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In Team Cherry's Hollow Knight, there are a lot of areas with their own kinds of enemies. One of these areas is The Hive.
Under Kingdom's Edge is a large community of bees called The Hive. The Hive is built from brown and translucent honey-like materials. In addition, the architecture in the area follows a hexagonal shape just like honeycombs.
In The Hive, the Knight will encounter different kinds of enemies: Hivelings, Hive Soldiers, Hive Husks, Hive Guardians, and the Hive Knight who is the optional boss of the area.
In this area, the Knight can also encounter and obtain a lot of items: ten Geo Deposits (with two only reachable by entering the north entrance), two Grubs (with one only reachable by entering the north entrance), a Mask Shard, a Whispering Root with 20 essences, and the Hiveblood Charm which you can only obtain after defeating the Hive Knight.
Reach The Hive
Before being able to reach The Hive, the Knight must first obtain the Tram Pass, which can be found in the wreck of a tram in the Failed Tramway in Deepnest, to access Kingdom's Edge.
After obtaining the Tram Pass, this is what the Knight must do:
- From Deepnest or Ancient Basin, enter the Tram and interact with the glowing button in the rightmost part of the Tram (if you start from Deepnest, interact with the glowing button twice to reach Kingdom's Edge).
- Next, exit the Tram and proceed to the right where you'll encounter spike pits, which you can easily jump and dash over
- Continue to the right until you reach a wall and two Hivelings. Kill the Hivelings then with the Soul gained from killing them, cast the Vengeful Spirit/Shade Soul Spell on the wall to break it and reveal a pathway (going up the wall and exiting above leads to Kingdom's Edge).
Once in The Hive, the Knight can open a path that can help access the further depths of The Hive. Just continue on the path of the area until you reach this part of the map:
Then, there will be a breakable wall that leads back to Kingdom's Edge.
Additionally, there is another entrance to The Hive but this time it is an isolated part of The Hive which contains a Grub and Geo Deposits. This entrance can be found just before entering Kingdom's Edge's central cliff. You will find a few more stray Hivelings and a breakable floor (exactly before the entrance to the central cliff). Then, this pathway is filled with pools of acid


Do Squirrels Have Good Eyesight? Can Squirrels See In The Dark?
We all know about the squirrels. They are the small and cute creatures that chase each other on the treetop. They perform different tasks on daily basis such as they wander in the search of food. Their steady calculated and speedy motion in snatching and stashing nuts must have made you think about their eyesight. You must have thought that how much they can see. Whether they can see colors or not?
Do Squirrels Have Good Eyesight
Are they color blind or not? So in this article, we will discuss how squirrels see.
Do Squirrels Have Good Eyesight?
Squirrels rely on their senses for their daily tasks especially on hearing, smell, and eyesight.
They are blessed with good vision, hearing, and smell sense because they have to respond when they feel danger.
They have to find food even when it is buried underground.
The answer to the question that whether squirrels have eyesight is, Yes they have very good eyesight. They have better eyesight than other rodents. They have good daylight vision. They have sharp peripheral vision it means that they can see things next to them and in peripheries without moving their head. This sharp peripheral vision helps them to stay alert from environmental changes and also to detect danger and predators. Squirrels have poor night vision as compared to day vision.
So here is another question why is the need for having good sight. Let us find the answer.
Why Do Squirrels Have A Good Vision?
Vision plays important role in their survival. Other rodents like mice and rats spend their time running in the dark. Since they have poor vision so they use whiskers as a navigation tool. Squirrels are not nocturnal so they keep running around the day to search for food. They rely on their vision to detect to spot predators. The visual brain area for squirrels is larger and well developed than any other rodent.
A pale yellow pigment is founded on their lenses which protect. and enhance their vision This yellow pigment helps to see in sunlight. The yellow pigment reduces glare and acts like sunglasses. It also blocks UV rays and protects the retina from damage. Morphological examination of squirrels' eyes shows that it has wide angle vision with exceptional focusing power across the retina.
Humans have a single point on the retina which is known as fovea centralis where the cone cells are densely packed hence we humans have sharp vision. The result is that we can focus on the single central point and the peripheries remain blurred. But the squirrel can see in their peripherals without moving their head.
The squirrels also have a blind spot caused by the optic nerve passing through the retina. Squirrel vision totally bases upon the movement. They can catch an observer from a couple of feet if he or she stands still. The two types of photoreceptors, rod and cones are present in squirrels' eyes. The ability to see in dark or low light is enabled by rods. The concentration of rods varies in different types of
squirrels. The ground squirrel has a rod density of10 % and the ground squirrel has a rod density of 40%.and the nocturnal flying squirrel has a density of 100 percent rod density. The ability to see at night varies differently in different squirrels. There is an exception in albino animals. Albino animals lack melanin pigment. Melanin is also important in the development of the retina and also needed for color in the eye. Animals with this trait have poor vision and underdeveloped eyes. However, it comes to know from some sources that squirrel with albino trait has maintained good vision.
Are Squirrels Color Blind?
As compared to other animals squirrels are not color blind, they can see color. Early retinal studies show that squirrels can see color but recent studies have shown that squirrels have dichromatic vision it means they can see yellow and blue color tone and cannot distinguish between red and green hues. It means that they are color blind. The red object will appear yellow-green to a squirrel. Most of the squirrels have cone-dominated media and have the dichromatic vision that is mediated by green and blue cones. Some interesting studies have shown that they are capable of distinguishing red and green biscuits.It was totally different from the information about squirrel eyesight however it was suggested that they can smell or respond to the rightness of the biscuit, not the color.
Can Squirrel See In Darkness:
Squirrels have been always classified for their strong vision from their peripheries to a focal point. They have the ability to see above and beside their head without turning their head. So it is impossible for a predator to creep on them. Their color vision is though not excellent; the yellow tint in their eyes acts as sunglasses in the sunlight. While thinking about whether these creatures see in darkness or come out at night, you must know that they are made for day and love to be in bed at night. They have good day vision and poor night vision squirrels leave their nest in the morning to search for food and scampering trees. At night time they are silent and asleep just like human beings. Night time is for a catch-up sleep and you will find them in their nest or underground.
They are not nocturnal like other critters. This also does not mean that they are always inactive, they may leave the nest at night to search for food or water but mostly they are inactive. Squirrels that tend to be active at night are mostly flying squirrels. Flying squirrels do not make many noises at night and do not talk a lot. You can hardly listen to their noises at night at your home or attic. The answer to the question that can squirrel see in the dark is, yes most of the squirrel species can see in the dark but they are mostly inactive at night and tend to sleep the whole night.
Squirrel vs Human Vision :
You may think who has the better vision, squirrel or humans? There are many similarities in both visual perceptions. Color blindness is the same for squirrels and humans. The people suffering from color blindness confuse the color spot as the
squirrel does. Humans only focus on one object at one time but squirrels have the ability to see in peripheries without nodding their head. The human retina has a very small area where vision is sharp but in squirrels, this area is spread on the whole retina.
To Sum Up :
Despite being color blind, they have excellent eyesight. The vision is also aided by yellow pigment that helps to see in sunlight and peripheral vision. These factors help them to survive in wild. However, they are more active in the daytime and have good day vision, and inactive at night time. Studies show that they can see in the dark but tend to rest in thor drey at night.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q1: Do squirrels have eyesight?
Yes, squirrels have very good day vision. they also have yellow pigment in their eyes which reduces glare in sunlight and act like sunglasses.
Q2: Can squirrels see humans?
Yes, squirrels can see humans. They have a lot of visual similarities with humans. they have sharp focus than a human being and can see in the peripheries as well without raising their head. Whereas a human can focus on an object at one time.
Q3:Are squirrels color blind?
Squirrels do have color vision but they cannot differentiate between red and green. They have a dichromatic vision that means they can only see two colors blue and green. This shows that they are color blind.
Q4:Can squirrels see in the dark?
Squirrels have excellent daytime vision and poor night vision. If they tend to active at night they have exposed to all types of dangers.


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The challenge is to predict the centers (x and y coordinates) of the dark matter halos in the test set of 120 skies.
We have provided DarkWorldsMetric.py that you can use to calculate the metric of your estimates to the training data. All you need are the python packages numpy, math, csv, c, getopt, sys and argparse and to run it type
and it shold output the metric. Here is how it works...
In order to test your algorithm for Accuracy and Precision there will be two parts to the metric. The first part will be how close you get to the true position of the halo, and the second will be to make sure there is no preferred direction to your estimates (positional bias).
Where F will be the average radial distance from the user estimate to the true position of the halo. In the case of more than one halo we will match up your estimates to the true estimates in the configuration that gives the best average radial distance
in that particular sky so you will get the best score possible.
G is calculated by firstly finding the angle of the predicted position with respect to the centre of the true halo position, where the angle is measured from the estimated position to the line connecting the true halo position and a given reference point
as shown in the figure. Then each angle is converted into a vector and then the average vector is calculated. If the algorithm has no preferred direction this average vector should be 0. We calculate the vector using the following equation.

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Have you ever been tempted to assume that families with the same surname were related because they lived near each other? Well, you might want to think again before making assumptions about family relationships based on proximity.
The 1850 Federal Census for Independence County, Arkansas illustrates this pitfall very well. There were no less than 64 individuals with the surname Reeves, Reaves, or Reves, living in 11 households in the predominately rural county in 1850. Four households consisted of descendants of Jordan Reeves Jr (born about 1773 in North Carolina), four of descendants of William Reeves (born 1766 in Grayson County Virginia), and three of descendants of Miles Reeves (born about 1760-70, birth state unknown).
For years, the descendants of Miles Reeves assumed that he was a son of Jordan Reeves Sr (born 1747 in North Carolina), based on very little evidence other than the migration of his sons between 1837 and 1846 to Independence County where Jordan Reeves Jr had moved in 1825. Because of this assumption, investigation of the origins of Miles Reeves languished.
DNA analysis ultimately proved that the sons of Miles Reeves were not related to Jordan Reeves. Likewise, the William Reeves descendants are not related to either Miles Reeves' or Jordan Reeves' lines. Descendants of Jordan Reeves have tested in DNA Group 8 in the Reeves DNA Project while descendants of William Reeves' brothers Jesse and John have tested in Group 6. A Miles Reeves descendant who had his DNA tested did not match anyone in the DNA project.
Documentary evidence supports the DNA findings. No connections among the three families have been found other than the fact that they all lived in the same county for several years.
Similar situations abound in Reeves genealogy. Though today the surname "Reeves" is the 358th most common surname in the US, it seems sometimes that Reeves were everywhere in colonial America.
If you are researching a Reeves line, consider finding male descendants to do the Y-DNA testing. It could help narrow your research to specific families. And you will find cousins you never knew you had.

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Introducing the flashing yellow left-turn arrow traffic signalsThe flashing yellow left-turn arrow signal is a new traffic management tool aimed at keeping traffic moving, increasing safety and reducing fuel consumption.
You may have already noticed some of the new signals at intersections of Iowa's roads and streets. The new signal features a flashing yellow left-turn arrow, in addition to a red, green and steady yellow arrow.
The flashing yellow arrow replaces the circular green signal used in the traditional left-turn signal configuration to indicate the need for left-turning vehicles to yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
Where are they being used?The Federal Highway Administration has adopted the flashing yellow arrow as a national standard for permissive left-turn operations. Several such signals have already been installed in Iowa. Others will be installed by the Iowa Department of Transportation and local jurisdictions throughout Iowa as agencies upgrade their traffic signals or make improvements at intersections.
The flashing yellow arrow may be used at any intersection at any time, but the most typical use will be at intersections and time-of-day that have lower traffic volumes, lower traffic speeds and other favorable conditions.
Why?The flashing yellow left-turn arrow is intended to:
- Help prevent crashes. A national study demonstrated that drivers found flashing yellow left-turn arrows more understandable than traditional yield-on-green indications.
- Reduce traffic delays. There are more opportunities to make a left turn with the flashing yellow left-turn arrow than with the traditional three-arrow, red, yellow and green indications. This helps reduce delays at intersections, which save time and fuel.
- Provide more traffic management flexibility. The new traffic signals provide traffic engineers with more options to handle variable traffic volumes.
How does a flashing yellow left-turn arrow work?A flashing yellow arrow means left turns are permitted, but you must first yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians, and then proceed with caution. The flashing yellow arrow does not replace the solid yellow arrow and its meaning; it does replace the green "ball" indication as a signal for a yielding left turn.
Drivers should always remember: a flashing yellow arrow means turn with caution. Oncoming traffic has a green light.
Drivers should stop at the intersection and yield to oncoming traffic. If, and when, it is safe, make your left turn and proceed through the intersection. When the available time for the flashing yellow arrow ends, the solid yellow left-turn arrow begins. The solid yellow retains it standard meaning – the left turn signal is about to go to red, so you must prepare to stop or complete your left turn if already in the intersection.
How should drivers approach a flashing yellow left-turn signal?
Here's what the new signals look like and mean.The flashing yellow arrow traffic signals consist of four arrow lights that are used exclusively for left-turning traffic. The arrow traffic signals are separate from the traffic signals containing the circular "ball" lights for through traffic.
Steady red arrow: Drivers turning left must stop and wait.
Steady yellow arrow: The left-turn signal is about to turn red. Do not enter the intersection if you can stop safely. Complete your left turn if you are already within the intersection
Flashing yellow arrow: Yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians; then turn left proceeding with caution. Oncoming traffic has a green light.
Steady green arrow: Drivers can proceed with the left turn. Oncoming traffic must stop. Do not go straight.


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Why can't we tickle ourselves?
We cannot tickle ourselves because we anticipate our own actions. Research has shown that the brain is trained to know what to feel when a person moves or performs any function. We aren't aware of many of the sensations generated by our movements. For example, you probably don't pay much attention to your vocal cords when you speak. For the same reason, we can't tickle ourselves. If we grab our sides in an attempt to tickle ourselves, our brain anticipates this contact from the hands and prepares itself for it. By taking away the feeling of unease and panic, the body no longer responds the same way as it would if someone else were to tickle us.


text: Future advanced driver assistance systems will contain multiple sensors that are used for several applications, such as highly automated driving on freeways. The problem is that the sensors are usually asynchronous and their data possibly out-of-sequence, making fusion of the sensor data non-trivial. This paper presents a novel approach to track-to-track fusion for automotive applications with asynchronous and out-of-sequence sensors using information matrix fusion. This approach solves the problem of correlation between sensor data due to the common process noise and common track history, which eliminates the need to replace the global track estimate with the fused local estimate at each fusion cycle. The information matrix fusion approach is evaluated in simulation and its performance demonstrated using real sensor data on a test vehicle designed for highly automated driving on freeways.


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Using 5-in.-diameter Si(Li) detectors with a detector thickness of 1, 2 and 3 mm combined with 62 mm × 62 mm position-sensitive Si detectors, an excellent isotope telescope has been constructed for the Geotail mission. The performance of the telescope and the individual detectors has been investigated using 56Fe beams with energies between 430 and 696 MeV/n. The nonuniformity of the detector thickness as measured by exposing the detectors to a monochromatic Fe beam is 0.44% for 1 mm thick detectors, 0.54% for 2 mm thick detectors and 0.15% for 3 mm thick detectors. The secondary isotopes of Al through Fe produced by 430 MeV/n 56Fe in a polyethylene target were clearly resolved by the telescope. The measured mass resolution for Si, Ca and Mn were 0.36 amu, 0.42 amu and 0.44 amu in FWHM, respectively. The telescope has the following two key features: an excellent resolution (better than 0.5 amu) and an exceptionally high sensitivity (SΩ = 43 cm2sr) for a broad range of species from He through Ni with energies between 2.4 and 210 MeV/n.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics


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Admin Multi-Check is a security feature built into RealmsCore that helps protect your server.
Some commands, such as permissions and moderation commands, use Admin Multi-Check. This means that in addition to the normal permission node (such as realms.kick for the /kick command), they require:
- The realms.admin permission
- If permissions and multi-check are enabled, "admin: true" must be listed below the player's UUID in the playerperms.yml file.
For example, here is an example excerpt from a playerperms.yml file:
# Kyle_Necrowolf's permissions c7a0e7df-5141-4344-b119-9f1102e5178c: admin: true permissions: default: admin_utility cheat: admin_cheat
If the "admin: true" line (bolded above) is not found, the player will be denied access to the command.
Why use Admin Multi-Check
Because this feature is separate from permissions, your server stays protected even if your permissions system is compromised.
"Force op" hacks will fail the multi-check, because they only fool the permissions system. They can't modify the file, so they can't fool RealmsCore.
In most cases, the server owner is the only person with access to the server files. No one on the server can modify or bypass this system, therefore, the owner is always in control.
Disabling Admin Multi-Check
If Admin Multi-Check is disabled, only the realms.admin permission is required. The playerperms.yml file will not be checked.
The console, command blocks, and remote console (RCON) are not affected (see below).
Disabling permissions (in coreconfig.yml) will automatically disable Admin Multi-Check.
Beyond that, it is not recommended that you disable Admin Multi-Check manually. It is a non-intrusive security feature that can help protect your server. However, if you do not want to use it, you can disable it in coreconfig.yml.
How it works with Console, Command Blocks, and Remote Console (RCON)
Admin Multi-Check also applies to commands run from the console, command blocks, and remote console (RCON).
For all commands that use Admin-Multi-Check:
- By default, the console is allowed. Can be blocked in the config.
- By default, command blocks are blocked.
- Can be allowed in the config, but not recommended, as it allows commands to be run without restrictions, and any player on your server can maliciously activate command blocks.
- By default, the remote console (RCON) is blocked.
- Can be allowed in the config, but not recommended, as it can open your server up to remote attackers.
- All other command senders (entities, proxies) are blocked.
Note that this applies even if Admin Multi-Check is disabled. Disabling the feature will only disable it for players.


_USER_ {13591, title = {Logo Retrieval in Document Images}, booktitle = {Document Analysis Systems}, year = {2012}, month = {2012///}, abstract = {This paper presents a scalable algorithm for segmentation free logo retrieval in document images. The contributions of this paper include the use of the SURF feature for logo retrieval, a novel indexing algorithm for efficient retrieval of SURF features and a method to filter results using the orientation of local features and geometric constraints. Results demonstrate that logo retrieval can be performed with high accurately and efficiently scaled to a large datasets.}, author = {Jain,Rajiv and David Doermann} }


text: The surface restructuring of Pt(111) electrodes upon electrochemical oxidation/reduction in 0.1 M HClO4 was studied by in situ grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) and complementary scanning tunneling microscopy measurements. These methods allow quantitative determination of the formation and structural evolution of nanoscale Pt islands during potential cycles into the oxidation region. A characteristic ripening behavior is observed, where these islands become more prominent and homogeneous in size with increasing number of cycles. Their characteristic lateral dimensions primarily depend on the upper potential limit of the cycle and only slightly increase with cycle number. The structural evolution of the Pt surface morphology strongly resembles that found in studies of Pt(111) homoepitaxial growth and ion erosion in ultrahigh vacuum. It can be fully explained by a microscopic model based on the known surface dynamic behavior under vacuum conditions, indicating that the same dynamics also describe the structural evolution of Pt in the electrochemical environment.


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| < November >
|Normal Max/ High Temperature
|Min/ Low Temperature
|Average Daylight per day
|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Matad in November is cold at -9.6 °C (14.72 °F).
- Afternoons can be slightly cold with average high temperatures reaching -3.1 °C (26.4 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally very cold with an average low of -13.9 °C (7 °F).
- The average daily temperature range/ variation in November is 10.8 °C (19.4 °F).
- The weather in November is arid. An airy 3.9mm (0.2in) of H2O is deposited.
- The shortest day is 8:46 long and the longest day is 9:55 long with an average length of 9:17.
Check the distance to and compare the Matad November averages with somewhere beginning with:
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Weather Trend Graph for November in Matad, Mongolia
Navigate to November Weather in Locations Surrounding Matad:
- Cita/ Kadala, Russia - 568.2 kms (353.1 miles) NNW
- Chita, Russia - 564.1 kms (350.6 miles) NNW
- Kyra, Russia - 380.2 kms (236.2 miles) NW
- Dashbalbar, Mongolia - 280.2 kms (174.1 miles) NNW
- Choibalsan, Mongolia - 130.3 kms (81 miles) NW
- Ulan-Bator/ Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - 662.9 kms (412 miles) W
- Bayan-Ovoo, Mongolia - 273 kms (169.7 miles) WNW
- Underkhaan, Mongolia - 377.8 kms (234.7 miles) W
- Maanty, Mongolia - 615.2 kms (382.3 miles) W
- Baruun-Urt, Mongolia - 186.4 kms (115.8 miles) WSW
- Choir, Mongolia - 569.8 kms (354.1 miles) W
- Bayandelger, Mongolia - 296.7 kms (184.4 miles) WSW
- Sainshand, Mongolia - 494.7 kms (307.4 miles) WSW
- Zamiin-Uud, Mongolia - 480 kms (298.3 miles) SW
- Erlian, China - 482.9 kms (300.1 miles) SW


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noun\ˈmär-kə-ˌsīt, -ˌzīt; ˌmär-kə-ˈzēt\
Definition of MARCASITE
a: crystallized pyrite
b: a pale yellow to white mineral of the same composition and appearance as pyrite but of different crystalline organization and lower specific gravity
: a piece of marcasite used in jewelry
Origin of MARCASITE
Middle English marchasite, from Medieval Latin marcasita
First Known Use: 15th century
Iron sulfide mineral that forms pale bronze-yellow crystals; the name cockscomb marcasite refers to the shape of a common form of its crystals. Marcasite has the same chemical formula as pyrite (FeS) but a different internal (atomic) structure. It is less stable than pyrite, being easily decomposed, and is much less common.


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Ajrak block printing
Ajrak is a name given to a unique form of block-printed shawls and tiles found in Sind. These shawls display special designs and patterns made using block printing by stamps. Common colors used while making these patterns are not limited. Over the years, ajraks have become a symbol of the Sindhi culture and traditions.


Migrating a web ACL: switchover - AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield Advanced
Migrating a web ACL: switchover
After you've verified your new web ACL settings, you can start to use it in place of your AWS WAF Classic web ACL.
You might encounter a brief disruption as you change the resource association to the new web ACL.
To begin using your new AWS WAF web ACL
 1. Associate the AWS WAF web ACL with the resources that you want to protect, following the guidance at Associating or disassociating a web ACL with an AWS resource. This automatically disassociates the resources from the old web ACL.
 2. Configure logging for the new web ACL, following the guidance at Logging web ACL traffic information.
 3. (Optional) If your AWS WAF Classic web ACL is no longer associated with any resources, consider removing it entirely from AWS WAF Classic. For information, see Deleting a Web ACL.


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Fence Repair and Maintenance in Texas is one of the biggest threats to a wood fence, and in North Texas it's unavoidable.
Prolonged exposure to the weather elements may cause severe damage, rotting wood and sun dried fence pickets. For North Texas homeowners, it pays to be extra-vigilant in the care and maintenance of your pine or cedar fence.
Start Before You Build the fence
- You can begin protecting your pine/cedar fence before it's even installed by taking a few preventive measures.
- Survey the building site and notice any concrete, rocks, tree roots, or other obstructions that get in the way of your fence's planned path.
- The support posts for most wood fences need to be placed eight feet apart. Make sure you can dig a two-foot-deep hole for each post without hitting anything harder than soil.
- When pouring concrete for the posts, use only enough to fill the hole. Excess concrete can be forced upward in freezing temperatures, compromising your fence's stability.
Look Out for Problems From Above
- Tree branches, leaves, and other debris from above can damage wood fencing, so make sure you're proactive about addressing these issues.
- Before winter, cut or trim any branches hanging over your fence line. Frozen branches can break off and scrape the wood boards, and some have the potential to cause significant damage.
- Keep horizontal fence rails clear of leaves, acorns, shells or twigs, and clean out any material wedged between the rails and the fence boards. Wet organic matter such as leaves can accelerate rot in your fence, and objects squeezed between the rails and boards can reduce your fence's stability over time.
Inspect Your Wood Fence Regularly
- Get in the habit of checking on your fence whenever the seasons change to nip any problems in the bud.
- Address broken or cracking boards, boards that have warped, leaning posts, or splinters as soon as possible.
- Examine the grass that immediately borders your fence and trim any overgrowth to keep it from spreading rot to your fence.
- Water daily around the post to prevent cracks on the ground next to the post. Extreme heat will cause the ground to dry and crack creating space between the ground and the cement around the post. This space allows the post to lean due to the gravitational pull and wind forces.
- Set your sprinkler system so that water does not reach your fence. Continuous water drops on your wood fence will produce water stains. Water stains act like a scar on the wood and is close to impossible to remove them
- Check your fence at the end of winter for any knotholes. Wood knots have the potential to contract in warmer weather and fall out. Use a wood filler to fill up any knotholes as soon as possible to prevent insects, birds, or even termites from moving in.
Use a Protective Fence Stain
- Consider using a stain that's specially formulated for North Texas fencing materials. If you notice the color of your wood fence is beginning to fade, it's time to apply a new coat of stain. Otherwise, plan to restain your fence every two to three years.
Check out your Fence After Storms
- Check your wood fence after any significant storms or weather events to make sure it's stable and level. An easy way to do this is to run a piece of string along the tops of the fence posts. If the string appears level, your posts are secure. If you begin to notice any dips or rises along the string, check the posts for damage and make necessary repairs before the problem worsens.
- By carefully monitoring your fence's condition, you can prevent the weather from doing its worst, avoiding costly repairs in the future.
Call a professional fence repair company if there is damage that you can not repair on your own. A fence is an important investment in your property. It protects your yard from intruders and keeps your pets safe. Do it right the first time! Fence repair and maintenance are key elements for keeping the fence structure sound.


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Tudor, Kate Elizabeth*
Loughborough University, London, UK (_EMAIL_)
Spray, Christopher Mark
Loughborough University, London, UK (_EMAIL_)
Recent years have seen increased government funding into resilience-building programmes in schools. However, practitioners are unable to assess the efficacy of interventions due to the lack of an available measure of academic resilience. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the methods investigators have employed to measure academic resilience. A computerised literature search was conducted to identify journal articles where academic resilience was either; a) inferred through assessment of risk and positive adaptation or b) assessed using a measurement scale comprising protective factors. Results demonstrated significant variability in the factors utilised to represent risk and positive adaptation, and an inconsistent use of measurement scales. Different approaches to measuring academic resilience across studies leads to inconsistencies when estimating prevalence of the concept and the impact of resilience-based interventions. A discussion of the psychometric rigor of approaches to assessment is provided, with specific recommendations for future development of a measurement of academic resilience.
Keywords: academic resilience; academic buoyancy; measurement; school-based; intervention; systematic review


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The Na'vi sometimes blow through the tubular plant body to make its signature wailing sound as a warning to intruders to stay away. Although deadly and toxic, the plant is also a food source for the Na'vi. The large seeds of the banshee are attached on the stem opposite to the direction the plant is pointing, making it easy for the Na'vi to harvest them.
The banshee of paradise is one of the most dangerous plants on Pandora because it can eject poison tipped spines in a targeted direction. It has the ability to sense infrared radiation (IR), which is emitted from warm objects such as animals and people, and to rotate its tubular body to point toward the source of the IR. Large spines contain toxins in glands on the tips, which can be deadly in large concentrations. When the source of IR comes close to the plant, the spines eject their poisonous tips in the direction of the threat. (Read more)


Genifuel Corporation has facilities in the Western United States.
While aquatic biomass can be grown almost anywhere, the optimum growing location depends primarily on climate (warm and humid all year is best), availability of reasonable amounts of water, availability of a large land area which is not used for other purposes, and proximity to infrastructure for transport of energy (either natural gas or electricity).
If the Genifuel process is used to remediate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes, including coal-fired electric generation, then our growing facilities will be located near the industrial plant.
Our licensing partner, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is located in Richland, WA. This US Government facility is operated by Battelle for the United States Department of Energy


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DALLAS, July 14 -- As temperatures across the U.S. increase because of global warming, the prevalence of kidney stones is expected to grow, researchers suggested.
Assuming a mean temperature increase of 2.38Â° C, climate change is expected to create 1.61 to 2.25 million new cases of nephrolithiasis by 2050, an increase of 7% to 10.4% from 2000, Margaret Pearle, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center here, and colleagues reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
That would add $947 million to $1.33 billion in annual healthcare costs, according to the researchers' calculations. This represents a 25% increase over the $5.3 billion spent in 2000.
The warming temperatures would expand the so-called "stone belt" of the Southeast, in which the prevalence of nephrolithiasis is as much as 50% higher than in other parts of the country.
Two different models predicted that the highest risks of kidney stones in 2050 would either be in a band covering the southern half of the U.S. or the upper Midwest.
"There is a known geographic variation in stone disease that has been attributed to regional differences in temperature," Dr. Peale said. "When people relocate from areas of moderate temperature to areas with warmer climates, a rapid increase in stone risk has been observed."
Rising temperatures are believed to be associated with a greater risk of kidney stones, perhaps because of increased dehydration, the researchers said, although the link hasn't been proven.
To explore the potential effect of global warming on rates of nephrolithiasis, the researchers combined climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with estimates of the prevalence of kidney stones. They limited the analysis to upper tract stones because they are more likely to be influenced by the environment than lower tract stones.
They created two separate models -- one assumed that the risk of kidney stones would increase linearly with temperature and one assumed that there was a threshold temperature (13.4Â° C) at which risk would increase dramatically.
Using the linear model, the proportion of the U.S. population living in areas with an elevated risk of kidney stones compared with the Northeast would increase from 41% in 2000 to 56% in 2050.
The percentage could rise to 70% in 2095, the researchers said.
The "stone belt" would spread from the Southeast northward into the Midwest, covering much of the southern half of the country and all of California by 2050. New cases would be clustered in the South and Midwest.
In the non-linear threshold model, the "stone belt" would also spread northward, comprising a band of states from Virginia to the upper Midwest to northern California, but spreading as far north as New York and Pennsylvania.
The maximum climate-related risk increases would be found in cities such as New York, Detroit, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Sacramento. New cases would occur mostly in the Midwest and Northeast.
The authors acknowledged several limitations of the study, including the uncertainty of the relationship between temperature and kidney stones and of climate models in general.
In addition, they said, it is difficult to determine the prevalence of nephrolithiasis, which is most likely underestimated. This would have a significant effect on the estimates of healthcare costs.
Finally, neither of the models could account for any future improvements in the treatment of kidney stones, which could potentially alter cost estimates.
"Regardless of these limitations," the researchers concluded, "climate-related increases in the prevalence of nephrolithiasis in the U.S. appear likely."
"These changes are likely to cause notable perturbations in the magnitude of stone interventions, with corresponding stresses in healthcare delivery and economics," they said.
|The authors made no disclosures.|
Primary source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Brikowski T, et al "Climate-related increase in the prevalence of urolithiasis in the U.S." PNAS 2008; DOI: 10.1073/pnas._PHONE_.


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The system implicitly defines a constructor function called the attribute value constructor for all object types with attributes. The attribute value constructor can be used to initialize the attributes of the object. Opaque types do not have attributes and therefore do not have attribute value constructors. However, opaque types can have constructor functions, and many system-defined opaque types, such as XMLTYPE, do have them.
"Transient and Generic Types" for information about
The attribute-value constructor is convenient to use because it already exists. But user-defined constructors have some important advantages over the attribute-value one with respect to type evolution.
"Constructor Methods",, for general information about constructors
With the attribute-value constructor, you must pass the constructor a value for each attribute of the type, to set the attributes of the new object instance to those values.
CREATE TYPE shape AS OBJECT ( name VARCHAR2(30), area NUMBER ); -- Attribute value constructor: Sets instance attributes -- to the specified values INSERT INTO building_blocks VALUES ( NEW shape('my_shape', 4) );
NEW preceding a call to a constructor is optional but recommended.
The system-supplied constructor function saves you the trouble of defining your own constructors for a type. However, if you use an attribute-value constructor to create and initialize an instance, you must supply a value for every attribute declared in the type. Otherwise the constructor call will fail to compile.
This requirement of an attribute-value constructor can create a problem if you evolve the type later on--by adding an attribute, for example. When you change the attributes of a type, the type's attribute-value constructor changes, too. If you add an attribute, the updated attribute-value constructor expects a value for the new attribute as well as the old ones. As a result, all the attribute-value constructor calls in your existing code, where values for only the old number of attributes are supplied, will fail to compile.
User-defined constructors avoid the problem with the attribute-value constructor because user-defined constructors do not need to explicitly set a value for every attribute of a type. A user-defined constructor can have any number of arguments, of any type, and these do not need to map directly to type attributes. In your definition of the constructor, you can initialize the attributes to any appropriate values. Any attributes for which you do not supply values are initialized by the system to
If you evolve a type--for example, by adding an attribute--calls to user-defined constructors for the type do not need to be changed. User-defined constructors, like ordinary methods, are not automatically modified when the type evolves, so the call signature of a user-defined constructor remains the same. You may, however, need to change the definition of the constructor if you do not want the new attribute to be initialized to
You define user-defined constructors in the type body, like an ordinary method function. You introduce the declaration and the definition with the phrase
CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION; you must also use the clause
RETURN SELF AS RESULT.
A constructor for a type must have the same name as the type. The following code defines two constructor functions for the
shape type. As the example shows, you can overload user-defined constructors by defining multiple versions with different signatures:
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE shape AS OBJECT ( name VARCHAR2(30), area NUMBER, CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION shape(name VARCHAR2) RETURN SELF AS RESULT, CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION shape(name VARCHAR2, area NUMBER) RETURN SELF AS RESULT ) NOT FINAL; CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE BODY shape IS CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION shape(name VARCHAR2) RETURN SELF AS RESULT IS BEGIN SELF.name := name; SELF.area := 0; return; END; CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION shape(name VARCHAR2, area NUMBER) RETURN shape SELF AS RESULT IS BEGIN SELF.name := name; SELF.area := area; return; END; END;
A user-defined constructor has an implicit first parameter
SELF. Specifying this parameter in the declaration of a user-defined constructor is optional. If you do specify it, its mode must be declared to be
The required clause
RETURN SELF AS RESULT ensures that the most specific type of the instance being returned is the same as the most specific type of the
SELF argument. For example, if the most specific type of the
SELF argument on a call to the
shape constructor is
shape, then this clause ensures that the
shape constructor returns an instance of
shape (not an instance of a subtype of
When a constructor function is called, the system initializes the attributes of the
SELF argument to
NULL. Names of attributes subsequently initialized in the function body may be qualified with
SELF, as shown in the preceding example, to distinguish them from the names of the arguments of the constructor function, if these are the same. If the argument names are different, no such qualification is necessary. For example:
The function body must include an explicit
return; as shown. The return keyword must not be followed by a
return expression. The system automatically returns the newly constructed
A user-defined constructor may be implemented in PL/SQL, C, or Java.
Like other type methods, user-defined constructors can be overloaded.
User-defined constructors are not inherited, so they cannot be overridden. However, a user-defined constructor does hide, and thus supersede, an attribute-value constructor if the signature of the user-defined constructor exactly matches the signature of the attribute-value constructor. For the signatures to match, the names and types of the parameters (after the implicit
SELF parameter) of the user-defined constructor must be the same as the names and types of the type's attributes. The mode of each of the user-defined constructor's parameters (after the implicit
SELF parameter) must be
If an attribute-value constructor is not hidden by a user-defined constructor having the same name and signature, the attribute-value constructor can still be called.
Note that, if you evolve a type--for example, by adding an attribute--the signature of the type's attribute-value constructor changes accordingly. This can cause a formerly hidden attribute-value constructor to become usable again.
A user-defined constructor is called like any other function. You can use a user-defined constructor anywhere you can use an ordinary function.
SELF argument is passed in implicitly and may not be passed in explicitly. In other words, usages like the following are not allowed:
A user-defined constructor cannot occur in the
DEFAULT clause of a CREATE or ALTER TABLE statement, but an attribute-value constructor can. The arguments to the attribute-value constructor must not contain references to PL/SQL functions or to other columns, including the pseudocolumns
ROWNUM, or to date constants that are not fully specified. The same is true for check constraint expressions: an attribute-value constructor can be used as part of check constraint expressions while creating or altering a table, but a user-defined constructor cannot.
Parentheses are required in SQL even for constructor calls that have no arguments. For example:
In PL/SQL, parentheses are optional when invoking a zero-argument constructor. They do, however, make it more obvious that the constructor call is a function call.
The following PL/SQL example omits parentheses in the constructor call to create a new shape:
NEW keyword and the schema name are optional.
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE rectangle UNDER shape ( length NUMBER, breadth NUMBER, CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION rectangle( name VARCHAR2, length NUMBER, breadth NUMBER ) RETURN SELF as RESULT ); CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE BODY rectangle IS CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION rectangle( name VARCHAR2, length NUMBER, breadth NUMBER ) RETURN SELF AS RESULT IS BEGIN SELF.name := name; SELF.area := length*breadth; SELF.length := length; SELF.breadth := breadth; RETURN ; END; END; INSERT INTO rectangle_table SELECT NEW rectangle(s.name, s.length, s.breadth) FROM square_table s; UPDATE rectangle_table SET rec = NEW rectangle('Quad', 12, 5) WHERE rec IS NULL;
A SQLJ object type is a SQL object type mapped to a Java class. A SQLJ object type has an attribute-value constructor. It can also have user-defined constructors that are mapped to constructors in the referenced Java class.
CREATE TYPE address AS OBJECT EXTERNAL NAME 'university.address' LANGUAGE JAVA USING SQLData ( street VARCHAR2(100) EXTERNAL NAME'street', city VARCHAR2(50) EXTERNAL NAME 'city', state VARCHAR2(50) EXTERNAL NAME'state', zip_code number EXTERNAL NAME 'zipCode', CONSTRUCTOR FUNCTION address (full_address VARCHAR) EXTERNAL NAME 'address (java.lang.String)', );
A SQLJ type of a serialized representation can have only a user-defined constructor. The internal representation of an object of SQLJ type is opaque to SQL, so an attribute-value constructor is not possible for a SQLJ type.
The following sections introduce tips and techniques for using OCI effectively by showing common operations performed by an OCI program that uses objects.
To enable object manipulation, the OCI program must be initialized in object mode. The following OCI code initializes a program in object mode:
When the program is initialized in object mode, the object cache is initialized. Memory for the cache is not allocated at this time; instead, it is allocated only on demand.
The LNOCIObjectNew() function creates transient or persistent objects. A transient object's lifetime is the duration of the session in which it was created. A persistent object is an object that is stored in an object table in the database. The LNOCIObjectNew() function returns a pointer to the object created in the cache, and the application should initialize the new object by setting the attribute values directly. The object is not created in the database yet; it will be created and stored in the database when it is flushed from the cache.
When LNOCIObjectNew() creates an object in the cache, it sets all the attributes to
NULL. The attribute null indicator information is recorded in the parallel null indicator structure. If the application sets the attribute values, but fails to set


text: When the washing machine is loaded, the displacement sensor DRA measures how much the outer drum drops. It also measures the drum's deflection during spin-drying. Due to the inductive measurement principle, the sensor provides absolute position measuring for static and dynamic processes. Operation and the washing result are optimized by the load measurement. The displacement sensor provides an output signal proportional to the weight. This permits full utilization of the drum volume and helps to determine the required amount of detergent.


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_TAG_: systemic defense mechanisms
_TAG_: how do u know that a system got rigid? When it starts2see criticism as a threat instead as a hint! _TAG_
when systems get complacent and hence are not able to renew themselves by reacting to impulses reality is constantly pointing out they start getting defensive,too.
criticism in its essence is meant to be a hint to get consious, to become aware of new perspectives. critisism in its systemic function is an essential issue to keep systems and individuals awake and present. its meant to be supportive to go deeper into understanding the world/life/systemic context.
the main problem with systems as well as individuals is that at a certain point they start to identify with a certain kind of interpretation of themselves and their environment. they get attached and hence stuck in belief!
from this point on every impuls that seems to be incoherent with systemic interests is seen as threat and is met with rejection. righteousness comes into play. the spiral of self-destruction starts its game.
the moment you are on a path of defense you enter the path of war because you are creating a dense energy(attachment,extremist views/beliefs) that wants to keep alive a simplistic view of itself and the world that is in contradiction to a more subtle realty in emergence.
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I am new to working with DEM files but have a need to be able to work with SRTM3 DEM files to calculate elevation given a Lat,lon coordinates.
I understand from reading the documentation that the file contains binary data that represents Signed Int16 data that has height in meters.
My question is this, given a file say that has its bottom left corner being -33, 152 and covers 1 degree of lat, long how would do read a location in the file based on a given latitude, longitude point.
So if I had a position that was -33.456 152.434 how do I calculate the position of that height reading in the file?
I have read the file in to memory I just need to work out how to select the correct location in the resulting array.
Hope this makes sense.
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- a durable, lustrous, reversible fabric as of silk or linen, in figured weave, used for table linen, upholstery, etc.
- Damascus steel
- the wavy markings of such steel
- deep pink or rose
Origin of damaskItalian damasco, after Classical Latin Damascus (the city)
- Obs. of or from Damascus
- made of damask
- like damask
- deep-pink or rose
- to ornament with flowered designs or wavy lines
- to make deep-pink or rose
- A rich patterned fabric of cotton, linen, silk, or wool.
- A fine, twilled table linen.
- Damascus steel.
- The wavy pattern on Damascus steel.
transitive verbdam·asked, dam·ask·ing, dam·asks
- To damascene.
- To decorate or weave with rich patterns.
Origin of damaskMiddle English Damascus, damask from Latin Damascus from Greek Damaskos
(comparative more Damask, superlative most Damask)
- Relating to, or originating at, the city of Damascus.


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4.8.1 Conditionalized Code
This section describes how to conditionalize OpenVMS code when migrating to I64. This code will be compiled for both Alpha and I64, or for VAX, Alpha, and I64. The symbol ALPHA, referred to in the following sections, is new. However, the symbol EVAX has not been eliminated. You do not need to replace EVAX with ALPHA but feel free to do so if convenient. The architecture symbols available for MACRO and BLISS are VAX, EVAX, ALPHA, and I64. MACRO Sources
For Macro-32 source files, the architecture symbols are in ARCH_DEFS.MAR, which is a prefix file specified on the command line. On Alpha, ALPHA and EVAX equal 1 while VAX and I64 are undefined. On I64, I64 equals 1 while VAX, EVAX, and ALPHA are undefined.
The following example show how to conditionalize Macro-32 source code so that it can run on both Alpha and I64 systems.
For Alpha-specific code:
For I64-specific code:
.IF DF I64
For BLISS source files, either BLISS-32 or BLISS-64, the macros VAX, EVAX, ALPHA and I64 are defined in ARCH_DEFS.REQ. On Alpha, EVAX and ALPHA equal 1 while VAX and I64 equal 0. On I64, I64 equals 1 while VAX, EVAX, and ALPHA equal 0. You must require ARCH_DEFS.REQ to use these symbols in BLISS conditionals.
The constructs %BLISS(xxx), %TARGET(xxx), and %HOST(xxx) are not recommended. Do not feel obligated to replace them, but feel free to do so if convenient.
Include the following statement in your source file:
Use the following statements in your source file to conditionalize code so that it can run on both Alpha and I64 systems.
For Alpha-specific code:
%if ALPHA %then
For I64-specific code:
%if I64 %then
%fi C Sources
For C source files, the symbols __alpha, __ALPHA, __ia64, and __ia64__ are provided by the compilers on the appropriate platforms. Note that symbols could be defined on the compile command line but that is not the recommended method, nor is using arch_defs.h. Using _TAG_ is considered the standard C programming practice.
For Alpha-specific code, use the following:
_TAG_ __alpha
For I64-specific code, use the following:
_TAG_ __ia64
_TAG_ Existing Conditionalized Code
Existing conditionalized code must be examined to determine whether changes are required. Here is an example of BLISS code to consider.
If the code is truly architecture specific and you are adding I64 code, then you would add the following case:
However, if the existing VAX/EVAX conditionals really reflect 32 bits and not 64 bits or an "old" versus "new" OpenVMS convention (for example, a promoted data structure or different routine to call), then the following method for conditionalizing code might be more appropriate. That is because Alpha and I64 code are the same and 64-bit code need to be distinguished from the VAX code.
4.8.2 System Services With Alpha Architecture Dependencies
Certain system services that work well in applications on OpenVMS Alpha do not port successfully to I64. The following sections describe system services and their replacement services. SYS$GOTO_UNWIND
For OpenVMS Alpha, the SYS$GOTO_UNWIND system service accepts a 32-bit invocation context handle by reference. You must change instances of this system service to SYS$GOTO_UNWIND_64, which accepts a 64-bit invocation context. Make sure to alter source code to allocate space for the 64-bit value. Also, different library routines return invocation context handles for OpenVMS I64. For more information, refer to the HP OpenVMS Calling Standard.
SYS$GOTO_UNWIND is most frequently used to support programming language features, so changes are mostly in compilers or run-time libraries. However, any direct use of SYS$GOTO_UNWIND requires change. SYS$LKWSET and SYS$LKWSET_64
The SYS$LKWSET and SYS$LKWSET_64 system services have been modified. For more information, see Section 4.8.9.
4.8.3 Code With Other Dependencies on the Alpha Architecture
This section describes coding practices on Alpha that produce different results on I64 and may require changes to your application. Initialized Overlaid Program Sections
Initialized overlaid program sections are handled differently on I64 systems. On OpenVMS Alpha systems, different portions of an overlaid program section may be initialized by multiple modules. This is not allowed on OpenVMS I64 systems. For more information about this change in behavior, see Section Condition Handlers Use of SS$_HPARITH
On OpenVMS Alpha, SS$_HPARITH is signaled for a number of arithmetic error conditions. On OpenVMS I64, SS$_HPARITH is never signaled for arithmetic error conditions; instead, the more specialized SS$_FLTINV and SS$_FLTDIV error codes are signaled on OpenVMS I64.
Update condition handlers to detect these more specialized error codes. In order to keep code common for both architectures, wherever the code refers to SS$_HPARITH, extend it for OpenVMS I64 to also consider SS$_FLTINV and SS$_FLTDIV. Mechanism Array Data Structure
The mechanism array data structure on OpenVMS I64 is very different from the one on OpenVMS Alpha. The return status code RETVAL has been extended to represent the return status register on both Alpha and I64 platforms. For more information, refer to the HP OpenVMS Calling Standard. Reliance on Alpha Object File Format
If your code relies on the layout of Alpha object files, you will need to modify it, because the object file format produced on OpenVMS I64 systems is different.
The object file format conforms to the 64-bit version of the executable and linkable format (ELF), as described in the System V Application Binary Interface draft of 24 April 2001. This document, published by Caldera, is available on their web site at:
The object file format also conforms to the I64 specific extensions described in the Intel® Itanium® Processor-specific Application Binary Interface (ABI), May 2001 edition (document number 245270-003). Extensions and restrictions, necessary to support object file and image file features that are specific to the OpenVMS operating system, will be published in a future release.
The portion of an image which is used by the debugger conforms to the DWARF Version 3 industry standard, which is available at the following location:
The debug symbol table representation on OpenVMS I64 is the industry-standard DWARF debug symbol table format described at this location. HP extensions to the DWARF Version 3 format will be published in a future release.
4.8.4 Code that Uses Floating-Point Data Types
OpenVMS Alpha supports VAX floating-point data types and IEEE floating point data types in hardware. OpenVMS I64 supports IEEE floating-point in hardware and VAX floating-point data types in software.
Most of the OpenVMS I64 compilers provide the /FLOAT=D_FLOAT and /FLOAT=G_FLOAT qualifiers to enable you to produce VAX floating-point data types. If you do not specify one of these qualifiers, IEEE floating-point data types will be used.
to specify a default floating-point data types using the I64 BASIC compiler, you use the /REAL_SIZE qualifer.The possible values that can be specified are SINGLE (Ffloat), DOUBLE (Dfloat), GFLOAT, SFLOAT, TFLOAT, and XFLOAT.
You can test an application's behavior with IEEE floating-point values on Alpha by compiling it with an IEEE qualifier on OpenVMS Alpha. If that produces acceptable results, you can build the application on an I64 system using the same qualifier.
When you compile an OpenVMS application that specifies an option to use VAX floating-point on I64, the compiler automatically generates code for converting floating-point formats. Whenever the application performs a sequence of arithmetic operations, this code does the following:
 1. Converts VAX floating-point formats to either IEEE single or IEEE double floating-point formats, as appropriate for the length.
 2. Performs arithmetic operations in IEEE floating-point arithmetic.
Where no arithmetic operations are performed (VAX float fetches followed by stores), conversions do not occur. The code handles such situations as moves.
 - Values of numbers represented
 - Rounding rules
 - Exception behavior
These differences might cause problems for certain applications.
For more information about the differences between floating-point data types on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64 and how these differences might affect ported applications, see Chapter 5 and refer to the "OpenVMS Floating-Point Arithmetic on the Intel® Itanium® Architecture" white paper. See the Related Documents section in the Preface for the web location of this white paper.
Since the floating-point white paper was written, the default /IEEE_MODE has changed from FAST to DENORM_RESULTS. This means that, by default, floating-point operations might silently generate values that print as Infinity or Nan (the industry-standard behavior) instead of issuing a fatal run-time error as they would using VAX format float or /IEEE_MODE=FAST. Also, the smallest-magnitude nonzero value in this mode is much smaller because results are permitted to enter


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A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Reeling In Evidence of Early Fishing
Volume 65 Number 2, March/April 2012
Two 11-square-foot pits dug in Jerimalai Cave on the east end of East Timor, an island nation off northwestern Australia, have provided some of the earliest evidence of fishing technology. Though there is little evidence of fishing activity beyond 10,000 years ago, fragments of fish hooks found in the cave date to between 16,000 and 23,000 years ago, making them the oldest ever recovered. A more complete hook dating to 11,000 years ago was also found at the site.
The inch-long hooks, all of which were made of shells from sea snails, would have been used to catch shallow-water fish, such as grouper and snapper, says Sue O'Connor, an archaeologist at Australian National University, who coauthored a study on the finds in Science. "They would have had a fiber line attached to the shank, and bait put on the hook," she explains. "Then, they would be cast or lowered into the water and left stationary."
Fish bones were also found in the deposits. Offshore species, such as tuna, account for nearly 50 percent of the remains dating to earlier than 7000 B.C. After that, shallow-water and reef species start to dominate, likely due to warmer climate and the proliferation of reef habitat. The variety of the bones depicts the humans of the time as skilled seafarers capable of fishing many species in both shallow and deep water.Share


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Systems of Production in 1950s and 60s Spanish Architecture
(Supervisors: Marina Lathouri, Carlos Naya)
Technology reconfigures architectural strategies and concepts transforming methods of construction and affecting production processes and thereby, the way architects think and conceive architecture. This thesis reflects on the relationship between technology and architecture. In particular, it explores how mass-production and industrialization in the decades after WWII not only transformed the construction –or rather productionof architecture but also reconfigured the practice of architecture or architectural modes of thinking. Through the analysis of new methods of construction in Spain during the 1950s and 60s, the investigation examines the concept of component design and the resulting production and reproduction systems from a material, structural, formal and spatial perspective. Departing from systems of construction as case studies, the research evolves from the notion of prefabrication, towards open systems and ultimately to the relation between architecture and technology. Thus, regarding systems of production, it moves from the production of ideas to the reception of the production.
PhD to be completed this summer.
Clara Oloriz is a PhD researcher, tutor and practising architect. She studied architecture at the ETSA Universidad de Navarra. She has worked for Foreign Office Architects, Plasma Studio and Groundlab. She teaches at the ETSAUN and in the AALU Masters programme. At present, she is finalising her PhD as visiting student at the Architectural Association. Along with her PhD research, she co-directs an AA research cluster on Urban Prototypes.


text: When GM (genetically modified) and non-GM crops coexist, not all of the latter can be sold as GM-free crops as some of them will likely be contaminated by GM crops. The choice of producing non-GM crops will consequently depend on the surrounding crops. We therefore analyze the spatial distribution of GM and non-GM crops. When producers follow individual strategies, many spatial configurations arise in equilibrium, some of which are more efficient than others. We examine how coordination among producers impacts the spatial distribution of crop varieties, and show that coordination among only a small number of producers can greatly improve efficiency. In particular, a non-GM producer neighboring two GM producers needs to coordinate with only one of them to eliminate any spatial inefficiency from variety choices.


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Support User Transaction in sCrypt Debugger
We are happy to announce that sCrypt debugger now allows users to input their own transactions when debugging. This is essential when a contract written in sCrypt uses checkSig operation, which needs the current transaction to calculate and verify signature.
Below is an example configuration for debugging a contract. Besides attributes introduced before, there is a new attribute txContext with the following fields:
- hex: current transaction to be used in signature verification in hex format. It can be either signed or unsigned
- opReturn: initial data part of a stateful contract in ASM format. Multiple data pushes are allowed such as "00 1122 ffac"
- inputSatoshis: the amount of the UTXO referenced by the input, in satoshis
- inputIndex: index of the input in the transaction that is spending the UTXO containing our contract
Use Transaction from Testnet
We can debug contracts on the Bitcoin network. For instance, we deployed contract HashPuzzleP2PKH onto testnet using this code. It resulted in two transactions: one containing the contract in its output script and the other spending the output. From the spending transaction, we can easily find txContext and entryMethodParams. From the transaction being spent, we can identify constructorParams. The full debug configuration can be found here.


Dear readers, today we are going to talk about articulated dumpers, and more precisely we wish to give you a few tips on how to decide if an ADT suits your needs.
The worst mistake one can make is thinking that it doesn't matter whether to use a rigid or an articulated dumper (ADT) for transporting material. It's true that both have great load capacity, but each of them has some peculiar features and specifications. So, before choosing the vehicle to buy, identify the jobs that the ADT will have to carry out. And keep in mind the following points:
 1. Performing operations efficiently
ADTs have been designed to rapidly and safely move large quantities of material, minimizing the cost per ton of the transported material. Compared to rigid dumpers and other earthmoving vehicles, ADTs work well on soft terrain, and usually they are the first to be used in development stage at a site, when ground conditions are the least favorable ones. Choosing the right ADT can help you increase productivity and optimize haulage times.
 1. Choosing the right loading equipment
The question is: How can you increase productivity limiting the number of travels? Well, if you choose an ADT with the right loading equipment, so operators don't have to wait too long between one and another loading operation.
 1. Scheduled maintenance
We all know the cost of machine downtime, especially if due to equipment failure. The solution is to act before something happens: a special maintenance program is essential to keep your vehicle's performance unchanged and to ensure a longer life-cycle. So, before you make your decision about which ADT to buy, check that you can easily reach the engine compartment and the transmission. Regularly check:
 - the lubrication system to avoid failure due to lack of grease.
 - the tire pressure and tire wear.
 - the engine temperature to avoid damages and expensive repairs.
To prevent unpleasant accidents, you can address to companies that are specialized in scheduled maintenance, and observe also the other maintenance recommendations.
 1. Increasing versatility through more options and accessories
ADTs can be equipped with accessories to increase their potential. Some models have a heating kits that are essential in the coldest season, because it helps moving the engine exhaust through the exhaust body channels, avoiding possible freezing. The cold start-up kit and the heated rear-view mirrors are other useful options for ADTs employed in areas with particularly harsh winters.
 1. Choosing the right tire depending on the application
An important topic we often deal with. Always choose the tires that are suitable for both the equipment and the application. Never undervalue this aspect. By the way...
BKT recommends…
ADTs require extremely resistant and performing tires to support heavy loads. Earthmax SR 41 has been specifically designed for this task. It's a radial tire with an All Steel structure - ideal for all those operations that require traction and stability on particularly tough terrains.
This tire boasts a deep tread class E-4/L-4, which not only increases the tire life-cycle, but also provides maximum resistance to punctures and foreign matters.
Made of the BKT's latest-generation compounds, this tire is available in two different versions: with a cut resistant compound for terrains full of debris of various kind and with a standard compound for mixed applications requiring well-balanced performance.
In short, Earthmax SR 41 is the right tire for your articulated dumpers. Discover the available sizes on our website.
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 xcmsdb - Device Color Characterization utility for X Color Management
 xcmsdb [ -query ] [ -remove ] [ -format 32|16|8 ] [ filename ]
 xcmsdb is used to load, query, or remove Device Color Characterization
 data stored in properties on the root window of the screen as specified
 in section 7, Device Color Characterization, of the ICCCM. Device
 Color Characterization data (also called the Device Profile) is an
 integral part of Xlib's X Color Management System (Xcms), necessary for
 proper conversion of color specification between device-independent and
 device-dependent forms. Xcms uses 3x3 matrices stored in the
 XDCCC_LINEAR_RGB_MATRICES property to convert color specifications
 between CIEXYZ and RGB Intensity (XcmsRGBi, also referred to as linear
 RGB). Xcms then uses display gamma information stored in the
 XDCCC_LINEAR_RGB_CORRECTION property to convert color specifications
 between RGBi and RGB device (XcmsRGB, also referred to as device RGB).
 Note that Xcms allows clients to register function sets in addition to
 its built-in function set for CRT color monitors. Additional function
 sets may store their device profile information in other properties in
 function set specific format. This utility is unaware of these nonstandard properties.
 The ASCII readable contents of filename (or the standard input if no
 input file is given) are appropriately transformed for storage in properties, provided the -query or -remove options are not specified.
 xcmsdb program accepts the following options:
 -query This option attempts to read the XDCCC properties off the
 screen's root window. If successful, it transforms the data
 into a more readable format, then sends the data to standard
 -remove This option attempts to remove the XDCCC properties on the
 screen's root window.
 -format 32|16|8
 Specifies the property format (32, 16, or 8 bits per entry) for
 the XDCCC_LINEAR_RGB_CORRECTION property. Precision of encoded
 floating point values increases with the increase in bits per
 entry. The default is 32 bits per entry.
 xprop(1), Xlib documentation
 DISPLAY to figure out which display and screen to use.
 Chuck Adams, Tektronix Inc. Al Tabayoyon, SynChromatics Inc. (added
 multi-visual support)
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Irrigation equipment: Don't be shocked
The use of farm irrigation systems brings with it an increased risk of electrocution. Safe Electricity, a public awareness campaign created by the Urbana, IL-based Energy Education Council, urges workers to know and follow proper safety precautions to avoid electrical injuries when operating and handling watering systems.
Follow these rules to safely operate irrigation machinery systems:
- Make sure the irrigation system wiring is properly grounded. Have a qualified electrician check the pump and motor wiring before each irrigation season.
- Water and metal are ideal electrical conductors. Position irrigation pipes at least 15 feet from power lines. Keep water jet streams from spraying onto electrical lines.
- When not in use, store irrigation pipes in an open area away from power lines and other electrical equipment.
- Install lightning arresters to protect equipment, and stay away from the machine during any lightning activity. The pipe pedestals in an open field make perfect lightning receptors, and the water-filled piping can carry an electrical current for long distances.
- When assembling or transporting irrigation equipment, try to keep pipes parallel to the ground and move them horizontally rather than vertically to avoid contact with overhead power lines.
- Repeated circuit breaker trips or blown fuses during operation could indicate a serious electrical hazard and should be professionally checked and corrected.
- When servicing the machine, always shut off and lock out the master electric control switch.


Break axis in Makie
Hi, I am pretty new to Makie, but I am loving the package so far! Is it possible to have a broken y-axis in Makie? E.g. I want to plot:
xs1 = randn(10)
ys1 = randn(10)
xs2 = randn(10).+ 3
ys2 = randn(10).+ 10
fig = Figure()
ax = fig[1,1] = Axis(fig)
scatter!(ax, xs1, ys1)
scatter!(ax, xs2, ys2)
without resorting to a log scale and have the clusters on the same height. Any help would be much appreciated!
So I asked about this on the Makie Slack channel and apparently this is not implemented yet. However, Julius Krumbiegel suggested I try the following to manually implement what I want:
possible manually, yes, but there's no premade function for it. you would currently have to make two axes, plot the same thing in them, set limits how you want, hide the adjacent spines so it looks like one axis, then the only "tricky" thing is adding diagonal lines at the spine ends. this is best made dependent on the axis position, so that it stays correct
you can grab the ends of the spines from the lineaxis objects in ax.elements, they have an attribute called endpoints. grab the correct points and calculate your diagonals in figure space, then plot the lines into figure.scene
For anyone else who needs to implement this manually, here is the code. This does everything except add that "broken" y axis. I could not manage to implement those diagonal "broken axis indicator" lines. However, if you are in a pinch for time, just add them manually using Inkscape :slight_smile:
If anyone figures out how to add them, please reply to this topic.
using CairoMakie
xs1 = randn(10)
ys1 = randn(10)
xs2 = randn(10).+ 3
ys2 = randn(10).+ 10
fig = Figure();
ax1 = fig[1,1] = Axis(fig)
scatter!(ax1, [xs1; xs2], [ys1; ys2])
hideydecorations!(ax1, ticklabels=false)
ylims!(ax1, 8.5, 11.0)
ax1.yticks = 9:1:11
ax2 = fig[2,1] = Axis(fig)
scatter!(ax2, [xs1; xs2], [ys1; ys2])
hideydecorations!(ax2, ticklabels=false)
hidexdecorations!(ax2, ticklabels=false)
ylims!(ax2, 0.0, 2.5)
ax2.yticks = 0:1:2
rowsize!(fig.layout, 2, Relative(2/3))
rowgap!(fig.layout, 1, Relative(0.0))
Label(fig[:, 0], "Manually broken y", rotation=pi/2)
_USER_, you could draw a horizontal grey line where the axis is broken, with an annotation of the gap used. E.g., y = (2.5, 8.5)
it looks like your y-scale changes, say 0-1 versus 10-11, is that desired?
Yes, so the type of figure I was going for looks like this:
Do you mean a horizontal line spanning the entire figure? If so, yes that would be a programmatic way of indicating where it breaks, however it would not look as pretty as e.g. the matplotlib version (see here)
I mean that the distance between 0 and 1 and between 10 and 11, along the y axis, does not look the same. The distance between 0 and 1 looks bigger. The image you showed with the squiggly broken axis has the same metric near 0 and near 1. Some problem when creating your figure maybe?
Ah, now I see what you mean. Nope, that is not desired, but I suppose it could be fixed by just setting the y limits and the y ticks of both figures?
You could fix the relative scaling by giving both rows an Auto(ratio) size where ratio is the relative length of each axis. For the diagonal lines, you just need to do linesegments!(fig.scene, diagonal_points). The points you have to calculate given the endpoints of the axis lines, an angle that you like, and a line length that you like. You should calculate the points using lift(endpoints) do points... etc so that they update whenever the axis shifts.
Here's a possible implementation, although it uses some rather internal things:
f = Figure()
lims = Node(((0.0, 1.3), (7.6, 10.0)))
g = f[1, 1] = GridLayout()
ax_top = Axis(f[1, 1][1, 1], title = "Broken Y-Axis")
ax_bottom = Axis(f[1, 1][2, 1])
on(lims) do (bottom, top)
 ylims!(ax_bottom, bottom)
 ylims!(ax_top, top)
 rowsize!(g, 1, Auto(top[2] - top[1]))
 rowsize!(g, 2, Auto(bottom[2] - bottom[1]))
hidexdecorations!(ax_top, grid = false)
ax_top.bottomspinevisible = false
ax_bottom.topspinevisible = false
linkxaxes!(ax_top, ax_bottom)
rowgap!(g, 10)
angle = pi/8
linelength = 30
segments = lift(
 ) do p1, p2, p3, p4
 ps = Point2f0[p1, p2, p3, p4]
 map(ps) do p
 a = p + Point2f0(cos(angle), sin(angle)) * 0.5 * linelength
 b = p - Point2f0(cos(angle), sin(angle)) * 0.5 * linelength
 (a, b)
linesegments!(f.scene, segments)
scatter!(ax_top, randn(100, 2).* 0.5.+ 9)
scatter!(ax_bottom, randn(100, 2).* 0.2.+ 0.25)
 1. rescale data such that they fit into the same coordinate system.
 2. plot as you would
 3. re-annotate y-ticks
In your example, you have two chunks of data, share same x, but different ys, one from [0, 0.25], and one from [0.75, 1]. To set up common coordinate system, from [0, 0.5], where [0, 0.25] map to [0, 0.25], and [0.75, 1] map to [0.25, 0.5], this should be one simple broadcast. If you need log-scale, just do it.
i dont really know how to do the "//", but given it serves as attention grabbing marker, you could just plot some shaded region, depends on the determined coordinate system


Serbian troches
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Serbian troche is a trochaic fivelifter without a caesura and rhyming, whereby individual troches can also be replaced by spondes. The designation goes back to the catalectic ten-syllable of the Serbian folk poetry, in particular the Serbian heroic songs, and was introduced into German poetry through their reproduction with Trochaic five-pointers by Johann Gottfried Herder. In the following examples can be found mainly in (historical) ballads by Gottfried August Bürger, Johann Wolfgang Goethe ( lament of the noble women of Asan Aga, The Bride of Corinth ), Friedrich Rückert, August von Platen ( Abbasids ), Emanuel Geibel, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gottfried Keller, Detlev von Liliencron, Agnes Miegel ( Duke Samo ), Josef Weinträger ( The Trochäus ) and Max Mell ( The Fair Weather Witch ).
As an example from Platen's verse epic The Abbasids the first verses:
A thousand tents were pitched
through the field at the gates of Baghdad,
To celebrate the festival of the new year:
On the throne sat the great Harun
As caliph with all signs of dignity,
ring in the circle his crown officials [...]
Individual evidence
 1. ^ August Graf von Platen: The Abbassids. In: Collected works of Count August von Platen. Volume 4. JG Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1847, p. 227.


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The Superhero Database Classification number, or SHDB Class, is a number that represents the overall 'power' of a character. All traits of a character are used for calculating the Classification.
What it DOESN'T mean
This doesn't mean that a higher class would always beat a lower class character. But the bigger the difference in Class is, the more obvious it is who'll win in a fight.
How is this calculated
( INT^1.3 + (STR*0.5 )^2 + (SPE*0.5)^2 + DUR^1.6 + (POW + (SPS*SPL))^2 + COM^1.8 ) ^ TIER
Super Power Score and Level
Every Super Power has a score (SPS) that is used to calculate the Class. Each Super Power also has 3 levels (SPL). The level is set when connecting that Super Power to a character. The level determines the final score, of the Super Power, being used in the calculation.


What is SpellDial?
 SpellDial is a technology that allows you to dial names instead of numbers. This is applicable only for those who have setup a spelldial account. Once you have checked the availability of your username you can register it to point to a specific number. So instead of dialing a number, you dial their username.
 For example, if Jonina's username is joninahottie and it points to (_PHONE_, simply spell out her username (joninahottie) and it will immediately connect you to her. So anyone who dials joninahottie will be dialing (_PHONE_.
 The great thing about SpellDial is if you have a change of number, all you have to do is change the number your username points to. This saves you from all the hassle of contacting your friends and telling them you have a new number.
Can I do this in my phone?
 If you own an iPhone or an Android, yes! Just download the SpellDial app, and you can start calling each other through your spelldial usernames, a.k.a. "spelldialing!"
I don't know anyone who has a spelldial. How can I use this?
 The best thing to do is to tell your friends about SpellDial so that they can create their own. Then you can easily call each other using SpellDial names.
I don't own an iPhone or an Android, can I use it on my phone?
 Currently, you cannot call others through their spelldial name if you're not using an iPhone or an Android. However, you can setup a spelldial account and people who use an iPhone or Android can contact you via your spelldial name. You can setup your account here.
The SpellDial app doesn't work when my phone is not connected to the internet. Why?
 SpellDial servers can only be accessed through the internet. Therefore, if the SpellDial app is not connected to the internet, then it cannot get the equivalent number of the spelldial you entered.
 We understand that only some parts of the world have constant internet access virtually everywhere. So we're also working to develop technology that will allow you to use SpellDial from an ordinary GSM mobile phone or even a PSTN landline. Although we don't know how long it would take, it could come sooner than you expect. So make sure that you get the SpellDial name that you want before someone else takes it.
When can I use SpellDial on my non-internet mobile phone or landline?
 Before you can use it on your non-internet mobile phone or landline, phone manufacturers and telephone networks need to add some equipment and configurations to their systems in order to provide SpellDial services. Realistically speaking, the more people who join SpellDial, the faster the companies will upgrade. Because the more people join SpellDial, the greater the demand will be on them to enable SpellDial on non-internet phones.
 So if you want to help to make this happen sooner, you can help by joining and telling more people about it. Be a part of this. Let's make this happen!
I'm a developer. Do you have an API?
 Yes, we do! You can read more about it here.


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Giant Spanish slugs have been mating with their British counterparts to create a mutant strain of "superslugs".
The Spanish molluscs are thought to have arrived in the UK in salads during the summer months, and have already spread all the way across the country to Wales.
The Mirror reports that they can grow up to 15cm in length, and produce hundreds more eggs than the typical British slug, which could spell trouble for the indigenous slug population.
Slug expert Les Noble of Aberdeen University said: "These slugs are like conquistadors were to the Aztecs. Native slugs can't keep pace and may become extinct.
"They are simply being overrun and when you consider the Spanish slug will happily make a meal out of a dead rabbit as much as out of dog muck you can see why they are so successful.
"We have already seen when these slugs move into an area, the native slugs vanish almost immediately. They can wipe out whole crops and prevent them growing there again."
A 72-year-old from Wales has claimed to have seen the giant slugs in her garden "eating snails", and added: "Our dog caught one, it was so big I thought it was a mouse."


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by Yandisa Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes
To explore how survey respondents perceived their experiences and the impact of participating in a survey, and to assess adverse consequences resulting from participation. Design
Qualitative study involving purposefully selected participants who had participated in a household-based survey. Methods
This qualitative study was nested within a survey that investigated the prevalence of gender-based violence perpetration and victimization with adult men and women in South Africa. 13 maleand 10 female-in-depth interviews were conducted with survey respondents. Results
A majority of informants, without gender-differences, perceived the survey interview as a rare opportunity to share their adverse and or personal experiences in a'safe' space. Gender-differences were noted in reporting perceptions of risks involved with survey participation. Some women remained fearful after completing the survey, that should breach of confidentiality or full survey content disclosure occur, they may be victimized by partners as a punishment for survey participation without men's approval. A number of informants generally discussed their survey participation with others. However, among women with interpersonal violence history or currently in abusive relationships, full survey content disclosure was done with fear; the partner responses were negative, and few women reported receiving threatening remarks but none reported being assaulted. In contrast no man reported adverse reaction by others. Informants with major life adversities reported that the survey had made them to relive the experiences causing them sadness and pain at the time. No informant perceived the survey as emotionally harmful or needed professional support because of survey questions. Rather the vast majority perceived benefit from survey participation. Conclusion
Whilst no informant felt answering the survey questions had caused them emotional or physical harm, some were distressed and anxious, albeit temporarily. Research protocols need to put in place safeguards where appropriate so that this group receives support and protection.


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Red Swamp Crayfish
Adults of this species are dark red (nearly black on the carapace) and have a wedge-shaped black stripe on the abdomen. Juveniles are a uniform gray, sometimes overlain by dark wavy lines. The pincers are narrow and long. The carapace is not separated at the middle by a space (areola). The carapace is conspicuously granular (roughened) in adults. The rostrum has lateral spines or notches near its tip. This crayfish most closely resembles the White River crayfish, which differs most obviously in having an areola. Young of the White River crayfish usually have spots on the carapace.


Sprite vs Coke: What's the Difference?
Sprite vs Coke
Both Sprite and Coke are owned by The Coca-Cola Company.
Coke was created by a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia named Dr. John S. Pemberton and was first introduced in 1886. Businessman, Asa Candler, purchased the Coke recipe from Pemberton in 1888 and a few years later started The Coca-Cola Company. Coke is currently the best-selling soda in the world and has been so for many decades.
Sprite is a much younger brand of soda compared to Coke. It wasn't until 1959 that Sprite was first produced in West Germany as Clear Lemon Fanta. When the beverage was launched in the United States in 1961 it was manufactured under the name Sprite.
Coca-Cola (Coke) – Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine.
Most people are aware that Sprite is a lemon-lime soda and Coke is a cola. Naturally, they have different ingredients based on the type of sodas they are. While the ingredients for both products are listed above, they are not specific with the complete formulas used by The Coca-Cola Company.
For example, one theory is that Coke's flavoring comes from coca leaf extract (stripped of cocaine), citric acid, caffeine, sugar, water, lime juice, vanilla, caramel, alcohol, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander, neroli and cinnamon [source]. Of course, Sprite is citrus based and is at least partly flavored by the citric acid ingredient. Like Coke, its true formula is an unknown.
Sprite is a caffeine-free beverage. However, if you look at the ingredients of Coke listed above, you will notice caffeine as an ingredient. The caffeine in Coke is low in comparison to coffee and many energy drinks. It has 34 milligrams in a 12 fluid ounce serving. As a reference, a brewed coffee has approximately 144 milligrams of caffeine and a Red Bull has 114 milligrams of caffeine per 12 fluid ounces.
Caffeine in Coke
Serving SizeCaffeineCaffeine/Fluid Ounce
7.5 fl oz21mg2.8mg
12 fl oz34mg2.83mg
16.9 fl oz48mg2.84mg
20 fl oz57mg 2.85mg
Nutrition Facts
Let's take a look at the nutrition facts of Sprite vs Coke. Specifically, is one "healthier" than the other in regard to the nutrition data such as calories and sugar.
Both have 140 calories, and no fat or protein. Sprite has 20 milligrams more sodium, but one gram less sugar and carbs. Overall, most people won't opt for one soda over the other simple for better nutrition. The caffeine content (or lack thereof) is likely a bigger factor than the difference in nutrition between Sprite vs Coke.
Serving Size12 fl oz (1 can)12 fl oz (1 can)
Total Fat0g0g
Total Carbohydrates38g39g
Total Sugars38g39g
While prices of Sprite and Coke vary from store to store, they are commonly the same price when each is bought at the same store. The table below provides an idea of the prices some people may pay for Sprite or Coke at popular grocery stores. Prices may vary based on where you purchase your soda.
SEE ALSO>>>Sprite vs 7Up
2 Liter Prices – Sprite vs Coke
Sprite (2 Liters)Coke (2 Liters)
Big Lots$1.90not available
Giantnot available$2.29
12 Pack/12 fl oz Cans Prices – Sprite vs Coke
Sprite (12 Pack/12 fl oz Cans)Coke (12 Pack/12 fl oz Cans)
Walmartnot available$4.98
Big Lots$5.15$5.15
Poll: Sprite vs Coke – Pick A Favorite
Okay, Sprite and Coke are totally different sodas. However, if you had to pick a favorite, which one would you choose? Vote for the one you like best in the poll below!


rest of the amount (that the lender believes is owed) is written -off by the lender.
SUIT -FILED / WILFUL DEFAULT In case the lender has filed a suit against you, there is specific reporting prescribed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). This is as follows:
1. No Suit Filed (or the field will be blank)2. Suit filed3. Wilful Default4. Suit filed (Wilful Default)
WRITTEN -OFF AMOUNT (PRINCIPAL) This field reflects the principal amount written -off by the lender. It follows that the difference between the total and principal written -off amounts is the interest
amount that has been written -off on this account.
WRITTEN -OFF AMOUNT (TOTAL) When a loan is written -off there is an interest and principal component. This field reflects the total interest and principal amount written -off.
WRITTEN -OFF AND SETTLED STATUS If this section is populated, the lender has either restructured your loan by offering you different terms (extended the loan tenure or reduced the interest rate, etch
written -off this amount, or settled at some amount less than what the lender believes it was owed.
The possible values are as follows:
1. Restructured Loan 2. Restructured Loan (Govt. Mandated) 3. Written -off (WO) 4. Settled 5. Post (WO) Settled
What are the main factors that affect my CIBIL score?
Many factors affect your credit score, the following being the five main ones:
 - Default or Settled status: Status of your loans is listed in the report. Nothing brings your score down more severely than a loan that has not been paid (defaulted) or has been paid only partially (settled).
 - Late payments: Paying your payments late can also hurt your score big time. The more payments you miss, the worse will be your score.
 - High credit utilization ratio: How much percentage of your total credit you use each month also affects your score. Your score drops when you have a high credit utilization ratio.
 - Unhealthy secured to unsecured loan ration: Secured loans include collateral while unsecured ones don't. If you only have unsecured loans, like personal loans, or most of your loans are unsecured loans, your score will be adversely impacted.
 - Exhibiting "Credit Hungry" behavior: Seeking out too many loans in a short period is described as "Credit Hungry". Such a behavior is unfavorably looked at by lenders.
Get yours at CreditSmart and CIBIL.com


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What does MERLIN stand for?
What does MERLIN mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: MERLIN.
We've found a total of 6 definitions for MERLIN:
Multi Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network
Missouri Education And Research Libraries Information Network
Mail Evaluation Readability Lookup Instrument
Multi Element Radio Linked Interfometer Network
Madison Entrepreneur Resource Learning and Innovation Network
Motivation Engagement and Recovery Learning Initiative Network
What does MERLIN mean?
- (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor


In partnership with the Maine Memory Network Maine Memory Network
Maine Memory Network
Experiences of Jewish Teenagers in Maine
Text by Madeline Kurtz
Images from Colby College Special Collections, Bowdoin College Library, and Maine Historical Society
In many ways, 20th century Jewish teens were exactly the same as the other teens throughout the state: they played sports, socialized regularly, and went to summer camp.
So what made them different? Jewish teens in Maine experienced discrimination in the first half of the 20th century, whether they were being excluded from fraternities on college campuses or being called names on the basketball court.
Nevertheless, Jewish teens established their own organizations that were distinctively Jewish, while still embracing and assimilating into the Maine lifestyle. They founded their own fraternities, attended Jewish summer camps, and experienced great success in athletics.
Beginning in the 1920s and continuing today, Jewish teenagers in Maine have sought both to integrate into Maine's teen culture and to establish their own identity as Jewish teens.
For these teens, their Jewish and Maine identities were equally important in their lives. Thus, the two cultures fused together to create a single identity of which the teens were extremely proud.
Madeline Kurtz of Westport, Connecticut, is a member of the Colby College Class of 2014.


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Background: Decision-making processes in a medical setting are complex, dynamic and under time pressure, often with serious consequences for a patient's condition.
Objective: The principal aim of the present study was to trace and map the individual diagnostic process of real medical cases using a Decision Process Matrix [DPM]).
Methods: The naturalistic decision-making process of 11 residents and a total of 55 medical cases were recorded in an emergency department, and a DPM was drawn up according to a semi-structured technique following four steps: 1) observing and recording relevant information throughout the entire diagnostic process, 2) assessing options in terms of suspected diagnoses, 3) drawing up an initial version of the DPM, and 4) verifying the DPM, while adding the confidence ratings.
Results: The DPM comprised an average of 3.2 suspected diagnoses and 7.9 information units (cues). The following three-phase pattern could be observed: option generation, option verification, and final diagnosis determination. Residents strove for the highest possible level of confidence before making the final diagnoses (in two-thirds of the medical cases with a rating of practically certain) or excluding suspected diagnoses (with practically impossible in half of the cases).
Discussion: The following challenges have to be addressed in the future: real-time capturing of emerging suspected diagnoses in the memory of the physician, definition of meaningful information units, and a more contemporary measurement of confidence.
Conclusions: DPM is a useful tool for tracing real and individual diagnostic processes. The methodological approach with DPM allows further investigations into the underlying cognitive diagnostic processes on a theoretical level and improvement of individual clinical reasoning skills in practice.