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Legislation Governing Skip Permits
The placement of skips and containers on the highway is governed by the Highways Act 1980 Section 139.
Within this a local authority is given discretion to determine the following:
- The siting of the skip:
- Its dimensions.
- The manner in which it is to be coated with paint and other material for the purpose of making it immediately visible to oncoming traffic;
- The care and disposal of its contents;
- The manner in which it is to be lighted or guarded;
This means that each local authority does have its own interpretation of what constitutes a skip, how it should be marked, located and lighted.
Specification of a builders skip
Within the regulations A Builders Skip means a container designed to be carried on a road vehicle and to be placed on a highway or other land for the storage of builders materials or the removal and disposal of builders rubble, waste, household and other rubbish or earth and shall when carried on a road vehicle comply with the appropriate Motor Vehicle Construction and Use Regulations.
In Bradford for example a skip is defined as a container that shall not exceed 5m in length and 2m in width.Whereas in Newcastle for example a 20ft storage container will be managed under a skip permit.Some Councils have a scale of charges depending on the size of the skip and others have a single price for any size.
As a minimum:
- The builders' skip shall be clearly and permanently marked with the owner's name and with his telephone number or address.
- The container should be clearly visible at all times with vertical red and yellow fluorescent reflective markings at each end in accordance with the Builders Skips (Markings) Regulations 1984 (SI 1984/1933) (effective 1 January 1986) and BSS All _PHONE_.
- If on a highway then cones and lights are required to comply with Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual and the ends shall be painted yellow. During the hours of darkness the owner shall provide, maintain and light four yellow lamps, fixed securely to the skip(s), one to each corner.
- The skip(s) shall be placed in such a position as to be clearly visible to traffic approaching from either side at a distance of not less than 100m (330ft)
- It shall neither be placed within a distance of 30m (100ft) from a road junction nor in such a position to block any sight line at an entrance, junction or bend nor to impede surface water drainage not obstruct access to property, fire hydrants, gullies, manholes and apparatus of any
- Statutory Undertaker, nor be placed in such a position as to contravene any Traffic Order or regulation made under the Road Traffic Acts. It/they shall, when sited in the carriageway, be placed near the edge of the carriageway with the longer side parallel thereto.
- It/they shall not be placed in such a position as to partly or wholly obstruct a footway without the express permission of the Strategic Director for Environment & Infrastructure or his representative, to be granted only after consultation and agreement with the Police and conditional upon a 1m. wide pedestrian walkway being provided in the carriageway properly protected and signed and with yellow lights lighted at night.
If a local authority deems that the skip falls outside of their interpretation of section 139 for a builders skip then they will often cite Highways Act 1980 section 169 which can be summarised:
A license is required where building, demolition work or the alteration, repair, maintenance or cleaning of any building, requires to erect or retain on the highway any scaffolding or other structure which obstructs the highway (hereafter in this section referred to as a "relevant structure").
The container is being considered as a 'Relevant structure'. The requirements of this Relevant Structure vary dependent on the local authority. Some may treat this as a construction site requiring hoarding, cones and illumination. Others may simply require a hoarding license.
What To Do
For every site we need to establish the ownership of the land upon which skips or containers are placed. Housing association land is most likely to be owned by the council and will require a permit.
Please notify Red Kite Recycling of any intended site at least a week in advance in order to determine ownership with the council, provide quotes for Purchase order, apply for any permits and order skips.


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Color lock is a process for reconstructing the color signal of primarily PAL-encoded U-matic tapes (Low and High Band) on playback. If the signal frequency is off, "the colour subcarrier will shift phase for the duration of one line, which means that colours will be reproduced incorrectly."1 The result is quite noticeable:
A colour gradient stretches from the left-hand edge to the right-hand edge of the image, with a narrow achromatic area down its vertical center axis. More precisely, all scan lines start at the left-hand edge of the image with a colour shift specific to each hue. Colour saturation drops to zero towards the centre of the image, then rises to reach maximum saturation in the complementary colour hue at the right-hand edge of the image.2
Black-and-white recordings and NTSC recordings are not susceptible to loss of color lock. However, if an NTSC recording "is played back on a multi-standard player with a colour lock control set in the wrong position, colour disappears completely and a characteristic diagonal herringbone pattern occurs."3
Can it be fixed?
Adjust the color lock control on a PAL playback device until the color is rendered correctly. If these adjustments do not resolve the artifact, try the same adjustments while playing a test tape in the same device. If the test tape's colors can be rendered correctly, then the tape recording has uncorrectable defects; however, if the issue persists while playing the test tape, then the device needs servicing.
1. Johannes Gfeller, Agathe Jarczyk, and Joanna Phillips, "Loss of colour lock" in Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video (edited by Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2012), p.56, videos 5 & 6. ↩
2. Gfeller et al, "Loss of colour lock." ↩
3. Gfeller et al, "Loss of colour lock." ↩

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Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, _PHONE_
Between 1850 and 1950, the population of New York City grew from just under 700,000 to more than seven million. This collection of 1,300 photographs documents the manifold changes that characterized New York City's urban environment in this 100 year period. The photographs are gathered from several collections: 1896 street views by Staten Island photographer Alice Austen, 1911 panoramas of Fifth Avenue, Washington Irving's home in the 1860s, 31 photo-lithographics of mid-1800s Hudson River mansions, the Sperr collection of 335 photographs taken between 1931 and 1942, and a general collection of photographs divided by city borough. Highlights include Austen's images of New York City laborers (organ grinders, bootblacks, police men, messenger boys) and of her home life among the State Island elite—both rare subjects for this period, and the Sperr collection's documentation of the construction of the Belt Parkway. Part of the New York Public Library's renowned digital library collection, this website is essential for those interested in U.S. urban history, architecture, the history of New York City, and the built environment.

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Using this simple and cheap method you can calculate the optimum hanging height for any grow light in any space without expensive tools or specialist equipment. We will show you how to use a free PAR meter App on your phone or a cheap lux meter to measure the PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation, the light that causes photosynthesis and growth) across the grow canopy. We show you how to map out the PAR intensity across your grow area at different heights, calculate the Average PAR for each height and the uniformity (how well the light is spread).
The first step is to hang the grow light at the height the manufacturer recommends or where you think it is probably the best setting taking care of the following:
 - Run the light for 30 minutes to warm it up.
 - Level the light fixture
 - Adjust to maximum power setting
Then you create a 'target surface' to take the measurements. You can use the bottom of the grow tent or a piece of board to simulate the plant canopy and setup as follows:
 - Use a dark surface which does not reflect much light so you do not get false readings from reflected light
 - Divide the area into squares – I suggest 15cm or 6″ squares (you can go smaller for more accuracy or larger but it will be less accurate)
Measure the light intensity across the grow area with a lux meter or PAR app
The next step is to use a lux meter or PAR meter to measure the intensity in each square and make a chart with the numbers in each square (Using a spreadsheet is ideal).
Find out how to calibrate a cheap Amazon Lux meter to a PAR meter here:
Or use the an iPhone and the IOS app, Photone for accurate PAR readings, link here:
This is your first PAR or LUX chart, congratulations!!
You can then calculate the average light intensity or PAR (if you use the lux meter calibration or Photone App) with the following calculation:
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Grow light setup – calculate par average
Then take the readings again with the light lower and higher for comparison. This is trial and error but I would suggest lowering and raising in the same increments i.e. 10cm or 5″ each time. Take one lower than your first reading and two higher. You will then be able to compare the average and total light intensity reaching the plant canopy and also determine the most uniform or even spread (please note this example did not have reflective walls on the nearest side and the light intensity is lower, this was to enable filming of the process).
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Grow light setup – compare hanging heights to determine optimum setting
You can clearly see the total amount of light increases as the fixture is lowered. The increase in lowering just 10cm or 5″ is nearly 10%!! This would equate to a yield increase of 10% also. However lowering too much will result in hot spots (readings over 1,000 µmols/m²/sec) and less even coverage, particularly in the corners.
By taking a reading of the power consumed by the light fixture you can also calculate the efficiency of the setup. First calculate the total PAR by multiplying the average PAR x the area in sq. meters. Then divide the total par by the power consumed to get the total efficacy of the lighting setup.
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Grow light setup – calculation of total par and system efficacy
Using this method you can now map out the light spread for any light in any space and optimise the setup by adjusting the grow light to the perfect height.
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An infomercial is a form of television commercial, which generally includes a phone number or website. Most often used as a form of direct response television (DRTV), long-form infomercials are typically 28:30 or 58:30 minutes in length. Infomercials are also known as paid programming (or teleshopping in Europe). This phenomenon started in the United States, where infomercials were typically shown overnight (usually 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.), outside of peak prime time hours for commercial broadcasters. Some television stations chose to air infomercials as an alternative to the former practice of signing off. By 2009, most infomercial spending in the U.S. occurs during the early morning, daytime and evening hours. Stations in most countries around the world have instituted similar media structures. The infomercial industry is worth over $200 billion.
While the term "infomercial" was originally applied only to television advertising, it is now sometimes used to refer to any presentation (often on video) which presents a significant amount of information in an actual, or perceived, attempt to promote a point of view. When used this way, the term may be meant to carry an implication that the party making the communication is exaggerating truths or hiding important facts. Often, it is unclear whether the actual presentation fits this definition because the term is used in an attempt to discredit the presentation. Hence, political speeches or conventions may be derogatorily referred to as "infomercials" for a specific point of view.


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Team Recreates Ancient Greek Kithara
Will demonstrate musical instrument, tell story of its building at Friday event
- By Jeffrey R. Wakefield
How do you create a three-dimensional design for an ancient Greek musical instrument when all you have to go on are flat two-dimensional images on vases and coins and a few timeworn statues?
That's the assignment Classics professor John Franklin and student Tanner Lake gave themselves in 2009 when they decided to recreate an ancient Greek instrument called a kithara, a seven-stringed version of the lyre used by professional musicians in public concerts, choral performances and competitions beginning in the seventh century B.C.
"We looked at any medium we could find to get the measurements and all the angles," Franklin said. Franklin and Lake also consulted ancient texts that described some elements of kithara construction.
Lake, a classics major who graduated in 2010, designed the instrument under Franklin's supervision.
The task of building the kithara fell to luthier John Butterfield of Butterfield Lutes in Seattle, who introduced his own design ideas when technical challenges presented themselves.
All three will be on hand on Friday, Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. in John Dewey Lounge to talk about the project and show off the product of their collaboration.
Franklin will demonstrate the kithara and will use it to accompany several ancient Greek songs performed by the Halcyonids, the Classics Department singing group.
Lyres as an instrument family gradually morphed into lutes of various types. The word "guitar" is descended directly from "kithára," even though the shape and stringing changed radically.


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Table and Cell Selection in Adobe CS5 Dreamweaver
You can use several methods in Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Adobe CS5) Dreamweaver to select a cell or the whole table. After a cell or table is selected, you can change all sorts of attributes for the selected cell or table, including the color, size, and format of its contents.
In Design view, select the Layout category from the Insert panel and select Expanded to put your table in Expanded view.
You can more easily select and make changes in this view. (Remember to click the Standard button to see a more realistic preview of your table.)
Select a cell by Ctrl-clicking (Windows) or Command-clicking (Mac) it.
The tag selector is an incredible tool to use to select any tag element, though it's especially helpful when selecting individual components of a table or a nested table. The tag selector is in the lower left corner of the Document window.
To use the tag selector, just put the cursor inside a cell. The tag selector shows the tags that apply to the insertion point's location. Then select to select the cell that holds the cursor, to select the entire row, or to select the entire table.
The table tag is (it's a difficult one to remember, right?), and each row is in a (table row) tag. Each cell is in a (table data) tag. Tables created with headers also make use of the (table header) tag.


How to create an FTP account in DirectAdmin?
Perform the following steps to create an FTP Account in DirectAdmin control panel:
 1. Login to DirectAdmin
 2. Click on FTP Management link from Account Manager.
 3. Click on Create New FTP Account.
 1. Provide the following details:
 - FTP Username
 - Password of that user
 - Re-type Password
 2. Select the path for your FTP account Directory. In this case, you can set custom path for your server too.
 3. Click on Create button to create FTP account on your server through DirectAdmin Hosting Control Panel.
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When Less Is More: 3 Reasons Why Smaller Arrangements Can Make Your Tracks Sound Bigger
Everyone wants their studio tracks to sound "huge." In an effort to achieve "hugeness," many of us follow the obvious path of adding more and more things to our arrangements. If two guitars sound big, then four guitars should sound even bigger, right?
While this makes sense in principle, the results can be paradoxical; often what we achieve by adding more elements to a track isn't a bigger sound but a smaller one.
How does this work? Here are a few examples of some situations when removing elements from your tracks can lead to a fuller sound.
1. Phasing
If you've spent any time in a recording studio, you've probably heard a lot of talk about phase issues. Phase issues arise when two or more similar sound sources hit a microphone or a set of speakers at slightly different times (slightly being the operative word). Rather than sounding delayed or out of time, a sound that's out of phase will sound thin or filtered.
Say, for example, you have a kick drum that sounds nice and full on its own, but that's lacking in high-end energy. A common way to solve this problem would be to add a sampled kick drum with more high-end sound on top of the existing kick track. Both of these tracks might sound great independently, but when you play them together, suddenly your kick sounds weak and thin.
If this happens, it's likely because the two kick-drum sounds are out of phase with each other. To fix this, you may have to either flip the polarity of one of your tracks, or manually line up the transients to make sure they start at the exact same time.
This same issue can come in to play with other types of doubled tracks such as doubled guitars. Turn that into tripled or quadrupled guitars and you've got all sorts of potential phase issues on your hands.
While you may be able to fix phase problems during mixing, an easier way to achieve a fuller sound may be to simply cut back on the number of doubled tracks you use.
2. Masking
While phase issues are common with doubled instruments, masking issues arise when you have a number of instruments or sounds that are fighting for the same space in the frequency spectrum. For example, your vocal track might sound great when you play it in solo, but when you add in your guitars, piano, synths, drums, and other instruments, your vocal track loses its clarity.
The problem is that you have too many sounds occupying a similar frequency range. While you may be able to use some EQ to create more clarity between these sounds, a more effective way to create clarity is simply to remove tracks that are too close to each other sonically.
Then, rather than having a bunch of tracks that sound great on their own but get all muddied up when you add them together, you'll be left with a smaller number of tracks that still sound great on their own but also sound great when you put them together. After all, no one cares what tracks sound like in solo anyway.
3. Dynamics
Whoever said, "There can be no light without darkness" probably didn't have music production in mind when they said it, but the quote certainly applies in this context. Simply put, if every part of your song is big and loud and full, then it'll cease to sound big and loud and full and will instead sound small and quiet and thin.
Why? Because in order for something to sound big, there needs to be a contrast between the big parts and the small parts. Sometimes simply muting one or two instruments in a particular section (usually a verse) can make the next section sound much bigger by comparison.
You may feel like this brings down the energy level of your song at first, but when you bring those muted parts back in, you'll realize just how much more energetic the song sounds as a whole.
In a digital environment where anything you can dream of is possible to achieve, sometimes it's worthwhile to step back for a moment and ask yourself if you really need all of these options. Sure, you could create a kick drum sound using six different samples stacked on top of each other, but how many great drum recordings have been made with just one simple kick drum track?
The next time you're thinking about doubling up another guitar part or adding another synth track, ask yourself if the element you're about to add will really enhance the song, or if it'll simply distract from what's already there. You may be surprised to find that, more often than not, leaving something out will have an even greater impact that adding something in.
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April 19, 2006 - Refuge fire crew assists Stillwater NWR with emergency prescribed burn
Heavy rains and increasing snow melt resulted in pressure for quick measures to move large quantities of water through Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge has a series of canals designed to facilitate just such an effort, however a major section was thickly overgrown with tule reeds and posed a risk of clogging and potential flooding. A crew from Klamath Basin traveled to Fallon, NV, and burned nearly 10 miles of canals, significantly reducing the thick vegetation and increasing flow ability. Weather and holding conditions permitted the crew only two days of burning before new rains inundated roads and limited access. Refuge managers report the burns increased their ability to safely deliver water through the refuge.
See pictures from the burn on the Stillwater NWR Stills page.


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So for my engineering design project, I have to read in 12 buttons using just 4 arduino pins. I know it's possible to do it using 2 Parallel In Serial Out Registers, but I have no idea how to daisy chain them together. Can someone help me? Also, how would the code work?
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Serial out from one chip into serial in of the other, parallel the other control signals, parallel-load then clock for twice as many pulses...
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I-2-5-70.Obtaining Evidence Through an SSA Field Office
The ALJ, or the HO staff under the ALJ's direction, may request the servicing field office (FO) to assist them in obtaining needed evidence if attempts to obtain the needed evidence through the claimant and the claimant's representative, or directly from the source, are unsuccessful.
A. Preparation of Request for FO Assistance
 1. To request FO assistance, the ALJ or the HO staff will prepare a memorandum to the manager of the servicing FO which includes:
 - a specific request for assistance;
 - the location of the source;
 - the reason the information is needed;
 - the name and telephone number of a person in the HO that the FO can contact if they have any questions or problems; and
 - a reasonable due date.
 2. Send copies of the memorandum to the claimant and the representative, if any, to inform them of the request for FO assistance.
 3. Place a copy of the memorandum in the CF.
 4. Diary the request based upon the due date indicated in the memorandum. Make follow-up contacts with the FO if the requested evidence is not received by the diary date.
B. Evidence Requested Through FO Is Not Received, or Is Inadequate or Incomplete
When evidence requested through the FO is not received, or is inadequate or incomplete, the HO staff will contact the FO by telephone, fax or email to ascertain why the evidence was not provided, or is inadequate or incomplete. If the ALJ is not satisfied with the reasons given by the FO, and the evidence is essential, the ALJ may request RO assistance.


text: A comparative study of the forelimbs of the semifossorial prairie dog, Cynomys gunnisoni, and the scansorial tree squirrel, Sciurus niger, was focused on the musculoskeletal design for digging in the former and climbing in the latter. Based on lever arm mechanics, it was expected that the forelimb of the prairie dog would show features appropriate to the production of relatively large forces and that of the fox squirrel to relatively great velocity. Force and lever arm measurements were made of select forelimb muscles at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints for a series of angles in both species. Contraction time and fatigue indexes were determined for the same forelimb muscles. Contrary to expectation, in the few cases in which significant (P less than.05) differences were found, the forces, lever arms, and torques (force times its lever arm) were greater in the smaller fox squirrel. The observed variation in the torques produced fits the demands on the forelimb during climbing and digging as estimated from films. Several forelimb muscles of the fox squirrel show significantly higher mean contraction times than do the homologous muscles of the prairie dog. There were no significant differences between the two species in the fatigability of the selected forelimb muscles, although the mean fatigue index was always higher (less fatigable muscle) in the prairie dog. Similarities in the forelimbs of these two sciurids suggest that only minor modifications may have been required of the ancestral forelimb in order for descendent forms to operate successfully as climbers and diggers.


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Sala Seminari (Dip. Matematica).
In this talk we introduce a notion of functions of fractal bounded variation. Here, the sup-norm of test functions as used in the classical definition is replaced by the Hoelder norm with respect to some exponent. Characteristic functions of domains with fractal bounderies are particular examples that belong to this class. Among a characterization in terms of currents, we state some properties that naturally extend those of classical BV functions such as higher integrability, decomposition into Hoelder functions and push forwards.


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When Someone Dies
A Practical Guide to Holistic Care at the End of LifeBy
- Hannah Cooke, BSc(Hons), MSc(Econ), MSc(Nursing Studies), RGN, DN, RNT, Lecturer in Nursing, University of Manchester School of Nursing Studies, Manchester, UK
Caring for patients who have been diagnosed with terminal illness provides a challenge to all healthcare professionals, as confronting the possibility of death and discussing it openly and supportively with the patient and their family is not easy. To ensure death with dignity, patients need holistic care: practical, social, emotional as well as spiritual needs must be met. This new book by Hannah Cooke links all these areas to provide practical support and advice on areas such as choices of treatment (including the use of complementary therapies), pain control, counselling and religious beliefs. There is also a section on the care of the bereaved with a list of helpful organisations that can be contacted.
'When Someone Dies' will help nurses and other healthcare professionals implement a partnership of care that will ensure that their patients live until they die.
Paperback, 192 Pages
Published: June 2000
Imprint: Butterworth Heinemann
- Part One: Caring for the Dying Patients and their Families: Communicating with dying patients and their families; Choices for dying people; Patient comfort and control of symptoms; Wills and end of life decisions; Part Two: Care of the patient after death; Organ donation and donation of bodies; Part Three: Care of the Bereaved: Supporting the bereaved; Practical matters following a death; Part Four: Caring of the Religious Needs of the Dying: Meeting religious needs in the hospital setting; Religious traditions and healthcare; Index


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of 26 municipalities and regional governments in the Lower Mainland treaty negotiations).
New Relationship Trust Fund – In March 2006, the BC government enacted the New Relationship Trust Act as part of an overall initiative to start a new relationship between government and First Nations. The Trust holds a fund that is designed to provide First Nations with tools, training, and skills so they can participate in land and resource management as well as land use planning processes, and also to develop social, economic, and cultural programs for their communities. The independent Board of Directors is appointed by the First Nations Summit, Union of BC Indian Chiefs, the BC Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Leadership Council, and the BC Government.
Union of BC Municipalities – On line Policy Documents and Initiatives for local governments and First Nations relating to Treaty, Governance, Memoranda and Protocols, and Building Relations.
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EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES-THEORY & PRACTICE, cilt.15, ss.607-620, 2015 (SSCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
The purpose of this study is to examine the flow of doctoral students who are also research assistants and in the dissertation process. The study was designed using the case study method. The case undertaken in the study was the dissertation process. Eleven participants were selected into the study using maximum variation sampling. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the transcripts. The descriptive analysis of the data identified four main themes: (i) personal characteristics, including tackling challenges, sense of responsibility and planned work habits; (ii) interest in the field, including decision making about postgraduate education, satisfaction from postgraduate education, the fit between the doctoral field and the student's interests and skills, and academic goals; (iii) emotional attachment, including enjoyed stages of the dissertation process, feelings aroused by the dissertation, and concentration on the dissertation process; and (iv) living the flow.


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Looking to brighten up your classroom walls or catch the attention of students as they walk along the corridor?
As a response to popular demand, Oxford University has released a series of free and striking classroom display posters based on select images from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive. These include Wilfred Owen's manuscript for 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and the front cover of 'The Hydra': the magazine created by patients at Craiglockhart Hospital. You will need to create an account in TES Connect to be able to download these but this process is quick and simple only requiring a username and email address; again all free of charge.
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Surface Tension by Anna Christiansen Cable
3rd Place - Natural Category
School: Evanston Township High School
Teacher: Daniel DuBrow
This insect is able to stay on top of the water because of a physics property called surface tension. This allows more dense objects, like the insect, to stay on top of substances with a lower density, like the water. Water molecules that are not on the surface are surrounded on all sides by other water molecules, and they are attracted to each other. On the other hand, water molecules that are on the surface are not surrounded on all sides. Each molecular attraction causes the molecules to have less potential energy, which results in the molecules at the surface to have a higher potential energy than the ones underwater. In order for the surface area to increase, water molecules that are not on the surface must be pushed to the surface, but because they have a lower potential energy, this requires a certain amount of energy to do. If the object on top of the water does not have enough energy to increase the surface area, than the object will not sink, just like the insect in the picture.


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All-electric ships (AES), enabled by integrated power systems (IPS), have been pursued for both commercial and military applications to meet the increasing ship-board power demand and environmental sustainability initiatives. They necessitate real-time power management (PM) for dynamic reconfiguration to support system critical operations in the event of dynamic load change or IPS component failures. The nonlinear, large scale trajectory optimization problem associated with IPS, along with the non-analytical nature of IPS model, makes many existing methods inadequate in meeting the real-time requirements. In this paper, we develop a methodology that exploits time scale separation, a characteristic associated with IPS dynamics, to achieve real-time optimization. In parallel, a dynamic model of the IPS with gas turbine and fuel cell as power plants is developed that captures the relevant dynamics but is simple enough for real-time optimization. The tradeoffs between the computational efficiency and optimization accuracy are analyzed. The optimization results for IPS PM on a real-time simulator are reported, which illustrate the real-time feasibility of the proposed optimization strategy.
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- hundredweight to kgs
 The following utility will enable you to convert mass/weight expressed in hundredweight to kgs
 To convert hundredweight to kgs multiply by 50.80235. I've generated some hopefully helpful examples randomly below, as with most random sentences please excuse the repetitive and occasionally comic outcomes.
 You've got 80 hundredweight of oats but someone only wants to buy that in units of kgs, to change the units multiply by 50.80235. Now you have 4064.188 kgs.
 You have 680 hundredweight of carrots but you need to know how many kgs that is. To get the answer multiply by 50.80235 which gives you 34545.60 kgs.
 To convert 380 hundredweight into kgs multiply by 50.80235 giving 19304.89 kgs.
 In 180 hundredweight of beetroot there are 9144.423 kgs, to achieve this take 180 and just multiply by 50.80235.
 How many kgs of barley are there in 390 hundredweight? Just multiply by 50.80235 to get the answer of 19812.92 kgs.


Definitions for diaryˈdaɪ ə ri
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word diary
Princeton's WordNet
 1. diary, journal(noun)
 a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
 2. diary(noun)
 a personal journal (as a physical object)
 1. diary(Noun)
 A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
 2. diary(Noun)
 The method or media used to keep such experiences.
 They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
 3. diary(Noun)
 A calendar or appointment book.
 4. diary(Adjective)
 Lasting for one day.
Webster Dictionary
 1. Diary(noun)
 a register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary
 2. Diary(adj)
 lasting for one day; as, a diary fever
 3. Origin: [L. diarium, fr. dies day. See Deity.]
 1. Diary
 "Diary" is a song by American recording artist Alicia Keys from her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys. Written by Keys and Kerry Brothers, Jr., the song features the American group Tony! Toni! Toné!, and was released on June 29, 2004 as the album's third single. It was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 2005 Grammy Awards. At one time, "Diary" had been released as a double A-side with "If I Ain't Got You". The song's Hani remixes gave Keys her first—and so far only—chart-topper on the Hot Dance Club Play in late 2004. It also peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Keys and Tony! Toni! Toné!, never sang the song live together, to date.
The Roycroft Dictionary
 1. diary
 1. To see one's self as no one else cares to see us. 2. A book that describes the birth, effulgence and disappearance of pimples. 3. The lavatory of literature.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
 1. DIARY
 An honest autobiography. A good keepsake, but a bad give-away.
British National Corpus
 1. Spoken Corpus Frequency
 Rank popularity for the word 'diary' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4728
 2. Written Corpus Frequency
 Rank popularity for the word 'diary' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2888
 3. Nouns Frequency
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Urgent Probability and statistics Help answer cheak
Two important members of a cricket team are injured, and each has probability 1/3 of recovering before the match. The recoveries of the two players are independent of each other. If both are able to play then the team has probability 3/4 of winning the match, if only one of them plays then the probability of winning is 1/2 and if neither play the probability of winning is 1/16. What is the probability that the match is won?
The following is what i have done:
This is total probablity and we need to find the probabilty that the match is won.
So A= event one players plays
B= event both players play
C= event nither plauers play
Let D be the event that they win the match.
P(D)= P(D l A) * P(A) + P(D l B) * P(B) + P(D l C) * P(C)
P(D l A) = 1/2 P(A)= 1/3
P(D l B) = 3/4 P(B)= 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9
P(D l C) = 1/16 P(C) = (1-1/3)^2 = 4/9
so i got my answers as 1/2 * 1/3 + 3/4 * 2/3 + 1/16 * 4/9 = 5/18
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The diagonal fraction
bar in mathematics
. Also called virgule
. This symbol
was used to replace
, sometimes referred to as a vinculum
, due to the typographic
difficulty imposed by the horizontal bar which requires three terraces
An early written example of this usage can be found in a 1718 ledger by Thomas Twining. In his article "The Calculations of Functions" from 1845 and published in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, De Morgan recommended the use of the solidus.
Also, an ancient Roman gold coin used until the fall of the Byzantine Empire and introduced by Constantine.


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Noun: yawl yol
 1. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
 - dandy
Verb: yawl yol
 1. Emit long loud cries
 "yawl with sorrow";
 - howl, ululate, wail, roar, yaup
Sounds like: yacks, yawl
Derived forms: yawled, yawling, yawls
Type of: call, cry, holler, hollo [non-standard], sailing ship, sailing vessel, scream, shout, shout out, small boat, squall, yell
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MK Elkin: Nobel Prize a Reminder to Invest in Education
Israeli Professor Daniel Shechtman's earning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry shows the importance of higher education, said MK Zev Elkin, head of the Knesset Lobby for Higher Education. Shechtman is a professor at the Technion in Haifa.
"When an Israeli researcher wins the Nobel Prize, it's a reminder of the importance of our investment in higher education and in teaching science, in order to ensure the existence of a future generation of researchers," Elkin explained.
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[ 3 syll. ha-lu-lu, hal-ulu ] The baby boy name Halulu is also used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is HHaaLUW-Luw- †. Halulu is used chiefly in the Hawaiian language and its origin is also Hawaiian. The name's meaning is to roar.
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Definition: Originally a flat spatula for flipping oatcakes on a griddle, the Spurtle is better known as a stick for stirring porridge. Over time, this implement changed shape and began being used specifically for stirring oatmeal and soups. It is similar to a wooden spoon without the bowl which was removed as it tears cooked oats apart. It is in common use throughout Scotland.
Also Known As: Stirring stick
Alternate Spellings: spirtle


text: Sewage sludge and crude glycerine were co-digested in the mesophilic digester of Hoogstraten wastewater treatment plant. Additions of up to 1 kg of crude glycerine/(m³ reactor).(day) were done without significant operational problems. At higher dosage, severe digester foaming was observed. Methane production during co-digestion was up to 20% higher than what would be expected based on the digester input. Compared to the period before glycerine dosage, every tonne of added crude glycerine resulted in a surplus methane production of 489 Nm³. The theoretical methane production from the used crude glycerine was 341 Nm³ per tonne. The difference is explained by a higher sewage sludge degradability during co-digestion with glycerine. Glycerine dosage can remedy the lowered specific biogas yield of sewage sludge in Flanders and consequently enhance green electricity production.


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A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone.
Apr 24, 2017· How It Is Extracted. Granite usually occurs in large deposits, many times referred to as slabs, throughout the world. Mining operations use different methods of cutting to extract the different deposits from the ground in places called quarries. These slabs are then polished, put on trucks and sent to fabricators.
How is Stone Quarried. The blocks can then be drilled from the bench wall. Blocks of a given type of stone usually have a fairly uniform size, due to the size of the processing equipment used. Granite blocks usually weigh between 38-42,000 pounds, while lighter marble and travertine blocks weigh between 15-25,000 pounds.
Figure 1. Process flow diagram for granite quarrying operations. As shown in Figure 1, the first step in quarrying is to gain access to the granite deposit. This is achieved by removing the layer of earth, vegetation, and rock unsuitable for product—collectively referred to as
Quarrying Process. The mantle can be raised or lowered within the concave, allowing the gap, and therefore the size of the crushed product, to be varied to a limited degree. If the crusher is jammed by a stray bit of steel, e.g., a digger bucket tooth, the mantle automatically moves down to …
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Pronunciation: klōr-ō′sis
Definition: Rarely used term for a form of chronic hypochromic microcytic (iron deficiency) anemia, characterized by a great reduction in hemoglobin out of proportion to the decreased number of red blood cells; observed chiefly in females from puberty to the third decade and usually associated with diets deficient in iron and protein.
Synonym(s): asiderotic anemia, chloremia1, chloroanemia, chlorotic anemia, green sickness
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Geographia Polonica (2015) vol. 88, iss. 1, pp. 173-178 | Full text
The study presents a brief review of Polish regions' participation in the global economy in 2011 based on exportlinkages at the local level (LAU 1). It identifies both the key actors in the globalisation processes withinthe country and the types of territories that share common trends in geographic and product export structures.The paper deals with a delimitation of areas of export concentration. A total of 23 areas have been identifiedaccounting for nearly 60% of Polish exports. Both the economic strength of the regions as reflected in theirrespective figures and the long-established position of industry in the national economy resulted in a widerange of areas discussed here.


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This study examines how probation officers' (POs) knowledge of juveniles' trauma influences probation practices. The study was conducted with POs who responded to a Web-based survey (n = 308). The POs were directed to randomly select one juvenile from their caseload and to complete the Probation Practices Assessment Survey to assess their knowledge of the youth's lifetime trauma and past-year stressful life experience and their practice approaches. Nineteen percent of youths were reported as having had lifetime exposure to at least one type of trauma (for example, physical assault, sexual assault, witness violent death). The most common traumatic experience was sexual assault, with 11% of POs reporting this experience among the study youths. Structural equation modeling results indicated that POs' knowledge of cumulative exposure to trauma is associated with treatment-oriented probation and counseling approaches. Results of this study signal the importance of careful assessments of exposure to trauma and stressful life events among youths on probation. The use of specialized trauma-informed assessment strategies also are recommended to increase the sensitivity of juvenile justice programs to trauma.
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The Ellenville Downtown Historic District in the Village of Ellenville in the town of Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York contains visible geographical and architectural elements that represent its origins as a commercial and industrial crossroads during Ulster County's early 19th century development. Associated with events that reflect a broad pattern of state and national history such as the early westward expansion and settlement, the economic development that followed major transportation improvements (the Delaware and Hudson Canal), the growth and diversification of commercial centers and the role of the summer resort economy in areas outside major American urban centers, the Ellenville Downtown Historic District developed around a nucleus that was already present in 1858. The district also encompasses the physical evidence of growth and development-from early Jewish settlement in the region to the heyday of the "Borscht Belt" resort area following the Second World War. Ellenville, located in the valley between the Shawangunk and Catskill Mountains, did not develop until after the Revolutionary War, as clashes between Native American Indians and early European settlers' limited development in the region. It was the construction of the D&H Canal, began in 1823, that spurred further transportation improvements and fostered significant settlement within the village---it is to this period that the earliest of the district's buildings date.
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Chemistry professor uses Hogwarts-styled 'House Cup' challenge to improve learning
Organic chemistry students choose House Cup teams.
Organic chemistry students choose House Cup teams.
Professor Angela King had an OMG moment last year at a teaching retreat, which led her to change how her organic chemistry classes operate.
King realized, "What a student expects to learn and how they expect to do in a class actually impacts their learning."
For example, a student might take a divisional class and assume they will get an A because it's viewed as their "easy" class. "They are already calculating their GPA based on that A and will do whatever it takes to get that A," she said, "while a student who takes a class perceived as more difficult, like my organic chemistry course, just wants to pass the class."
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The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up significant dust in western Texas and eastern Mexico. The winds associated with this cold front also fanned the flames of grass fires in the region, adding smoke to the mixture of aerosols. The most obvious dust cloud is a pale beige dust plume swirling through Texas and Mexico. However, a second, more orange-colored cloud of dust blows across northern Texas. Parts of northern Texas saw wind speeds around 60 miles per hour. Resulting dust storms reduced visibility to just 2.5 miles in some areas, and swamped local fire departments with calls regarding both fires and downed power lines.
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Image dimensions are incorrectly floored instead of rounded to a proper number. Some attempt at "fixup" is done later in some processes to move them by a pixel, but still the way it's initially calculated is wrong.
A typical photo has a 3:2 (3/2 = 1.5) ratio.
If it's resized to 600px width, WP will make the height 399px - this is wrong.
It happens because of function wp_constrain_dimensions in media.php (~line 304) which floors the float using intval, which is wrong.
$w = intval( $current_width * $ratio ); $h = intval( $current_height * $ratio );
$w = round( $current_width * $ratio ); $h = round( $current_height * $ratio );
Earlier in the function, both $ratio and $current_width are already handled as numbers, so they have to be valid numbers, no need to use intval for that reason, it's just being used to floor, which is bad in this case.
Using round is not a performance issue because this function is not used in realtime output for templates but typically in admin area.
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I finally found a straightforward definition of an "acre." Dealing with real property as often as lawyers do, you would think I would have thought to have looked this up before -- or at least got it clear in my mind.
An acre was originally a parcel of a communal field -- a unit of measure of the area of a medieval lord's land that was "given" to a serf for their own use. The unit was an area equal to one furlong in length by one chain in width. That's not very helpful to the modern thinker until you learn that there are eight furlongs in a mile and that there are ten chains in a furlong. The original measurement was in rods, and there are four rods in a chain. ("Rod" is a funny word.)
So the classic acre is 660 feet long and 66 feet wide. That means it is 43,560 square feet of land. A square parcel of land with each side being 208 feet, eight and a half inches long would be almost exactly an acre. There are 640 acres in a square mile. An American "township" is a group of thirty-six square miles, six miles square. If you needed "forty acres and a mule" to survive on the frontier, that meant you needed a square plot of land one-quarter of a mile long on each side.
And a mule.
Acre is also the name of the westernmost of Brazil, bordering Peru. It consists mainly of virgin tropical rain forests and has two major rivers which carry pure, clean water that eventually flow into the Amazon. It is one of the smallest and least populated states of Brazil.
There was a coastal city and fiefdom named Acre which was of great military importance during the Crusades. The most important battle of the Third Crusade was the Battle of Acre. Today, Acre is located in northern Israel, on the bay of Haifa.
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A great book covering landscape photography processes, thinking and creativity
Working the Light
A Landscape Photography Masterclass
By Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite, David Ward and Eddie Ephraums
ISBN: 1 902538 46 3
Another unusual book from Argentum, this one focuses in a broad way on landscape photography. The four authors take a section of the book each:
* Foreword – Eddie Ephraums
* Wilderness landscapes – Joe Cornish
* Inhabited landscapes – Charlie Waite
* Inner landscapes – David Ward
In each of these, apart from the foreword, the author begins by describing their own working method, motivations and current projects. Following each author's statement section comes a Gallery Workshop where generally great quality submitted images are displayed along with great pieces of advice, displayed as tips by each image. A critique section then follows each Gallery Workshop. Here each of the submitted images that have been used is analyzed and critiqued by the authors.
This format works very well. It does have the feeling of attending a workshop, something the authors intended. It is appropriate that not all the images pass muster completely in the Critique section, as you can learn a great deal from people's mistakes and the authors thankfully do not pass up this opportunity. However, all of the images are quite striking, even if some work better than others.
You will learn much about landscape photography in particular, and photography in general, from this book. The sections on the authors' own work is insightful. The tips along with the submitted images teach much and then this is vastly expanded by the image critiques. These can teach you much if you carefully consider each image yourself before reading the authors' comments.
This is a great book. If you have any interest in landscape photography, buy this book.


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ABU DHABI ARROWHEAD FIND NEAR OILFIELD
The study of the archaeology of the UAE began only in the late 1950s. Until then, it was wrongly believed that the UAE's arid deserts and mountains had played only a peripheral role in human development in the region. Extensive research by both local and foreign archaeological teams, including much undertaken in the deserts and coastal areas of Abu Dhabi in close association with Envionment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD), has shown, however, that the UAE has played an important part in the emergence and development of maritime trade throughout the Gulf and the Indian Ocean for around 7,500 years.
Thus this new discovery of a flint arrowhead, about 3 cm long, dating back to the Late Stone Age or Neolithic period just south of the Sahil oilfield, 120 kms south-west of Abu Dhabi city during work undertaken for the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) underscores the possibility that there are many more finds to be made in the region.
The item has been identified by a leading expert on the UAE's Late Stone Age, who has noted that arrowheads of this type were widely manufactured locally between the 6th to 4th Millennium BC. The raw material used in the manufacturing of this arrowhead may originally have come from the western slopes of the mountains, in the border area between the UAE and Oman.
While similar artifacts have been reported from elsewhere in the desert areas of Abu Dhabi, for example near the Bab oilfield and south of the Liwa Oasis, this is the first artifact of its type known to have been collected in the immediate vicinity of the Sahil and Asab oilfields, both operated by the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO).


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a tailless monkey that can walk almost erect
These animals are mentioned twice in the Bible (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21). Apes were brought from India by the fleets of Solomon and Hiram. The Hebrews called them "koph_," and the Greeks "_kepos," both words being just the Indian Tamil name of the monkey, kapi, i.e., swift, nimble, active. No species of ape has ever been found in Israel or the adjacent regions.


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I'll use an example from JavaScript to help clarify my question. Let's assume I have the following object:
sports = {
 soccer: {...},
 basketball: {...},
 baseball: {...}
If at some point in my script I have a variable, sportString, that simply holds a string, I can dynamically call one of the sports objects in the following way:
This frees me from having to use a bunch of nested if statements, testing the value of the string such as:
if(sportString ==='soccer'){
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So, my question is how can I accomplish something similar to sports[sportString] in Objective-C, if sportString is an NSString object?
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Use an NSDictionary as your sports object. Then you can do lookups like this:
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Thanks. Giving this one the answer since it's the first. – maxedison Jul 9 '11 at 11:47
The people saying you should use NSDictionary for general key/value storage are 100 % right. However, I think it's useful to know that you can call a message specified by a string:
SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"foo"); // Or _USER_(foo) if you know it at compile time
id value = [object performSelector:selector];
You can also use selectors with up to two arguments, as long as they take objects:
SEL selector2 = NSSelectorFromString(@"setFoo:");
[object performSelector:selector2 withObject:value];
It's possible to invoke arbitrary methods using IMPs or casting objc_msgSend(), but now I'm getting way beyond the scope of your actual question. :-)
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Thanks for posting this. Definitely useful to know about NSSelectorFromString and performSelector. I really appreciate it! – maxedison Jul 9 '11 at 16:23
Your JavaScript object sports would typically be an NSDictionary or NSMutableDictionary. Example:
NSMutableDictionary *sports = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[sports setObject:@"Foo" forKey:@"soccer"];
[sports setObject:@"Bar" forKey:@"basketball"];
NSString *sportString = @"soccer";
NSString *sportValue = [sports objectForKey:sportString];
NSLog(@"%@", sportValue); //logs "Foo"
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Flow-straighteners are used before flow-meters because they remove disturbances from the flow and achieve nearly-fully developped velocity profiles. But is there any other uses of flow straighteners than flow-metering? Car companies like Mitsubishi, for instance, developped their own models of flow straighteners, what for?
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Jet pipe is employed in turbo-jet engine. It is situated before afterburner and after the turbine. It (among all the other functions) also acts as the flow straightener.
Wind tunnels have the flow straightener before the nozzle. It is very important for a wind tunnel to have a flow straightener, so that the test section has as less turbulence as possible.
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Flow straighteners are also used in experimental setups, where a uniform flow free of swirl is required. Swirl can be induced notably by a motor. This could be important in wind tunnel design, or study of liquid flows in ducts.
In order to properly remove swirl, honeycomb designs having cell lengths at least 6-8 times their diameter should be used, see reference.
The aerodynamic design of blower tunnels with wide-angle diffusers. R.D. Mehta. Progr. Aerospace Sci. 18, pp. 59-120 (1979).
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I don't know if this counts as a "use", but check out this fountain at the Detroit airport.
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Open a socket and begin listening and responding to HTTP requests on TCP port 8080, or on any other TCP port defined by the -P or --port option. The optional argument is the name of the repository. The repository argument may be omitted if the working directory is within an open checkout.
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I have seen organic companies that say 14% protein content, others 12%, but how do you figure that? I currently found an organic wheat with no pesticide use or genetically altered, but it says 6 grams of protein for 1/4 cup.
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Different types of wheat have different protein levels, usually. Hard red spring wheat is usually said to have the highest protein. There are several types of wheat, red, white, hard, soft, spring, winter; all with varying protein levels.
So you have to know the wheat. Take flourgirl, for instance. She grows her own wheat, so she knows her hard red spring wheat(for example) should have a certain protein level. Even so, the accurate, precise levels have to be determined by taking samples of each crop, and having it scientifically tested.
Hope this is what you are asking. If you are speaking of reading a product nutrition label to determine a precise protein %, you usually can't.
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You know one of the two things to calculate Protein % - there are 6 grams of protein in 1/4 cup of this organic flour. If you knew the exact weight of a 1/4 cup of this flour in grams then you could calculate the Protein % for this particular flour. It would be
Protein % = (6g * 100) / (number of grams in 1/4 cup flour)
for example, if a cup of this flour weighed 120 grams then 1/4 cup = 30 g and the formula would yield
Protein % = (6g * 100) / 30g
 = 600g / 30g
 = 20 %
This is the math for this one EXAMPLE.
We know the flour most likely does not have a Protein % = 20 %, so what do you really need to know:
- again what does 1/4 cup of this flour weigh in grams, and
- what is the EXACT - or at least a much more precise - number of grams of protein in 1/4 cup of this flour (e.g. protein in grams to 4 decimal places).
hope this helps.
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What you really care about is the gluten content. It's quite often true that nearly all the protein in wheat is the two components of gluten ...but not exactly and not always. My personal suggestion is to always ask about "gluten", but be willing to accept "protein" numbers instead if that's all you can get.
The federally mandated "nutrition label" usually will not work, because it's "serving size" is too small so the gluten differences you care about get lost in the roundoff errors. The law apparently wasn't really intended for flour, and isn't very useful to home bakers; it's nice that you can always find that "nutrition label", but in fact it isn't worth very much to you.
Hopefully the miller knows the gluten content (to the nearest tenth of a percent) and will tell you when asked. Otherwise your options are to i) ask other customers (less likely with a local miller) or ii) have a lab analyse it (expensive) or iii) ask the miller for the results of their lab analysis (but they'll probably just tell you to shove it if you're not a large quantity customer like a bakery) or iv) figure out some way to measure the gluten yourself at home (messy, troublesome, and not very accurate).
An alternative is to just buy it anyway, and take it home and see how long it takes for a dough to feel like a rubber ball - you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
Beware that you want a particular value, not just "more is better". It's fairly easy to get too much gluten, which makes great bagels and pizza dough but will probably result in bread that's too "chewy".
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it says 6 grams of protein for 1/4 cup
This sounds to me like the equivalent of a "nutrition label", so inexact as to be pretty much useless. A "cup" can be anywhere from 105 to 150 grams. And the amount of "protein" can be anywhere from 5.5 to 6.5, all of which will be legitimately rounded off to 6.
Depending on which values I choose, protein content could be anywhere from 14% to 21%. That's a huge difference when only about 1% separates the typically available King Arthur "All Purpose" and "Bread" flour lines.
In any case (unless a very significant portion of this "protein" is not gluten), this flour seems to me to have much too high a gluten content to make decent bread by itself. It would need to be mixed with some other flour with a much lower gluten content. What does the miller advise? What do other customers do?
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curvesarein has organic wheat kernal,- hard red wheat with 1/4 cup (46 grams) with 6 grams peotein, Hubby says you take the 6 grams and divide by 46 which gives you 13%. Does this make sense?
INGREDIENTS: Organic Hard Red Wheat Berries.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/4 cup (46 g)
Servings per Container: About 493 (50 lb. size)
Servings per Container: About 246 (25 lb. size)
Servings per Container: About 49 (5 lb. size)
Nutrient Amount %DV
Calories 150
Calories from Fat 5
Total Fat 0.5 g 1%
Trans Fat -- g
Sodium 0 mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 33 g 11%
Dietary Fiber 6 g 24%
Protein 6 g
Iron 10%
Chuck's picture
take the 6 grams and divide by 6 which gives you 13%. Does this make sense?
Sorta. It's misstated. And I still disagree.
It should be 46 divided by 6 (not 6 divided by 6).
And I still think the serving size is small enough to allow the "rounding error" to make this number not all that useful. Since the reported "6 grams" could really have been anything from "5.5 grams" to "6.5 grams" before rounding, even with your more exact definition of what "1/4 cup" is (i.e. 46 grams), my calculations give a protein content range of 11.9% - 14.1% ...and that's a fairly big difference.
 I'm talking wheat kernal, not flour,
 I may be courting a "stoopid award" here, but: I personally suspect it may not make much difference. If the kernels have that much protein, and you have to grind them into flour to make bread, then the flour is likely to have about that much protein too.
 (Of course if you have some way to closely control the grind and produce either "white flour" or "whole wheat flour", the resulting gluten content may be significantly different from the kernels you started with.)
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 Weigh 1/4 cup of the wheat.
 Divide 6g by the weight in grams of 1/4 cup of wheat and multiply by 100.
 The result will be the percentage of protein in the wheat.
 Chuck's picture
 Here the math is correct, but failing to allow for "rounding error" puts it in the context of misleading at best.
 (In my experience, Yahoo Answers is quite often off the reservation:-)
 curvesarein's picture
 I guess I will play ignorant like I did in the 80's when I bought wheat from the mormons. I asked no questions and just bought and baked. So the real criteria is if when I grind it and make bread what the bread come out like! :) I always hated math and failed algebra. That was a typo, I corrected a few minutes later on the 46 grams.
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 When farmers sell their grain to the mill they have the option for it to be tested for protein levels. The higher the protein level, the more that they get for their grain if they choose to get it tested. After the wheat is sold to the mills, many times the low protein and high protein wheats are blended together to make a medium level flour as it is not easy to get a high protein crop and low protein wheat is more prevalent.
 We grow our own certified organic wheat and have the protein tested in each load of wheat that we grow. There are many variables in obtaining high protein wheat such as the variety of wheat grown, growing conditions and the amount of nitrogen in the soil as that is key to getting a good crop of high protein wheat.
 We are also a certified seed dealer and our wheat is tested by State labs for various things including protein levels and we have been fortunate to have good protein levels so far.
 There are other variables as to how your bread will turn out. Every baker treats the handling of the dough differently. People that don't measure the temp. of their liquids when using yeast can easily kill the yeast if the liquids are too warm. If the salt comes in direct contact with the yeast that can also


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Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles.
Consequently the handler's controls are limited to voice, movement, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler.
In its simplest form, an agility course consists of a set of standard obstacles laid out by a judge in a design of his or her own choosing in an area of a specified size. The surface may be of grass, dirt, or rubber. Depending on the type of competition, the obstacles may be marked with numbers indicating the order in which they must be completed.
Courses are complicated enough that a dog could not complete them correctly without human direction. In competition, the handler must assess the course, decide on handling strategies, and direct the dog through the course, with precision and speed equally important. Many strategies exist to compensate for the inherent difference in human and dog speeds and the strengths and weaknesses of the various dogs and handlers.


What is Tactel Fabric
Produced by Invista, the maker of Lycra, TACTEL is a nylon 66 microfiber that dries eight times faster than cotton. It's also at least twice as soft and 20% lighter than most fabrics. The suppleness and softness of TACTEL help minimize chafing. Two other important aspects of TACTEL are its breathability and noticeable strength.
As with other nylon fibers, TACTEL is hygroscopic. It absorbs moisture out of the air or out of its surrounding (such as our skin). The higher the humidity, the faster nylon will absorb moisture, until it becomes saturated. When exposed to dryer air, the moisture will evaporate and the fiber will dry out.
All these traits make TACTEL an ideal microfiber to use in activewear. The raised outer surface of the item creates a unique sensation. The leggings (in all lengths) also have an inner lining whose color matches the outer shell, so you can move with more freedom.


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Create a button object
- Display the Animation panel, and make sure the key editor (timeline) is displayed.
- On the Object menu, click Create Button.
The workspace enters editing mode. In editing mode, all other objects on the workspace are hidden.The Animation key editor displays a timeline for each button state. The button states are identified by an icon ordered as follows, from left to right:
By default, Initial State is displayed on the canvas.
- Use the drawing and text tools to create the button image in its initial state, and animate the Initial State button state as desired.
- In the Animation key editor, select the On Focus In state timeline.
- Modify and, if desired, animate the button image to define how the button appears when it has focus.
- Repeat Steps 4 and 5, for the On Focus Out and On Activate button states.
- On the Object menu, click End Editing.
- On the Inspector, add actions for each state, as necessary.


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Results Follow Up, UNAD 2017
The project "Digitalizing Uganda Sign Language" aims to make Uganda sign language accessible via digital platforms.
There is no digital resource available to learn Uganda sign language today.
Spider supports the implementation and research for the project "Digitalizing Uganda Sign Language". The project is based in Uganda and aims to make Uganda sign language accessible via digital platforms across the country. The Spider results follow up performed a baseline study at the beginning of the project to examine the level of ICT use and accessibility for sign language in Uganda's various regions. This will help UNAD understand stakeholders' experiences, expectations and the challenges in utilising Uganda's digital sign-language content.
The baseline study on use of ICTs for learning sign language in Uganda shows that mobile apps, social media networks and CDs are very helpful in learning sign language.
The baseline study on use of ICTs for learning sign language in Uganda shows that mobile apps, social media networks and CDs are very helpful in learning sign language. Findings show that there are low levels of ICT use and accessibility among sign language learners in the different regions of Uganda. Yet the attitude towards using ICTs to learn sign language is positive, among the deaf, their friends, sign language instructors, parents and community service providers (such as nurses, the police, teachers, business persons, etc.).
Social media groups, videos on WhatApps and Facebook, mobile apps and compact discs (CDs) were among some of the commonly used ICTs for learning sign language.
The baseline study found that challenges related to use of these ICTs include unaffordable costs for Internet especially when learners have to share and download videos and also acquiring the artefacts (smartphones, CDs, etc.).
The Channel 4 Documentary "Patrick Speaks" shows how 15 year Patrick Otema learns sign language and how this knowledge breaks the silence he has lived in so far.
Literacy among deaf persons was found to be low. A majority of them have only primary school education. Most schools offer no special education beyond primary level. Literacy challenges also make it difficult to use ICTs as well as other learning materials such as dictionaries and tutorials.
The baseline study highlights some of the interventions to address challenges faced by deaf people and sign language learners in Uganda. The Ugandan population has to be sensitised on how to communicate with the deaf rather than stereotyping them as social misfits. To achieve this, the study recommends creating awareness programmes and integrating sign language learning into national education programmes.
Literacy challenges also make it difficult to use ICTs as well as learning materials such as dictionaries and tutorials.
There is a need to borrow a leaf from universal sign language programmes but also to contextualise particular interventions, especially the curriculum and content developed. Some of the signs are not universal and for this reason the signs confuse learners. Therefore, learning materials should address content localisation issues.
When it comes to learning sign language using ICTs, the study found that there is a need to streamline strategies for digital sign language implementation. For example availing digital resources (content, devices, etc.) to the deaf and their helpers and empowering people and institutions which were found to be influential in supporting the deaf: that is, friends, religious institutions, family members and deaf instructors. These would scale the cause.


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- Give a brief history of the bugle.
- Do the following:
- a. Explain and demonstrate how the bugle makes sound, and explain how the bugle is related to other brass wind instruments.
- b. Compose a bugle call for your troop or patrol to signal a common group activity, such as assembling for mealtime or striking a campsite.
- Sound the following bugle calls: "First Call," "Reveille," "Assembly," "Mess," "Drill," "Fatigue," "Officers," "Recall," "Church," "Swimming," "Fire," "Retreat," "To the Colors," "Call to Quarters," and "Taps."
- Explain when each of the calls in requirement 3 is used.
- Explain how to care for, clean, and maintain a bugle.
- Serve as bugler in your troop for three months. *
- * NOTE: A bugle, trumpet, or cornet may be used to meet these requirements.
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text: Graph-to-text generation aims to generate fluent texts from graph-based data. In this paper, we investigate two recently proposed pretrained language models (PLMs) and analyze the impact of different task-adaptive pretraining strategies for PLMs in graph-to-text generation. We present a study across three graph domains: meaning representations, Wikipedia knowledge graphs (KGs) and scientific KGs. We show that the PLMs BART and T5 achieve new state-of-the-art results and that task-adaptive pretraining strategies improve their performance even further. In particular, we report new state-of-the-art BLEU scores of 49.72 on LDC2017T10, 59.70 on WebNLG, and 25.66 on AGENDA datasets - a relative improvement of 31.8%, 4.5%, and 42.4%, respectively. In an extensive analysis, we identify possible reasons for the PLMs' success on graph-to-text tasks. We find evidence that their knowledge about true facts helps them perform well even when the input graph representation is reduced to a simple bag of node and edge labels.


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Use the Basement Construction asset to manage your facility's basement excavation and basement walls. Inventory, inspect, maintain, and track costs associated with your basement construction assets.
- Guided Inspections: Populate the ordered fields, attach notes and photos, and schedule necessary follow-up tasks on the spot.
- Detailed Records: Instantly see the asset's entire event and inspection history. Use that data when planning budgets and forecasting service life.
- Planned Maintenance: Create maintenance schedules, identify recurring maintenance tasks, gauge asset performance, and proactively plan for repairs.
- Repeating Work Orders: Group the assorted, routine tasks — such as maintenance, inspection, and testing — within a single work order. Then schedule that work order to repeat at your preferred interval.
- Facility Condition Assessments (FCA): Evaluate the condition and functionality of a facility's basement. In Cartegraph, you can create, edit, and close assessments in the asset detail view—and create work directly from assessments.
Intelligently ordered fields lead users through inspections, making sure every piece of essential information gets captured. Use your data to calculate current conditions, anticipate future conditions, and predict remaining service life.
Asset Shape: Polygon
Report: Asset Summary
Component of Facility Floor, WWTP Floor, and WTP Floor
- Location Description
- Capacity or Size
- Uniformat Code
Distribute Cost Using default value: Each
Building Context default value: Floor Aware
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Immigration Newsweek
Immigration Newsweek
By Atty. Henry Moyal, Immigration Lawyer
Q. What is the rule or procedure when it comes to DNA results to prove parentage in relation to Canada Immigration application?
A. This issue came up recently and its conclusion will no doubt surprise people. We have all read stories or watched movies or TV programs where forensic scientists prove that a person or suspect is or is not the perpetrator. How high must the results be in those situations? When it comes to immigration applications, the goal for an applicant is to add their child to the application. In most cases it is in the context of a sponsorship application.
As such, the visa office abroad will often suspect that the parent is not the father/mother and demand a DNA test be conducted. The reasons for such suspicions can vary and include: high age of alleged mother, lack of birth certificate or suspicion that the relationship is non-genuine.
The standard procedure is that the sponsor must contact an approved DNA office recommended by Canada Immigration in accordance with the Standards Council of Canada which will take DNA samples from the sponsor/parents and child.
It is not recommended that such a test be conducted until Canada Immigration provided direct instructions to do so.
The results are then provided by the DNA center of the probability of parentage.
Surprisingly, Canada Immigration demand that there be a 99.8% probability of parentage. Anything lower will result in a refusal.
In a recent case however, a sponsor was required to provide DNA results for their alleged 12 year son. Before DNA tests were conducted the following items were submitted: birth certificate, school documents, photos showing each looking the same, financial documents and school records for 12 years indicating the father's name as the parent.
Two DNA tests were conducted and each yielded results of only 96% on each occasion.
As such, the missing 3% was somehow conclusive evidence the sponsor was not necessarily the father.
According to the Canadian Embassy's letter and policy issued August 27, 2017 "Parentage test results must have an accuracy of 99.8% or higher. Test results below these levels are not acceptable as proof of relationship."
Further, discussions with DNA analysts submit that a few percentage points below 99% can mean that the child is a relative of the sponsor ( ie. Brother) but does not necessarily mean that the sponsor is the father.
The DNA markers must be so high in order to reach an almost perfect probability. Anything less only proves that there is a strong likelihood that the applicants are patrilineally related as opposed to being two patrilineally unrelated individuals.
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Are Skydiving and Parajumping the Same Thing
Are Skydiving and Parajumping the Same Thing?
Are skydiving and parajumping the same thing? That's a pretty common question and since the terms are often used interchangeably it just adds to the confusion. Both parajumping and skydiving use the exact same but there are some differences between the two. Skydiving is really for more experienced jumpers but that doesn't answer the question as to the difference between the two. Let's explore parajumping and skydiving and you can decide which you would rather try.
Parajumping is something that almost anybody in reasonably good health can do. You and a friend can both try parajumping for the first time together and schools will even offer up discounts for first timers or for charity events. There will still be some instruction that you will have to go through first where you are taught about your equipment and safety. On the day of the jump you will still do a run through to make sure that all of your equipment is in working order.
For the first jump you will probably do Static Line Parajumping, that means that your parachute will be pulled automatically when you jump out of the plane. The parachute is attached to the inside of the plane so that when you exit it is pulled. The military also uses this type of parajumping, when you see soldiers in a row all leaving a plane they are static line jumping. Here is a look at static line jumping.
Now let's look at skydiving. While the terms have been used interchangeably skydiving is slightly different. You do use the exact same gear but when you exit the plane the parachute is manually pulled by you. During the time you exit the plane until you pull the rip cord you are in free fall. You are quite literally falling through the air and you can reach speeds of more than 100mph as you descend. For many jumpers this is the thrill they are chasing and what they love most about the sport. Free falling is what separates parajumping from skydiving and it requires more training and experience than just parajumping alone.
If you have never jumped before and still want the thrill of a free fall then you can try skydiving while in tandem with an instructor or experienced jumper. You will still have the thrills you want without having to worry about remembering to pull the cord. No matter your preference the experience is still thrilling.
Essential Parajumping Gear
Essential Parajumping Gear
Parajumping or skydiving isn't just getting on a plane, jumping off and letting gravity do the rest of the work, it is about surviving and enjoying the jump. In order to do that you need the right training and equipment. Thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies have been jumping from planes for decades but for the most part they all take whatever precautions they can to make sure it is done safely. Here are some of the essential parajumping gear that you are going to need.
 1. The Parachute
Hands down, the parachute is most essential piece of equipment that you are going to need. The parachute is what slows you down and allows you to reach the ground at a reasonable speed that you can survive. Most jumpers also have a backup parachute in case something happens. Unless you are really passionate about jumping and do it several times per month you will probably rent one from the drop zone. It is cheaper and easier than maintaining your own.
 1. Jumpsuits
Jumping and traveling at those speeds exposes you to the elements, particularly strong winds and cold, you can't jump wearing just anything. A good jumpsuit is wind resistant, will help keep you warm and protect your body. Landing can also be rough and the jumpsuit will help protect you from getting scratched or cut when you land.
 1. Altimeter
If you want to free fall you will still need to pull your parachute once you reach a certain altitude in order to make sure you can safely land. If you wait too long the parachute won't slow you down enough and if you open too early you can rip your chute. The altimeter tells you the perfect time to pull the cord and open your parachute. If you ever plan on jumping at night then the altimeter is crucial to your survival.
 1. Pads and Helmets
It should go without saying that you need a helmet and other padding to save you from injury on landing. Helmets, elbow and knee pads are all essential but you might consider adding some type of spinal protection to your gear. If you land on your back then you definitely want protection.
Parajumping is an adrenaline rush that very few things compare to, it is defying the elements and the laws of physics and there is no feeling quite like it. But even defying the elements requires the right safety gear so you can live to jump another day.


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Part of speech: noun
Origin: French, mid-17th century
A small or minor literary or musical work.
Examples of Opuscule in a sentence
"While this book could be considered an opuscule, it means a lot to me personally."
"The opuscule doesn't even sound like it was written by the famous poet."
This noun originally comes from the Latin word "opusculum," a dimunutive of the word that means "work." If you are working on a project, no matter how big or small it is, you can refer to it as your "opus."
Did you Know?
A magnum opus is the complete opposite of an opuscule work. The former term refers to the most important work of an artist's career, often one that they are most recognized for.


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SIMUL8 Tip – Copy All Results to Excel
There may be times where you want to take all of your results from your simulation and analyze them using a different program such as Excel. In SIMUL8 it is really easy to copy all your results to Excel, to give you added flexibility for results analysis, or perhaps if you want to share your results with non-SIMUL8 users.
Here's how to do it:
1. After running the simulation open the Results Manager in the 'Home' menu.
2. Click on the tab for 'All Object Results'.
This tab shows all of the results that have been collected for each object in the simulation
3. Click on the tab for 'KPIs'.
4. Click on the button with the plus symbol – this is an alternative way of adding results to the KPIs list and will allow you to select all of the results of selected objects.
5. Highlight all of the objects listed by using the 'Shift' key.
6. Click on the 'Add all results' button to add all of the results of the selected objects to the listed KPIs.
7. Click on this button once to copy all of the results to the clipboard
8. Paste into Excel.
It's really that simple, and this provides you with the added flexibility of being able to view, analyze and work with your results outwith SIMUL8.


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Add or modify a hotspot
A picture can contain one or more clickable hyperlinked areas that are called hotspots, which function like any other hyperlink. You can also set a default hyperlink for all other areas on the picture where you haven't defined a hotspot.
The Pictures toolbar provides tools that enable you to draw rectangular, circular and polygonal-shaped hotspots on an image. After you draw the hotspot, the Insert Hyperlink dialog box appears for you to specify the link for the hotspot. You can highlight hot spots on a picture in Microsoft Expression Web, such as when it's hard for you to see the hot spot outlines on the picture.
To set a hyperlink for all other areas on the image outside of the hotspots, select the image and add a hyperlink to it. For more information, see Create or modify a hyperlink.
In Design view, in your web page, click the picture to which you want to add a hotspot.
On the Pictures toolbar, click Rectangular Hotspot, Circular Hotspot, or Polygonal Hotspot.
On the picture, do one or more of the following.
To draw either a rectangle or circle, drag where you want a hotspot.
To draw a polygon, click to create each vertex of the polygon shape. To complete the shape, either click on the first vertex you created, or double-click.
In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, locate the file you want to link to, and then click OK. For more information, see Create or modify a hyperlink.
In Design view, in your web page, click the picture that contains the hotspot you want to modify.
On the Pictures toolbar, click Select, and then do one or more of the following.
To move a hotspot, click within the hotspot and drag it to where you want.
To resize a hotspot, drag a vertex on the hotspot.
To modify the hyperlink of a hotspot, double-click the hotspot. In the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, set the Address box to the hyperlink you want and click OK.
To delete a hotspot, click the hotspot and press DELETE.


I bet everyone has that dream of dusting off that musical instrument, they bought years ago only to have it sit in storage, and finally get some lessons, especially as COVID has us vegetating at home anyways. Israeli company Tonara, the makers of the popular music practice app Tonara Studio, announced the launch of Tonara Connect, a music education marketplace that connects music teachers and students worldwide on a digital platform.
Technology around music education often looks to cut teachers out of the picture, while Tonara puts teachers right at the center. Tonara's app, Tonara Studio, launched in 2018, helps thousands of teachers stay connected and engaged with their students while motivating practice in between lessons.
"The future of music education is being driven by innovation, connectivity, and empowerment. We strive to deliver on all three in the products, content, and global communities that we build." - Cara Katzew, VP Marketing of Tonara.
While Tonara Studio helps teachers manage and motivate their students, the newly released Tonara Connect, allows music teachers to grow their studios by removing geographical limitations and making it easy for students from around the world to find them. This becomes especially prudent as many millions around the globe face quarantine or lock-down restrictions due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, and find themselves with nothing to do.
On Connect, music teachers are able to create rich, professional profiles, showing potential students who they are, and how they can help them achieve their goals. Music students entering the marketplace can then find the teachers that match their music learning needs, and initiate lessons.
The marketplace currently boasts over 800 teachers and is growing every day, connecting people worldwide through music education on a digital platform.
"We have the potential to do something truly big here. Not just in scale, but in impact. We've all witnessed the power of music education, how it unites, and how it heals. This is something that everyone in the world should have access to and Tonara is here to reshape the future of music education and make that possible". - Tonara CEO, Ohad Golan.
The company was founded in 2008 by Yair Lavi and Evgeni Begelfor. To date, Tonara has raised almost $10 million as of last Series C funding round.