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Selenium fortification of infant formulas: does selenium form matter?
Selenium is a trace element essential for the health and development of the growing infant. It is a necessary component of proteins and enzymes required for a variety of functions, including antioxidant defense, modulation of the inflammatory response, and production of thyroid hormones. In breast-fed infants, selenium stores depend on the selenium content of the mother's diet. In formula-fed infants, selenium levels are correlated to the residual selenium stores accumulated in utero and the level and type of selenium fortification used in the formula. Today, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that infant formulas contain selenium at levels between 2.0 and 7.0 μg per 100 kcal. While the US FDA does not recommend a particular selenium form for fortification, evidence indicates that organically bound selenium forms (e.g., selenomethionine and selenium-enriched yeast) are better absorbed and retained than inorganic forms (e.g., selenite and selenate). Preliminary data from studies in adults do suggest that fortification with standardized selenium-enriched yeast may offer benefits compared to fortification with other organically bound selenium forms. However, because most studies evaluating the impact of selenium fortification of infant formula have assessed inorganic selenium supplements, additional research into the bioavailability and outcomes associated with the use of selenium-enriched yeast in infants is needed.


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The Funeral Service Foundation has just released the results of its "Bleeding Edge" research project with world renowned Olson-Zaltman Associates simultaneously revealing both disturbing and encouraging insights.
Recognizing that the growth of cremation has more than doubled (leaping from 1% to more than 2% annually in the last several years) The Funeral Service Foundation commissioned the unconventional market research using the patented ZMET process to study:
THE MARKET WE ARE LOSING.
The ZMET process is an unconventional approach to market research focused on uncovering the unconscious metaphors consumers use to relate with and make choices about a given service or product. Olson Zaltman developed the process while its founders were still professors at Harvard and Penn State in the 1990's. It has since been embraced by a veritable "who's-who" of Global companies, universities, non-profits and governments.
The results didn't so much tell us anything new as they revealed how we are unintentionally reinforcing negative stereotypes which may be causing the market to seek out alternatives.
The Foundation will be rolling out the results of this research at the upcoming NFDA Convention TUESDAY OCTOBER 9 AT 7:30 AM. (SEE NOTE BELOW) in a program entitled:
Breaking the Consumer Code: New Insights Into Ways Consumers Really Think About Funerals
The program will cover the findings and attempt to identify the far-reaching implications for us and how the profession needs to begin the process of transformation over the next 5 or more years to remain relevant in this NEW NORMAL.
Attendees will learn:
- Why 99% of funeral home facilites reinforce consumer attitudes toward death and what you can do to transform
- Why conventional funeral home advertising not only reinforces negative stereotypes but may be driving consumers to look for alternatives
- How consumers are projecting their feelings about death onto practitioners and how we need to reposition ourselves to change that perception
- What is most important to "Baby Boomers" and how they want to be integrated into the planning process for their parents and themselves
- How our profession is experiencing its own grief cycle as it grapples with the transformation of its livelihood
- The NEXT STEPS FAMIC and The Foundation are taking to make resources available to practitioners to facilitate their adaptation

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The Muppets' entertaining and hilarious skits have helped children (and adults) for over 30 years learn about culture, science, art, history, music, life and many other things — but today the Muppets are going to teach us grammar! (Because who doesn't love the Muppets?!)
In particular, Kermit and crew will be used in examples to explain when to use who, that or which.
Here are the three main rules to determine when you should use who, that or which:
Rule 1: Who always refers to people (or Muppet characters), while that and which refer to groups or things.
- Kermit is the cautious frog who loves Miss Piggy. (No, wait — Miss Piggy is the sassy swine who loves Kermit.)
- Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem is the band that plays rock music on the show.
- Jim Henson created "The Muppet Show," which premiered in 1976.
Rule 2: Use that in essential clauses and which in nonessential clauses.
- I love Muppet movies that include Fozzie Bear (wocka wocka wocka!)
- "The Muppets Take Manhattan," which included Fozzie Bear, was the best.
- Fozzie Bear wears a hat, which is brown.
Essential clauses are never surrounded by commas, but non-essential clauses are usually surrounded by commas or preceded by a comma.
Another way to tell if a clause is essential or non-essential is to remove it and see if the meaning of the sentence has changed significantly. Here are the same examples with the clause removed:
- I love Muppet movies. (different, essential)
- "The Muppets Take Manhattan" was the best. (same, non-essential)
- Fozzie Bear wears a hat. (same, non-essential)
Rule 3: If this, that, these or those is already introducing an essential clause, start the next clause with which, regardless of whether it is essential or not
- That is an experiment which only Dr. Bunsen Honeydew can handle.
- Those daredevil performances, which always made me afraid for Gonzo, were still very artistic.
Or you can just drop the which entirely to make it sound more concise:
- That is a drumline which only Animal knows.
- That is a drumline only Animal knows.
Written by Grace Lavigne, senior editor of ProfNet, a service that helps journalists connect with expert sources. Grammar Hammer is published weekly on ProfNet Connect, a free social networking site for communicators. To read more from Grace, check out her blog on ProfNet Connect.

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Hartshorne at the end of page 76 of his Algebraic Geometry book gives an example of a scheme which is not an affine scheme. The scheme is constructed by gluing two affine lines together along their maximal ideals obtained by removing a point P. There's also a figure accompanying the example:
Can someone please explain how to show that this is not an affine scheme?
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Is that only because it's not Hausdorff? – Keivan Monfared Feb 3 '12 at 21:41
Many affine schemes are not Hausdorff. – Qiaochu Yuan Feb 3 '12 at 21:44
One way to do this is to observe that an affine scheme is separated, but this scheme is not separated. – James Cranch Feb 3 '12 at 21:45
I think "Hausdorff" here means "separated". – Laurent Moret-Bailly Feb 4 '12 at 9:30
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Call $X $ your scheme over the field $k$, $P_1$ and $P_2$ the two special closed points, $A_1$and $A_2$ their respective open complements and $A_{12}=A_1\cap A_2$, so that $A_i\simeq \mathbb A^1_k$ and $A_{12}\simeq\mathbb G_m$, all affine schemes.
Here are some (not independent) proofs that $X$ is not affine.
Proof 1
The point $(P_1,P_2)\in X \times X $ is in the closure of the diagonal $\Delta_X\subset X \times X $, but $(P_1,P_2)\notin \Delta_X$. So $\Delta_X$ is not closed, hence $X$ is not separated and a fortiori not affine
Proof 2
The images of the restriction map $\Gamma(A_i,\mathcal O_X)=k[T] \to \Gamma(A_{12},\mathcal O_X)=k[T,T^{-1}]$ are both
$k[T]$, and together do not generate $ k[T,T^{-1}]$. However, in an affine scheme (or more generally in a separated scheme) the ring of regular sections on the intersection of two open affines is generated by the images of the regular sections on the two opens.
Proof 3
The two open immersions $\iota_j:\mathbb A^1_k \to X$ with respective image $A_j\subset X$ coincide on the open subscheme $\mathbb G_m\subset \mathbb A^1_k$ but are nevertheless distinct. This couldn't happen if $X$ were affine (or just separated).
Proof 4
The cohomology vector space $H^1(X,\mathcal O_X)$ is infinite dimensional, whereas the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on an affine scheme vanishes in positive degree.
In detail, consider the covering $\mathcal U=\lbrace A_1,A_2\rbrace$ of $X$. It is a Leray covering because $A_1,A_2,A_{12}$ are affine hence acyclic, for the coherent sheaf $\mathcal O_X$ (cf. Proof 2). Thus Čech cohomology computes genuine cohomology.
The Čech complex is the linear map $$C^0=\Gamma(A_1,\mathcal O_X)\times \Gamma(A_2,\mathcal O_X)=k[T]\times k[T]\stackrel {d^0}{\to} C^1=\Gamma(A_{12},\mathcal O^*_X)=k[T,T^{-1}]\to 0$$ given by $$d^0(P(T),Q(T)) =Q(T)-P(T) $$.
Hence we get $H^1(X,\mathcal O_X)=k[T,T^{-1}]/k[T]$
Proof 5
The Čech complex above proves that $\Gamma(X,\mathcal O_X)=k[T]$ so that the restriction to the strictly smaller open affine subscheme $A_1\subsetneq X$ is bijective: $res: \Gamma(X,\mathcal O_X)\stackrel {\simeq}{\to} \Gamma(A_1,\mathcal O_X)$.
This cannot happen for an affine scheme $X$.
[In categorical language: $\Gamma$ is an anti-equivalence from the category of affine schemes to that of rings]
Proof 6
Every global function $P(T)\in \Gamma(X,\mathcal O_X)=k[T]$ (see Proof 5) takes the exact same value at $P_1$ and $P_2$, namely $P(0)\in \kappa(P_1)=\kappa (P_2)=k$.
In contrast given two closed points in an affine scheme, there exists a global regular function vanishing at the first one but not at the second.
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My friend Otto Forster once told me that he had seen in an old German book on group theory the sentence "Um den Satz zu erhärten, geben wir einen zweiten Beweis", which translates as: "To harden the theorem, we give a second proof". Logicians tell me that they are not convinced of the hardening. Pity, that – Georges Elencwajg Feb 4 '12 at 13:19
I'm impressed. Very nice answer. – Leo Alonso May 22 '12 at 17:33
Thanks for the kind words, _USER_. – Georges Elencwajg May 24 '12 at 6:18
Compute the ring $R$ of globally defined regular functions. If the scheme were affine, then there would be a bijective correspondence between closed points of the scheme and maximal ideals of $R$, given by taking a closed point to the ideal of functions that vanish at that point. But the two points represented by the colon in your diagram give the same ideal of $R$, so this "correspondence" is not injective. Therefore, the scheme is not affine.
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When training for a specific movement in calisthenics, such as planche or front lever, should I be training for both movements at the same time or should I focus on one single movement?
They're both different movements that use a conjunction or muscles for each. Your body will learn to adapt to both just as quick as if you were to do one at a time. Its all about strength, control and balance. All can be improved by doing both exercises.
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- Do plants need salt?
- Is salt bad for soil?
- Is Fruit dead or alive?
- What are 5 non-living things?
- What are 10 living things?
- Can humans eat non-living things?
- Is salt the only non-living thing we eat?
- Is onion living or nonliving?
- What are 5 living things?
- Are dead leaves living things?
- Is salt water living or nonliving?
- Which things are nonliving?
- Does salt kill slugs?
- Does Salt Kill Grass?
- Is an apple dead or alive?
- Is everything we eat living?
- Is hair a living thing?
- Is water living or non-living?
- Is Sun a living thing?
- Why is a car not alive?
- Are bananas living or nonliving?
Do plants need salt?
Salt's Effect on Plants Salt is a very common substance in the soil as well in the sea.
Plants need a small amount of salinity to survive, since salt is one of the nutrients necessary for plants to grow, so the presence of some salt is necessary..
Is salt bad for soil?
In saline and saline-sodic soils, high concentrations of soluble salts reduce the amount of available water for plants to use. High levels of sodium can be toxic to certain plants. Also, the very high soil pH in high-salt soils greatly changes the nutrients available to the plants.
Is Fruit dead or alive?
The fruits and vegetables we buy in the grocery store are actually still alive, and it matters to them what time of day it is. … "Vegetables and fruits don't die the moment they are harvested," said lead researcher Dr. Janet Braam, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
What are 5 non-living things?
Some examples of important nonliving things in an ecosystem are sunlight, temperature, water, air, wind, rocks, and soil. Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die. Some examples of living things are organisms such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
What are 10 living things?
10 Living things: human being, plants, bacteria, insects, animals, lichens, reptiles, mammals, trees, mosses. Non-Living things: chair, table, books, bed, newspaper, clothes, bed sheets, curtains, bag, pen.
Can humans eat non-living things?
We — along with all other animals — are not autotrophs, but heterotrophs. This means that we cannot produce organic compounds by ourselves but need to 'reuse' the ones that are produced by autotrophic organisms. That's why no human will ever be able to live without consuming other life.
Is salt the only non-living thing we eat?
The most common one is, of course, salt, aka halite, which provides us with sodium and chloride. Some humans who are unable to obtain enough calcium, potassium, iron, etc. from once-living food also eat other mineral substances such as various kinds of clay, ground-up seashells.
Is onion living or nonliving?
Onions are loaded with cells so onions must be a living thing.
What are 5 living things?
Living things are divided into five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungi, protist and monera. Living things are divided into five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungi, protist and monera.
Are dead leaves living things?
A leaf that has fallen off a tree is dead, which also means not alive. This must mean dead leaves are non-living things. People need water to live, so water must be a living thing too.
Is salt water living or nonliving?
High Biodiversity. Salt water ecosystems are the most diverse repository of living things on the planet. They support nearly half of all Earth's current known species, with possibly up to a million more still to be discovered.
Which things are nonliving?
Non-living things cannot move by themselves. They respire and exchange of gases takes place in their cells. Non-living things do not respire. Example: Humans, animals, plants, insects.
Does salt kill slugs?
Many people suggest controlling slugs with salt. But salt will kill them, rather than simply control them. … Making a direct slug kill using salt will draw out the water from a slug's moist body, resulting in death by dehydration.
Does Salt Kill Grass?
Because salt not only inhibits grass growth but also kills grass in high doses, you can destroy unwanted grass, such as grass sprouting in driveway crevices, by dosing it with salt. It absorbs moisture, preventing it from reaching the roots of all types of plants, including grass.
Is an apple dead or alive?
After apples are picked, they are still alive – they continue to carry out the chemical processes of a living plant, more or less, as they take in oxygen, create energy, and get closer and closer to ripeness.
Is everything we eat living?
Everything else is a heterotroph and must eat autotrophs for food. We can get nutrition from substances that were not once an organism themselves (milk and honey), but everything we eat comes from living organisms. everything we eat that you count as food is based on plant matter.
Is hair a living thing?
Even though the hair you can see isn't made of living cells, your hair is very much a living thing. Taking care of your hair properly can make all the difference in helping your hair strands last longer and look healthier.
Is water living or non-living?
Living things need food to grow, they move, respire, reproduce, excrete wastes from the body, respond to stimuli in the environment and have a definite life span. Water, sun, moon and stars do not show any of the above characteristics of living things. Hence, they are non-living things.
Is Sun a living thing?
For young students things are 'living' if they move or grow; for example, the sun, wind, clouds and lightning are considered living because they change and move. Others think plants and certain animals are non-living.
Why is a car not alive?
A car is not a living thing because it does not fulfill some key characteristics that define living things. All living things are composed of cells. … A car is not composed of cells. All living things grow and develop over time.
Are bananas living or nonliving?
Fruits and vegetables when they are in plants they grow and hence they are called as living things. But once plucked from the plants or trees, they do not grow and hence they become a non-living things.


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Fragment of Temple Relief with Ducks
Originally this relief fragment belonged to a depiction of an offering bearer carrying three pintail ducks to the king. Amunemhat I used many Old Kingdom royal reliefs in the construction of his pyramid complex at Lisht, so it is sometimes difficult to distinguish reliefs made during his reign from original Old Kingdom works. Certain details of this exquisite fragment—particularly the elegant sweep of the duck's wing and the unnatural bend of the servant's fingers—suggest a Middle Kingdom date.
- Medium: Limestone. traces of paint
- Place Excavated: Lisht, Egypt
- Dates: ca. _PHONE_ B.C.E. or earlier
- Dynasty: XII Dynasty or earlier
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dimensions: 18 1/16 x 9 3/16 in. (45.8 x 23.3 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
- Accession Number: 52.130.2
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Fragment of Temple Relief with Ducks, ca. _PHONE_ B.C.E. or earlier. Limestone. traces of paint, 18 1/16 x 9 3/16 in. (45.8 x 23.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 52.130.2. Creative Commons-BY
- Catalogue Description: Fragment of limestone tomb relief with portion of standing male servant holding in extended hands three pintail ducks; from Mastaba near pyramid of Amenemhet I, at Lisht. Condition: Broken into two pieces, upper right surface gouged. Slight remains of paint.
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A framework for developing word fragment completion tasksHuman Resource Management Review (2013)
To broaden our understanding of the person-based phenomena that impact organizational behavior, researchers are increasingly making use of implicit measures. Explicit measures tap affect, attitudes, and self-concepts that are accessible to introspective awareness, which are sometimes unreliable or distorted by response biases. In contrast, implicit measures assess mental content and processes that operate outside awareness. Unfortunately, the ad hoc manner in which implicit measures are sometimes developed is problematic. As a way of improving research on implicit content and processes, we present a detailed and practical framework for developing one type of implicit measure: word fragment completion tasks. Such tasks have been successfully used to measure a variety of individual difference variables in previous organizational research. Our framework draws on previous research and well understood psychometric principles to describe a process for creating reliable and valid word fragment completion tasks.
- Indirect measurement,
- Word fragment completion,
Publication DateSeptember, 2013
Citation InformationJoel Koopman, Michael D. Howe, Russell E. Johnson, James A. Tan, et al.. "A framework for developing word fragment completion tasks" Human Resource Management Review Vol. 23 Iss. 3 (2013) p. 242 - 253
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Language: Node definitions
A node definition or node statement is a block of Puppet code that will only be included in matching nodes' catalogs. This feature allows you to assign specific configurations to specific nodes.
Node statements are an optional feature of Puppet. They can be replaced by or combined with an external node classifier, or you can eschew both and use conditional statements with facts to classify nodes.
Unlike more general conditional structures, node statements only match nodes by name. By default, the name of a node is its certname (which defaults to the node's fully qualified domain name).
Node definitions should go in the main manifest. The main manifest can be a single file, or a directory containing many files.
# /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp
node '' {
 include common
 include apache
 include squid
node '' {
 include common
 include mysql
In the example above, only would receive the apache and squid classes, and only would receive the mysql class.
 - The node keyword
 - The name(s) of the node(s), separated by commas (with an optional final trailing comma)
 - An opening curly brace
 - A closing curly brace
Aside: Best practices
Although node statements can contain almost any Puppet code, we recommend that you only use them to set variables and declare classes. Avoid using resource declarations, collectors, conditional statements, chaining relationships, and functions in them; all of these belong in classes or defined types.
This will make it easier to switch between node definitions and an ENC.
Node statements match nodes by name. A node's name is its unique identifier; by default, this is its certname setting, which in turn defaults to the node's fully qualified domain name.
Note on Non-Certname Node Names
A node statement's name must be one of the following:
 - A regular expression.
 - The bare word default.
You may not create two node statements with the same name.
Multiple names
You can use a comma-separated list of names to create a group of nodes with a single node statement:
node '', '', '' {
 include common
 include apache, squid
This example creates three identical nodes:,, and
The default node
The name default (without quotes) is a special value for node names. If no node statement matching a given node can be found, the default node will be used. See Behavior below.
Regular expression names
Regular expressions (regexes) can be used as node names. This is another method for writing a single node statement that matches multiple nodes.
Note: Make sure all of your node regexes match non-overlapping sets of node names. If a node's name matches more than one regex, Puppet makes no guarantee about which matching definition it will get.
node /^www\d+$/ {
 include common
The above example would match www1, www13, and any other node whose name consisted of www and one or more digits.
node /^(foo|bar)\.example\.com$/ {
 include common
The above example would match and, but no other nodes.
If the main manifest contains at least one node definition, it must have one for every node; compilation for a node will fail if one cannot be found. (Hence the usefulness of the default node.) If the main manifest contains no node definitions, this requirement is dropped.
A given node will only get the contents of one node definition, even if two node statements could match a node's name. Puppet will do the following checks in order when deciding which definition to use:
 1. If there is a node definition with the node's exact name, Puppet will use it.
 2. If there is a regular expression node statement that matches the node's name, Puppet will use it. (If more than one regex node matches, Puppet will use one of them, with no guarantee as to which.)
 3. If the node's name looks like a fully qualified domain name (i.e. multiple period-separated groups of letters, numbers, underscores and dashes), Puppet will chop off the final group and start again at step 1. (That is, if a definition for isn't found, Puppet will look for a definition matching www01.example.)
 4. Puppet will use the default node.
Thus, for the node, Puppet would try the following, in order:
 - A regex that matches
 - www01.example
 - A regex that matches www01.example
 - www01
 - A regex that matches www01
 - default
You can turn off this fuzzy name matching by changing the Puppet master's strict_hostname_checking setting to true. This will cause Puppet to skip step 3 and only use the node's full name before resorting to default.
Regex capture variables
Regex node definitions will set numbered regex capture variables ($1, $2, etc.) within the body of the node definition. This is similar to the behavior of conditional statements that use regexes.
Code outside node statements
Puppet code that is outside any node statement will be compiled for every node. That is, a given node will get both the code in its node definition and the code outside any node definition.
Node scope
Node definitions create a new anonymous scope that can override variables and defaults from top scope. See the section on node scope for details.
Merging with ENC data
Node definitions and external node classifiers can co-exist. Puppet merges their data as follows:
 - Variables from an ENC are set at top scope and can thus be overridden by variables in a node definition.
 - Classes from an ENC are declared at node scope, which means they will be affected by any variables set in the node definition.
Although ENCs and node definitions can work together, we recommend that most users pick one or the other.
Inheritance is not allowed
In earlier versions of the Puppet language, nodes could inherit from other nodes using the inherits keyword. We removed that feature, and this version of the language will raise an error if you try to use it.
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Brown Mouse Spider
Female: dorsal
Brown Mouse Spider
Female: ventral
Brown Mouse Spider (Missulena sp ES02)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) iNaturalist Observation
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Mouse Spider (:Mygalomorph Actinopodidae)
Species: Brown Mouse Spider (Missulena sp ES02)
This Photo: 🔍Female: anterior🔎
General Species Information:
There two unusual aspects of this specimen.
1. It's brown. But there are brown mouse spiders out there. They just don't seem to be noticed as much.
2. It's a female. Now typically these are only seen when someone has accidentally dug up their burrow.
But we found this one just walking around in the daytime. Perhaps a bird dug up it's borrow? It is injured, with a big gash on it's head.
Copyright © 2020-2021 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 24-Apr-2020


Silbannacus – 249 AD
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Marcus Silbannacus was a usurper during the reign of Philip I. History has not been kind to Silbannacus since it has failed to record his existence. Silbannacus is known only from a single coin which now resides in the British Museum. Silbannacus most likely led a very short lived rebellion around 248 AD on the Rhine perhaps about the same time period as Pacatian in the Balkins. He was most likely killed by his own troops since there is no record of a confrontation between himself and Philip I.
Monetary System
Mints: unknown
Obverse Legends:
Note: The style of this unique coin and its fabric places its time of mintage to the reign of Philip I.
AR Antoninianus (unique)
Monetary History of the World
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Avatar Meher Baba and the Trail of Tears
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Journey
Julia Ross
Paperback 442 pages
Please choose option:
Julia Ross explores in depth Meher Baba's journey along the Trail of Tears, which culminated in his foretold car accident in America.
From the back cover: "Meher Baba, on his automobile journey across the United States in 1952, followed one of the routes of the Cherokee Trail of Tears to what is now Oklahoma. Meher Baba's journey ended in a cataclysmic automobile accident in the center of Oklahoma, where he shed his blood on American soil.
"Julia Ross documents in meticulous detail what is known of Meher Baba's route and the accident, which she began researching in the early 1970s. In the tradition of pilgrims' guides, she also traces the history and associations of the places Meher Baba visited. She focuses on the shadow side of American history, especially that of the American Indians."
2nd edition, published 2012.


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This article is intended for an Exchange Server administrator. If you experience issues with your Exchange account on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, contact your company's Exchange Server administrator.
An iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch might get connection errors from an intermediate server. These errors happen if a transaction times out before the Mailbox server and device finish a session. Sometimes, a Time to Live (TTL) or heartbeat interval (HBI) on the intermediate servers is shorter than the life of the Exchange ActiveSync transactions. When this happens, the device and the Mailbox server don't communicate.
Check the TTL settings for the intermediate servers between the iOS devices and the Mailbox server. ActiveSync transactions fail when these settings don't exceed the maximum TTL.
Identify the error
When the transaction takes longer than the TTL settings allow, an error appears on the device. It might be an HTTP 500 error or a Status error 110. These errors might delay the account data in that folder or cause it to reload. For example, requests to sync an Exchange Calendar might result in a series of 500 errors in a row. When this happens, iOS asks Exchange to send all calendar data the next time it connects. This lets iOS replace its local cache of calendar data.
Check the ActiveSync log to find out what type of error the device received at the time of the issue. Here's an example of an HTTP 500 error in an ActiveSync log:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Server ActiveSync
Description: Unexpected Exchange mailbox Server error: Server: [myserver.company.com] User: [_EMAIL_] HTTP status code:. Verify that the Exchange mailbox Server is working correctly.
Learn how to identify the HTTP or Status errors in your Exchange logs.
Set the server's HBI to 59 minutes
The HBI is the amount of time that iOS calculates should pass between pings to the server. If you're the Exchange Server administrator, set the server's HBI to 59 minutes. Learn how to adjust the HBI for your server.
Confirm the timeout for all network firewalls
If you're the system or network administrator, set all network firewalls to time out at 30 minutes or more. The default timeout for some devices might be as low as five minutes. Give the pings and other sync processes enough time to travel to the mailbox and back. Learn how to set and confirm all network firewall settings.
Update the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch settings
To decrease the amount of data that syncs to the device, lower these settings:
- The number of Mail Days to Sync
- The Sync Calendar Events timeframe
- How often the device fetches data from the server, and how often the server pushes data to the device


EXCLUSIVE: Mace to discuss mental health innovation at Employee Benefits Live 2017
Judith Grant
EXCLUSIVE: Judith Grant (pictured), associate director, health and wellbeing at construction organisation Mace, will discuss how employers can take an innovative approach to mental health at Employee Benefits Live 2017.
Her session, titled 'Getting proactive with mental health at work', will form part of the health and wellbeing conference stream on Tuesday 10 October, which is also World Mental Health Day.
Presenting alongside Claire Douglas, health and wellbeing manager, Europe at Pitney Bowes, Grant will supply practical tips and ideas on how HR and benefits professionals can be more strategic when implementing a mental health programme.
Grant will highlight how a successful mental health strategy should reach beyond the provision of employee assistance programmes (EAPs), occupational health services, and health insurance to also include workplace conversations. She will explain how this can help organisations take a proactive approach to encourage employees to talk about their mental health concerns earlier and therefore improve outcomes. Grant will also draw on her experience in the construction sector, where suicide is a prevalent issue among staff, and explain why there needs to be more discussion about suicide and mental health at work.
Grant will also look at the importance of internal collaboration when developing an all-encompassing mental health approach in order to ensure that the best results for employees can be achieved.
She said: "Managing mental health at work or supporting mental health at work needs to be far-reaching, so thinking about do [employers] need to train or support people to have better conversations at work? People [who] feel they can talk about their issues earlier on, maybe don't need to go to the employee assistance programme, or rely on the health insurance. Actually having a conversation and talking about how they feel and getting help earlier might prevent a whole lot of pain for that individual and obviously cost for the business as well.
"It is about collaborating with as many different people across the organisation so [employers] can sell the idea of wellbeing in as many different corporate languages as possible so that it lands to whoever it's reaching."
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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately - especially as I drew my very handsome male shoveler duck in pen and ink - about needing to practice line drawing in a two value Notan sense if I'm going to have a go at lino-cutting.
I've decided to practice by reviewing how to convert photos into just two tones using the PS Elements Cut Out Tool so that I can see if I can develop a better "eye" for doing two tone work
First a quick reminder about what Notan is - plus some links to previous posts on this blog for readers not familiar with the concept.
Notan is a Japanese concept involving the placement of lights and darks next to the other to read as flat shapes on the two-dimensional surface. This use of lights and darks differs dramatically from the means by which artists had traditionally manipulated these elements to create seemingly three-dimensional forms on the picture plane.Some readers will recall I've written about this previously
Line melts into tone through the cluster of many lines. Direct study of tone-intervals begins with composition in two values - the simplest form of Notan.
Arthur Wesley Dow
- Georgia O'Keeffe Month: Learning about Notan #1 - which explains what Notan is
- Georgia O'Keeffe Month: Learning about Notan #2 - particularly instructive about processes for two value Notan and composing using Notan
- A little notan in the morning - an example in coloured pencils using (nearly!) two colours
- Georgia O'Keeffe Month: Learning about Notan #3 - which highlights the problems experienced when introducing colour into the design
So this post remedies that omission!
How to reduce a photo to a two value image
I'm also going to drop in one or two of the Arthur Wesley Dow's recommendations for how to make Notan work
focus first on ensuring that the line design works before beginning to darken certain shapes within the overall design with black
- Locate the cut out tool in PS Elements. This is one of the artistic filters. So the menu selection in PS Elements goes Filter/Artistic/Cutout.
- Note how many ways you can vary the cutout. There are three controls Number of Levels, Edge Simplicity and Edge Fidelity. I'll describe each in terms of what happens at the extremes.
- Numbers of Levels: There are eight levels. 1= one value/colour. 8 = 8 values and values/shades of grey between black and white
- Edge Simplicity: There are ten levels 1= picks up all the tiny marks; 10= extreme simplicity/very abstract/subject is unrecognisable
- Edge Fidelity: There are three options. 1 = simplest; 3 = most accurate. 2 looks like it might be a good level for lino-cuts
- Select a photo to adapt and create a two value image (for a linocut). (Squint!) Check whether it has interesting lines and whether the big value shapes are distinctive. Basically any mental screening you do is trying to identify pattern and balance and to imagine what it would look like with no colour.
- Save the photo with a new file name
- Select Image/Mode/Greyscale and convert to greyscale
- Start to play around with the three controls. While keeping the other two at mid points, check what happens when you take any of the to the two extremes. Make a note of what you find out and note what each does to value, shape and line.
- Repeat for each of the three controls
- Now select two levels to produce a two value image. Do a basic check on whether it looks like it still has the potential to be interesting.
- Then vary the simplicity of the edge. Find a level which looks like it could be feasible to draw and cut on lino!
- Then vary the difference of the fidelity and see what happens.
- Try varying fidelity first. Hold simplicity at 5 and then vary fidelity.
The realistic standard always tends to the decay of artI've got an example from a photo of my Shoveler. I liked the patterns in the water and thought the duck shape was also quite distinctive - but I wasn't sure how it would work when reduced down to two values and some fiddling with edges!
Arthur Wesley Dow, Composition
Here are the results.
- Numbers of Levels: 2
- Edge Simplicity: 5
- Edge Fidelity: 5
In version 2 I increased the simplicity (i.e. made it more faithful to reality) and then reduced the fidelity! It produces more slight lines which are areas of no line on the other two.
- Numbers of Levels: 2
- Edge Simplicity: 6
- Edge Fidelity: 1
In version 3 I reduced the simplicity and increased the fidelity
- Numbers of Levels: 2
- Edge Simplicity: 4
- Edge Fidelity: 3
Now can I do this by eye alone - or do linocutters also look to PS for help?
If you want to take a look at somebody who regularly does linocuts - take a look at Sherrie York's linocut gallery on her website and her blog Brush and Baren. I also recommend taking a look at her Great Crested Grebe Linocut and reading an excellent interview with her on Printsy - which I think one or two other lino cutting students have already spotted - hi Robyn!! ;)
Lino Cutting Note: My information site to store all my bookmarks for lino cutting is already in draft. Inevitable really - as soon as I started to look at equipment and materials! Any recommendations for links to useful sites will be much appreciated. I'll let you know when I start to cut!
Please leave a comment below (and a link to your example) if you have a go at using this technique.


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One of Toronto's little historical secrets is the mystery of why Bay St does such a large jog at Queen St. History buffs may know the answer, but I only recently came upon it myself, and it answered many questions I'd long had about the strange disconnect in (of all places) Yorkville between Yonge St and the centre of what we now think of as Yorkville, the area west of Bay St.
The jog on Bay St creates one of Toronto's most spectacular urban design moments, but it was far from deliberately planned that way – the placement of the tower of Old City Hall simply took advantage of a precondition in which Bay St ended at Queen St. What is today Bay St north of Queen St was originally a separate street running between Queen St and College St called Terauley St. Terauley St and the grid north of Queen St were originally laid out as part of a separate estate that did not line up with the grid south of Queen (even University Ave did not originally extend south of Queen St, whereas Yonge St was the exception as it was the original concession road).
North of College St there was a one block break, and then a series of streets with slightly different alignments (called St Vincent St, Chapel St and North St) continued the rough line of Terauley St north to Bloor St. North of Bloor St, no streets crossed through Yorkville along the Terauley St alignment. In the early 1920′s, the City decided to cut the Terauley alignment all the way through from Queen St to Davenport Rd and rename it as an extension of Bay St. The late date of Bay St's creation north of Queen partly explains the lack of significant historical buildings along the street.
The effect in Yorkville has been more profound, as Bay St essentially split the old village in two. Originally, the centre of Yorkville was clearly along Yonge St (very few commercial buildings even existed at the time along Bloor St). Both the library and the fire hall were located close to Yonge St on Yorkville Ave. Since the 1920′s and the cutting through of Bay St, the fortunes of Yorkville west and east of Bay seem to have gone in different directions. While Yonge St has lost most of its connection to Yorkville and sense of it's former individuality, Yorkville west of Bay was destined to become a centre for artists and alternative culture and finally a very unique boutique shopping district, maintaining a significant amount of its character and village feeling.


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Data recorders can significantly contribute to operational optimization. In manufacturing plants, for example, data recorders can collect information on machine performance, production rates, and energy consumption. By analyzing this data, companies can identify inefficiencies, streamline processes, and reduce production costs. The insights gained from data recorders enable organizations to make data-driven decisions, improve productivity, and optimize resource allocation.
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Leaky city plumbing raises Ontario water bills by up to a third on average, new study shows
Aging, leaky and crumbling pipes cost the average household in Ontario up to a third more on its monthly water utility bills, according to a new report on the state of the province's water infrastructure.
56-page RCCAO report says hundreds of millions of litres of drinking water wasted daily
This watermain break along a stretch of Eglinton Avenue in Toronto closed a 100-metre stretch of busy thoroughfare in 2018. A new study says the city has 1,400 watermain breaks a year, almost four a day. (Tony Smyth/CBC)
Aging, leaky and crumbling pipes cost the average household in Ontario up to a third more on its monthly water utility bills, according to a new report by a think-tank created by a consortium of provincial construction unions and contractors.
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The report said nearly half of all water mains in Ontario are at least half a century old, which is the average age for failure.
The study, on the state of the province's water infrastructure, looked at problems within Ontario's 444 municipalities and doesn't include Indigenous communities, which have struggled with access to clean, reliable drinking water for decades.
The 56-page report was paid for and published this month by the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO). It suggests communities need more money to maintain, repair and replace aging and leaking plumbing that wastes hundreds of millions of litres of clean drinking water a day, and taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year.
In Toronto alone, the study said, it's estimated the city has been losing 103 million litres of clean water per day for the past 15 years.
'Huge amount of waste'
"It's a huge amount of waste, not only in the amount of water being spilled, but also in the energy being used to pressurize these pipes," said Tamer El-Diraby, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto and the study's lead author.
This 2018 images shows a collapsed section of O'Connor Street in Ottawa, as a result of a watermain break. (CBC)
It's not just energy and water, but also repairs and time. Between Canada and the U.S., the study points out, the two countries average 700 watermain breaks a day, costing more than $10 billion a year to repair. A British study estimated traffic delays from utility construction cost the country $2.3 billion US each year.
Leaky pipes:
The cost of water leakage makes up to a tenth to a third of the average water bill in Ontario. In some municipalities, up to half the bill was due to leaky plumbing, the study said.
Watermain breaks however, are only part of the story when it comes to leakage. The study suggests a hole in a water pipe as small as 1.5 mm can waste up to 3,570 litres of water in 24 hours and cost $14.54 a day.
Toronto loses anywhere from 10 to 15 per cent of total drinking water supply to leakage each year, or about 103 million litres per day. Across Ontario, system leakage is estimated at anywhere between 10 to 40 per cent, according to the study.
El-Diraby said it was too difficult to rank which Ontario municipalities were doing better or worse in terms of managing their water infrastructure with any kind of accuracy.
Bad pipes:
The study said Chatham-Kent had the highest portion of its water infrastructure in poor or worse condition, including 37 per cent that had 'expired.' In Windsor, 27 per cent of its plumbing is still operational, despite being 'beyond its useful life.'
Instead, he broke it down in terms of larger and smaller municipalities. While both are experiencing resource shortfalls in terms of managing their water systems, the problem is particularly acute in rural communities, where density is low and there are minimal resources and training to properly maintain a vast network of aging water infrastructure.
"They have this double problem," said El-Diraby. "They don't have enough money to do the most basic analysis and they also do not have the expertise to do that analysis."
While larger cities usually have the knowhow, they lack proper funding, according to El-Diraby, who points to London, Ont., as an example of a community blessed with a highly competent team that gets about half the funding it needs to do its job.
Municipalities don't have funds to replace old pipes
"They have 50 per cent or less than the money they need to keep the assets in good shape. So while we made great gains in the last 20 years since the days of Walkerton, with the current funding levels, it is expected the average quality of water and waste water assets in London is going to decline."
El-Diraby was referring to the Walkerton water crisis over two decades ago that caused Canada's worst e-coli outbreak.
Toronto loses 103 million litres of drinking water a day to system leakage, enough for the daily needs of 250,000 people or to fill 15,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. (John Badcock/CBC )
According to the RCCAO report, a lack of money is the most chronic problem when it comes to the state of the province's water infrastructure.
"Water infrastructure is a municipal expenditure and responsibility," said Krystle Caputo, a spokeswoman for the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, in a written statement to CBC News.
One of the solutions would be to raise the price of water, which many municipalities are already doing. But El-Diraby points out that many municipal councils lack the will to raise prices lest they raise the ire of voters.
"We need to relook the funding scheme. This is not a call for privatization, but a call to rethink and innovate with new ideas."
Holey moley:
A hole as small as 1.5 mm in a water pipe wastes 3,570 L a day and costs $14.54, the study said. A nearly 5-mm hole wastes 32,130 L in 24 hours and costs $130.88.
He suggests municipalities start making water infrastructure part of smart city systems, where city crews don't have to wait until a watermain break happens to fix aging pipes, or the pressure in the water system could be used to generate energy used in electric vehicles.
If that doesn't get people's attention, El-Diraby suggests ratepayers can avoid paying the one-tenth to one-third extra on their water bills if municipalities paid for repairs and replacements at the same rate.
"If the government takes the same amount of money, or even a fraction of that, and put it into fixing the pipes, we will not need to increase water pricing and we will not need to increase property taxes.
"We pay for the leakage no matter what, but it's more efficient if we direct this money not towards wasted water, but fixing the water system. The return on investment goes higher."
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Brain-belts, perhaps?
It is briefly mentioned in the Keen 3 ending sequence that Mortimer had been using some Brain-wave Belts to control the Vorticons and keep them in mental slavement. Nothing else is known about them. During their time of slavery, dark paintings with letters "GI" could be found in Vorticon homes. It can be guessed those were paintings of The Grand Intellect, and in the paintings, he has some sort of blue waves pulsating around his head — perhaps those are the brain-waves emitted by the belts.


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How do I calculate someone's age in Java?
I have two dates eg 19/03/1950 and 18/04/2011. how can i calculate the difference between them to get the person's age? do I have to keep multiplying to get the hours or seconds etc?
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String date1 = "26/02/2011";
String date2 = "27/02/2011";
String format = "dd/MM/yyyy";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
Date dateObj1 = sdf.parse(date1);
Date dateObj2 = sdf.parse(date2);
long diff = dateObj2.getTime() - dateObj1.getTime();
int diffDays = (int) (diff / (24* 1000 * 60 * 60));
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You use the classes Date and Duration:
You create Date-objects, then use Duration's methods addTo() and subtract()
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Duration is only available in an XML context, as the package name suggests. – Sean Patrick Floyd Mar 4 '11 at 13:32
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The following code will give you difference between two dates:
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
public class DateDiff {
 public static void main(String[] av) {
 /** The date at the end of the last century */
 Date d1 = new GregorianCalendar(2000, 11, 31, 23, 59).getTime();
 /** Today's date */
 Date today = new Date();
 // Get msec from each, and subtract.
 long diff = today.getTime() - d1.getTime();
 System.out.println("The 21st century (up to " + today + ") is "
 + (diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) + " days old.");
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Why not use jodatime? It's much easier to calculate date and time in java.
You can get the year and use the method yearsBetween()
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If you are using an external DNS server, please use the following steps to change the external DNS setting on the SMTP virtual server:
1. Select Organization Configuration, Hub Transport Server, and Send connectors, respectively. From here, locate the clients send connector and right-click Properties.
Note: Use DNS MX records to route mail automatically.
2. If you want to route outbound mail, please use the DNS option to do so. Once the connector has used DNS to resolve the IP address of the remote SMTP server, then it will deliver the mail.
3. If you are going to use the DNS option, verify the following first:
Can your DNS server successfully resolve names on the Internet?
If you have used the Set-TransportServer cmdlet to configure an external DNS server that differs from the one specified on the network connection, can this external DNS server resolve names on the Internet?
4. Use the External DNS Lookup settings on the transport server to utilize the DNS servers list. Select this option if you want to use the external DNS servers list to resolve names on the Internet.
Note: Verify that you have configured the external DNS servers list by using the Set-TransportServer cmdlet or External DNS Lookup tab in the properties of the Hub Transport server object or Edge Transport server object.
5. From here, select the Use External DNS Lookup settings on the transport server check box.


Assault course
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An assault course (also called trim trail) is a special sort of trail that combines running and exercising. It was more popular in the 1970s than it is now.[original research?] It is heavily used in military training. The prime use is to evaluate progress and weaknesses within the team involved.[original research?]
Military training[edit]
Assault courses are used in military training to increase fitness, to demonstrate techniques that can be used for crossing very rough terrain, and to increase teamwork and self-confidence.[original research?]
Often military assault courses will be standardised, and will have, for example (in the UK), a six foot and a ten foot wall, a climbing net, some type of bar to climb over, and a high rope or net that must be crossed (these being or representing the most likely difficult terrain that a soldier will come across). The standardisation means that every course will be to the same quality, though it also means that there will be certain parts that may be familiar if practised.[original research?]
However, they have different purposes. For example, they can be short (less than a minute) with a range on the end (e.g. Junior Leaders, Folkestone), or long (five minutes) as at Thetford.[original research?] This is partially because of space restraints and training objectives. The short one can be run as an individual course and a warmup for the range. The long Thetford course is more of an exercise in endurance and teamwork.
Trim trail[edit]
The term "trim trail" has more recently been applied to a series of wooden exercise stations, scattered in parkland or other locations beside a jogging or walking trail, which can be used to develop balance, strength and coordination.[original research?] They are suitable for both adults and children, and the individual stations have been scientifically designed to provide a range of exercise.[original research?] Most have simple instructions attached to them, and the stations include balance beams, sit-up bars, chin-up bars, parallel bars, and more challenging stations such as pole climbs and ladder walks.[original research?] Bristol City Council have now installed trim trails in six parks, ranging in complexity from Withywood Park, which has a single station, to Victoria Park, which has nine.[1][2] Funding for the trim trail at Hollingworth Lake, in Greater Manchester, which was the idea of the Friends of Hollingworth Lake and opened in August 2010, was provided by the Big Lottery Community Spaces fund.[3]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "Welcome to Loughall Country Park". Loughall Country Park. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
 2. ^ "Trim trail exercise stations". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
 3. ^ "Woodland Wonder opens for all". Groundwork Oldham and Rochdale. 17 September 2010.


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Translation of Germany in Spanish
Germany Alemania
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He went to Germany to study German.
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The Netherlands have borders with Belgium and Germany. Los Países Bajos tienen fronteras con Bélgica y Alemania.
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Kids should think twice before picking on early maturing girls or late maturing boys in their class. A new study links violent conduct in schools to some students' timing in puberty.
According to University of Florida researchers, children who go through puberty at different times then most of their peers, can react more violently to stressful events. Previous studies have already shown that those early or late maturing kids often have more emotional issues than their peers, but they can also react more aggressively to peer pressure and stress in general.
Julia Graber/UF Psychology Researcher: "The early maturing girls who also had high rates of peer stress were the ones who were more aggressive; both in terms of indirect methods like spreading rumors about other children, or things like that, and also threats and physical aggression, as well as late maturing boys. So those off-time boys who were sort of slow to get started on puberty when they experience peer stress they really, really didn't deal with it well."
Experts say parents with kids who get picked on, should help their sons and daughters learn better ways of dealing with these experiences, rather then getting worked up or aggressive and acting out just like their own kids.
Julia Graber/UF Psychology Researcher: "Simple emotion kind of regulation activities, learning how to take a deep breath and calm down and think about the situation a little bit more clearly are often really helpful. If there seems to be a persistent problem certainly working with local schools is very important to find out what teachers and principals are doing within your school to deal with problems where kids may be harassed."
UF psychologists say often time kids are not having more stress, it's the way they respond that is more aggressive. Early maturing girls often have poor coping skills, while late maturing boys build extra defense mechanisms.


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 any long object resembling a thin line
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 an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
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 a bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide
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 a silver
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What Is Marketable Surplus?
by Ronald Kimmons
By describing something as "marketable," people in the business world mean that it is fit to sell on the market. Surplus is the amount of product that a company manufactures or produces in excess of what is necessary to continue operations. Marketable surplus is a term that agriculturalists use to refer to a specific type of surplus that farmers and ranchers deal with.
Farming requires investment. Farmers must make financial investments in labor, tools, fertilizer and land. They must also invest in seeds. If it is the farmer's first year to grow a certain crop, he probably has to purchase seeds from someone else. A farmer must also invest in the form of personal labor. The marketable surplus for an agricultural entrepreneur is the surplus of produce that exists after the point at which he can make back any money he paid to laborers or used to buy tools, fertilizer and land. If he takes some of the crop for his own family's consumption and to use as seed for the next year, he must account for this as well before calculating the marketable surplus. In this way, marketable surplus is what a farmer makes for his personal labor.
Marketable surplus is the portion of a harvest that a farmer can sell on the market to earn a profit. With this profit she can reinvest into farming operations by purchasing more land or better farming equipment. She may also simply save this profit or use it to purchase personal items.
In agriculture, farmers and ranchers can never know exactly how much product their efforts will yield for a particular season until it is over. For this reason, a farmer may not know what his marketable surplus will be until he actually harvests his fields. This uncertainty of the size of a crop's marketable surplus lends a certain level of uncertainty to the farmer's income expectations.
Marketed Surplus
Another term that closely relates to marketable surplus is marketed surplus. In some cases, these terms may be interchangeable. The principal difference is time perspective: marketable surplus is produce that a farmer currently has on hand to take to market to earn a profit, while marketed surplus is what she has already taken to market to earn a profit.
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Grinding lathe tool cutter bits involves setting the tool on a grinder and carefully shaping it using specific angles and techniques. To do this, you will need the appropriate grinding wheel for your lathe, as well as knowledge of the angles and shapes required for different types of cuts.
Lathe tool cutter bits are essential tools for creating precise cuts on a variety of materials. Grinding your own cutter bits provides greater control over the cutting edge's geometry, resulting in better accuracy and surface finish. However, it requires both knowledge and proper technique to achieve optimal results.
In this article, we will cover the steps for grinding lathe tool cutter bits, including the equipment needed, tips for selecting the right grinding wheel, and techniques for achieving specific angles and shapes. By the end of this article, you will have the knowledge necessary to confidently grind your own lathe tool cutter bits.
Introduction To Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Definition And Function Of Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Lathe tool cutter bits are an essential tool for metalworkers and amateurs alike. These are machining tools that are used to remove material from a workpiece by rotating it on an axis, creating a symmetrical object. They are a core component of any lathe machine, as they help in cutting and shaping the material with precision.
Here's what you need to keep in mind about the definition of lathe tool cutter bits:
- They are made up of high-speed steel or carbide, offering excellent resistance to heat, friction, and other stresses.
- Lathe tool cutter bits work by cutting the workpiece material through shear deformation, which means applying a lateral force on the metal piece until it deforms and breaks off in the desired shapes.
- Lathe tool cutter bits come in various sizes and angles to perform different cutting tasks.
The function of lathe tool cutter bits is to provide precision cuts to the workpiece material. These tips rotate at high speeds to remove excess material and shape the workpiece to a specific design. The operator adjusts the lathe tool cutter bit's position and rotation speed, based on the required cut and the material they are working with, to ensure the desired shape and quality of cut.
Types Of Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Lathe tool cutter bits come in different types, each designed for specific applications and materials.
Let's dive into the details of different types of lathe tool cutter bits:
- Turning tool bit: This is the most common and versatile tool bit, designed for roughing, finishing, and shaping materials like wood, metal, and plastic. It has a flat base with either a left-hand or right-hand cutting edge.
- Parting tool bit: Parting tool bits are designed to separate a workpiece from the main stock by cutting it off. It has a shorter blade with a square or rounded edge, used for cuts perpendicular to the workpiece.
- Threading tool bit: Used to cut internal or external threads on the workpiece, threading tool bits have a sharp-angled tip that matches the pitch and size of the threads they create.
- Boring tool bit: Boring tool bits are designed to cut holes that are concentric with the lathe machine's axis. They come in various shapes and sizes, suitable for different materials and hole-diameter.
- Grooving tool bit: Designed to form grooves and slots with precision, grooving tool bits typically have a straight and narrow blade that allows for precision cutting in tight spaces.
Lathe tool cutter bits are versatile, precision tools used to shape and cut workpiece materials in a lathe machine. They come in different sizes and shapes for specific cutting tasks and applications. Understanding their functions and types can help you pick the best tool for your project, leading to efficient and high-quality results.
Understanding The Fundamentals Of Grinding Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Grinding lathe tool cutter bits is an essential process that every machinist must learn. The process involves carefully sharpening blunt tool bits, effectively enhancing their efficiency and precision. To master this skill, machinists must first comprehend the fundamentals of grinding lathe tool cutter bits.
Importance Of Proper Grinding In Enhancing Efficiency And Precision
Proper grinding of lathe tool cutter bits is essential since it directly impacts the efficiency and precision of the machined parts. When the cutter is sharp, cutting efforts are reduced, and power consumption lowered. A blunt cutter, on the other hand, consumes more power and produces inaccurate results, ultimately decreasing the efficiency of the process.
Here are a few key points to note on the importance of proper tool grinding:
- Regular maintenance and proper grinding help maintain consistent accuracy, quality, and tool life.
- Dull tools not only increase processing time, but they also create unusually sized parts and cause wastage of the workpiece material.
- Keeping the tool sharp decreases the cutting forces applied to the workpiece, reducing the tool's wear and extending its tool life.
It is therefore of utmost importance to maintain and sharpen lathe tool cutter bits regularly, particularly before starting a new project. By doing this, you can guarantee high-quality and accurate output, while simultaneously reducing wastage of resources.
Evaluation Of The Geometry Of The Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Before grinding your lathe tool cutter bits, it's essential to evaluate the geometry of the tool carefully.
- The relief angles: These angles ensure that the rake face is not in contact with the finished part but acts as a cutting edge instead.
- The nose radius: When the radius is small, the tool will cut more freely, while a large radius will give the tool more strength and longer tool life.
- The rake angle: This is the angle measured between the top face of the tool bit and the surface of the workpiece. Grinding the rake angle correctly is crucial for maintaining efficient cutting performance.
- The clearance angle: The clearance angle ensures that the tool doesn't contact the workpiece material unnecessarily.
By understanding these parameters and evaluating the tool's geometry, you can achieve a longer tool life, reduce waste, and improve your machining results.
To grind your lathe tool cutter bits effectively, it's crucial to understand their fundamentals, evaluate their geometry carefully, and sharpen them correctly. These practices will positively impact the efficiency and precision of your machining operation, resulting in high-quality and accurate output while reducing wastage.
Step-By-Step Guide On How To Grind Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Grinding lathe tool cutter bits is an essential skill that every machinist or metalworker needs to master. A properly ground lathe tool cutter bit can help you achieve better precision, accuracy, and surface finish. We will go through a step-by-step guide on how to grind lathe tool cutter bits.
We will also discuss safety measures and other essential details. Let's dive in!
Preparation For Grinding The Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Before grinding a lathe tool cutter bit, you need to prepare for the process.
- It would be best to have a clear and clean workspace to prevent accidents and to help you focus.
- Ensure that you have the appropriate lathe machine and grinding equipment necessary for the task at hand.
- Check the lathe tool cutter bit's integrity before and after grinding. If it is damaged or faulted, it needs to be replaced immediately.
- Make sure to wear protective gear such as gloves, goggles, and respiratory masks while grinding.
Selection Of The Appropriate Grinding Wheel
Choosing the appropriate grinding wheel is crucial to achieve optimum results in grinding a lathe tool cutter bit.
- The grinding wheel's grit depends on the material you are working with. A coarse grit size is suitable for grinding hard materials such as tungsten carbide, while a finer grit size is ideal for softer materials like aluminum.
- The hardness of the grinding wheel should match or exceed the material hardness you are working with.
- Before use, ensure that the grinding wheel is thoroughly inspected for any damage or faults that may cause accidents or harm while in operation.
Grinding Of The Side, Face, And Top Of The Lathe Tool Cutter Bit
Grinding a lathe tool cutter bit involves three major operations: grinding the tool's side, face, and top.
For grinding the side:
- Position the tool's side to the grinding wheel at an angle of 10-15 degrees.
- Move the tool back and forth across the grinding wheel until you achieve the desired angle and shape.
For grinding the face:
- Position the tool's face to the grinding wheel and move it back and forth across the grinding wheel until you achieve the desired shape and angle.
For grinding the top:
- Position the tool's top to the grinding wheel and move it back and forth across the grinding wheel until you achieve the desired shape and angle.
Honing The Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
Honing is the final step in the grinding process, and it is crucial in achieving a smooth and sharp edge.
- Use a honing stone to sharpen and smoothen the lathe tool cutter bit's edges.
- Move the honing stone in a circular motion until you achieve the desired results.
Inspection Of The Ground Lathe Tool Cutter Bits
After grinding and honing the lathe tool cutter bits, you need to inspect them for any visible damage or faults.
- Check the tool's edges for any chips or cracks that may affect its performance.
- Ensure that the tool's shape and angles are within the limits of the design specifications.
- If any damages are found, replace the tool immediately before using it.
Safety Measures During Grinding
Grinding lathe tool cutter bits can be dangerous if not done correctly.
- Wear protective gear such as gloves, goggles, and respiratory masks.
- Keep your workspace clean and organized to prevent accidents or harm.
- Inspect all the equipment before use to ensure that no damage or fault is present.
- Follow the manufacturer's instructions and guidelines when using all grinding equipment and tools.
Grinding lathe tool cutter bits


A modern derivative of its cousin, the drunk dial, this involves sending text messages via cell phone to friends, girlfriends, sluts, just friends, etc., usually while in a drunken stupor.
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A drunk text is commonly mistaken by adults as a text sent while drunk, while it truly means to send a thoughtful, loving text to a dear friend.
It became known as a "drunk text" due to the sincerity one may have while under the influence of alcohol.
Sam sends drunk texts to his friends quite often even though he is always sober.
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Background: Gentian violet dye released from industries into the environment has caused serious water pollution and is a significant environmental pollutant to human beings owing to the toxicity. It is urgent to decrease environmental pollution by removing gentian violet in the wastewater.
Objective: The aim is to synthesize hexahydroxy strontium stannate/tin dioxide nanocomposites by a simple hydrothermal method without surfactants and research the photocatalytic performance for gentian violet degradation.
Methods: Hexahydroxy strontium stannate/tin dioxide nanocomposites have been obtained via the hydrothermal method. The structure, size, morphology and photocatalytic performance were characterized by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, solid ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
Results: The nanocomposites possess oven-shaped morphology with the size of less than 100 nm and are composed of hexagonal SrSn(OH)6 and tetragonal SnO2 phases. The band gap of the nanocomposites is 3.52 eV. 10 mg hexahydroxy strontium stannate/tin dioxide nanocomposites have the ability to completely degrade 10 mL gentian violet solution with the concentration of 10 mgL-1 under 6 h ultraviolet-visible light irradiation. Hydroxyl radical, hole and superoxide radical are the main species for the gentian violet photocatalytic degradation using the nanocomposites.
Conclusion: The hexahydroxy strontium stannate/tin dioxide nanocomposites show good photocatalytic performance for the GV degradation. The photocatalytic performance for gentian violet degradation using the hexahydroxy strontium stannate/tin dioxide nanocomposites depends on the irradiation time and content of the nanocomposites.
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Multiple Image Stitching
In some cases when using area or line scan cameras you may need to stitch multiple images to shape a bigger image with higher resolution. This project provides source code the demonstrates how to do that with Basler pylon APIs and cameras.
Multiple Image Stitching
This project provides sample source code based on the Basler pylon APIs to demonstrate how multiple images acquired from line scan or area scan GigE or USB3.0 cameras can be stitched to a bigger one.
Background :
All industrial or embedded cameras/sensors have a limit for the maximum image width and image height (also referred to as ROI, or Region of Interest) that can be acquired and transferred to the host PC.
In case of line scan cameras, e.g. Basler runner or Basler racer GigE cameras, the limit for the ROI width is defined by the sensor's width. The ROI height is not limited by the sensor, but by the camera's internal memory and the principles of GigE to transfer complete frames. Because of that a limit on the ROI height of every individual frame must be defined.
The limit of the ROI height depends on a few camera settings, i.e. ROI width, pixel format (Mono/ Bayer/ YUV422/ RGB) and used bit depth (8bit, 12bit or 16bit per pixel). All of these settings have an effect on the amount of RAM used inside the camera to build up an image and prepare it for transfer.
FYI: most of Basler's cameras have about 56MB of internal image memory.
In some cases, however, the application may require to run image processing on higher resolution images, than the camera can acquire and transfer to the PC. In this case, you can simply stitch multiple frames together in the software to achieve the overall desired ROI height.
For example, consider the following use case:
We assume that a Basler racer GigE raL4096-24gm camera is used and an image with ROI= 4096 x 10000 in 8bit depth, i.e. Mono8, is required. The maximum allowed ROI for the camera is ROI= 4096 x 7089 though.
To realize that task, you can simply acquire e.g. two images with ROI= 4096 x 5000 each and stitch them together to a bigger one.
 1. This guide assumes that you're using the pylon Camera Software Suite version 5.0.5 or newer (
 2. This guide also assumes that you're using Basler's racer GigE or any other Basler are or line scan camera with GigE or USB3.0 interface.
Let's stitch it!
This project provides sample code based on Basler's pylon C++, pylonC.NET and pylon.NET APIs.
Download your sample project and give it a try now!
PS: do not forget this is a sample private project without any warranty.
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Understanding the Predecessor Tab
Predecessors (and their counterparts, successors) are how you as the project manager tell Project what the logical flow of tasks should be throughout your project. This tab of the Task Information dialog allows you to see all the tasks that are predecessors for the task currently being edited in the dialog. This section shows you how to create a new predecessor.
graphics/one_icon.jpg As in all tabs in this dialog, you can edit the task Name and Duration fields.
graphics/two_icon.jpg The grid on this tab lists all the tasks that are predecessors to the task named in the Name field.
graphics/three_icon.jpg The type of link is shown in the Type field. In this case, Define Requirements has a Finish-to-Start link to this task, meaning that the Define Requirements task must finish before the Write Specifications task can start.
graphics/four_icon.jpg The Lag field lets you define a span of days between the predecessor side of the link and the successor side of the link. This means that if you add a one-day lag on the link shown, Write Specifications cannot start until one full day after Define Requirements finishes.
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The temperature in Taychester is always at least 10 degrees lower than the temperature in Charlesville. However, the...
Sidrah on August 21, 2019
Please explain
Can you please explain why B ic correct? If the temperature in Charlesville drops at night, wouldn't that explain why average residents of Charlesville spends 10 to 20 percent more on winter heating expenses than the average resident of Taychester?
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Irina on August 21, 2019
(B) does not help because we are talking about relative temperatures, and the stimulus tells us that "the temperature in T is always at least 10 degrees lower than in C", so even if temperatures in C drop steeply at night, T is still 10 degrees colder than C, so why are C residents paying more for heating than C? Also, night temperatures are irrelevant to winter heating expenses.
Let me know if you have any further questions.


What is Syndication Loan? (Part 2)
Benefit of Syndication
The major benefit of syndication to Borrower is the large financing amount to be provided by a group of lenders for capital intensive project. Since all lenders share the same credit risk for a single transaction, Borrower do not have to approach and negotiate with numerous lenders to fulfil a single purpose substantial financing. Syndication loans save the time and most likely the cost of financing for Borrower. Imagine if a lender could save the time to conduct due diligence, terms negotiation and client acquisition, the lender would accept a lower lending rate due to saved staff cost and administrative cost. Since MLAB involve in syndication loan market everyday, it has the first hand information on risk appetite of lenders and market price benchmarking which Borrower usually do not have even though there is technological tool to access these information. Last but not the least, the repayment record of syndication elicits a positive reputation to lending market which makes borrower easier to obtain financing in the future.
From the lender side, syndication loan helps the lender to diversify credit risk which is substantial for a single lender to take up the whole syndication loan amount. MLAB act as arranger and bear major responsibility on administration. The MLAB earn an arrangement fee from Borrower which enhance the fee income to compensate the lost interest income from the shared syndication amount. Overall speaking, MLAB could enhance the Risk adjusted return on capital (RAROC) for the bank by arranging a syndication.
Pricing of Syndication
Syndicated Loan can be structured in different types of loans and securities. The varying loan types offer different types of interest, such as fixed or floating interest rates, which makes it more flexible for the borrower. A floating interest rate refers to a variable interest rate that changes over the duration of the debt obligation. Floating interest rate is usually calculated as a base rate plus interest margin. Below is a floating rate example from FinMonster Loan Market, the interest margin is 2.92% while the base rate is HIBOR. Common base rate is Prime Rate, HIBOR or LIBOR in Hong Kong which is determined by the interest fixing date. The most common fixing period is every three months (given 3-months period base rate is chosen).
Mentioned in last article, Pricing of syndication also include the Upfront Fee to be charged from loan proceed. The Upfront fee is a tiered fee base on the financing amount. From the example of Country Garden below, financing amount above HKD75M is top tier lender who change 2.35% Upfront Fee. Second tier lender financing above HKD50M charge 2.17% as Upfront Fee.
From the bank perspective, the higher the Upfront Fee is more attractive in terms of return between two identical deal with same all in yield. The higher Upfront Fee proportion means higher immediate return from the transaction. However, borrower has the other way round of measurement with bank given the available fund from the loan is deducted by the Upfront Fee.
Financial Covenants
Syndication loan is a committed loan. Lenders shall fulfil the obligation to fund the drawdown as long as drawdown conditions are complied. To mitigate the credit risk concern of lenders and closely monitor the credit risk during the tenor, other than borrower undertakings, financial covenants ("covenants") are generally applied to control the borrower investment and monitor the borrower business performance. Compare with public debt, public bonds are widely held and easily transferable, permitting holders to inexpensively diversify, manage, and transfer credit risk. The result is typically less restrictive covenants in light of greater publicly available information about those borrowers, the higher cost to monitor and enforce compliance, and a decline in the ability to mitigate credit risk through contract. By contrast, private debt builds on the pre-existing relationship between lenders and borrowers. Covenants are applied in order to control the borrower's activities. However, covenants can be expensive and imperfect predictors of management behaviour, reflecting the low possibility to assess business performance. Compare with public debt market, the risk that some covenants will limit profitable activity is offset by the ability, among a small group of lenders, to inexpensively renegotiate covenants that have become too restrictive, as well as to exercise control rights.
Covenant level are determined, in part, by the amount of borrower information that a lender possesses or can be cheaply acquired. If the lender is less well-informed, it is more likely to seek stricter covenants in order to more closely control a borrower's future activities. The level of financial covenants are set base on the business forecast agreed by Borrower and Lenders. Below are the general financial covenants applied in syndication loan.
CovenantType of CovenantCovenantType of Covenant
Debt to EBITDALeverage Current RatioLiquidity
Leverage RatioLeverage Debt Service CoverageLiquidity
Debt to Tangible Net WorthLeverage Cash Interest CoverageLiquidity
Debt to EquityLeverage Fixed Charge CoverageLiquidity
Loan to ValueLeverage Interest CoverageLiquidity
Tangible Net WorthNet Worth Quick RatioLiquidity
CapexCapex EBITDALiquidity
Concluding Remarks
This article provides a high level of introduction to syndication loan. Detail of terms and mechanism is complex for syndication base on different financing purpose. A simple corporate loan is straightforward without complicated undertakings and covenants. However, a highly leverage financing such as Leverage Buyout or Project Financing, the terms could be lengthy and complicated. The role of MLAB is important for structuring a marketable transaction which can be concluded for Borrower. Other than structuring, execution is another key for MLAB as there is a lot of parties shall be involved such as participant, legal counsel, consultancy, regulator, etc. All the terms in the facility agreement are set in order to mitigate and control the credit risk to be taken by the lenders according to the business of borrower. Therefore, a gate keeper on documentation execution as last step is also crucial for borrower to avoid post transaction administration and potential default.
Now FinMonster offer you the detail of loan market with benchmarking pricing, terms, lenders, news and analysis that powered by Refinitiv.All users enjoy a free 7-day trial.
You may be also interested: What is Syndication Loan? (Part 1)


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- The average temperature in Brighton, England in April is a little cool at 9 °C (48.2 °F).
- Afternoons can be quite mild with average high temperatures reaching 12 °C (53.6 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally cool with an average low of 6 °C (42.8 °F).
- In April the average diurnal temperature variation/ range is 6 °C (10.8 °F).
- The weather in April is slightly dry. Only 54mm (2.1in) of fluid is dumped.
- The skies in Brighton, England are slightly fair having on balance an unexceptional 5:27 of radiant sunshine daily.
- The shortest day is 12:51 long and the longest day is 14:41 long with an average length of 13:47.
- There are approximately 8:06 per day when bright sunshine is absent due to cloud, haze or the sun being too low on the horizon to register.
- It is sunny approximately 40.2% of daylight hours and cloudy 59.8% of daylight hours.
Check the distance to and compare the Brighton, England April averages with somewhere beginning with:
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Weather Trend Graph for April in Brighton, England, Uk
Navigate to April Weather in Locations Surrounding Brighton, England:
- Birmingham, England, Uk - 216.1 kms (134.3 miles) NNW
- Lyneham, Uk - 150.4 kms (93.5 miles) WNW
- London, England, Uk - 73.4 kms (45.6 miles) N
- Cardiff, Wales, Uk - 237.1 kms (147.3 miles) WNW
- London-Gatwick, Uk - 42.9 kms (26.6 miles) N
- Bournemouth-Hurn, Uk - 119.7 kms (74.4 miles) W
- Jersey, Uk - 231.2 kms (143.7 miles) SW
- Caen, France - 183.4 kms (114 miles) S


Listen carefully,
the universe beckons
In this beautiful intricate phenomenon,
Come, grow with me as time moves on
Universe is a gorgeous new collection for the autumn 2019 by Kristian Saarikorpi that was no more or less inspired by the universe itself. The spiral shape occurring in nature, that can be found in flowers and pine cones as well as in galaxies has always enthralled Kristian. Therefore, Kristian wanted to bring his own interpretation of the powers guiding the whole universe into the world of jewellery, and this interpretation was the start of Universe. The pieces of the Universe collection have a cracked rock crystal in the centre of them and they have been produced using 3D printing technique.