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The dangers of feeding lorikeets
Lorikeet feeding habits
Lorikeets are brightly coloured parrots of the family Psittacidae and sub-family Loriinae (lories and lorikeets). Six species are found in Australia, although further species occur in New Guinea, Indonesia and many South Pacific islands.
The tip of a lorikeet's tongue holds a brush-like appendage, enabling the bird to feed on pollen, nectar and fruits. Because lorikeets are mainly seen feeding on blossoms, it was long thought that nectar was their staple diet. However, studies have now shown that pollen is probably their major food. They also eat insects and insect larvae, together with other invertebrates found in foliage and blossom.
Lorikeets travel in small, swift flocks which attract attention with their piercing calls. The birds locate blossoms by sight and by the calls of other birds already feeding. When food is abundant, large numbers gather in the blossoms and foliage, clamouring noisily.
Lorikeets have a very simple digestive system. Proteins and fats are obtained from pollen and insects, and carbohydrates come from the sugars found in nectar. They spend a large amount of time foraging for food, which indicates that carbohydrates are extremely important to them. Their diet is high in energy, and low in protein.
The dangers of feeding lorikeets
Many people have taken to encouraging lorikeets into their gardens by giving them a variety of alluring foods. These foods are usually based on sugar, honey or jam, which will ensure regular visits to the garden by these wonderfully happy, colourful birds. However, it is this very act of 'kindness' that can cause the death of lorikeets at an unnaturally early age.
OEH officers became concerned at outbreaks of lorikeets dying in large numbers for no apparent reason, and decided to investigate. Autopsies were carried out by NSW Agriculture. With other investigations, these autopsies established that the lorikeets were dying from a disease called necrotizing enteritis. A bacteria called clostridia was isolated as the organism responsible.
Necrotizing enteritis is associated with poor hygiene and an inadequate diet, and it was found that the disease is not normally associated with lorikeets living a natural way of life. The scientists could directly relate the lorikeets' deaths to inadequate artificial diets, and to the unsanitary conditions of trays and other containers from which they were being fed.
Another disease is also having a serious impact on lorikeets. Called psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) or psittacine circovirus disease, it is considered the most important viral disease affecting cockatoos, parrots, lories, lorikeets and macaws around the world. Affecting the immune system of the birds, it often results in an AIDS-like condition. The keratin in the birds' bodies breaks down, causing deformed beaks and feathers, and feather loss. The disease is usually fatal, but infected birds may not display symptoms for many months or even years.
Infected birds can drop faeces, which contain the potentially infectious circovirus particles, into the environment to infect other birds. Unfortunately, there is a great potential for the virus to spread at places like feed stations. Clustering in large numbers, many birds may come into contact with contaminated perches and food dishes.
Preventing lorikeet deaths
Obviously the best solution to these problems is to stop feeding the birds altogether. The only feeding method recommended by OEH is to plant a variety of flowering native shrubs, such as grevilleas, callistemon (bottlebrushes) and banksias, around your garden. These plants not only look good; they also provide safe, healthy food for blossom-feeding birds such as lorikeets and honeyeaters.
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The European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) is an international association dedicated to scientific purposes.
EFTA was established in 1990 and has members from 29 European nations. It is a strictly non-profit making association.
EFTA's members comprise currently of 29 national organizations (EFTA-NFTO), 108 training institutes (EFTA-TIC) and about 1100 individual members (EFTA-CIM).
The main goals leading us are:
- Linking and coordinating European national organizations, institutes and individuals in the field of family therapy and systemic practice.
- Promoting the highest level of competence and quality in practice, research, supervision and teaching in family therapy and allied fields.
- Enhancing the training of systemic professionals and family therapists at regional, national and European levels by organizing and facilitating exchanges between individuals as well as professional centres.
- Facilitating European co-operation and exchange of ideas and experience among associations, institutions and individuals concerning medical, legal, social, psychological, gender, cultural, economic, spiritual and other aspects of human experiences in relation to systemic thinking and practice.
- Spreading information about family therapy and the systemic approaches throughout Europe to individuals, institutions and organizations concerned with the health and development of families and human systems.
- Promoting research, conferences, publications, audio-visual tools and other scientific material in this field through meetings and all other appropriate communicational methods.
- Creating links with other organizations having common or compatible aims in and outside of Europe.
The activities for achieving the aims of the association are:
- Regular international meetings, conferences and seminars
- International congresses
- Publication of a book series
- Professional exchanges between family therapy centers, therapists in training and trainers from different European countries
- Establishment of committees related to the aims of EFTA
- Other activities as to advance the aims of the association

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Sun Java System Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide
Retrieving the CA Certificate from the Directory Server Certificate Database
Ensure that you have enabled SSL in Directory Server. To export the Directory Server certificate to a temporary file so that you can import it into the certificate database of the Directory Server Connector, issue the following command:
\shared\bin\certutil.exe -L -d.
-P slapd-hostname- -n server-cert -a \ > C:\s-cert.txt
ISW-server-root is the path where ISW-hostname directory is present.
These examples are run in the alias directory immediately below the server root. Otherwise, Directory Server will not find the certificate database.


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Mitosis detection plays important role in many bio-medical applications such as medical diagnosis and drug development, by providing important information about cell division behaviors. Phase contrast microscopy imaging provides an advantageous tool for real time observation of cells without cell damage caused by staining. Spatial visual information, together with temporal dynamic information captured by continuous microscope imaging, could be used for automatic detection of mitotic events among whole-slide images with computer vision and machine learning techniques.
The aim of this challenge is to provide a common benchmark for the evaluation of the mitosis detection algorithms in a new dataset of whole-slide phase contrast time-lapse microscopy images.
Mitosis detection aims to determine the presence of mitosis in the microscopy image, and then locate the spatial and temporal location of mitotic cells across the whole-slide temporal image sequence. Unlike mitotic detection in static images, mitosis detection in phase contrast image dataset need to take both spatial and temporal information into consideration for more precise detection results.
Mitosis detection in phase contrast time-lapse microscopy image has made great progress in recent years of research. Compared with traditional hand-crafted feature based methods, deep learning based method received extensive attention. Several deep learning based methods have been proposed for mitosis detection task in recent years, and they are commonly evaluated on some popular datasets such as the C3H10 and C2C12 dataset. These datasets contain relatively few annotated mitotic events, which could not adequately address the need for big data in deep learning methods. However, since the acquirement of mitosis annotation takes much expertise, it is expensive to get large scale of annotated dataset. In order to promote the development of mitosis detection algorithms, we propose a competition with a dataset that contains more annotated mitotic events than previous datasets.


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aftertaste (plural aftertastes)
- A taste of something that persists when it is no longer present.
- The persistence of the taste of something no longer present.
- Many people think certain artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant aftertaste.
- Of wine, finish.
The persistence of the taste of something no longer present
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Long-Term Evolution of Cones of Depression in Shallow Aquifers in the North China Plain
AbstractThe North China Plain (NCP) is one of the places where the groundwater is most over-exploited in the world. Currently, our understanding on the spatiotemporal variability of the cones of depression in this region is fragmentary. This study intends to simulate the cones of depression in the shallow aquifer across the entire NCP during the whole period from 1960 to 2011. During the simulation, the dominant role of anthropogenic activities is emphasized and carefully taken into account using a Neural Network Algorithm. The results show that cones of depression in the NCP were formed in 1970s and continuously expanded. Their centers were getting deeper with an increasing degree of groundwater exploitation. This simulation provides valuable insights for developing more sustainable groundwater management options after the implementation of the South-to-NorthWater Diversion Project (SNWDP), which is a very important surface water project in China in the near future. The numerical model in this paper is built by MODFLOW, with pumpage data completed by neural network algorithm and hydrogeological parameters calibrated by simulated annealing algorithm. Based on our long-term numerical model for regional groundwater flow in the NCP, one exploitation limitation strategy after the implementation of SNWDP is studied in this paper. The results indicate that the SNWDP is beneficial for groundwater recovery in the NCP. A number of immense groundwater cones will gradually shrink. However, the recovery of the groundwater environment in the NCP will require a long time.
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Zhang, Y.; Li, G. Long-Term Evolution of Cones of Depression in Shallow Aquifers in the North China Plain. Water 2013, 5, 677-697.View more citation formats
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Support Local Art
art Buy local culture Support local tourism
From: Backpackers South Africa
Why it's important to support local art
Supporting local talent is a great opportunity for cultures to connect, and for communities to grow together. There are so many reasons why you should support local work, and apart from it driving tourism and rewarding innovative minds for their beautiful talents, art has the ability to share common values and beliefs between different groups of people. This type of communication is important for society.
No matter the place or origin of the piece, what matters is skills used to showcase that beautiful social structure.
 It fuels the economy
In such tight economic conditions, artists struggle to sell their work and individuals struggle to support them because of the cost. With local art, it's affordable and it's easier to support because you're supporting content that resonates with you.
The art is original and different
The beauty of local art is that there are so many African art styles to choose from. Be it landscapes, portraits or wildlife, local artists always offer something original and unique. Most pieces are designed without the latest technologies to assist or speed up the process, therefore these handmade pieces are one-of-a-kind. When you buy something that is carefully crafted and different, it brings a sense of exclusivity into your purchase.
It's affordable for society
When you support and buy from local artists, most of them aren't well-known for their work, which is why it tends to be affordable in the beginning. That piece of art then becomes a long-term investment, because as the artist becomes more recognisable, the piece of art will rise in value.
 It creates a sense of culture
Art is a common denominator in almost every country's history. Creativity is a beautiful experience that brings people and communities together, regardless of race, gender, age or religion. Take African art for example, artists always express their feelings towards a specific topic which resonates with many people. That feeling then brings cultures together to celebrate our heritage.
It drives tourism
As mentioned, art is a universal language that people appreciate and respect. Over the years, people have lost hope in African creativity, but slowly it's becoming a refreshed tourist attraction for many travelling to S.A
It inspires young minds
Younger generations are delving into creative careers where they've started using their talents to earn money. In order to keep the trend going, our existing communities need to support local art to show children just how important and special it is.
Final words
Beyond the creative benefits that art has on society, art has a measurable impact on our economy, health and well-being, society and education. It allows people the opportunity to communicate across barriers of language and culture, where words cannot be used to express the same thoughts.
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Scotland will launch a 'Climate Justice Fund' this spring in response to the impact of climate change on the world's poorest communities.In a parliamentary debate on climate justice on Thursday, Minister for Environment and Climate Change Stewart Stevenson, confirmed that the Government would launch the Climate Justice Fund in the coming months.
Judith Robertson, Head of Oxfam Scotland, said: 'Today marks a milestone for Scotland. Not only has the Scottish Parliament been the first parliamentary chamber to debate Climate Justice worldwide but by announcing that Scotland will launch a Climate Justice Fund in the spring, Scotland is again leading the way by setting an example for other countries to follow in championing and delivering climate justice.
'Oxfam sees the fight against poverty and the fight against the effects of climate change as interrelated efforts. Developing countries will need to develop their own adaptation plans but many do not have the funds to invest in protecting their own people so the international community will need to assist them.
'Oxfam Scotland therefore congratulates the Scottish Government on its innovative Climate Justice Fund. We note that the fund will rightly be used to finance projects in developing countries, specifically aimed at supporting poor communities to adapt to the negative effects of climate change and in doing so, complement Scotland's world leading climate legislation.
'Oxfam Scotland looks forward to working with the Scottish Government to ensure that the Climate Justice Fund can be a best exemplar for other countries to follow to deal with climate injustice.'
For more information, visit this link

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SPARQL expressions use a 3-state logic: true, false and unknown. Unknown is the error-raised case. To make sure a processor only returns things known to be true, FILTER turns "unknown" into false.
For the expression;
"foo"^^xsd:string != "10"^^xsd:integer
then a minimal SPARQL 1.0 query processor is not required to know that the value spaces of xsd:string and xsd:integer are disjoint. For a processor that does not know this, the result of the comparison is "unknown" and an error is raised. If the processor did know they are disjoint, then it can return "true" -- such behavior would be adding a row to the dispatch table for functions for "xsd:string != xsd:integer".
NOT IN is value based and builds on this. If the processor understands that xsd:string and the numeric value spaces are disjoint, then it would return:
?book ?discount
<> "70"
<> "700.0"^^xsd:float
<> 41
which is what I think you are expecting. It's the additional fact of xsd:string and xsd:integer having disjoint value spaces that is key here.
Being value based:
"700"^^xsd:float IN (500, 600, 700) is true.
Using sameTerm it would be false which might be surprising.
Andy, on behalf of the SPARQL-WG


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free_in : term -> term -> bool
Tests if one term is free in another.
When applied to two terms t1 and t2, the function free_in returns
true if t1 is free in t2, and false otherwise. It is not necessary
that t1 be simply a variable.
- FAILURE CONDITIONS
In the following example free_in returns false because the x in SUC x
in the second term is bound:
whereas the following call returns true because the first instance
of x in the second term is free, even though there is also a bound instance:
# free_in 'SUC x' '!x. SUC x = x + 1';;
val it : bool = false
# free_in 'x:bool' 'x /\ (?x. x=T)';;
val it : bool = true
If the term t1 is a variable, the rule vfree_in is more basic and probably
- SEE ALSO
frees, freesin, freesl, thm_frees, vfree_in.


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There is considerable evidence that more rational damage criteria need to be generated with regard to low-rise structures subjected to seismic ground motions. There is not sufficient basis for specifying a maximum ground particle velocity criterion, such as 2 in/sec. A peak ground velocity guideline does not currently take into account a number of important parameters, including the predominant frequencies of the ground motion excitation and the structure being excited. Although a number of states have adopted peak-velocity criteria, such criteria have been ruled inadequate in certain legal decisions affecting blasting operations. The development of more rational damage criteria is thus of significant importance. Such criteria must necessarily consider the dynamic characteristics of seismic ground motions, i.e., pertinent and dominant frequency characteristics, response and Fourier spectra, etc. Very little analysis has been done with regard to determining the dynamic characteristics of blasting ground motions, however.
This paper describes a research effort concerned with the determination of these characteristics for a sizeable number of actual blasting records using appropriate theoretical and computer analyses. Peak ground motion versus charge and distance relationships were derived, as well as pertinent response spectra. Statistical representations of the latter were also obtained using some 200 ground motions.


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- z) * F(x, y, z) + (z) * F(x, y, z - t) ) / (t)Now each function call takes twice as long to calculate, but since you're probably not going to use this cycling technique in real time, it probably doesn't matter.
Consider the graph of a noise function F(x, y, z) for some fixed x and y. The problem is, you want F(0) = F(t) and there is no guarantee that will be the case with any old x, y, and t. Actually, since any given x and y should have no influence on the repeating aspect of the animation, we can for all practical purposes throw them out while we're developing our repeating function, and consider the simplified case of a one-dimensional noise function F(z).
We need to take this function and change it into one where it is guaranteed that F(0) = F(t). Here's an expanded view of our noise function showing its behavior from -t to t:
Now we define a new function F'(z) that behaves like F(z) when z is near zero, but behaves like F(z - t) when z is near t. If you think about it, you see that F'(0) = F(0), and that F'(t) = F(t - t) = F(0). We can do this with a simple linear interpolation by considering a linear function which is equal to F(z) at 0, and equal to F(z - t) at t.
High school algebra tells us that this linear function has a slope of
(rise) / (run) = (F(z - t) - F(z)) / (t - 0) = (F(z - t) - F(z)) / tand an intercept of F(z). Now we set up F' as this linear interpolation operating on z:
F'(z) = slope(z) + interceptWhich is basically the same as the function given above. If you look at F' next to F, you can see that the function does indeed repeat in that F'(0) = F'(t). Also notice that the peaks just to the right of F'(0) are the same as the peaks just to the right of F'(0), and that the peaks just to the left of F'(t) are virtually identical to the peaks just to the left of F(0).
= ( (F(z - t) - F(z)) / t )(z) + F(z)
= ( ( (z) * F(z - t) - (z) * F(z) ) / t ) + F(z)
= ( ( (z) * F(z - t) - (z) * F(z) ) / t ) + (t / t) * F(z)
= ( (z) * F(z - t) - (z) * F(z) + (t) * F(z)) / (t)
= ( (z) * F(z - t) + (t-z) * F(z) ) / (t)
= ( (t-z) * F(z) + (z) * F(z - t) ) / (t)
If you had a little calculus and too much free time, you could prove that this looping (and the tiling in the next section) is truly seamless: not only does F(0) = F'(t), but all their derivatives should match up as well. Which means that no one should be able to tell where the repeat actually happens.
Ftileable(x, y) = (A pattern should be emerging here, so it shouldn't surprise you that you'll need evaluate a weighted sum of 8 calls to the noise function if you want to have a repeating animation that tiles in the x and y dimenstions. I'm not going to write it out here out of space considerations, and also because it should be evident what the sum will be.
F(x, y) * (w - x) * (h - y) +
F(x - w, y) * (x) * (h - y) +
F(x - w, y - h) * (x) * (y) +
F(x, y - h) * (w - x) * (y)
) / (wh)


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The Western Connection began in 2003 as collaboration between Western Connecticut State University and the Danbury area school districts to provide students with disabilities opportunities in a college setting. This regional program, for students ages 18-21, provides academic opportunities, work experiences, and life skills instruction to assist students in developing the vocational, study and social skills necessary for future post secondary study, competitive employment and community living. Generally a two year program, students audit one class per semester (for a total of four class experiences), and have one different work experience per semester (for a total of four different vocational experiences). Graduates of this program have opted for a variety of settings after graduating from the program. They include: 4 year colleges, community colleges, or the work force.
Current on campus worksites include:
A significant emphasis is on developing social skills appropriate to college age students. Students participate in a social skills group for one hour weekly. Western Connection students are encouraged to join clubs and attend special college presentations. They take advantage of the fitness facilities and the game rooms.
There are at least two social or cultural events held per monthshared by both Western Connection and WCSC education, and social work students.
Activities at the college have included:
- Coffee Houses
- Football Games/Tailgating Parties
- Theater Productions
- Hikes, Bowling, Miniature Golf


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Charge determination for specified shape Coulomb force virtual structures
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
The focus of this paper is the generation of high Earth orbit (HEO) Coulomb force structures. These structures are characterized by a set of charge carrying nodes, but no interconnecting struts. By correctly setting the node charges, the inter-node Coulomb forces create a static, crystal-like structure. The uniqueness of the work is the examination of how to form specified shape structures using a subset of all available nodes. In addition, the plasma shielding effect is considered explicitly. An equilateral triangle structure example is given to illustrate the approach where 5 nodes are used in the structure, 3 of which are used to satisfy an equilateral triangle shape goal. The example also illustrates that practical Coulomb structures should have inter-node separation distances in the 10s of meters range or less. Copyright © 2006 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference
King, L. B.,
Charge determination for specified shape Coulomb force virtual structures.
Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference,
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San Francisco's Post Office opened by March 15, 1849 and its first postmark was a
manuscript, used from March 15 to June 20. San Francisco began using a postmarking
device on June 20, the straightline illustrated above, with the date written in
manuscript. Rates were indicated in manuscript until devices were obtained later in
1849. In the early years, there was no need for cancels because there were no stamps
available to cancel until the United States 1851 issue.
Three useful sources exist for classifying San Francisco postmarks, rate marks and cancels:
- The most comprehensive is Mahoney, John M., San Francisco Postal Markings, _PHONE_,
La Posta Monograph Series, Vol. 8, La Posta Publications, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 1992.
Mahoney's book includes tracings of postmarks, killers, rate marks and other
- Also important is Williams, John H., California Town Postmarks, 1849 - 1935, Western
Cover Society, 1997, published by Leonard H. Hartmann, Louisville, Ky. This book deals
exclusively with postmarks and contains numerous tracings as well.
- Third is an article by Friend, Clifford L., The 26mm Double Circle Postal Marking Of
San Francisco, Western Express, Vol XXV, No. 1, January, 1975, p. 11-18. This article is
limited to the double circle postmark introduced at San Francisco in September, 1861.
Friend's work is built upon earlier studies by Stanley Ashbrook. Neither Mahoney nor
Williams does justice to the several varieties of this postmark. Mahoney lists them all
as type 79. Williams lists five types, SAF 590, 600, 610, 620 and 630 but gives little
help for distinguishing them.
The two books have their strengths and weaknesses. Mahoney covers a broader field, but
in the early postmarks, there are some omissions and some of the usage dates are suspect.
He also uses a single tracing to illustrate several similar but distinct styles,
sometimes leading to confusion. Williams's book is in two large volumes, covering the
entire state. The San Francisco postmarks are found in Volume 2, but the explanation
key for his listings is found only at the start of volume 1, so you need to buy two books
to get the San Francisco postmarks with the key to understanding the listings. Williams
includes multiple tracings of the early San Francisco postmarks and has a tracing for
each style. However, some tracings have no discernible differences from other tracings
and I find the explanations sometimes inadequate for distinguishing them. I use both
books, except for the double circle postmarks, where I use Friend's types because neither
Mahoney nor Williams do justice to those postmarks. In this website, I attempt to give
type references used by each author. Only postmarks found on Hawaiian mail are relevant
to our study here so many postmarks used in San Francisco will be omitted intentionally.
Others may exist but I have not recorded them. Please send me
an E-mail (_EMAIL_) with information about other San Francisco pre-1870 postmarks on covers from
San Francisco postmarks are found on most letters arriving from Hawaii, but in this
Period they are rarely found on letters originating on the mainland unless mailed at San
Francisco. The practice of using postmarks on letters transiting the office was some
years in the future. Mail arriving at San Francisco from Hawaii or other Pacific ports
was first entered into the United States mail at San Francisco so the postmark was used
to indicate where the letter entered, rather than merely as a transit mark.
For ease of loading and access, the San Francisco marks are divided into the following sub-pages:


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Business Services provides many support services necessary to facilitate the instructional, co-curricular, and community programming offered by the School District of Mauston. Some of these services include:
- Coordinates all phases of the district's budgeting process which exceeds $22.9 million.
- Receipt and disbursement of all district funds.
- Process of payroll for over 265 employees.
- Administer employee benefits programs.
- Maintain financial records in accordance with Wisconsin Uniform Financial Accounting Requirements (WUFAR), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and standards of the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB).
- Manage district investments.
- Oversee the debt of the school district.
- Maintain a current inventory of the fixed assets of the district.
- Provide resources for collective bargaining.
- Oversee custodial, maintenance, and technology of the district.
- Provide supervision of food services and transportation services.
- Oversee risk management of the district.


A NativeScript Font Icon Converter
Getting set up to use Icon Fonts in a NativeScript app is fairly straight-forward. NativeScript documentation covers it, and Nathanael Anderson has a tutorial covering things in more depth. However, there's one annoyance I have with using them in NativeScript and this post will cover that and one way to resolve it.
The Annoyance
Once you're set up to use icon fonts, you'll typically have a CSS rule defined to set the font-family when a certain class is used:
.fa {
 font-family: FontAwesome;
But, as you can see in the above referenced getting started docs/tutorial, CSS is not what sets the content as it would be if we were using HTML and Icon Fonts. We have to find the unicode and set the text property of our element to use that:
So you must either memorize the unicode for your font icons or be resigned to looking them up every time.
One solution
NativeScript has a feature baked into it called Converters - essentially functions you can pipe an input to and have it converted to a different output without changing the source (i.e. a property on a model). You can also have application-wide converters by adding them to your application's resources, which is what we'll be using to make it easier to use our icon fonts!.
Create our Converter Function
The first thing we'll want to do is to create the function that will be our converter. Let's create a new directory: app/utils/ and create a new TypeScript file within named fontIconConverter.ts. This converter is actually really simple - it just has a hash map of all the icons we want to use and their unicode value, then provides a function for converting strings, or parts of strings, to the appropriate unicode value. Notice below that we're also handling cases where an icon may be passed in within a string of text.
// app/utils/fontIconConverter.ts
const fontToUnicode = {
 //I recommend using the full css class name of the icon (i.e. 'fa-bluetooth')
 // instead of shortening (i.e. just 'bluetooth') in case you need to use the
 // text along side an icon
 'fa-bluetooth': '\uf293',
 'fa-hashtag': '\uf292',
 'fa-usb': '\uf287'
function valueToFontUnicode(value: string): string {
 //if the value isn't a key in our hash map, just return the value as it is
 return fontToUnicode[value] || value;
export default function fontIconConverter(value: string): string {
 //check for spaces so we can handle things like "fa-bluetooth some text here"
 if (/\s/.test(value)) {
 return value.split(/\s/).map(t => valueToFontUnicode(t)).join(' ');
 } else {
 return valueToFontUnicode(value);
Make the converter accessible application-wide
Now that we've defined a converter function, we just need to add it to our application resources to make it available application-wide. Simply navigate to your app/app.ts file, and make the following additions:
import fontIconConverter from './utils/fontIconConverter';
application.resources['fontIconConverter'] = fontIconConverter;
Use the converter in your view
Now that we've added the converter to our application resources, we can use it in any view like this:
Is it still clunky/ugly? Yep. But, I find it easier to remember the actual names of the icons over their unicode values. So, in an app where a lot of different icons are being used, this may just be helpful. If you're only using one or two icons then maybe it wouldn't be worth it - you'd have to decide :)
Quick Caveat
Any time that you are using the binding syntax {{... }} your view must have a binding context or it won't interpolate. Even if all you're doing is taking a static string, such as is the case with the font icon converter, and running it through a converter. If needed, you can just set the binding context to an empty object and that works, but kinda feels hacky to me.
It's certainly not a perfect/elegant solution, but as far as I can find it's either typing in the unicode directly to the label or some converter like this when it comes to using font icons. If you know of a better approach, feel free to share in the comments!
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an atlhlete runs around a track that is 100mts long for 3 times and then stops. what is the athletes distance and sisplacement?
Asked by arajeevshashank | 14th Feb, 2018, 06:49: PM
Expert Answer:
distance covered is 100 x 3 =300 mts
displacement = distance between final position and initial position
since runner comes back to same position which he started
so displacement is zero
Answered by Arun | 15th Feb, 2018, 09:29: AM


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I know it's a type of capillary electrophoresis, but I don't get how does the separation happen exactly.
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Many of us are using isotachophoresis all the time without even realising it. The explanation that follows may not be exact, but I hope that it helps.
Firstly, think about a simple electrophoresis set-up - in agarose electrophoresis of DNA we have a uniformly distributed buffer such as Tris-borate. The current is carried by the borate ions and the DNA molecules run through the homogeneous electric field towards the anode. They separate by size because of the sieving effect of the agarose matrix.
Now let's think about what is happening in an SDS-PAGE separation (a Laemmli gel). Just to remind you:
The running (or reservoir) buffer is Tris-glycine pH 8.3
The stacking gel is in Tris.HCl pH 6.8
The separating gel is in Tris.HCl pH 8.8
When the power supply is turned on, the glycinate ion in the top reservoir begins to move into the stacking gel. When it hits the zone of pH = 6.8 it is much closer to its pKa and so is now only weakly charged. Consequently it slows down. Meanwhile the chloride ions in the stacking gel have begun to move rapidly down through the stacking gel (towards the anode). This creates a discontinuous electric field: the chloride zone has a lower resistance than the glycinate zone so the field strength in the chloride zone is weaker than the field strength in the glycinate zone. This is a stable situation because the ions cannot stray into each other's zones: if a glycinate ion happens to diffuse forwards into the chloride zone it will experience a weaker field and slow down, whereas if a chloride ion diffuses back into the glycinate zone it will hit the stronger field and quickly move ahead again.
What about the SDS-protein complexes that were in the well? (I'll just refer to these as proteins from now on.) Their ionic properties lie between the glycinate and the chloride, and so they eventually end up moving through the stacking gel between the trailing zone of glycinate and the leading zone of chloride. Any protein that finds itself in the glycinate zone will move quickly forward (due to the higher field strength) and any protein that moves ahead by chance into the chloride zone will slow down due to the weak field strength, falling back into the protein zone. And in this way these zones move in a procession through the stacking gel, with the proteins being focussed into a very narrow region in the middle. The glycinate, the proteins and the chloride are all moving at the same speed, and so this is an example of isotachophoresis (isotacho- = "same speed"). The polyacrylamide gel matrix in the stacking gel has no separating function - its role is simply to stabilise against convective effects. The proteins can reach very high local concentrations in the stacking gel, and if you look carefully you will often see refractive effects as your sample runs through the stacking gel. In this way the protein sample is "applied" to the separating gel in a very tight band, perfect for achieving high resolution separation (bands broaden by diffusion in the separating gel so the tighter the bands ar eat the point of loading, the better the final result.)
Once the sample hits the separating gel, all of this breaks down: the pH is now 8.8 so the glycinate becomes strongly charged and zooms off ahead with the chloride through the gel, leaving the proteins to move more slowly due to the sieving effect of the polyacrylamide matrix.
It is possible to set up an isotachophoresis as described above in isolation. Individual proteins will have slightly different ionic properties and will line up in the region between the two buffer ions, allowing for their separation.
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choline chloride
Chinese: 氯化胆碱French: chlorure de choline (n.m.)Russian: холина хлорид
Status: WHO INN
IUPAC PIN: 2-hydroxy-N,N,N-trimethylethan-1-aminium chloride
IUPAC name: choline chloride
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CAS name: 2-hydroxy-N,N,N-trimethylethanaminium chloride (1:1)
CAS Reg. No.: 67-48-1
Formula: C5H14ClNO
Activity: plant growth regulators (unclassified plant growth regulators)
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Structure: Structural formula of choline chloride
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We've traveled through the heartland to examine iconic regional barbecue styles, but the birthplace of this nation's smoky tradition lies in South Carolina. In a marriage of the perfect meat with the perfect cooking process, Spanish explorers and their European pigs traveled here in the 17th century and happened upon the American Indians and their slow cooking method with smoke. Long before the region gained the name it boasts today, people were enjoying tender pork thanks to this merging of cultural traditions.
The barbecue developed in South Carolina is not unlike that of its Northern counterpart — with one key difference. Like North Carolinian barbecue, the smoked meat on the coast (the "Pee Dee" region) uses the whole hog with a spicy, vinegary sauce applied during cooking. And in the western part of the state along the Savannah River, the sauce integrates ketchup while the meat of choice is the moister, fattier shoulder. But travel to the Midlands, and you'll come across Carolina gold: a mustard-based sauce traced to early German settlers in the 18th century. South Carolina is perhaps best known for this contribution to barbecue culture, as no other state has adopted mustard sauces with the same fervor.
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AI detects depression though voice
Researchers have improved an AI that detects depression from your voice. By analyzing the sound of people's voices, this AI can now detect whether they are depressed more accurately, say scientists at the University of Alberta.
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. AI refers to software technologies that make intelligent devices like robots or computers think like humans. They also make them behave like humans. AI contrasts with NI or natural intelligence.
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Mashrura Tasnim and Eleni Stroulia presented their study and findings at the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (citation below).
Stroulia is a Professor of Computing Science at Alberta's Faculty of Science. Tasnim is a Graduate Student in Computing Science at Alberta.
Using machine learning to recognize depression
The researchers used two standard benchmark sets of audio recordings to develop a method that combined many machine-learning algorithms. The recordings were between 5 and 50 minutes long. The algorithms detected depression from acoustic cues more accurately.
Tasnim and Stroulia built on previous studies which found that the timbre of peoples voices contained data about their mood.
The researchers aim to develop helpful applications from the technology they have developed.
Prof. Stroulia explains:
"A realistic scenario is to have people use an app that will collect voice samples as they speak naturally. The app, running on the user's phone, will recognize and track indicators of mood, such as depression, over time."
"Much like you have a step counter on your phone, you could have a depression indicator based on your voice as you use the phone."
Depression in Canada
Approximately sixteen percent of women and eleven percent of men in Canada will have depressive symptoms during the course of their lives. Many Canadians aged twelve to nineteen, i.e., 3.2 million people, are also at risk of developing depression.
The authors believe that their tool could help individuals reflect on their own moods or mental state over time. It could also be used by health care professionals and providers.
Stroulia noted:
"This work, developing more accurate detection in standard benchmark data sets, is the first step."
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Cosmopolitanism and patriotism in Ghanaian hiplife lyrics
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Ghanaian Hiplife is a musical style that emerged in the early 1990's, and has steadily gained popularity since. The music is a combination of Ghanaian Highlife--an early 20th century mix of both European and local traditions-- and American Hip Hop. As a musical hybrid, Hiplife often blurs the lines between the global and the local. Its recontextualization of Western synthesized beats with local languages and music traditions has created a music that in many ways represents the cosmopolitan. However, it often simultaneously symbolizes a sense of patriotism for the relatively young country, emphasizing local significance of ethnicity and location. Through the use of various languages--Akan languages, Pidgin English, and Hip-Hop Vernacular English--current Hiplife artists demonstrate a complex give and take between the cosmopolitan and the patriot


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Soviet Cottage Uses Buses from Moscow by Sergei Kulikov
Soviet Cottage Uses Buses. The remains of the legendary era of the Soviet Union Ikarus 280 buses to Russia as listening architectural remains in Beryozka-6, a rural village a few miles from some tens of Moscow. The Hungarian Ikarus 280 buses built, making transport services in the Russian cities during the Soviet regime, become homes, bathrooms, kitchens and other colonies of house into the landscape. Beryozka-6 is now a very interesting place for nature lovers and the two history buffs, who can also enjoy the scenery blessed in the context of the holiday home with Ikarus 280 buildings.
Evolution of the cottage colony in Beryozka-6 was also historic. The agreement, originally called Avtobusniki, which means bus people "was created in 1989, the chaotic years of the history of Soviet domination. As you might guess, Regulation Avtobusniki house has been allocated to services workers Bus Ikarus 280. But as the Soviet regime fulfilled its historic decline in the same year, workers were given the two halves of Ikarus 280 effects of amortization of property.
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In a sense, these Ikaruses echo the fate of the famous Soviet five-story residential buildings.
Over the years, the buses in the region have been used or recycled to the housing needs and related. Today, the house is a typical example of "stone age of high tech" with Ikarus buses turn to complete housing facilities. If you visit, you can see a variety of appliances and utilities made since the old bus. Even the parts and the windows of the old buses are used in gardens, greenhouses and similar creations.
As Sergei Kulikov, and an architectural historian, notes on Domus, the cottage Beryozka-6 regulation is an ideal identification for the use of technology in architectural prosthesis standardization of facilities and housing crafts architecture. Of course, with the remains of 280 Ikarus buses in a house rich solution, the country has shown a model for the world, hungry for a Green Revolution.
There is even a small church in the villa, built by Andrei Strebkov, a priest of Zainsk, recycling LIAZ bus model in 2011. Over the years, the lifestyle of the dachas, small towns that are provided to families under the Soviet regime, has undergone drastic changes. In fact, this is what ended up in the award of the colony house Beryozka-6 bus for employees in 1989. Under Stalin's dachas is granted only to scientists and cultural elites of society. However, Khrushchev dachas changes to everyone, including workers in factories and bus stops. Of course it is quite surprising that through years of the occupants of the house Beryozka-6 has also developed a green lifestyle.
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Completely clear all formatting of a range in Excel
In Excel, you can apply the Clear Formats function to quickly clear only the formatting that's applied to selected cells, and it cannot clear the formatting that's applied to the data or contents. But with Kutools for Excel's Clear All Cell Format, you can quickly clear all formatting from a range, no matter the formatting that's applied to the cells or the contents in Excel.
1. Select a range that you want to clear all cell formatting.
2. Click Kutools >> Format Tools >> Clear All Cell Format, see screenshots:
3. Click Yes button. All of the cell formats have been removed completely. See screenshots:
The differences between Kutools for Excel's Clear All Cell Format and Excel's Clear Formats:
In the following screenshot, you will see there are two cells, the cell 1 which has been applied the font color BLUE. But the cell 2 is using the font color BLACK, but the some contents in this cell have been applied to other font colors. See screenshot:
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According to recent research from the United States, "We quantified standing stocks of large wood in 12 streams along the north shore of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota during June - September 2007. All large pieces of wood (> 0.1 m in diameter for a portion > 1 m in length, n = 963) were measured."
"Standing stocks of large wood ranged from 0.01 to 0.48 pieces/m, lower than most published values from around the world. Wood inputs to streams in northeastern Minnesota may be less than elsewhere due to differences in tree species, environmental conditions, and past forest management practices," wrote E.C. Merten and colleagues, University of...
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|Quick Facts: Janitors and Building Cleaners|
|2010 Median Pay||
$22,210 per year
$10.68 per hour
|Entry-Level Education||Less than high school|
|Work Experience in a Related Occupation||None|
|On-the-job Training||Short-term on-the-job training|
|Number of Jobs, 2010||2,310,400|
|Job Outlook, 2010-20||11% (About as fast as average)|
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Janitors and building cleaners keep many types of buildings clean, orderly, and in good condition.
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Most janitors and building cleaning workers learn on the job. They do not need formal education.
The median hourly wage for janitors and building cleaners was $10.68 in May 2010.
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|What Is the Purpose of the Kabbalah Red String?|
Followers of the mystical Judaic tradition Kabbalah often believe that wearing a red string tied around the left wrist will ward off the evil eye. According to Kabbalah teachings, the talisman works as a "spiritual vaccination": the red string, being the color of danger, will shield the wearer against danger and negativity. Before Kabbalah red string is sold to followers, it is wound around the tomb of Rachel, a Biblical matriarch whose motherly protection becomes part of the red string's power.
Many cultures have used a red string, ribbon, or cloth as a ritualistic talisman of protection, including the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese; red string also appears in the folk customs of Ireland, Romania and India. Scholar Elly Teman identifies three elements that make the red string such a powerful cross-cultural symbol: the knotting of the thread, symbolizing binding and closure; the circularity of the string, symbolizing sacredness and protection; and the string's redness, connoting blood, earth and courage.
The Kabbalah red string is a type of "segulah," the Jewish term for a protective, healing spiritual act. However, Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky claims that there is no scriptural basis for this particular segulah, citing instead a Talmudic verse that equates the red-string ritual to superstition and idol worship.
The modern red string ritual began in the '30s when those with fertility problems began making pilgrimages to Rachel's Tomb; thus, early on, the red string was used primarily as a fertility charm. This tradition disappeared while the tomb was under Jordanian rule, but reappeared after the Six Day War in 1967, and the string came to mean protection rather than fertility. The Kabbalah string must be wound seven times around Rachel's Tomb to endow it with full protective powers.
In the '80s, the red string became more and more popular as the conditions in Israel grew more and more uncertain; Elly Teman believes that national anxiety is at the root of contemporary usage of the Kabbalah string. Then, in the late '90s, many celebrities (including Madonna, David Beckham and Britney Spears) began wearing a red string as a fad accessory.
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The title is probably a bit too broad. I frequently encountered the following situation: suppose I need to select a solution to a linear equation from a compact set. Can I make this selection continuous?
Formally, let $S \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a compact set. Let $A$ be a $k \times n$ matrix ($k < n$), which we view as a linear function $A: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^k$. Let $T = A(S)$ be the range of $A$ on $S$. Is there a continuous function $g: T \to S$, such that $A g(y) = y$?
To construct $g$, we only need to pick a value from the solution set $A^{-1}(\{y\}) \cap S$, which is compact. The question is: can we choose it in a continuous way? It is easy to see that we can choose $g$ to be Borel measurable, say, choose $g$ to be the one with the minimum Euclidean norm from the solution set.
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alright. I think this is impossible in general. Example: $n = 2, k =1$. $S = [-1,0] \times $ {1} $\cup$ $[0,1] \times $ {0}. Then T=[-1, 1]. There is a problem at y=0 – mr.gondolier Apr 6 '10 at 3:56
I think what is lacking here is convexity. Otherwise, one can make use of this selection theorem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_selection_theorem – mr.gondolier Apr 6 '10 at 4:20
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Role of local databases for a peripheral discipline in a peripheral country: trials with SocioFakt
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The current registrar, Accuity, assigns each bank a maximum of 5 routing numbers. But as banks keep on merging with each other, they can have more than 5 routing numbers. There are 26,895 active routing numbers in use. All bank customers need to fill the correct routing number to make a transaction. They can also find their routing number at the bottom left corner of their check. When you look closely, ABA routing number is the one with 9-digits.
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Barclays Bank Delaware actually started out as Juniper Bank, a direct bank in Wilmington, Delaware. Earlier, the bank focused on branded credit cards. However, Juniper opened its doors to the public in January 2000 and received financing from Benchmark Capital. Moreover, in November 2000, they began offering insurance products. The next year in September 2001, the company sold 51% of its stakes to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. CIBC made an additional $50 million investment in Juniper and raised its state ownership to 89%. Juniper signed a deal with Airtran Airways to offer a branded credit card in November 2002. Barclays acquired Juniper Bank in 2004 renamed it as Barclays Bank Delaware.
Barclays Bank Delaware is among the top banks in the US, along with other banks like Huntington and BBVA Compass. You also need the Huntington Bank Routing Number and BBVA Compass Bank Routing Number respectively if you have an account in these banks.
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The parent company, Barclays PLC, is a British multinational bank and financial services company based in London. Barclays is a universal bank with global reach, providing services and products in personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management. It operates its offices in more than 40 countries and employs close to 120,000 people. Barclays has four core business areas:
 - Personal & Corporate (Personal Banking, Corporate Banking, Wealth & Investment Management)
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 - Africa
Barclays Bank Delaware is based in Wilmington, Delaware and its address is:
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What is Nylgut?
Nylgut is a synthetic material invented, copyrighted, and patented, by Aquila Corde Armoniche in 1997: it has the same mean specific weight as gut and a low degree of humidity absorption – ony 10% that of nylon. It possesses a sonic profile almost identical to natural gut, unlike Nylon, whose sonic profile is quite different than natural gut. In theory one should use a gut string and a Nylgut string of the same diameter. But since nylgut has a slightly higher stretch factor than gut we advise using the next gauge higher. When tuning it for the first time, carefully and repeatedly pull the string with your fingers while tightening it. It is a good idea to help the chanterelle over the nut, to avoid extra friction on the small diameter string. Nylgut strings cannot be used on bowed instruments.
What is Breaking Point Index?
The Breaking Point Index is the highest frequency a gut string of any diameter can reach at a string length of 1mt. For gut a mean value of 260 is a good reference parameter. For Nylgut, one can generally go as far as 300 Hz/meter. In other words, a 1 meter long gut string will statistically always break at 260 Hz, i.e. about 'C'. Hence we deduce that the product of the pitch of the treble and by the string length ('Working Index') must always be below this value, and it is strongly advised to keep the number below 240. Instruments of the gut string era were always designed to function within these boundaries, and is why instrument families are scaled the way they are, and why re-entrant tunings were used on some instruments. What is the use of this in practice? A safe index for gut stringing should not exceed the 240 value. For Nylgut, ~260. Example I: can I tune a gut strung lute top string to A, with a string length of 62cm in the pitch center of A 440?.62 mt (62cm) x 440 (Hz) = 272.8
The answer is: no, I can't. What should the appropriate string length be? A safe index should not exceed the 240 value. 240/440 Hz =.545 mt, so in practice the appropriate string length (at A-440) should not exceed 54 cm. Example II: can I tune a gut strung lute in G, with a string length of 62cm in the pitch center of A 440 of.62 mt? (62cm) x 392 (Hz) = 243 Hz.mtThe answer is: yes, I can, most definitely if using NNG. The rule of thumb is, assuming the contact points are free from any sharp edges, which will quickly sever a gut or Nylgut string: Keep the working index below 240 for gut, 260 for NNG, is the recommended upper limit. Gut at working index between 250 and 260: not safe. The treble could break in a few hours/days, especially in high humidity conditions. Gut at working index over 260. Extreme danger; the treble will break immediately or within minutes. Because of the lack of the instrument size standardization, it is important to verify whether medieval lutes and harps adhere to these values. Historical instruments or copies that, when calculated, divulge numbers that are above 260, were not intended by the maker to be tuned to the pitch center being calculated.
Can Nylgut be bowed?
Sorry, no. Nylgut is only suitable for plucked instruments.
For what pitch center are your gauging recommendations?
All recommendations for all instruments are at 415hz =a'.
How do I convert Pirastro/Dlugolecki numbers to Aquila?
Aquila numbers are metric, just lacking a decimal point. Therefore a 60HU is a 0.60mm string. To convert Pirastro/Dlugolecki numbers to metric, multiply by 5. For example, a 12 in their system is a 60 in metric. (5x12)
Why is your medium gauge recommendation different than some other brands?
Every maker has their own idea about what constitutes light, medium, or heavy gauge. The reality is that these descriptions are only a starting place to determine what your instrument actually wants in terms of tension, no matter which maker you purchase strings from. If you are happy with the gauging from a different maker and want to try Aquila gut strings, order the same gauges in Aquila strings because they will produce the same tension as what you are currently using. This applies only to plain strings. For wound strings, one needs to pair the Aquila light, medium, or heavy with the corresponding gauge recommendation for Aquila plain strings.
How do I convert Nylon numbers to Nylgut?
Nylon has less density than Nylgut, so you cannot order the same gauges in Nylgut as you are using with Nylon. If your Nylon numbers are in inches, multiply by 2.54 to get the metric equivalent. Here is a page that has the conversions: If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us.
Should I pre-tension my gut strings?
In the case of violin e'', definitely. This was common practice in the 18th century. The violin e'' is the most highly tensioned string on any instrument and to achieve maximum life, should never be brought immediately to pitch right out of the package. There are several ways to do this; a spare violin, your usual violin, or a small tensioning rack (which we will be selling soon) is all that's needed. Bring the string slowly up to around 3 semitones low of intended pitch and leave it overnight. Then you will have a string ready to use when you need it. A good practice for installing any new gut string, except the largest, is in the evening to bring the string slowly up to 3 semitones low, leave it overnight, and finish tensioning in the morning.
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Following Tony Blair's recent visit to Kosovo, where he met nine children named after him, the middle names of the children have come to light. These paint a rather different picture. All nine children were given the name 'Tonibler' following Nato's intervention in the Kosovo war. However, three of the children also have the middle name 'Lyingbastard', two 'Destroyerofworlds' and three others 'Initfortheoil'. The ninth child's middle name is unprintable.
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I don't know if they didn't get the memo, but a startlingly large number of people talking on cell phones in Mexico hold the phone in front of their mouth while talking. It is as if they didn't know that the mouthpiece on these things was designed to pick up their voice WHILE the body of the phone is pressed to their ear. This allows for a quite handy full-duplex conversation, a wonderful feature of modern life. I never noticed this type of behavior in other countries I have visited, so what is up with Mexico or its cell phones?


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1. Introduction to the Distribution Constructor
2. Design and Build Oracle Solaris Images
3. x86: Design and Build a Virtual Machine
What is a Virtual Machine?
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A complete Virtual Machine will be created using the settings specified in the Virtual Machine manifest, vmc_image.xml. The Virtual Machine manifest is an XML file located at /usr/share/distro_const/vmc/vmc_image.xml. The vmc_image.xml file points to a default set of finalizer scripts that are used to implement the final media-specific settings for the Virtual Machine. In addition, an automated installer (AI) boot image is used to create the Virtual Machine.
You must provide the AI boot image. Then, you must modify the Virtual Machine manifest to point to this image.
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- Job Shadowing Placement
Job Shadowing involves working closely with professionals for an agreed time in order to learn how aspects of the job are performed in a working environment. It can broaden the student's skill base in customer care and understanding of management skills related to the salon and spa business. It involves the observation of specific esthetician skills as well as the day-to-day responsibilities for the safety and cleanliness of the work environment. It also provides opportunities for the student to interact with their Workplace Host and discover particular details about the field such as the rewards and challenges of the service industry.
- Career Planning & Employment Skills
This module outlines important aspects of career planning, gaining employable skills, and basic computer literacy. This module consists of 25 hours of theory and 15 hours of lab.
- Salon/Spa Business Management
This module outlines important aspects of successful salon/spa business management skills.
- Cosmetic Massage & Spa Body Therapies
This module outlines the various cosmetic massage treatments and body therapies related to the esthetic industry. This module consists of 43 hours of theory and 103 hours of lab.
- Make-up Artistry, Lash & Brow Enhancement
This module outlines the basics in colour theory, facial shapes, and features. As well as an introduction to the various techniques of professional make-up artistry, lash/brow enhancements such as tinting and lash extensions are introduced. This module consists of 40 hours of theory and 60 hours of lab.
This module provides basic knowledge and fundamental techniques required to perform professional manicure and pedicure treatments. This module consists of 10 hours of theory and 100 hours of lab.
- Hair Removal
This module outlines permanent and temporary hair removal technique and practices, and their effect on the skin. This module consists of 8 hours of theory and 40 hours of lab.
- Electrotherapy for Estheticians
This module outlines the basics of electricity enabling the learner to operate a variety of machines and apparatus used in the esthetic profession knowledgeably and safely. This module consists of 50 hours of theory and 60 hours of lab.
This module outlines all aspects of conducting various professional facial treatments including: specific instructions on how to conduct a client consultation, prepare implements, products and treatment room, the ability to recognize and identify general skin types and specific skin conditions to determine the most appropriate treatment recommendations, classical methods of facial massage, and facial step sequences. This module consists of 68 hours of theory and 122 hours of lab.
- Basic Chemistry, Cosmetic Ingredient & Product Analysis
This module outlines the elements of basic chemistry and chemical processes as it relates to cosmetic products, their ingredients, and various formulations. Various product forms and uses in the practice of esthetics are discussed.
This module outlines basic nutrition and how it can affect the health and certain conditions of the skin and body. It will also cover how certain habits can affect the health of the skin.
- Disorders & Diseases of the Skin
This unit will enable the learner to recognize common skin diseases, disorders, and disturbances; determine those that can be treated by the esthetician and those that require medical treatment.
- Human Anatomy & Physiology
This unit outlines basic human anatomy and physiology, the different body systems, and their relation to the practice of esthetics.
- Cells, Anatomy & Physiology of the Skin
This module focuses on understanding the basic structural units of the human body and the composition, structure, and function of the skin. This module also explores cell metabolism, and the affect that ageing, sun damage, and hormones have on the skin.
- Bacteriology and Decontamination
This module provides a basic knowledge of bacteria, infection, and procedures and guidelines to help the esthetician eliminate and prevent the spread of disease. IPAC and the Bloodborne Pathogen Act are covered as well as an understanding of WHMIS.
- Interpersonal Skills
This module outlines the importance of good interpersonal and communication skills in the esthetics industry. Topics such as time management, setting goals, and creating good study habits will be explored.
- Introduction to Esthetics
This introductory module outlines the history and evolution of the esthetics and spa industry, and the many career opportunities available to estheticians. It presents the importance of professional conduct, image, code of ethics, and common courtesies related to clients and co-workers within the workplace.


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Vuong, Ba-Quy; He, Yulan and Hui, Siu Cheung
Towards a web-based progressive handwriting recognition environment for mathematical problem solving.
Expert Systems with Applications, 37(1) pp. 886–893.
The emergence of pen-based mobile devices such as PDAs and tablet PCs provides a new way to input mathematical expressions to computer by using handwriting which is much more natural and efficient for entering mathematics. This paper proposes a web-based handwriting mathematics system, called WebMath, for supporting mathematical problem solving. The proposed WebMath system is based on client-server architecture. It comprises four major components: a standard web server, handwriting mathematical expression editor, computation engine and web browser with Ajax-based communicator. The handwriting mathematical expression editor adopts a progressive recognition approach for dynamic recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions. The computation engine supports mathematical functions such as algebraic simplification and factorization, and integration and differentiation. The web browser provides a user-friendly interface for accessing the system using advanced Ajax-based communication. In this paper, we describe the different components of the WebMath system and its performance analysis.
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Tanton Video Interview Interview 2006 - Topic 7
Dr. John Tanton discusses the three primary questions regarding immigration policy:
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- Who gets the visas? There are now about 70 different kinds of visas.
- How are you going to enforce the rules?
John Tanton discusses how the number of 175,000 legal immigrants per year was arrived at in order to achieve a sustainable, non-growing population. He also discusses the 1965 Immigration Act and immigration quotas.


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- noun: one who lives in solitude
- adjective: enjoyed or performed alone
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- adjective: separated from or unfrequented by others; remote or secluded
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- adjective: of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
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In "The Dragon and the Wolf" (Game of Thrones, S07E07), Bran tells Sam that Jon is actually Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark's son, and that his name should've been Jon Sand. Of course, Sam corrects him by saying Jon isn't a bastard at all.
But is "Sand" really what Jon's last name would've been if Rhaegar and Lyanna wouldn't have been married? On what basis is a bastard named (last name)?
IF Jon had been a bastard and acknowledged by his father he would have taken / been given the common name for bastards in the region where he would have been born.
Lyanna gave birth in Dorne and the bastard's names go by region of birth in GOT.
 - Flowers: The Reach
 - Hill: The Westerlands
 - Pyke: Iron Islands
 - Rivers: The Riverlands
 - Sand: Dorne
 - Snow: The North
 - Stone: The Vale of Arryn
 - Storm: The Stormlands
 - Waters: The Crownlands
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 If that's the case, did Ned ever say that Jon was born in the north, hence naming him Snow? – SrB Aug 28 '17 at 18:25
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 I don't recall Ned ever saying where Jon was born. He just brought him home and claimed him as his bastard. No additional explanation would have been sought or required. – Paulie_D Aug 28 '17 at 18:27
 - Another strengthening point for the answer is Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes, which play off the Sand name for bastards. – DariM Aug 28 '17 at 22:08
Bastards are not named for where they are born but where they are raised.
Remember, Ned is claiming that Jon is his own child. While he was physically born outside of the North, he was brought to live in the North by a Northman. It has more to do with who the bastard was born to and where they live then where they are actually born.
Explanation of Bastard Naming:
Examples of bastard naming:
The surname a bastard received appears to be connected to the location the child is raised, though this is not a consistent rule. Because of this, bastards who are half-siblings might have different surnames. For example, King Robert I Baratheon's eldest bastard, born in the Vale, is called Mya Stone, while his bastard from the Stormlands (fathered on a noblewoman from the Reach) is called Edric Storm. However, whilst Aegor Rivers was raised at Stone Hedge in the Riverlands, his half-brother Brynden, was also called Rivers, despite having lived at least the first few years of his life with his mother at King's Landing in the Crownlands.
So it would have depended on which parent took custody of Jon.
If it had been Rhaegar, Jon would have likely been a Waters since Rhaegar would have taken him back to the Crownlands.
If it had been Lyanna, Jon would have likely still been a Snow since he would have been brought back to the North.
In the books it depends on the region of the family, but Targaryens had a special name for their bastards, that being Blackfyre, so i suppose Jon would be a Blackfyre since Rhaegar is his father.
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 Nothing about this answer, down to the spelling of Jon, is correct. – Ghoti and Chips Aug 28 '17 at 18:15
 - I'm Sorry, i am not a english speaker, i'm my country we have weird tranlations, even for the names (i am asian) – Cheshire Aug 28 '17 at 18:21
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 Yeah but, to be clear: In the books it depends on the region of the family Wrong, it depends on the region that the child is born or raised, irrespective of the noble parent's domain. Targaryens had a special name for their bastards, that being Blackfyre Wrong, Targaryen bastards had the same naming scheme as other houses' bastards (e.g. Aegor and Brynden Rivers). Blackfyre is unrelated and refers to a chosen name. Jon would be a Blackfyre Wrong, he would be a Sand, being born in Dorne. since Rhaegar is his father Wrong. Rhaegar being a Targaryen wouldn't make him a Blackfyre. – Ghoti and Chips Aug 28 '17 at 18:24
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Research Impact : The cautious climate in Ireland of teachers being involved in assessing students' work is delaying the enactment of such curricula and, more specifically for this paper, currently hindering associated assessment processes. It is therefore fitting and timely to explore the extent to which the current discussions in Ireland around teachers being responsible for assessing their own students' work is subsequently impacting (or not) the delivery and assessment of physical education. This discussion is particularly timely given the very recent endorsement of the introduction of the new Leaving Certificate Physical Education as a full optional subject.
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Albion River Bridge July 2001, shot at the bay side at very low tide
The first permanent bridge that crossed the Albion River was a draw bridge which allowed the logging tugboat "Zenith" access up the river. This bridge was a part of the first county road that connected the lumber towns together. The bridge is long gone now but the wood members of the bridge pillar are still exposed in the South bank across the river. The old county road crossed Albion Flats where the road is today but it no longer has the sawmill at 18 feet above ground covering it.
As traffic increased, the county constructed a new wood bridge that crossed just up river. This bridge is seen in the upper half of the above photograph east of the sawmill. The bridge was 512 feet long and 16 feet wide with no wheel guards on the sides. Two of the three bridge footings were in the water and are still visible in the river east of the campground. In August 1933, the bridge and road became a part of the state highway system, subject to state maintenance. Soon after the state took over the road maintenance, the declared the bridge as badly worn from overloaded traffic and started the design of a replacement bridge. When the state was ready for materials, World War II had started.
A prolonged battle with the War Resources Board ensued over allocation of the needed steel. California finally prevailed and started construction on the existing bridge in 1942. The final plans allowed for just enough steel to reinforce the two concrete pillars and to build the 130 foot long truss between them. The rest of the bridge is specially treated redwood. Specifications for the bridge are 26 feet wide, 969 feet long, and 150 feet above the river.


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We have investigated the defect accumulation and amorphization in14N+implanted 6H-SiC as a function of ion fluence using confocal micro-Raman scattering. Raman spectra are very sensitive to changes in the chemical short-range order and to the formation of Si-Siand C-C-bonds, which are not present in the unimplanted material. The technique also allowed the determination of the optical absorption coefficient. It increases proportional to the ion dose until the formation of the amorphous layer, and this increase is related to the formation of absorbing centers.
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Six Interesting Things about Automated Underwriting for Commercial Real Estate
Understanding risk and potential returns in buying, selling, or developing a property is a crucial component to being a successful real estate investor. In commercial real estate (CRE), underwriting is used to make decisions about how risky investing in a property or development could be by compiling data from a large number of sources.
However, the process of underwriting is not easy and can be tedious work. This process can be dramatically sped up with automated underwriting.
What is automated underwriting?
Automated underwriting is using existing data files from Argus or Excel to determine the property values, risk, and estimate cash flows. Automated underwriting allows investors to see projected cash flow data in a matter of minutes and is crucial in evaluating the financial risk and potential returns of a property.
1. Understanding the process of automated underwriting for an existing property.
The automated underwriting process is relatively straightforward.
Once the property information is imported, the Argus modeling program will produce a cash flow breakdown over time. Brokers and investors can then utilize the breakdown in their Excel model or another proprietary modeling program.
The beauty of the automation process is not in its modeling but efficiency in utilizing the existing information.
2. Automated underwriting will help investors conduct more business faster
The process of traditional commercial real estate underwriting takes time, often several hours to analyze a single property and its surrounding market. In the competitive world of commercial real estate investing, opportunities come with speed. The first investor to analyze the deal has an advantage.
Automated underwriting allows investors to analyze deals in a few minutes instead of a few hours.
3. Automated underwriting removes errors
Every deal goes through an appraisal. Appraisers are human and as such, can make mistakes. Commercial real estate investors are looking for every advantage to make better deals and get higher returns. Those errors can cost money, lead to poor decisions or missed opportunities.
With automated underwriting, calculations are set. The error factor is removed, and deals can be analyzed with a clear picture of the possible risks and returns.
4. Disagreements are no longer an issue.
Asset management teams don't always agree with acquisitions teams about rent projections. Property owners don't always agree with commercial real estate brokers about comparable market rents. So who's right and who's wrong? With automated underwriting, these disagreements are not a factor in the deal-making process.
Because the model data has been continually updated and rent and inflation trends are tracked in the system, automated underwriting can quickly point to the data to settle the argument.
5. Automated underwriting can lead to deal "pre-approval."
Imagine a world where the banks are ready to lend based solely on the creditworthiness of the investor (much like residential real estate) because the property underwriting has been done in advance. A commercial real estate investor could exponentially increase their deal volume and returns.
6. Financial institutions also benefit from automated underwriting
The volume of deals lenders can process increases exponentially as well. Lenders are in the business of making money by turning money. The more loans they can produce, the more profitable the banking system becomes. Automated underwriting helps to create a beautiful cycle of efficiency and profit from the start of a real estate deal to the end.
With extensive knowledge of financial modeling and real estate analysis, an automated underwriting company, can give you the data you need, and point out any areas of concern in the numbers. This saves time and allows you to focus on evaluating the investment. Visit our Services Hub to see how you can get started today.