples during drilling of GSHP and water supply boreholes
- Installation and management of a number of borehole and other data-logging systems to measure water level, temperature, pressure and flow


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The blood of beheaded French King Louis XVI has been found by scientists in an old gourd. Louis XVI was beheaded by a guillotine by French revolutionaries in 1793.
Scientists found a small piece of fabric placed inside of a hollow gourd, which left blood stains. The squash was decorated with words that say, "On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation"and belonged to a family in Italy.The scientists said the DNA is very similar to genetic material from what is believed to be the mummified head of an earlier French king, AFP reports.
The gourd has been in the hands of an Italian family for a century.
The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793.The BBC reported that after Louis XVI's beheading, spectators were believed to have dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood.
For years, researchers have been trying to establish whether a genuine memento of this momentous execution in the Place de la Revolution survives today. A new DNA analysis has solved a mystery that has lasted for almost 220 years, finding that an ornate gourd almost certainly carries the bloodstains of the fallen king.
On Jan 21 1793, a Parisian called Maximilien Bourdaloue witnessed Louis's public decapitation as the postrevolutionary "Terreur" took hold. Afterwards, he joined many others in dipping a handkerchief in the pool of blood left at the foot of the guillotine.
Bourdaloue then secreted this garment inside a calabash, now in the possession of an Italian family. The rag itself has long since decomposed, but the container still carries crimson stains and an inscription recording how the souvenir was collected after the king's "decapitation".
A new study in the current issue of "Forensic Science International" has filled in the missing link. The breakthrough came when scientists took a DNA sample from the mummified head of one of Louis's most illustrious ancestors: King Henri IV, who ruled France from 1589 until 1610.
This analysis established that Henri possessed a rare partial "Y" chromosome. Louis was one of his direct male-line descendants, separated by seven generations. The stains on the calabash also contained the "Y" chromosome, along with other matches, leading experts to conclude that the container almost certainly holds the blood of the executed king.
The Execution of King Louis XVI of France
On January 20, 1793, the National Convention condemned Louis XVI to death, his execution scheduled for the next day. Louis spent that evening saying goodbye to his wife and children. The following day dawned cold and wet. Louis arose at five. At eight o'clock a guard of 1,200 horsemen arrived to escort the former king on a two-hour carriage ride to his place of execution. Accompanying Louis, at his invitation, was a priest, Henry Essex Edgeworth, an Englishman living in France.


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Tax Act, State of Maine, 1827
In 1827 the state of Maine issued a tax act, which delineated the amount of taxes that each town was responsible for paying to the state. The state of Maine determined that the town of Baldwin was responsible for $76.30 of the fifty thousand dollars in taxes that it was assessed the inhabitants of the state owed. This tax act also lists exclusions and rules to include property to be taxed. Elias Thomas, the signer of this document, was the treasurer for the state of Maine from 1824 to 1827 as well as in 1829 and 1830.


Why You Should Eat Duck Eggs
1. Duck eggs taste great! They are creamier and richer than chicken eggs
2. Duck eggs are larger, 50% larger than jumbo chicken eggs, and stay fresher longer due to harder shells
3. Duck eggs have larger yolks with higher levels of omega 3 fatty acids
4. Duck eggs contain more vitamin D and other essential vitamins, including thiamine, niacin, vitamin B12, and vitamins A and E, than chicken eggs
5. Duck egg whites have higher levels of protein, creating taller meringues and lighter, fluffier cakes, they are prized by pastry chefs!
6. People with chicken egg allergies can often eat duck eggs
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3 The OmniFocus 2 Pro for Mac allows you to create custom views of your data that you can access at the click of a mouse.
Custom perspectives are much more flexible in OmniFocus 3.
Instructions for how to create and edit OmniFocus 3 perspectives are included in our more recent content. Also, visit the Custom Perspectives for OmniFocus 3 directory for specific examples that showcase the enhanced power and flexibility of custom perspectives.
Custom perspectives created in OmniFocus 2 continue to work in OmniFocus 3. You can optionally upgrade them to OmniFocus 3 perspectives to take advantage of the power and flexibility that OmniFocus 3 offers.
The Standard edition of OmniFocus comes preinstalled with a number of different perspectives that provide you with different ways to view your OmniFocus database. For example, the Projects perspective allows you to view your database by project, the Contexts perspective allows you to view your database by Context and the Review perspective shows a list of projects that are up for review.
If you have the Pro version of OmniFocus you can create your own perspectives. For example, it might be useful to have a perspective that shows you all your available personal tasks and another to show a list of your errands. Before watching this video it's recommended that you read the Foundation: Mind Mapping Your Responsibilities article.
In this video you'll learn:
- How to create a perspective that shows all available actions.
- How to create a perspective that shows all important (due or flagged) actions.
- How to create a perspective that shows you available actions in a specific area of your life (e.g. personal).
- How to create a perspective for easy access to your errands.
- How to create a perspective for easy access to your waiting list.
- How to use the reorder, modify and delete perspectives.
- How to add perspectives to the sidebar and toolbar.
- How to assign a keyboard shortcut to a perspective.


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Playing a Part in the Performance of a Child's X-ray Procedure
A poster presented virtually due to COVID-19 at the UK Imaging and Oncology (UKIO) congress June-July 2020.
This PhD study aims explore the communication that occurs during a child's non-urgent X-ray procedure and examine children and their parent's perceptions of this communication and the procedure. There is increasing evidence of children's engagement in health services. Less is known about children's experiences of X-ray procedures or the ways they communicate during the procedure. Data were generated through non-participant observations of children undergoing X-ray procedures. Children and their parents were invited after the procedure to take part in a semi-structured interview. Children, parents and radiographers played specific parts during the X-ray procedures and this influenced communication. Three different categories of communication were developed but are not presented as a hierarchy of the communication children preferred. The first category was communication where a child was involved; children's voices were sought with the expectation that they could influence what happened during the procedure. The second category was communication where a child was interrupted; children's voices were replaced because of the bigger roles adults played. The third category was communication where a child was ignored; children's voices were overlooked, silenced or not sought by adults. Children in these procedures had a small role and little power to influence what happened during their procedure. The findings have been discussed using dramaturgical metaphors of roles, scripts and front and back stage performances that unified the three developed categories and lead to the theorisation of a core category of 'Playing a Part in the Performance'. Children are able and value being engaged in meaningful communication during their X-ray. Different roles and interactions can close down or open up children's opportunity and ability to play an active role in their procedure.


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Structural Steel Detailer
A manufacturer of custom metal products, located east of Pittsburgh, is seeking an experienced Structural Steel Detailer.
- Detailer to provide shop ready drawings for approval, coordination, efficient and accurate fabrication of miscellaneous metal and structural steel.
- At times, participating in or responsible for original design.
- Field measure for accuracy in detailing.
- Provide accurate material take-off for purchasing, fabricating, and record keeping.
- At times, purchasing project material and drafting supplies.
- Minimum of an AS Degree with at least 5 years of related structural steel detailing experience.
- Capable of evaluating and gathering information from contract documents, field measurements, conversations and experience to create shop and field ready drawings with minimal supervision.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills.
- General understanding of materials and requirements in our fabricating process.
- Ability to gather a working knowledge of the many operations of the organization.
- Knowledge of the latest engineering specifications and code requirements.
- Be familiar with specialized techniques of shop fabrication and field construction.
- Skilled in detailing by hand, skill in using AutoCAD; Any experience with Revit / BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a plus
- Hours: Mon – Fri 7:30am – 4pm


How Samsung uses AI to improve photos taken on the Galaxy S21
How Samsung uses AI to improve photos taken on the Galaxy S21
In our reviews, we made clear that the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the S21+ are capable of capturing excellent photos. While the camera sensors do play a part in this, modern photography is now also a lot about AI and image processing and that is exactly what Samsung reveals in a blog post that details how the AI-algorithm works on the new Samsung flagships.
 - Samsung reveals specific details about the AI post-processing of its photos
 - It involves the camera detecting faces and separating them from their surroundings before editing them
 - Blurred backgrounds in portraits are also more accurate and feature a sharpening gradient
It's always exciting to see what technology smartphone manufacturers use to improve the images on their latest smartphones. Samsung, in its blog post, details the magic it uses to improve portraits captured on its phones in fair detail.
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The software uses masks to separate faces and enhance fine details / © Samsung
First of all, it's all about making faces look natural and a little bit out of the subject at the same time. To do this, the software detects the two faces of the subjects and separates them from the rest of the image for post-processing. Samsung then uses "natural enhancements" to tweak things like the eyes, hair, face shape, and white balance to create natural faces. Here, Samsung basically takes the same approach as it does with manual digital photo editing, which also uses masks to tweak only certain areas of the image.
Precise portrait mode with sharpness gradient
Masks are also about blurring backgrounds. It's been a trend in camera smartphones for a few years now to mimic the depth of field of portrait lenses with a small open aperture, and in fact it worked very well in my review of the Galaxy S21+. For portraits, Samsung takes advantage of the depth information gained from the Time-of-Flight sensor on the S21 Ultra and the additional and slightly differently positioned cameras on the S21+.
As with the faces in the first example, Samsung's camera software creates a mask and then optimizes the transition between subject and background. By using a tri-mask consisting of background, subject and the area of transition, Samsung can also identify hair with greater accuracy and omit it when blurring.
Hauswand Portraet Galaxy S21 Plus
Even though Samsung messes up the bars on the left side of the image, the sharpness gradient is killer! / © NextPit
At the same time, the software segments subjects if they are at different distances from the camera. This explains the quite natural-looking sharpness gradient you can see in my test photo of the Galaxy S21.
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"Moku Shoku" Implemented in Fukuoka City
silent eating in Japan
A restaurant sign asking for cooperation from customers using the newly invented word, moku-shoku. Image sourced from _URL_
As a new measure to combat Coronavirus, Japan has begun implementing silent eating, also known as 黙食 or moku-shoku, in various restaurants. The measure requests that customers refrain from talking while eating. The new word was first used by a curry restaurant in Fukuoka city by the name of Masala Chicken. The restaurant already had numerous prevention measures in place such as a mask requirement, washing hands upon entering the restaurant, and allowing only 1 person at a time at the register. However, among rising corona cases across Fukuoka and all of Japan, the restaurant made the decision to take even further measures.
A restaurant poster states that talking while eating increases the risk of infection spreading. Image sourced from _URL_
According to the restaurant's manager, Mr. Mitsuji, despite the restaurant having requests in place to wear masks, he wanted to give a more straightforward message to encourage customers dining in to help prevent the spread of Corona. When asked about how he came up with the word, which consists of both the characters to be silent and to eat, Mr. Mitsuji responded, "I thought the characters were too straightforward at first. Some people told me to go with a milder expression, such as the characters for quiet and eat, but I ultimately decided that the meaning and goal of the word was most important."
How Silent Eating Will Affect the Japanese Dining Experience
While the thought of eating in complete silence may be off-putting to some, the concept itself is not foreign to Japan. As some online users have explained, many of their children have similar "no talking while eating" rules at school. Instead of conversation, some schools put on a movie for the children to watch while they eat their bento.
Although the newly created word "moku-shoku" may come off as quite strong in Japanese, the idea behind it is quickly spreading. The rule has been mostly well-received online, and many Japanese Twitter users have pointed out that talking quietly if at all while eating is typically considered polite. One use below states that they, "thought remaining silent and eating were supposed to be good manners."
The user below made a popular Tweet discussing silent eating by saying the following:
"well, silent eating has become a trend, and it is recommended to eat silently alone. This is really wonderful. I want this to be recommended more and more.
At the same time, I would like people to stop recommending it as if it were absolutely the only correct answer."
As silent eating makes its way across more and more restaurants in Japan, hopefully more effective and innovative ways for safely eating out will also surface.
Listen to Our This Week In Japan Podcast here:
Hosts of This Week In Japan
Julian Domanski
Born in England, Julian is a writer, videographer & musician living in Tokyo. When he's not drinking copious amounts of English Tea, he can be found studying Japanese or trying to master the surprisingly complex basics of the Jiuta Shamisen.
Yasuharu Matsuno
Founder of Japan Insider (Former Ryu Tokyo). Japanese-born entrepreneur. Yasu spent his life around the globe – Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, Australia, and the U.S. He hopes he had more time to play Japanese RPGs. MBA from Columbia University in the City of New York.


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- Download and install ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server (ESHP)
- Manage ESHP using ESET Security Management Center
ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server (ESHP) must be installed manually on each Web Server in your SharePoint farm, and cannot be installed remotely using ESET Remote Administrator or ESET Security Management Center. Before you begin the installation process, make sure that you have the following items available:
- Your ESET-issued product license file (emailed to you following your purchase of ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server)
- The Administrator username and password used to access your Microsoft SharePoint Site(s)
Ensure that your SharePoint administrator account has the following:
- SharePoint Farm Administrators privileges
- Access to website collections
- 'Log on as service' privileges
- Your SharePoint account is member of the SQL SysAdmin role on the database server (if SharePoint is configured to connect to the database using Windows authentication)
For more information on configuring a SharePoint administrator account, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: _URL_
- Click the appropriate link below to download the ESHP installer file. Save the installer (.msi) file to your Desktop:
- When the download is complete, double-click the installer file to launch the ESET Security Setup Wizard.
- Select your language and click Next.
- Read the End-User License Agreemeent. Select I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click Next.
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- Click Finish. ESET Security will open automatically.
- When the installation is finished, select an activation option. In this example, Enter a License Key is selected.
- In the Product activation screen, type the License Key included in the email you received following your purchase of ESET Security and click Activate. If you do not have this info, click here to have it resent.
- Following activation, you may be prompted to set your preferences for ESET Live Grid and detection of potentially unwanted applications. Be sure to complete these steps to receive the most effective protection from ESET Security.
ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server can be managed using ESET Remote Administrator as soon as it is installed. See the ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server User Guide for more information.
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Product Name: Rose Hips Extract
Botanical Name: Rosa Laevigata Michx., Rosa canina.
Active Ingredient: Vitamin C, Polyphenol, Ascorbic acid
Part Used: Fruit
Specification: Vitamin C 10%, 20% ; Extract Ratio 10:1
Molecular formula: C6H8O6
Appearance: Brown Powder
Rose hip is the fruit that develops from the blossoms of the wild rose plant. A common ingredient in herbal teas, rose hip is also available in supplement and powdered form. Rose hip contains a number of antioxidants, including vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene andlycopene.
1. Antioxidation, preventing skin aging and protecting the brain and nerve tissue from oxidation.
2. Strengthen the spleen and helping digestion.
3. Improve blood circulation, boosts metabolism and monitors the menstrual cycle.
4. Treatment of patients suffering from knee or hip osteoarthritis.
5. Protect against cancer.
6. Protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD).
7. Treatment of influenza-like infections, diarrhea
8. Diuretic and laxative and treatment of various urinary tract disorders.
1.Anti-oxidation,preventing skin aging and protecting the brain and nerve tissue from oxidation.
2.Strengthening the spleen and helping digestion.
3.ImprovIing blood circulation, boosts metabolism, monitors the menstrual cycle and relieves pain.


Is mortgage payment for rental tax-deductible?
George Saenz
Dear Tax Talk,
Is a mortgage for a house rental tax-deductible? I know mortgage interest is, but how about the monthly payment I make? I report the rental income as income; why not the mortgage as expense?
-- Yen
Dear Yen,
Yearning for some more deductions? Don't worry, we may find something for you.
When you borrow money, such as on a mortgage, it isn't considered income. And when you repay, it isn't considered expense. Instead, your tax consequences from borrowing are determined by the use of the funds from borrowing. For example, if you're a business that borrows to pay business expenses, then those expenses are deductible when paid from the proceeds of the borrowing.
When you repay the loan, you have no further tax consequence. If you fail to repay the loan, then you have forgiveness of debt income. It kind of makes sense that if you don't repay the loan that you used to claim deductions, then you shouldn't be allowed to have claimed the deductions. Therefore you must recognize income from the forgiven loan.
The mortgage you borrowed on to buy the rental property forms part of the cost of your property. Your property is depreciable for tax purposes. Hence your principal payments on the loan are recovered by claiming depreciation on the property.
For example, assume you buy a condo for $275,000, which you finance 100 percent by a mortgage on the property with a lender (those kinds of lenders don't exist anymore). Residential rental property is depreciated over 27.5 years, so that means you get to claim $10,000 in depreciation per year that you own the property. The $10,000 in depreciation plus the interest you pay probably yields a greater tax break than a deduction for the principal repayment, so you're ahead. That should satisfy your tax-deduction desires.
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I know that an infinite set can be partitioned into 2 infinite subsets.
Can one partition an infinite set into finitely many infinite subsets?
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Are you asking that given an infinite set, can that set be partitioned into $n$ infinite sets for all $n$? – ferson2020 Jan 30 '13 at 16:26
In fact, you can also partition it into infinitely many infinite sets. For example, with the set $\mathbb N$, you can let $A_n=\{k\in\mathbb N\mid k=2^nm\text{ with }m\text{ odd}\}$ for $n=0,1,2,\ldots$ – Hagen von Eitzen Jan 30 '13 at 16:30
Let $n$ be given. Partition the integers into those that are multiples of $n$, those that leave a remainder of 1 when divided by $n$, those that leave a remainder of 2 when divided by $n$,... and those that leave a remainder of $n-1$ when divided by $n$. – MJD Jan 30 '13 at 17:20
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Well, if you can do it with 2, you can keep partitioning one of them.
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Ok, thanks Andreas. – student Jan 30 '13 at 16:26
Of course. We do it by induction.
Theorem: If $A$ is an infinite set and $n>0$ is a natural number then we can write $A$ as a disjoint union of $n$ infinite sets.
Proof. For $n=1$ this is obvious, so we actually start with $n=2$.
For $n=2$ we can do it because every infinite set can be split into two infinite sets.
Suppose that we can split $A$ into $n$ parts, $A_1,\ldots, A_n$. Each is infinite, split $A_n$ into $B$ and $C$, and so the partition $A_1,\ldots,A_{n-1},B,C$ is a partition of $A$ into $n+1$ parts. $\square$
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Coming soon: The Largest Flare System in Asia
 This technology is coming soon to the largest flare system in Asia
 Giant flames -- as part of flare systems -- are key to keeping refineries running around the world.
 Flare technology helps refineries safely dispose of toxic or flammable gases, while its burners reduce and better control emissions, and more efficiently generate heat.
 At Hengli Petrochemical in China, Honeywell's Callidus flares will be used in a new, 5,000-ton-per-hour flare system that will be the largest of its kind in Asia when it is completed construction in 2018.
 Here's how the system works:
 Burners provide the heat
 Here is a bottom's up view of a refinery burner. Burners generate heat for refinery processes and typically are fueled by gas. Hengli will use 400 Callidus low-nitrogen oxides (NOx) burners, covering the entire complex.
 Cooler temperatures
 The reason the flames are blue is because they burn cooler, which is a sign of low-NOx combustion.
 Gas in, vapor out
 Modern flare systems compress waste gases with steam or air inside the flare system, then burn the mixture to produce a low-particulate product with water vapor and carbon dioxide.
 Watch for flares
 Flare systems are ready 24/7, which is why flames can occasionally be seen coming out of pipe stacks. Pollutants such as smoke and flare particulates cause air pollution and other environmental consequences that have a serious impact on public health. However, flare systems such as Hengli work to minimize the release of such pollutants.
 Reduce emissions
 A pipe stack like this will be erected at the Hengli refinery by the end of 2018. A customized design can help reduce emissions. For Hengli, the technologies will reduce emissions to half of the regulatory limit in China.


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There is a need for a harmonised tool for sustainable resource management in Europe. The United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) is a system that may be used for this purpose. In MINTELL4EU we aim to demonstrate if geological surveys will be able to apply UNFC, and to show if the application of UNFC will provide better harmonization of mineral resource data nationally and across Europe.
Late October 2020, MINTELL4EU had a digital workshop where eight case studies on UNFC were presented and discussed.
The findings from the workshop indicated some possibilities and challenges:
- The presented case studies showed that geological surveys can do UNFC on Raw Materials
- We are still at a starting point at establishing a more harmonised system and stricter guidelines are required. The partners in MINTELL4EU have different levels of experience in UNFC and the approach and methods on UNFC varies between the countries.
- There is a need to compare the case studies and the surveys approach to identify obstacles, data gaps and harmonization issues.
- Data availability is an issue as non-accessible data can result in less precision, and this must be taken into account when aggregating data. In addition, not all geological surveys have the responsibility or data availability to be able to classify the E- and F-axis in UNFC.
- There is a need to work on the visualisation of UNFC.


text: This paper analyses immigrants' education-occupation mismatch as well as its impact on their wages in Spain. Using cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a probit model taking into account the possible problem of selection bias. We show that the incidence of immigrants' education-occupation mismatch in the Spanish labour market can largely be explained by the incidence of education-occupation mismatch in the last job held in the home country. The probability of having been over-educated at home shows to have a higher effect on the probability of being over-educated in the first job upon arrival where work experience gained in the home country shows to be highly valued by Spanish employers. In addition, our results show that those who were over-educated in their first job after arrival are more likely to continue in being overeducated in their current/last job in Spain. Furthermore, we analyse the performance of immigrants in Spain by estimating the wage penalty of over-education. Using log wage equation as well as predicted and counterfactual values distinguishing between immigrants being in the correctly matched occupation and those who are over-educated, we show that over-educated immigrants earn significantly lower wage compared to their correctly-matched counterparts, while over-educated immigrants' would have earned an even larger amount if the same individuals were employed in a correctly matched job instead. Significant differences are also apparent when restricting the models to the level of education.


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bahr-ij, bê-rahzh • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. (Engineering) A dam, barrier, or other obstruction built in a stream to create an area of deeper water or to divert the stream's flow. 2. A heavy, overwhelming outpouring that prevents response, such as a barrage of artillery fire or barrage of words.
Notes: Today's Good Word has at least two pronunciations that correspond to the two meanings above. Barrage in the sense of a dam is pronounced [bahr-ij] in the US while in the sense of an overwhelming outpouring it is pronounced [bê-rahzh]. This latter pronunciation is in the process of being Anglicized, so don't be surprised to hear [bê-rahj] from time to time.
In Play: The sense that today's word has in engineering is closer to the sense of the verb "to bar" and for that reason is pronounced as though it was based on bar: "The kids loved to build barrages in the stream behind the house and catch the minnows that collected behind it." The other sense is by far more common: "Congressman Mander received a barrage of questions from reporters about the fur coat he had recently given to his secretary."
Word History: Today's Good Word is purely French in origin, which is why the accent is on the final syllable and the G is pronounced [zh]. It is a noun derived from the verb barrer "to bar, to stop," from the noun barre "a bar, barrier". This is the same word that became bar when borrowed by English. I have mentioned before that French is Latin as it is spoken today in France (Spanish is Latin as spoken today in Spain, Italian, Latin as it is spoken today in Italy, and so on for all Romance languages). The language spoken in France before the arrival of the Romans was a Celtic language called "Gaulish", sometimes "Gallic". Barre came from that language. The sense of a barrage of artillery fire came from the French phrase tir de barrage "curtain of fire", first used in World War I. (OK, time for a barrage of thanks to Thel Casper for suggesting today's very interesting Good Word.)
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How economic, humanitarian, and religious concerns shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers
What types of asylum seekers are Europeans willing to accept? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 18,000 eligible voters in 15 European countries to evaluate 180,000 profiles of asylum seekers that randomly varied on nine attributes. Asylum seekers who have higher employability, have more consistent asylum testimonies and severe vulnerabilities, and are Christian rather than Muslim received the greatest public support. These results suggest that public preferences over asylum seekers are shaped by sociotropic evaluations of their potential economic contributions, humanitarian concerns about the deservingness of their claims, and anti-Muslim bias. These preferences are similar across respondents of different ages, education levels, incomes, and political ideologies, as well as across the surveyed countries. This public consensus on what types of asylum seekers to accept has important implications for theory and policy.


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The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data collected in 2000 on the demand in Europe for highly skilled workers in general and abroad and their determinants. Major findings are that the fraction of highly skilled recruited from the international labour market is very small, and it seems that foreign and domestic workers are very similar in terms of formal education, that is subject of specialisation, and job characteristics. We suggest an efficiency wage model that can explain why firms recruit foreign workers in small numbers and are willing to pay migrants the same wage as local workers and at the same time are willing to pay for moving costs, for example, that are specific to immigrating workers.
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What is the World of Darkness and Vampire: the Requiem?
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Vampire: the Requiem is a game written by White Wolf in the "World of Darkness" game-line. The World of Darkness is a world not completely unlike our own, but darker; crime is more prevalent, corruption runs deep, homelessness and poverty are enhanced. In this world, monsters are real - monsters like vampires. In a Vampire: the Requiem game, players take the role of these creatures, monsters who are almost, but not quite, human. Players explore what it is like for their character to deal with their condition, whether they embrace it or fight to keep what is left of their humanity. In addition to the personal horror of night-to-night existence, the vampires of the World of Darkness organize in neo-feudal courts. The drama and political infighting that arises from that interaction - fighting over feeding rights, or in defense of the city's vampire laws - makes up a great portion of the appeal of a Vampire game. What is a LARP? A LARP or "Live Action Roleplaying" game is like any other... more
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- Enhancing Yoga Practice: The cultural context can significantly elevate your yoga practice and enrich the experience.
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Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula
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If you want to tell somebody to go away you could shout:
"Hau ab!"
However this is considered as not very polite, much like "Get lost!", or "F*** off!". I am wondering where German "Hau ab" comes from to explain why it is considered as rude in usage. What does it mean literally?
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"Hau ab!" is the imperative of abhauen, which has the colloquial meaning (among others) of to escape quickly.
The Duden derives it from hauen, which means to beat and is said to refer to beating a horse with the spurs on your boots. Grimm's dictionary still mentions the meaning to hurry, to run for hauen and gives the same reasoning:
13) hauen endlich für eilen, streben, laufen. diese bedeutung hat wol ihren ausgang von dem einhauen der sporen in des rosses weichen
Together with the prefix ab- (off, away) you get to run away, to get off quickly.
But note that this old meaning of hauen is no longer present, and Grimm's doesn't say abhauen to mean to escape. If they didn't miss it, the verb must have derived this meaning after this part of the dictionary was written, but before hauen lost its meaning of to hurry.
This gives room to a second theory: according to the book Westjiddisches Wörterbuch, the verb abhauen might derive from abbauen, which is Rotwelsch for to escape, to flee and has Yiddish origins. It is further said to have a Hebrew root that means to come.
A Rotwelsch, i.e. thieve's argot, origin might also have contributed to the derogative touch of abhauen, which in turn can also explain (to some degree at least) why "Hau ab" sounds rather rude, as you mention in your question.
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According to this link, hauen used to mean "hurry" or "run" at some point in addition to "beat", probably originating from "beating a horse to make it run faster". "Ab" is a Latin prefix meaning "away from."
So "abhauen" just means "run away".
I don't think it's rude because of its etymology, but because there are very few polite ways to tell someone to go away in general, because a) you're telling someone what to do, and b) you're telling them "I don't want you here." That's going to come across as impolite pretty much regardless of what words you use.
I don't think "Hau ab!" is any more impolite than "Go away!" "F**k off!" is stronger than that, and a better German equivalent would be "Verpiss dich!"
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Nice explanation. "Hau ab" definitely is stronger than "Geh weg". "Verpiss Dich" is used regionally (but less so recently). – Takkat Oct 4 '11 at 8:03
I agree that it's stronger than "Geh weg", but I'd say "Go away" is still a pretty good translation. English doesn't seem to have as many nuanced ways to tell someone to leave. It goes directly from "Go away" to various vulgarities. – Cass Oct 4 '11 at 8:15
But why "ab" and not "weg"? – Takkat Oct 4 '11 at 8:22
+1 for pointing out that "Hau ab" has not to be impolite. For example "Hau ab" is also somthing you could say to a fugitive if the "bad guys" come to get him. – 0x6d64 Oct 4 '11 at 10:55
_USER_ "Hau weg" means something completely different:… – starblue Oct 4 '11 at 12:06
Hau ab, this comes from the verb abhauen, that's a word for "to run away".
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Kingdom of Earth is the 'sovereign world state'declared over the planet earth ("the World")
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Kingdom of Earth is the 'sovereign world state'declared over the planet earth ("the World"). The Kingdom was declared in London on 2nd November 2009 by Prince Ali Afolabi of Olubonku Royal House of Iree, a community within Nigeria. Prince Afolabi (now King Afolabi) was divinely ordained the "King of Earth" and commanded to proclaim the Kingdom of Earth in 1994.
However, he hesitated in doing so for 15 years for fear that the world may not be ready for a world state with an absolute Monarch when the citizens of the nation states around the world are clamouring for democracy. Prior to his divine commission, King Afolabi was a successful businessman but his initial refusal to obey the divine call costs him his business and family. His refusal also brings him so many unexplainable troubles.
In the midst of one of his troubles in 2009, he was divinely visited once more and commanded to assume his position as King of Earth and proclaim the Kingdom of Earth or he will die. With no other option he reluctantly assumed his position as the King of Earth and proclaimed the Kingdom of Earth. He informed the world leaders about his divine mission and unsurprisingly, most of the people around him and the world leaders believe that he was suffering from mental illness as they cannot comprehend such a divine mission. The mission of the King of Earth is to serve people in the world wherever they live, to promote world peace, global economic prosperity, religious tolerance and freedom of movement.


permissibility of stunning chicken
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Aslamu Alikum i would like to find out the ruling or views on stunning of chicken before slaughtering. In my country it's certified as halaal and accepted by some of the scholars and dislike by other scholars Jazakallah await your response
In order for meat to be lawful for consumption it must be slaughtered in a particular way. One of the conditions for permissibility is that the animal must be alive at the time of slaughter. If it dies before slaughter then it will be unlawful for consumption. The issue of stunning chickens is a heavily debated topic. The main contention is whether or not the chicken dies between stunning and slaughter. Each halal certifying body has their own criteria. Some will permit stunning provided certain conditions are met such as the voltage being kept at a low rate to ensure the chicken doesn't die, whilst other certifying bodies will not permit stunning of any sort. Either way the fundamental point is whether or not the chicken dies before slaughter.
In addition to this, stunning is understood to cause the animal additional unnecessary pain and can also reduce the amount of blood flowing out of the animal. For these two reasons some scholars will deem stunned chicken as disliked even if it did not die before slaughter. This maybe the reason why some scholars in your country consider stunned chicken disliked.
As we are not fully aware of the industry practice in Guyana or the criteria adopted by the halal certifying bodies, it is difficult for us to indicate our preference. However, when it comes to eating Halal one should always exercise reasonable caution and abstain from doubtful food.
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Extreme Ironing (also called EI) is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing. Extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."
This can involve ironing on a mountainside, preferably on a difficult climb, or taking an iron skiing, snowboarding or canoeing. Beginners usually start extreme ironing in the safety of their back gardens, although some daring members have been known to go straight to the mountain. Despite it's superficial danger, extreme ironists always take numerous safety measures, including safety ropes, harnesses, spare irons and the like.
History : Extreme Ironing was first started in 1997 by Leicester man, Philip Shaw, when Philip decided to do his ironing in the back garden. Since then, extreme ironing has developed into a sport that has attracted and give attention around the world. Shaw came home from what he recalls as a hard day in a Leicester knitwear factory. Preferring the idea of an evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities and convert it into a new extreme sport.
In June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname "Steam", embarked on an international tour to promote the activity. The stops included United States, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. An encounter with German tourists in New Zealand led to the formation of a group called "Extreme Ironing International" and the German Extreme Ironing Section (GEIS).
The "sport" gained international attention after a documentary entitled Extreme Ironing : Pressing for Victory, was produced for Britain's Channel 4 by Wag TV and From then it becomes the unusual competition of Extreme Ironing.
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A static character is someone whose personality does not change as a story developes. An example of a static character is Abigail Williams from Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Abigail keeps the same goals and motives as the play develops. Throughout the play Abigail is manipulative of others around her and lies to benefit herself. The first two acts of the play show how Abigail manipulates others and lies to prevent getting in trouble for what she did. In the first half of the play Abigail lies and threatens others to keep from getting in trouble when her uncle catches her and other girls dancing in the forest. Abigail was caught doing something strictly forbidden in her society and is scared that Betty, Abigail's cousin, may tell on her and hit Betty. The text states, "Betty, you will never say that again! You will never-' Smashes her across the face: 'Shut it! Now shut it!" Abigail is scared of what her uncle would do if he were to find out that she was dancing and drank blood. In act two of the play Abigail wants to be with Proctor but cannot and shows her jealousy of Goody Proctor. The text states, "Oh, I marvel…show more content…
Proctor knows that Abigail has accused his wife to try and get her killed so that Abigail can be with Proctor. The text states, "She thinks to dance on my wife's grave!" Abigail is deceiving the court by telling them that Goody Proctor is a witch and the court believes her since Abigail is believed to be a victim of witchcraft. As the play continues to Mary Warren is trying to tell the court that Abigail has been lying. To avoid getting in trouble Abigail uses her influence and lies that Mary sent spirits to attack her. The text state, "The wings! Her wings are spreading! Mary, please don't, don't-" Scared of getting in trouble Abigail says that Mary has cast her spirit on her. Throughout the play Abigail lies for her own benefit and manipulates
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One of the defining features of construction paper is the radiance of its colours. Before the methodology behind construction paper's colouring was introduced, most paper was coloured by pigments and vegetable oil, which had weaker staining capabilities. Synthetic dyes were later developed, which provided a wider range of colours, stronger dyeing strength, and had lower costs. However, the colours given by synthetic dyes tend to fade over short periods of time, an effect often seen in construction paper, noted by greying colours and brittleness.
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Quick Answer: Can A Brain Scan Show Mental Illness?
Can MRI scan detect mental illness?
MRIs and related technology are becoming increasingly adept at diagnosing mental illness.
Currently, magnetic resonance imaging can play an important role alongside the observations of physicians and other mental health care professionals..
Can EEG detect mental illness?
Electroencephalography, or EEG, technology that measures brain function could encourage earlier diagnoses of common mental and neurological disorders, including autism, ADHD and dementia, according to findings published in The Neurodiagnostic Journal.
Can a brain scan show ADHD?
Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from patients without the condition, according to a new study published in Radiology.
Can a brain scan show bipolar?
Can an EEG detect bipolar disorder?
Generally, routine electroencephalography (EEG) is unnecessary in the evaluation of bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness (MDI).
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Increased communication between the amygdala and hippocampus appear to correlate with symptoms of depression and anxiety, in findings that may have treatment implications, new research suggests.
What does slow brain waves on an EEG mean?
Focal slow wave activity on the EEG is indicative of focal cerebral pathology of the underlying brain region. Slowing may be intermittent or persistent, with more persistent or consistently slower activity generally indicating more severe underlying focal cerebral dysfunction.
Can you see mental illness on a brain scan?
Brain scans alone cannot be used to diagnose a mental disorder, such as autism, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. In some cases, a brain scan might be used to rule out other medical illnesses, such as a tumor, that could cause symptoms similar to a mental disorder, such as depression.
What can a brain scan detect?
CT scans, which use X-rays to detect brain structures, can show evidence of brain atrophy, strokes and ischemia, changes to the blood vessels, and other problems such as hydrocephalus and subdural hematomas. MRI scans use magnetic fields and focused radio waves to detect hydrogen atoms in tissues within the body.
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