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Today is May 19, 2013 so that means that 9291 days before today would be December 11, 1987.
You can check this by using the date difference calculator to measure the number of days from today to Dec 11, 1987.
Need to calculate 9291 days before a specific date? Use the Days From Date calculator.
December 11th, 1987 is a Friday. It is the 345th day of the year, and in the 50th week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Sunday), or the 4th quarter of the year. There are 31 days in this month. 1987 is not a leap year, so there are 365 days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States is 12/11/1987.
In some cases, you might want to skip weekends and count only the weekdays. This could be useful if you know you have a deadline based on a certain number of business days. If you are trying to see what day falls on the exact date difference of 9,291 weekdays before today, you can count up each day skipping Saturdays and Sundays.
Start your calculation with today, which falls on a Sunday. Counting backward, the next day would be a Saturday.
To get exactly nine thousand two hundred and ninety-one weekdays before now, you actually need to count 13,008 total days (including weekend days). That means that 9291 weekdays before today would be October 7, 1977.
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This site provides an online Days From Today calculator to help you find the date that occurs exactly X days from now. You can also enter a negative number to find out when X days before today happened to fall. You can use this tool to figure out a deadline if you have a certain number of days remaining. Or read the full page to learn more about the due date if you're counting business days or weekdays only, skipping Saturday and Sunday. If you're trying to measure the number of days between two dates, you can switch to the Date Difference calculator instead.
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Educational Policy, Mission, School Motto
- The Educational Policy of Aoyama Gakuin
- The Mission of Aoyama Gakuin University
- Aoyama Gakuin School Motto
The Educational Policy of Aoyama Gakuin
The Mission of Aoyama Gakuin University
Aoyama Gakuin School Motto
Jesus Christ spoke of "the salt of the earth" and "the light of the world," but this was a proclamation rather than an exhortation. Aoyama Gakuin is founded on the basis of the proclamation that your life is of inestimable value.
The Salt of the Earth: Salt adds taste, prevents spoilage and is used for purification. The human body needs a 0.7% concentration salt and we must consume 10–15 grams a day to live. This school will continue to produce individuals who strive to contribute significantly to society, resist corruption, and purify its degradation with creativity and humility.
 Light provides brightness and warmth. Light leads people like a guiding light at a lighthouse, and it also disinfects and nourishes. In the same way, this school will forthrightly endeavor to create a robust and energetic society, igniting the spark of hope.
In contrast to its literal meanings, earth and world stand for "a world without God" and "the loss of human dignity." Hence, as the individuals who make up Aoyama Gakuin we are blessed by God as "Salt" and "Light," and we will strive to fulfill our purpose.

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What is a Thermal Lance?
A Thermic Lance is a steel pipe packed with mixed metal wires.
Pure oxygen gas is passed through the pipe from an oxygen cylinder and regulator. The end of the pipe is lit with a high temperature source, e.g. an oxy-acetylene torch. The iron in the steel burns in the oxygen coming down the pipe to produce enormous heat and a liquid slag of iron oxides and other materials, which dribbles and splashes out, just like an enormous firework sparkler.
The temperature reached in the centre of the combustion zone is approx. 4000 degrees Celsius, greater than the melting point of any substance on earth. By the way of comparison, concrete melts at 1800 - 2500 degrees Celsius and steel at less than 1500 degrees Celsius. Also, because it runs on oxygen, the lance can cut underwater.
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Arcane Reach allows you to target a close burst or blast starting 2 squares away from you. Thunderwave pushes each target in a close blast 3.
The wizard chose his origin square and wanted the thunderwave to point back at himself. Is this allowed? Or is the push still determined from the wizard's square?
As to why? Well, he desperately needed to get out of his own Wall of Fire. Kids, be careful around fire!
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The consensus on the forums seems to be... unclear. I think the best response is this post:
Glossary definitions from PHB (for Arcane Reach) and Essentials (for origin square and push).
Arcane Reach: When using a close arcane attack power, you can choose a square within 2 squares of yours as the origin square. The power still follows the rules for close attacks.
Push (forced movement): Pushing a target means that each square of the forced movement must move the target farther away from the creature or effect that is pushing it.
Origin Square: The square where an effect originates. Every power has an origin square. A power's attack or utility type determines the origin square's location.
By RAW, you would push the target away from the origin square.
So if you used Thunderwave (a close blast 3) and decide that the origin square is 2 squares away from you (from the Arcane Reach feat), then any creature pushed with Thunderwave would be pushed away from the origin square (2 squares away).
Which also supports logic "origin from any square 2 squares away, thus you can attack yourself from the target line: Target: Each creature in blast, as you're a creature.
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Does this mean then that the target is yourself? Are you allowed to self-target with attack powers? – Rob Jun 12 '12 at 14:16
No, the "target" is not yourself, but you count as a creature such that if a power that would not otherwise target you targets you (via arcane reach) you are a valid target for that power. – Brian Ballsun-Stanton Jun 12 '12 at 14:35
Self-targetting with attack powers is an interesting question. I urge you to ask that as a proper question. – Brian Ballsun-Stanton Jun 12 '12 at 14:36
In my opinion? That's a clever solution, it's cool, and I would let it fly. DM fiat is a spectacular solution to unclear problems like this. Is it Rules As Written? Maybe not. But it works for me.
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I totally let it fly! However, in D&D4 there is usually a "right" answer. As a group, we've decided to abide by the DM's call during game night and then search for the "right" answer after. – Pat Ludwig Oct 13 '10 at 16:07
Ah, that makes sense. – Player's Side Blog Oct 15 '10 at 14:12
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Grass snakes and humans
Because of their liking for gardens and particularly for compost heaps, grass snakes are often encountered in gardens. They are harmless to humans, though they can act quite aggressively if cornered, puffing up their bodies, hissing loudly and even lunging to make a strike with a closed mouth. However, that is not their only behaviour when they feel threatened. Sometimes they play dead, with mouth open and tongue hanging out. If they are actually caught, they will struggle violently and emit a foul-smelling substance from their anal glands.
Photo of grass snake playing dead (below) by Iain Leach.
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Compass Needle in Uniform and Rotating Magnetic Fields
A compass needle undergoes forced oscillations under the influence of a uniform magnetic field and a rotating magnetic field with angular velocity (black arrow). The compass needle has a moment of inertia, a friction constant, and a magnetic moment ℳ. This is a simple example of a system that shows chaotic motion. In a real experiment it is impossible to repeat a particular motion from initial conditions and because the system is chaotic.


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Rowland Tappan Berthoff (September 20, 1921 – March 25, 2001) was an American historian, working in the fields of immigration and social life in the USA. He is best known for his 1971 book An Unsettled People: Order and Disorder in American Life.
He was born in
Toledo, Ohio, attended Oberlin College, did graduate work at Harvard University where he received a doctorate in 1952, as a student of Oscar Handlin. Berthoff was an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University from 1953, and then a Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, from 1962. He was made chairman of Washington University's history department and named William Elliott Smith Professor of History in 1971.
social history and ethnic history. His 1960 article on "The American Social Order: A Conservative Hypothesis," called for a conservative interpretation of American history.
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American Historical Review, April 1960, Vol. 65 Issue 3, pp 495-514 in JSTOR
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Researchers at King's College London have identified a gene linked to age-related degeneration of the intervertebral discs, a common cause of lower back pain.
Back pain costs the United Kingdom an estimated £7billion ($11 billion in US dollars) a year due to sick leave and treatment costs. Lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) is inherited in 65%-80% of people with the condition, suggesting that genes play a key role. Until now, the genetic cause of lower back pain associated with LDD was unknown, says King's.
For this study, scientists compared MRI images of the spine in 4,600 individuals with genome-wide association data, which mapped the genes of all the volunteers. They identified that the gene PARK2 was implicated in people with degenerate discs and could affect the speed at which they deteriorate.
The researchers say the results show that the gene may be switched off in people with LDD. Although it is still unclear how this might happen, it is thought that environmental factors, such as lifestyle and diet, could trigger this switch by making changes known as epigenetic modifications to the gene.
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The importance of establishing personalities in esports teams
Are you looking for ways to optimize your team in esports? Do you want to become a well-organized team? A team that can work together despite different personalities? Then this article may be just for you. In this article, we take a look at how understanding your teammates' (and your own) personality can strengthen your team. However, we will not be covering all areas of personalities and how they affect your teamwork. Instead, this article intends to explain the importance of establishing personalities in esports teams and what you can do to become aware of these personalities.
Why personalities in esports matter
When playing games in teams, whether it be League of Legends (LoL) or Dota 2, there are always different roles on your team. Examples of roles could be Top-laner, AD Carry and Support in LoL, or Hard Carry, Mid and Offlaner in Dota 2. The more different roles you have on your team, the better the team becomes. It's the same outside the game, when working as a team in esports.
No one is identical and let's appreciate that. But we can have similar personality traits that helps understanding what kind of personality we have. Our personality affects everything we do and therefore, it's tied to how we act in a team. Understanding your different personalities in a team helps your team to work together on becoming aware of your strengths and weaknesses you possess. And that leads to creating common goals, which leads to better communication, which leads to optimized teamwork, which is important in esports.
What kind of personalities do your team possess?
It can seem difficult to write all your personality traits down and understand their meaning. Luckily, there are tools like personality tests that can help you define your personality. An example of that, is 16Personalities. This site gives you the opportunity to take a personality test. It also contains articles and theories about personality traits.
16Personalities divides personality into 4 categories (Analysts, Diplomats, Sentinels and Explorers) and each category is divided into 4 sub-categories. Understanding your own personality opens the door to objective self-awareness. It helps you see aspects of yourself that could be improved and how you can optimize your strengths. This is important in a team in esports. By developing self-awareness, we become better at communicating with others. That helps you work on your teamwork, motivate each other, create common goals and help you understand how every person plays a part in your team, despite different personalities.
To sum it all up, understanding your team's different personalities is a vital factor in esports. Taking a personality test ( and talking about it with your team is a good start. This creates self-awareness which helps understand our own weaknesses and strengths. This leads to better communication, which leads to better teamwork, creating common goals, increased motivation. And that leads to better team performance in esports.
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This study uses household-level panel data on smallholder farmers in Ethiopia to estimate how rural population density (RPD) affects agricultural intensification and productivity. Our results suggest that higher RPD is associated with smaller farm sizes, and has a positive effect on input demand, represented by increased fertilizer use per hectare. Overall, increased input use does not lead to a corresponding increase in staple crop yields, and thus farm income declines as population density increases. This suggests a situation where farmers in areas of high RPD may be stuck in place, unable to sustainably intensify in the face of rising RPD and declining farm sizes.
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Efficient Checking of Individual Rewards Properties in Markov Population Models
|Title||Efficient Checking of Individual Rewards Properties in Markov Population Models|
|Publication Type||Conference Paper|
|Year of Publication||2015|
|Authors||Bortolussi L, Hillston J|
|Conference Name||Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL)|
|Keywords||Markov population models, Rewards, Stochastic Approximation, Stochastic model checking|
In recent years fluid approaches to the analysis of Markov populations models have been demonstrated to have great pragmatic value. Initially developed to estimate the behaviour of the system in terms of the expected values of population counts, the fluid approach has subsequently been extended to more sophisticated interrogations of models through its embedding within model checking procedures. In this paper we extend recent work on checking CSL properties of individual agents within a Markovian population model, to consider the checking of properties which incorporate rewards.


of my screen, while opening the generated log file on the right (don't pay too much attention to the colors, the discoloration is due to how the alpha channel is being dumped):
It is then usually a rather straightforward task to find a suitable hash code by following these steps:
 - Find the point in the image dump where the first HUD elements appear. In our case, this happens when going from "dump113" to "dump114".
 - Use text search to find the corresponding line in the log file.
 - Continue on downwards to the first call of "SetPixelShader." The second parameter to this call is the hash code we are looking for.
One complication you might notice is that the HUD is already displayed in "dump111". This can happen in many games if a framebuffer used in a previous frame is not cleared. A more solid guideline for (1) in such cases would be "find the last point in the frame dump where no HUD elements are visible", but a bit of experimentation might be required even so.
Creating a Game Profile
In order to use our newly gained hash code, all that remains is creating a game profile for Mass Effect 3. This means creating a subdirectory in the "config" path of the GeDoSaTo installation named after the game executable—that is, as we figured out for the whitelist entry in the beginning, "MassEffect3"—and putting a "GeDoSaTo.ini" file into it. We can then use the built-in editor of GeDoSaToTool to edit it and add the hash code, like so:
We could also add more settings which we only want to apply for Mass Effect 3. Additionally, by placing a "post.fx" shader file in the same directory we can arbitrarily change the post-processing shader used for the game. As a small demonstration that our targeted injection is working, I created a shader which turns the image into a grayscale rendering:
As you can see, only the 3D rendered parts of the game are affected, while the HUD elements still retain their color. In addition to targeted postprocessing, we can now also use the "takeHUDlessScreenshot" keybinding in Mass Effect 3.
While its main purpose is still high-quality downsampling, the current version of GeDoSaTo can also be used as an alternative to SweetFX for the injection of post-processing effects. It goes beyond the scope of similar tools as, with a bit more effort, it can be tuned to apply only where you really want it to, without affecting HUD or UI elements.
If you find some hashes or create good profiles for games which are not yet supported, please do take a moment to contribute them to the project at Github, so that all users of GeDoSaTo can benefit from your efforts. Github offers an easy to use interface and plenty of documentation for how to set up pull requests, which are the best way to contribute—and of course your contribution will be immortalized in the GeDoSaTo version history!


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Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you want to send someone a Twitter message but you can't remember their Twitter username although you do know their real name? Or where you can remember their twitter username or their real name, but you do remember who they work for, or some other biographical fact about them that might appear in their Twitter biography? If that sounds familiar, here's a trick that may help…
… a searchable Twitter friends and followers contact list in Google Spreadsheets.
It's based on Martin Hawksey's rather wonderful Export Twitter Followers and Friends using a Google Spreadsheet (I have to admit – Martin has left me way behind now when it comes to tinkering with Google Apps Script…!) To get started, you'll need a Google docs account, and then have to indulge in a quick secret handshake between Google docs and Twitter, but Martin's instruction sheet is a joy to follow:-) Follow the *** Google Spreadsheet to Export Twitter Friends and Followers *** link on Martin's page, then come back here once you've archived your Twitter friends and/or followers…
..done that? Here's how to make the contact list searchable… I thought it should have been trivial, but it turned out to be quite involved!
The first thing I did was create a drop down list to let the user select Friends or Followers as the target of the search. (Martin's application loads friends and followers into different sheets.)
The next step was to generate a query. To search for a particular term on a specified sheet we can use a QUERY formula that takes the following form:
=query(Friends!B:E,"select B,C,D,E where D contains 'JISC'")
Friends! specifies the sheet we want to search over; B:E says we want to pull columns B, C, D and E from the Friends sheet into the current sheet; the select statement will display results over four columns (B, C, D and E) from Friends for rows where the entry in column D contains the search term JISC.
To pull in the search term from cell D1 we can use a query of the form:
=query(Friends!B:E,concatenate("select B,C,D,E where D contains '",D1,"'"))
The =concatenate formula constructs the search query. Make sure you use the right sort of quotes when constructing the string – Google Spreadsheets seems to prefer the use of double quotes wherever possible!
To search over two columns, (for example, the real name and the description columns of the twitter friends/follower data) we can use a query of the form:
=query(Followers!B:E,concatenate("select B,C,D,E where C contains '",D1,"' or D contains '",D1,"'")
Again – watch out for the quotes – the result we want from the concatenation is something like:
=query(Followers!B:E,concatenate("select B,C,D,E where C contains 'Jisc' or D contains 'Jisc')
so we have to explicitly code in the single quote in the concatenation formula.
Unfortunately, the query formula is case sensitive, which can cause the search to fail because we haven't taken (mis)use of case into account in our search term. This means we need to go defensive in the query formulation – in the following example, I force everything to upper case – search corpus as well as search terms:
=query(Followers!B:E,concatenate("select B,C,D,E where upper(C) contains upper('",D1,"') or upper(D) contains upper('",D1,"')")
The final step is to define the sheet we want to search – Friends! or Followers! – depending on the setting of cell B1 in our search sheet. I had idly though I could use a concatenate formula to create this, but concatenate returns a string and we need to define a range. In the end, the workaround I adopted was an if statement, that chooses a query with an appropriate range set explicitly/hardwired within the formula depending on whether we are are searching Friends or Followers. Here's the complete formula, which i put into cell E1.
=if(B1="Friends",query(Friends!B:E,concatenate("select B,C,D,E where upper(C) contains upper('",D1,"') or upper(D) contains upper('",D1,"')")),query(Followers!B:E,concatenate("select B,C,D,E where upper(C) contains upper('",D1,"') or upper(D) contains upper('",D1,"')")))
I now have a query sheet defined that allows me to search over my friends or followers, as required, according to their real name or a search term that appears in their biography description.


Project SafeGuard
What is Project SafeGuard?
Project Safeguard is a project in partnership with the community and local Law Enforcement. This online program promotes communication and gives police quick access to important information about a person with a disability such as Autism, Dementia, etc. This would include any disability where the individual displays a tendency to wander or shows other similar tendencies.
This program provides information that is critical for law enforcement prior to an officer's arrival at a scene and/or prior to contacting an individual such as their name, birthday, physical description, emergency contact information, known triggers, and behaviors, etc.
What happens when a person joins Project SafeGuard?
Once the person joins the program, the information will be verified with the parent or guardian. The information will then be placed into a database in the Saratoga Springs and Bluffdale Record Management and Dispatch Systems. If you do not reside within the Saratoga Springs Police Department jurisdiction, contact your local police department to inquire if they participate in Project Safeguard or a similar program.
When possible, an officer trained in Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) will be sent to the scene.
Register Annually
How to Register
To register, an adult family member or guardian of the individual should complete the following form.
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Sun drying minimizes food wastage
Quality products and longer shelf life
40 % of cultivated plant crops in East Africa are wasted, because they reach decay before use. Therefore, there is a great need for solutions, that can increase shelf life.
Drying can extend the shelf life of most plant crops from 2 days up to 2 years.
In this way, farmers are not forced to sell their crops at a few days' notice, which otherwise significantly decreases the market price. At the same time, drying significantly reduces the weight of the product, which means that transport costs are also reduced significantly.
Therefore, easy access to drying will improve the situation in many ways for both farmers and consumers of various plant crops.
The method is already used at farmer level, but there is a clear need for larger cooperatives, with greater ability to pay, to access the same type of technology.
Based on this, SolarVenti is developing a drying unit fit for this purpose.
Julienne is testing the SolarVenti solar dryer and reports to us, that the process takes half the time as current drying methods and that the quality is approved.
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Strasser Name History
Strasser's come from the village Strass near Ulm. The village goes back to the Limes Road of the Roman empire. A thousand years ago there lived a half dozen families without last names in the village. They were owned by Cloister Elching and a dramatic event around AD 1000 gave them freedom and a name.They moved down the Danube, up the Nekar and spread across Franconia. Out of about. 40 there are now 12-13000 today across the world.
What does the Strasser name mean?
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone living by a main street or highway, from Middle High German strasse, German Strasse?street?,?road?.
Slovenian: phonetically Germanized spelling of Slovenian Stra?ar, occupational name for a sentinel, from an agent derivative of stra?a?watch?,?guard?,?sentry?.


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In Australia, each jurisdiction has its own laws and policies for responding to FDV, whilst the Australian Government takes a lead in developing national approaches to policy. More information on the policy context for FDV can be found in the Conceptual Framework for Family and Domestic Violence, Australia, 2009 (cat. no. 4529.0).
Most Australian Government FDV service delivery occurs through funding arrangements with states and territories, however reporting obligations mean that there are also a number of Australian Government level data sources. National data sources have been included where available from Australian Government agencies, such as those relating to FDV services provided in the Family Court context and the drawing together of state and territory information related to homelessness services and coronial inquests. In addition, national data sources based on surveys run by or on behalf of the Australian Government to inform FDV policy areas have been included.
At the state and territory level, governments are primarily responsible for crime prevention programs, law enforcement, issuing of family violence orders, prosecution of FDV perpetrators, behavioural change programs within Corrective Services, delivery of public health, disability and medical services and provision of child protection services and other specific FDV services. Each state and territory agency that provides FDV services is a potential source of data. Further information about FDV support and services delivered by each jurisdiction, including the Australian Government is outlined in the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children.
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How to Convert WAV to GSM With Sox
While both GSM and WAV are audio formats, they are designed for different purposes. WAV files are typically 16-bits in resolution and are usually sampled at very high bit rates. They can be excellent ways to transmit lossless copies of CD-quality audio. GSM files, on the other hand, come from Europe where they were designed to work with wireless voice communication systems. They typically have 8-bit resolution and are very compact, using very small bit rates. GSM files are typically used in telephony.
Download and install SoX from the SourceForge website.
Click the Start button and type "cmd" in the search box, then press "Enter."
Use the "cd" command to navigate to the folder where you installed SoX. For example, if you installed it in the sox-14-4-0 subfolder of the "Program Files (x86)" folder on your C: drive, you would type "c:" then press "Enter," then type "cd \Program Files (x86)," then press "Enter," then type "cd sox-14-4-0" and press "Enter." Please note that the commas and quotation marks in the previous section are not part of the command and should be omitted.
Enter the following command on the command line and press the "Enter" key:
sox input.wav -r 8000 -c1 output.gsm lowpass 4000 compand 0.02,0.05 -60,-60,-30,-10,-20,-8,-5,-8,-2,-8 -8 -7 0.05
You can replace "input.wav" with the path and filename of your file, and "output.gsm" with the name you want your GSM file to have. Note that if any component of the filename or its path has a space, you should encompass the whole path and filename in quotation marks.
Type "exit" and press "Enter" to exit the command prompt.


Vegetable Fat
 [ Vegetable_Fat ]
 Edible fat extracted from plants that are solid at room temperature, due to a higher level of saturation than vegetable oils. Typically vegetable fats come from tropical plants such as coconut, palm or cocoa.
 Despite the common use of the terms "coconut oil" and "palm oil", these are more correctly called "coconut fat" and "palm fat", unless they have been chemically processed to be liquid at room temperature.


Canteen Business Plan A complete Guide
It turns out that business can be done anywhere, including the business of selling food in the school canteen. Business opportunities that are promising with the target of school children who are hobby
Canteen Business Plan
Of course, opening a business in a school canteen is different from opening an ordinary food business. Foods that are sold are not only tasty but also inexpensive, making full and nutritious.
Because not a few who open a school canteen business, the food served is not healthy, so they become infected.
Besides, there must be a special trick so that food is interesting to buy. But how can I make the sale of school canteens more purchased than other snacks?
Okay start now
1. Make A Full Meal
Sometimes for school children who are given mediocre allowances but have not had breakfast, they usually prefer filling foods rather than good taste. Because sometimes good food is not filling because the size is not large.
2. Hot Food Not To Be Heated
Even though they are children, they are usually good at choosing food. They prefer foods that are still warm and avoid foods that are warmed up.
Especially if it's fried food, it must be caught from a more brown or blackened fried skin. So it's better to cook the food an hour before recess so the food sold is still warm to eat.
3. Fried Food
One of the most popular foods in the school canteen is fried food, because it is cheap and tasty and also filling.
You can sell a variety of fried foods ranging from egg rolls, fish, samosas, hush puppies, onion rings, chicken legs, french fries, resolve to chocolate bananas. This food will sell quickly even if it is sold in hot or cold weather.
4. Fried Rice
These foods are usually highly sought after by those who don't have time to eat breakfast. But the price is indeed more expensive than if you buy other foods especially if added to side dishes such as tempeh, egg, and chicken.
Even so, this food is a shame if it is not sold in your canteen because it is one of the foods that are sought at rest and before entering class.
If you want to sell this, you don't need to bother bringing frying pans and stoves to the school canteen, just wrap them in the plastic paper that you have prepared from home.
But if the school canteen is qualified to accommodate frying pans and stoves it would not hurt if you bring both of this equipment to school. Because your fried rice or noodles are more delicious because they are served warm.
5. Uduk Rice
Although they are both rice, uduk rice has its own taste so there are its own connoisseurs. But this rice is cheaper than fried rice or fried noodles.
But this rice is more unpleasant if eaten at rest because it is better eaten before going to class or in the morning for breakfast.
6. Siomay
For those who are hungry but do not want to eat rice, usually, school children choose to eat dumplings.
Because in addition to filling this food also tastes good and the price is not too expensive, enough for middle-aged school children.
7. Seblak Meatballs
Food made from crackers that are boiled and given spicy seasoning is indeed a trend, especially in the school canteen.
The price is not too high. Usually, seblak can be sold with a variety of flavors, ranging from original, seblak meatballs, seblak claw, seblak chicken to a mix seblak.
8. Sosis Bakar
Foods made from ground beef is pretty much looking for it. Like eating dumplings eating enough roasted societies makes the stomach full.
You can sell grilled sausages with a variety of flavors that can be original, cheese, spicy, Balado, and others. Usually, to sell this, you need Teflon to bake so that the leftover roasting smoke does not disturb the school.
9. Cimol, Cilok, Cilor
These three foods made from ACI are in demand if sold in the school canteen. Because it's cheap, tasty and can get in large quantities.
This food is very profitable if sold in the canteen because of its simple ingredients, tapioca can develop when cooked.
10. Steamed Cake
The steamed cake is also a sought after food because it is filling. It can be a food replacement for rice for those who have not had breakfast. If you can't make it, you can buy it at the market or order it in a cake shop.
11. Pizza Mini
This tasty, oily, and cheap food also looks for it a lot. Because these foods are filling and tasty when making snacks. You can make it yourself at home by using Teflon which is then topped with sausages or meatballs, sauce and also vegetables.
12. Pudding
Children certainly like jelly, so lozenges are also many who are looking for it. You can also make yourself at home.
Besides this food is most easily made if you want variety you can add milk. Usually their children like chocolate pudding, strawberry, and other fruit flavors.
13. Kue Toys
This food is good for snacks, because of crunches but to make it requires skill because they have to make it thinner to crispy faster. Because if it's not thin then it's like Martabak isn't crackers.
14. Random Food
Not a few students who are not accustomed to eating rice for breakfast. Now you can open a bakery business at school. Because bread is usually used as an alternative food for rice.
The bread you sell can be sandwiches, packaged bread, or toast. And most of the best-selling is indeed a thousand bread. Because the bread is not bad in a schoolgirl's bag and certainly filling.
15. Crispy Chicken
Not a few children like crispy chicken, because it is tasty and tasty. Although not branded, but children will usually still be looking for.
You can open this business opportunity in the school canteen. How to make it is also not too difficult especially now that instant flour is available to make crispy chicken. Usually, if you sell this package with rice, sauce, and drinks.
16. Meatballs
Not only employee canteens or meatball stalls, but school canteens also need to be served meatballs.
Because food made from ground meat is indeed a favorite food among ages, including students. Usually, students order meatballs when lunchtime arrives.
17. Mie Ayam
In the school canteen, chicken noodles become a filling meal when the break comes. Usually, chicken noodles will be ordered for children who are lazy to eat rice.
And usually, students like to get confused between eating chicken noodles or meatballs. So like to order some meatballs to pour into chicken noodles.
18. Indomie
Not to forget Indomie became a mainstay food in the school canteen. Become a mainstay because this food is not boring. Both fried and boiled.
This food is also suitable for breakfast and lunch. And even though it already contains high carbohydrates, Indomie is still eaten with rice.
19. Soto
For those who want to eat soup, soup is usually the mainstay of school children. The price is not as expensive as meatballs so they usually make soup for lunch.
Soto which is commonly available is usually chicken soup, meat soup, and soup noodles.
20. Donat
The bread that is perforated in the middle is a favorite food because it is filling and cheap. Moreover, the topping varies.
There is refined sugar, chocolate, peanut butter to strawberries. It is suitable for breakfast and the price is not expensive.
21. Burger Mini
Usually, this food will be bought when you come home from school. Waiting for pickup.
This food should be served in the school canteen because in addition to practical mini burgers are also nutritious because it is coated with cheese, beef, and vegetables.
22. Ice Candles
Ice lolly is a favorite drink for elementary school children. Usually what they like is green bean ice wax, chocolate milk ice wax, fruit syrup ice wax.
Apart from its good taste, the ice is also very fresh if taken during the afternoon after exercise.
23. Ice Cream
Although the price is more expensive than ice lolly, ice cream has its own idol. Usually, mothers are happier if their children eat ice cream compared to buying other ice.
Because ice cream is more nutritious. And ice cream is also referred to as a substitute for milk for those who do not like milk can buy ice cream.
24. Fruit Ice/Fruit Juice
Well, fruit ice or fruit juice can also be said to be a mainstay after a heavy meal such as chicken noodles, meatballs, dumplings, and rice. Fruit juice is usually more expensive. If you want to sell fruit juice or fruit ice, it's better at the middle school or high school canteen where the allowance is bigger.
25. Es Dawet
Dawet ice becomes very reliable when it's hot, especially after exercising. Surely a lot of children are looking for him. Dawet ice can also be a companion drink after lunch.
26. Iced Tea
This drink is a mainstay for every food. Usually can be made alone or with bottled tea. Iced tea itself there are tasteless and some sweet depending on the order. And of course, the price will be different.
27. Tofu
Tofu is now a contemporary food. It can be used as a snack can also be used as a food booster hungry stomach. But it's not


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UNESCO, in cooperation with the major media stakeholders, has developed a set of indicators to assess gender equality and women's empowerment in media. These UNESCO Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media (GSIM) seek to address the intersection of women's empowerment and media development. Its main focus is on the equality and gender dimensions of social diversity in the media.
While inequalities and gender stereotypes exist in social structures and the minds of people, media have the potential to propagate and perpetuate or to ameliorate these. Furthermore, the conscious or unconscious biases that many media professionals, both men and women, sometimes have towards one-sidedly reductionist masculinist perspectives is partially due to the lack of capacity to report on women and gender more broadly.
UNESCO invites journalists to apply these indicators to become better informed when dealing with gender issues in the media sphere. They are designed to assist people working in the media to assess progress on gender equality, identify challenges, and contribute to local, regional and global debates leading to the formulation of concrete policies to promote gender equality and the advancement of women worldwide.
This 2-day training with journalists to enhance their fair and balanced reporting of issues directly or indirectly related to WOMEN and not only is organized in the framework of the Albania – United Nations Programme of Cooperation 2012-2016 and with the support of the Sweden Embassy to Tirana.
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Plotting Surfaces with R
In this post, I'd like to review some basic options for plotting three dimensional surfaces in R. In addition to producing some eye catching visualizations, plotting surfaces can also help develop one's geometric intuition for the mathematics describing the surfaces.
The first plot below shows a Helicoid surface which is the path a propeller moving at uniform speed along the z-axis would sweep out. You might be familiar with this shape from working with a hand turned steel auger or a helocoid anemometer. The surface is built up from first principles as follows: we consider two open intervals U = {u: \(\in\) (0, 2\(\pi\))} and V = {v: \(\in\) (0, \(\pi\))}, lay down a mesh or grid over the two dimensional open set U x V, compute the parametric representation of the surface in \(R^{3}\), and use the surf3D() function from the plot3D package to render the surface.
M <- mesh(seq(0, 6*pi, length.out = 50),seq(pi/3, pi, length.out = 50))
u <- M$x ; v <- M$y
x <- v * cos(u)
y <- v * sin(u)
z <- 10 * u
surf3D(x, y, z, colvar = z, colkey = TRUE,
 box = TRUE, bty = "b", phi = 20, theta = 120)
The next code block uses the same approach and functions to render half of a torus.
R <- 3; r <- 2
M <- mesh(seq(0, 2*pi,length.out=50), seq(0, pi,length.out=50))
alpha <- M$x; beta <- M$y
x <- (R + r*cos(alpha)) * cos(beta)
y <- (R + r*cos(alpha)) * sin(beta)
z <- r * sin(alpha)
surf3D(x = x, y = y, z = z, colkey=TRUE, bty="b2",
 phi = 40, theta = 30, main="Half of a Torus")
You might test your intuition about the how changing the ratio of R and r alters the look of the torus.
I think surf3D(), which is built on base R graphics, produces high quality visualizations. I really like the crisp, metallic look of the torus. However, although surf3D() allows you to set the viewing angle, it is limited to producing static plots. A first remedy for this might be to consider the plot3d() function in the rgl package which contains functions built on base graphics and the OpenGL standard for high performance graphics. You can use the same code as above, but just swap out surf3D() and replace it with plot3d().
Here is a wireframe version of the half torus that you can rotate with your mouse.
torus <- plot3d(x, y, z, type = "l", col = "blue",
 cex =.3, pch = 1, main = "Half Torus", pch = 20)
rglwidget(elementId = "plot3drgl")
These days, of course, JaveScript has become the preferred rendering engine for interactive plots, and there are several possibilities for creating interactive, JavaScript plots in R including threejs, plotly, and graph3D. Here we show an arresting rendering of two surfaces from the threejs gallery that is built up from the parametric equations.
N = 20000
theta = runif(N)*2*pi
phi = runif(N)*2*pi
R = 1.5
r = 1.0
x = (R + r*cos(theta))*cos(phi)
y = (R + r*cos(theta))*sin(phi)
z = r*sin(theta)
d = 6
h = 6
t = 2*runif(N) - 1
w = t^2*sqrt(1-t^2)
x1 = d*cos(theta)*sin(phi)*w
y1 = d*sin(theta)*sin(phi)*w
i = order(phi)
j = order(t)
col = c(rainbow(length(phi))[order(i)],
 rainbow(length(t), start=0, end=2/6)[order(j)])
M = cbind(x=c(x, x1), y=c(y, y1), z=c(z, h*t))
scatterplot3js(M, size=0.1, color=col, bg="black", pch=".")


A PIECE OF WORK by Annie Dorsen
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Mixing live performance with algorithms and interfaces, A Piece of Work is the second project in Annie Dorsen's "algorithmic theater" series. A digital Hamlet for a post-humanist age, A Piece of Work deploys a set of ingeniously designed computer algorithms to generate real-time adaptations of Shakespeare's original play. New scenes, songs, scores and visuals emerge from an intricate web of technology. With an introduction by Dorsen, and screen-shots of the system as it runs, this book elaborates both the technological and the poetic procedures of algorithmic theater.


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Hunger structure is a type of psychological hunger related to the environment, and it has a direct relation to people. It calls for people to be stable and be structured in their daily life. Thus on several instances children get used to the structures they were introduced to at a tender age. More so, it is closely related to what we do on daily basis, like how do we arrange our desks at our work place and how we spend our time during the day and night. It should be noted that each individual has his or her own structure and this is very crucial as it ensures our satisfaction. In situations like those of children, who are used to the usual routine, when they come home from the school, you must come up with a number of solutions that best suits them. For instance, one can use games among younger children, but in the cases, where they are mature you can introduce them to reading before they take a bath before going to bed.
Approximate hunger is concerned with the relationship with other people in terms of their number and the approximate distance from each other; however, this refers to the relationship of people to one another, which plays a vital role in acknowledgement of other people. Despite this, they are verbal in nature this can go hand in hand with the substitution of physical contact. This can be a gesture in receiving a public award though it is small in nature. This needs to be recognized by every individual person, but in other people it might come in large or huge numbers, however this works closely with the approximate distance between the individuals. The best example is wife and husband.
Housing or shelter refers to where one stays or lives or rather it is the residence of a given family. There are different types of shelter ranging from temporary to permanent in comparison to the hunger, housing or shelter have factors that influence both of them. In the case of structural hunger, where house equipments are arranged in a certain manner, for instance how the tables are arranged, the cupboards arrangements and the time management in the house. On the other hand, children are taught how to behave or rather conduct themselves, when they arrive from school. For instance, they should take a bath, read books and then go to bed. Similarly, hunger comes in close relation to the housing or shelter, which encompass on how people relate to each other and how they conduct themselves in a house. For instance, in cases, where greetings should be applied, that is a handshake, the nature of the house determines a lot. This depends on how small or big the house is. In cases where the house is huge, handshake is applicable, since people live in different rooms, but where the house is small handshake is not necessarily used, however in this case the main reward is just saying thank you to the reward that one is given in the house.
The book centers on several themes with inequality coming out clearly. In equality arises in the encounter in the lawyer who tries to fight out the cases of the poor and the homeless. Green is the person, who brings out the theme of segregation. It is also evident that Brock realizes that there are numerous unlawful and unjustified acts, which had been committed by his organization. He states that this was the main cause that made Hardy leave and became desperate. More so, despite poor squatters paying full amount as squatters, they are evicted by Branden. Therefore, class division is the main cause of inequality in the book. This is evidenced by Brock and Green in their acts of helping the poor and the less fortunate.
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San Luis Valley Colorado Heritage
The towns in the San Luis Valley are among the oldest settlements in Colorado, and, with just 47,000 residents, the valley's vast landscape has changed little since the early days of settlement. The art, architecture, religion, tradition and folklore of American Indians, early Spanish colonists, Mexican settlers and miners of the Southwest permeate the region. Historic agricultural practices, such as irrigation by acequias (ditches bringing surface water from rivers) are still in use. Traditional, spiritual and religious practices and festivals co-exist with the largest interfaith ecumenical community in North America.


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A vessel is in the form of a hollow hemisphere mounted by a hollow cylinder. The diameter of the hemisphere is 14 cm and the total height of the vessel is 13 cm. Find the inner surface area of the vessel.[Use π = 22/7]
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It can be observed that radius (r) of the cylindrical part and the hemispherical part is the same (i.e., 7 cm).
Height of hemispherical part = Radius = 7 cm
Height of cylindrical part (h) = 13 −7 = 6 cm
Inner surface area of the vessel = CSA of cylindrical part + CSA of hemispherical part
= 2 πrh + 2π r2
Inner surface area of vessel
= 2 x 22/7 x 7 x 6 +2 x 22/7 x 7
= 44(6+7)
= 44 x 13
= 572 cm2
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Match long text
Excel formula: Match long text
Generic formula
To match text longer than 255 characters with the MATCH function, you can use the LEFT, MID, and EXACT functions to parse and compare text, as explained below. In the example shown, the formula in G5 is:
where data is the named range B5:B15.
Note: this formula performs a case-sensitive comparison. See notes below for other options.
The MATCH function has a limit of 255 characters for the lookup value. If you try to use longer text, MATCH will return a _TAG_ error. To workaround this limit you can use boolean logic and the LEFT, MID, and EXACT functions to parse and compare text.
Note: this formula performs an exact match when both the lookup value and array values are greater than 255 characters. See below for other options.
The string we are testing with in cell E5 is 373 characters as follows:
Lorem ipsum dolor amet put a bird on it listicle trust fund, unicorn vaporware bicycle rights you probably haven't heard of them mustache. Forage helvetica crusty semiotics actually heirloom. Tumblr poutine unicorn godard try-hard before they sold out narwhal meditation kitsch waistcoat fixie twee literally hoodie retro. Messenger bag hell of crusty green juice artisan.
At the core, this is just a MATCH formula, set up to look for 1 in exact match mode:
The array in the formula above contains only 1s and 0s, and 1s represent matching text. This array is constructed by the following expression:
This expression itself has two parts. On the left we have:
EXACT(LEFT(E5,255),LEFT(data,255)) // compare first 255 chars
Here, the LEFT function extracts the first 255 characters from E5, and from all cells in the named range data (B5:B15). Because data contains 11 text strings, LEFT will generate 11 results.
The EXACT function then compares the single string from E5 against all the 11 strings returned by LEFT. EXACT returns 11 results in an array like this:
On the right, we have another expression:
EXACT(MID(E5,256,255),MID(data,256,255) // compare next 255 chars
This is exact the same approach as used with LEFT, but here we use the MID function to extract the next 255 characters of text. The EXACT function again returns 11 results:
When the two arrays above are multiplied by one another, the math operation coerces the TRUE FALSE values into 1s and 0s. Following the rules of boolean arithmetic, the result is an array like this:
which is returned directly to MATCH as the lookup array. The formula can now be resolved to:
The MATCH function performs an exact match, and returns a final result of 10, which represents the tenth text string in B5:B15.
Note: the text length shown in the example is calculated with the LEN function. It appears for reference only.
Case-insensitive option
The EXACT function is case-sensitive, so the formula above will respect case.
To perform a case-insensitive match with long text, you use the ISNUMBER and SEARCH functions as follows:
The overall structure of this formula is identical to the example above, but the SEARCH function is used instead of EXACT to compare text (explained in detail here).
Unlike EXACT, the SEARCH function also supports wildcards.
The XMATCH function does not have the same 255 character limit as MATCH. To perform an similar match on long text with XMATCH, you can use the much simpler formula below:
Note: XMATCH supports wildcards, but is not case-sensitive.
The example above shows a worksheet where the lookup value and some of the entries in the lookup array are longer than 255 characters, and the match type is exact. If the lookup value is less than 255 characters, but some values in the lookup array are greater than 255 characters, you can use MATCH function with the SEARCH function like this:
This formula works when text in E5 is less than 255 characters, but values in column B are greater than 255 characters. The behavior however is different. Instead of finding an exact match (as in the example above) this formula performs a contains match. SEARCH will return a number if the text in E5 appears anywhere in a cell that is part of the named range data. Detailed explanation here. The equivalent formula using XMATCH with wildcards is:
A similar wildcard search with the MATCH function won't work because of the 255 character limitation.
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Imagine a future where buildings are smart enough to "talk" — at least to tell you when you are wasting precious natural resources and need to adjust temperature, water consumption, power or lighting. The Tulane University School of Architecture has teamed up with IBM to launch a pilot program to do just that, by uniting computer technology with green building practices.
Richardson Memorial Hall, the home of the School of Architecture, will be the first Tulane building to go online in the pilot program, officially called "Smart Building Solutions." Technology is being installed in the building now, with an eye toward a future renovation project.
"Richardson Memorial will undergo a major renovation starting in a few years," says architecture dean Kenneth Schwartz. "The challenge for us is to take a structure that's over 100 years old and make it smarter, more efficient and effective in the way it operates."
According to Schwartz, Tulane's opportunity to participate in the program came about thanks to Randall Dalia, an IBM executive who is an alumnus of the architecture school and the A. B. Freeman School of Business.
Two Tulane departments are involved in the project — technology services will oversee the computer programming and databases, while facilities services will manage the building. "We're operating under the mantra, 'If you can't measure it, you can't manage it,"' says Charlie McMahon, Tulane's chief technology officer. "We'll be able to collect data about usage and incorporate what we learn into the renovation project so we can have a more energy efficient building when we are done."
McMahon says that Richardson Memorial will serve as a "living laboratory" for the architecture faculty and students to see firsthand the impact of building energy management techniques into a historic structure. Says McMahon, "They'll learn about what works and doesn't work in energy management in an older building like Richardson."
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I got my hair cut in the morning. This is an example of the causative form. Causative verbs are used to talk about getting something done by somebody else. Some common expressions using the causative verb forms are given below.
- You must have your hair washed. / You must get your hair cut.
- You must get that carpet cleaned.
- You must get / have your nails polished.
- We must have the roof repaired.
In this structure we use the past participle form of the verb.
- We must have the house painted. (NOT We must have the house painting.) (NOT We must have the house paint.)
Causative forms are also possible with make. Causative forms of make often imply the idea that somebody has a certain authority over somebody else.
- He made me cry.
- They made her repeat the whole story. (= They forced her to repeat the whole story.)
- She made the child drink the milk.
- I made him do the homework.
- He made her cook dinner.
- She made me accompany her.
Note that in this structure we use the infinitive without to.
- She made me wait for hours. (NOT She made me waiting for hours.) (NOT She made me waited for hours.) (NOT She made me to wait for hours.)
Passive structures are possible in some cases and then we use an infinitive with to.
- She was made to repeat the whole story. (NOT She was made repeat the whole story.)
- I was made to wait for hours. (NOT I was made wait for hours.)


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Traditional Welsh foods
What are the traditional foods of Wales?
Unlike England where a number of culinary traditions filtered down from the upper levels of society, the traditional dishes of Wales literally grew from the land.
Reports from 1896 show that farmers and tenants survived on home-cured meat of domestic animals, home grown vegetables, dairy products and cereal-based dishes. Farmers and cottagers would fatten and slaughter at least one pig a year to provide a constant supply of salted bacon. On larger farms, a bullock or cow was killed and the meat shared between neighbouring farms.
Meat and Vegetables
Cattle provided milk to produce butter and cheese, and vegetables such as leeks, carrots, cabbages, herbs and, from the 18th century onwards, potatoes were grown. Wild fruits, plants, animals and birds were used when in season. Communities living close to coastal regions were able to vary their diet by collecting shellfish and seaweed to make laverbread.
The harsh landscape meant that oats and barley were the most common cereal crops, with wheat confined to the fertile lowlands. Oatmeal was one of the basic elements in the diet of the Welsh. Among the everyday foods served in most rural districts until the early 20th century were Llymru (flummery) and sucan (sowans), consisting of oatmeal steeped in cold water and buttermilk, boiled until thickened and served cool with milk or treacle, bwdram (thin flummery), uwd (porridge) and griwel blawd ceirch (oatmeal gruel).
Oat-bread was the most common bread to be eaten in Wales until the late 19th century. It was used in north Wales as a basic ingredient in cereal pottages such as picws mali (shot) or siot (shot); a popular light meal consisting of crushed oat-bread soaked in buttermilk. Br?es (brose) was a common dish in the agricultural areas of the north and was regularly prepared as a breakfast dish for the men-servants. It was made from crushed oat-bread steeped in meat stock and sprinkled with crushed oat-bread before serving.
Welsh rural society was largely self-supporting with the exception of sugar, salt, tea, rice and currants, which had to be purchased. Very little fresh fruit was bought and eggs were only eaten on very rare occasions.
The open hearth
The open fire was central to cooking throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, and in many rural homes well into the 20th century. Such limited cooking facilities also governed what could be prepared. Stews, joints of meat and puddings were boiled in a cooking pot or cauldron.
Pot ovens were used for roasting meat and baking cakes. Bakestones were widely used to bake oatcakes, drop scones, soda bread, pancakes and griddlecakes (such as Welsh Cakes).
Although the tradition of living off the land survived until a later period in the rural areas, change came with improved roads and modern shopping facilities, not to mention the arrival of fridges and home freezers. Today, the majority of these dishes are mostly eaten on special occasions as 'traditional food'.
Domestic Life in Wales by Minwel S. Tibbott. Published by University of Wales Press and the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (2002).
First Catch your Peacock: A Book of Welsh Food by Bobby Freeman. Published by Image Imprint (1980).
Article Date: 23 April 2007
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A small tinplate screen, found in the industrial communities of both north and south Wales. Small pieces of meat were suspended from the hooks inside the curved, reflecting hood and the whole oven would sit on a trivet (an iron bracket) in front of the fire. It was also possible to bake tea-time favourites such as round cakes, or teisen lap in the shallow drip-tray.


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Efficient Fault Diagnosis Schemes for Reliable Lightweight Cryptographic ISO/IEC Standard CLEFIA Benchmarked on ASIC and FPGA
reliability, Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), CLEFIA symmetric-key block cipher, efficient error detection, field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
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Lightweight block ciphers are essential for providing low-cost confidentiality to sensitive constrained applications. Nonetheless, this confidentiality does not guarantee their reliability in the presence of natural and malicious faults. In this paper, fault diagnosis schemes for the lightweight internationally standardized block cipher CLEFIA are proposed. This symmetric-key cipher is compatible with yet lighter in hardware than the Advanced Encryption Standard and enables the implementation of cryptographic functionality with low complexity and power consumption. To the best of the authors' knowledge, there has been no fault diagnosis scheme presented in the literature for the CLEFIA to date. In addition to providing fault diagnosis approaches for the linear blocks in the encryption and the decryption of the CLEFIA, error detection approaches are presented for the nonlinear S-boxes, applicable to their composite-field implementations as well as their lookup table realizations. Through fault-injection simulations, the proposed schemes are benchmarked, and it is shown that they achieve error coverage of close to 100%. Finally, both application-specific integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array implementations of the proposed error detection structures are presented to assess their efficiency and overhead. The proposed fault diagnosis architectures make the implementations of the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission-standardized CLEFIA more reliable.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, v. 60, issue 12, p. 5925-5932
Scholar Commons Citation
Mozaffari Kermani, Mehran and Azarderakhsh, Reza, "Efficient Fault Diagnosis Schemes for Reliable Lightweight Cryptographic ISO/IEC Standard CLEFIA Benchmarked on ASIC and FPGA" (2013). Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications. 12.


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- Flower nameAlpine Aster
- Scientific nameAster alpinus
- Aliasアスター・アルピヌス, Alipne aster, Aster Alpinus
- Place of originEurope, such as Switzerland and North Africa ~ Asia
- Place of floweringHigh mountain, Overseas, Sub-alpine, Specific area
- Flowering seasonJune, July, August
What is Alpine Aster
Alpine Aster, scientific name:Aster Alpinus, is a hardy perennials of the Aster genus, of the Asteraceae department native to Switzerland, etc. Sub-alpine and Alpine-the indigenous Alpine gravels. Crowding the spatula-shaped leaves at the base of the stem. Summer a thin stalk from the middle of the leaf, stem, purple flowers bloom flower. So severe and harsh environment of the snow the wind plant, plant height is low.
Common name: Alpine Aster, scientific name:Aster Alpinus, also known as: Aster alpinus, Habitat: Switzerland, Europe and North Africa to Asia, and environment: (sub) Alpine area, living type: perennials, height: 15-20 cm, leaf: spatula shaped, leaf color: green, leaf arrangement: roots, flowers bloom: stalk before single bloom flower, flower color: purple, white, flower diameter:3-3.5 cm, Flowering period: June-August.


Make particles synchronize with sound
edited April 2017 in Library Questions
Hello there. I'm trying make the rain particles fall synchronized with the sound using the minim library, but I know nothing about this and I have no idea how to make this happen. If someone could explain me how to do it, it would be great. This is what I have right now. Thank you and sorry for the slightly dumb question!
import ddf.minim.*;
Minim minim;
AudioPlayer player;
int numero = 200; // how many rain drops on your screen??
Rain[] rains = new Rain[numero];
void setup()
 size(512, 200, P3D);
 for(int i=0; i height) //initialize raindrop which arrives bottom.
 x = random(0,600);
 y = random(-1200,0);
 - Please provide more details. What is the meaning of your statement:
 I'm trying make the rain particles fall synchronized with the sound
 - I mean, I want the particles to fall faster when the sound gets higher, and the particles to be less when the sound is lower.. if that's even possible
 - edited April 2017 Answer ✓
 Yes, that is possible and your description is now clear.
 You see, in line 43 you get a buffer with your waveform. You could EITHER [1] find the maximum in the buffer or [2] find the average value of the whole bugger and use it as your metric for amplitude. You will need to characterize the max (or average) of a whole song to be able to determine the maximum range of these values.
 Then you can do speed_factor=map(your_metric,metric_low,metric_high,0.05,0.95); In other words, you map the min and max value of your amplitude to a factor between 5 to 95% and you can use this factor to control the speed of the particles. You will pass this factor to your Rain object in draw() and your Rain class will have this modification at line 56: y += speed*speed_factor;
 I hope this helps,
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Beam Emission Spectroscopy, BES
Beam Emission Spectroscopy measures plasma turbulence. It registers the light emitted from the neutral particle beams which are injected into the plasma for heating or diagnostic. These particles collide with plasma particles, get excited and emit light. The intensity variations of these emissions reflect the local density fluctuations, from which plasma turbulence can be measured.
Synonyms: BES


SWI Inquiry: Spelling "Hear" vs "Heard"
My friend, Q., had a question, "Why is "heard" spelled that way?" Hmm. I don't know why! What an interesting question, Q.!!! What we do know is that "heard" is the past of "hear" and we know that it is not spelled hear + ed-> *heared.
What is the reasoning behind the spelling of ?
First, let's look at both words:
We note that although appears in both words, there is a stem vowel shift as we say the words aloud: "hear"/"heard" although they both contain the letter strings ; the words are pronounced differently.
Might this signal that these words come from Old English? I know from my class with Rebecca Loveless that there are Old English-derived strong (showing an action or state of being or feeling) verbs that mark the past tense with a stem vowel shift, such as "eat/ate"; "run/ran"; "sing/sang" and ""grow/grew."
I notice that, unlike the words above, "hear" and "heard" have a vowel shift but not a letter string or grapheme shift. Hmmm. There is another example of am Old English-derived strong verb that has a vowel sound shift without a letter string or grapheme shift:
Present tense: "read"/Past tense: "read"
So, I ponder what, if anything does the "hear/heard" and "read/read" pairings have in common? They are all homophones: read/reed; read/red; hear/here; heard/herd. So, it would have been important for the scribes long ago to follow the homophone principle: "where possible, words that are pronounced the same, but are unrelated, will have different spellings to mark the differences in meaning."
So, it would have been important to have graphemes in that would signal the meaningful connection to while differentiating from .
Now, with those thoughts in mind, I will investigate and using the 4 questions of Structured Word Inquiry (Bowers & Kirby, 2010) to determine if any other new understandings come to light:
So, after considering all my current understandings, my answer to Q.'s question, "Why is "heard" spelled that way?", my hypothesis is that , as an Old English-derived strong verb, is spelled that way in order to show the meaningful connection to while differentiating from . I will continue to refine my hypothesis as I learn. Thank you, Q., for a very thought-provoking question!
Update: I wasn't feeling confident about my analysis about why is spelled that way so I continued to do research. I came across Dr. Peter Bowers' wonderful exploration of and here. His analysis taught me something new: <-d> is a non-productive suffix ( a suffix that is not currently being used to generate new words). In his etymological investigation, was historically replaced by and he is aware of the OE suffix -th (-th, according to Gina Cooke, is a verbal inflection that has been replaced by the <-s> in says. It has an <-eth> variant, like in ) so
saith-> sai + th
If is an earlier version of and <-d> is an earlier, now non-productive, suffix then
sai + d-> said
Dr. Bowers concludes, "our word sum analysis gives us evidence that and do NOT share a base, but the etymological evidence shows that they derived from the same Old English root secgan. "
That makes me update my hypothesis that is spelled that way as a result of + the now unproductive -d suffix hence
hear + d->heard
Based on my updated hypothesis and my current understanding, our word sum analysis gives us evidence that and do NOT share a base, but the etymological evidence shows that they derived from the same Old English root heran.
Thank you, Dr. Bowers, for your illuminative analysis of and for all your scholarship related to spelling and Structured Word Inquiry.
Note from Real Spellers Toolkit (Theme 2D):
 - We know that the homophones < hear > and < here > have different meanings because they are spelled differently. The one that is to do with listening shares a spelling with < ear > because that's what we listen with.
The other word is the one to do with place: < here >. It shares a spelling with the other words that are clearly about place: < there > and < where >, even though the pronunciation is different.
Peter Bowers, Structured Word Inquiry
Rebecca Loveless
Etymology Online
The Noun Project
Neil Ramsden's Mini-Matrix Maker
Real Spellers Forum and Toolbox
Gina Cooke and Lex Exchange
Oxford Dictionary
Embedding "Structured Word Inquiry" Within a Reading Lesson
After a text has been presented and discussed, ask students to select a word that interests them from a text. Guide students through the following 4 questions using the Structured Word Inquiry (Bowers & Kirby, 2010) Framework. (Note: This does not have to be explored during one sitting.)
 1. Meaning?
 2. Relatives? (Etymology)
 3. Structure? (Morphology)
 4. Pronunciation? (Grapheme/Phoneme Correspondence)
Sample Text:
"Sorry, But It Was Beautiful" by Andrew Vecchione (6th Grade Student of Kenneth Koch)
This is just to say
Sorry I took your money
And burned it.
But it looked like the world falling apart
When it crackled and burned.
So I think it was worth it.
After all
You can't see the world fall apart every day.
See the following SWI Thinksheet for a guided exploration of the student-selected word, "crackle":
SWI ThinkSheet:
One of the notable understandings for this investigation is that the suffix <-le>" is represented by the graphememarker and the phonemes /ə/ and /l/.
After the exploration, ask students for their lingering questions or provide extension activities for further study. In this case, an exploration of the -le suffix in the Oxford Dictionary showed that one meaning of this suffix is "a repetitive action." As one collects words with the -le suffix, it was noted that many of those words refer to repetitive sounds. This resulted in a sort of the words with an -le suffix (or ending, as we determined some of the words had as part of the base, not as part of the suffix) into two groups: -le words that referred to repetitive sounds and those that did not.
As a result of this investigation, there was heightened understanding of the -le suffix and future investigations to explore the -le suffix in English as it seems to have evolved (Latin -el?) or be connected to the -el suffix.
From Etymology Online, entry for -el:
-el (3)
derivational suffix, also -le, used mostly with verbs but originally also with nouns, "often denoting diminutive, repetitive, or intensive actions or events" [The Middle English Compendium], from Old English. Compare brastlian alongside berstan (see burst); nestlian (see nestle) alongside nistan). It is likely also in wrestletrampledragglestruggletwinkle, also noddle "to make frequent nods" (1733). New formations in Middle English might be native formations (jostle from joust) with this or borrowings from Dutch.
I am wondering, for example, if a word sum for (from the Middle Dutch praten, "to chatter") which would be expected to be prattle-> prat+le-> *pratle except that is not correct. The "Etymology Online" site notes in the entry for -el that in Modern English the -el suffix is represented by -el. Note that prat(t)+el->*prattel would explain the doubling but is not the correct spelling. At this point I will just consider a base based on my current understanding but I will research the -el/-le connection. (As I feel the pronunciation of the -le suffix, I realize that the first phoneme I hear is the schwa, which is a vowel. Is there any doubling rule that takes into account a suffix that starts with a vowel sound even though the suffix does not start with a vowel?) (Update: After examining the etymology of the words below here, I became aware of a class of verbs called frequentatives with in English marks its verbs with an -le or -er ending and refers to words that show some sort of small or intense repeated action. Read here and here and here. My latest understanding says that for a verb to be frequentative, it must be derived from another word with the addition of the suffix. That doesn't explain why a word like which is most likely frequentative and arising from does not follow the rules for


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I am trying to write a conditional batch insert based on Java Parameters, for example
List params = new ArrayList();
params.add(new Object[]{1, 2, 3});
"INSERT INTO SomeTable( colA, colB, colC)" +
 " VALUES(?,?,?)" +
 " WHERE EXISTS ( // some condition )", params);
This obviously does not work, and the closest example I have found involves selecting the INSERT values from tables, instead of the List arguments, which is what I need. How can I reference the Object[] parameters as part of the INSERT values?
Thank you.
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I'd say that you should move this condition in a separate SELECT.
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Can you provide an example? The problem with SELECT, is that I believe I have to be referencing table values, whereas I just want to reference the parameter java variables. – meiguoren Nov 9 '10 at 4:05
As your example, you should try following syntax and the SimpleJdbcOperations.update method:
 " SELECT srcA, srcB, srcC" +
 " FROM src_table" +
 " WHERE EXISTS ( // some condition )",
Additionally, I've been using StringTemplate for generation of dynamic SQL. It's the best language I ever use.
for Example(As StringTemplate Syntax):
StringTemplate tmpl = new StringTemplate(
 " SELECT *" +
 " FROM some_table" +
 " WHERE 1 = 1" +
 "$search_age:{ AND age =?}$" +
 "$search_name:{ AND name =?}$"
 * if param_age is not null, "AND age =?" would be included in argumented sql,
 * same as param_name
tmpl.setAttribute("age", param_age);
tmpl.setAttribute("name", param_name);
// :~)
String sqlTmpl = tmpl.toString(); // final SQL generated
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Parameters Necessary for Analyzing Thermal Bioassaysby Robert D. Smith, Ensign; United States Navy,
Serial Information: Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division, 1972, Vol. 98, Issue 6, Pg. 973-985
Document Type: Journal Paper
A series of bioassay experiments concerning the effects of heated water on white perch have shown that, for water temperatures ranging between 82°F (300.9°K) and 97°F (309.3°K), the lethal effects on a white perch being held at any temperature within that range will occur within the first 36 hrs of exposure. This is shorter than the time period prescribed in general by the standard bioassay procedure. Three parameters are given which more completely describe the pattern of mortality. Investigation has shown that: (1) A relationship exists between the temperature at which mortalities of the white perch are incipient and the temperature at which the body of the fish is functioning and (2) the lethal effects on white perch caused by extreme water temperatures are independent of the rate of temperature increase.
Subject Headings: Thermal analysis | Biological processes | Parameters (statistics) | Temperature effects | Water temperature | Water management | Fish management
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I've implemented a finder using weblogic 8.1 sp2 on win2000 utilizing
Pointbase as my database and the driver is the
com.pointbase.jdbc.jdbcUniversalDriver. The datatype for the active
column is BOOLEAN. I am receiving an exception "EXCEPTION: 25007
Illegal cast operation between type: BOOLEAN and type: DECIMAL" when
the finder executes the following example EJB-QL. It appears that
somewhere deep in the bowels of weblogic the value "true" is converted
to "1".
Example EJB-QL: SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM MyObject a WHERE a.active = true
Any suggestions,
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SharpSpring enables you to upload and store images and attachments in an inclusive file manager. This article will detail how to upload images and attachments.
The following user roles have access to upload images and attachments:
- Marketing Managers
Permitted File Types
Attachments can be a great supplement to an email. However, they should only be a supplement. Large attachments can intimidate potential leads, so send one or two small attachments. However, you should never send an email with just an attachment and no content in the body. Those emails will most likely enter the recipient's spam folder.
SharpSpring allows you to upload several different file types as attachments. SharpSpring supports the following file types:
The safest file types to send are.GIF,.JPG,.PDF, and.PNG. While SharpSpring supports their attachment,.ZIP files should never be included as attachments in an email.
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Attending a Greater Vancouver Board of Trade luncheon yesterday, the Minister of Transport Marc Garneau praised the partnership with Green Marine that has led to a better understanding of underwater noise generated by commercial shipping and port activities, along with its impacts and possible mitigations measures.
"My officials have been working closely with Green Marine on a study to improve understanding of the impacts of both natural and human-caused underwater noise on marine animals," he explained. "The study is available on the Transport Canada website so that all can benefit from its insights."
Garneau was delighted to see Green Marine launch two new performance indicators for underwater noise in its North American environmental certification program. The indicators deal with underwater noise emanating from ships and port activities respectively, with the goal of reducing the impact on marine mammals.
"These indicators were developed with the collaboration of experts from the marine research and science community, environmental non-government organizations, and the federal government," he added. "This leadership initiative is the first of its kind in the world – one in which companies will be formally evaluated on their efforts to reduce underwater noise from their operations."
The new underwater noise performance indicators will be optional during the first year of assessment (in 2017), as is always the case when new indicators are added to the program. They will subsequently be mandatory to obtain Green Marine certification.Back to news


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The Eurofound report Working
conditions in the European Union: Work organisation which is based on secondary analysis of the European
Working Conditions Survey data has identified four main types of work
organisation: the 'discretionary learning', 'lean production', 'Taylorist',
and 'traditional' or 'simple structure' forms of work organisation.
Discretionary-learning forms of work organisation: workers (38%) experience high levels of autonomy at work, learning and problem solving, task complexity, self-assessment of quality of work and, to a lesser extent, autonomous teamwork.
Lean production forms of organisation: workers (26%) experience higher level of teamwork and job rotation, self-assessment of quality of work and quality norms, and the various factors constraining work pace.
Taylorist forms of work organisation: workers (20%) report having low autonomy at work - particularly in methods of work - few learning dynamics, little complexity, significant constraints on the pace of work, repetitiveness and monotony of tasks, and quality norms.
Traditional or simple-structure forms of work organisation: workers (16%) experience similar constraints as in the Taylorist forms of work organisation, and methods are largely informal and non-codified.
Key research findings:
- The adoption of discretionary-learning forms of work organisation, compared with lean production and Taylorist forms, can result in better working conditions in the sense of lower work intensity, less exposure to physical risks, fewer non-standard working hours, better work–life balance and lower levels of work-related health problems.
- Discretionary-learning forms of work organisation are also associated with higher perceived intrinsic rewards from work, better psychological working conditions related to HRM policies and social integration at work, along with higher overall levels of employee satisfaction with working conditions.


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Traveling Luck for Hlíðarfjall, (IC34), Iceland
Where is Hlidarfjall?What's around Hlidarfjall?
Wikipedia near Hlidarfjall
Where to stay near Hlíðarfjall
The timezone in Hlidarfjall is Atlantic/Reykjavik
Sunrise at 09:54 and Sunset at 17:46. It's Dark
Latitude. 65.6500°, Longitude. -23.8500°
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Loading map of Hlíðarfjall and it's surroudings
Geographic features & Photographs around Hlíðarfjall, in (IC34), Iceland
- a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture.
- Hóll (2.1km)
- Rimi (3.2km)
- Hvammseyri (3.9km)
- Stekkjabakki (3.9km)
- Lambeyri (4.2km)
- Gileyri (4.5km)
- Eysteinseyri (5km)
- Vinðeimar (5.2km)
- Kvígindisfell (5.9km)
- Höfðadalur (6.3km)
- Bakki (6.7km)
- Hólar (6.7km)
- Sæból (7.4km)
- Grandi (7.8km)
- Fremri Hvesta (8.2km)
- Tannanes (8.2km)
- Neðri Hvesta (8.6km)
- Sellátrar (8.9km)
- Hringsdalur (9.5km)
- Bakki (9.7km)
- a narrow, straight or curved continuation of a beach into a waterbody.
- Þúneyri (9.5km)
- rounded elevations of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m.
- Lambeyrarháls (7km)
- tracts of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture.
- Hvesta (8.6km)
- a long, narrow, steep-walled, deep-water arm of the sea at high latitudes, usually along mountainous coasts.
- Tálknafjörður (5.6km)
- a surface with a relatively uniform slope angle.
- Hálfdan (6.7km)
- a bluff or prominent hill overlooking or projecting into a lowland.
- Rimamúli (2.4km)
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Botnsá (7km)
- a break in a mountain range or other high obstruction, used for transportation from one side to the other [See also gap].
- Krókalaut (9.5km)
Airports close to Hlíðarfjall
Patreksfjordur(PFJ), Patreksfjordur, Iceland (12.2km)
Isafjordur(IFJ), Isafjordur, Iceland (58.2km)
Reykjavik(RKV), Reykjavik, Iceland (200.4km)


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Significance of Item Category / Account assignment category
Can any tell what is the significance of Item Category / Account assignment category in Sap. Why it is used.
The account assignement comes into picture when you order the material as Indirect. In case of direct it gets valuated under raw material, semi finished, finished etc (Valuation class).
In Account assignment you assign a specific G/L account to a cost center. In reality you can have different cost centers like Production, Maintenance, Quality etc and different G/L accounts like Raw material consumption, machine tools, computer software, buildings, machineries etc.
Suppose if a machine has been procured for production purposes it gets accounted in the machineries G/L account and the cost is accrued by production. Same case if a measuring instrument is procured by Quality department it gets accounted in machineries G/L account and the cost is accrued by Quality department.
It helps in analysing the spend of each department as per the allocate d budget and also helps in allocating budgets to respective departments for future purposes.


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Practicing darts while lucid dreaming can improve your game... but only if you're focused.
Seriously, Science?By Seriously ScienceJanuary 30, 2017 5:00 PM
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Image: Flickr/Shannon KringenLike most sports, the more darts you throw, the better you get at hitting the target. But do you *have* to be physically throwing the dart, or is just mentally throwing the dart sufficient? As confusing as that question might be, it's what these scientists studied by having participants throw darts while lucid dreaming, and testing whether these "practice sessions" made them better at darts in real life. And it worked! But (obviously) only if the dreamers weren't distracted while "practicing". Finally, a cheap way to practice for my next speed eating contest!Improvement of darts performance following lucid dream practice depends on the number of distractions while rehearsing within the dream - a sleep laboratory pilot study. "In a lucid dream, the dreamer is aware of the dream state and can deliberately practice motor skills. Two field studies indicated that lucid dream practice can improve waking performance in simple motor tasks. The present pilot study investigated the effect of lucid dream practice in a controlled sleep laboratory setting, using a pre-post design with dart throwing in the evening and morning. The experimental group practiced darts in lucid dreams. Because some participants were distracted during lucid dream practice, the group was divided into lucid dreamers with few (n = 4) and many distractions (n = 5). Change of performance was compared to a physical practice group (n = 9) and a control group (n = 9), showing a significant interaction (P =.013, η2 =.368). Only the lucid dreamers with few distractions improved (18%) significantly over time (P =.005, d = 3.84). Even though these results have to be considered preliminary, the present study indicates that lucid dream practice can be an effective tool in sports practice if lucid dreamers find ways to minimise distractions during lucid dream practice. Moreover, the study emphasises the necessity to investigate lucid dream practice experiences on a qualitative level." Related content: What do Republicans dream about? (Hint: it's not sex.)Are people who dream about murder more likely to kill someone in real life?Want to control your dreams? Shock your brain to induce lucid dreaming!
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Your Environmental Data On Arduino Iot Cloud
About the project
Group all the information collected by a MKR WiFi 1010 + MKR ENV Shield in a single, web-based dashboard.
Project info
Items used in this project
Hardware components
Arduino Mkr1000 Arduino Mkr1000 x 1
Mkr Env Shield Mkr Env Shield x 1
Software apps and online services
Arduino IoT cloud Arduino IoT cloud
The story
By making this project you will learn how to read the data from the various sensors available on the ENV Shield, and you also learn how to visualize data on the widgets available in the Arduino Cloud.
What you need
The project requires an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010, the MKR ENV Shield, a battery pack (or other mean of powering the boards) and an account on Arduino IoT Cloud:
 - The core of the project is the Arduino MKR WiFi 1010. This board handles computation and communication thanks to its SAMD21 microcontroller and the on-board NINA-W10 module, capable of WiFi and BLE;
 - The battery pack is connected to the MKR WiFi 1010 and is used to power the device when an alternative power supply is not available;
 - The MKR ENV Shield is an Arduino MKR shield which featuring environmental sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, light and UV.
 - Access credentials are needed to connect to the WiFi network.
The hardware configuration is relatively simple: it only requires the MKR WiFi 1010, a MKR ENV Shield and a battery pack.
MKR WiFi 1010 with MKR ENV Shield and a battery
MKR WiFi 1010 with MKR Shield and a battery
Align the MKR WiFi 1010 and ENV shield making sure that the labeled pin connectors are matching
Carefully plug the MKR ENV Shield in the MKR WiFi 1010 connector
The battery pack should be plugged into the designated connector on the MKR WiFi 1010:
Code structure
There's two main parts to the code required by this project: the skeleton template generated by Arduino IoT Cloud APIs to display data received from the MKR WiFi board and the Arduino MKRENV library which allows us to read values measured by all its sensors:
 - Our Arduino IoT Cloud Thing will be configured to hold six properties which will represent all the measurements acquired by the MKR WiFi 1010 and sent over a secure connection.
 - The Arduino sketch is first auto generated by IoT Cloud and handles connection to the Internet as well as data transfer between our Thing and the board, we'll then add the Arduino MKRENV library to manage the ENV Shield sensors.
The first code section is used to include the libraries required by our application. The thingProperties.h includes all the WiFi connection functionalities and cloud connection management; the only information required from the user are the credentials necessary to establish a connection with a WiFi network (SSID and PASSWORD).
Arduino IoT Cloud authenticates the connected device using a key stored inside the board's crypto-chip during the Getting Started process, guaranteeing data transmission over a secure channel.
The Arduino_MKRENV library includes all that is needed to read values measured by each sensor on the MKR ENV shield.
 1. _TAG_ "thingProperties.h"
 2. _TAG_
As usual, the setup section allows us to initialize all the objects used by the sketch, including Arduino IoT Cloud and its properties. ArduinoCloud.begin() makes sure that our board is prepared to connect and exchange data with the Dashboard:
 1. void setup() {
 2. // Initialize Serial and wait for port to open:
 3. Serial.begin(9600);
 4. // This delay gives the chance to wait for a Serial Monitor without blocking if none is found
 5. delay(1500);
 6. // Defined in thingProperties.h
 7. initProperties();
 8. // Connect to Arduino IoT Cloud
 9. ArduinoCloud.begin(ArduinoIoTPreferredConnection);
 10. /*
 11. The following function allows you to obtain more information
 12. related to the state of network and IoT Cloud connection and errors
 13. the higher number the more granular information you'll get.
 14. The default is 0 (only errors).
 15. Maximum is 4
 16. */
 17. setDebugMessageLevel(2);
 18. ArduinoCloud.printDebugInfo();
 19. if (!ENV.begin()) {
 20. Serial.println("Failed to initialize MKR ENV shield!");
 21. while(1);
 22. }
 23. }
The last bit of code is the loop where we query each sensor on the MKR ENV Shield. After each reading the sketch updates the properties variables and thanks to ArduinoCloud.begin() data is synced with the cloud:
 1. void loop() {
 2. ArduinoCloud.update();
 3. // Your code here
 4. humidity = int(ENV.readHumidity());
 5. lux = int(ENV.readIlluminance());
 6. pressure = int(ENV.readPressure());
 7. temperature = int(ENV.readTemperature());
 8. uva = int(ENV.readUVA());
 9. uvb = int(ENV.readUVB());
 10. uvi = int(ENV.readUVIndex());
 11. delay(1000);
 12. }
How to set up and use
Connect all the parts together, then connect your MKR WiFi 1010 to the computer and log onto your Arduino Cloud account.
You need to follow the procedure explained in the Arduino Cloud Getting Started and create the properties as specified in the following table, remembering that each name is case sensitive:
These are the values to use in each widget using the form that pops up every time you add a new widget
Each time you add a new widget you are required to fill a form like the one below.
Follow the table above to fill in all propertiess details
If you filled each property correctly, you should end up with something like this:
This is the list of widgets used by this project
When all the properties are created, click on the button edit code. You will be redirected to the Arduino Create Web Editor where you'll replace the main sketch in the first tab with the following code:
 1. /*
 2. Sketch generated by the Arduino IoT Cloud Thing "env_shield"
 4. Arduino IoT Cloud Properties description
 5. The following variables are automatically generated and updated when changes are made to the Thing properties
 6. int humidity;
 7. int lux;
 8. int pressure;
 9. int temperature;
 10. int uva;
 11. int uvb;
 12. int uvi;
 13. Properties which are marked as READ/WRITE in the Cloud Thing will also have functions
 14. which are called when their values are changed from the Dashboard.
 15. These functions are generated with the Thing and added at the end of this sketch.
 16. */
 17. _TAG_ "thingProperties.h"
 18. _TAG_
 19. void setup() {
 20. // Initialize serial and wait for port to open:
 21. Serial.begin(9600);
 23. delay(1500);
 24. // Defined in thingProperties.h
 25. initProperties();
 26. // Connect to Arduino IoT Cloud
 27. ArduinoCloud.begin(ArduinoIoTPreferredConnection);
 28. /*
 29. The following function allows you to obtain more information
 30. related to the state of network and IoT Cloud connection and errors
 31. the higher number the more granular information you'll get.
 32. The default is 0 (only errors).
 33. Maximum is 4
 34. */
 35. setDebugMessageLevel(4);
 36. ArduinoCloud.printDebugInfo();
 37. if (!ENV.begin()) {
 38. Serial.println("Failed to initialize MKR ENV shield!");
 39. while(1);
 40. }
 41. }
 42. void loop() {
 43. ArduinoCloud.update();
 44. // Your code here
 45. humidity = int(ENV.readHumidity());
 46. lux = int(ENV.readIlluminance());
 47. pressure = int(ENV.readPressure());
 48. temperature = int(ENV.readTemperature());
 49. uva = int(ENV.readUVA());
 50. uvb = int(ENV.readUVB());
 51. uvi = int(ENV.readUVIndex());
 52. delay(1000);
 53. }
 54. void onHumidityChange() {
 55. // Do something
 56. }
 57. void onLuxChange() {
 58. // Do something
 59. }
 60. void onPressureChange() {
 61. // Do something
 62. }
 63. void onTemperatureChange() {
 64. // Do something
 65