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The first ancient theatre of Larissa
The first ancient theatre of Larissa
Seal of Larissa
Larissa is located in Greece
Country: Greece
Administrative region: Thessaly
Regional unit: Larissa
Districts: 4+1
Mayor: Konstantinos Tzanakoulis (ND)
(since: 1998)
Population statistics (as of 2011)[1]
 - Population: 162,591
 - Area: 335.1 km2 (129 sq mi)
 - Density: 485 /km2 (1,257 /sq mi)
Municipal unit
 - Population: 146,926
 - Area: 122.6 km2 (47 sq mi)
 - Density: 1,198 /km2 (3,104 /sq mi)
Elevation (center): 67 m (220 ft)
Postal code: 41x xx
Telephone: 241
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Larissa (Greek: Λάρισα, [ˈlarisa]) is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens. Larissa, within its municipality, has 162,591 inhabitants, while the regional unit of Larissa reached a population of 284,325 (in 2011).[1] The urban area of the city, although mostly contained within the Larissa municipality, also includes the communities of Giannouli, Platykampos, Nikaia, Terpsithea and several other suburban settlements, bringing the wider urban area population of the city to about 220,000 inhabitants. Today, Larissa is a major commercial and industrial centre in Greece. Legend has it that Achilles was born here, and that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, died here.
Mount Ossa viewed from Pineios river in Larissa.
The climate of Larissa is transitional. The winter is very cold and wet, and some snowstorms may occur. The summer is warm, and temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) may occur. Thunderstorms or heavy rain may cause agricultural damage. Larissa receives 450 mm (18 in) of rain per year.
Climate data for Larisa
Record high °C (°F) 21.8
Average high °C (°F) 9.6
Daily mean °C (°F) 5.1
Average low °C (°F) 0.5
Record low °C (°F) −21.6
Precipitation mm (inches) 29.7
Avg. precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.0 5.3 3.5 2.0 1.7 2.8 5.5 6.5 6.9 56.6
 % humidity 79.5 75.9 74.1 68.7 61.7 49.9 46.4 50.0 58.6 69.9 78.9 82.5 66.3
Mean monthly sunshine hours 104.7 117.8 157.5 213.8 266.3 307.2 337.1 320.1 247.6 171.8 126.0 101.0 2,470.9
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According to Greek mythology it is said that the city was founded by Acrisius, who was killed accidentally by his grandson, Perseus.[3] There lived Peleus, the hero beloved by the gods, and his son Achilles.
In this paragraph, Homer shows that the Pelasgians, Trojan allies, used to live in the city of Larissa. It is contradictory because Larissa was also the birthplace of Achilles, the sworn enemy of Trojans.
Didrachme of Thessalie.
Traces of Paleolithic human settlement have been recovered from the area, but it was peripheral to areas of advanced culture.[6] The area around Larissa was extremely fruitful; it was agriculturally important and in antiquity was known for its horses.
The name Larissa (Λάρισα Lárīsa) is in origin a Pelasgian (pre-Greek) word for "fortress". There were many ancient Greek cities with this name.[7] The name of Thessalian Larissa is first recorded in connection with the aristocratic Aleuadai family.[8]
The first ancient theatre of the city.
Middle Ages and Ottoman period[edit]
Gravure of Larissa c.1820
Inside the medieval fortres.
A street inside the fortress
In the 8th century, the city became the metropolis of the theme of Hellas.[10] The city was captured in 986 by Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria, who carried off the relics of its patron saint, Saint Achilleios, to Prespa.[10] It was again unsuccessfully besieged by the Normans under Bohemond I in 1082/3.[10]
After the Fourth Crusade, the King of Thessalonica, Boniface of Montferrat, gave the city to Lombard barons, but they launched a rebellion in 1209 that had to be subdued by the Latin Emperor Henry of Flanders himself.[10] The city was recovered by Epirus soon after.[10]
It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1386/87 and again in the 1390s, but only came under permanent Ottoman control in 1423, by Turahan Bey.[11] Under Ottoman rule, the city was known as Yeni-şehir i-Fenari, "new citadel". As the chief town and military base of Ottoman Thessaly, Larissa was a predominantly Muslim city.[11] The town was noted for its trade fair in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the seat of the pasha of Thessaly was also transferred there in 1770.[11] The city remained in Ottoman hands until Thessaly became part of the independent Greek kingdom in 1881, except for a period where Ottoman forces re-occupied it during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.[11]
Modern Greek era[edit]
The Thessalian theatre.
Alcazar park.
Ecclesiastical history[edit]
Christianity penetrated early to Larissa, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at the Council of Nicaea. St. Achillius of the 4th century, is celebrated for his miracles. Lequien[12] cites twenty-nine bishops from the fourth to the 18th centuries; the most famous is Jeremias II, who occupied the see until 733, when the Emperor Leo III the Isaurian transferred it from the jurisdiction of the Pope of Rome to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In the first years of the 10th century it had ten suffragan sees;[13] subsequently the number increased and about the year 1175 under the Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, it reached twenty-eight.[14] At the close of the 15th century, under the Turkish domination, there were only ten suffragan sees,[15] which gradually grew less and finally disappeared.
Larissa is an Orthodox Metropolis of the Church of Greece and remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pineios river with the church of St. Achillios, patron saint of the city, in the background.
Inside the Jewish synagogue of Larissa.
1st Mucicipal District (pop. 26,035)
 1. Papastàvrou
 2. Saint Athanàsios
 3. Alkazàr
 4. Hippocrates-Pèra
 5. Potamòpolis
 6. Philippòpolis
 7. Livadàki
 8. Saint Thomas
 9. Saint Paraskevi-Mezourlo
 10. Neàpolis
2nd Municipal District (pop. 41,816)
 1. Saint Achellios
 2. Saint Nikòlaos
 3. Ambelòkipoi
 4. Saints Sarànta
 5. Saint Konstantinos
 6. Stathmòs
3rd Municipal District (pop. 30,121)
 1. Lachanòkipoi
 2. Nèa Smyrne-Kamynia
 3. Kalyvia-Saint Marina
 4. Saint Geòrgios
 5. Anatoli
 6. Koulouri
 7. Amphithèa
4rh Municipal District (pop. 26,814)
 1. Charavgi-Toumba-OKE
 2. Pyrovolikà-Pharos
 3. Avèrof-Sèkfo
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The Wanted Design show in New York City saw a team of students from the School of Visual Arts expend their creativity by showing off a bunch of interventions which encouraged guests to interact with one another. So much for social media remaining in the digital realm – this is analogue social media that we are talking about, where it involves a bunch of communication platforms which the students carried around the show. Known as "MissionCtrl," students could be seen in white shirts and blue ties, not to mention carrying wooden objects as well.
For instance, there is the "portal," which happens to be some sort of introductory entryway to the project. Guests will be able to walk through this gateway in the same manner of it being symbolic as a login, while "press" happens to be a rolling stamp station where visitors are able to create messages of their own using large letter stamps, a smiley face or a thumbs-up. Stamping would obviously reduce the speed at which you communicate, where the user ends up working "with the whole body" as the stamps require some muscle.
Magnetic message boards, white boards and the stamped signs then pave the way for guests to "post." These messages are carried around the show's space using tall wooden signs, sharing what you have decided to "say" until someone else decides to "post."
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Contingency Fee Representation Lawyers In Elizabethtown Pennsylvania
Elizabethtown is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Harrisburg. Small factories existed at the turn of the century when the population in 1900 was 1,861. There was a slight increase in the next decade, with 1,970 people living in Elizabethtown in 1910. As of the 2000 census, the population of the borough is 11,887. Elizabethtown is commonly referred to in south-central Pennsylvania as "E-Town. " This nickname is also used for the local college and high school.
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The purpose of this post is to share and describe a Power BI-based solution for analyzing SQL Server Agent job history data. SQL Server Agent has been around for many years and though increasingly my projects involve other scheduling and orchestration tools like Azure Automation, SQL Agent remains relevant both for on-premises BI/DW processes and in Azure via SQL Managed Instance.
In fact, dependencies on SQL Agent for scheduled jobs is one of the main reasons SQL Managed Instance was created as this reduces the friction in migrating on-premises workloads to Azure.
You can download the Power BI template (.PBIT) described in this blog from GitHub:
I'd strongly recommend you read through this blog post to better understand the context and details of this solution before you attempt to execute the template. At a minimum, you should check that you have the SQL Agent service running, note the name of the server its running on (the one required parameter per the above image), and confirm that you can query the SQL Agent tables in the MSDB database such as dbo.sysjobs.
This template uses native T-SQL queries so in Power BI Desktop you might also disable the user approval requirements for new native queries prior to running the template:
SQL Server Agent Background
I assume many readers of this blog are familiar with SQL Agent and thus can skip ahead to later sections. For others, the SQL Agent service allows for the creation and scheduling of 'jobs' with each 'job' comprised of a sequence of one more 'steps'. For example, a job could first execute a T-SQL stored procedure, then run an SSIS package, and maybe finally process/refresh an SSAS database or execute a PowerShell script. SQL Agent logs the duration of each step, each instance/execution of the overall job, any retries attempted, error messages, and other useful information.
In a common use case, a BI and data warehouse team will link together multiple steps (or multiple jobs) to support a nightly data warehouse and data model update process. If the nightly SQL Agent job fails, the team/user closest to the technology involved in the given step will review the agent log and apply changes necessary to successfully complete the process from the point of failure and in future instances of the job.
The following image from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is from a four-step SQL Agent job scheduled to occur nightly:
In the above example, Power BI and Azure AD data is retrieved via PowerShell scripts in steps 1 and 2, then an SSIS package is used to load this data to a SQL Server database in step 3, and finally a Power BI dataset used for administering Power BI is triggered to refresh. This entire process executed in about 2.5 hours with the Azure AD data retrieval step requiring 1.5 hours itself.
As an aside, some of the PowerShell scripts I've featured in recent blog posts containing loops over Power BI app workspaces require time (e.g. 52 minutes per image) and of course loops are suboptimal from a performance standpoint. There's a recent blog post on avoiding workspace loops you may consider. However, if you filter down your workspaces to exclude personal/my workspaces prior to executing the loops, a nightly 50+ minute process such as this example for a large Power BI environment might be acceptable.
What problem are we solving?
When you're getting started with SQL Agent just viewing the job history and error log files via the graphical interfaces in SSMS might be sufficient. If you want to become more productive and proactive in your analysis, you'll look for a programmatic solution such as writing T-SQL queries against the SQL Agent tables in the MSDB system database including dbo.sysjobs, dbo.sysjobhistory, dbo.sysjobsteps, and others. Over the years several blog posts have been written containing T-SQL example approaches to querying this data and MS Docs itself provides an example T-SQL query for the job history table.
The Power BI-based solution starts with T-SQL queries but builds on top of this layer to leverage several of Power BI's rich and integrated features including Power Query functions, DAX expressions, reporting visualizations, and more. The core idea of this solution is to have a data model in place (a Power BI 'dataset'), including fact to dimension relationships and measures with built-in calculation logic to make it relatively easy to build SQL Agent reports and dashboards and to browse/analyze SQL agent history data.
Since the data model already includes the SQL Agent data stored in the MSDB database and can be refreshed on a schedule, users (typically DBAs and other IT admins) don't have to write new or modified SQL queries on an ad hoc basis to answer different questions. Within the PBIX file containing the data model itself or a separate file or tool connected to the published dataset users can drag-and-drop and filter to find what they need.
Its outside the scope of this blog post but you could leverage any number of tools to analyze the SQL Agent History Power BI dataset beyond Power BI itself. Given XMLA endpoint connectivity, you could use Excel, Paginated/SSRS reports, and other 3rd Party BI tools just like an Analysis Services database.
Report Pages (Visual Layer)
In describing any Power BI solution I'd prefer to start from the source systems and data and walk through the logic and components of the Power Query Editor and then the Modeling View before saying anything about any reports or dashboards. However, experience suggests that introducing the report/visual layer, at least a representative sample, further addresses the 'Why does this exist?' question and will help maintain attention to these two more fundamental layers.
With that being said, the following short slideshow displays the three report pages and highlights two tooltip pages included in this initial version of the template:
The two main report pages of the PBIX file that's generated from the template are the Job Level and Job Step Level pages. As mentioned earlier, SQL Agent is comprised of 'jobs' and 'jobs' contain one or many 'steps' which will execute on a schedule. Therefore, these two pages help address the most basic questions such as "Do I have any job failures?", "How long are my jobs taking to complete?", "Which steps within my jobs are taking the longest to complete or are failing?", etc.
There's a report-level filter (impacting all report pages) that's set for the trailing last 30 days and you can also use the Date slider at the top to modify the date range of the report based on the run date of the job. You can also use the slicer at the top right to filter for one or multiple 'jobs' of interest and the slicers are synchronized across the pages such that these selections will be carried over.
The tooltip pages are intended to provide additional context as you hover over a specific agent job or a specific agent job step. The bar charts on the Job Level and Job Step Level pages will render these tooltip pages to give additional details relevant to these specific items (or 'dimension members' if you prefer) including a line chart of the duration for the given job or step over time.
Many additional and more visually impressive and analytically powerful reports could be developed. Depending on the extent of SQL Agent usage these additional reports could make sense but for common use cases such as routine monitoring and troubleshooting these reports or slight variations might be sufficient and represent quite an improvement from ad hoc SQL queries).
The Data Model (Sematic Layer)
At the center of the solution are two star schema models – one for job history at the job level and one at the job step level. You might think of this as the header or order level of a sales or purchase order versus the line level of these transactions which includes the individual products.
The following two images from Modeling view expose the fact to dimension (many to one) relationships.
Both the SQL Agent Job Step History and the SQL Agent Job History fact tables have many-to-one relationships with the Date and the SQL Agent Jobs dimension tables. The SQL Agent Job Step History fact table also has an active many-to-one relationship to the SQL Agent Job Steps dimension table.
Each row of the SQL Agent Job History table reflects one instance of a job being executed from start to finish inclusive of all steps. Each row of the SQL Agent Job Step History table reflects the execution of one step of a job. The source table in the MSDB database for both the aggregate/job level fact table and the step-level fact table is dbo.sysjobhistory. Every row of a fact table should have the same meaning and therefore there's filtering logic in the solution to separate the rows representing the overall job from those representing an individual step of a job.
In addition to the relationships, there are display folders of basic DAX measures in each fact table per the following image:
As their names indicate, these measures either count the number of jobs or steps that succeeded or failed or apply an aggregation to a duration fact column (in minutes). The presence of the DAX measures and the relationships makes development of the report pages relatively straight forward.
Power Query (M) Data (ETL Layer)
The fact and dimension tables of the data model are the product of a data transformation process executed via T-SQL statements against the Agent tables in the MSDB system database and Power Query (M) expressions. The T-SQL statements contain logic to prep and stage the Agent tables in MSDB such as adjusting date and time columns into data types and structures more suitable for reporting. The results of these SQL queries are further enhanced and modified with Power Query (M) expressions.
Here's a look at the Power Query Editor:
Like normal, I like to use query groups to isolate queries into those that are being loaded to the data model (dimension and fact tables) from those that are not but are required for staging/prepping processes.
One item you might find a bit novel or interesting in this design is that I


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- (Greek mythology) Greek god of war; son of Zeus and Hera; identified with Roman Mars


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text: The ballast layer is intended to provide a free draining base and sufficient bearing capacity to maintain a proper track alignment. Due to the growth in commuter and industrial traffic, the railway industry needs to fulfil the demands for faster, heavier, and longer trains. However, these high traffic loads often result in a large plastic deformations and degradation of ballast, which in turn, leads to a significant loss of track stability and high maintenance costs. The deformation and degradation of ballast are influenced by factors such as the amplitude and frequency of loading, the number of load cycles, track confining pressure, gradation of aggregates, and the angularity and fracture strength of individual particles. The use of geocomposite (biaxial geogrid-nonwoven geotextile) for enhancing the performance of rail tracks was described, with the aim of reducing track settlement, increasing track resiliency, and decreasing ballast degradation. The effects of impact loads on ballast degradation and its mitigation due to the installation of resilient mats (shock mats) beneath rail tracks were studied using large-scale drop hammer equipment. It has been shown that for tracks built on soft formations, prefabricated vertical drains significantly decrease the build-up of excess pore-water pressure during cyclic loading. A preliminary finite element analysis was used to examine the performance of vertical drains, and a Class A prediction was obtained in terms of settlements, excess pore pressures, and lateral displacements under rail tracks.


Newly Created Helium Compound Could Completely Change Chemistry
Noble Gases
Noble gases—helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon—have long been believed to be the least reactive elements on the periodic table. Helium's composition in particular, with its full outer electron shell, makes it theoretically unable to interact with other atoms to form a stable compound. So while other noble gases like xenon, krypton, and radon have successfully reacted to create compounds under extreme pressure, helium has thus far been incapable.
However, despite the assumed impossibility, a team of international scientists has recently created a stable helium-sodium compound.
"Chemistry changes when you apply high pressure, and this can be achieved inside our Earth and on different planets like Saturn," said Ivan Popov from Utah State University in an interview with Gizmodo. "But this is a book changer."
In previous attempts of pairing helium with other elements, results have always been fleeting. Helium's closed shell configuration makes it difficult, if not downright impossible, for the element bond with other atoms. But this restriction is tied to the assumption that conditions are the same or similar to those on Earth's surface. In outer space, it's very possible that helium's ability to react is very different given the change in environment.
"[E]xtremely high pressure, like that found at Earth's core or giant neighbours, completely alters helium's chemistry," adds Utah State researcher, Alex Boldyrev told
To test this theory, the team used a 'crystal structure predicting' computer model in which they could observe how helium would react under extreme pressure. By exposing helium and sodium to atmospheric pressure 1.1 million times more than Earth's, they were able to create the compound Na2He.
Na2He. Image Credit: Artem R. Oganov / Eurekalert
This compound, along with breaking the rules of Helium's reactivity, it also didn't bond in a typical way. The cubic arrangement of alternating sodium and helium atoms isn't held together by chemical bonds. According to Boldyrev, "…when we performed analysis of these structures, we found each 'empty' cube actually contained an eight-center, two-electron bond… This bond is what's responsible for the stability of this enchanting compound." Helium changes the interaction between sodium atoms so much that if it is removed, the entire structure becomes unstable.
Because it challenges long-standing assumptions about modern chemistry, experts are quick to note that this study has yet to be supported by or replicated in independent experiments that deliver the same, or similar, results. This means that more studies will have to be conducted to fully understand and validate the breakthrough this particular team has uncovered.
This curious discovery implies that there might not be a lot of applications on Earth. Essentially, the results were derived from following altered scientific rules and very extreme conditions, which we wouldn't naturally find on this planet. But environments similar to what was created in this experiment, like the center of gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn where helium abounds, provide a context for these reactions that offer insight into how chemistry works on other planets.
It also raises a lot of questions about our understanding of chemistry. Our benchmark for chemical reactions is derived from our knowledge of this world. With the impending possibility of long-term space travel on the horizon, we have to be open to the fact that chemistry as we know it is not always the way that we know it.
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Over an eight year period four beaches on San Salvador Island, Bahamas have been monitored with respect to their dynamic erosion and depositional processes. Beach profiles were made and evidence of two major hurricane events can be seen over the monitoring period. The prevailing easterly trade winds play a major role in the beach dynamics of San Salvador. East Beach and French Bay are located on the windward side of the island; however extensive barrier reefs may be mitigating the wave energy produced from the trade winds. Sandy Point and Rocky Point are located on the leeward sides of the island and are thus subjected to less stress from the trade winds. However, during the winter months, cold fronts from the northwest become the major contributors to the sediment dynamics of these two beaches.
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Applications > Battery Assembly Inspection
Battery Assembly Inspection
Battery Assembly Inspection with Acuros® CQD® SWIR Cameras
Lithium-ion battery technology plays a central role in the race toward mobile electrification. Improved inspection capabilities are needed to help drive down cost, increase energy densities, and improve overall safety and reliability. Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) imaging offers new capabilities for lithium-ion battery inspection.
Lithium-Ion battery cells come in many shapes and sizes. At their core they consist of anode, cathode, and polymer separator layers that are either rolled or stacked into cells before being filled with an electrolyte solution and encapsulated. During the assembly process, machine vision systems are used to measure and inspect various aspects of the assembly process.
Imaging through the Li:Ion separator with SWIR wavelengths
One interesting feature of the polymer separator layers common to most lithium-ion batteries is that their optical transparency increases at higher wavelengths; becoming quite transmissive beyond the visible spectrum where SWIR Vision System's Acuros SWIR and Acuros eSWIR cameras operate.
Our Acuros® CQD® SWIR and eSWIR high resolution cameras deliver full HD imaging capabilities, enabling lithium-ion battery manufacturers to maximize optical ROI while maintaining excellent spatial resolution.
Inspection system configurations
In Figure 2, a SWIR camera integrated into a front-side illuminated battery inspection system captures SWIR photons reflected off the sample and provides an enhanced level of subsurface detail. The flexibility of this inspection setup, using Acuros® CQD® high resolution SWIR cameras, frees tool designers to offer a solution with the following properties:
- Detection Performance: improved visibility through separator material layers
- Thermal Management: no need to contend with sample heating/cooling impacts on the measurement
- Inspection Throughput: acquisition speeds dictated by industry standard GigE acquisition standards
- Total System Cost: Full-HD 1920 x 1080 CQD SWIR cameras enable fewer cameras to be deployed per system
Battery inspection applications examples
Edge Detection: One area where SWIR battery inspection promises to improve upon legacy solutions, is battery capacity. Battery capacity is proportional to the amount of overlapping electrode area achieved during assembly. Since visible imaging solutions are limited in their ability to see through the separator layer materials, underlying edges of electrodes can be obscured thus preventing accurate edge identification and alignment. Even small alignment errors (on the order of 100 um or less) can have a meaningful impact.
The enhanced contrast and superior FOV of SWIR Vision's Acuros CQD SWIR cameras provide the necessary alignment accuracy of inter-layer electrodes leading directly to more available energy storage capacity and longer battery lifetimes.
Figure 3 shows a comparison of visible and SWIR images, demonstrating the enhanced contrast achieved using Acuros CQD SWIR cameras. In practice, alignment of electrode layers depends on accurate detection of the previously positioned electrode layers which are hidden beneath the polymer separator once it is laid down. Increasing the contrast of this underlying edge transition enables edge detection algorithms to function with precision.
Particle contamination is another challenge facing lithium ion battery manufacturers. Several high profile incidents of battery fires and explosions have been triggered by minute particles which managed to become lodged between the electrode-separator interfaces. One of the primary sources of particle contamination is the electrode cutting step where the anode and cathode electrode layers must be cut to size before subsequent rolling or stacking processes. During this cutting process, lithium, carbon, and other electrode coating material fragments have a tendency to delaminate from the edge. Metal shavings and other airborne particles can also pose a risk to cell reliability.
Figure 4 provides a comparison between visible and eSWIR images acquired with and without an overlaying polymer separator. In the visible image (top), there are no particles detected as the separator is virtually opaque to the spectral response of the camera. In the eSWIR image, longer wavelength photons are able to penetrate the separator layer and provide details of the sublayer contamination. The particle sizes in this demonstration were on the order of 50-100um. One of the key benefits of SWIR Vision's 1920×1080 focal plane array technology is that smaller particle sizes can still be detected while still maintaining large imaging FOVs.


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Couple points of clarity:
Are you wanting to collect just the INFER and the SEARCH BACK verse references, or the text from each?
Are you wanting to run the SEARCH BACK on the verse reference or on the MARKED HIT PHRASE from each verse?
As James hints at, one thing you could do is reduce the steps in your macro, by getting the verse list from your INFER command, and using that list to then do the iterations. That is for doing a verse Search Back (I think of it as a reverse INFER), using verses, but not the Marked words.
However, actually copying from Accordance's original INFER tab (tab #2) and pasting in a word processor, and copy and pasting from the Search Back tab (tab #4), you have the benefit of keeping the formatting with the marked words. This is more cumbersome to accomplish. The main problem is "selecting a result/marked words" the INFER tab (tab #2) and running the search back from it. The problem is that Accordance keyboard navigation is pretty limited in the text pane. There's a draw bug with the insertion point, and there's not a programmatic way to select marked words. So, out of the gate, you're stuck doing the Search Back command on the verse reference. Even still, there's no reliable way to programmatically set the insertion point in front of a verse, then in front of the next verse, etc. All the move up down one verse/marked verse simply scroll the window but do NOT change the insertion point position. In ancient days, there was a key combo that moved the insertion point to position 0 in the view, but it was lost.
Still, something like this is doable. I can think of a way to get data that only needs to be cleaned up a little.
I'll post something later.


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Evergreen New Student Survey
The Evergreen New Student Survey is used to:
Study students' future goals after college and their level of confidence in their ability to succeed at Evergreen and obtain the education that they want;
Study student perceptions of their own skills and knowledge, which provide a baseline for measuring learning progress later in their Evergreen experience;
Study reasons students chose to attend Evergreen in order to understand the match between Evergreen's academic offerings and services and the students who attend.
Gather demographic information that is not available through other means, such as college records. This information is useful for understanding students' backgrounds and responding to student needs and changing demographics.
The survey is integrated with the Evergreen Student Experience Survey and alumni surveys to provide for longitudinal research exploring student retention, student connection to the Evergreen learning community, and learning progress.


What Is A Bank Levy And How Do I Fix It?
At some point in your life, you might be slapped with a bank levy. Before you panic, keep in mind that this is a fixable issue with the right tax attorneys and lawyers. If you're stressed out over a bank levy, here's everything you need to know.
What is a bank levy?
One of the first questions you might find yourself asking is "what is a bank levy?" This type of levy is a court-sanctioned legal action that enables creditors to take money from your bank account if you have a debt.
The creditor will receive a court order against you in order to pay off a debt. As such your bank account is frozen and you won't be able to touch the funds in your accounts until the debt is paid off. All new money going into your account will go directly to the creditor who has ordered the levy. Keep in mind that the IRS can also order a bank levy. The IRS makes regular audits and can audit a business within three years of the filing date. In fact, the IRS can move to collect back taxes owed up to 10 years ago.
Can I stop it?
It can be difficult to stop a bank levy because the creditor has won a case against you. They have the legal right to freeze your account. However, there is a time before money is removed from your account where the creditor or the bank will inform you that a levy is employed. This is when you'll want to talk to tax attorneys about how to stop a levy on your bank account.
Here are some of the primary ways you and your tax lawyer can stop a levy:
 - Create a payment arrangement with the creditor in question. Once you have made arrangements to repay your debts, the creditor may remove the levy on your account.
 - You were unaware of the court lawsuit. In the event the lawsuit was made against you without notifying you, your tax attorneys can work to have the court judgment null and void.
 - You were a victim of identity theft. If you are unaware you owe funds because you were a victim of identity theft, you and your tax attorneys will need to prove you didn't receive the money from the creditors.
 - Bankruptcy. Filing for bankruptcy can halt the process for a period of time.
 - It's an old debt. If you can prove the statute of limitations has passed on a debt, you can have the levy removed.
If you're struggling with a bank levy on your account, contact the best tax attorneys and tax lien lawyers with Whelan Tax. Get the representation you deserve.


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- Wine bottle corks
- Liquid tempera paint in a shallow pan
- Grasp the cork at one end and hold it upright.
- Press the cork into the paint then onto a piece of paper or newsprint.
- If you like, use tempera paint in several different colors.
More on: Activities for Toddlers
Copyright © 1999 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Toddler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.
To order this book visit Meadowbrook Press.


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Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2010
We present a short overview of the influence of inter-particle interactions on the properties of magnetic nanoparticles. Strong magnetic dipole interactions between ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic particles, that would be superparamagnetic if isolated, can result in a collective state of nanoparticles. This collective state has many similarities to spin-glasses. In samples of aggregated magnetic nanoparticles, exchange interactions are often important and this can also lead to a strong suppression of superparamagnetic relaxation. The temperature dependence of the order parameter in samples of strongly interacting hematite nanoparticles or goethite grains is well described by a simple mean field model. Exchange interactions between nanoparticles with different orientations of the easy axes can also result in a rotation of the sub-lattice magnetization directions.
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Cameras in many mobile devices can capture images of high enough quality such that it is possible to use them to digitize whole printed document pages and to automatically transcribe their content. In fact, commercial applications providing exactly such functionality already exist111e.g. ABBYY FineScanner, and can in some use-cases replace desktop scanners. However, the OCR quality is often low due to poor illumination conditions, small print in large documents, or simply due to low quality of cameras in lower-end devices. Although printed text recognition methods which can handle significant image degradation such as low resolution, blur, noise, and non-uniform illumination, are studied in some application domains (e.g. car license plate recognition ), such methods are not studied in the context of document digitization partially due to the fact that no suitable datasets to develop and test the methods exist.
We introduce the Brno Mobile OCR Dataset (B-MOD) which is specifically designed for the development and testing of document Optical Character Recognition methods from low-quality images that are often captured by handheld mobile devices. The dataset is unique due to the overall number of photographs, number of devices used, the amount of source documents used, and due to the fact that the photos were captured in unconstrained conditions by a large number of people. We believe that the dataset will enable future development and evaluation of document analysis methods for low-quality images.
The following text reviews relevant document datasets and describes how the B-MOD dataset was created and its contents. The paper further introduces text recognition baselines and their results on the dataset, and finally conclusions are presented.
Ii Existing datasets
Large number of datasets for document analysis and text recognition are already available. The datasets that are most closely related to B-MOD are SmartDoc, SmartDoc-QA and SmartATID which are intended for text recognition and printed document analysis captured by mobile devices. However, these datasets are relatively small, uniform and they lack line-level annotations.
SmartDoc is a dataset for English printed text recognition published in the Smartphone Document Capture and OCR Competition at ICDAR 2015. This dataset contains 12 100 photographs of 50 single column documents captured by two smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S4 and Nokia Lumia 920) in three different levels of illumination and forty predefined viewing positions. The smartphones were precisely positioned using a robotic arm and camera flash was not used. Some of the photos taken by Nokia Lumia 920 are slightly out of focus, otherwise the photographs are of high quality.
The main disadvantages of this dataset are that it consists of small number of source documents and that it does not contain text line positions and corresponding line transcriptions, only page transcription is provided. Another limitation of the dataset is low variability of the lighting conditions and generally high quality of the photographs which make the dataset relatively simple for contemporary methods.
SmartDoc-QA is similar to SmartDoc, but it is primarily intended for Quality Assessment. This dataset contains 4260 photographs of 30 document pages, which are generally of lower quality compared to SmartDoc, including significant motion blur, out of focus blur, and non-uniform lighting. During acquisition, 5 different illumination conditions, 2 types of motion blur and 5 positions of smartphone with respect to the document were used. Similar to SmartDoc, SmartDoc-QA is not suitable for training and evaluation of OCR systems due to the low number of source document pages and limited ground truth information.
SmartATID (Arabic Text Image Dataset) contains photographs of printed and handwritten Arabic documents captured using two smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and iPhone 6S Plus) which were attached to a tripod during acquisition. Illumination conditions and image degradations are similar as those in the SmartDoc-QA dataset. The dataset contains 25 560 images of 180 documents (116 printed and 64 handwritten documents). The dataset contains ground truth transcriptions of entire pages without any line information.
Many existing datasets focus on documents which are digitized using professional devices and workflow. In such cases the challenge comes from variability, complexity, and ambiguity of the content. Most research and datasets focus on handwritten text documents. The IAM Handwriting Database contains images of hand-transcribed English texts, the RIMES database contains filled forms and French letters, and The READ Dataset contains historic letters. The most challenging datasets for printed text focus on historic documents, e.g. the IMPACT dataset, the REID2017 dataset of Indian books, and The ENP Image and Ground Truth Dataset of Historical Newspapers.
Iii B-MOD Dataset
An overview of the process used to create the dataset is shown in Figure 1. We photographed a large number of scientific article pages and precisely localized them using AR markers. The aligned photographs were supplemented by line-level ground truth from the source pages, the line position were refined, and the whole datasets was finally checked for any inconsistencies between the text ground truth and text line images.
Iii-a Data acquisition
We collected 2113 pages templates from random scientific articles downloaded from online preprint archives on various topics (information technology, medicine, chemistry, etc.). All of the collected pages are in English.
From the collected templates, we obtained 19 725 photographs under unconstrained conditions. About half of the photographs capture templates printed on A4 paper and half capture templates displayed on a 24 inch computer screen. Photographs of the templates were captured by multiple people instructed to use natural but challenging viewing conditions and to capture the pages preferably fast without much care for viewing angle and camera stability. This process resulted in a large variation in viewing angles and distances, and in diverse lighting including shadows and non-uniform illumination. Many photographs also contain significant out of focus and motion blur. Representative examples of photographs are shown in Figure 3.
Iii-B Page localization and alignment
To localize the pages in photographs and to align them to the templates, we decided to add AR markers to the page edges as shown in Figure 3. As the combination of these markers is unique for each template and redundant, it robustly identifies it, thereby completely removing the need to separately track the photographed template identities. We localized the markers using the ARToolKit library222https://github.com/artoolkit which is able to detect the markers even in strongly blurred images. In fact, the template identification failed only on images of such a poor quality that their analysis would be pointless anyway.
Position of a template in a photo was estimated using RANSAC algorithm with homography transformation from all corner points of detected markers. A homography captures projective transformation of a planar object caused by a perspective camera and it is able to explain large part of the observed geometric transformations; however, it is not perfect due to the uneven surface of the photographed pages and due to small geometric imperfections of the used cameras. We tried to remove these residual imperfections in alignment using non-rigid registration with only limited success as it often fails on strongly blurred images. At the end, we used only the estimated homography which is precise enough to roughly align text lines in almost all cases.
Iii-C Line level ground truth
In theory, it is possible to extract text information directly from PDF files. However, such approach often fails, especially when some parts of the document are typeset as images or the document was created by scanning a physical document. For that reason, we decided to extract text information from rendered template pages by processing them with two standard OCR products (ABBYY FineReader and Tesseract). We aligned both line transcriptions and we removed any lines where the two transcriptions differed. This process produced 64 221 unique text lines which represent 42 % of all lines detected. Line positions and heights were obtained solely using Tesseract and further refined.
We manually checked the correctness of the ground truth transcriptions on 300 randomly selected text lines containing 16 000 characters. From this sample, we estimated using bagging the maximum character error rate in the ground truth transcriptions to be at most 0.1 % with 95 % confidence.
Iii-D Text line position refinement
Positions of the text lines mapped from the templates to the photographs using the estimated homography are sometimes not precise enough. To correct these small miss-alignments, we opted to detect text baselines in homography-rectified photographs and to adjust the text line positions using these baselines. We trained a baseline detection neural network on 25 manually annotated rectified photographs.
We decided to approach the baseline detection problem as a segmentation task aiming to identify pixels belonging to a baseline. We used the U-net architecture which has been previously shown to perform well in baseline detection. We used a series of three stacked U-net modules with independent weights as shown in Figure 5
. Each of the modules produces pixel-wise baseline probability map. The three modules process the input image with progressively increasing resolution, each output beingupsampled and concatenated to the input of the following U-net module. The whole network was trained with a Dice loss end-to-end with the input images being down-scaled by factors of 16, 8 and 4 for the first, second and third U-net module, respectively. As the network produces slightly blurry probability maps, we apply vertical non-maxima suppression and subsequent thresholding to obtain binary baselines with single pixel thickness.
We refine position of each text line by fitting a line using the RANSAC algorithm to the detected baseline points. This estimation uses baseline points contained in an initial axis-aligned rectangle of the text line moved downwards by one third of its height. This approach handles well cases when the baseline is only partially detected and it minimizes chance that the text line would be fitted to a neighboring baseline. The text line bounding box is rotated and vertically translated to the position of the estimated baseline while restricting the maximum rotation angle.
Iii-E Ground truth verification
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III. MECHANISMS FOR INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS INTO SECTOR POLICIES AND FOR MONITORING 20
F. Strengths and weaknesses and advantages and disadvantages of monitoring mechanisms
In the case of EIAs in general (including the tea sector) an inherent strength in the monitoring mechanism is the necessity for PAA to forward the plan to monitor implementation to CEA within 30 days of project approval. However, the weaknesses appear to be centred in the capacity of PAAs to regularly undertake field-level monitoring of the approved projects. That constraint is evident within the Ministry of Plantation Industries as it does not have the staff resources nor apparently a clear understanding of the monitoring role it is expected to play.
Another complication that may arise in the tea sector lies in producing a meaningful assessment of the effectiveness of any mitigatory measures, as a result of the difficulties faced in measuring major environmental impacts such as soil erosion and soil degradation, as well as their downstream external impacts. On the other hand, an inherent advantage for the sector is the ease with which monitoring can be undertaken of compliance with project implementation conditions laid down in the EIA to minimize soil erosion and soil degradation. As experience is gained from the implementation of EIAs for the tea sector, solutions to the constraints indicated above are expected to emerge.
An inherent strength of the processing activities related to the tea sector is that they are listed as low-polluting activities. Instances related to the discharge of toxic effluents and their adverse impacts on natural resources (water bodies) have been rare so far in he tea sector. In fact, only one instance, which concerned a relatively complex processing activity in the sector, has necessitated any action by CEA.
The tasks of issuing of EPLs and subsequent monitoring for normal processing activities in the tea sector have been delegated to the local authorities by CEA. For that purpose, CEA has laid down effluent disposal standards (maximum permitted levels of certain chemicals etc.) and the effluent treatment methodology that should be followed in order to mitigate any impact on natural resources. That is an important step because, in Sri Lanka, effluents are often discharged into water bodies and sometimes on arable land areas, thus posing a potential health hazard.
CEA has adequate laboratory facilities (with the exception of emission monitoring equipment) for testing effluents related to processing activities. Such services are also provided by other State and private sector agencies on a commercial basis. However, CEA lacks the staff resources needed for undertaking field-level monitoring over large areas. A strength in the monitoring mechanism at the field level is the requirement for the local authorities to send monthly progress reports to CEA concerning EPLs issued by them for processing activities. However, according to CEA, a disadvantage at the local authority level is the turnover that often occurs in monitoring staff, which results in inadequate awareness of the enforcement standards as well as the monitoring procedures.
Another weakness in the system is the ideological conflicts that sometimes occur between the local authorities and Provincial Councils, which adversely affects monitoring. Those differences may also be related to the more stringent standards enforced by some Provincial Councils under the provincial regulations and laws enacted by them.


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From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
Damage modification is a system of multipliers used to change the damage dealt in a battle. These modifiers affect how the damage is calculated by multiplying the move's base power in various ways. These modifiers range from doubling to halving and even negating the damage done.
Since each move has an elemental type, its effectiveness is largely determined by the targeted Pokémon's type. Moves can have regular effectiveness or be super effective, not very effective, or not effective at all. The effectiveness of types against one another has varied among generations, see this page for its Generation I iteration and this page for the current model.
- "Super effective" redirects here. For the webcomic, see Super Effective (webcomic).
When a move is super effective, it inflicts double the damage it would normally do. For example, a move like Megahorn used against a Template:Type2 Pokémon will be super effective because Template:Type2 moves are super effective against Psychic-types. This effect can stack up; for example, a Pokémon that is Rock/Ground and is hit by a Template:Type2 move like Surf will be damaged four times as much by the move as a Template:Type2 Pokémon would be, because both Rock and Ground Pokémon are weak to Water moves.
Not very effective
When a move is not very effective, it deals half of the damage it would normally do. This works exactly like super effective moves, and can stack up. For example, a Steel/Rock Pokémon will be damaged by a quarter of the amount by a Template:Type2 move. Likewise, a Normal/Flying Pokémon hit by a Template:Type2 move will be damaged normally, as the super-effectiveness of Fighting against Normal is canceled out by the not-very-effectiveness of Fighting against Flying.
When a move is not effective, it does not damage the Pokémon at all and that Pokémon is "immune" to that type. This immunity includes status moves of that type. For example, the Template:Type2 move Thunderbolt will have no affect on a Template:Type2 Pokémon such as Dugtrio. Likewise, using the move Thunder Wave will prove useless and yields a "It does not affect Dugtrio" (whereas a Confuse Ray that simply missed yields "It did not affect Dugtrio"). Certain types are immune to specific moves, such as Template:Type2 Pokémon being immune to Leech Seed.
A move will sometimes inflict a critical hit against another Pokémon. This will double the damage done after type effectiveness calculations occur, leading to the possibility of a doubly-super effective move that gets a critical hit to do eight times as much damage as normal. Pokémon with the Sniper ability will triple the damage done during a critical hit rather than double it. Regular moves have a 6.25% chance of scoring a critical hit, but some moves have increased critical hit rates.
The chance of causing a critical hit can be modified by using moves or items that increase the critical hit level.
Scope Lens, Razor Claw, and Super Luck add 1 level each, the Stick adds 2 levels (for Farfetch'd only), the Lucky Punch adds 2 levels (for Chansey only), and Focus Energy adds 2 levels to any Pokémon. 50% is the maximum critical hit ratio, since no situation exceeds it.
When a move scores a critical hit, damage is calculated based on either the modified or unmodified attack and defense stats, whichever is more advantageous to the attacker. For example, an attacker who has used Swords Dance and then makes a critical hit will get the benefit of the increased Attack, while one affected by Charm will use its normal Attack score. Another example would be if a team had Light Screen or Reflect on it and the attacker scored a critical on the team with the certain wall; the defense added by the wall would then be ignored, and the attacker would do double damage. In Generation I, critical hits always ignore stat modifiers, even if this is disadvantageous to the attacker.
Same-type attack bonus
- Main article: Same-type attack bonus
A move used by a Pokémon that is of the same type as the move itself will do 150% of its normal damage, such as a Template:Type2 move used by a Fire-type Pokémon. Dual-typed Pokémon will receive this bonus for both of their types, and a Pokémon whose type can change in-battle will receive the bonus for whatever type they are when they make the move.
- Main article: Weather conditions
Template:Type2 and Template:Type2 moves' damage will be modified by rain and sunshine. If Rain Dance causes a downpour, Water-type moves will do 50% more damage and Fire-type moves will do 50% less damage. If Sunny Day causes harsh sunlight, Fire-type moves will do 50% more damage and Water-type moves will do 50% less damage.
- Main article: Ability
Abilities come in a wide variety, and have various effects on damage modification. These affects range from increasing and decreasing the power of moves of a specific type, granting immunities, and even changing the power of moves affected by other damage modifiers. These abilities include:
- Blaze, Overgrow, Torrent and Swarm increase the power of Template:Type2, Template:Type2, Template:Type2 and Template:Type2 moves by 50% when the user's HP falls below 33%, respectively.
- Thick Fat decreases the damage dealt to the user by opponents' Fire-type and Ice-type moves by 50%. Heatproof decreases the damage dealt to the user by opponents' Fire-type moves by 50%.
- Levitate provides immunity to Template:Type2 moves, and Soundproof provides immunity to sound-based moves.
- Volt Absorb and Water Absorb grant immunity to Template:Type2 and Template:Type2 moves respectively, healing the user's HP by 25% instead.
- Dry Skin works in part like Water Absorb, healing the user when hit with a Template:Type2 move, but it also heals the user by 6.25% each turn during rain. However, it also causes the Pokémon to receive additional damage from Template:Type2 attacks and receive 6.25% (of its HP stat) damage during sunshine.
- Flash Fire negates the effect of opponents' Fire-type moves and instead increases the power of the ability's user's own Fire-type attacks. Similarly, Motor Drive negates the effect of opponents' Electric-type moves and instead causes the ability's user's Speed to increase. These abilities include status moves like Will-O-Wisp and Thunder Wave.
- Mold Breaker removes all ability-based immunities to the user's moves.
- Scrappy removes Template:Type2 Pokémon's immunity to the Template:Type2 and Template:Type2 moves of the user.
- Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream and Snow Warning cause permanent rain, sunshine, sandstorm, and hail respectively.
- Adaptability increases the STAB multiplier for moves of the same type as the user from 1.5x to 2x.
- Hustle boosts the Atk stat of the user by 50%.
- Pure Power and Huge Power both double the user's Atk stat.
- Technician increases the power of the user's moves with base power 60 or less by 50%.
- Super Luck increases the user's critical hit ratio.
- Battle Armor and Shell Armor prevent critical hits being dealt to the user.
- Sniper increases the critical hit damage multiplier from 2x to 3x.
- Tinted Lens doubles the power of the user's moves that are not very effective.
- Solid Rock and Filter each reduce the power of super effective moves on the ability's user by one third.
- Wonder Guard reduces the power of the opponent's damaging attacks that are not super effective to zero.
- See also: Type-enhancing item
Some held items increase the power of an attack by a small percentage. Most of these items boost attacks only of a certain type by 20%. Some items can also modify damage by boosting the attacker's offensive stats or the victim's defensive stats. Some berries also weaken an opponent's super effective move.
Other held items that modify damage include:
A number of other variables can affect the amount of damage caused by an attack.
- If the attacker is burned and their ability is not Guts, their physical damage will be decreased by half.
- In a double battle, moves that hit multiple targets do 75% of the damage they do in one-on-one battles.
- Reflect and Light Screen decrease opponents' physical and special attacks, respectively, by 50% in a one-on-one battle and 33% in a double battle.
Every time a regular attack is executed, the actual damage caused is adjusted by a random multiplier between 0.85× and 1.00×. The probability of each percentage is nonuniform due to integer division rounding, causing an approximately 6% chance for each point between 0.85 and 0.99, but only a 2.5% chance for the full damage.


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Analysis of ethnoveterinary treatments for cattle (Bos indicus) diseases referred in Sanrimgyeongje including twelve volumes of literature from the 7th to the 18th century.
ABSTRACT This study aims at a comprehensive analysis of ethnoveterinary treatment in the cattle-raising section of Sanrimgyeongje which covers 12 different volumes of literature including 4 Korean and 8 Chinese literatures from the 7th to the 18th century, with a special attention to the treatments for cattle diseases.
The above mentioned literature was analyzed through several steps: translation of the Chinese text into Korean, identification of diseases, verification of medicinal materials and confirmation of scientific names.
As recorded in the thirteen references, this study shows that there are 143 medicinal materials which have been used as therapies for cattle diseases. Of these, 55 plant species belonging to 52 genera in 29 families had 100 modes of usages, while one species of fungus was used in one way. Likewise, 11 species of animals belonging to 11 genera in 10 families were utilized in 18 different methods. Lastly, 9 kinds of inorganic matters were used in 11 ways with another 4 kinds being useful in 14 different ways. Consequently, each of rinderpests, murrains, and hooves has been treated, respectively with 14, 10 and 3 types of medicinal decoctions made from 35, 18 and 15 kinds of medicinal materials.
This diversified usage of various medicinal materials is incomparable to the modern ethnoveterinary investigation which tends to focus strictly in plants. If additional studies were to be conducted on these treatments and all the medicinal materials used within them, various new treatments and medicines can be developed to supplement the pharmacopoeia of contemporary veterinary medicine.


Question: How Do You Prove Residency In Ohio?
What counts as proof of residency Ohio?
You know typically things like utility bills, a bank statement, insurance policy statement.
If your current Ohio driver's license has your current residence address, that can be used as one proof of address." If you need help confirming if the documents you have will work, you can visit
What is accepted as proof of address?
Recent bank or credit union statement. Up-to-date credit card statement. Household utility bill (electricity, gas, water, landline, etc.)
How do you establish residency in Ohio?
You are considered an Ohio resident once you: take a job, sign a lease, buy a home or enroll children in school. Within 30 days of establishing residency, you will need an Ohio driver license for yourself, and an Ohio title and license plates for your vehicle.
How can I get proof of residency easily?
A piece of official mail addressed to you is one of the easiest ways to prove your address….Review the list of acceptable documents.A lease or mortgage statement.A bank or credit card statement.A utility bill.A government benefits statement.A pre-printed paystub or tax form.An insurance policy or premium bill.
What qualifies as proof of residency in Virginia?
Proving Your Virginia Residency You must visit a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) customer service center and present documentation to prove your Virginia residency such as a utility bill, lease agreement, payroll check stub or original bank statement.
What is proof of presence?
Lawful presence means that a person is legally living in the United States according to federal immigration laws. US Citizens. Unexpired US Passport or Passport Card. US Birth Certificate or Birth Certification Card filed with a state office of vital statistics.
What are 3 documents that the DMV will accept as proof of residency?
Rental/lease agreement with signatures of the owner/landlord and the tenant/resident. Deed/title to residential real property. Mortgage bill. Home utility bill (including cellular phones).
What does DMV accept as proof of residency?
These "proofs of residency" usually come in the form of other government ID (showing an address), utility bill, lease agreement, or any valid document showing an address with the resident's name.
Is a pay stub proof of residency?
What can I use if I don't have a utility bill?
Can I print a bank statement as proof of address?
Depending on the company you need it for, you might be able to use your Online Statement as proof of address. However, if the company won't accept a printed Online Statement, you can request a paper statement that will be sent to your home address. If you're registered for Telephone Banking, call 0345 _PHONE_*.
Does a phone bill count as a utility bill?
There are a few different utilities that constitute as a utility bill these are, electricity, gas, water, home phone, mobile phone and broadband. All these services are classed as utility bills as they are products that make up the running of your household.


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September 1, 2012
Filed under UK
Tags: brrr, climate, climate change, cold, cold 2012, cold record, coldest August, coldest Summer, freeze, freezing, frost, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, record cold, temperature, temperatures, UK, unusual cold, unusually cold, weather
31 Aug 2012
Some of us just had our coldest August night on record. Temperatures fell into single figures for most of the UK – low enough for a touch of ground frost in rural spots this morning.
March 14, 2012
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Tags: australia, brrr, climate, climate change, cold, cold 2012, cold record, cold summer, cold weather, coldest Summer, freeze, freezing, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, record cold, record cold summer, summer, temperature, temperatures, unusual cold, unusually cold, weather
February 17, 2012
Filed under australia, Sydney
Tags: australia, climate, climate change, cold, cold record, coldest Summer, coldest Summer 2012, coldest summer on record, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, La Nina, record cold, record cold summer, Southern Hemisphere, summer, Sydney, temperature, temperatures, weather
February 15, 2012
WESTERN Sydney is experiencing its coldest summer on record thanks to cloud and rain associated with the La Nina weather cycle.
Tom Saunders, senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel, said Penrith had experienced average maximum temperatures of 26.2C, while Parramatta recorded an average of 24.6C.
Blacktown hit an average 25C.
Meanwhile, Sydney was only able to record an average 24.6C, putting it on track for the coldest summer since 1953.
January 31, 2012
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Tags: australia, climate, climate change, cold record, cold spell, cold summer, cold Summer 2012, coldest Summer, coolest start to summer, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, La Nina, record cold, record cold summer, record cold weather, summer, Sydney, temperature, temperatures, unusual cold, unusually cold, weather
January 30, 2012
Sydney has just ended its longest summer spell below 30 degrees in 15 years, weatherzone.com.au reports.
After a 60-day break, Sydney has finally reached 30 degrees, ending the longest summer run below 30 since 1996/97. In that summer there were 61 consecutive days below 30 degrees.
The record number of consecutive summer days below 30 degrees is 90, set in 1952/53. During that summer, not one day reached 30 degrees.
December 18, 2011
RETAILERS preparing for the last-minute Christmas rush are expecting stronger sales than last year but recent chilly weather could see clothing stores miss out on the spree.
The unusually cold start to summer across the country, including Sydney's coldest start to the season in half a century, is hurting clothing and shoe sales, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said.
December 4, 2011
Thunderstorms are helping Sydney achieve its coolest start to summer in 51 years, according to weatherzone.com.au.
December 02, 2011
MOTHER Nature missed her cue as Melbourne yesterday shivered through its coldest start to summer in 15 years.
01 September 2011
Much of Britain suffered the coldest summer for almost two decades, Met Office statistics show.
As Britons return to work today after a soggy Bank Holiday weekend, official weather data reveals that average temperatures were significantly down on recent years.
The UK's average temperature from June 1 to August 15 was only 57F (13.9C) – the lowest for 13 years.


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Abstract by Nancy Fulda
EVE: Emotive Adversarial Ensembles for Mixed Initiative Dialog
Machine learning researchers often represent dialog as a strict mapping from input text to output text, but psychological and cognitive science literature shows that humans consistently model each other during communicative processes. Building upon a dialogic view of conversation and working in conjunction with Amazon's Alexa Prize support team, we present EVE, a conversational AI architecture that treats communication as a cooperative effort between unique individuals. Rather than attempting to imitate a human, EVE embraces its identity as a synthetic being, actively seeking information to expand its world-view while still accessing live news streams, fact repositories, and other online APIs in response to user queries. By modeling the expectations of its conversation parter, EVE is able to respond to user utterances in meaningful ways. The completed system will compete against other university teams for a one million dollar grand prize.


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- Published on Jan 30, 2013
- Contact Diane Swanbrow
According to a new study of more than 75,000 adults, women in that age group are more empathic than men of the same age and than younger or older people.
"Overall, late middle-aged adults were higher in both of the aspects of empathy that we measured," said Sara Konrath, assistant research professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and co-author of an article on age and empathy forthcoming in the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological and Social Sciences.
"They reported that they were more likely to react emotionally to the experiences of others, and they were also more likely to try to understand how things looked from the perspective of others."
Konrath and colleagues Ed O'Brien and Linda Hagen of U-M and Daniel Grühn of North Carolina State University analyzed data on empathy from three separate large samples of American adults, two of which were taken from the nationally representative General Social Survey.
They found consistent evidence of an inverted U-shaped pattern of empathy across the adult life span, with younger and older adults reporting less empathy and middle-aged adults reporting more.
According to O'Brien, U-M doctoral student in social psychology, this pattern may result because increasing levels of cognitive abilities and experience improve emotional functioning during the first part of the adult life span, while cognitive declines diminish emotional functioning in the second half.
But more research is needed in order to understand whether this pattern is really the result of an individual's age, or whether it is a generational effect reflecting the socialization of adults who are now in late middle age.
"Americans born in the 1950s and '60s—the middle-aged people in our samples – were raised during historic social movements, from civil rights to various antiwar countercultures," the authors explain. "It may be that today's middle-aged adults report higher empathy than other cohorts because they grew up during periods of important societal changes that emphasized the feelings and perspectives of other groups."
Earlier research by O'Brien, Konrath and colleagues found declines in empathy and higher levels of narcissism among young people today as compared to earlier generations of young adults.
O'Brien and Konrath plan to conduct additional research on empathy, to explore whether people can be trained to show more empathy using new electronic media, for example.
"Given the fundamental role of empathy in everyday social life and its relationship to many important social activities such as volunteering and donating to charities, it's important to learn as much as we can about what factors increase and decrease empathic responding," Konrath said.
The research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to O'Brien, and an American Association of University Women Fellowship and grant from Wake Forest University's Character Project to Konrath.
Established in 1949, the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research is the world's largest academic social science survey and research organization, and a world leader in developing and applying social science methodology, and in educating researchers and students from around the world. ISR conducts some of the most widely cited studies in the nation, including the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, the American National Election Studies, the Monitoring the Future Study, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Health and Retirement Study, the Columbia County Longitudinal Study and the National Survey of Black Americans. ISR researchers also collaborate with social scientists in more than 60 nations on the World Values Surveys and other projects, and the institute has established formal ties with universities in Poland, China and South Africa. ISR is also home to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, the world's largest digital social science data archive. For more information, visit the ISR website at _URL_.


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When we originally converted the build to maven we had a single "core" module defined, but later reverted this to a module-less build for the sake of simplicity.
It now looks like it's time to re-address this, as we have an actual need for modules to:
- provide a trimmed down "client" library that applications can make use of
- more cleanly support building against different versions of Hadoop, in place of some of the reflection machinations currently required
- incorporate the secure RPC engine that depends on some secure Hadoop classes
I propose we start simply by refactoring into two initial modules:
- core - common classes and utilities, and client-side code and interfaces
- server - master and region server implementations and supporting code
This would also lay the groundwork for incorporating the HBase security features that have been developed. Once the module structure is in place, security-related features could then be incorporated into a third module – "security" – after normal review and approval. The security module could then depend on secure Hadoop, without modifying the dependencies of the rest of the HBase code.


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Previous Article: Doubly Linked List Next Article: Deletion of a Node from Doubly Linked List.
Insertion of a NodeBefore we discuss about how to insert a NODE let us discuss few rules to follow at the time of insertion.
- Check the location into which the user want to insert a new NODE. The possible locations where an user can insert a new node is in the range of 1 <= loc <= (length of list)+1. Let us say the length of the list is 10 & the user want to insert at location 12 (sounds stupid).
- As we know we can traverse Bi-Directional in case of Doubly Linked Lists so we have to take care of PREV and NEXT variables in the NODE structure. We should also update the neighboring Nodes which are affected by this operation. If not we might break up the List somewhere or the other by creating a BROKEN LIST.
We have following scenarios in the case of insertion of a NODE.
- Adding a Node at the start of the Empty List
|Figure 1: Empty List and the newNode we want to add|
- In HEAD - FIRST variable points to newNode (head->FIRST = newNode).
- In newNode - NEXT and PREV points to NULL as we don't have any other Nodes in the List.
- Increment the LENGTH variable in HEAD once insertion is successful to maintain the count of number of Nodes in the List.
HEAD->FIRST = newNode newNode->PREV = NULL newNode->NEXT = NULL increment(HEAD->LENGTH)
|Figure 2: After adding newNode in Empty List. (Changes in BLUE)|


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Tibor Gergely was born in Budapest, Hungary, and studied and taught in Vienna before the War. He escaped the Nazis and relocated to New York City in 1939, along with his wife. He became a well known illustrator, creating covers for the New Yorker and illustrating countless Little Golden Books. The subjects of his children's books were often anthropomorphic automobiles, trucks, trains or boats. In his free time, Gergely was a fine artist, sketching and painting the city and small seaport towns in New England. In his own art, he was fascinated by bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge. Perhaps the feeling of being planted with one foot in New York City and the other in his native Europe had something to do with that.
Here are two of Gergely's earliest children's books. On the surface, they appear very simple, but there is a great deal of thought in these compositions. Today, many children's book illustrations are cluttered and packed with details. Gergely was at his core a storyteller, so he keeps the illustrations clear enough that even very young children can follow the story.
Many thanks to Terry and Linda for sharing these books with us.
This posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit spotlighting Illustration.


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


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Lending a helping hand to develop African soil information
2 December 2011
Six West African soil scientists are visiting the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources to undertake intensive training in digital soil mapping coordinated by the University of Sydney's Associate Professor Inakwu Odeh. The visiting fellows are sponsored by AusAID as part of the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships program.
Associate Professor Inakwu Odeh and colleagues from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources-Dr Thomas Bishop and Dr Budiman Minasny - have organised a six week program for the African visiting fellows to run in November and December 2011.
Coming from universities and government research and soil management agencies in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal, the six visitors will further their soil science expertise using the latest soil mapping techniques.
"There is a lack of accurate soil information in many developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa," said Associate Professor Inakwu Odeh, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
"This is particularly disturbing because agriculture, which should be based on careful selection of suitable soil and land resources, is the dominant economic activity in the continent," explained Associate Professor Odeh.
"So we're working with local African scientists to share our digital mapping expertise and software, so they can use these techniques in their home countries."
Associate Professor Odeh will run training sessions on using geographic information system data for digital soil mapping and agricultural statistical analysis.
"We're using open source and free statistical analysis software that our visiting fellows can access and use when they return to their home countries," said Associate Professor Odeh.
Soil is fundamental to important ecosystem services such as food production, biodiversity, and climate and environmental regulation. As such, there has been increased interest in accurate soil information at high spatial resolution for the purpose of management decisions regarding these services.
"According to statistics published in 2010 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa has grown over the past 50 years, but more slowly than the population. That means that there has been a decline in per capita energy accessibility - so not enough food being produced per person in these countries," explained Associate Professor Odeh.
"Additionally, it turns out this very modest growth in production has been primarily through area expansion, with yields per hectare especially stagnant over the same period," said Associate Professor Odeh.
"The problem is there's been ill-informed selection of production areas, rather than strategically developing areas with more productive soils. Soil mapping is key to this strategic selection of agricultural areas."
To meet the increased soil information demand in sub-Saharan Africa, a regional project called Africa Soil Information Service was launched in 2009 under the guidance of the GlobalSoilMap.Net consortium in which the University of Sydney is a major player under the leadership of Professor Alex McBratney.
The six visiting fellows are all key participants in the Africa Soil Information Service project, with their time spent at the University of Sydney aimed at capacity building in the new techniques of digital soil mapping and assessment - techniques developed at the University of Sydney and now used internationally.
This multilateral program will enable the participants to work on this regional goal and achieve high standards in the production of the functional soil information and the subsequent management recommendations across the region.
"As part of our University's contribution to the effort of creating digital soil information for Africa, I recently spent six months in Africa and the Netherlands, lending a helping hand to the efforts of creating digital soil maps for Nigeria," said Associate Professor Odeh.
"This current training in November and December of the West African soil scientists will further enhance the collaboration between our University and a number of key institutions in the region."
Contact: Associate Professor Inakwu Odeh
Phone: 02 8627 1055


text: Liver fluke infection is a major health concern in Southeast Asia as well as Eastern Europe. The trematode culprit of opisthorchiasis is consumed when people eat raw or uncooked fish; ingestion of metacercariae (pictured on the cover) results in infection. In a Feature review by Sripa et al. on pp. 395–407, bile duct cancer caused by Opisthorchis viverrini is addressed, including the pathogenesis of opisthorchiasis and the hope that recent post-genomic advances will aid in controlling this deadly cancer. Photo: courtesy of Banchob Sripa.


If you've ever been worried about who is reading your chats, Signal is the app for you. Combining two existing iOS apps, TextSecure and RedPhone, into one secure picture and text app. iOS users of either software will soon find updates which changes their app over to the new Signal application. How good is Signal and it's predecessors? So good that this is the encrypted chat app of choice for Edward Snowden. He touted the app on his still new Twitter account, joking that the FBI already knew he was using it.
Signal allows users to send and receive images and texts, as well as make secured calls. All communication is highly encrypted, preventing internet service providers or other snoopers from reading or listening in. Wildly popular on iOS, it's exciting to see this software make the jump to Android. In addition to the security it offers, Signal is another great way for both iPhone and Android users to communicate across platform to each other.
If having Edward Snowden's endorsement isn't enough for you, Signal has ample evidence of their security. The largest is TextSecure was recently used heavily by WhatsApp to secure their text conversations. If you're still not convinced, Signla is actually an open source project. Open Whisper Systems, the developer behind Signal, has made the code freely available online for people so see, or break. There's still no sign of the desktop application which was promised. Also missing are apps for the Windows Phone and BlackBerry ecosystems, but given market share saturation, this isn't uncommon.


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Noun. {tran - ark - O - sore - us - rex}.
A mythological creature. a giant carnivorous reptilian with a taste for insurrectionary anarchism, undergoing spiritual and sexual metamorphosis.
etiologyderived from:
- Tyrannosaurus Rex (a non-avian dinosaur in the theropod genus, lived in the Cretaceous Period.)
- trans-sexuality and transgender ("Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these." wikipedia)
- Anarchism (a political philosophy, and accompanying lifestyle, that views the state and other hierarchical social structures as unnecessary and harmful.)
This monster bears resemblance to an ordinary T. Rex but is notably different in it's reluctance to play along with heteronormativity and it's violent distaste for hierarchical structures (such as the state). The Tranarchosauras Rex is thought to be extinct, although there have been a handful of individuals claiming to have seen one amidst mass protests in Iran, Greece and The United States. This animal is reported to survive on a diet of business executives, politicians and law enforcement officers.
As they were gathering gluten-free vegan treats in the forest, one cave-person stopped dead in their tracks and quietly pointed out a large dinosaur to their hunter-gatherer comrade... "LOOK! it's a goddamned T-Rex! we better run for our lives!"
The other cave-person looked quickly, after a few moments of observation, they chuckled, and informed their comrade, "Oh wow, you had me for a second! that isn't a T-Rex, that is a Tranarchosauras Rex... they're friendly, they only eat cops!"
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The Technique Behind Frosted Glass
Frosted glass doors offer a great deal of privacy, while still maintaining the flow of your home or business and letting light come into rooms, even when the door is closed. They are an excellent option for smaller homes where extra light makes the space look and feel better. They are great for businesses, allowing light into what could otherwise be a drab workspace, while still giving employees the privacy they need to work. Of course, these are just two ways to use frosted glass doors; many people choose them for their showers, pantries, closets, entry ways, and bedrooms.
Frosted glass is made using one of two methods – acid etching and sandblasting. Both processes evenly roughen up the surface of the glass, creating a uniform color and smooth surface that still allows light in. Acid etching uses strong acids to cut into the surface of the glass. Typically, this process is used when a design is being etched into the glass. Sandblasting blows tiny, rough particles like sand at the surface of the glass. These particles hit the glass at high speeds causing tiny microscopic scratches to appear on the surface of the glass. Eventually, enough scratches appear that the glass looks like it has been covered in the frost of an early winter morning.
Like a morning frost, frosted glass doors have a delicate beauty that is undeniable. Unlike the frost found in nature, however, when you buy frosted glass doors from The Sliding Door Company, your doors will be around for much more than a morning. Our frames and glass are highly durable and are made to last for years to come.
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Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity".[1] The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. In Jungian psychology, the synonymous term psychic death is used, which refers to a fundamental transformation of the psyche.[2] In death and rebirth mythology, ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition,[3][4][5][6] as described by Joseph Campbell in his research on the mythology of the Hero's Journey.[3] It is a recurrent theme in world mythology and is also used as a metaphor in some strands of contemporary western thinking.[6]
In descriptions of psychedelic experiences, the term is used synonymously with ego-loss[7][8][1][9] to refer to (temporary) loss of one's sense of self due to the use of psychedelics.[10][11][1] The term was used as such by Timothy Leary et al.[1] to describe the death of the ego[12] in the first phase of an LSD trip, in which a "complete transcendence" of the self[note 1] occurs. The concept is also used in contemporary New Age spirituality and in the modern understanding of Eastern religions to describe a permanent loss of "attachment to a separate sense of self"[web 1] and self-centeredness.[13] This conception is an influential part of Eckhart Tolle's teachings, where Ego is presented as an accumulation of thoughts and emotions, continuously identified with, which creates the idea and feeling of being a separate entity from one's self, and only by disidentifying one's consciousness from it can one truly be free from suffering.[14]
Ego death and the related term "ego loss" have been defined in the context of mysticism by the religious studies scholar Daniel Merkur as "an imageless experience in which there is no sense of personal identity. It is the experience that remains possible in a state of extremely deep trance when the ego-functions of reality-testing, sense-perception, memory, reason, fantasy and self-representation are repressed [...] Muslim Sufis call it fana ('annihilation'),[note 2] and medieval Jewish kabbalists termed it 'the kiss of death' ".[15]
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