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Seven Things About Everything
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Religion and spirituality
It may be controversial to explain Everything.
Submitted:Oct 11, 2009 Reads: 185 Comments: 0 Likes: 1
In the infinite space which everything is included, there are seven truths. Everything is cyclical, has equilibrium, can be broken down, is connected, is hypocritical, has the capability to go on forever, and comes to an end. Using various life like examples, we can find out the seven things in which drive people, plants and animals, the things the living create, and the space in which is inhabited by them.
Everything is cyclical. The easiest definition to a cycle is anything that repeats itself. The cyclical nature of the earth's rotation is true in people themselves. The earth goes round and so do humans. Where there is the happiness and joy of life there is the sadness and sorrow of death. A child is born an old man dies. A tree grows and it gets struck down by lightning. An idea emerges and it gets lost within the realms of history. The cycle of rain, seasons, and time are all included. What is true of physics and science and earth itself is also true for John, our imaginary example man.
There are two types of cycles. The first are good cycles which can be defined as any cycle that leads to receiving any necessity of life or seen as positively affecting life. The necessities of life are food, water, shelter, and love. (Love meaning sex and the continuance of the precious gift of life.) There are also bad cycles and these can be defined as any cycle that impedes one from receiving any necessity of life or seen as negatively affecting life.
John was caught up in many cycles that benefited his life and the lives of many others. He was involved in academics and his academic success gained him money which in turn allowed him to buy food, water, and shelter. John studied for school, went home practiced piano, helped his mother with chores, and then went to bed. He woke up the next morning and repeated the same process. These were all cycles that were seen as good and benefited John. When John grew older he found himself doing the same things but instead of school he found himself going to work, getting paid, buying food, and going to bed.
There are thousands of good cycles all of us find ourselves doing. Some examples include; showering, working, singing, dancing, exercising, volunteering, going to church, watching television etc. Now many would question that if John had watched television all his life he would be a nobody, but we must remember that the definition states what is seen to benefit life and leads to the gaining of one of the necessities of life is what defines a good cycle. John's balance of time is what would make him a success and this balance is what we will discuss after we touch on bad cycles.
John may seem so far to be free of bad cycles but there are some poor cycles that he participated in. When he turned eighteen he became very distressed because it was his senior year and decided that it was ok for him to smoke. What John failed to realize was that smoking was a cycle that would not benefit his life because he would soon find out that his "game" was no good anymore. John decided to quit his habit of smoking and he found himself in a worse situation than just not trying to smoke in the first place. He became easily angered and was short tempered after deciding to quit. John also became depressed after quitting smoking. He lost interest in many things and found himself not enjoying many activities he use to. He quit piano, quit sports, and became a couch potato watching T.V. day after day. These ongoing behaviors of doing what society calls nothing are called bad cycles because they cause misery for John and everyone around him.
Many people find themselves participating in bad cycles or non cycles. Some examples of bad cycles include; smoking, drinking, binging, purging, gambling, not practicing, not showering, quitting, prostitution, excessive porn, etc. Keep in mind the definition of bad cycles they are what impedes one from receiving a necessity of life and is seen as negatively affecting one's life. Some may question why quitting is a bad cycle, but remember it is only referring to quitting good cycles. Next we will discuss the fact that the earth is in a natural equilibrium.
I lied we are going to keep you in suspense until the next paragraph to discuss equilibrium. I also lied because there is a third controversial cycle. If numbers truly go on forever it is very possible that not only cycles go on forever but they are only a part of something much larger. For example if we look at time fragments we have seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, seasons, years, decades, eons, and so forth. Those periods must get smaller and larger forever if we look mathematically at them. There is the cycle that is called the accumulative which is referring to any cycle that starts out small and gets larger. A good example yet a tongue biter is evolution. Another example would be the capacity to get smarter and smarter over time but we know that sooner or later those other cycles will bring that capability to an end. We call that old age. Another improvable theory would suggest that our lives are only part of something much larger just like red blood cells are making us live there is a possibility that there is something studying us discussing what it is our purpose is. This section will make more sense once we continue on with equilibrium and the other facts to life.
We are always in search of the right balance, we don't want too much and we definitely will not settle for less. The earth needs good just as well as evil because what a boring life it would be for everyone without bad. There would be no heroes, no Nobel Peace winners, no need to get off our ass to do something because everything would be good just as is. I couldn't imagine a world without good either. Life and death fall in this category of equilibrium because without one there isn't the other. There is a female and male to create life without man or woman neither would exist. Even our biological bodies follow this rule and we call it homeostasis. What is true for the world is true for John.
What occurred to John after quitting was a physics term called equilibrium. What is true in physics is true with John. John deciding to quit a bad habit led to the effect of being ill tempered. It is true that it takes two negatives to create a positive. Because John did decide to quit(bad) something bad(bad), the two bads created good. Some may ask what about killing someone bad? Because we are dealing with life and death which is a natural cycle killing is always bad. It would be like trying to stop water from flowing downhill, possible yet stupid.
Each action has an equal and opposite reaction. There are many examples that we have hidden through our words. Stress is a label we put on uncomfortable living in everyday life. In health class we are taught to get rid of that stress by journaling, screaming in a pillow, and in anyway venting. Another example is what we find if we as humans move to space. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. We move to space which is good because we save the planet we are on from overcrowding. The negative is obviously unknown, but could include littering space with random metal objects from space shuttles. Beginning wars in space could be a problem. The cost of living in space and those who die figuring out how to live in space could be a few of many other problems to match with the good effects of living in space. A better example would be here from earth. Why were older siblings and adults able to get away with more in their age time? John's parents were able to get away with more mischievous behavior than John was ever to get away with. John found it hard to vent growing up. This is because John had to work less than his parents. His parents mowed the lawn with a push while John always got to use a rider so therefore the bad things he is able to do are less because he has spent less time doing good. Those who spend more time doing good spend more time doing badly in a sense.
What about relationships some may ask. Ah yes, the chemistry between people must follow the rules just as everything else. She or he must complete me. Personality plays a great role in relationships. If you have two people with the same personality they will have the same interests but will not make the best companions for each other. The magnet example opposites attract and similarities repel sums it up well. In our world putting two people who are exactly alike together for a long period of time is going to cause problems. If you were to compare a parent who had a major problem with a specific child to the child, their personalities would show up as the same. "We don't want them to make the same mistakes as we did" "you're acting just like your mother". Women complete men as men complete women and their personalities in the cases of failed marriages will be similar and vice versa.
What about John and Sabrina? John and Sabrina should by all means get a divorce if their personalities are too much alike. They are friends who met and just had many of the same interests. They like to volunteer, they both have happy personalities, they are very generous, and by all means that relationship really ends in a disastrous divorce because the divorce (negative) needs to match there successes in the past. Only after messy kid dividing divorce can John and Sabrina make a realistic life. No one has a perfect life.
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Create an Annual Richmond, IN Edible Cityscape Event: Plant Apple, Peach or other fruit trees!!!
Have a local non-profit such as Trees Forever or Sierra Club host a one hour workshop on "How to Plant and Care for Fruit Trees." Have the non-profit purchase Fruit Trees at wholesale (approximately $7 each for good sized trees). Sell the trees as a fundraiser in conjunction with the planting workshop for $15 each.
Solicit donations from corporations, individuals, foundations as sponsors to ensure some trees are available for free as well as ensuring a profitable fund raiser!
Encourage everyone to plant at least two trees and to share harvests with neighbors and friends.
Trees to consider: Honeycrisp Apples, Elberta Queen Peaches, Cherry, Linden trees and Mountain Ash -- all useful and edible species. Make free trees available for non-profit organizations.
If people don't have a place for a tree, encourage them to adopt a tree! They can be part of a community orchard with picking privileges!
Trees are leafy umbrellas on hot Indiana summer days. Trees are habitat for birds and bugs, all kinds! Trees inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen for us all to breathe. Trees are hardy water reservoirs, purifying and transpiring up to 2,000 gallons/day that later falls as rain! Trees make great windbreaks and can even help reduce energy costs if placed properly on the land. And, they even have sweet treats......

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Re: Cannot do any order and control the maxOccurs.
From: Jeni Tennison
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:32:51 +0000
Message-ID: <_EMAIL_>
To: Christopher Birkett
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Hi Chris,
> XML Schema Limitation:
> 1. You cannot specify any order and have some, but
> not all, of the elements' frequency greater than one.
> To almost get around this limitation (if we
> want any order and control the frequency) we have 2
> options:
> 1) We would have to declare as
> an XML Schema list type.
> 2) We could specify any order and any
> frequency for all items (choice maxOccurs="unbounded")
A third option would be to define wrapper elements for the elements
that can repeat:
This would allow you to use xs:all to indicate that the elements
within App can go in any order:

Which would mean that the following is also legal:
The other options, as mentioned on this list recently, are:
 - to list all the possible combinations of orders; this gets unwieldy
 if you have lots of elements that are intermingled.
 - create a canonical schema in which the order is fixed; if
 necessary, you can write a simple script or stylesheet to transform
 instances into documents with this ordering
Out of interest, why is it important to you to allow elements to be in
any order?
Jeni Tennison
Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2002 04:32:58 GMT


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Teachers' characteristics: One lesson, two learning environments
Diezmann, Carmel M. (2004) Teachers' characteristics: One lesson, two learning environments. In 27th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 27-30 June 2004, Townsville, Qld..
This study explored the thinking exhibited by two teachers as they implemented a mathematical activity designed to introduce young children to investigations. The video data revealed substantial differences in the teachers' distinguishing teaching characteristics. Differences in the quality of their specific teaching characteristics were also identified using a classroom observation instrument. These differences in teaching characteristics suggest that though the teachers ostensibly implemented the same lesson, there was considerable variation in the learning opportunities for each class.
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Challenge: Change Machine
Write a class that simulates the functionality of a change machine.
- A Constructor that accepts a list of coins.
So you can setup the initial state of the machine. What denominations it accepts and initial quantities. etc.
- A way to set the Unit Price.
Edit: Unit Price -> The amount you have to pay, before goods are dispensed and change issued.
- A way of inserting coins
- A way to return the coins the user has inserted for the current transaction.
- A way to dispense the change (once the unit price is met), made from the available coins in the machine.
Excluding those the user has insert for the current transaction. After the transaction is completer those coins are available to be used for change.
- Raise Events to reflect the internal state changes.
Submissions (preferably vb.net) must follow the traditional challenge standing orders.
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Brazilian Journal of Botany
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WERNER, Vera Regina and SANT'ANNA, Célia Leite. Occurrence of the rare genus Microcrocis P. Richter (Chroococcales, Cyanobacteria) in a coastal lagoon from southern Brazil. Rev. bras. Bot. [online]. 2006, vol.29, n.1, pp. 183-186. ISSN _PHONE_. _URL_
The paper records the first occurrence of the genus Microcrocis P. Richter (Chroococcales, Cyanobacteria), represented by M. pulchella (Buell) Geitler, in Brazil. The species was found in two zones, one with freshwater and the other with brackish water, of a coastal lagoon of Rio Grande do Sul State (31°15-31°30 S and 50°54-51°09 W). Comparison between M. pulchella and its most closely related species is presented. Up to now this species had occurrence records limited to freshwater systems in temperate regions. Its presence in a subtropical coastal lagoon from southernmost Brazil, either in fresh or in brackish water, broadened the knowledge of the distribution area of M. pulchella.
Keywords : Brazil; coastal lagoon; Cyanobacteria; Microcrocis.


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Definition of gaberdines
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Envisioning Women in World History: Prehistory to 1500
Publication Date: Jan 22, 2008
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Main DescriptionPart of McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History series, this brief and accessible volume presents a comparative survey of the early history of women from a global perspective. Each chapter, which can be read independently of the others, examines the experiences of women in one of seven civilizations typically covered in an introductory world history text: pre-agricultural societies, the Ancient Mediterranean, Gupta India/Southeast Asia, Tang/Song China, Maya and Aztec cultures, early Islam through the Abbasid caliphate, and Europe in the Late Middle Ages. Within these cultures, the authors explore a variety of issues impacting the lives of females in pre-modern history, including the ideal woman, female life cycles, women's roles in work and economy, female sexuality and spirituality, and women and politics. The book's brevity makes it an excellent companion text for students in world history, women's history, introductory sociology and anthropology courses, and women's studies courses.


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The Potsdam Propeller Test Case (PPTC) is a benchmark case used for assessing the accuracy of existing computer codes and modeling strategies in simulating hydrodynamic propeller performance. The controllable pitch propeller design was tested at several different conditions and has a wealth of experimental data for CFD validation.
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Better trained or simply born to run?
SHORTLY AFTER the teenage Grenadian athlete Kirani James streaked away with the 400 metres in the Olympic final on Tuesday night, BBC presenter John Inverdale turned to his studio guests and posed a potentially incendiary question.
"It's simplistic I'm sure," he suggested to former Olympic champions Michael Johnson and Denise Lewis, "in a way there is a certain resignation that Ethiopians and Kenyans will dominate distance running and you suddenly see West Indian heritage athletes dominating the 400 metres. What does that say to runners in this country?"
Johnson, the greatest 400 metres runner of all time, was uncharacteristically equivocal in his answer. "You can't buy into the clichés and the sweeping generalisations about what makes an athlete successful. Certainly genealogy plays a part in it. It doesn't mean that if you are of African descent that you are going to dominate sprints and those who aren't won't."
The notion that some ethnic groups might be genetically predisposed to sporting success is fraught with difficulties. Those opposed to such generalities argue that if you suggest, first instance, that African-American or Afro-Caribbean athletes have a genetic advantage in sprinting, you could argue all kinds of traits for different ethnic groups such as intelligence or aptitude.
Johnson himself tackled the question in a recent Channel 4 documentary in which he argued that being descended from the slave trade gave African-American and Afro-Caribbean athletes (as opposed to west African athletes themselves) a leg up.
The theory, often advanced, is that the slave trade was so brutal that only those who were physically fittest survived through the generations.
As Johnson put it: "Slavery was kind of an unnatural selection, a speeded-up evolution, a mass murder of the weakest, only the fittest able to survive and pass on their genes. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me. I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us."
Johnson drew attention to the fact that in the 100 metres Olympic final in Beijing all the sprinters were Americans or from Caribbean islands. In the four years since that nothing has changed judging by the line-up for last Sunday's 100 metres final. In the intervening years since Beijing, a white sprinter, Christopher Lemaitre, has broken the 10-seconds barrier for the 100 metres, which he did in 2010. Incredibly, that was 42 years since the record was first broken. Hundreds of black athletes have broken it in the intervening years.
Even Lemaitre ducked out of the 100 metres because he was ranked only 10th in the world in the event. He came sixth in the men's 200m final in a time of 20.19 seconds.
Australian scientists thought in 2003 that they had gone some way to explaining the proficiency of black sprinters by identifying a gene called ACTN3, which is involved in fast muscle twitching and helps gives the muscles the power to run fast. It appears to be more common in Jamaicans and those of west African origin.


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The SD will always be equal to or larger than the mean error, but usually not too far off. For a normal distribution, the SD is 25.3% higher than the mean error, I think).
The statistical Pythagorean Theorem, then, says that if you have two independent variables, A and B, then
SD(A+B)^2 = SD(A)^2 + SD(B)^2
This is really important... I learned it in the first statistics course I took, but I finished my entire statistics degree without realizing just how important it was, and how it makes certain regression results work. I searched the internet, and I only found one page that talks about it: it's a professor from Cornell calling it "the second most important theorem" in statistics. He's right... it really is amazing, and useful, that it all works out.
In the three dice case, the Pythagorean relationship meant that each die reduced the variance by the same amount, 2.92 out of 8.75 total. That allows statisticians to say, "The blue die explains one-third of the variance. The red die explains one-third of the variance. And the green die explains one-third of the variance. Therefore, together, the three dice explain 100% of the total variance."
Because it works out so neatly, it means statisticians are going to like to talk in variances, in squares of errors instead of just errors. That's because they can just add them up, which they couldn't do if they didn't square them first.
And that's what r-squared is all about.
Let's suppose you actually ran an experiment. You got someone to run 1,000 rolls of three dice each, and report to you (a) the total of the three dice, and (b) the number on the blue die. He reports back to you with 1,000 lines like this:
Total was 13; blue die was 4
Total was 11; blue die was 6
Total was 08; blue die was 1
Total was 17; blue die was 6
With those 1,000 lines, you run a univariate regression, to try to predict the total from just the blue die. The regression equation might wind up looking like this (which I made up):
Predicted total = 6.97 + (1.012 * blue die)
(The coefficients should "really" be 7 and 1.000, but they won't be exact because of random variation in the rolls of the green and red dice.)
And the regression software will spit out that the r-squared is approximately 0.33 -- meaning, the mean square error was reduced by approximately 1/3, when you change your guess from the average (around 10.5), to "6.97 + (1.012* blue die)".
That is: "the blue die explains 33% of the variance."
This makes perfect sense. But, as I argued in my 2006 post -- and others -- the figure 33 percent is limited in its practical application. Because, in real life, you're normally not concerned about squared errors -- you're concerned about actual errors.
Suppose you can't perfectly estimate how many customers your restaurant will have. Sometimes, you order too many lobsters, and you have to throw out the extras, at a cost of $10 each. Sometimes, you order too few, and you have to turn away customers, which again costs you $10 each. Suppose the SD of the discrepancy is 10 lobsters a day.
If a statistician comes along and says he can reduce your error by 50% of the variance, what does that really mean to you? Well, your squared error was 100 square lobsters. The statistician can reduce it to 50 square lobsters. The square root of that is about 7 lobsters. So, even though the statistician is claiming to reduce your error by half... in practical terms, he's only reducing it from 10 lobsters to 7. That's an improvement of 30 percent, not 50 percent, since your monetary loss is proportional to the number of lobsters, not the number of square lobsters.
The r-squared of 50% is something that's meaningful to statisticians in some ways, but not always that meaningful to people in real life.
Statements like "the model explains 50% of the variance" are useful in certain specific ways, that I'll talk about in a future post... but it usually makes more sense, in my opinion, to think about things in lobsters, rather than in square lobsters.
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Listnr: Start a podcast without recording anything
Easiest way to start a podcast
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Key Takeaways
 - Listnr is a podcasting solution that lowers the barrier to entry in podcasting by allowing you to create a podcast without having to record anything.
 - You can use Listnr to convert your blog posts into audio and embed them on your website or share them across different social platforms. Additionally, you can also use it to transform your ebooks into audiobooks.
 - When you create a podcast with Listnr, it takes care of everything from creating a podcast to customizing its elements and publishing it across different podcasting platforms.
Audio consumption, when compared to other media verticals like text, images, and videos, has been steadily growing over the past few years. So much so that Google is building an audio search engine. One that will solely focus on curating content in the audio vertical and making podcasts and audience discovery faster.
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The sudden rise in audio consumption over the past few years can be attributed widely to the increase in audio creation and consumption platforms and tools that are empowering creators to churn out audio versions of their content to cater to a larger audience. Listnr happens to be one such tool that we are discussing today. It is an all-new podcasting solution that helps you convert blog posts into audio (speech) content, which you can distribute or embed across various online platforms. Listnr drastically brings down the barriers involved in Podcast production.
Let's check out Listnr in detail and see how you can take use it to increase your content's reach on the internet.
What is Listnr, and how does it work?
Listnr is a podcasting solution that helps you convert text into audio. You can use it to convert your blog posts or any other written content into speech and distribute it across different audio platforms. Founded by Anan Batra, Listnr offers support for over 100 voices, in 20+ languages including English (US, UK, Indian), German, and Spanish in both male and female versions, which you can use to diversify your content. Listnr is using the APIs from some of the best in the business – Google, Amazon and IBM.
Listnr podcasting solution
One of the best things about Listnr is that you can either use its speech synthesis engine to transform your text into audio or upload your own audio.
In general, when you plan to start a podcast, you need two things: content and distribution platform. For the former, you can either record the entire episode talking yourself or convert a written piece of content into audio using a text-to-audio program like Listnr.
However, when it comes to distributing your podcast, there are numerous factors that you need to consider. Of these, one of the most crucial ones is ensuring your podcast gets a good reach. Although distribution platforms have a significant part to play in this, the vital constituent in the mix is how you present and optimize your podcast for these platforms.
This is where Listnr comes into the picture — to help you create episodes and customize them to your preference.
What can you do with Listnr?
By now, it's well established that Listnr is a text-to-audio conversion tool of sorts that simplifies the podcast production process for you. But the question that still remains is, what all can you do with it?
Well, to put it simply, you can put Listnr to use to transform all your written content, be it blog posts, essays, etc., into audio — kind of like voice-over — and embed it in your blog/website or broadcast it on some other distribution platform. Likewise, you also get the ability to add voice-overs for your YouTube videos in a range of different languages on the platform to reach a diverse audience.
Listnr usage
Besides, Listnr can even help you convert your e-books into their audiobook equivalent, which you can then distribute in an audio form over the internet.
Listnr Features
Now that you know what Listnr is and what you can use it for, here's a quick rundown of its features that you can employ in producing, editing, and hosting your podcast.
Listnr features
1. Support for over 100 natural (human-sounding) voices in more than 22 different languages and more than 4 dialects.
2. Automatic RSS feed updates to update the RSS feed across all podcast platforms as soon as you upload new content.
3. Email subscribers feature to give your audience the ability to subscribe to your podcast right from the audio player using email capture.
4. Freedom to publish your podcast on popular hosting platforms like Spotify, Google Podcasts, Transistor, and more.
5. Social sharing to let you share your podcast on various social media handles such as Twitter, Facebook, etc.
How to use Listnr to create a podcast?
Creating a podcast is as simple as following a few steps. Here's how.
Step 1. Go to Listnr and log in to your account. If you don't have an account, create one.
Step 2. Click on the hamburger-like menu button on the top-left to expand the sidebar and choose Dashboard.
Step 3. On the Dashboard window, click on the Start a Podcast button.
Creating a podcast with Listnr
Step 4. You will now be redirected to the Podcast Gallery. Here, click on the Create New Show button, and in the show form, fill in the details about your show. And hit Create a Show.
Creating a podcast with Listnr
Step 5. Now, you have two options: you can either start your own show by using Listnr's speech synthesis engine or upload your own audio and use Listnr's hosting.
Step 6. With either option selected, add your episode script into the Show Editor window and customize its elements to your preference. Listnr allows you to change settings for speech emphasis, volume, rate, and pitch.
Creating a podcast with Listnr
Listnr Pricing
Listnr is available as both a free (trial) and a paid service. With the free plan, you get a limited balance of 500 credits that you can use to convert 500 words per month. Since that won't be sufficient for most users, Listnr also has three paid plans: Solo, Startup, and Agency.
Listnr pricing
The Solo plan costs $90 per year and allows 30,000-word conversions per month with free podcast hosting and 3 podcast shows. On the other hand, the Startup and the Agency plan come in at $200 and $500 per year, respectively, and they allow 5 podcast shows and access to some more functionalities.
It's not like Listnr has no competition. There has been a surge in companies working on speech synthesis and deep learning algorithms to reproduce human-sounding voices. But Listnr is one of the few which provides the scale required to achieve greatness without breaking the bank. Take Play.ht for example. They charge $90 per year for a total of 120,000 words (translates to 10,000 words a month) and go up to $640 per year for 1,200,000 words. Listnr is roughly one-third cheaper.
As per its roadmap, Listnr is soon coming out with a Google Chrome extension that can convert any article into a podcast with just a click (like Podcastle.ai) and Podcast templates with intro/outro music like BuildBubbles. There's also a mobile app in the works alongside a standalone podcast hosting platform. The best of the lot is the ability to Podcast in your own voice by uploading a 90-second voice clip and letting Listnr synthesize the podcast in your own voice.
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Creating podcasts with Listnr
With a pretty straightforward process to transform blog posts and turn them into episodes and all the essential podcasting features, Listnr lowers the barrier to entry in the podcasting space, and in the process, makes it easier for anyone to create a podcast, modify it, and distribute it on any platform on the internet.
The ability to convert written content into audio, in particular, is one of the interesting functionalities of Listnr since you can use it to create audio versions of your blog posts and embed them on your websites to cater to those who prefer audio over text. And in turn, grow your audience.
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Seasonal Toxins-Fatal Fertilizers in Frederick, MD
The spring weather is upon us and the gardeners of Frederick, MD have begun planning and preparing flower beds and gardens for the season. Fertilizer is a common purchase during the season that can be potentially toxic to dogs and cats. Included in the list of dangerous fertilizers and mulch are blood meal, bone meal, cocoa bean mulch and fertilizers that contain iron.
Blood Meal: made of dried, ground and flash-frozen blood. It contains 12% nitrogen, which is desirable for gardening, but not for your pet. Some are also fortified with iron, which can result in iron toxicity. Blood meal has a generally mild to moderate level of toxicity. Signs of ingestion include vomiting, diarrhea and severe pancreatitis. It can also cause nausea, drooling, bloody vomit, lethargy, abdominal pain and bloat.
Bone Meal: made of defatted, dried and flash-frozen animal bones that are ground to a powder. Gardeners use bone meal to dust spring bulbs to prevent squirrels from ingesting the bulbs. It is a great organic fertilizer, but when your pet consumes this fertilizer in large amounts, a large cement-like bowling ball foreign body can form in the stomach causing an obstruction. This fertilizer generally has a mild to moderate level of toxicity. Symptoms can include drooling, nausea, vomiting (acute or delayed onset), diarrhea, abnormal posture due to abdominal pain, difficulty breathing and "muddy" colored gums.
Cocoa Bean Mulch: made of discarded hulls or shells of the cocoa bean, which are by-products of chocolate production. The processed hulls can contain theobromine and caffeine which can be dangerous to pets. The "chocolate like" smell is very enticing to dogs and cats. Cocoa bean mulch varieties with higher toxin concentrations can cause vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, abnormal heart rhythm, muscle tremors and seizures. In extreme cases, death can occur.
Fertilizers containing iron: most fertilizers contain varying amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They may also contain iron, copper, zinc, cobalt, boron, manganese and molybdenum which may be toxic in large concentrations. Small ingestions may result in mild stomach upset. Large ingestions may result in severe poisoning. Iron toxicity can cause bloody vomiting and diarrhea from gastrointestinal hemorrhage, lethargy, abdominal pain, shock, elevated heart rate, panting, tremors and can effect organ systems.
Below are steps you can take if you suspect your pet has been poisoned:
1. Immediately remove your pet from the area and make sure no other pets are exposed to the area.
2. Check to make sure your pet is breathing normally and acting normally.
3. Collect a sample of the material and save the packaging, vial or container. This information is necessary when speaking with a Kingsbrook Animal Hospital team member or to a Pet Poison Helpline expert.
4. Do NOT give your dog any home remedies or induce vomiting without speaking with a Kingsbrook Animal Hospital team member or a Pet Poison Helpline expert. It actually may be detrimental or contraindicated to induce vomiting or giving home remedies.
5. Get help! Below are phone numbers that we recommend programming into your cell phone for immediate access to help.
6. Report the toxicity immediately. The prognosis is always better when a suspected toxicity is reported immediately. Please don't wait to see if your pet becomes ill before contacting us for help. The sooner, the better!
Kingsbrook Animal Hospital: _PHONE_
CARE (Crossroads Animal Referral and Emergency): _PHONE_
Pet Poison Helpline: _PHONE_ or _URL_
Mon – Fri: 7:45am – 6:00pm
Sat: 7:45am – 1:00pm


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Ontologies and automated reasoning are the building blocks of the Semantic Web initiative. Derivation rules can be included in an ontology to define derived concepts, based on base concepts. For example, rules allow to define the extension of a class or property, based on a complex relation between the extensions of the same or other classes and properties. On the other hand, the inclusion of negative information both in the form of negation-as-failure and explicit negative information is also needed to enable various forms of reasoning. In this paper, we extend RDF graphs with weak and strong negation, as well as derivation rules. The ERDF stable model semantics of the extended framework (Extended RDF) is defined, extending RDF(S) semantics. A distinctive feature of our theory, which is based on Partial Logic, is that both truth and falsity extensions of properties and classes are considered, allowing for truth value gaps. Our framework supports both closed-world and open-world reasoning through the explicit representation of the particular closed-world assumptions and the ERDF ontological categories of total properties and total classes.


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Source Newsroom: Johns Hopkins
MEDIA ADVISORY: Hurricane Sandy – 8 to 10 million cumulative power outages predicted
An engineer at The Johns Hopkins University is predicting power outages for 8 to 10 million people in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Please note: A multicolored map of power outage predictions is available. Email _EMAIL_.
Newswise — Hurricane Sandy is weakening and moving faster than anticipated. Therefore a computer model developed by an engineer at The Johns Hopkins University is now predicting fewer power outages than initially expected. Seth Guikema is predicting that an overall cumulative total of 8 to 10 million people will lose power in the wake of the hurricane, based on the last storm track and intensity forecast at 2 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
It is important to note that the computer model predicts cumulative outages, not peak outages. Cumulative means the total count of anyone who has lost power, versus peak, which is the number of people without power at any one point in time. For instance, in Maryland, the local utility company reported approximately 290,000 cumulative power outages as of 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, but their peak was approximately 210,000 because they were actively restoring outages while new outages were occurring.
Guikema (pronounced Guy-keh-ma) has been tracking Hurricane Sandy since late last week using his computer model, which in the early days of the storm used outage data from 11 hurricanes to estimate the fraction of customers who will lose power, based on expected gust wind speed, expected duration of strong winds greater than 20 meters per second, and population density. As the storm progressed, the model incorporated the actual track of the storm as well as the forecast. The predicted number of outages fluctuated throughout the storm based on the available forecast data.
Guikema's model may help power companies allocate resources by predicting how many people will be without power and where the most outages will take place, and it provides information that emergency managers can use to better prepare for storms. Guikema, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, says the goal is to restore power faster and save customers money.
To speak to with Guikema contact Amy Lunday at _PHONE_ or _EMAIL_.
Johns Hopkins University news releases can be found on the World Wide Web at _URL_
Information on automatic E-mail delivery of science and medical news releases is available at the same address.


If the teacher is already registered, follow these steps:
 1. After signing into your admin account, click the "Teachers" button in your District Admin account. If you're a School Admin, click the "School Admin" link in the left sidebar to find this button.
 2. Click the gear icon next to the teacher's name,
 3. Check the box next to "Register as school admin."
 4. Click the "Save" button.
If the teacher has not been registered yet, follow the steps here first.


Can Traffic Cameras Be Used Against You? What You Need to Know
traffic camera in the urban
Running red lights is one of the top causes of accidents, accounting for thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries each year in the U.S. Because this is such a serious problem, cities across the country have started to add more and more traffic cameras to promote safety and reduce accidents at intersections.
If you've been involved in a collision at an intersection, you might be wondering whether traffic camera footage can be used against you in a personal injury case, or if this footage may be useful to your claim. While violators caught on camera will often receive a ticket for the infraction, it is possible that more severe consequences could come if you're involved in a crash.
What Is the Purpose of Traffic Cameras?
Red light cameras and speed cameras are intended to help law enforcement monitor traffic and deter violations by recording video footage of activity around red lights and speed-restricted areas, respectively.
Q: How do traffic cameras work?
A: Most of the time, red-light cameras are only triggered when violators run red lights at monitored intersections. Speed cameras are only activated when drivers cruise past them while exceeding the legal speed limit. However, mistakes sometimes happen.
Q: Are Traffic Cameras Legal?
A: Not everywhere in the United States, but law enforcement agencies are permitted to operate both speed cameras and red light cameras in most locations throughout Alabama.
How Are Traffic Cameras Used Against You?
If you've received a traffic camera violation ticket, you're probably expecting some kind of a fine, but how else could traffic cameras be used against you?
Q: Do you have to pay for traffic camera tickets?
A: Generally speaking, yes. Traffic camera tickets are enforceable throughout Alabama, so unless you win a successful challenge to your ticket, you will have to pay the given fee.
Q: How much could my ticket cost?
A: This depends on your particular jurisdiction and the nature of your violation, but could be as much as $110 after administrative fees.
Traffic Camera Video in a Car Crash Case
So, what happens if you're in an accident involving a traffic violation that was recorded by a red light camera or speed camera? Again, the answer depends on your jurisdiction and the specific types of traffic light cams they use.
Some cameras just capture still images of license plates or seconds-long video of the events surrounding a traffic violation. Others give law enforcement agencies access to 24/7 footage and recordings of all activity.
Both types of recordings could be useful in your car crash case but may be challenging to obtain. An experienced Montgomery auto accident lawyer can help.
Disputing a Traffic Camera Ticket
If you believe you have received a traffic camera ticket in error, you may feel unsure of what to do. It's common to feel pressured to pay your fine to avoid trouble, but you do have the option to dispute your ticket.
With the help of a dedicated attorney, you may be able to fight back by demonstrating that:
 - You were not driving the vehicle in question when the traffic violation occurred.
 - The flagged behavior was not a traffic violation, only mistakenly labeled as such by automated systems or human reviewers.
 - The traffic cameras were not adequately marked or otherwise used properly.
Contact a Car Accident Lawyer Today
If you were involved in an accident at an intersection that may have been recorded by a traffic camera, contact the Alabama car accident lawyers at Stokes Stemle, LLC today. We provide free consultations to discuss your accident, and we'll collect no fees unless we win compensation for you.
Call us now or contact us online to learn more.


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A mighty bow, made of black yew-wood, that was carried by the most famous archer in Tolkien's tales, Beleg Strongbow of Doriath (in fact his surname, 'Strongbow', is a reference to Belthronding). With it, he long defended the borders of King Thingol, and when he left Doriath in search of his friend Túrin, he took his famous bow with him. Beleg found Túrin dwelling in the halls of Mîm in Amon Rûdh, and together they founded the kingdom of Dor-Cúarthol - the Land of Bow and Helm - with the 'Bow' of that name being Belthronding.
Dor-Cúarthol was a short-lived realm: its leaders were betrayed to the Orcs, and Beleg was left for dead while Túrin was taken captive. Recovering, Beleg set out into the north to rescue his friend. He succeeded, but in a tragic turn of fate Túrin mistook him for a foe, and slew him. Overcome with grief, Túrin dug a grave for Beleg's body, and he buried Belthronding the famous bow beside its late master.


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Filtering the Full-Text Derivative File
Tutorial by Ian Milligan (Archives Unleashed Team)
We have some filtering tools already built into the Archives Unleashed Cloud -- for example, the "Text by Domain" button will give you a zip file of the text of the top ten domains within a web archive. Yet you may want to filter the derivative files further, so that they for example:
- Only contain websites from a certain date (i.e. all sites collected on July 16th, 2009)
- Only contain websites from a certain domain (i.e. the plain text of all "liberal.ca" websites), especially if they're not in the top ten domains but you know they are there.
- Only contain websites that have a certain keyword (i.e. every page that contains the word "elephant")
Fortunately, you can easily do this with some simple tools.
Grep is a Unix utility that stands for "globally search a regular expression and print." In short, it lets you take a text file and find lines that match criteria that you specify. Grep is especially useful for working with the files that the Cloud generates because each line in the full-text file corresponds to one website in the collection.
If you are on Linux or MacOS, you have Grep already installed. If you're on Windows, you will need to install a program called "Git Bash." You can install this via their "full installer" here. Follow these instructions to install.
One catch is that Grep only runs on the command line. The command line is powerful, but not always straightforward. Fortunately, there is a good walkthrough at the Programming Historian: Introduction to Bash. For the purposes of this tutorial, you will want to be able to "find" files in the command line.
A Command Line Example: Finding the Derivatives
In addition to the resources above, an example might give you a sense of how relatively straightforward it can be to locate files. Imagine that in the Cloud interface, you download the "full text" file. On MacOS, this defaults to your "downloads" directory.
To open the command line on MacOS, we go to our "Applications" folder, "Utilities," and then select "Terminal." You will see this window (your colours might be different):
By default, you start in your home user directory. You can now change the directory to downloads by typing:
If you type:
You will then see a long list of all of the files in this directory. Amongst them should be the file you downloaded from the Cloud! You could begin working on it here, or you could move it somewhere else on your file system. For more information on this, see the Bash tutorial above.
In the following example, I will use the files from the "Fort McMurray" collection. You can follow along with your own files, simply changing the collection number to your own (i.e. instead of 7368-fulltext.txt it might be 1234-fulltext.txt).
Let's imagine that we have a collection, but we just want part of it: in this case, the sites that match a certain date. This won't necessarily be the date that sites were created but will instead be the date that sites were crawled.
To do so, let's take a look at the basic structure of the full text file. We can do so by either opening up the file in a text editor, or in the command line, we can type a command that shows us the first x lines of a file.
In the directory where the file was downloaded (i.e. your "downloads" directory above or somewhere else), type the following command. It will just show the first two lines of a file, or in our case, the first two websites.
head -n 2 7368-fulltext.txt
Here we see the results:
The first two results aren't helpful to a researcher – the first document is a 301 error which was crawled but was redirecting browsers elsewhere, and the second is an error message from another 302. But what they do show is the basic structure of the file.
It is arranged like so:
So for date, if we wanted only sites that were crawled on 22 May 2016, we would need to convert them into a standardized format. In our case, dates are arranged like so YYYYMMDD, or Year-Month-Day. So 22 May 2016 is
To find these sites, let's construct a grep command. I will provide it below and then explain what it does.
grep '^(20160522' 7368-fulltext.txt > 20160522-text.txt
The basic structure of this command is:
grep PATTERN FILE-TO-ANALYZE > FILEOUTPUT.TXT
For the example pattern above, the quotation marks enclose the pattern we are looking for.
^ represents the "start of the line," and then since there is an opening parenthesis we look for that too. We then provide an output path for the results. In this case, there will now be a new file – 20160522-text.txt – that just contains the crawl text from 22 May 2016.
Finding Specific Domains
If the domain is in the top ten, you can use our handy "text by domain" derivative to work with it out of the box. If you want to find a different domain, however, you may have to do a bit of work yourself.
The logic is similar to finding specific domains. We'll also use grep. In the example above, we saw two different domains. Let's use "_URL_" as our example and get only websites from that domain.
We turn to grep again:
grep ',_URL_,' 7368-fulltext.txt > RMWB-text.txt
We now have a text file that just contains websites from the "_URL_" domain.
And of course, things are relatively similar with keywords. This can be the easiest one.
grep 'helicopter' 7368-fulltext.txt > helicopter-text.txt
We now just have the text of all websites that contain the word "helicopter."
These relatively straightforward commands need a bit of practice, but before you know it, you'll be filtering your web archive files like an expert. You can then move on to subsequent analysis steps, or if it's small enough, maybe even just start reading.


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Gregarines on a Diet: The Effects of Host Starvation on Gregarina confusa Janovy et al., 2007 (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida) in Tribolium destructor Uyttenboogaart, 1933 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Larvae
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This study was designed to explore the nutritional relationship between Gregarina confusa (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida) parasites and its coleopteran host, Tribolium destructor, by measuring the cytoplasmic density of gregarines in continuously fed larvae, starved larvae, and larvae refed after starvation. Cultures were maintained in a standard media (whole wheat flour:commercial wheat germ:yeast [30:10:1]). Larvae from control and experimental groups were dissected daily for three days then allowed to feed or starve for an additional three days. On day 6, the remaining experimental larvae were divided and placed into two groups; one group remained starved while larvae from the second group were fed a WheatiesR flake. Photographs were taken of the parasites daily and analyzed using ScionImage™. Gregarines from starved larvae were significantly longer and skinnier than those from fed controls, and there was also a significant difference between gregarine deutomerite cytoplasmic densities. Parasites from refed larvae regained cytoplasmic density within 24 hr and showed morphological similarities to those from fed larvae. This study shows that the Tribolium destructor–Gregarina confusa relationship can be manipulated easily through alterations of host diet and thus is an excellent model for use in the study of chemical relationships between parasites and their hosts.


Baroque, Loving It and Playing in Jakarta
By webadmin on 05:04 pm May 27, 2012
Category Archive
Katrin Figge
Never heard of Baroque music? Don't care much for classical music in general?
An upcoming performance by Le Poeme Harmonique, a chamber ensemble and orchestra formed in 1998, just might change your mind.
The ensemble was started by French lutist Vincent Dumestre, a musician who studied art history and classical guitar before turning his attention to the lute, Baroque guitar and theorbo, a plucked string instrument. After participating in concerts around the world, he decided to help revive early music by bringing together a group of talented musicians, and Le Poeme Harmonique was born.
For his efforts and hard work, Dumestre was named a "Young Talent of the Year" by acclaimed French music magazine Diaspon in 1999, one year after the ensemble was formed.
Le Poeme Harmonique uses rare instruments from past centuries and presents a vocal and instrumental repertoire of early music, with a special focus on the 17th and early 18th centuries. With musicians from different backgrounds and nationalities, the critically acclaimed ensemble has toured the world.
"This is total art, refined in the extreme, and wonderfully alive," French newspaper Le Monde once wrote of the group.
On Tuesday, Le Poeme Harmonique will take the stage in Indonesia for the first time. The ensemble will celebrate the Italian city of Venice, with music by Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Manelli, both active during Baroque's golden age.
Baroque music, which began in the early 17th century and dominated for more than 150 years, is associated with renowned composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Henry Purcell.
In Florence, a group of intellectuals known as the Florentine Camerata helped catalyze the movement when they came together during the late Renaissance and paved the way for new trends in music and drama, leading to the establishment of opera as a music genre.
Le Poeme Harmonique has dedicated itself to ensuring that Baroque music does not disappear, and perhaps finds its way to a broader audience.
Its Jakarta concert promises to be unique. The ensemble will perform on a stage bathed in candlelight, inviting audience members to take a stroll through Venetian castles and go on a gondola ride through the city's canals.
The concert is part of Le Printemps Francais (French Springtime), an annual festival organized by French cultural center Institut Francais d'Indonesie. The festival presents French art and cultural performances at different locations around the country and runs until July.


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Noun: bones bownz
 1. (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
 - castanets, clappers, finger cymbals
Noun: bone bown
 1. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
 - os[2]
 2. The porous calcified substance from which bones are made
 - osseous tissue
 3. A shade of white the colour of bleached bones
 - ivory, pearl, off-white
Verb: bone bown
 1. [informal] Study intensively, as before an exam
 "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam";
 - cram [informal], grind away, bone up [informal], swot [Brit, informal], get up [informal], mug up [Brit, informal], swot up [Brit, informal], revise [Brit]
 2. Remove the bones from
 "bone the turkey before roasting it";
 - debone
 3. [vulgar] (of a man) have sexual intercourse with
Type of: animal material, connective tissue, hit the books, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, remove, study, take, take away, white, whiteness, withdraw
Part of: endoskeleton, horn
Encyclopedia: Bones, Thomas
Bone, Richard


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1.1 The three major blood cells are red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
1.2 The three main areas of haematology are red blood cells, white blood cells, and haemostasis.
1.3 The major roles of the Biomedical Scientist in the haematology laboratory are analysis, data interpretation, quality, health and safety, and training.
1.4 4% of the annual healthcare budget is spent on pathology.
1.5 Blood transfusion.
1.6 The major roles of the professional body are setting standards of practice, accrediting degrees, providing professional qualifications, organizing a continuing professional development scheme, and assessing the competence of biomedical scientists.
1.7 Not all the information learnt during undergraduate studies will remain relevant during the course of a career, so healthcare professionals must undertake regular activities to update their knowledge and skills.


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Susan C. Hascall (Duquesne U. School of Law) has posted Restorative Justice in Islam: Should Qisas be Considered a Form of Restorative Justice? The abstract follows.
The restorative justice movement challenges conventional approaches to sentencing and punishment by involving the victim, community, and perpetrator in sentencing. The movement is characterized by an emphasis on the restoration of relationships, healing and rehabilitation. Like the restorative justice movement, Islamic law embraces a conception of justice that involves healing relationships. Shari'ah, the religious law of Islam, is based on Islamic teachings on justice and divine revelation. In classical Shari'ah jurisprudence, crimes are divided into several categories, which do not easily correspond to the categories defined in modern Western law. One of these categories, the crimes of qisas, is distinctive in that it gives the victim and his/her family final decision making power in punishment for physical wounding and murder. Although the victim(s) may choose retaliation in kind, payment, or forgiveness, emphasis is placed on the latter. This paper explores whether (1) qisas is a form of restorative justice (2) whether restorative justice adherents should examine the qisas processes for inspiration or methodology.
This paper begins by discussing the ideology behind the restorative justice movement and then proceeds to describe the classical Islamic law of qisas. Subsequently, examples of modern codes incorporating the law of qisas are provided. One of these exemplars highlighted within the text, particularly demonstrative of the abovementioned amalgamation, is northern Nigeria. The article concludes by emphasizing that, irrespective of the option for retaliation in kind, enough similarities and goals in the approaches of classical qisas jurisprudence, as exemplified in the modern codes of northern Nigeria, restorative justice scholars should examine qisas. There is also a calling for further field research on the processes of qisas in modern Shari'ah-based criminal jurisprudence.


Duplicate channels
You can copy a channel and use it in the current image or another image.
For example, you may want to use the Duplicate Channel feature to create a channel mask; or you may want to back up a copy of a channel before you edit it.
Duplicate a channel
If you are duplicating alpha channels between images, the channels must have identical pixel dimensions. You cannot duplicate a channel to a Bitmap‑mode image.
 1. In the Channels panel, select the channel to duplicate.
 2. Choose Duplicate Channel from the Channels panel menu.
 3. Type a name for the duplicate channel.
 4. For Document, do one of the following:
 - Choose a destination. Open images only with pixel dimensions identical to the current image are available. To duplicate the channel in the same file, select the channel's current file.
 - Choose New to copy the channel to a new image, creating a multichannel image containing a single channel. Type a name for the new image.
 5. To reverse the selected and masked areas in the duplicate channel, select Invert.
Duplicate a channel in an image
 1. In the Channels panel, select the channel you want to duplicate.
 2. Drag the channel onto the Create New Channel button at the bottom of the panel.
Duplicate a channel in another image
 2. Make sure that the destination image is open.
 The destination image does not have to have the same pixel dimensions as the duplicated channel.
 3. Do one of the following:
 - Drag the channel from the Channels panel into the destination image window. The duplicated channel appears at the bottom of the Channels panel.
 - Choose Select > All, and then choose Edit > Copy. Select the channel in the destination image and choose Edit > Paste. The pasted channel overwrites the existing channel.
Split channels into separate images
You can split channels of flattened images only. Splitting channels is useful when you want to retain individual channel information in a file format that doesn't preserve channels.
 1. To split channels into separate images, choose Split Channels from the Channels panel menu.
 The original file is closed, and the individual channels appear in separate grayscale image windows. The title bars in the new windows show the original filename plus the channel. You save and edit the new images separately.
Merge channels
Multiple grayscale images can be combined as the channels of a single image. The images you want to merge must be in grayscale mode, be flattened (have no layers), have the same pixel dimensions, and be open. The number of grayscale images you have open determines the color modes available when merging channels. For example, if you have three images open, you can merge them into an RGB image; if you have four images open, they can become a CMYK image.
If you are working with DCS files that have accidentally lost their links (and so cannot be opened, placed, or printed), open the channel files, and merge them into a CMYK image. Then re-save the file as a DCS EPS file.
 1. Open the grayscale images containing the channels you want to merge, and make one of the images active.
 You must have more than one image open for the Merge Channels option to be available.
 2. Choose Merge Channels from the Channels panel menu.
 3. For Mode, choose the color mode you want to create. The number of channels appropriate for the mode appears in the Channels text box.
 4. If necessary, enter a number in the Channels text box.
 If you enter a number that is incompatible with the selected mode, Multichannel mode is automatically selected. This creates a multichannel image with two or more channels.
 5. Click OK.
 6. For each channel, make sure the image you want is open. If you change your mind about the image type, click Mode to return to the Merge Channels dialog box.
 7. If you are merging channels into a multichannel image, click Next, and select the remaining channels.
 All channels of a multichannel image are alpha channels or spot channels.
 8. When you have finished selecting channels, click OK.
 The selected channels are merged into a new image of the specified type, and the original images are closed without any changes. The new image appears in an untitled window.
 You cannot split and recombine (merge) an image with spot color channels. The spot color channel will be added as an alpha channel.


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I have a table in Postgres with ~5million records. When I load the dataset using pandas to perform EDA, I run out of memory.
dataframe_chunk = pd.read_sql("SELECT * from table", con = credentials)
How do I load and store the table in a format such that I can run all pandas/numpy functions for data analysis? What is the general approach taken?


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To Our Users In Egypt. Etba3ly 3D found information online that will show you how to edit and repair an STL file with 7 free STL editors: FreeCAD, SketchUp blender, Meshmixer, Meshlab, 3D Slash, and SculptGL.
- On the one hand, there is CAD software (Computer Aided Design). It's tailored for construction, provides exact measurements and solid modeling. These tools were not made for 3D printing in the first place. In CAD software, circles, for example, are "real" circles; in 3D printing – and in STL files for 3D printing – circles are represented as polygons. So CAD tools cannot show their full strength when editing STL files. Nevertheless, they can be used for working with STL files. Three of the four tools we present in this article are true CAD tools: FreeCAD, SketchUp, and Blender.
- On the other hand, there are mesh editing tools such as MeshMixer and MeshLab. They are designed for modeling, animation, and objects represented by a 2D surface. That means: These objects have just a shell and no filling. This may cause paper-thin walls, which can't be 3D printed, if the object is not solidified (which, however, can easily be done in tools such as Meshmixer). In fact, mesh editors are excellent tools when it comes to editing STL files.


How Long Did Noah Live?
Was Noah's Ark ever found?
Despite many expeditions, no physical proof of Noah's Ark has been found.
Many of the supposed findings and methods are regarded as pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology by geologists and archaeologists..
How old is the oldest person in the Bible?
How old is Adam according to the Bible?
How was Adam and Eve created?
What did Adam and Eve speak?
Who never died in the Bible?
(Enoch and Elijah are said in scripture to have been taken into heaven while still being alive on Earth and not yet experiencing physical death.) On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, acting ex cathedra, issued Munificentissimus Deus, an authoritative statement of official dogma of Roman Catholicism.
How long did Noah live on the ark?
After 150 days, "God remembered Noah … and the waters subsided" until the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. On the 27th day of the second month of Noah's six hundred and first year the earth was dry.
How long did Adam and Eve live?
How long did humans live in biblical times?
Several parts of the Hebrew Bible, including the Torah, Joshua, Job, and 2 Chronicles, mention individuals with very long lifespans, up to the 969 years of Methuselah….Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)Biblical longevityAbraham175175Nahor148304Jacob147147Esau147?147?37 more rows
How many wives did Noah have?
When did humans live the longest?
The longest verified lifespan for any human is that of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who is claimed to have lived to age 122 years, 164 days, between 21 February 1875 and 4 August 1997, which however is disputed.
Has anyone lived past 120 years?


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A Karakara is an enemy from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. These one-eyed umbrellas are found near the start and the end of the second level in the Pumpkin Zone. They will unfold and launch into the air, then float downwards while moving back and forth. A Karakara can be defeated by a jump or a fireball. They are based on the Karakasa or Kasa-Obake, a yōkai spirit from Japanese mythology.[1]
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Language Name Meaning
Japanese カラカラ[citation needed]
Based on the name of Karakasa.
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Galileo Research Fact Sheet #96: Is muscle activity during Galileo Training related to different postures?
This study investigates the immediate effects of Galileo Training using different postures (hip tilted anterior/neutral/posterior) on the activation (EMG) of different muscle groups (from calf to neck).
The measurement was done by EMG signals where the frequency range of 50 to 300Hz was analyzed. The individuals stood in almost upright position with slightly flexed knees and EMG signals where recoded over a period of 10 seconds.
The results showed a significant increase of muscle activation at all postures. Nevertheless, the effects strongly depend on the used posture and frequency with increases of up to 2250% (a 100% value was defined as EMG activation at identical posture but without vibration).
This study proves what everyone can feel while on the Galileo when tilting the hip. However, it most probably even underestimates the increases due to Galileo Training since Ritzmann (_TAG_) showed that frequencies up to 30% and increasing amplitudes (pos. 3) can increase EMG even more. Furthermore Ritzmann also showed that the elimination of the training frequency (in this case 10 and 20Hz) is not advisable since every movement of the platform causes a stretch-reflex and therefore a significant signal component at the training frequency. Therefore, it can be expected that using higher frequencies, amplitudes and changing the posture even more to focus the Galileo effects on specific muscle groups as well as optimizing the analysis algorithms would most likely increase the measured muscle activation even more.
Common - Muscle Activation (EMG)
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General Science
 - adjective side by side and having the same distance between them at every point
 - noun a line representing a parallel on a map or chart
Cars & Driving
 - noun two or more electrical components each receiving the same voltage
 - adjective used to describe a computer system in which two or more processors operate simultaneously on one or more items of data
 - adjective used to describe two or more bits of a word transmitted over separate lines at the same time
 - The condition in which two lines or planes are an equal distance apart at all points.
 - Electric blasting caps arranged so that the firing current passes through all of them at the same time.
 - A state or condition in which there is an equal distance at all points. For example, two infinitely long straight lines which do not intersect, or two curves or surfaces which are equidistant from each other at all points. Also, pertaining to that maintains this relationship.
 - characteristic of, or pertaining to a parallel circuit or parallel connection.
 - Acted upon, performed, functioning, or occurring simultaneously. For instance, parallel processors working together.
 - The simultaneous processing, storing, transfer, transmission, reception, or the like, of multiple bits, characters, or data units. This contrasts with serial (3), where each is handled one after the other.
 - Any of the great lines which circle the earth, and which are parallel (1) to the plane of the equator.
 - noun a sign (||) used as a reference mark for footnotes
 - see rostrum.
 - noun an imaginary line running round the earth, linking points at an equal distance from the equator
Origin & History of "parallel"
Etymologically, parallel simply means 'beside each other'. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. this was a compound formed from pará 'beside' and allḗlōn 'each other', a derivative of állos 'other' (to which English else is distantly related).


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Int J Surg 2017 Dec 10;48:180-188. Epub 2017 Oct 10.
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Purpose: The increasing use of intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during thyroid surgery imposes an evaluation of cost-effectiveness.
Methods: The analysis estimated the cost versus utility of different alternatives that simulate nerve injury course and the consequences for the following cohorts of patients: (1) no RLN injury, or vocal fold palsy (VCP) recovery within 1 month (2), 2 months (3), 6 months (4), and after 12 months (5). In the model applied, the average simulated cohort consisted of a young female patient, 40 years old, employed, daily voice user, who underwent elective, conventional total thyroidectomy via cervical incision using a standardized intermittent IONM technique, for an operable benign, bilateral, diffuse, multinodular, non-toxic, non-retrosternal goiter. Read More


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PIRA Code(s): 3A10.20 Set up time:1 minute Operation: Move the weight along the hacksaw blade. Pull back on the blade and release. When the weight is at the top of the blade the frequency is smaller compared to when the weight is at the bottom. Physics and Science Concepts: Oscillations Safety: Edge of blade may be sharp.
PIRA Code(s): 3A10.40 Set up time:none Operation: Push the pendulum so that it swings back and forth at an angle of about 0 º. Then, slowly increase the angle, and watch the frequency decrease. For a more effective demonstration, start the pendulum at a relatively high angle, and then decrease the angle of the plane of oscillation so that the frequency of the pendulum will increase over time. Physics and Science Concepts: Oscillations Safety: None
PIRA Code(s): 3A20.80 Set up time:1 minute Operation: Shake the cup to send large waves down the spring and create sounds similar to whale songs or star trek laser blasts. Speak into the cup and the spring will create an echoing effect. Physics and Science Concepts: Oscillations and Waves Safety: Do not hyperextend slinky.
PIRA Code(s): 3B20.11 Set up time:2 minutes Operation: Lay the slinky down on the ground and push it back and forth lengthwise to make longitudinal waves. Physics and Science Concepts: Longitudinal Waves Safety: Ends of slinky may be sharp or may tangle.
PIRA Code(s): 3B30.30 Set up time:10 minutes (5 minutes to pump the bell jar) Operation: Plug in the pump and attach the clear tube of the pump to the valve. Turn the switch on the power supply to ascertain that the alarm is working properly. Then, pump out the air inside the bell jar. It will take about 5 minutes to obtain a low enough air pressure so that the alarm will not sound. Turn the alarm on and slowly open the valve, allowing the air pressure in the bell jar to increase. The sound of the alarm will also gradually increase. Physics and Science Concepts: Sound waves Safety: A glass jar containing a vacuum can be extremely hazardous if broken.
PIRA Code(s): 3D32.15 Set up time:No setup required. Operation: First, slide blow into the mouthpiece located at the top of the whistle. Next, move the piston to create different frequencies. If you have trouble moving the piston and blowing into the whistle simultaneously, have another person work the piston. Physics and Science Concepts: Waves, Oscillations, Frequency, Pitch Safety: Do not blow too hard or for extended periods of time as this may cause dizziness or headaches. Clean the mouthpiece in between use.
PIRA Code(s): 3D46.16 Set up time:no setup required Operation: Place the boxes with open cavities facing, one box length apart. Strike the first tuning fork with the striker. Stop the vibrations with your hand. Listen closely for the sound coming from the second fork. Physics and Science Concepts: Waves and Oscillations Safety: None


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10 Questions: Miriam Robbins Dexter on the Power of Female Display
Miriam Robbins Dexter, a lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies and expert on ancient heroines and goddesses, and a co-author have completed a cross-cultural study of stories and artifacts in which women lift their skirts and expose their genitals, a performance that drives away enemies and returns joy and fertility to the land.
Miriam Robbins Dexter, who earned both her BA and her PhD at UCLA, translates some 20 classical Indo-European and Near Eastern languages. With Victor Mair, professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the UCLA lecturer in Women's Studies has published a study of women in the ancient Near East, Asia and Europe — in stories, artifacts, and also real life — who expose their genitals to empowering effect (Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia, Cambria Press, 2010). Although the work may bump up against contemporary Western taboos about sex, the fact remains that history is replete with representations of the unfettered feminine able to ward off evil and bring joy and fertility.
Magical female genital display: Are you talking about history or, more specifically, the history of art?
This is history, not just the history of art. For the prehistoric age, we don't really know exactly what is and isn't history. That it's history is more recently shown in a 19th-century letter we found in the Irish Times. The letter's author was an older man who wrote that as a child he observed a woman who was being besieged by people with pitchforks — she lifted up her skirts and they ran away. There's also a 19th-century story about rows of older Chinese women frightening off invaders by standing on the city wall and exposing themselves.
Your material depicts not just genital display but also women dancing. How are the two related?
If you look at the Kiltinan Sheela who graces the cover of our book, she's doing both. We find magical dancing figures from the Upper Paleolithic era on. By the Neolithic era, we begin to see display figures sometimes dancing, sometimes crouching. I think it's an evolution.
What are the crouching position and genital display all about?
The earliest display is probably saying, "Look, out of here comes babies." To this was added magic. We don't know why. We can hypothesize that this was because, until very recently, childbirth was a dangerous act. Women died. Infants died. If you add a little magic to it, asking the deities for help, maybe it will be successful.
This display could turn back an army or bring on rain?
Yes, it's such a powerful position. There's genital display for repelling an enemy. If you look at the way [Irish] Sheela na gigs are placed on castle walls — sometimes on the keystone of the arch over the door — and on church walls, they're protecting the structure. Perhaps they're saying, "Okay, only those of you who have the right intent may enter."
There's also genital display for bringing joy and fertility back to the land — bringing the sun back, bringing the rain back — and this is quite cross-cultural. We're calling it "Eurasian," but I've found evidence all over the globe in myths and rituals.
How did these images find their way to so many different places?
We think that the concept was carried along the Silk Road. It's not simply that there are display figures in Europe and there are also display figures in Asia — these figures more closely echo one another. It's clear to us that it wasn't just an abstract concept, but concrete images that were finding their way from place to place.
The petroglyphs at Qutubi, in west China — huge petroglyphs with dancing male and female figures. The female figures have triangles for their upper and lower bodies. Just as we were beginning to do this work, I edited a paper by a Romanian archaeologist. She had images collected from her excavations in Eastern Europe, including dancing female figures with triangle bodies. Another example is the crouching female figure on a pot from Machang in western China. While there's been some discussion over whether the figure was female, male or hermaphroditic, it's so clear to both Victor and me that it is a female figure with little knobby breasts — just like the breasts on a crouching "fish" figure from the ancient site of Lepenski Vir in Eastern Europe.
How did these cross-cultural connections become lost to the extent that you and your co-author had to unearth them again?
I think that in some areas the subject becomes somewhat taboo, especially in the Western world. In India today, there doesn't seem to be embarrassment about these female images. The display of the vulva isn't sex. It's not that there isn't an erotic value to the female genitals, but that this display is never about a male and a female having sex. In fact, display figures in Indian temples will be right next to Mithuna figures — figures of men and women copulating. These figures clearly represent very different functions.
Do you find that these ideas about the power of the female body are alien to people you might speak with, and to your students?
Certainly in the United States it is uncommon to think in this way. Instead, we have a very odd puritan/pornographic take on the female body. We think that women should be covered and that women should be exposed — all at the same time.
Is that perspective hard for students and for you as a teacher to overcome?
Don't you think that depends on the person?
Fair enough. Why is it important for people today to know about "sacred display"?
Young women need to stop being ashamed of their genitals. This society tends to make women feel shy and ashamed. Obviously, I'm very interested in empowering women, and so for that reason I think these concepts are of contemporary value.


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Let $X$ and $Y$ be Banach spaces. The notion of the embedded spaces was introduced by D.S. Djordjevic. Say that $X$ embed in $Y$, and write $X \preceq Y$, if there exists a left invertible operator $J:X \rightarrow Y$. My question is the following；
If $X$ embed in $Y$, and $Y$ embed in $X$, then $X$ isomorphic onto $Y$？
PS: The answer is positive when $X$ and $Y$ are Hilbert spaces. But for general Banach space,I can not find a solution. Is there exists a couterexample?


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This project provides a multi-mission operations and planning software framework. Apogy uses Eclipse Modeling Framework models to define the systems being controlled, the environment in which these systems are operated, the operations being carried out and the corresponding data produced during operations.
Integrating a rover in Apogy is as simple as creating an EMF model that represent its interface and telemetry) and defined its topology (i.e. how the physical components are attached together and how the degrees-of-freedom are mapped to the telemetry). Once these two steps are completed, one can visualize the rover in 3D in its environment (showing cameras field of view in 3D, using the generic 3D tools to measure distance, record trajectory, measure sun angle, etc), create commands and display telemetry (camera views with overlays, filters and tools, recording and playback of data, etc) without having to write a single line of code! This means that the operator can already start configuring his/her control station, even if there is no real rover to command at that point. Implementing the necessary interface between the generated EMF classes and the hardware (which is usually straightforward) is all that remain to complete the integration and benefit from the many tools already available in Apogy


Last name origins & meanings:
 1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name from (Lower) Saxony, German (Nieder-)Sachsen in northern Germany. The region is called after the Germanic tribe which settled there in Roman times and was named from a Germanic word which is preserved in Old Saxon, Old High German sahs 'knife', 'sword'. (The area in central Germany named Sachsen was named after the line of princes who had the title to the northern territories in 1422.)
 2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): name adopted in memory of persecuted forebears, an acronym of the Hebrew phrase Zera Qodesh SHemo 'his name is of the seed of holiness'.
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Dutch Caribbean Whale Sanctuary this year
Before the end of 2012, the Netherlands will set up a marine mammal sanctuary for whales and dolphins in the Dutch Caribbean waters, recently announced the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. This is one of the outcomes of a meeting with the neighboring countries of the Dutch Islands in the Caribbean, the French Islands, the USA, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, about the cooperation between whale sanctuaries.
Whales like the humpback whale often migrate thousands of kilometers from cold northern waters in summer to the tropical Caribbean Sea in winter, so that cooperation is necessary for effective protection.
The participants also agreed to examine the possibilities of setting up a regional network of underwater microphones. This will help to map the sounds made by whales and dolphins, and can register noise from among others ships and speed boats. Noise pollution from ships and speed boats disturbs the possibilities for the whales to communicate with each other. The sound equipment makes it possible to responsibly make the whales visible to tourists.
The French 'Agoa' marine mammal sanctuary and the Dutch Caribbean Islands had already been doing research on the marine mammals around the French and Dutch Windward Islands. This collaboration will be continued. As such, joint surveys will be conducted in which a group of researchers will observe in a structured manner where cetaceans such as humpback whales, sperm whales and orcas, are exactly found and in what numbers. This will take place both around the Windward and Leeward Islands.
The meeting, organized by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, an IUCN State Member, took place on 4-5 June 2012 on the St. Maarten Island. The purpose of the meeting was the development of joint initiatives and programs for research and protection of whales and dolphins. The initiative builds on the marine mammal action plan of the regional Protocol for the protection of species and areas, the SPAW (Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife) Protocol.
For more information, please contact Paul C. Hoetjes, Policy Coordinator for Nature at the National Office for the Caribbean Netherlands, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture & Innovation.


Character Bio
Anthenia (Twin)
Anthenia is one of the twin daughters of Medusa. A good aligned sorceress, she chooses the path of the goddess Gaia (Gaea). Her gift to communicate to almost any animal is unrivaled. Anthenia has a unique ability do what has been labeled as multi spells or speed casting. Chaining spells by quickly speaking incantations or weaving symbols. Soft-spoken and kind-hearted, she is the mirror image of what her mother once was. Playing in the woods one day, they were approached by a kind and beautiful female stranger. The stranger showed the young girls how to fight and how to shoot a bow. She would visit them from time to time in the woods, in the same place every day. It was here where they would learn what it was like to be a young lady. Things Pel could not teach them. This stranger turned out to be Artemis, who know of the children and the plight that they and their mother had been bewitched. This guided hand helped both Race and Anthenia to choose their own paths. Race, the path of the warrior, and Anthenia, the sorceress of the wood. The two of them also have their mother's unique gift of turning those that look at them into stone. The two of them were curious and spirited. Pel, knowing that they would not be held back, instructed them to carve their own masks from the dark gray bark of the Dimble trees that line the forest. This way their true nature could remain hidden as they walked among the others.
Race: Humanoid
Class: Sorceress
Abilities: Arcana, Acrobatics, Nature
Physical Traits:
Height: 6′ 1″
Weight: 190 lbs.
Eye color: Hazel
Hair: Snakes (Purple and White)
Skin color and type: Fair
Weapons: Wood Staff
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qBank - transferable academic language (TAL)
IB English B: qBank - transferable academic language (TAL)
.The qBank is a software system which enables you, quickly and easily, to compose grammar exercises and drills, targeted on specific language elements..The exercises and drills can be made available to the students in either an online version or as a print-out. Each format has specific advantages :-Online : individual students can be given access to particular exercises, to do at the their own pace and in their own...


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Ripening field corn lost to wildlife was measured in fall 1993 in 10 midwestern states that have produced 83% of the field corn in the United States over the past 10 years. Sampling of damage was stratified by producer expectation of likely wildlife damage or unlikely wildlife damage. Damage was assessed immediately before harvest. Two plots that measured 4.5 m x 2 rows were assessed in each selected field. Of assessed fields, wildlife damage was present in 340 of 1,259 (27.0%) likely damaged fields and 108 of 1,243 (8.7%) unlikely damaged fields. As a percentage of harvested production, birds (Aves) damaged an average of 0.19% of field corn while deer (Odocoileus spp.) damaged an average of 0.23% of field corn. Unidentified wildlife caused the loss of an additional 0.27% of corn. The average yield loss was 1.73 + 0.17 bu/ha. Loss rates were greater where producers had expected damage (3.7 bu/ha) than where damage had not been anticipated (1.5 bu/ha). Among states, yield lost to all wildlife differed among 3 groups of states. Wisconsin and Missouri had the greatest wildlife-caused loss rates. Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio had intermediate loss rates. Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and South Dakota had lower loss rates. In total, an estimated 35 + 4 million bushels of corn were lost to wildlife in 1993 when harvested field corn production for the 10 selected states totaled 5.14 billion bushels. Total estimated value of field corn lost to wildlife was $92 + 9 million, when the harvested corn crop was valued at $13.3 billion in the 10 states.


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It's possible to type in the Tifinagh alphabet without installing any additional software. This alphabet is used for several languages, and the layout is the same for all of them.
This virtual keyboard layout emulates a layout developed by the Moroccan Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture (IRCAM, ⴰⵙⵉⵏⴰⴳ ⴰⴳⴻⵍⴷⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵓⵙⵙⵏⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ).
To make this layout work, follow these instructions:
- Click the search box at the top of the page.
- Click the little keyboard icon that appears near the search box.
- If the little keyboard icon doesn't appear, do the following: Click the gear icon near the "Languages" list in the sidebar, click "Input", click "Enable input tools", and click "Apply settings".
- If the name of your language appears at the top of the list, select "Tifinagh".
- If the name of your language doesn't appear at the top of the list, do the following:
- Click "..." at the bottom of the list. A panel will appear.
- Find your language in the panel and click it. The currently supported languages for this keyboard are (if you want to add a language, please contact the developers):
- Tamaziɣt / ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ (Central Atlas Tamazight, tzm)
- Taqbaylit / ⵜⴰⵇⴱⴰⵢⵍⵉⵜ (Kabyle, kab)
- Tarifit / ⵜⴰⵔⵉⴼⵉⵜ (Rifian, rif)
- Taclḥiyt / ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵢⵜ (Shilha, shi)
- Click the little keyboard icon again, and select "Tifinagh".
To disable this special keyboard and go back to type usually, click the little keyboard icon and then click "Use native keyboard", or press Ctrl-M. To re-enable the keyboard, press Ctrl-M, or repeat the steps above.
The full list of keys and characters:
|Latin letter||Tifinagh letter|


feet likely lent themselves to upright walking for extended distances, while their curved fingers probably made them good climbers. The trove of bones were all in one place because the H. naledi likely practiced ritualized treatment of their dead—in this case depositing bodies in the remote section of the cave. Up until now, scientists have believed that only modern humans engaged in such burial-type behavior.


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There are several issues here.
makeObj() isn't making a new object at all. It's just a function call and
this in that function call is likely referring to the
window object. You would have to use
makeObj() with the
Thirdly, just assigning a DOM object to another object's prototype does not make that other object suddenly become a DOM object. If you want a DOM object, you need to create a DOM object using something like
createElement() or one of the other documented ways of creating DOM objects.
If you can describe more about what you're really trying to accomplish, we could advise further.