Friday, September 30, 2011
An Unsolicited Plan for a Mullins Creek Greenway
I wrote an earlier piece on how UA needed to take a page out of UALR's book and create a Mullins Creek Greenway, similar to UALR's Coleman Creek Greenway, but I didn't include many specifics. So here is my plan for Mullins Creek in greater detail:
Overall Objectives:
1. Provide the campus community a scenic and safe trail that connects housing areas, athletic facilities, classrooms, and shopping areas.
2. Improve the habitat and water quality of Mullins Creek.
3. Provide a viable alternative to driving around campus that is healthier, more scenic, and just as fast.
Stage 1: The Cheap Stuff
1. Establish a "no-mow" zone around the creek. This would actually be more of a mow twice a year zone that would immediately help decrease erosion along the creek, improve water quality and provide habitat for wildlife.
2. To avoid looking like an overgrown drainage ditch, attractive native grasses, shrubs and trees could be planted along the banks for little extra cost. Inland sea oats, soft rush, blackgum, red bud, sycamore, and dogwoods are just a few examples of attractive plants that would improve aesthetics, water quality, and habitat. Streambank and wetland plants can typically be purchases for ~$1 a plug. Tree prices vary depending on size, but can be as cheap as $30 for a 6' tall tree. Smaller sapplings go for 10 cents when bought in bulk. If done as part of an official mitigation plan, this project might even pay for itself.
Stage 2: The Not Cheap, but Not Really That Expensive Stuff
1. Increase the width of existing trails/sidewalks to at least 12 feet.
2. Move existing sidewalks that are within 10 feet of the creek (red on the map) farther away. Placing a path too close to the creek can, and has, led to bank erosion, flooded trails, and expensive repairs.
3. Pave new sections of trail to connect existing sections each other and dorms, apartments, athletic facilities, classrooms, and shopping areas.
Stage 3: The Expensive Stuff.
1. Remove the parking lot at MLK and Razorback Rd. Replace it with a 3-4 story parking deck located away from the creek that has 1/3 the footprint (shown in red and green below).
2. Convert the old parking area nearest the creek to a Trail of Tears Park with educational signage.
3. Build a pedestrian bridge over MLK. This street is really busy and waiting to cross it can be a pain.
4. Perform a coordinated, natural channel design, stream restoration of the creek where it is above ground on campus. This will save money on maintenance in the long-run and improve water quality and habitat on campus and downstream.
Here is a map of the proposed trail. The majority of this is already in place. Existing sections would just need to be improved and short connections would need to be made.
Rock Island Bridge Opens at Clinton Library
The River Trail just got one step closer to being complete. You can now bike over the Rock Island Bridge at the Clinton Library instead of having to carry your bike up/down steps on the junction bridge or vie with traffic on other downtown bridges.
Next (and last?) step, do something about the crappy section between downtown and Riverdale. You can't really call it a trail if you all you have is bike lanes on busy streets.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
UA needs to Copy UALR - Mullins Creek vs. Coleman Creek
Mullins Creek on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville has a lot in common with Coleman Creek which flows through UALR's campus in Little Rock. Both creeks:
1. Flow through campus and were historically treated more as obstacles than amenities.
2. Had buildings built OVER them.
3. Were crossed by the Trail of Tears. (and at what is now the southern end of each campus even!)
4. Face problems associated with rapid urban development of their watersheds. (trash, erosion)
5. Are impacted by Razorback football game tailgating. (War Memorial Park in Little Rock, Razorback Gardens in Fayetteville.)
With all they have in common, their recent history couldn't be more different.
1. Formed the Coleman Creek Greenway Committee with experts in landscape architecture, environmental engineering, ecology, GIS, habitat restoration, trails, etc.
2. Came up with plans to improve the creek's habitat and water quality.
3. Developed plans for a wide, paved, bike and pedestrian trail that will eventually run along both sides of the creek and connect the campus to surrounding neighborhoods and city parks.
4. Tore down multiple buildings and ripped up acres of parking to build Trail of Tears Park, which has educational signage and native plant landscaping along the first section of the trail to be completed.
5. Is working to decrease vehicular traffic through campus and boost bike and pedestrian traffic.
1. Threw some boulders in the creek, which actually sped erosion, and called it a day.
(I don't know if this is completely fair, since I haven't been in Fayetteville for very long. I've read that plans for a restoration are being drawn up but haven't seen any evidence of plans or intent to implement them. UA did remove buildings where Razorback Gardens and the baseball field are, but I think this was done more for sports than the creek.)
UA needs to form a Mullins Creek Greenway Committee with the full backing of the Chancellor. The goals of this committee need to be to:
1. Boost student access to, and appreciation of, Mullins Creek.
2. Improve water quality in Mullins Creek.
3. Improve habitat and the aesthetics of the creek.
4. Find ways to better link the creek and campus to the surrounding community.
Here are some basic ways some of these goals could be accomplished:
1. Conduct a natural stream channel restoration of the sections of the creek that are still above ground. As part of this, plant the banks with native grasses, shrubs, and trees and limit mowing of a 25' buffer along the creek to once or twice a year.
2. Expand and improve the sidewalks along and near the trail. Take the trail to the southern end of campus and connect it to the Tsa La Gi Trail and Hill Place Apartments.
3. Create a Trail of Tears Park at the southern edge of campus that educates people on the history of the Trail of Tears. Make sure this park is connected to the main trail along the creek.
4. In the long run, seek to remove impervious surfaces on campus. Install green roofs, rain gardens, and bioswales. Store rainwater in cisterns and use that for irrigation on campus.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Lake Wedington Loop #1
Today, my friend Jess and I decided to take advantage of the great weather and go on a bike ride (see map below). Neither of us are avid cyclists, but we like to pretend we are in great shape and can do pretty much anything (yes this attitude has gotten us into some trouble in the past).
After packing swimsuits and a frisbee (neither of which ended up being used), we struck out for Lake Wedington without really doing much research. It turns out the lake is 17 miles west of town and that you if you take the seemingly logical choice of Wedington Dr. to get there, you have some pretty nasty hills in the way. We added an unnecessary hill, by initially deciding to take MLK west and then quickly deciding that road was too nasty and deciding to head north to Wedington Dr.
Wedington Dr. is a large road with little shade for most of the way. In the more developed areas, it does have a sidewalk and in places a nice wide bike path. After about 8 miles, the large relatively flat road begins to curve up and down some hills. A couple of the downhill sections were so great (long and steep) that we decided to find a different way home.
We arrived at the lake around 5:00 having taken a little over 1.5 hrs to get out there. At this point we admitted to ourselves that we were already pretty pooped and probably didn't have the time or energy to swim or throw a frisbee given that sunset is around 7:00 these days. So after exploring the cabins, lodge, swimming area, and campground we headed back towards Fayetteville.
This time, we took a very different route and it ended up being a lot better and also worse in places. The southern section of the loop shown on the map is much flatter, and for most of the way it is more scenic and less busy. All that comes to a nasty, screeching halt when you reach Main St./MLK Blvd. There is a bike lane for a bit in Farmington, and then ironically, around the time you see the "Fayetteville: Bike Friendly City" sign, there is no bike lane and no decent sidewalk. Needless to say, the last five miles on MLK were not fun. If you live in the northern part of Fayetteville, you might change the route a bit and take Double Springs Rd. or Broyles St. north back to Wedington Dr. for the final leg back


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Depending on the award applied for, to qualify for an award the program may be required to:
 1. Have an active and functioning local advisory committee.
 2. Be accessible to all individuals regardless of race, sex, age, culture, handicap, religion or ethnic origin.
 3. Be an active Tech-Prep program with a signed written agreement between the secondary and postsecondary institutions.
 4. Include student leadership organization activities as an integral part of the program.
 5. Cite specific elements of the program that set this program apart from other programs in the same field.
 6. Incorporate specific strategies for involving industry.
 7. Implement curriculum that aligns to PTE and State academic standards, and is maintained in accordance with the changing needs of business and industry.
 8. Have program staff engaging in professional development that is benefiting the overall program.
 9. Encourage nontraditional students to participate in the program.
 10. Be endorsed by the State Division of Professional-Technical Education Program Manager.


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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Modularized, Computer-Assisted, Self-Paced Approach to Developmental Math
Community colleges are a large sector of postsecondary education. In 2016-2017, the United States had nearly 1,000 public 2-year postsecondary institutions (community colleges), serving almost nine million students, representing 39% of all undergraduates. The majority of entering community college students require developmental (or remedial) math. Success rates in the developmental math course sequence and college more broadly are discouragingly low. Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers alike are eagerly searching for reforms to improve success rates, but there is a dearth of causal evidence on the effectiveness of most proposed reforms. We sought to answer the following question: What effect does a modularized, computer-assisted, self-paced approach to developmental math (compared with a more "traditional" direct-instruction course alternative) have on students' likelihood of completing the developmental math course sequence? Findings from a randomized controlled trial (n =1,403) are presented. The program was well implemented; however, we did not find evidence that this approach was superior to the "traditional" math class. Although these results are disappointing, they are important because modularization and self-paced computer-assisted instruction are popular reforms.

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This one is about an issue you may run into when Microsoft Word is virtualized and you try to open a DOC or DOCX file from a SharePoint site. Issue: When you have Microsoft Word virtualized and streamed to a client, if you open a SharePoint site, select a doc file and in the drop down list you choose "Edit in Microsoft Word" you may receive the following error.
Resolution: There are three possible workarounds for this issue:
1. Install the SharePoint Compatibility Pack from the Office CD on the client.
2. Save the document locally before editing.
3. Run Internet Explorer inside the virtual environment, either by opening it directly from a virtual app or by adding an OSD for it to the package.
More info: KB83314


Quick Answer: Why Is Hanging Up On Someone Rude?
What does it mean when you're hung up on someone?
1 : delayed or detained for a time.
2 : anxiously nervous.
3 : having great or excessive interest in or preoccupation with someone or something —usually used with onthey broke up but he's still hung up on herhung up on winning..
Did you just hang up on me meaning?
(someone) hung up on (someone) To "hang up on" someone means to suddenly stop the call while they are talking. People usually do this because they're angry. It's rude to hang up on someone. In the example above, the speaker says that her sister "hung up on" her as a joke.
Is it rude to hang up on cold callers?
If cold calls are defined as unsolicited sales attempts to individuals then hanging up is definitely acceptable. I'll generally say "I'm not interested", then hang up. Anything beyond ending the call leads to more wasted time, as the people calling have a script they must follow.
Why do cold callers hang up?
Robocalls that hang up immediately are usually meant to verify your number. It means that the machine wants to confirm that the number is active and that a real person answered the phone. Those calls will be brief, and often the call gets disconnected as soon as you say hello.
Is hanging up the phone on someone disrespectful?
IF you are on the phone with a FRIEND and you hang up, this is considered rude if the point is to end the conversation abruptly. There's no chance the other person will get the last word if you hang up. … Most people consider it rude because it's similar to just leaving a face-to-face conversation without any warning.
How do you hang up a call without being rude?
Here are a few tips and phrases to help you politely and professionally end phone conversations.Close the door. When it's time to end the conversation, be sure you are not inviting the other person to continue talking. … Use breaks in conversation. … Interrupt politely. … Offer future calls.
What do you do when your husband hangs up on you?
Be consistent, be polite, be kind, draw a line and stick to it. Do not talk to your husband on the phone if he hangs up on you. Tell him first, that it hurts your feelings, that it is disrespectful and ask him not to. Then if he does again, don't talk to him on the phone….
Can the IRS hang up on you?
The IRS uses "courtesy disconnects" to hang up on callers when wait times are long. Yes, you read that correctly: "Courtesy Disconnects" is the official term used by the agency. … Not a joke: When you are on hold with the IRS too long now, they give you a "courtesy disconnect." Click!
Is hanging up on someone rude?
Hanging up on someone is rude, obviously, but more than that, it is passive-aggressive behaviour in order to win, despite not having a cogent argument. It is the ultimate form of dismissal of who you are and what you have to say, usually by someone who is incapable of rational discussion.
Is it immature to hang up on someone?
Personally I only think hanging up on someone is really immature if it's done to avoid discussing a problem that needs to be resolved. It's one thing to end a conversation to clear your mind, but to go out of your way to put off something important is going about things the wrong way.
What's hang up the phone?
2. phrasal verb. If you hang up or you hang up the phone, you end a phone call. If you hang up on someone you are speaking to on the phone, you end the phone call suddenly and unexpectedly, usually because you are angry or upset with the person you are speaking to. Mom hung up the phone.
What does it mean when a girl hangs up on you?
She just wants to know you hearing her. A woman will only hang up on you if you refuse to listen and just keep pushing your own point. She hangs up in frustration. It seems crazy, what she wants is for you to "quieten down, chill out, and think on what she is trying to convey".
How do you know if someone has hung up on you?
The default setting for going to voicemail is usually 4 rings. If they haven't picked up by then it most likely means they couldn't get to their phone in time. If you go straight to voicemail, it might mean they are driving or busy. If you are immediately disconnected after about one second, they blocked you.
Is it rude to hang up without saying bye?
In these instances, someone might hang up without saying "bye," simply as a result of obliviousness and lack-of-thought about it. I doubt it's done to be rude (in the majority of instances, although occasionally, sure it probably happens).
Why do we say hang up the phone?
WHY DO WE "HANG UP" A PHONE? Phones used to have two parts to them, a base and a receiver. In order to end a call, the receiver had to be placed or "hung" on the base.


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Simulink.Variant class
Package: Simulink
Specify a model reference variant and its execution environment
A Simulink.Variant object specifies a variant object, which is defined using a Boolean expression called a variant condition. For more information, see Variant Controls. A Model Variants block and a Variant Subsystem block use variant objects to associate an execution environment with each of its variants.
The variant condition references MATLAB® variables and/or Simulink® parameter objects in the base workspace called variant control variables. The variant condition must evaluate to true or false when the model is compiled.
For a given Model Variants block or Variant Subsystem block, you must define the variant objects so that only one evaluates to true. The variant object, whose variant condition evaluates to true, is the active variant for that variant block.
variant=Simulink.Variant(VariantCondition) creates a variant object in the base workspace. The object name is variant, and the associated variant condition is VariantCondition. The object can have any unique legal MATLAB name.
The VariantCondition must be a Boolean expression that references at least one base workspace variable or parameter. A variant condition can include scalar variables, enumerated values, the operators ==, ~=, &&, ||, ~, as well as parentheses for grouping. If you specify the condition literally, surround it with single quotes.
You can also create a variant object using the Model explorer. Select the Base Workspace, choose Add > Simulink.Variant, and specify the desired name and variant condition in the Contents and Dialog panes. If you specify the condition literally, do not surround it with single quotes (unlike the MATLAB API, which requires single quotes).
The Boolean expression associated with the variant object.
Create a variant object with a variant condition:
GU=Simulink.Variant('Fuel==1 && Emis==1')
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What to Expect During a Barber School Inspection
Inspector(s) will arrive and introduce themselves and present state ID.
Inspector will ask to speak to the owner or manager. If neither is available, the inspector will notify the person in charge that the inspection will proceed.
The inspection will consist of the following:
Check for required postings:
- Consumer complaint sign
- Sanitation Rules
- Foot spa log (if applicable)
- Most recent inspection report
- Current school license
- Current instructors licenses (with current photo of licensee attached)
- Outside building in at least 10-inch letters "BARBER SCHOOL--STUDENT BARBERS."
- Signs containing "BARBER SCHOOL--STUDENT BARBERS "on each inside wall of the school.
Check building requirements:
- Square footage
- Classroom and practical areas
- Required equipment
Inspector will confirm there is a minimum of 10 student work stations that include a chair that reclines, a back bar, a wall mirror and a sink behind every two work stations.
Barber school must have one barber chair available for each student in attendance on the practical floor.
- A barber school must have at least one instructor for every 25 students on the school's premises.
- A school may not enroll more than three student instructors for each licensed instructor.
- Check that hours are being recorded in SHEARS.
- Check display of Student Permits at work stations, and in album.
- Check that the school is properly accounting for hours granted to students through monthly progress reports documenting daily attendance.
- Check that monthly progress reports are being retained in student file for 48 months.
Check for the implementation of Health and Sanitation standards and practices:
- Work stations
- Implements cleaned and sanitized before use on each client
- Wet disinfectants
- Dry storage areas
- Towel storage (clean, soiled)
- Shampoo bowls
- Hair swept up as soon as practicable
- Single use items being discarded after each use
- Trash receptacle covered
Check restrooms. (hot and cold running water, clean and in good repair, and no chemicals stored in restroom)
Check that furniture, floors, windows, ceilings, and equipment are clean and in good repair in accordance to sanitation rules.
Check manicure/pedicure area and facial area (if applicable) for compliance.
If school is providing manicure or pedicure nail services an autoclave, dry heat sterilizer or ultra violet sanitizer is required.
Check that prohibited products and not in the school and no prohibited practices are being performed.


What Does It Mean When A Hamster Stands Up?
Have you noticed that every now and then your hamster will stand up on their two back legs? Is this something you need to worry about? What Does It Mean When A Hamster Stands Up?
Hamsters will stand up on their back legs to have a good look and listen to things around them. They will also stand up when they are grooming themselves. If your hamster stands up as you approach them this is a sign of defensive behaviour.
Why Does My Hamster Stand On Its Hind Legs?
A hamster will stand on its hind legs to help them explorer their surroundings. By standing they can get a better view around them and have a good sniff as the air is most likely more free moving.
A hamster standing on its hind legs is also known as meerkating because they exhibit the same posture as a meerkat.
It is very important when a hamster is standing that you do not approach them and try to pick them up as they might show some aggression towards you. At this stage your hamster is in a exploring mode and they do not want to be distracted. If this is the case do not worry because it is normal for them to act this way.
They are in this hunting mode usually because they can smell or see something that is interesting, usually food related. Below is a video showing a hamster standing on its hind legs.
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Why Is My Hamster Standing Perfectly Still?
A hamster will stand perfectly still if they have smelt or heard something interesting or threatening and they are not sure where it is. This behaviour is witnessed commonly in wild hamsters, but also domestic hamsters.
It is also common for them to stand perfectly still for minutes at a time. This is a natural for them to do, it has most likely been inherited from wild hamsters because they are seen as prey in the wild and they stay perfectly still to avoid predators.
If your hamster is standing perfectly still you can approach them slowly and gently pick them up, make sure not to scare them and they should start to move around again.
Hamster Falling Asleep Standing Up
If your hamster is falling asleep while standing up it is usually because they have fainted or have not had enough quality sleep recently.
It is not common for hamsters to fall asleep standing up, if they do it once or twice it is nothing to be worried about.
If they are frequently falling sleep standing up then there is most likely an issue that needs to be looked in to. You will need to look at the following two items.
Monitor Sleep Pattern
A healthy hamster requires between six to eight hours of sleep a day. Hamsters also sleep during the day so it should be easy to monitor how much sleep they are having.
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During the day keep a record of how much sleep they are getting. It is usual for them to get up a few times during their sleep to go toilet and have a drink.
If they are frequently having less then six hours a day you should take them to the vet as soon as possible.
Typically when a hamster faints they will fall or jump because they are not sure what is happening to them and they are scared.
It should be pretty obvious if your hamster is fainting, take a look at this video for the signs to look out for
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The main causes of hamsters fainting include
 - Not eating enough food
 - Not drinking enough water
 - Suffering from an illness
If they are constantly fainting for longer than one day then you will need to take them to a vet to be looked at as soon as possible.


How Many Kittens Will My Cat Give Birth to?
The exact number of kittens that your cat can give birth to varies from just one up to eight. Cats can have up to three litters per year. However, there have been extreme exceptions, with litters of 14 kittens being recorded.
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Population ages 25-29, female (% of female population) in India was reported at 8.3926 % in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. India - Population ages 25-29, female (% of female population) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2020.
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For boys in the 1st grade.
Tiger Scouts spend their time doing adventures with adult participation. By completing seven adventures, the Tiger Rank is earned.
Tiger Rank Requirements:
1. Complete each of the following Tiger required adventures with your den or family:
A. Backyard Jungle
B. Games Tigers Play
C. My Family's Duty to God
D. Team Tiger
E. Tiger Bites
F. Tigers in the Wild
2. Complete one Tiger elective adventure of your den or family's choosing from this list:
Magical Mysteries, Earning Your Stripes, Family Stories, Floats and Boats, Good Knights, Roling Tigers, Sky is the Limit, Stories in Shapes, Tiger-iffic!, Tiger: Safe and Smart, Tiger Tag, Tiger Tales or Tiger Theater.


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People who have not owned forestry or agricultural land can often find it hard to visualise what an acre looks like. This is an attempt to help you visualise how big an area one acre is.
An acre measures an area of land and is about 70 yards by 70 yards, which means about 4,900 square yards (or roughly 44,000 square feet).
A typical football pitch is about 110 yards by about 70 yards (the rules allow some flexibility in the size) so that a pitch covers about one and a half acres of field or, including the immediately surrounding land that goes with it, the football pitch takes up about 2 acres.
Another way to visualise one acre is as the area in which you could park about 150 cars. A typical supermarket, excluding the car park, covers about 0.6 of an acre (about 26,000 square feet).
A 9 acre woodland might be only equivalent to about 6 football pitches, but it will usually appear bigger than that for various reasons: you can't see across it and a wood will have bumps and dips and other features, but the main thing is that a forest is three-dimensional. The trees give the extra dimension which makes a woodland so much more interesting and so much richer in biodiversity, and make it seem much bigger.
The other measurement often used for surface area is the metric measure – hectares. A hectare is precisely 100 metres by 100 metres and is much larger than an acre. About 2.47 acres make up one hectare, so an acre is only about 40% of the size of a hectare. One reason that acres, rather than hectares, are used in the UK is that, being a smaller measure, you get more of them in a given piece of land and it is easier to remember a round number of acres than a hectare measurement with a decimal point. However, one advantage of using hectares is that more detailed maps use grid lines where the distance between the lines is equivalent to 100 metres. The result of this is that each square covers exactly one hectare or approximately two and a half acres.
If you are trying to measure in approximate terms an acre of woodland you can pace it out as about 80 paces by 80 paces, though in woodlands people often take shorter paces so 70 yards may take more like 90 paces.


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The Michigan Road
Ripley County, named for War of 1812 General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, was formed in 1818.
Most of the Michigan Road in Ripley County was never added to the modern state highway system. US 421 leaves the Michigan Road shortly after entering Ripley County and doesn't rejoin it until shortly before leaving the county. Just before the road leaves Jefferson County, it curves to the east a bit; just after it enters Ripley County, to stay on the Michigan Road you have to follow a side road, as this map shows. I highlighted the Michigan Road as a green line on the map.
This excerpt from an 1870 atlas suggests that a fork once existed where the road now curves east, and the Michigan Road ran straight north and briefly through what is now the Jefferson Proving Ground. The map shows the east fork, now US 421, running through Rexville and the west fork, the Michigan Road, running more northerly. The only hitch is that the fork actually would have been just south of the county line in Jefferson County. But if this is a simple matter of mapmaker error in locating the fork, then that at some point about two miles of the original route were abandoned for the current configuration. If you view an aerial map of this area at maximum zoom, you can see spots of what might have been the road along the line where the road would have been.
US 421 continues straight towards Versailles and Osgood. During the early 20th century, somehow the US 421 route became the modern Michigan Road, and was even signed as such. The real Michigan Road gets very little notice today as it provides an intimate view to a great deal of farmland and passes through a very small town.
To see the Michigan Road auto trail through Versailles and Osgood, follow this side trip.
Here's where the Michigan Road turns off US 421.
Turning onto the "old" Michigan Road, you immediately feel like you've stepped out into the country. Except for the road having been widened to two lanes and paved, this landscape has probably changed little in 100 years.
Shortly after turning onto this segment, but before the Michigan Road turns north, a stone one-lane bridge appears, as this video shows.
I found nothing on the bridge that tells when it was built, but I guess late 1800s.
The bridge looks good for its age, although the bridge footers show obvious modern repair work. Under the bridge, it's obvious a sealant was applied at some point, but it did not seem to help much.
The bridge's deck appeared solid. I wonder whether the deck was originally stone.
Here's the view from the bridge. Notice JPG's perimeter road just inside its fence. This photo is a bit misleading that it makes the road look as wide as the bridge. In reality, two cars can pass on the road, but would more than rub elbows on the bridge.
About five miles north of the bridge, the JPG fence pulls away and disappears, and then the road enters little New Marion, as this map shows.
This old house stands on the southwest corner of 4th and Main.
On the northeast corner of 3rd and Main stands the St. Magdalene Catholic Church. Its original building stood a few miles away inside what is now the Jefferson Proving Ground. When the Army took over in 1941, the church's cemetery moved to the Michigan Road north of Madison, while the congregation rebuilt here.
This interview with a woman who lived in New Marion during World War II tells of when the church was moved:
There was a big catholic church, it was St. Magdalene and they moved that, all the cemetery, all the plots, dug them all up, the stone and everything, and the people had no say so, they were just told we'll give you so much money for your land and you get out, and you had a certain amount of time to do it, and so neighbors, who had knew each other for years and generations were scattered everywhere.
She also talked about what it was like living next to JPG during the war:
When we were in high school, and when we, after the war started, and they used this area, this Jefferson Proving Ground to test ammunition. They dropped bombs from airplanes, so it was a very noisy time. It was uh, we could sit on our back step at home and it was like fireworks all the time, and you could see them dropping the bombs, and flares would go up, and the noise was so bad that it would break windows in our house and in the town where we lived, and it would knock flowers out of windows, and you could hear the bombs go off, so you were always aware that there was a war going on...
Just north of 1st St. stands the New Marion Baptist Church. Its building has two dates on it, 1835 and 1868.
Just north of town lies the New Marion Cemetery, which some sources say is associated with the Baptist Church.
After driving so many miles in the country, it's a bit of a surprise to come upon US 50, one of the original U.S. highways running over 3,000 miles from Maryland to California. A Michigan Road historical marker stands on the southeast corner of the intersection. It needs to be restored.
Just past US 50 the Michigan Road crosses the Ohio and Mississippi railroad track, where the town of Dabney once stood.
A bit north of the tracks is the Dabney Baptist Church, the only reminder of the old town. The church started in nearby Otter Village in 1852, but moved here in 1854 to be near the railroad. This building was completed in 1885.
Here's a southbound shot of the road just north of Dabney.
As the road nears Napoleon, somebody spray-painted "St. Maurice 2008 CYO Champs" on the roof of this curious building, which stands on the southeast corner of 700N.
This stone culvert (or is it a very small bridge?) is just beyond 700N.
I wonder if this side used to be as tall as the other, but the stones above roadway level were removed at some point.
Even this far out in the country, the signs faithfully remember the road's heritage.
Here's a southbound shot of the road over the stone culvert.
When the Michigan Road reaches the south end of Napoleon, it makes a hard right and quickly ends at US 421. The map labels the road as 850N, but it is signed Michigan Road. Notice that if you follow the Michigan Road's path straight north, it meets US 421 somewhere north of Jackson St. My guess is that it used to do just that, but was abandoned after the road that is now US 421 was built.
This excerpt from an 1856 Indiana atlas in the David Rumsey collection, supports my theory. I've highlighted the Michigan Road in blue and the road from Versailles and Osgood that became US 421 in red.
North of the turn, the road becomes a gravel path briefly, as this southbound photo shows.
It provides access to the Lutheran Cemetery. Past the cemetery's north edge, the gravel becomes two-track briefly and then the road disappears. I would like someday to explore along this corridor for clues.
Here's where the road ends at US 421.
Napoleon was platted in 1820 with an east-west main street that is State Road 229 today. The Michigan Road is Madison St.
Check out the burglar alarm above the door of the 1904 Napoleon State Bank building on the northwest corner of Main and Madison.
The current Napoleon State Bank stands on the southeast corner. This bank has four branches in nearby towns and has managed to stay independent, which is no mean feat today.
I ducked down Main Street for a minute, where I found the 1838 Central House, a former stop for people driving hogs from Indianapolis to Cincinnati along an early stagecoach route. It is used today for the occasional play or musical.
Back on the Michigan Road, this building houses the Bonaparte's Retreat restaurant.
On the southwest corner of Wilson St. stands this flour mill, about which I have so far been able to find out nothing.
What's really interesting about this building is seeing the two new signs painted on it with all the old ones long fading.
The only White Lily flour I have been able to find information about is pretty much a Southern institution, well known for making the most tender biscuits. But that White Lily flour was, until 2006, made exclusively in Knoxville, Tennessee.
On the northwest corner of Wilson St. is this very large old house.
The old house stands at the east end of Berry's Trace, later known as Brownstown Road. It ran west to at least the east fork of the White River, where it joined a "three-notch" road that ran from Indianapolis to the falls of the Ohio River. I haven't been able to figure out Berry's Trace's route for certain.
Heading north out of Napoleon, this little creek comes out from behind a gas station and runs alongside the Michigan Road.
Directly across the street, drivers are reassured they're still on US 421 as they leave town.
From Napoleon, it's a short distance to the Decatur County line. Just before you get there, if you don't keep your eyes peeled you'll miss this old house on the right. It appears to be abandoned.
Here's a closer look at the house.
Created 18 June 2008. Updated 13 March 2009, 2 January 2012.


Given a random variableMathworldPlanetmath X, the kth moment of X is the value E[Xk], if the expectation exists.
Note that the expected value is the first moment of a random variable, and the varianceMathworldPlanetmath is the second moment minus the first moment squared.
The kth moment of X is usually obtained by using the moment generating function.
Given a random variable X, the kth central moment of X is the value E[(X-E[X])k], if the expectation exists. It is denoted by μk.
Note that the μ1=0 and μ2=Var[X]=σ2. The third central moment divided by the standard deviationMathworldPlanetmath cubed is called the skewness τ:
The skewness measures how "symmetrical", or rather, how "skewed", a distributionPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath is with respect to its mode. A non-zero τ means there is some degree of skewness in the distribution. For example, τ>0 means that the distribution has a longer positivePlanetmathPlanetmath tail.
The fourth central moment divided by the fourth power of the standard deviation is called the kurtosis κ:
The kurtosis measures how "peaked" a distribution is compared to the standard normal distributionMathworldPlanetmath. The standard normal distribution has κ=3. κ<3 means that the distribution is "flatter" than then standard normal distribution, or platykurtic. On the other hand, a distribution with κ>3 can be characterized as being more "peaked" than N(0,1), or leptokurtic.
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Stone-Age Skeletons Unearthed in Sahara Desert
"It must have been a place of memory," said study co-author Mary Anne Tafuri, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge. "People throughout time have kept it, and they have buried their people, over and over, generation after generation."
PHOTOS: Faces of Our Ancestors
About 15 women and children were buried in the rock shelter, while five men and juveniles were buried under giant stone heaps called tumuli outside the shelter during a later period, when the region turned to desert.
The findings, which are detailed in the March issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, suggest the culture changed with the climate.
Millennia of burials
From about 8,000 to 6,000 years ago, the Sahara desert region, called Wadi Takarkori, was filled with scrubby vegetation and seasonal green patches. Stunning rock art depicts ancient herding animals, such as cows, which require much more water to graze than the current environment could support, Tafuri said.
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Tafuri and her colleague Savino di Lernia began excavating the archaeological site between 2003 and 2006. At the same site, archaeologists also uncovered huts, animal bones and pots with traces of the earliest fermented dairy products in Africa. (See Images of the Stone-Age Skeletons)
To date the skeletons, Tafuri measured the remains for concentrations of isotopes, or molecules of the same element with different weights.
The team concluded that the skeletons were buried over four millennia, with most of the remains in the rock shelter buried between 7,300 and 5,600 years ago.
The males and juveniles under the stone heaps were buried starting 4,500 years ago, when the region became more arid. Rock art confirms the dry up, as the cave paintings began to depict goats, which need much less water to graze than cows, Tafuri said.
The ancient people also grew up not far from the area where they were buried, based on a comparison of isotopes in tooth enamel, which forms early in childhood, with elements in the nearby environment.
Shift in culture?
The findings suggest the burial place was used for millennia by the same group of people. It also revealed a divided society.
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"The exclusive use of the rock shelter for female and sub-adult burials points to a persistent division based on gender," wrote Marina Gallinaro, a researcher in African studies at Sapienza University of Rome, who was not involved in the study, in an email to LiveScience.
One possibility is that during the earlier period, women had a more critical role in the society, and families may have even traced their descent through the female line. But once the Sahara began its inexorable expansion into the region about 5,000 years ago, the culture shifted and men's prominence may have risen as a result, Gallinaro wrote.
The region as a whole is full of hundreds of sites yet to be excavated, said Luigi Boitani, a biologist at Sapienza University of Rome, who has worked on archaeological sites in the region but was not involved in the study.
"The area is an untapped treasure," Boitani said.
The new discovery also highlights the need to protect the fragile region, which has been closed to archaeologists since the revolution that ousted dictator Moammar el Gadhafi.
Takarkori is very close to the main road that leads from Libya into neighboring Niger, so rebels and other notorious political figures, such as Gadhafi's sons, have frequently passed through the area to escape the country, he said.
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If you've been reading the EF Design Blog you will have seen that we recently announced something called "FK Associations" for the EF in.NET 4.0.
However in.NET 3.5 SP1, we only support Independent Associations. What that means is that the FK Columns aren't available as Properties in the entity. Which in turn means you are forced to build relationships via References to other Entities.
For example, unlike LINQ to SQL, this is not possible in the EF:
product.CategoryID = 2;
Because there is no "CategoryID" property in product entity.
You have to do something like this instead:
product.Category = ctx.Categories.First(c => c.ID == 2);
I.e. you need to use the Category reference. Which means you have to have a Category in memory, or do a query to get one like the example above.
The problem is that not having a property for the CategoryID that you can set directly can be a big pain, and that is why we've added "FK Associations" and "FK Properties" in.NET 4.0.
All well and good, but as Julie Lerman has a habit of reminding me, what about everyone who is using.NET 3.5 SP1 today? Our new features don't really help today.
How can you set the CategoryID if it doesn't actually exist?
Trick question. You can't of course.
But you can achieve the same effect, with code like this:
 = new EntityKey("MyContainer.Categories", "ID", 2);
Looks a little complicated doesn't it, so let's break it down:
 1. For each reference "xxx" (like Category) the entity framework also generates an "xxxReference" property that returns an EntityReference. (EntityReference is used heavily by the EF to provide all the plumbing and services required for things like maintaining relationship consistency, and doing Entity lookups based on EntityKeys)
 2. One of the properties of the EntityReference is an EntityKey. We need to set the EntityKey to a new EntityKey if we wish to change the value of the Foreign Key.
 3. In order to create a new EntityKey we need to know 3 things.
 1. The value we want to set the "Foreign Key" to. To be consistent with the earlier code snippets that is 2.
 2. The fully qualified name of the EntitySet that the target Entity belongs to. In this case our target is a Category and we get Categories from the "MyContainer.Categories" set.
 3. The name of the Primary Key Property in the target entity. In this case the primary key of Category is the "ID" property.
Now obviously this is not the sort of code you want to write everywhere you need it. So lets hide this away. So...
How can you use this code to fake a Foreign Key property?
Luckily the Entity Framework generates partial classes for Entities, so you can simply put this logic in your own Product partial class like this:
public int CategoryID {
 get {
if (this.CategoryReference.EntityKey == null) return 0;
else return (int) this.CategoryReference
 set {
 = new EntityKey("MyContainer.Categories", "ID", value);
Notice that we use the CategoryReference in the getter too. This means that our CategoryID property is simply a view over the CategoryReference, which means that if the EF makes any changes under the hood we don't need to be notified.
With this in place you can write what we wanted all along:
product.CategoryID = 2;
And that can be extremely useful in lots of scenarios, for example MVC controllers and data-binding.
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This solution is essentially just a workaround that hides some of the limitations of independent associations, and like all workarounds it has limitations. The key then is to make an informed tradeoff between the benefits and the drawbacks. So here are some of the key drawbacks:
 1. Properties in the partial class are not recognized by the Entity Framework, so you can't use them in your LINQ queries.
 2. By referencing the fully qualified EntitySet name in our setter, we have coupled your Entity Class directly to the EntitySet. Now for most people this is not a problem, but it won't work if you try to re-use your entity classes between contexts or if you use MEST.
 3. There are probably more... I'll add them as I think of them!


Question 3: Is a collaboration contract a type of LC? What are the legal risks for Employers upon entering into a collaboration contract?
Is a collaboration contract a seasonal or specific job-based LC?
 1. Legal grounds for governing a collaboration contract
As a matter of law, a collaboration contract may be considered a type of service contract because of the existence of a relationship between the service provider and the service user. The concept of service contract is currently being governed by the two main sources of law, the Civil Code and the Commercial Law. The issue is in that which legislation, the Civil Code or the Commercial Law will be the governing source of law in this case? Considering the nature of a collaboration contract, it can be seen that this is an activity towards profits (by both the service user as enterprises and the service provider as individuals). Therefore, the governing source of law for the collaboration contract will be the Commercial Law pursuant to the principles of the governing scope of Articles 1.1 and 3.1 of the Commercial Law.
 1. May a collaboration contract be considered a type of LC?
Pursuant to the prevailing labour law, there are three types of LC which Employers may enter into with Employees: indefinite LC, definite LC and seasonal or specific job-based LC with a term of less than 12 months[1]. As a result, the collaboration contract is basically not a type of LC specified in the Labor Code. However, considering the content of an LC, the Labor Code defines an LC as follows: "An LC is an agreement between Employees and Employers on paid jobs, working conditions, rights and obligations of each party in the employment relationship"[2]. Specifically, an LC must contain some provisions related to Employees' rights, such as LC term (for seasonal LC, the maximum term is under 12 months), salary, salary payment time limit, salary allowances and other additions, salary raise regime, working time, rest breaks, overtime and etc.[3] Therefore, if a collaboration contract includes the same contents as an LC, the collaboration contract may be considered an LC, i.e. the labour relationship rather than the relationship of services supply established between the parties.
 - Legal risks for Employers upon entering into a collaboration contract instead of an LC
Firstly, for contracting entities, Article 2 of the Commercial Law states that commercial activities (including service provision) must be carried out by traders (namely, organisations and individuals that have registered for business registration), except for "individuals conducting commercial activities independently and regularly."[4] Individuals who conduct independent commercial activities on a regular basis and are not required to register for business are listed in detail in Decree 39/2007/NĐ-CP dated 16/03/2007, mainly performing retail services on a small scale such as shoe polishing, lottery ticket sale, lock repair, vehicle repair, wash and parking lot service, haircut, painting, photo taking and other services with or without any fixed location and these individuals will not be deemed as traders. Considering a relationship between individuals and enterprises (specifically the relationship of a collaboration contract), it is clear that enterprises do not hire individuals to regularly provide the said retail services, instead hire individuals who conduct activities related to some professional qualification and a certain level, and individuals who provide services (other than the said retail services) must register for business in accordance with the law to be eligible to carry out said services. Therefore, the fact that an enterprise signs a collaboration contract with an individual to perform services related to some professional qualification and a certain level may face a lot of potential risks because the service provider as individuals may not be legally recognised as "individuals falling out of the category of business registration in accordance with the Commercial Law" to be eligible to provide services to any trader as enterprises. On the other hand, as above analysed, a collaboration contract is not a type of LC that is regulated and governed by the Labor Code, but by nature the parties have established the labour relationship through collaboration contracts. As a result, there exist many risks for Employers. If a collaborator grasps the labour law and initiates a lawsuit with the court to protect his/her interests, enterprises may face a risk that the court will not recognise the legality of the relevant collaboration contract and enterprises will have to sign an LC with such collaborator to establish the labour relationship between the parties in accordance with the labour law. Then, in addition to having to sign LCs, enterprises might have to fulfil Employers' obligations to Employees for the period when they have worked for former enterprises under collaboration contracts (including benefits from compulsory insurance payments for Employees, overtime salary and etc.). Moreover, enterprises may be sanctioned with an administrative fine of up to VND 4,000,000 for failing to enter into the right type of LC with Employees[5]. From the said analyses, enterprises should consider signing seasonal LCs with their collaborators (i.e. they must comply with the labour law on seasonal contracts) instead of signing collaboration contracts in order to comply with the current labour law and limit any risk of such dispute. It should be noted that when signing a seasonal LC, enterprises will only be allowed to enter into seasonal LCs with a term of less than 12 months for non-recurring jobs (except for any case of temporary replacement of Employees on military service, maternity leave, due to their sickness, labour accident or other temporary absence. If the job is of a regular nature for 12 months or more, Employers must sign definite LCs with Employees as prescribed by the labour law.
[1] Article 22.1 Labor Code [2] Article 15 Labor Code [3] Article 23.1 Labor Code [4] Article 2 Commercial Law [5] Article 5 Decree 95/2013/NĐ-CP dated 22/08/2013 as amended and supplemented by Decree 88/2015/NĐ-CP dated 07/10/2015


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- In the Computer field type the name or IP address of the device you're connecting to
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- Select Connect
- Enter the password associated with the username you used into the window that pops-up
- Again you can select "Remember me" so you do not have to enter the password each time
- Click OK
- You may receive a message saying that the identity of the remote computer cannot be verified. Check the box for "Don't ask me again for connections to this computer" and click Yes
- You should now be connected
- For more information on how to use Remote Desktop Connection go to this link "How to Use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection"


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I was asked to write a blog post about farmers - to explain what are the difference between chalupník (chalupner, cottager), sedlák (rusticus, Bauer, farmer), who was gruntovník and so on. I'll try to do my best to explain the differences and introduce different kinds of Czech farmers.
Let's start with hide (lán in Czech). It's a historical measurement used in both Bohemia and Moravia. There were different kinds of hides used, the one used for farmers was usually about 18 hectares (45 acres) large. It was a basic measurement and farmer who owned one hide of land and more (this is important to emphasize) was called láník (Lähner in German) or celoláník (Ganzlähner, celý, ganz = whole). I usually translate it as a farmer owning one hide of land. These farmers belonged among the largest farmers among our ancestors.
Those owning three quarters of hide to one hide were called třičtvrtěláník (Dreiviertlähner or Dreiviertler in German). It means they had between 13,5 and 18 hectares of land. Those owning half to three quarter of hide were called pololáník or půlláník or půlník (Halblähner in German).
Farmers owning from one quarter to one half of hide were called čtvrtláník or čtvrtník (Viertllähner or Viertler in German). One quarter of hide was minimum to be called sedlák (farmer), but you can see (mainly in southern and south-eastern Moravia) also farmers with half of one quarter of hide, called půlčtvtník (Halbviertler). This is historical case when houses were divided between two sons and both of them received half of the quarter - you can see such houses for example in Nová Lhota (Hodonín district). For people who had very small amounts of land (or none, but worked in agriculture), see this post.
Example of house divided among two people. Nová Lhota, Hodonín district.
Those who owned less than one quarter of hide were called chalupník (Chalupner in German, usually translated as cottager). These people belonged among farming class but weren't called sedlák. Their fields quite often weren't large enough to provide enough food to the family so they were often also craftsmen.
There is one more name you will most probably see in the registries if your ancestors were from Eastern Moravia - pasekář (Passeker in German). Paseka is forest clearance and this gives us a hint how these farms were founded - by clearing part of forest and settling there. The area of such farm wasn't strictly set, so it's hard to say how much land they had - the best way to find out is to check cadastral books in archives.
Example of pasekář settlement in Držková, Zlín district. Forests are grey.
Gruntovník was anyone owning a farm. Grunt means farm house, so anyone owning such house could be called gruntovník in parish books.
Ownership of farms
The question of ownership was also raised. Were farms owned by farmers or by the domain holders? Generally, as long as serfdom existed they were owned by the domain holders even the fact that the farmers lived on one farm for centuries. The farm was often inherited in the family but it didn't mean the farm couldn't have been taken away from the family - if the farmer was a bad housekeeper the domain owner has his right to decide he is going to change the keeper of the farm.
There were several serf duties connected to the ownership of the farm - farmers paid interest out of the farm (was set during the purchase) and they were also obliged to robota, labour for the domain owner, usually on his fields. Robota was set differently for various farmers, it always depended on the area of the farm.
I definitely forgot something I wanted to mention so this post will be most probably updated in future. :)


a warm mist, cool mist, or evaporative humidifier for parrots?
There are three types of humidifiers:
 - Warm Mist
 - Ultrasonic/Cool Mist
 - Evaporative
There are pros and cons to each humidifier type.
For example, in cases where your living space is already properly heated and you aren't bothered by cleaning the unit, a cool mist humidifier will do.
In other cases where you want to distribute some heat along with moisture, a warm mist humidifier will be better.
For our lovely pet birds, a warm mist humidifier is likely to be more helpful!
Warm mist humidifiers excel at dispersing heat, which can help parrots sensitive to bacteria, because they produce a sterile mist.
best humidifier for parrots
Cool mist humidifiers also tend to be noisier than warm mist humidifiers or evaporators because they use a fan to disperse the moisture.
TTLIFE's Warm And Cool mist Humidifier delivers sterilized air!
Some parrot owners prefer warm over cold mist humidifiers, because cool mist units run a higher risk of aspergillosis developing (a fungal disease caused by the spores of the common mold).
As cool mist humidifiers lack a way to sterilize the water, there will eventually be a mold overgrowth inside the water tank if not properly maintained.
Therefore, look for a warm mist humidifier for your parrot first, then a cool mist one, and only then for an evaporative humidifier.
c) Importance of cleaning
A higher humidity makes the spores and other microorganisms stick to any nearby surface, neutralizing them.
However, without cleaning, mold can start growing and be dispersed through the air.
All bacteria and fungi thrive in moist conditions. As soon as you run your humidifier for parrots, you should plan on how to get it cleaned.
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This can lead to aspergillosis or some other infections for parrots causing them to be lethargic, lose their appetite, and have trouble breathing.
Hence, be sure to regularly clean your humidifier.
It also helps if you're already using an AC unit that filters air, and if you can use filtered water too, you'll minimize the amount of cleaning needed!
d) Where to position the unit
Humidifiers for parrots should be positioned in such a way to counteract the effects of dry air, which is most commonly caused by the heating unit.
For example, if you use a furnace for heating, consider getting a whole-house humidifier that attaches to the furnace.:"They're actually not that much more expensive than a nice free-standing unit, and it definitely does a much better job of maintaining a constant and even level of humidity."
Always keeps in mind, when installing your humidifier, to keep an eye out for your feathered friend's behavior and adjust to it.
We've seen parrots attacking humidifiers; which ranged from temperature issues to the parrot being bored and just wanting attention.
e) Using essential oils/ chemicals/fragrances
Essential oils/chemicals/fragrances in the humidifier can irritate the parrot's sensitive airways but can also help it feel right at home.
In the wild, parrots are exposed to essential oils, chemicals and fragrances all the time.
Drug store brands are typically harmful for parrots but vets use medical-grade ones for parrots to good effect.
Hence, the best way to use essential oils with parrots is through an ultrasonic humidifier.
best humidifier for parrots
What harms our birds are actually the toxins found in low-quality products we commonly use.
Start with a few drops and gradually increase the amount if the parrot doesn't react negatively.
Bottom Line - What is the Best Humidifier for Parrots?
We adopt parrots and consider them family members. They bring us immense joy and companionship unlike anything else!
Based on what we've learned so far about parrots and humidity, they can have trouble in an environment that feels perfectly fine to humans, and have no way of expressing it.
Best Humidifier for Parrots
Thankfully, they are helped greatly by warm mist humidifiers.
The main difficulty in finding a solid warm mist humidifier is that they often don't have enough capacity and lack features, meaning you have to constantly oversee them.
Well, the TTLIFE Ultrasonic Humidifier is one that does the job best for your parrot.
Don't ignore the early warning signs of low humidity but also don't overreact.
Even if you decide that TTLIFE Ultrasonic isn't the best humidifier for your parrot, now you know the fundamentals of what helps and what harms parrots regarding humidity.
Find a simple, affordable and convenient solution that can help your feathered buddy in a pinch! Trust me, you'll both be happier in no time.


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How to Safely Cut a Log Using a Log Splitter
Log Splitter Safety Tips from Cub Cadet. Learn how to safely use a log splitter to maintain your lawn.
Splitting wood in your backyard or a large wooded area can seem like an intimidating task. However, using a log splitter allows you to cut down on the time and energy it would take to create firewood or clear a space. Cub Cadet believes that safety is the number one priority when using a log splitter or any other large lawn maintenance equipment. As you use your Cub Cadet machine, keep these log splitter safety tips in mind.
Before splitting wood:
Get familiar with the equipment. Look over the log splitter control panel to get a feel for the location of important levers or buttons.
Gather safety equipment. When using a Cub Cadet log splitter, always use safety gloves and goggles.
Make sure the logs are cut with square ends prior to splitting wood.
When loading logs into a log splitter:
Always place your hands on the sides on the log, not on the ends, before placing the wood inside the log splitter.
Never use your foot to help stabilize a log.
Please note: Failure to follow these log splitter safety tips may result in crushed or amputated fingers, toes, hands or feet.
Using a log splitter:
Use only your hands to operate the log splitter controls.
Never attempt to split more than one log at a time when using a log splitter. If the ram has been fully extended and a second log is needed to the complete the separation of the first log, two logs can be placed in the log splitter.
When splitting wood that is not cut squarely, place the longest portion of the log inside the splitter (facing towards the beam and wedge) with the square side placed at the end plate.
When splitting wood in the vertical position:
Stabilize the log before moving the log splitter control.
Place log on the end plate and turn until it is stable against the beam.
Stabilize with wood chips or split wood between the log and end plate or ground when splitting large or extra-large or uneven logs in the log splitter.
Always keep fingers away from any cracks that open in the log while splitting wood. Failure to follow the log splitting safety tip can result in pinched or amputated fingers.


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Retail Risk
Retail operations go beyond just tasting rooms. They include public tours, merchandise sales, and food-service vendors. This course provides examples of common retail operations and the tools necessary to identify and mitigate the various retail risks present at distilleries during future planning.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify retail operation risk sources
2. Apply risk management process to eliminate, reduce, or transfer risk
3. Implement, communicate, and review procedures to control risk
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Hedgerows as a Form of Agroforestry to Sequester and Store Carbon in Agricultural Landscapes: A Review
4th European Agroforestry Conference - Agroforestry as Sustainable Land Use
Hedgerows are an intrinsic part of the agricultural landscape in Europe. As an anthropogenic feature it is difficult to ascertain the carbon storage potential. We performed a systematic literature review on the potential of hedgerows to take in and store carbon. Results show two emerging trends to consider. Aboveground biomass storage estimates range from 5 t C ha-1to 131 t C ha-1. Maintenance of hedges is ascribed as leading to differences in estimation as a result of continually trimming and shaping..There has also been a decline in hedge length across Europe over the past decades leading to losses of biomass. Soil organic carbon stocks below hedgerows range from 5 t C ha-1 to 360 t C ha-1. Hedgerows can thicken soil horizons, prevent erosion and interact with soil water and nutrients. The hedgerow ecosystem is highly localised with differing levels of material input and decomposition. Therefore it is needed to ascertain carbon assimilation and storage to improve estimates for national GHG inventories.
Author(s): Blair, J, Olave, R, McAdam, J
Journal: 4th European Agroforestry Conference - Agroforestry as Sustainable Land Use


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Sunon Liquid Circulation Cooling (LCC) System
The need for this kind of cooling technology is being driven by the thermal challenges that are associated with ever increasing processor speeds. As CPUs and associated electronics become faster, and hotter, the ability to dissipate this heat with conventional air cooling devices is becoming increasingly difficult. Even when the heat can be removed with active air cooling devices, the price that must be paid with noisier acoustics (due to the high fan speeds required) is often unacceptable to both the system designer and the product end user.
With increased thermal efficiency provided by a liquid heat transfer medium, liquid circulation cooling does offer significant cooling advantages over conventional air cooling. Presently, however, there are still several key limitations of liquid cooling that have prevented its widespread adoption by the majority of the mainstream desktop and notebook computer makers.


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Re: fifo and [acm]time
> On ufs (and tmpfs and perhaps others), reading from or writing to a
> fifo updates its [acm]time [...]
> Note that the same [acm]time updates do not apply to sockets.
Aside from whether this is a good idea, this difference may make sense.
A FIFO is a single shared object; multiple opens result in multiple
references to a single FIFO.
You don't say whether the socket case is SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM
For SOCK_STREAM, a socket in the filesystem is more like a cloning
device: a connection established using it as a rendezvous point results
in new sockets, distinct from the socket corresponding to the
filesystem entry (though one of them is derived from it). It is these
new sockets that the I/O occurs on and whose [acm]time would logically
be updated (if they had [acm]times, which they don't, because they
don't have [iv]nodes).
For SOCK_DGRAM, the above argument does not apply. As a matter of
theory, read()/recv()/etc on such a socket should update the atime and
write()/send()/etc should update the mtime (and, of course, in each
case the ctime as well). (I/O on the peer socket, the one that doesn't
have a filesystem entry, should not do anything of the sort, because
that socket doesn't have any [iv]node to update the [acm]time of.)
Pragmatically speaking, it's not clear to me that there's enough value
in either stance to make it worth changing whichever behaviour the
implementation happens to provide.
> And what applications would ever rely on the [acm]time of a fifo?
The only value I can see in the [acm]time of either a FIFO or an
AF_LOCAL socket "file" is to see when the relevant software last did
anything with it. This is less a matter of an application proper using
the timestamp and more one of a human who's investigating something
looking for relevant (or possibly-relevant) data.
> One consequence of this is that in a vanilla NetBSD install, Postfix
> triggers disk I/O every minute when master tickles the pickup daemon
> by writing to the fifo /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup.
Is one inode update per minute enough to be a significant issue?
(Sure, there will be cases where it is enough to matter. But are the
common enough that it's worth doing anything to NetBSD in consequence,
or are they outliers that call for per-system custom tuning? I can
think of at least one approach which likely would address this problem,
in cases where it _is_ A problem, already, and that's with no more than
a minute or so of thought.)
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a fantasy scene of an autumn fairy. This tutorial will show you how to create hair, makeup, and apply lighting effects in simple steps to help improve your photo manipulation skills and techniques.
Preview of Final Results
Autumn Fairy Photoshop Tutorial
- Model – faestock
- Background – Jess8181
- Wings – shoofly-stock
- Texture – greenaleydis-stock
- Tree Heart – cosmiksquirelstock
- Leaves – sammykaye1sstamps
- Hair – Dezzan
Step 1 – Model
Choose the model.
Step 2 – Select the model
Use the Pen Tool to select the model. Make sure the option is in "Paths" like you see in the little box below.
Step 3 – Make the Selection.
When you end with the selection press right click. Now in the menu you have on the screen choose the option make selection.
Choose the option New Selection and press ok.
Step 4 – Subtract model from the background
Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the model's selection you made before. The result has to be like this:
Step 5- Open a new file
To open a new file go to the menu File – New or press Ctrl+ N. The resolution is Width : 1750 x Height: 1400 pixels.
Step 6 – Resize the model.
Now put the model in the new file and change the size to fit this resolution. To change the size press Ctrl + T (Free Transform).
Step 7 – Find a Background
In this case you can use a forest that doesn't have to many branches, because the main focus is going to be the model.
Step 8 – Gaussian Blur.
Apply blur to the background. Go to filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur. Add 4 of radius.
Step 9- Contrast
Duplicate the background layer, press Ctrl + J. and change the layer color, to do this go to Image – Adjustments – Hue/Saturation or press Ctrl+ U. Press the option colorize and press ok.
Step 10 – Change layer mode
Now change the layer mode to Soft light. And reduce the opacity to 80%.
Step 11 – Merge layers.
To merge layers together, press right click in the layer and choose the option merge down. In this way you are only going to have one layer of the background.
Step 12 – Model's Skin
Select model's skin with the lasso tool. After you finish the selection press Ctrl+J to duplicate the selection.
Step 13- Reduce Saturation.
Go to Image – Adjustments – Hue/Saturation (Ctrl +U) and in the option Saturation put -35, press ok to save the changes.
Step 14- More Contrast
Duplicate that layer and change the layer mode to Soft light and reduce the opacity to 50%.
Step 15- Merge the layer
Right click over the layer and choose the option merge down.
Step 16 – Change skin color.
Duplicate the model's skin layer pressing Ctrl + J. Then go to Image – Adjustments – Hue/Saturation or press Ctrl + U. Press the option colorize and in Hue put: 22 and in saturation 20.
Step 17- Eraser
Use the eraser over the model's eyes lips and hair.


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text: The purpose of the present work is to compare the nature, the role and the structure of the bodies responsible for tax litigation in Italy and in the United States: the "Commissioni Tributarie" and the "U.S. Tax Court" (par. 1). The essay starts from a terminological clarification related to the notion of "tax justice" (par. 2) and then describes the comparative aspects of this phenomenon, adopting a classification that divides all modern Countries into three "models" of resolution of tax disputes: the "monistic" one, the "dualistic" one and, finally, the "mixed" system, that combines features of both the previous models (par. 3). Relying on an historical and constitutional approach, the paper then investigates the evolution of both the "U.S. Tax Court" (par. 4) and the "Commissioni Tributarie" (par. 5) from executive agencies into real Courts, in order to highlight – in a comparative perspective – similarities and differences between the Italian tax litigation system and the U.S. one, having regard to the crucial issues of constitutional legitimacy, separation-of-powers principles and compliance with the guarantees of "due process" (par. 6).


What is a set level transformation?
Set level transformation operates on a group of records that may result in joining, rearranging, elimination, or aggregation of records. Data sources and destinations are also considered as set transformations. Generally, set transformations operate on the entire data set. For instance, a Sort transformation sorts the entire dataset before passing records to the next object. Similarly, Aggregate transformation uses the entire data set to construct aggregated records.
Some more examples of Set level transformations in Astera Centerprise include: Join, Route Constant Value, Distinct, Denormalize, Normalize, Merge etc.


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Drinking, Family Relations and Authority in Early Modern Germany
The ideal of orderly family life in early modern Germany did not exclude drinking. In fact, drinks shared at the family table were closely tied to early modern notions of the marital bond and were also a necessary component of normal work relations. Drinking became a problem only when it threatened the stability of the household. The amount of alcohol involved in such cases might be as little as one drink if the circumstances were unsuitable. On the other hand, drinking that would by our standards be viewed as excessive or chronic could be considered acceptable. Even during and immediately after the period of Reformation, when polemical and prescriptive literature addressing the household was dominated by the problem of sin, drunkenness was rarely treated as a spiritual issues. The primary concern of both authorities and populace was not to protect the health or the rights of individuals but to protect the sanctity of the household and the stability of the community.
The Journal of Family History
Tlusty, B. Ann. "Drinking, Family Relations and Authority in Early Modern Germany." The Journal of Family History (2004) : 253-273.


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openxava / documentation / EJB3 JPA
Table of contents
Configure your application to work with EJB3
Using JPA in your code
Using JPA from a validator or a callback method
OpenXava supports EJB3 JPA since the version 2.1.
Configure your application to work with EJB3
Since v3.0 JPA is the default persistence engine, so you have to do nothing. But if you are using a v2.1 or v2.2 and you want to use JPA then edit the file properties/ of your project, and leave it in this way:
# EJB3 Java Persistence API
From now on, your application will use EJB3 JPA instead of Hibernate to manage object persistence.
Using JPA in your code
You can use the standard Java Persistence API in any part of an OpenXava application, that is, inside calculators, validators, actions, filters, etc.
In order to facilitate the use of JPA OpenXava provides the XPersistence class. For example, if you wish to store an object in a database using the JPA, the normal way would be:
EntityManagerFactory f = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("default");
EntityManager manager = f.createEntityManager();
Customer customer =... ;
But, inside OpenXava and using XPersistence class you can write this:
Customer customer =... ;
No more.
The first time that you call to XPersistence.getManager() a manager is created and assigned to the current thread and a transaction is created too; the next time that you call it, the same manager is used. At the end of the complete cycle of action execution, OpenXava commits automatically the transaction and closes the manager.
You can optionally commit the transaction in any moment calling to XPersistence.commit(), if after this you use XPersistence.getManager() an new manager and a new transaction are created for you.
You can learn more seeing the API doc of org.openxava.jpa.XPersistence class.
Using JPA from a validator or a callback method
Both validators and callback methods can be executed in flush time, so if you use XPersistence.getManager() from them it can produce problems. If you need to use JPA in your validator or callback method, you will need to open a separate entity manager by means of XPersistence.createManager() (so that JPA does not flush your ongoing create or update). Use code like the following to obtain and use a new EntityManager instance:
EntityManager em = XPersistence.createManager();
//... query logic
em.close(); // You have to close the manager
Also be aware of possible troubles with isolation levels and record locking when using this technique.


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Facts About Grany Smith Apple Trees
A Granny Smith apple tree produces apples that are quite tart. Apples grown on a Granny Smith apple tree are different from most other types of apples because Granny Smith apples always stay green and do not change color to indicate ripening. Granny Smith apple trees are quite easy to grow and are not overly susceptible to disease or infestation.
The Granny Smith apple tree is native to Australia. The Granny Smith apple tree dates back to 1868 to a chance seedling that was discovered by a woman named Maria Ann Smith. This is the origin of the Granny Smith name. A chance seedling is a term that defines a plant species was discovered by chance. It is thought that the Granny Smith seed is a descendant of the European Wild Apple tree.
- A Granny Smith apple tree produces apples that are quite tart.
- The Granny Smith apple tree dates back to 1868 to a chance seedling that was discovered by a woman named Maria Ann Smith.
Uses of Apples
Granny Smith apples are considered all-purpose apples. They have an even green skin and have crisp and firm flesh. Granny Smith apples are eating apples as well as cooking and baking apples. Granny Smith apples can be made into applesauce, apple pies, and many other apple cobblers and cakes. Granny Smith apples are also desirable for their long shelf life. They will stay crisp for much longer than other varieties of apples.
Granny Smith apple trees are not of the self pollinating variety. In order to grow Granny Smith apple trees, an additional apple tree of another kind must also be grown within close proximity to the Granny Smith tree to enable pollination and fruit production in the Granny Smith tree. Some recommended pollinator apple trees include Golden Delicious, Gala, and Fuji apple trees. A nearby pollinator tree that is fertile will enable the Granny Smith apple tree to bear Granny Smith apples.
- Granny Smith apples are considered all-purpose apples.
- Granny Smith apple trees are not of the self pollinating variety.
Granny Smith apple trees can be successfully grown in zones six, seven, and eight. They must have at least six hours of sunlight each day. To encourage the most fruit production, a Granny Smith apple tree must be pruned regularly for proper branching. When the Granny Smith apple tree is pruned in this way, it will be healthier, will have stronger limbs, and will bear more fruit earlier in the season. Granny Smith apple trees that are pruned properly can live more than 50 years.
The Granny Smith apple tree is able to grow in many different types of soil. These apple trees are considered one of the fastest growing apple trees. After the initial season for proper establishment of the tree, the apples from a Granny Smith apple tree can be harvested. The Granny Smith apples are usually ready to be picked by November and these apples will stay fresh and flavorful into the next spring.
- Granny Smith apple trees can be successfully grown in zones six, seven, and eight.
- After the initial season for proper establishment of the tree, the apples from a Granny Smith apple tree can be harvested.
Kathryn Hatter is a veteran home-school educator, as well as an accomplished gardener, quilter, crocheter, cook, decorator and digital graphics creator. As a regular contributor to Natural News, many of Hatter's Internet publications focus on natural health and parenting. Hatter has also had publication on home improvement websites such as Redbeacon.


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How a sensory garden can improve your wellbeing
Thursday, 18th June 2020, 9:00 am
Updated Thursday, 18th June 2020, 9:01 am
Sensory gardens are great for helping to reduce anxiety and stress, providing a natural retreat to relax in and offering us a place that encourages wellbeing and mindfulness, writes Sara Milne.
A sensory garden is really just a collection of plants and materials with different textures, shapes, colours, scents and heights that are laid out in such a way to stimulate our senses through smell, sound, touch, taste and sight.
Adding visual interest to a garden can be easily achieved by being clever and selective with your planting.
Use flowering perennials, layer plants at different heights, use screens or hedges to form backdrops and plant rows of the same species to elongate areas.
You can also make sure your planting has the desired effect by using colour to provide focal points and ambience.
For stimulating, invigorating areas use hot, vibrant colours - reds, pinks and yellows.
Think sunflower, echinacea, marigold, salvia, dahlia even ornamental vegetables such as swiss chard with its multi-coloured stems and leaves.
For a more gentle, calm effect use cool, relaxing colours such as whites, blues and greens.
Lavender, foxglove, hydrangea, delphinium and climbers that also provide height such as jasmine and honeysuckle.
Plants and trees that change colour through the seasons also provide interest with blossoms and berries and leaves that turn to shades of gold, red and brown in the autumn.
Changes in colour and appearance of materials like paved and pebble pathways when they get wet also add colour and visual appeal.
Shapes are also important in a sensory garden, so try using materials like crazy paving and rough-cut flagstones.
You can also create interesting routes and pathways through the garden to promote a sense of discovery and orientation.
Movement catches the eye, so think about trees that wave in the wind such as willow or grasses that sway in the breeze.
Water features provide wonderful focal points and also attract wildlife.
Make sure you have a variety of plants that attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies as well, lovely to watch of a summer's afternoon.
Our general wellbeing is intrinsically linked to the natural world which is why Thrive - the gardening for health charity - has developed the Thrive Gardening Club.
Fortnightly tips on getting the most out of your garden, whatever you age or ability, and information on how gardening can keep you healthy and feeling good.
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Hello to all, my new article on SBI Bank PO Exams 2018 has been posted you can read all details at SBI PO Exams 2018: All you Need to know to get a clear idea on what is SBI Bank PO all about. Today I'm going to tell you a very interesting topic that is Time and Distance. Time and Distance is very important topic in Aptitude so learn all the concepts well and try to solve the questions that I will give you at the end of this article. So let us start with Time and Distance.
(i) Speed = Distance/Time, Time = Distance/speed, Distance = Speed * Time
(ii) x km/hr = (x * 5/18) m/sec
(iii) x m/sec = (x * 18/5) km/hr
(iv) If the ratio of the speeds of A and B is a:b then the ratio of the time taken by them to cover the same distance is 1/a : 1/b or b:a
(v) Suppose a man covers a certain distance at x km/hr and an equal distance at y km/hr. Then the average speed during the whole journey is (2xy/x+y) km/hr
1. A train travels 82.6 km/hr. How many metres will it travel in 15 minutes?
Solution: Distance travelled in 1 min. = (82.6/60) km
So the Distance travelled in 15 min. = (82.6/60 * 15) km = 20.65 km = 20.65 km = (20.65 * 1000) m
= 20650 m.
2. How many minutes does Aditya take to cover a distance of 400 m, if he runs at a speed of 20 km/hr?
Solution: Aditya's speed = 20 km/hr = (20 * 5/18) m/sec = 50/9 m/sec.
Therefore Time taken to cover 400 m = (400 * 9/50) sec = 72 sec
3. A cyclist covers a distance of 750 m in 2 min 30 sec. What is the speed in km/hr of the cyclist?
Solution: Speed = (750/150) m/sec = 5 m/sec = (5 * 18/5) km/hr = 18 km/hr.
1. A speed of 30.6 km/hr is same as (R.R.B, 2008)
a. 5.1 m/sec b. 8.5 m/sec c. 110.16 m/sec d. none of these
2. A man riding his bicycle covers 150 metres in 25 seconds. What is the speed in km/hr? (S.S.C, 2005)
a.20 b.21.6 c.23 d.25
3. A bus covers a distance of 2924 km in 43 hours. What is the speed of the bus? (Bank Recruitment, 2008)
a. 60 km/hr b. 68 km/hr c. 72 km/hr d. Cannot be determined e. none of these
I hope you would have liked this article on time and distance. The next article will be on mock test. So prepare well and come. Thank you. All the Best.


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In partnership with Rock Hill School District 3, Winthrop initiated the Piedmont Wetlands Project during the summer of 2004. The 1.1-acre area adjoins Winthrop Lake and offers research opportunity for students of all ages and a glimpse of the fast-disappearing Piedmont wetlands. A small island was incorporated to serve as a nesting ground for many area birds including the great blue heron, the little blue heron, the green heron, Canada geese, and song sparrows. Additionally, Winthrop biology faculty and students planted grass as well as 14 species of trees and 10 shrubs to help re-establish plant life typically found in Piedmont wetlands areas. The collaborative project not only provides study opportunity for area teachers and students but also improves the overall health of Winthrop Lake.
- Winthrop biology faculty and students planted the grasses, trees, and shrubs comprising the wetlands.


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noun (plural drachmas or drachmae /-mē/)
1The basic monetary unit of Greece (until the introduction of the euro), notionally equal to 100 lepta.
More example sentences
- Although we were told that the price of living here had become much more expensive since the euro replaced the drachma, it still seemed pretty cheap to us - especially eating out.
- The drachma disappeared, replaced by the euro when Greece joined the single European currency.
- The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old.
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UAE students film female teacher during class, post videos on Internet
Female students of a government school in Ras Al Khaimah filmed their female teacher during the class and posted the video on the Internet.
The management of the school seized a smartphone and an iPod from the students for filming and posting the videos on Snapchat, Arabic daily Al Khaleej reported on Monday.
The school management conducted a search operation among students and seized devices after a teacher filed a complaint that a couple of students had filmed her during the class and was forwarding the clip to other students.
The campaign led to seizure of a smartphone and an iPod, which contained videos of teachers and students while the class was on.
The teacher filed a police complaint against the students. A police officer visited the school and gave a lecture about internet crimes and the dangers of misusing smartphones.
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