Italian Greyhound
Italian Greyhound
Vital Statistics:
Place of Origin: Italy
Group: Sighthound, Toy
Height: 13-15 in.
Weight: 8-18 lbs.
Life span: 12-15 yrs.
Trainability: moderate
Good with children: yes with gentle children
Good with other pets: yes with early socialization, but may chase small animals
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The Italian Greyhound is gentle soul very affectionate and devoted to family. A swift hunter who uses all senses.
What is the origin of the Italian Greyhound?
In the Mediterranean area, art works dating back 2,000 years depict dogs resembling the Italian Greyhound. They were great favorites of Italian nobles. The Italian Greyhound appeared in the U.S. in the late 1800s.
What does the Italian Greyhound look like?
The Italian Greyhound is a small dog, 13-15 inches tall and weighing 8-18 lbs. The head is long and narrow with a dark nose. Ears are small and folded. Eyes are large and dark. The chest is deep and narrow. The straight tail has a slight curve. The coat is short and smooth. Colors are any color except brindle or black and tan. Weekly brushing will keep the coat in good condition.
What is the temperament of the Italian Greyhound?
This gentle dog can be timid with strangers. Early socialization will help check timidity. They are very devoted to and affectionate with their family. Italian Greyhounds shy away from children and adults who don't treat them gently. They should have a daily walk with an opportunity to run.
What is the Italian Greyhound used for?
The Italian Greyhound is swift and hunts using sight, scent and sound. Best of all it is a loyal companion.
Possible Health Issues
Risk of broken legs and tail bone, progressive retinal atrophy, cataracts, blindness, frostbite, epilepsy, hypothyroidism, other autoimmune diseases.
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PSpice Optimizer is an optimization program used to improve performance of circuits including analog, mixed analog, and digital circuits. Optimization is defined as the process by which different design parameters are fine-tuned in order to see the expected or ideal performance. This program is able to run optimizations, explore performance tradeoffs and fit model parameters. A working design which does not have multiple states or cases is a prerequisite for this program. This is not intended for initial creation of working design.
PSpice Optimizer automatically simulates and calculates for the best option in an electronic working design. For instance, a user would like to check the best way by which he can drive a current of 1 milliampere through a diode using a 15 voltage source and resistor in a series circuit. The user can opt to do the calculations manually but this would be highly inefficient given the many options he could do to tweak and fine-tune the design. If the recommendation, which came up does not satisfy the user's needs, then he can still change the variable and parameters then recalculate. PSpice is able to perform optimizations for both constrained and constrained problems with either a single or multiple objective functions.

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Punchayet in Hindi
Meaning of Punchayet in Hindi
Hindi is a very rich language that's why Punchayet has many meanings in the Hindi language like Panchaayat, Panchaayate.
What is the spelling of Panchaayat, Panchaayate in Hindi?
The spelling of Panchaayat, Panchaayate in Hindi is पंचायत, पंचायते. Please note some of the English words' spelling can be wrong because we have written as Hindi pronunciation. If you are using these in legal documents then please verify with other sources also.
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Open the Genius Kids Account for your children – you will teach them to be responsible with their money and at the same time enable them to save advantageously. The Genius Kids Account is designed for children of up to 15 years of age. From age 8, children can withdraw their allowance from an ATM.
Benefits of the Genius Kids Current Account
- Opening, administration and cancellation for free.
- Fiscal education for the child with regard to the handling of the money.
- The money is not tied up with any termination period.
- Both parents can have the money on the account at their disposal, either together or separately.
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- Free cash deposits.
- One free cash withdrawal from MONETA Money Bank branch per month.
- Free withdrawals from MONETA ATM network. Withdraw maximally 2000 CZK per month.
- An advantageous interest rate of 2.50 % p.a. (with a balance of up to CZK 30,000) and 0.01 % p.a. (with a balance over CZK 30,000).
- A free Children's Maestro card designed solely for ATM withdrawals, with a monthly limit of up to CZK 2,000 (issued since the age of 8).
- Free PIN changes in the MONETA Money Bank ATM network.
- Internet bank Mini for accounts preview only – no active operations.
- Free e-statement sent to Internet Bank Mini.
On the child's 15th birthday, the account will automatically convert into an advantageous Genius Student account, with the same account number.
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- Leave us your contact information and our telephone banker will call you back at no cost and help you save on fees.
- You can also open a current account without waiting at any MONETA Money Bank branch.
Conditions for Obtaining the Account
The Genius Kids Account can be opened for children who have not yet turned 15. To open the account, the child's statutory representative must present:
- The child's birth certificate (if you have your child listed in your personal identification card, we do not require his birth certificate). In the case of a custodian, foster parent, or a guardian, we accept a court resolution.
- The personal identification card and another identification document (e.g., passport, driving licence, birth certificate) of the statutory representative. Foreign nationals shall present a passport and another identification document.
- A minimum deposit in the amount, as required by the applicable Interest Rate List.
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Handling cfqueryparam errors in ColdFusion queries
 is ColdFusion's way of fighting against SQL injection attacks. If, however, you just put in your SQL or MySQL query, people entering the wrong type of input will get a server-side error message, which will make them think your website is messed up instead of realizing they put in the wrong type of input.
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The 2-line display scientific calculator combines statistics and advanced scientific functions and is a durable and affordable calculator for the classroom. The 2-Line display helps students explore math and science concepts in the classroom.
- 2-Line Display: Shows entries on the top line and results on the bottom line.
- Scrolling: Entry line (top) shows up to 11 characters and can scroll left/right up to 88. Result line (bottom) shows up to a 10-digit answer and 2-digit exponent.
- Previous entry: Lets you review previous entries and look for patterns.
- Menus: Allows you to select settings appropriate for your classroom needs.
- Allows operations with fractions and mixed numbers.
- 2-Variable statistics: Enter/delete/insert/edit individual statistical data elements.
- Conversions: Fractions/Decimals, Degrees/Radians/Grads, DMS/Decimal/Degrees
- Recognizes Pi as a symbol in radian mode.
- Basic scientific and trigonometric functions
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Have a look at this Levitating Rotating Globe that Alexey Sha built. Not content with the standard levitating products out there he decided to step it up a notch.
"There are many globes available today which are levitating and rotating along vertical axis. This one is the world first globe levitating and rotating along TILTED axis. It uses wireless power transmittance and geared motor inside the floating globe. In brief, frequency generator is built around micro controller, a square wave output is directed to MOSFET which drives primary coil (10 turns) of output circuit. Secondary coil forms parallel LC circuit (20 turns and 25 nF) and serves as transmitting antenna. Generator frequency can be manually tuned around resonant value to control speed of rotation.
Receiver coil is a parallel LC circuit (~2.5 nF and ~60 turns of wire). It is connected to rectifier bridge. DC geared motor (made of micro servo, modified for continuous rotation) is powered by inductive resonant coupling. Receiving coil, electrical components, and tilted motor are fixed on the floating base. Their locations are adjusted to maintain center of gravity. The globe's outer shell is directly attached to the motor shaft."
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Routine Weather Events can Be Costly
As temperatures go down heating bills tend to go up. And now one Colorado research facility has put a number on just how much strain changes in the weather put on the economy.
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder used data from the last 70 years to evaluate the "weather sensitivity" of the nation's economy. They say the costs of common weather occurrences, like rainy days or cooler than average temperatures, adds up to nearly $500 billion annually.
Jeffery Lazo is an NCAR economist. He says Colorado's economy is one of the more sensitive where states are concerned.
"We have some industries that are weather sensitive such as agriculture, the tourism industry and we do have a lot of variability across the state from the western slope and the Front Range."
Lazo says they are planning to refine their national estimate. Right now it doesn't include the costs of severe weather events, like this year's devastating tornados in the south or recent flooding seen in mid and northwestern states.


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Rates of antipsychotic drug prescribing among people with dementia increased substantially in six high-income countries during the initial months of the pandemic and remained elevated through 2021, researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Psychiatry.
To examine trends in antipsychotic drug prescribing among people with dementia before and during the pandemic, a team led by researchers from the University of Hong Kong analyzed electronic health record and claims data from eight databases in Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States from 2016 through November 2021. The study included all patients aged 65 years and older who had a diagnosis of dementia, and 365 days of observation, within the study period.
The study identified a total of 857,238 people (58% female) with a diagnosis of dementia. Although reductions were observed in the incidence of dementia and the total number of people with dementia prescribed antipsychotic drugs in the early phase of the pandemic in all countries except Germany, rates of antipsychotic drug prescribing for people with dementia increased markedly in six databases representing all countries.
Notably, the antipsychotic drug prescribing rates at the latest available months in 2021 were still among the highest compared with previous years.
Compared with the corresponding month in 2019, the most pronounced increase was observed in May 2020 in South Korea (rate ratio [RR], 2.11; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.47 to 3.02) and June 2020 in the United Kingdom (RR, 1.96; 95% CI, 1.24 to 3.09).
The rates of antipsychotic drug prescribing in these six databases remained high in 2021. Interrupted time series analyses revealed immediate increases in the prescribing rate in Italy (RR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.08 to 1.58) and in the US Medicare database (RR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.20 to 1.71) after the introduction of COVID-19 restrictions.
"Notably, the antipsychotic drug prescribing rates at the latest available months in 2021 were still among the highest compared with previous years," the study authors wrote. "This suggests that the burden of unmet needs in people living with dementia was substantial and that this population faced continued challenges in care even after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic."


Nomkhubulwane Zulu Goddess of Rain
Nomkhubulwane, Zulu Goddess of Rain
Nomkhubulwane is the Zulu Goddess of rain, nature, and fertility, and is regarded as the Mother Earth. She is believed to be capable of changing into different types of animals. The name Nomkhubulwane means "she who chooses the state of an animal".
In the olden days the Zulus would plough their fields and have a special one which was ploughed by the whole village collectively and was never weeded or harvested right up to the next ploughing season and the cycle would resume again. I believe there were Nomkhubulwane festivals that were held I am not sure though if it was during ploughing or harvest times.
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 1. What would the relationship be with "Makobolwane" – a mountain peak in the Mpumalanga Drakensberg. Would this be referring to a AmaSwazi or maPulana name for the same rain / fertility goddess?
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Implementing a New Credit Score in Lender Strategies (UPDATED STUDY)
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At first, the process of converting strategies to use newscores can seem overwhelmingly complex. Generic riskscores have become deeply embedded within strategiesand often strategy design is contingent upon the scoreperformance. In reality, there is just one central question that must beanswered for successfully converting a strategy to use anew credit score:
What is the value of the new score (NewScore) that represents the same default rate orpopulation volume designated by the previous score(OldScore)?
All conversion processes revolve around answering this question and essentially follow the same steps. The analytic and resource requirement for each step in the conversionprocess is determined by the complexity and magnitude ofthe specific strategy. Furthermore, the process must befollowed when converting from one version of a score to anew version or converting from one brand of score toanother brand.


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 vga_flip - toggle between text and graphics mode
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 int vga_flip(void);
 switches between graphics and text mode without destroying the screen
 contents. This makes it possible for your application to use both text
 and graphics output.
 However, This is an old vgalib function. You should really only use it
 for debugging as it runs extremely unstable because svgalib now does
 its own virtual console management. If you want to perform a similar
 action, save the current screen contents with ordinary memory copy
 operation to the frame buffer or gl_getbox(3), set vga_setmode(TEXT),
 then call vga_setmode(3) to return to graphics operation and restore
 the screen contents with memory or gl_putbox(3).
 One could also use vga_drawscansegment(3) and vga_getscansegment(3)
 However, avoid any calls to vga_flip() in your applications.
 The function always returns 0, a fact on which you shouldn't rely.
 It might be useful if you are debugging one of your svgalib
 applications though. If your program reaches a breakpoint while in
 graphics mode, you can switch to text mode with the gdb command
 print vga_flip()
 and later restore the graphics screen contents with the same command.
 It is useful to define the following alias in gdb:
 define flip print vga_flip() end
 svgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5), vga_init(3),
 vga_setflipchar(3), vga_drawscanline(3), vga_drawscansegment(3),
 vga_getscansegment(3), gl_getbox(3), gl_putbox(3)
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Cities Near Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Local city information for Cuyahoga Falls, OH
is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 49,374. It is currently the second largest city in Summit County. It is a suburb of Akron and Cleveland and part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area. Actually older than Akron, the city was founded in 1812 by William Wetmore and was originally named Manchester. Cuyahoga Falls is named after the Cuyahoga River (which flows into Lake Erie) and the series of falls that run through the middle of the city.
Cuyahoga Falls is bordered by Akron to the south and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to the northwest.
Cuyahoga Falls was formed in 1812 near the junction of what was then Northampton, Stow, Tallmadge, and Portage townships. The focus was the series of Cuyahoga River waterfalls that provided power for manufacturing.
In 1812 Kelsey and Wilcox built a dam on the Cuyahoga River at a place where a railroad bridge crossed it in 1876. They then built a flour mill, an oil mill, and a saw mill. This led to the construction of a number of houses. This area was known as the old village. Development moved downstream, though, when it was discovered that the power was better there. The old village was eventually destroyed in 1826 when a dam built by William Wetmore flooded the dam at the old village and its mills were torn down.
The earliest settler of Cuyahoga Falls included Joshua Stow and William Wetmore. In 1815 a saw-mill was operating near Gaylord's Grove, using power generated by a dam on the Cuyahoga River there.
The town was initially called Manchester but was renamed Cuyahoga Falls at the request of the Post Office since there were already several other Manchesters in Ohio.
The village proper was first laid out in 1826 by Judge Richardson.
The town was incorporated in 1836, occupying 240 rods out of Stow and Tallmadge townships. In 1853, seeing that the village and township of Cuyahoga Falls occupied the same territory, the village council disbanded and the community was only a township until 1868.
In 1841 the Summit County Board of Commissioners named Cuyahoga Falls county seat. The state legislature then intervened and put the location of the county seat up to a popular vote. Akron won and has been the county seat ever since. In spite of being named the county seat Cuyahoga Falls never really functioned as such.
In March 1851 the township of Cuyahoga Falls was created out of the village limits. They covered the same territory so the village council voted to adjourn sine die
, letting the village be run under township jurisdiction until June 3, 1868 when the municipal government returned.
In 1985 Cuyahoga Falls merged with Northampton Township, the first merger of a city and township in Ohio.
Cuyahoga Falls had been founded as an industrial city, taking advantage of the river power. By the 1970s, though, it had become a residential community. This changed, though, when Don Robart became mayor. He had been in favor of the merger with Northampton Township because of the additional land that could be used for development. Parts of that area have since been used for industrial development. Commercial development has also picked up, especially on the Howe Avenue area at the southern border of the city.
The city had one professional sports team, the Cuyahoga Falls Cougars, of the International Basketball League (2005-). They moved to Akron in 2006.
The Cathedral of Tomorrow
, founded by televangelist Rex Humbard in 1958, is located in Cuyahoga Falls. It is now the headquarters of televangelist Ernest Angley and was renamed Grace Cathedral.
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This is a list of names of forced laborers who were buried in the local cemetery of Braunschweig, Germany
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· What is in the database
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As in most parts of Germany, Braunschweig's industries utilized large numbers of forced laborers/prisoners, Jews and non-Jews, often securing them from concentration camps. Many of these workers died from various diseases or simply from exhaustion or starvation, and they were buried locally. In some cases the persons buried there were listed, in others not.
Ossie Schonfeld of Brooklyn had been deported from Czechoslovakia with his father, Abraham, to Auschwitz, and then to forced labor in Braunschweig. Abraham died there and, many years later, Ossie decided to go to Braunschweig and locate the cemetery. He did so and found the names of others who had died there. Exact dates of death are not known. The list appeared in The Jewish Press on August 18, 1995, and is reproduced from there.
This database contains six fields:
There are 217 records.
The file was submitted by Peter D. Lande
Thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and database expertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks to Susan King, Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued contributions to Jewish genealogy. Particular thanks to the Research Division headed by Joyce Field and the volunteer project coordinators.
This database is searchable via JewishGen's Holocaust Database.


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What Colour Is Adidas Blue?
What Colour is a UK ambulance?
United KingdomServiceColoursAmbulance and DoctorsYellow / GreenFire and RescueYellow / RedNHS Blood and Transplant, Blood BikesYellow / OrangeHighways Agency Traffic Officers, Welsh Government Traffic Officers and DVSAYellow / Black6 more rows.
What Colour is the NHS blue?
NHS Bright Blue (Pantone 285)
What are Microsoft colors?
The official Microsoft colors are orange red, green, blue, yellow and gray.
What do the colors of the Windows logo mean?
The blue square represents Windows (neutral, cool, in the background of everything—like the sky in the XP homescreen.) The red square represents Office (active, constructive, hot like overheated brain activity.). The green square represents Xbox (fun, relaxed, where all the profit growth comes from.) That's all great.
Why is NHS blue?
NHS blue is used as our primary corporate colour. It reflects the master NHS brand and represents trust and security. NHS blue should be the dominant active colour in all materials.
What is collegiate navy color?
navy blueCollegiate navy and legend ink are different colors. Legend ink is very dark shade of navy blue while collegiate navy is closer to a traditional navy blue.
What is collegiate navy?
Released in July 2016, the 'collegiate navy' combines a blue-based gradient Primeknit upper with a night navy heel counter and cage, white Boost midsole and black Continental rubber outsole for a simple yet classy look.
What is hexadecimal color code for blue?
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What color is the Facebook blue?
Facebook color codes: RGB, CMYK, Pantone, HexBlueHex color:#4267B2RGB:66 103 178CMYK:87 64 0 0Pantone:PMS 2131 C
What color is Microsoft blue?
The color microsoft blue with hexadecimal color code #00a2ed is a shade of cyan. In the RGB color model #00a2ed is comprised of 0% red, 63.53% green and 92.94% blue.
What color is Collegiate Royal?
Adidas Released a "Royal" Ultra Boost Colorway for Men This "Collegiate Royal" Ultra Boost make up is similar to the recently released "Deep Sea" women's exclusive colorway, except the upper on this men's pair relies heavier on shades of blue than it does black.
What is Onix color?
Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The colors of its bands range from black to almost every color. Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white.
Why WhatsApp logo is green?
Green colour gives security Kuom and Acton have always sought to reflect on WhatsApp values of humility and simplicity. That is why the logo was chosen to convey that message, that is why they chose the colour green, because it represents security, since we all seek privacy in our conversations.
Why the color of Facebook is blue?
The reason Facebook is blue: Zuckerberg is colorblind According to The New Yorker, Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, which means the color he can see best is blue. That also happens to be the color that dominates the Facebook website and mobile app. "Blue is the richest color for me," he told the magazine.
Why the color blue is the best?
According to color psychology: Blue is described as a favorite color by many people and is the color most preferred by men. Because blue is favored by so many people, it is often viewed as a non-threatening color that can seem conservative and traditional. Blue calls to mind feelings of calmness or serenity.


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Conservation work completed on one of Glasgow's most historic buildings
27 February 2013
Glasgow Cathedral has recently received £30,000 worth of conservation work by Historic Scotland to repair the damage inflicted by last year's gales.
Despite being the only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to have survived the 1560 Reformation virtually complete, the weathercock and spike on top of the landmark did not escape last year's merciless strong winds unscathed.
The spike of the church was no longer vertical due to corrosion and a closer examination of the weathercock showed damage to some of the rivets with the tail being completely blown off. A further structural inspection also found an area of the steeple was in need of re-pointing.
Overseeing the conservation work was Historic Scotland's District Architect, Ian Lambie. While the conservation itself was a fairly simple task, it was made more complex by the height of the building and the narrow conditions.
Ian Lambie said: "The only way of accessing the spire head was by climbing up inside the steeple using steep narrow ladders and squeezing and crawling through small windows at the apex. Making repairs at this sort of height has its challenges but it's always worth it for the view!"
Now that the necessary repairs are complete, the weathercock should be able to withstand the worst of the wind and the re-pointing should hold for at least another ten years.
Notes for editors:
Historic Scotland around the web:
- Historic Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government charged with safeguarding the nation's historic environment. The agency is fully accountable to Scottish Ministers and through them to the Scottish Parliament.


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I have a blackbird nest in my wildly overgrown hedge. The babies have hatched, but how do I know if this is the blackbirds' first brood?
8 June 2007
Sent in by Julie Bush, Leeds
We do not recommend cutting or removing hedges or trees between the months of March and August.
Light pruning to neaten up a hedge from straggly shoots should not be damaging to nesting birds but the use of power tools and vigorous cutting and can be very destructive. If any work takes place it is vital to check for nesting birds before the work takes place. Nesting birds are often difficult to find even by the most observant of gardener so it is best to err on the side of caution. Certainly if you see a nest or a bird taking food into the hedge, I would leave well alone.
The best time cut a hedge is generally autumn or if it is a berry bearing species, early spring but no matter when you do it, always check first.
Blackbirds can start breeding as early as February if the weather is favourable. It is normal for a blackbird to have up to three broods in a season, this activity can go on until late summer, sometimes even into autumn. Other species like the robin, song thrush, dunnock and wren are also common hedge nesting birds among many others that may be vulnerable from hedge cutting.
It is also worth highlighting the fact that gardens that are neat and tidy are often not the best gardens for wildlife. Leaving wild patches and cutting hedges and lawns less often will be beneficial to wildlife. Gardens are vital for wildlife in built up areas as they may be the only suitable habitats for birds, insects and mammals. By leaving hedges to grow through the summer, planting wildflowers, creating a pond and a log pile it is likely your garden will become an urban oasis.
Please see the pages on the website on creating a wildlife garden.
How you can help
Do you have have a wildlife-related question you've always wanted to ask? You can use our online form to ask a question by clicking on the link below.
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The ice cream cone making machine production video is show you, the machine can make the ice cream cones with different shapes and sizes, and the capacity is also different.
The production process of the ice cream cone machine:
1. Brush some oils on the surface of the upper mold and bottom mold.
2. Adjust the temperature control knob and heat the mold.
3. Pull the upper mold and close the lower mold when the temperature rises up.
4. Pour the ice cream cone making liquid into the bottom mold.
5. Match the upper mold and lower mold together.
6. Wait one to two minutes, the ice cream cone will form the shape.
7. Pull up the upper mold and open the bottom mold, the finished ice cream cones will slip down automatically through the channel.


Essential job skills required for commerce graduates
Essential job skills required for commerce graduates
job skills required for commerce students
If you are following the latest job trends from up close, you'd know the importance of having relevant job skills. Be it any field of study, companies are more inclined towards candidates with appropriate job skills.
Talking about different fields of education, commerce is arguably the second most popular field of graduation in India; after engineering. The field owes its popularity to the gamut of employment opportunities that crop up after graduation in commerce.
It is an extensive field to make a career in Accountancy, Finance, Management, Economics, Law, Taxation, Banking, Human Resource, and Export-Import; to name a few.
Also, the stream of commerce is continuously evolving and growing and developing which means there is a constant need for students to stay updated with the latest trends in business, finance and, economics.
So, not just academic knowledge, students must also possess the necessary job skills that make them perfect for jobs.
Upon conducting skill assessments, we have realized that there is a huge talent gap between the kind of abilities that students learn in college and what corporates really need.
So, if you're an aspiring commerce graduate with a fancy degree but no job skills, give this one a read.
Essential job skills for commerce graduates
A mere degree is not enough for you to fetch respectable jobs. There is a need for some on-the-job skills that students must master before they make their way into the corporate world.
The right kind of job skills makes you more employable for any corporate organization. As for students, job skills can help you advance your professional career faster than any degree or diploma. Whether it be non-technical skills or technical skills for commerce students, you should always be hands-on and showcase that you know what you are bringing to the table.
Here are some of the most essential job skills required for jobs –
Numeracy skills
In order to have a bright career in a commerce-related field, you must have excellent numeracy skills. You must already know that jobs in fields of finance, data management, taxes and banking do consider your aptitude with numbers while recruitment. You should be able to understand and work with numerical and graphical information, draw conclusions, and explain your findings.
Related Read: Best jobs for freshers who are strong in quant
Communication skills
Given the well-paying standards and growth prospects of management jobs, most commerce students opt for a career with such corporate.
Now, working in a multi-national corporate honcho requires you to be a great communicator along with being a good manager.
So, great communication skills qualify as 'must-have' job skills for commerce students. Right from managing clients to internal team to delivering board room presentations; a commerce student must ace all of it.
Problem-solving ability
Almost all employers wish to hire problem solvers for all their job vacancies. The capability to draw out practical, economical, and effective solutions, is expected out of all commerce graduates.
Remember, all products and services that exist today are nothing but solutions to some or the other day-to-day problems of our lives. For instance: Why do we have cars when we can commute through bikes? The car designers dissected the problem of travelling long distances and travelling with family. So, this leads to the innovation of a product that eased long distance and family travels and today we call them cars.
Great problem-solving skills show how well you perform in alternative case scenarios.
Leadership skills
The commerce graduation courses are designed for those who have the potential to become leaders and be part of the team that works towards the same goal.
As a commerce graduate, you must possess excellent team management and leadership job skills because this is what the corporate world is about. The employers want to hire team players who will eventually turn into great team leaders instead of lone wolves.
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This is because we are all cog in the wheel, not the wheel itself. The organization needs you and a hundred others like you to operate.
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very close in spirit. – Artie Prendergast-Smith Mar 11 '11 at 11:19
Can anyone please tell me if there's something wrong with the following reasoning?
Sticking to the notation in the answer above, let $A$ be an ample divisor on $Y$. Then we can write $A \sim \pi^*D - kE$ for some divisor $D$ on $X$. Since $A \cdot l>0$, $\pi^*D \cdot l =0$, and $E \cdot l =-1$ we must have $k>0$. In fact, we can take $k=1$ since for any curve $C$ on $Y$ not contained in $E$, $(\pi^*D-kE)\cdot C \leq (\pi^*D-E)\cdot C$ because $E\cdot C \geq 0$, and we still have $(\pi^*D-E)\cdot l =1$. So take $A \sim \pi^*D -E$ to be our ample divisor on $Y$. By Seshadri's criterion, there exists an $0< \epsilon <1$ such that for any curve $C'$ on $Y$, $A \cdot C' \geq \epsilon ~ m(C')$, where $m(C')=sup_{q \in C'} m_q(C')$ is the multiplicity of the curve.
Now let $C$ be any curve on $X$ and denote by $C'$ its strict transform under the blowup. If $C$ does not pass through the center $p \in X$, then $C' \cong C$ and $C'$ does not meet $E$, so $E \cdot C' =0$. Then $A \cdot C' = \pi^*D \cdot C' = D \cdot C \geq \epsilon ~ m(C') = \epsilon ~ m(C)$.
If $C$ does pass through $p$ with multiplicity $m$, then $E \cdot C' =m$ and we have $A \cdot C' = \pi^*D \cdot C' -E \cdot C' = D \cdot C - m \geq \epsilon ~ m(C')$. But this means that $D \cdot C \geq \epsilon ~ m(C') + m \geq \epsilon ~ m(C)$. Hence $D$ is ample on $X$ by Seshadri's criterion (which still holds on complete non-projective schemes) so $X$ is projective.
The problem is I'm not quite sure where I'm using the smoothness of $X$, since blowing up points on a (singular) non-projective surface will make the blowup projective. (Maybe in the first line where it's assumed that $Pic(Y) \cong Pic(X) \oplus \mathbb Z$.) In any case, the above answer (and this one if it's correct) gives a quick proof of the Chow-Kodaira theorem, which says that any smooth complete algebraic surface must be projective.
I expect the statement to hold for singular complete algebraic varieties in dimension $\geq 3$. That is, if $X$ is any complete algebraic variety of dimension $\geq 3$, then $X$ is projective if and only if $Bl_p(X)$ is projective.
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Here's a scenario. You catch a brook trout in a seemingly clear and clean stream. There is no industry to speak of, but the stream is open to Great Lakes salmon that come up and spawn and die in the fall.
What are the chances of that brook trout being contaminated with nasty chemicals? The answer is they just might be, according to a story in Science Daily today that reports on University of Notre Dame research that found that the unintended consequences of allowing Great Lakes migratory fish to pass upstream can be a transfer of the contamination from salmon to say, a brook trout – and your dinner.
Salmon accumulate a variety of toxic chemicals during their stay in the Great Lakes, particularly near big urban centers. Those chemicals are left behind upstream in both their rotting bodies after death and in their eggs which brook trout eat.
As Michigan moves ahead with dam removal projects on Great Lake tributaries like the Boardman River, this is an issue that will come into ever-sharper focus. And it should. As the story suggests, we have fish consumption advisories for salmon, but not for stream fish.
What is safe and how many and how often? Those questions are likely to come up more and more. Read more: Migrating Toxics in Fish


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Gargantua the Great, probably the most famous circus animal of the 20th
century, was orphaned when he was only a month old and lived with
missionaries in Africa until a sea captain purchased him and brought
him to Boston in 1931. There, after being disfigured with nitric acid
by a sailor with a grudge against the captain, he was bought by
Gertrude Davies Lintz, who was determined to save the severely burned
gorilla. Mrs. Lintz named him Buddha, "Buddy" for short, and tenderly
nursed him back to health. However, his face was permanently disfigured
and his mouth twisted into a fierce snarl.
In 1937 Lintz offered Buddy, who then weighed an estimated 460 pounds, to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. A delighted Henry Ringling North (Yale '33) renamed him "Gargantua the Great" after one of the giants in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. As Gargantua, Buddy was transformed into the greatest of circus attractions by a flamboyant advertising campaign that saved the circus from imminent bankruptcy. For 12 years the circus toured the country and millions stood in line to see the lowland gorilla.
Buddy died of double pneumonia in November 1949 at the age of 20. North donated Gargantua's skeleton to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1950.


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The problem is caused when JNI native code triggers an LE condition in the range CEE3208S to CEE3234S (inclusive), which are considered to be "arithmetic" LE conditions. When the JVM command-line option -XCEEHDLR is present, the JVM should convert arithmetic LE conditions that occur in JNI native code to Java exceptions of type com.ibm.le.conditionhandling.ConditionException. The problem is that the arithmetic condition is not being converted to a Java exception, and instead, the LE condition is being treated as a regular crash. The JVM therefore generates diagnostics and terminates the process. Note that this is an intermittent issue and only occurs when a thread doing garbage collection (GC) work examines the resources owned by the thread that triggered the arithmetic LE condition
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Finance in Transition: Principles for a Positive Finance Future
Finance in Transition discusses the transition from traditional finance to transition finance.The current pattern of unsustainable economic development is supported by the global financial system, whose goal function is to create ever more financial value. Traditional finance is based on the concept of shareholder value. This paper develops new principles for a sustainable financial system. These guiding principles are: 1) from shareholder to integrated value, which combines financial, social and environmental value; 2) stewardship based on a direct link between financiers and companies; and 3) capital allocation based on long-term societal value.


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- He taught them drills based on Indian yoga practices which resembled the movements of the 18 main animals in the Indo-Chinese iconography.
- This missile like structure, which commemorates the Indo-Chinese War of 1940-41, serves as transport hub for Bangkok.
- I had Indo-Chinese fried fish which was even better than I remembered.
Pronunciation: /CHīˈnēz, -ˈnēs/adjective & noun
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Top 10 Famous People Who Used to Teach
Famous People
You probably had always wondered what celebrities and world-famous people did before they attained their current status of fame. Bear in mind that fame is a world and a life on its own; meaning, before fame, there was another life. This article from world history homework help experts exposes what famous, influential, and highly celebrated people used to do before becoming who they are today.
1. Gene Simmons
Now known as the bassist of Kiss, but not many people are aware that Simmons used to be a teacher, albeit for six months. He quit teaching because he realized that he wanted a broader audience, and the classroom had become too small for him. He went further to say, a class of 40 was nothing compared to a stage with an audience of 40,000.
2. Sting
You probably only know him as Sting, whose real name is Gordon Matthew Sumner, popularly known as a leading member of the Police; however, he used to be a Primary school teacher and a soccer coach before fame. He quit just when his solo career kicked off. Despite having a stint in the teaching profession, Sting is a strong advocate for increasing teachers' salaries decades later. According to him, teaching is one of the essential jobs in the world.
3. J.K. Rowling
Before Harry Porter, J.K. Rowling taught English in Portugal as a foreign language for quite some years. While functioning as a teacher, Rowling taught during the day and wrote the first draft of the first issue of the Harry Potter series at night and he is also one of the rich celebrities.
4. Sylvester Stalone
Rambo is not all muscles and guns, just in case you were wondering. Stalone is a degree holder, and back in the 60s, while attending the American College in Switzerland, he taught a gym class to earn extra cash.
5. Alexander Graham Bell
Bell is the man responsible for the invention of the Telephone in 1876. He was inspired to make that invention after his work as a teacher for the deaf in Hartford, London, Boston, and Connecticut. He continued tutoring individual students even after the creation of the Telephone.
6. Stephen King
While submitting short stories to magazines in an attempt to achieve his big break as a writer, King worked as a teacher on the side at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. He quit teaching after his first novel, Carrie.
7. Hilary Clinton
After moving to Arkansas in 1974 to join her husband, Bill Clinton, Hilary got a job at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, to teach criminal law. She was one of the only two female faculty members at the time.
8. Barack Obama
Before his stint as a state Senator and the President of the United States, Barack Obama was a teacher for 12 years at the University of Chicago, where he taught constitutional law and race theory. As a teacher, Obama has been described by his former students as a diplomatic and challenging lecturer.
9. John Adams
John Adams is another Former President of the United States who spent time teaching in the classroom before becoming a world figure. Adams, an alumnus of Havard University, spent time teaching at the Central School of Worcester even though he would later leave his job after a year to pursue a law career. According to him, education was incredibly boring and unfulfilling.
10. Dan Brown
Dan Bown is best known as a bestselling author, originally had an interest in becoming a musician. While pursuing his interest and career in Hollywood, he taught at Beverly Hills Preparatory School. And later on, while pursuing a career in writing, he taught English and Spanish at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
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Religioossed motiivid „Rooma päevikus" ja „Hingede öös". Võrdlevaid tähelepanekuid / Religious motifs in Roman Diary and All Souls' Night: comparative observations
This article examines the symmetry between two novels by Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977), All Souls' Night (1953) and Roman Diary (1976). The poetic and structural landmarks in the configuration of All Souls' Night are compared to their counterparts in Roman Diary. These are discussed under the keywords spatial shift, spiritual guidance, widows, sepulchral monuments, and judgement. The most significant conclusion of the analysis is that all the listed motifs that first appear in All Souls' Night, acquire a powerfully religious tone in Roman Diary. The protagonist's existential crisis in All Souls' Night has been supplanted in Roman Diary by the narrator's religious rebirth. In All Souls' Night, the first-person protagonist's main problem is existential – the difficulties of life and living. In this very personal work, veiled with symbols, Ristikivi tries to come to grips with the shattered reality where he must live the rest of his life. In Roman Diary, the first-person protagonist is no longer facing life, but death. His reality is more visionary and brimming with references to the beyond. Questions about death and the afterlife are more important than anxieties about existence and life, and the afterlife is, understandably, linked to religion and faith, particularly to Christianity. Death is seen as one's most direct way of communication with God, and Roman Diary tries to make sense of both faith and death. The faith of a living person, the common attribute of Ristikivi's idealistic characters who want to make things right in the world, turns into a faith of a dying person. In Roman Diary, his last novel, Ristikivi deals primarily with a metaphysical world and the afterlife. The article also examines Roman Diary's close relationship to Ristikivi's other works and to works by other authors mentioned in the novel. In the article author's opinion, the primary element linking these works is the process of unification and nationbuilding throughout European history, a significant theme in all of Ristikivi's works. Numerous characters from his earlier works appear in Roman Diary. Many of Ristikivi's characters are unifiers and/or maintainers of stability. Ristikivi's yearning to write about a unified Europe was related to his personal fate as a refugee and his trauma of homelessness.


Quick Answer: What Is A 25 Year Storm?
What is the probability of a 25 year flood?
The 25-year flood occurs on average once every 25 years and has an exceedance probability of 1 over 25, or 4 percent, in any given year. That's a 4 times greater chance than the 100-year flood, which only has a 1 percent exceedance probability in any given year.
What does the 100 year flood plain mean?
What does a 100 year storm mean?
What is a 1 in 100 year storm event?
Can I build in a 100 year floodplain?
What is the 100 year flood level?
A 100-year flood is a flood event that has a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The 100-year flood is also referred to as the 1% flood, since its annual exceedance probability is 1%.
How often will 100 year floods occur in 2050 in Boston?
How do you calculate 1 in a 100 year flood?
A 100 year flood has a return period of T = 100, so the probability of a flood of equal or greater magnitude occurring in any one year period is p = 1/T = 1/100 = 0.01. Thus there is a probability of 0.01 or 1 in 100 that a 100 year flood will occur in any given year.
What is a 2 year storm?
It is more appropriate to ALWAYS give the duration along with the return period, such as – "2-year, 24-hour storm" which means the storm has the volume (or average intensity) corresponding to the point on the IDF curve for a 2-year return period of rainfall and a 24-hour duration.
What is a 50 year storm event?
A 100-year storm refers to rainfall totals that have a one percent probability of occurring at that location in that year. … Likewise, a 50-year rainfall event has a 1 in 50 or 2% chance of occurring in a year.
What is a 10 year 24 hour storm?
Will a 100 year flood occur once every 100 years?
The name is misleading: a "100-year flood" does not happen only once every 100 years. … Statistically, a 100-year flood has approximately a 63 percent chance of occurring in any 100-year period, not 100 percent! Climate can be defined as the average state of the atmosphere for a given place over a specified period.
How do you calculate stormwater volume?
Q = peak rate of runoff in cubic feet per second (cfs) C = runoff coefficient, a dimensionless unit i = average intensity of rainfall in inches per hour (in/hr) A = the watershed area in acres (ac). The area, A, draining to any point under consideration in a stormwater management system must be determined accurately.


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Final goods Definition
In economics Final goods are goods that are ultimately consumed rather than used in the production of another good. For example, a car sold to a consumer is a final good; the components such as tires sold to the car manufacturer are not; they are intermediate goods used to make the final good.
When used in measures of national income and output the term Final goods only includes new goods. For instance, the GDP excludes items counted in an earlier year to prevent double counting of production based on resales of the same item second and third hand.
Consumer goods are exactly the same as final goods, but with the subtle difference that they are specifically intended for the mass market. For instance, consumer goods do not include investment assets, like precious antiques, even though these items are final goods.


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Rhyming, hardcover picture books all ages will treasure! Introduce young children to the exciting true stories of Christian heroes!
From the moment Nate young Nate Saint (_PHONE_) took his first flight in an airplane, flying captured his heart. When he grew up, Nate flew his own plane over the jungles of Ecuador, helping missionaries reach isolated peoples with God's great love. Although Nate and his friends lost their lives trying to befriend the feared Acua Indians, God made Nate's dream for the Aucas come true.
Children, parents, and teachers love the adventurous Christian Heroes Then & Now biographies and unit study curriculum guides. Now Heroes for Young Readers introduces younger children to the lives of Christian heroes!
Whether reading for themselves or being read to, children love the captivating rhyming poems and unforgettable color illustrations of the Heroes for Young Readers series.
Pages: 32 (hardcover)


Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea
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Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea refers to laws created by the government of South Korea to prevent the import and distribution of media from Japan. These laws were a reaction to the decades-long Japanese occupation of Korea. As a result, South Koreans had no legal access to Japanese media at all until the 1990s. As of 2018, there are still several laws restricting broadcasting of Japanese media in South Korea.
Immediately following the end of the Japanese rule of Korea, on August 15, 1945, South Korea enacted the Law For Punishing Anti-National Deeds (반민족행위처벌법), which was followed with many other laws over the decades restricting the broadcast and distribution of records, videos, CDs, and games from outside the country. While the laws did not specify any specific country, the intent of the laws was primarily aimed at Japanese media.[1]
Revisions to the laws[edit]
On 20 October 1998, manga and other publications were allowed to be imported for the first time.[2][3] Films that were joint Japan–Korea productions, or had won an Academy Award or an award at a major international film festival (Cannes, Berlin or Venice), were also allowed to be screened in theatres.[4][5] Animated films continued to be banned.[6]
In September 1999, Japanese music was allowed to be performed in venues not exceeding 2000 seats, and non-animated films that had won an award at any international film festival were allowed to be shown.[7][6][5]
In June 2000, the limit on seats in live performances was lifted, and animated feature-length theatrical films that had won one or more major international film awards were allowed to be shown, as were all films with a 12+ or 15+ rating. These films could also now be screened on cable and satellite television. Computer, online and arcade-style video games were allowed to be sold, and sporting events, news programs and documentaries were allowed to be broadcast on television. Music recordings and CDs with no Japanese lyrics, such as instrumental music or songs sung in other languages, was allowed to sold.[6][7]
On 1 January 2004, all Japanese films were allowed to be shown in theaters, and all Japanese music and video games could be sold by retailers.[4] For satellite and cable television, programming now allowed was lifestyle information programs, educational programs, Japanese music, Japanese films (those screening in theatres), and television dramas that were Japan–Korea productions or had a 7+, 12+ or general rating. For terrestrial television, allowed programming was lifestyle information programs, educational programs, non-animated Japanese films (those screening in theatres), television dramas that were Japan–Korea productions, live broadcasts of Japanese singers' concerts in South Korea, and Japanese singers appearing on Korean programs.[6]
Laws remaining in place[edit]
It is still illegal to broadcast Japanese music and television dramas over terrestrial signals in South Korea.[8]
In February 2011, the Korean censor indicated that they might consider lifting the ban in the future.[9] In August 2011, a single Japanese song was broadcast in South Korea as part of a trial program.[10][11]
In 2014, the Korean-language song "Uh-ee" by Korean band Crayon Pop was banned from broadcast by KBS because it contained the Japanese word pikapika in its lyrics.[12][13] However, SBS MTV and SBS funE allowed it.[14]
 1. ^ 中村知子 (Tomoko Nakamura) "韓国における日本大衆文化統制" (Control of Japanese popular culture in Korea) Archived 2011-12-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese). Ritsumeikan University. March 2004. (English translation)
 2. ^ "[어제의 오늘]1998년 일본 대중문화 1차 개방 발표" (in Korean). The Kyunghyang shinmun. 19 October 1998.
 3. ^ <연말특집:聯合通信선정 '98 국내 및 해외 10대뉴스>-① (in Korean). yonhapnews. 10 December 1998.
 4. ^ a b Demick, Barbara (28 December 2003). "South Korea Makes Way for Anime". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-07-05. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 5. ^ a b "Minister proposes allowing Japanese dramas into Korea". The Dong-a Ilbo. February 25, 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 6. ^ a b c d Suzuki, Hitoshi (2004-03-15). "Ban Lifted on Japanese Popular Culture in South Korea". IIST World Forum. Institute for International Studies and Training. Retrieved 2016-07-05. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 7. ^ a b Kim, Elisa (July 22, 2000). "Korea loosens ban on Japanese pop culture". Billboard. Vol. 112 no. 30. p. 68. Retrieved July 7, 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 8. ^ "韓国政府による日本文化開放政策(概要)" (Open-door policy of Japanese culture by the Korean government – Overview) (in Japanese), Embassy of Japan in South Korea, 30 December 2003. (English translation)
 9. ^ 韓国、日本ドラマ解禁に積極姿勢 (Positive attitude Korea, Japan to ban drama) (in Japanese), 西日本新聞 (West Newspapers), 24 February 2011. (English translation)
 10. ^ 日, 정치인까지 反한류 감정에 편승 (Politicians capitalize on the emotions of the Korean Wave) (in Korean), chosun.com, 1 September 2011. (English translation)
 11. ^ 「韓流偏重批判に考慮を 自民・片山さつき議員が民放連に要請 ("Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Satsuki Katayama NAB requested to "take into account the criticism obsessed Hallyu") (in Japanese), J-Cast News, 31 August 2011. (English translation)
 12. ^ Yonhap News. ＜芸能＞韓国アイドルの新曲 日本語使用で「放送不適合」 2014/04/03
 13. ^ Ashcraft, Brian. "Korean TV Network Bans Pop Song for Using Japanese". Kotaku. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
 14. ^ "[HD] 140408 Crayon Pop - Uh ee @ SBS MTV The Show". YouTube. Retrieved 2014-04-08.


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or birch-pitch is a substance (liquid when heated) derived from the dry distillation
of the wood of the birch
. It is therefore pyroligneous.
Birch-tar was used widely as an adhesive as early as the late Paleolithic or early Mesolithic era. It has also been used as a disinfectant, in leather dressing, and in medicine.
It is compounded of guaiacol, phenols, cresol, xylenol, and creosol.


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Place of Origin: France
Group: Scenthound
Height: males 22-23 in., females 21-22 in.
Weight: 55-62 lbs.
Life span: n/a
Trainability: moderate
Good with children: yes
Good with other pets: yes with other dogs
What is the origin of the Porcelaine?
The Porcelaine is believed to be the oldest of all French hounds. Almost extinct during the French Revolution, Swiss breeders recovered the Porcelaine in 1845. The name Porcelaine is a reference to its shiny coat.
What does the Porcelaine look like?
The Porcelaine is an elegant looking dog, males are 22-23 inches tall, females 21-22 inches tall, weight is 55-62 lbs. The forehead is flat. The nose is black. Eyes are round and dark. Ears are thin, pointed and hanging. The tail is thick at the base tapering to a point. the coat is very short, fine and shiny. Color is bright white with orange markings especially on the ears. Occasional brushing is all the coat requires.
What is the temperament of the Porcelaine?
The Porcelaine is a serene dog at home. It has an independent nature and early positive obedience training will help avoid bad behavior. Porcelaines are friendly dogs, good with people, children and other dogs. They are not dogs suited to apartment living as they need space to run and hunt.
What is the Porcelaine used for?
The Porcelaine is used generally in packs for hunting all types of wild game. Porcelaines are very affectionate and make good family companions.
Possible Health Issues
No specific known health issues at present.
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Shipping address plays a major role in business as it sends products and services to a specific location of a client or customer. However, there can be instances when you have to edit or change the Ship To address for a particular customer in QuickBooks. If you want to know the same, learn with us how to change Ship To address in QuickBooks. Along with this, we will teach you to edit or change the default Ship To address in QuickBooks. So, let's get straight to the guide.
How to Edit Ship To Address in QuickBooks?
There can be different reasons for which you may need to change the Ship To address However, now everyone is aware of the right procedure. If you want to learn how to change Ship To address in QuickBooks, we will teach you.
To change the shipping address on a purchase order, all you have to do is open the Vendor menu, select the Create Purchase Order, look for the Ship To option, and pick your customer whom you wish to edit the shipping address.
You can pursue these instructions to edit the Ship To address on a purchase order in QuickBooks Desktop:
- First of all, open the "QuickBooks" program on your computer.
- Then, go through the "Vendor" menu.
- After this, you have to click the "Create Purchase Order" menu.
- Here, you can find the "Ship To" or "Drop Ship To" fields. Make sure you locate them in the "Purchase Order" category.
- Once you found the shipping address, you can choose the relevant customer by clicking on the drop-down menu. Make sure you pick the customer to whom you are changing this address.
- After you pick your customer, move to the "Ship To" field and add the updated address.
After saving the new address in the Ship To field, you can close the tabs. Thereafter, you will be using the updated address and the orders will be shipped to that address only as long as you are not changing it.
How to Change Default Ship To Address in QuickBooks?
A lot of users prefer to add multiple addresses to one account. However, one of the addresses is usually being used the most. If it is required then you can set that address as the default one so that you don't need to choose an address every time you send the product.
If you wish to change the default Ship To address, you have to navigate through the Lists menu. Thereafter, you can open the purchase order template. This can be found in the Templates section. After this, look for the Transaction and Company Information tab. Here, you are required to update the address in the Ship To Address section.
One has to ensure that the details you are entering are correct; the Ship To address should match your Company Information.
Now, in order to change the default Ship To address, you can follow these steps:
- Launch the "QuickBooks" program on your computer.
- Move to the "Lists" menu.
- Then, go to the "Templates" tab.
- Now, you can start looking for the "Purchase Order" template.
- After you spot the purchase order template, double click on it.
- Now, switch to the "Company and Transaction Information" tab.
- Here, select the "Update Information" option.
- At this point, you can choose the "Ship To Address" option. You can find it on the right side of the screen.
- After this, you can check if the "Ship To Address" detail is the same as your "Company Information". If required then update the information.
- Once done, press the "OK" button to update the details.
As you follow these aforementioned steps, the default shipping address will be changed successfully. Now, you can continue using the updated address as your default address.
A shipping address is basically a location to where one sends the product or would like to get their order shipped. If you ever wish to change the address, you can do that easily. In this guide, we have shared easy steps for how to change Ship To address in QuickBooks. We also learned to change the default Ship To address in QuickBooks. Hope you find this blog useful.


Selenium Webdriver PageFactory Worked Example
I found that, while adequate, the standard selenium examples for PageFactory were not quite enough to smoothly get me started. After asking around I saw that, contrary to the example, the most common practice seems to be to use the PageFactory inside the PageObject's constructor rather than from the client class. I will illustrate this with code to test Blackboard Learn, my employer's product starting with a simple login test. It is my hope that through more examples people can help get started more easily.
So, first the client code that uses this PageFactory generated PageObject
public class LearnQA {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 String url = "";
 LearnLoginPage loginPage = new LearnLoginPage(driver, url);
 // Creds set elsewhere
 LearnHomePage homePage = loginPage.loginAs(USERNAME, PASS);
Basically, with a nice neat PageObject all we need to do is instantiate the page, "LearnLoginPage" in this example, and then perform the requested test such as logging in as a particular user. This hides the complexity of the page from the user of the class and we can change things internally without impacting anyone.
As for the actual LearnLoginPage, this uses the convenience of the PageFactory to reduce boiler plate code. First the listing -
public class LearnLoginPage {
 _USER_(how = How.CLASS_NAME, using = "login-page")
 private WebElement loginPageClass;
 _USER_(how = How.ID, using = "user_id")
 private WebElement usernameBox;
 _USER_(how = How.ID, using = "password")
 private WebElement passwordBox;
 _USER_(how = How.NAME, using = "login")
 private WebElement loginButton;
 private WebDriver driver;
 private String url;
 protected LearnLoginPage(WebDriver driver, String url) {
 this.driver = driver;
 this.url = url;
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 By loginPageTag = By.tagName("body");
 if (! "login-page".equals(driver.findElement(loginPageTag).getAttribute("class"))) {
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 public LearnLoginPage typeUsername(String username) {
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 public LearnLoginPage typePassword(String password) {
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 public LearnHomePage loginAs(String username, String password) {
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Instead of the tedious WebElement finding we can now use the "FindBy" annotations to pre-populate the various web elements we are going to use. Such as the username/password fields and the login button. I believe this results in much more readible code.
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The point of this three piece prototype spinning aluminum impeller heatsink from Sandia National Labs is to get rid of boundary layers by exploiting a fairly obscure fluid dynamic effect first discussed in the 1950's, where by boundary layers are substantially thinned above the surface of accelerating bodies (ie. radial fins on a disk rapidly spinning). In this case, the aluminum cooling fins - the fan impeller - are spinning at 2000RPM. According to Sandia Labs, heat is transferred from the processor to the rotating cooling component above, across a very thin 'air bearing' - essentially a metal surface rotating a fraction of a millimeter over a similarly sized stationary surface.
Orientation Agnostic In the video below you'll see the air bearing heatsink sitting horizontally on a table, yet if you glance at your computer tower you'll know that CPU heatsinks mostly always operate while mounted to a vertical motherboard. The Sandia cooler is orientation agnostic - meaning the air bearing is not affected by gravity and will operate vertically, upside-down or at angle because a compression spring is used to hold the impeller and base together, not gravity.
The complete 48 pg PDF from Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jeff Koplow, titled; "A Fundamentally New Approach to Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers" is available here. The project report 'borrows' one of my photos from a Frostytech reviewwithout crediting it to Frostytech.com (pg.5, figure 1), but this technology is cool so I'll let it slide. ;) Update - received a nice apology regarding the unattributed image and all is good. :)


Given the current circumstances the Belfast Meditation Group is holding weekly virtual classes via Skype. These classes are open for anyone to join. Also if you would like 1:1 instruction before joining the group this can also be facilitated via Skype.
For further information e-mail: or phone: 07557 366 933
Classes nornmally take place on Sunday evenings at 7.15pm in Cranmore One Clinic: 1 Cranmore Park, Belfast BT9 6JF
Samatha means calmness & tranquility, Samatha meditation is a breath-based mindfulness practice, which helps the busy mind to settle. Gradually, deeper states of tranquility and peacefulness develop; insight or understanding (Vipassana) follows.
The practice helps to achieve calmness, concentration and awareness. It is an effective but gentle way of training the mind to generate stillness, understanding and contentment.
Classes are open to complete beginners and to people with some experience of other forms of meditation. All are welcome.
The practice is taught in stages and usually takes up to 6 months to learn in full. Everyone progresses at their own pace and you can join the class at any point in the year.
Classes involve some instruction, a guided meditation and a short group discussion. You can sit on a chair or use cushions on the floor. Everyone has the opportunity to speak individually with the teacher. Tea/coffee is available at the end of the class.
There is no charge for the teaching, but a small donation (£5 if waged), to help cover costs is appreciated.
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This article is about the term for male servants. For the village in Iran, see Valet, Iran.
For other uses of "varlet", see Varlet (disambiguation).
A 17th-century valet de chambre
Valet and varlet are terms for male servants who serve as personal attendants to their employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Regime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term "valet" by itself most often refers to a normal servant responsible for the clothes and personal belongings of an employer, and making minor arrangements.
In the United States, the term most often refers to a parking valet.
Word origins[edit]
In English, valet as "personal man-servant" is recorded since 1567, though use of the term in the French-speaking English medieval court is older, and the variant form varlet is cited from 1456 (OED). Both are French importations of valet (the "t" being silent in modern French) or varlet, Old French variants of vaslet "man's servant," originally "squire, young man," assumed to be from Gallo-Romance Vulgar Latin *vassellittus "young nobleman, squire, page," diminutive of Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus "servant", possibly cognate to an Old Celtic root wasso- "young man, squire" (source of Welsh gwas "youth, servant," Breton goaz "servant, vassal, man," Irish foss "servant"). See yeoman, possibly derived from yonge man, a related term.
The modern use is usually short for the valet de chambre (French for "valet of the chamber", in modern terms the bedroom, though not originally so), described in the following section.
Since the 16th century, the word has traditionally been pronounced as rhyming with pallet, though an alternative pronunciation, rhyming with chalet, as in French, is now common.[1] The Oxford English Dictionary lists both pronunciations as valid.
Domestic valet[edit]
A valet or "gentleman's gentleman" is a gentleman's male servant; the closest female equivalent is a lady's maid. The valet performs personal services such as maintaining his employer's clothes, running his bath and perhaps (especially in the past) shaving his employer.
In a great house, the master of the house had his own valet, and in the very grandest great houses, other adult members of the employing family (e.g. master's sons) would also have their own valets.
At a court, even minor princes and high officials may be assigned one, but in a smaller household the butler – the majordomo in charge of the household staff – might have to double as his employer's valet. In a bachelor's household the valet might perform light housekeeping duties as well.
Valets learned the skills for their role in various ways. Some began as footmen, learning some relevant skills as part of that job, and picking up others when deputising for their master's valet, or by performing valeting tasks for his sons before they had a valet of their own, or for male guests who did not travel with a valet. Others started out as soldier-servants to army officers (batmen) or stewards to naval officers.
Traditionally, a valet did much more than merely lay out clothes and take care of personal items. He was also responsible for making travel arrangements, dealing with any bills and handling all money matters concerning his master or his master's household.
Alexandre Bontemps, the most senior of the thirty-six valets to Louis XIV of France, was a powerful figure, who ran the Chateau de Versailles. In courts, valet de chambre was a position of some status, often given to artists, musicians, poets and others, who generally spent most of their time on their specialized work. The role was also, at least during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a common first step or training period in a nobleman's career at court.
Valets, like butlers and most specialized domestic staff, have become relatively rare. A more common, though still infrequent, arrangement is the general servant performing combined roles.
Famous fictional valets[edit]
Carving of "Bazin", the valet to Aramis, of The Three Musketeers, was a studious person who later became a lay brother. (Thomas Nicholls carves him brushing his master's clothes whilst studying theology).
Other valets[edit]
Valet is also used for people performing specific services:
 - hotel valet — an employee who performs personal services for guests.
 - parking valet – a service employee who parks cars for guests, only from 1960.
 - car valet — an employee who is paid to clean people's cars professionally.
 - valet — a professional wrestling term for a person who accompanies a wrestler to the ring.
 - Jockey's Valet - an employee who maintains a jockey's wardrobe and ensures the proper uniform is worn for each horse the Jockey races.
Other forms of valet-like personnel include:
Clothes valet[edit]
Main article: Clothes valet
Clothes valets are a piece of furniture also referred to as a men's valet. A majority are free standing and made out of wood.
While in French this word remained restricted to the feudal use for a (knight's) squire, in modern English it came to be used for the various other male servants originally called va(r)let other than the gentleman's gentleman, when in livery usually called lackey, such as the valet de pied ('foot varlet', compare footman). In archaic English, varlet also could mean an unprincipled man; a rogue.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ " Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more". Retrieved 28 October 2014.
 2. ^ "". Retrieved 28 October 2014.
 3. ^ "". IMDb. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
External links[edit]
 - The dictionary definition of valet at Wiktionary


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The Palisades Museum of Prehistory (PMOP), incorporated in Washington DC, is a non-profit regional organization dedicated to promoting the awareness and preservation of prehistoric artifacts in the Palisades of Washington DC.
The PMOP will accomplish its mission by providing information, education, and archaeological guidance.
In addition to curation and preservation of prehistoric artifacts, the PMOP will assemble a library of archaeological records, maps, and surveys pertinent to the region's prehistory. These records are now housed in disparate locations e.g. universities, National Park Service, State Historic Preservation Offices, Smithsonian archives. The localized information will be made available in the museum located in the Palisades of Washington DC.
More interest in our prehistory will hopefully allow the PMOP to organize a volunteer network that can react rapidly to events exposing our prehistory - like road works, building excavations, and erosion.
The bulk of prehistoric data remains locked up in government agencies and academic institutions. Many in the archaeological profession believe that releasing this information will encourage people to collect artifacts on federal lands. However well-intentioned, this mindset continues to exact a toll on the prehistoric record. Ignorance of history will guarantee the obliteration of the archeological record as more development continues with little regard to the people who onced lived here.
By providing the public access to the archaeological record, PMOP will boost awareness of our area's human history. In the end, both professionals and public will benefit from the increase of knowledge.
Because our region's prehistory spans at least 12,000 years, waves of indigenous cultures have come and gone dispersing evidence over broad geographic areas. The ravages of time have thinned much of that evidence. By recovering more evidence over a broader area, and making that information public, the PMOP hopes to raise awareness and understanding of those who lived here for thousands of years.
In terms of human evolution, the formative years of our species existed in lithic cultures. By greatly expanding the knowledge base of those cultures, the Palisades Museum of Prehistory hopes to shed light on our human nature.


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The Old Ursuline Convent
The Old Ursuline Convent is the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley. Constructed by French Colonial Engineers under the auspices of the crown, the convent was designed in 1745 and completed in _PHONE_. Over the centuries, this building has been a convent for the Ursuline nuns, a school, an archbishop's residence, the archdiocesan central office, and a meeting place for the Louisiana Legislature. Later it served as a residence for priests serving mainly the Italian community. and then housed the Archdiocesan Archives. Today, together with the St. Louis Cathedral, it forms the Catholic Cultural Heritage Center of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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How to Store Cilantro
Cilantro is one of the essential ingredients in a lot of recipes that pays to always have on hand so here are various methods to preserve them.
Cilantro is an amazing cooking herb that is healthy and matches well with a lot of dishes, so it's good to know how you can store cilantro to make sure you'll always have a supply for tasty cooking escapades. There are better ways of storing cilantro than just popping it directly in the fridge (you can, but that doesn't make it last very long). Here are 7 simple ways on how to Store Cilantro to last you a week or more.
Storing Cilantro Method 1: Store in the Fridge
First up is the simplest way to store cilantro and is also the most basic way of keeping it fresh for kitchen use. Make no mistake, this is not a plop it and go situation. Here's how to properly store cilantro in your refrigerator:
 1. Put freshly cut cilantro stems in a container filled with water.
 2. Cover the top loosely with a plastic bag.
 3. Store in the fridge. Set it, but don't forget it entirely. You don't have to watch your stored cilantro like a hawk, but every so often, keep an eye on the leaves and cut them off as they wilt. Also, check the water if the color starts to change and replace it.
Storing Cilantro Method 2: Use an Airtight Container
To go with this cilantro storage method is to go the hydrophobic route. Keep your bunch away from water and DO NOT wash the cilantro! The goal is to try and remove the excess moisture.
 1. Using some paper towels, pat to dry off the cilantro.
 2. After gently patting the bunch, wrap the cilantro with new paper towels.
 3. Store the wrapped cilantro inside an airtight container. Every time you use this type of stored cilantro, try to check for wilted leaves and take those out. Watch out! You should only wash cilantro if you'll be using it straight away because it wilts easy.
Storing Cilantro Method 3: Blanch and Freeze
This method of storing cilantro embraces the use of water more than the previous one because it involves a blanching method.
 1. To blanch, boil some hot water in a pot.
 2. Add in the cilantro until wilted (should be a few seconds).
 3. When done, take out the boiled cilantro and plunge it into a bowl of ice water for a maximum of 30 seconds.
 4. Take out the blanched cilantro bunch and give it a little shake or slight squeeze to remove excess water.
 5. Get some paper towels ready and pat the cilantro dry.
 6. Remove the stems of the cilantro and store the leaves inside a Ziplock bag for freezing. Try to remove excess air from the bag to keep it flat for storage.
Storing Cilantro Method 4: Store as Cubes
Think of this method as cryonics, but a little less morbid with cilantro leaves and water.
 1. Wash the cilantro.
 2. After that, take it aside and allow water to drip off it to dry.
 3. Get some paper towels and pat to remove more moisture.
 4. Coarsely chop the cilantro and transfer that directly to an ice tray. When you split the chopped cilantro for the sections of the ice tray, you may choose to "listen to your ancestors" and go by feeling, or you could take a more measured approach by setting a specific amount for each section so you know how much you are using when you cook with it.
 5. Fill the tray with water and freeze.
Storing Cilantro Method 5: Liquify to Cubify (More Freezing)
Consider this storing technique if you're not particular about preserving the original shape of the cilantro herb, yet want to keep the taste. With this storing method, you can choose to wash or blanch your cilantro before proceeding with the steps below.
 1. Coarsely chop the cilantro.
 2. Place the chopped cilantro inside a food processor or blender and add some olive oil.
 3. Puree the mixture.
 4. Get an ice tray and transfer the liquified cilantro to it for freezing. Again, you can go by feeling or measure a specific amount for each cube.
Storing Cilantro Method 6: Make it Butter
Make it better with butter! You can choose to preserve and enhance the taste of cilantro by storing it like butter. Cilantro butter might sound weird, but boy is it flavorful and really easy to do. All you need are 2-3 cups of finely chopped cilantro leaves for every stick of butter.
 1. First, you have to soften the butter stick by leaving it out at room temperature.
 2. While that's happening, go on ahead and finely chop the cilantro leaves (add lemon zest for a little zing).
 3. When everything is ready, put all ingredients in a bowl and mash them all together (add in some salt if preferred).
 4. Scoop the mashed butter into the baking paper.
 5. Shape the cilantro butter into a regular butter stick or cylinder and wrap it with the baking paper.
 6. Refrigerate the butter and use sit how you would regular butter.
Storing Cilantro Method 7: Dehydrated Cilantro
Dry your cilantro for storage by use of a convection oven or a microwave. Consider this storing technique if you want the longest shelf life possible for your stored cilantro (up to a year!). Although it keeps the original shape of the cilantro, you might have to sacrifice losing a bit of the taste.
 1. To start, preheat your convection oven to 250-300 °F.
 2. Make sure you have clean cilantro by washing it and letting it drip to dry.
 3. For good measure, get some paper towels and pat the cilantro bunch dry.
 4. You'll only be using the leaves so you have to strip or cut them off from the stem using a kitchen knife of scissors.
 5. Get microwave-safe paper towels or regular baking sheets on a tray and lay out the leaves on top as you would when baking cookies.
 6. Place the sheet in a convection oven for 25 minutes or so, keeping an eye on the color. Careful to not let them turn brown.
*If you are using a microwave oven, place the sheet inside and microwave for about 2 minutes. If you aren't happy with the color, continue to microwave in increments if 10-20 seconds.
 1. Take out the tray or sheet and allow the leaves to cool for a few minutes.
 2. Carefully transfer the dried cilantro leaves into a jar using your preferred utensil. You can store them as dried cilantro leaves or crushed cilantro.
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The modern dynamic world requires that basic science courses for engineering, including linear algebra, emphasise the development of mathematical abilities primarily associated with modelling and interpreting, which are not exclusively calculus abilities. Considering this, an instructional design was created based on mathematical modelling and emerging heuristic models for the construction of specific linear algebra concepts: span and spanning set. This was applied to first year engineering students. Results suggest that this type of instructional design contributes to the construction of these mathematical concepts and can also improve first year engineering students' understanding of key linear algebra concepts and enhance the development of higher order skills.
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#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf-8 # # Distributed training on AWS # In this tutorial we will learn: # 1. How to start a cluster on AWS for use with Classy Vision; # 2. How to start a new project on the cluster; # 3. How to launch training jobs on the cluster; # # ## 1. Setup # # Make sure you have Classy Vision installed, as described in our [Getting started](_URL_ tutorial. # # For this tutorial we will also need the Classy Vision sources, you can clone it with this command (on your terminal): # In[ ]: get_ipython().system(' git clone _URL_ # In this tutorial we'll use [Ray](_URL_ to manage the AWS resources. Install Ray and all its required dependencies with: # In[ ]: get_ipython().run_line_magic('cd', './ClassyVision/examples/ray') get_ipython().system(' pip install -r requirements.txt') # You should also set up your AWS CLI and credentials as described [here](_URL_ To make sure everything is working, run on your terminal: # In[ ]: get_ipython().system(' aws ec2 describe-instances') # That should print a JSON file with all your current AWS instances (or empty if you don't have any). # ## 2. Cluster setup # We have a sample cluster configuration file stored in the Classy Vision repository, under './examples/ray/cluster_config.yml'. Let's verify that Ray can start the cluster appropriately: # In[ ]: get_ipython().system(' ray up cluster_config.yml -y') # That will take about 10 minutes, and at the end you should see a message explaining how to connect to the cluster. Assuming everything worked successfully, now tear down the cluster: # In[ ]: get_ipython().system(' ray down cluster_config.yml -y') # We will now set up an EFS volume to store our code and datasets. Follow [this tutorial](_URL_ to setup the EFS volume in your AWS account. # # When you're done with that tutorial, go back to the EFS section in the AWS console, find your filesystem there and click 'Manage file system access'. Add the 'ray-autoscaler-default' security group to the list of security groups allowed to use your EFS volume. That security group should have been created by the 'ray up' command we ran earlier. # # You should now have an identifier for your EFS volume. Open 'cluster_config.yml' in your favorite text editor and replace '{{FileSystemId}}' with your own EFS id. We are now ready to launch our cluster again: # In[ ]: get_ipython().system(' ray up cluster_config.yml') # ## 3. Create a project # # When it's done, let's attach to the head node of the cluster: # In[ ]: get_ipython().system(' ray attach cluster_config.yml') # That will give you an SSH session into the head node, which coordinates all the worker nodes in Ray. In our example configuration file, the head node is a CPU-only machine, and the workers all have GPUs. # # Both the head node and the worker nodes will have the same EFS volume mounted, so we'll use that to send code from the head to the workers. The following commands are meant to run on the head node (e.g. in the terminal prompt you got from 'ray attach'). Let's start a project in the EFS folder: # In[ ]: $ cd efs $ classy-project my_project # ## 4. Start training # # Classy Vision comes with a launcher analogous to 'torch.distributed.launch', but that launches jobs on multiple machines using Ray. To use it, simply run: # In[ ]: $ python -m classy_vision.distributed.launch_ray --nnodes=2 --use_env ~/efs/my_project/classy_train.py --config ~/efs/my_project/configs/template_config.json --distributed_backend ddp # Your first time running this you might see logs like 'Not enough GPUs available'. That's normal, and it's because the worker nodes are still being set up. The 'ray up' command should have printed a command line you can use to follow their progress. But there's no need to do anything, the launcher will wait until the workers are available and execute the command automatically. # # That's it! When that command is done it should print the folder where the checkpoints are. # # > Note that we specified the full absolute path for the config in the argument list. That's because the 'classy_train.py' command is running on a remote machine and we are relying on the fact that the EFS folder is mounted at exactly the same location on the head and worker nodes. Keep that in mind if you modify this setup. # # > Remember to tear down the cluster with 'ray down cluster_config.yml' when you're done. You will be billed as long as the machines are up, even when not using them. # ## 5. Troubleshooting # # If you hit an error during this tutorial, here are a few things that might help to debug what is going on: # # ### Make sure all workers have initialized properly # # When the 'ray up' command finishes, it prints a command line to tail the logs. It should look like: # '''bash # ray exec cluster_config.yml 'tail -n 100 -f /tmp/ray/session_*/logs/monitor*' # ''' # # Run that command and look for any errors. When the workers are done initializing, you should see '-- StandardAutoscaler: 2/2 target nodes (0 pending)' printed repeatedly on the logs. # # ### Make sure EFS volumes are mounted on all machines # # Sometimes the EFS package fails to install on workers. To verify EFS is working, get the worker node IPs with 'ray get-worker-ips cluster_config.yml', then ssh on them with: # '''bash # ssh -i ~/.ssh/ray-autoscaler_us-west-2.pem ubuntu@ # ''' # # Once in a worker machine, run 'df -h' to list all the current mounts. Verify '/home/ubuntu/efs' is on that list. If it's not, look for the EFS setup commands on the 'cluster_config.yml' file and run them yourself. That should clarify what the issue is. If you didn't setup the EFS security groups correctly (as described in step 2), the 'mount' command will hang for a few minutes then fail. # # ## 6. Conclusion # # In this tutorial we covered how to start using Classy Vision on AWS using Ray. For more information about Ray, check out their [repository](_URL_ The next tutorials ([[1]](_URL_ [[2]](_URL_ [[3]](_URL_ will demonstrate how to customize the project created by the 'classy-project' utility for your own needs. To learn more about how to train models in Classy Vision and how to use Tensorboard to visualize training progress, check out our [Getting started](_URL_ tutorial.


(Washington, D.C.) –Today's sentencing of veteran activist Zhu Yufu to seven years for writing a poem deemed to "incite subversion of state power" is further evidence of the Chinese government's continuing repression of anyone it perceives as directly or indirectly criticizing it policies, Amnesty International said.
For many years the Chinese government has stamped on dissent, and today's decision should be seen in the context of a growing demand in the country for more freedom.
Amnesty International condemns this direct and unjustified assault on Zhu Yufu's basic human right to freedom of expression.
"We believe this is a sign that the Chinese leadership is afraid," said Sarah Schafer, Amnesty International's China researcher. "Why else would they sentence someone to seven years in prison for writing a poem? The Chinese government has seen the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. It has seen the people coming out in the tens of thousands to protest a repressive regime in Russia. And it has seen the Chinese people themselves grow stronger in their demands for more freedoms and a say over their country's future. And now the leaders at the very top have clearly given out orders that any hint of dissent must be crushed."