It's a matter of taste
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How do you taste London's past? That's an easy one and a subject close to my heart; food and drink. Of the two, drink is the trickier to get to grips with. Nobody that I know of in the city brews anything that resembles the medieval ale that Londoners would have drunk. All the ancient wells and drinking fountains have been put beyond use, and I wouldn't advocate drinking water from the River Thames, which to some Londoners in the past was a necessity. So that leaves us with food.
In a past life I was a chef and so the topic of what our ancestors would eat is of interest. If you take the diet of the normal Londoner from six hundred years ago it would be a very bland affair, mainly consisting of a dish called Pottage, a type of vegetable stew. The most common ingredients for pottage making included cabbage, onions, leeks, celery and garden peas, don't forget the potato didn't appear in Britain until 1586. At certain times of the year grains like barley or dried beans would have been added. For the average peasant, extra flavouring for the pottage came from fresh herbs such as parsley, sage, thyme and rosemary. If you were just that little bit more well off you may have added some saffron or cloves, but as spices had to be imported they were expensive. Salt was widely used, but pepper was in the same class as the spices. This would have been eaten with bread, probably made from a blend of wholemeal, barley and rye flours. White flour would have been reserved only for the wealthiest Londoners due to the additional costs of grinding and sieving. This combination of pottage and bread would have been eaten as the main meal every single day. There may have been the occasional piece of meat, but generally this bland diet was the mainstay. Give it a try, it's quite nice, once or twice, but every day!
Vegetable Pottage and Barley Bread
As the quality of life improved for most Londoners, meat became a larger part of their diet, but it would be hard to define an everyday dish other than roast meat to give you a flavour of London in the past. I would imagine reading this, that you would think you know what roast meat tastes like, but I'd say that you have probably never tasted a true roasted meat. Our modern day ovens don't roast, they bake. The only way to get the true taste is to roast your joint in front of an open wood fire, continually basting it with the dripping that comes off of it. Our ancestors when cooking this way would have also coated their roast with something called Dredge, a blend of oat or barley flour and stale breadcrumbs. This combined with the basting would give the meat a crisp exterior. Barbecuing is close, but still not as good as open fire roasting.
Roasted Pork
Putting a bland bowl of vegetables or having to dig a fire pit to one side, let's take a look at a more convenient taste of London, the Oyster. Since the Roman settlement of Londinium was establish nearly two thousand years ago, the Native Oyster has been fished from UK waters such as, Whitstable Bay in Kent and the Blackwater River Estuary in Essex, which are close to London. In excavations of concerning Londinium, Oyster shells are found in abundance. After the Romans left these shores in around 450 AD the Oyster seems to fall out of favour until a resurgence some three hundred years later. Between the 8th and 16th centuries, the oyster became popular with the rich and poor Londoner alike. Oysters were often cooked in their liquor (the small pool of clear seawater found in the oysters' cupped shells) with a splash of ale and black pepper.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, oysters were used in many varied dishes. Smaller oysters were often eaten raw, and larger oysters were often used in stews or cooked in pies. They were used with pork or mutton to make sausages and were stuffed inside fowl, such as turkey or duck, and then roasted; and the oysters' liquor would be poured over the fowl. They were also pickled to preserve them. So next time you eat an oyster, you will be getting the same taste and texture sensations as generations of Londoners experienced before you.
A couple of traditional London dishes that can still be sampled to this day and can transport you back to 19th Century London are Pie 'n' Mash, liquor and Jellied Eel, widely eaten by everyday Londoners. I've already written a piece about the cult of Pie 'n' Mash and to save time, you can find it here if you're interested, Ambrosia
Want to give them a try, but can't get to London to sample their delights? Never fear, the recipes for the pies, the liquor and the jellied Eels are on my Pinterest board along with some other London inspired recipes and places I would recommend to eat at. Enjoy!
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2 thoughts on "It's a matter of taste
 1. Pottage sounds quite good but you are right – having it every day for lunch would be too much. It makes me think that we are quite spoiled nowadays. We can go weeks (if not months) without eating the same dish again!
 2. I went to school with a guy who was a farmers son. In a bizarre accident the boy shot the prize winning pig dead! His punishment for messing around with guns was that his Dad had the entire pig butchered and he ate it for every meal, including sandwiches at school dinner time. He was desperate to swap. I think it took something like 4 months to get through the useable bits 🙂
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Nonlinearity and stochastic structural dynamics is of common interest to engineers and applied scientists belonging to many disciplines. Recent research in this area has been concentrated on the response and stability of nonlinear mechanical and structural systems subjected to random escitation. Simultaneously the focus of research has also been directed towards understanding intrinsic nonlinear phenomena like bifurcation and chaos in deterministic systems. These problems demand a high degree of sophistication in the analytical and numerical approaches. At the same time they arise from considerations of nonlinear system response to turbulence, earthquacke, wind, wave and guidancy excitations. The topic thus attracts votaries of both analytical rigour and practical applications.
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In this Article, Professor Sullivan postulates that the unconstitutional conditions doctrine is a doctrine in search of a theory. Three theories have been put forth, but have proven unsatisfactory. The author describes the three theories and then suggests an alternative approach. The unconstitutional doctrine is necessary to preserve three distributive functions: (1) checking the power of the state by preserving a private order; (2) imposing obligations of government neutrality among rightholders who, for example, speak, worship, or procreate according to different lights; and (3) barring a system of constitutional caste among rightholders. The alternative approach embodies a distributive analysis of unconstitutional conditions that considers the balance of power and freedom in the polity as a whole.
Kathleen M. Sullivan,
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Nine-Game Crystal Draughts Dice
Use this to add chance operations in your Crystal Draughts games. Each roll of the dice gives pseudo-random results for four elements.
The first element chosen represents one group from among three groups of three game boards. The values possible are A, B, or C.
The second element chosen represents one game board from among a group of three game boards. Values are A, B, or C.
The third element chosen returns one molecule from all the molecules on one game board. The possible values are A–F and a–f. There are twelve possible choices.
The last element is the atom on one molecule. Possible results are a, b, c, or d.
Each roll of the dice gives you the specific atom on a nine-game-board configuration. Use only the elements you need to for your game.
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How to Use Rabatment in Your Compositions
Published Jan. 27th 2009
Painters rely on an array of methods for finding the best placement of their subjects within a painting's edges. One of the easiest methods to use and understand is to place the subject within the rabatment of the rectangle.
What is the rabatment of a rectangle? Simply put, it's the perfect square found inside any rectangle (the rabatment's sides are all equal to the short side of the rectangle).
rabatment of rectangle
For each horizontal rectangle, there is a right rabatment and a left rabatment. For each vertical rectangle there is an upper and lower rabatment. Placing the most important subjects within either of these squares helps to create a composition that your viewers will perceive as unified, harmonious and balanced.
Even though the primary subject may be placed inside the rabatment, artists still find a variety of roles and uses for the section outside the rabatment. For example, look at this painting, entitled Bill Painting Near Old Levitz Lot by Jennifer McChristian.
mcchristian bill
The figure (which is the center of interest) is located directly on the edge of the rabatment, with the trees located inside it. Outside the rabatment is an obliqued-shaped building that redirects the viewer's eyes to the center of interest.
mcchristian rabatment
Another way artists use the area outside the rabatment is to complete whatever story is being told, like in this painting by Carolyn Anderson.
anderson painting
Notice how the two spaces work in concert: the baby fits entirely within the rabatment while the head of the mother looks down at the infant from outside the rabatment.
anderson rabatment
An artist's natural sense of design will often lead to rabatment placement automatically, but there are two methods for using this strategy intentionally.
Method 1: Adding on to a sketch
1. Do a preliminary sketch of the subject you plan on painting. (In the example below, I've done a drawing of a busy squirrel.)
rabatment find 1
2. Create a square around the major activity in the drawing.
3. To the right, left, top or bottom, add enough space to match the ratio of the canvas you plan to use. (The ratio I used is 2:3 which matches up with a 16×24 inch canvas.)
Method 2: Using a special viewfinder
1. Make a rectangular viewfinder with a window that is the same ratio as your planned canvas. So if your canvas is 16×20 inches, your ratio should be 4:5, or 4×5 inches.
2. On the long sides of the viewfinder's frame, mark where the rabatment begins.
rabatment viewfinder
3. Look through the viewfinder to plan your composition. Position it so that the main area of interest lies within the rabatment and then use that for your composition.
rabatment find 2
Just as it isn't clear why using the Golden Ratio gives such a pleasing composition, no one knows for sure why using the rectangle's rabatment gives balance, harmony and unity to a composition.
Whatever the reason may be, as you experiment with rabatment you'll find that you're producing stronger compositions and more interesting paintings than ever before.
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What happens when a URL matches multiple patterns (multiple custom URL filtering categories and allow/block-list) within a URL filtering profile?
When that happens, the category chosen is the one that has the most severe action defined below (block being most severe and allow least severe).
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Scientists, including those from the Natural History Museum, have developed the world's first underwater observatory connected to the internet, creating a window into the ocean, one of the least-studied environments on our planet.
Live images are streamed online from the observatory under the sea, which means scientists anywhere in the world are now able to study processes in real-time, helping them better understand how marine ecosystems work.
The system was created by a team from the Natural History Museum, University of Gothenburg, Maritime Museum and Aquarium Gothenburg, Scottish Association of Marine Science, OceanLab Aberdeen, and Bangor University.
Electron micrograph of Osedax mucofloris, the marine worm species Adrian Glover discovered in 2005 and hopes to study using the underwater observatory.
Natural History Museum marine biologist Adrian Glover showed the live stream of the observatory at the Museum's grand opening of the new Darwin Centre last week with special guests Prince William and Sir David Attenborough. The state-of-the-art building lets the public get a glimpse of some of the important science research that happens at the Museum.
The observatory is currently 30m underwater in a fjord on the west coast of Sweden at the Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences. It is beaming images of a community of scavenging creatures living on the remains of a dead whale.
'Even something simple like the decomposition of a small whale in shallow water is very poorly known,' says Glover.
'Until now, we had to make do with 'one-off' visits using submersibles, remotely operated-vehicles or scuba divers.'
Glover is currently studying the feeding behaviour of scavenging animals that feed on the carcass. He is also hoping to study the colonisation of the bones by the bone-eating worms from the genus Osedax, one species of which he discovered in 2005.
This hut contains the observatory 'node', a communications hub, which is powered and connected to the internet by fibre-optic cables.
The underwater observatory is made up of a video camera and instruments that are mounted onto a frame. Video data is sent live along cables to the observatory 'node', a type of communications hub that is in a hut on a nearby island. The node is powered and connected to the internet by fibre-optic cables.
Technology advances in the cabling and underwater instruments enabled this system to work whereas a few years ago it wouldn't have been possible. However, there were some hurdles to overcome along the way, from problems with computer software and flooding of the camera housing, to a sudden infestation of barnacles!
The observatory is designed so that it can be used in potentially much greater ocean depths. 'If we are successful in raising funds, we would like to deploy our observatory in the deep sea using a remotely-operated vehicle' says Glover.
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Lam, David. 1989. "Population Growth, Age Structure, and Age-Specific Productivity." Journal of Population Economics, 2: 189-210.
Motivated by empirical evidence that fluctuations in age structure affect relative wages across age groups, this paper asks whether there is a steady-state age distribution that maximizes the lifetime wages of a representative worker. The paper proves the surprising result that in a pure labor economy with any constant returns technology, a uniform age distribution minimizes lifetime wages. Skewed age distributions, generated by either positive or negative population growth rates, generate unambiguously higher lifetime wages than a stationary population, in spite of possible reductions in per capita output in every period. The presence of non-labor factors complicates, but does not necessarily reverse, this result. The paper relates the beneficial effects of higher rates of population growth on lifetime wages in the pure labor economy with imperfect substitutability across age groups to the benefits of population growth that appear in overlapping-generationn consumption loan models with intergenerational transfers.


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You can add two images either using OpenCV:
cv2.add() or Numpy:
result = img1 + img2
(Both images should be of same depth and type.)There is a major difference between these two.
>>> x = np.uint8()
>>> y = np.uint8()
>>> print cv2.add(x,y) # 250+10 = 260 => 255
>>> print x+y # 250+10 = 260 % 256 = 4
*OpenCV provides better results
Adding images using the previous method is very blunt. Using blending you can get cool transition between two images.
Blending is done by using the OpenCV function
cv2.addWeighted() using the formula:
f(x)=a*img1 + (1-a)img2 + z
where a is the weight.
What we basically do is provide weights to the two images such that they mix with different intensities.
The following code adds two images with weights 0.7 and 0.3.
(Both images should be of same depth and type)
img1 = cv2.imread('img1.png')
img2 = cv2.imread('img2.jpg')
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Jannat al-Baqi (also spelt Jannat ul-Baqi) is a famous cemetery in Madinah, located right across from the Masjid al-Nabawi. It is well known since many of Muhammad's relatives and companions are buried here, and due to its sanctity. Its name means "Tree Garden of Heaven". Many traditions relate Muhammad issuing a prayer everytime he passed the cemetery.
Prior to the twentieth century, many of the graves were covered with domes or other structures. However, after the city of Madinah was taken by the forces of Ibn Saud, many of these buildings and tombs were destroyed, in order to keep with the Wahhabi ideal of not worshipping graves. Thus, the graveyard is now no more than a vast lot with some crude headstones made of rocks. Despite this, the graves of many historic figures continue to be visited by numerous pilgrims. Burials continue at the cemetery to this day as well.
People Buried at Jannat al-Baqi
- Muhammad's son Ibrahim who died in infancy
- Fatima Zahra, Muhammad's daughter
- Many of Muhammad's aunts
- Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad
- Hasan ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad and Shia Imam
- Ali ibn Husayn, great-grandson of Muhammad, and Shia Imam
- Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam
- Jafar Sadiq, Islamic jurist and Shia Imam
- Malik ibn Anas, Islamic jurist
- Imam Shamil, Chechen leader
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A treatment plan to help manage fever, sweats, or hot flashes is based on the patient's condition and goals of care. For some patients, relieving symptoms and improving quality of life is a more important goal than treating the fever to prolong life.
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It's a widely held misconception that horses aren't affected by sleep deprivation. Most require at least four hours of slumber, including about 60 minutes of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, during a 24-hour period. If a horse misses out on sleep for several days, he can become so exhausted that he literally falls asleep on his feet, collapsing.
Sleep deprivation is often confused with narcolepsy, a rare neurological disorder that produces excessive sleepiness, but it is usually much easier to remedy. Take the following steps to ensure your horse gets sufficient sleep each day:
Turn off the lights. Horses who are used to falling asleep outside in the darkness may have trouble snoozing if they're moved to brightly lit stalls. They can eventually adapt to brighter conditions---broodmares kept under artificial light for extended periods of time show few adverse effects---but they will be sleepy until they do.
Provide ample bedding. REM sleep can be achieved only when the horse is lying flat out or in sternal recumbency with his nose resting on the ground. You can encourage your horse to get off his feet by making the floor more comfortable. In one study, horses were more likely to lie down in a stall deeply bedded with shavings.
Keep it quiet. Horses are light snoozers, so at night try to keep the barn quiet or provide "white noise," such as easy-listening music turned down low.
Stable horses in congenial groups. Horses tend to sleep better when surrounded by other horses, but only if they all get along. Make sure your horse is friendly with herdmates in adjoining stalls. If two horses bicker all night, they may keep the whole barn awake.


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Marsmallow Fondant
Marshmallow fondant is a popular topping for sweet desserts. The substance has found a particular stronghold in the creation of white wedding cakes. Although the icing itself is white, food coloring may be added. Since cake preparations may take place several days or even weeks away from preparation of the fondant, the fondant mixture should be double-wrapped in plastic and refrigerated when stored.
Marshmallow fondant is usually rolled onto a counter and kneaded before apply it to a baked dessert. Cornstarch, shortening or oil may be placed atop the counter surface to prevent the fondant from sticking, and a preliminary layer of regular cake icing may be added to the cake beforehand. Rolled fondant base is cut into precise shapes and lengths, depending upon the size of the dessert it will cover. Once these measurements have been established, the fondant is rolled up onto a rolling pin and is then unrolled atop the dessert. Excessive icing is removed from the sides with a knife.
In addition, rolled fondant pieces may be cut and sculpted to form decorations like ribbons and flowers.
Marsmallow Fondant –
 - 250 g Marsmallows
 - 5 cups Powdered/Icing sugar
 - 1 tbsp Water
 - 2 tbsps Vegetable shortening
 1. Sift the icing sugar so it will be ready when the marsmallow is melted.
 2. Cut the Marsmallows into small pieces but I suggest to use small pieces if you can find them.
 3. Add the tbsps. of water and melt the marsmallows in the microwave or with the double boiler.
 4. Add about half of the icing sugar and keep stirring till you get a thick and sticky mixture.
 5. Make sure to wash your hands properly and spread some vegetable shortening on the working mat and on your hands so the mixture doesn't stick.
 6. Remove the sticky mixture from the bowl and place on the mat that has been well dusted with icing sugar.
 7. Add the shortening and knead till it is smooth and no longer sticky to the touch. The fondant is ready to use.
 1. Add the tbsps. of water and melt the marsmallows in the microwave for 30 seconds.
 2. Remove the bowl from the microwave and stir them.
 3. Repeat the procedure until they are completely melted.
Double Boiler:
 1. To assemble a double boiler, fill the bottom of a large pot with water and set another pot on top.
 2. You can also use a heat-resistant bowl instead.
 3. Make sure that the bottom of the upper pot or bowl is not touching the water.
 4. Add the tbsps. of water and keep stirring the marsmallows till they are completely melted.
 - For future use, roll the fondant and wrap it tightly or use an airtight plastic bag.
 - Place it in an airtight container and store in the fridge.
 - The fondant from the fridge will become hard, so let it sit at room temperature to soften and give it another knead.
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== Copy Alpine to a {{{1|Flash Medium}}} ==
_TAG_ [[Include:Copying Alpine to Flash]]
# Insert the removable {{{1|flash medium (CF or USB stick)}}} into the computer.
# Determine the name your computer uses for your {{{1|flash medium}}}. The following step is one way to do this.
#* After inserting the {{{1|flash medium}}}, run the command:
#* {{Cmd|dmesg}}
#* At the end of this command you should see the name of your {{{1|flash medium}}}, likely starting with "sd". (For example: "sda").
#* The remainder of this document will assume that your {{{1|flash medium}}} is called /dev/sda
{{Warning|Be very careful about this. You do not want to mistakenly wipe your hard drive if it's on /dev/sda}}
=== Format {{{1|Flash Medium}}} ===
{{Cmd|fdisk /dev/sda}}
* '''p''' Print list of partitions
* '''d''' Delete all partitions (this may take a few steps)
* '''n''' Create a new partition
* '''p''' A primary partition
* '''1''' Partition number 1
** Use defaults for first and last cylinder (just press [Enter] twice).
* '''t''' Change partition type
* '''c''' Type: Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
* '''a''' Make the partition bootable (set boot flag)
* '''1''' Partition number 1
* '''w''' Write your changes to the device
=== Install Syslinux ===
{{Note|If the following commands fail due to 'No such file or directory', you may have to remove and reinsert the CF card, or even reboot, to get /dev/sda1 to appear}}
# Install syslinux and dosfstools. If you have booted from an Alpine CD-ROM, use these commands:
#* {{Cmd|apk add syslinux dosfstools}}
#* {{Cmd|{{{|dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda}}}}}
# Format the {{{1|flash medium}}} with a VFAT filesystem:
#* {{Cmd|mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sda1}}
#* {{Cmd|syslinux /dev/sda1}}
#* {{Cmd|mkdir -p /media/sda1}}
#* {{Cmd|mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/sda1}}
# Mount the Alpine Linux CD-ROM, and copy the files to the {{{1|flash medium}}}
#* {{Cmd|mount /media/cdrom}}
#* {{Cmd|cd /media/cdrom}}
#* {{Cmd|cp -a.alpine-release * /media/sda1/ }}
== Troubleshooting ==
When your USB device is formatted to other filesystem than fat32, you might have to specify the necessary filesystem modules in boot parameters.
To do so, mount the device, and alter the syslinux.cfg file line from
in case of using ext3 formatted partition. Similar procedure might apply to other filesystems (if they are supported by syslinux or other bootloader of your choice and alpine kernel).
Also, specifying waitusb=X option might help with certain usb devices that take a bit longer to register. X stands for the amount of seconds kernel will wait before looking for the installation media.
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Flint water documentary shown prior to debate
A documentary highlighting the Flint water crisis was shown at Woodside Church on Sunday prior to the evening's debate between Democratic presidential candidates.
The film follows the untold story of the activist role in exposing the lead in Flint's water, according to a participant featured in the documentary.
The Coalition for Clean Water banded together to conduct citizen testing and partnered with Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech, who helped discover the lead contamination.
The documentary talks about that process and kind of a history of Flint's switch from the Detroit water system to treating its own drinking water using the Flint River.
It also explains the role of Flint's emergency manager and the state's emergency manager law in the water crisis.


One has a plural noun, the other singular.
There seem to be several idiom pairs/related idioms with inconsistent grammatical number. I am also thinking "on the fringe" and "on the fringes."
 - I suspect that the first is somehow related to handling animals such as horses. – Hot Licks Mar 9 '18 at 2:37
 - Unless you're in a rodeo, most people use both hands on the reins. But a firm hand may be needed when things get out of hand. – KarlG Mar 9 '18 at 2:51
 - if you are leading a horse people often use 1 hand – WendyG Mar 9 '18 at 11:31
They are two different idioms, the latter being formed from a situation in which one is unable to grasp something, even with both hands.
The difference between the two:
 - Get out of hand infers that the situation is out everyone's control,
 - Out of one's hands infers that one cannot control something that will happen.
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 - The OP is asking about why one expression uses both hands and another only one. – KarlG Mar 9 '18 at 2:30
 - _USER_ Thanks for the heads-up, I totally missed that. – Peter Johnmeyer Mar 9 '18 at 2:33
I think it has to do with the original idea of "hand" in the sense of "control" which contrast with "in hand" under control. In that respect, the usage of hand in the singular form is metaphoric and idiomatic:
 - Out of hand (1590s) is opposite of in hand "under control" (Etymonline)
From The Phrase Finder:
-Out of hand -- "If you reject an offer or idea 'out of hand,' you do so without hesitation. However, this phrase has several different meanings, the oldest of them being 'out of control,' from the days when failure to keep a firm grip on the reins would result in a team of horses being 'out of hand.'" From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988). Page 433.
The "out of hand = out of control or not being processed" meaning contrasts nicely with the "in hand = under control or being processed" meaning.
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Using physical units in Underworld
Using physical units in Underworld
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Using physical units and how to appropriately scale a model is a top question users ask when beginning with Underworld. The equations Underworld solves are stated in a physically correct form, they remain valid as long as every material constant, geometry, time, etc., are expressed in the same system. There is no explicit concept of units no scaling in Underworld, the choice is entirely left to the user. One can thus decide to use the Meter Kilometer Second system or a dimensionless system, defining the model such that length, density and viscosity of the material are one, etc. Both approaches are correct and allow for more flexibility, but with great power comes great responsibility. The user must ensure the units are consistent.
The scaling of the problem, although related to the choice of system units, is a much broader subject. Computers generally have trouble accurately solving for a wide range of numbers. In numerical methods, this issue can result in a matrix with a large Condition number and is difficult to invert(solve) accurately. By using an appropriate scaling, the wide range of numbers can be reduced, thus minimising numerical errors.
From a mathematical point of view, non-dimensionalisation conserves the relationships between parameters. From a numerical point of view, it is often unclear whether the choice of reference value will ensure numerical stability. A rule of thumb is to keep values as close to one as possible. This can become challenging for Earth modeling problems when dealing with non-linear viscosities and values spanning several orders of magnitude.
Another problem arises from the fact that different communities in Earth Science have different backgrounds and usages. A simple example is the number of units we constantly switch between when dealing with space and time: as for when we describe the diffusion of temperature at the grain scale or the cooling of the entire planet.
Here I detail a workflow used to overcome these issues. It is by no mean the only way, but I have found it easy to use and it reduces the risk of error considerably. It is a simple way to solve the problem of unit consistency and scaling.
I have written a small python module which leverages Pint, a python package used to define and manipulate physical units. Pint uses a system of unit registries to define a large set of units and most of their prefixes. A Pint Quantity object is a physical value which has a specific unit attached to itself. Quantity objects can be use in mathematical expressions which also return Quantities in appropriate units.
The example is available here:
Units/Scaling Example
And if you want to explore the convection simulation:
[M. Kronbichler, T. Heister, and W. Bangerth. High accuracy mantle convection simulationthrough modern numerical methods.Geophysics Journal International, 191:12–29, 2012.]
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World Braille Day: January 4
Every year, the World Braille Day is celebrated on January 4 by United Nations and several other international organizations. The day is celebrated to create awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the realization of human rights for the blind.
Why is World Braille Day celebrated on January 4?
It is celebrated on January 4 because the day marks the birthday of Louis Braille, the creator of this writing system. He was born in France in 1809.
When was the first World Braille Day celebrated?
What is Braille?
Braille is the representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots. The dots represent the letters and numbers and mathematical, musical and scientific symbols as well.
Who invented Braille?
Braille was invented by Louis Braille in the 19th century in France.
Braille Language in India
India adopted the uniform Braille codes for different languages in 1951. India established the first ever Braille plant called Central Braille Plant in Dehradun. In 1954, Central Braille press was established to manufacture Braille appliances. The press produces simple equipment such as Braille slate, stylus and arithmetic Braille slate.
What are the steps taken by GoI to support the people with disabilities?
The GoI enacted the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995. The act provides special category called 'low vision' along with blind. Also, the act meets the stipulations of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
India accepted several United Nations resolutions on disabled people. This includes Observance of International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981, observance of UN Decade for the disabled 1983-92. India also observed Asia-Pacific Decade for the Disabled declared by ESCAP. ESCAP is Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. It is a regional think-tank that provides analytical opinions on social, economic and environmental dynamics in the region.
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Determine the amount of time you need the hot water – Eg: household of 4, showers 30 minute each.
Trying to decide if a instant or storage heater would be better for your home? One consideration you would want to include in your calculation is the electrical consumption of both. Here is a simple method you can use to calculate:
First estimate the amount of time the hot water is needed in your home. For this example, we would assume a household of 2 pax each showering 1 hour on average a day
As such, amount of time hot water is needed = 1 hour x 2 = 2 hour
Instant heater: Assuming power consumption for your model is 3kw, that would mean the power consumption per day is 2 x 3 = 6kw.
Storage heater: Assuming you it takes 2kw per hour to heat up the entire tank. To reach the desired temperature it takes 15min in between heating up and switching off. Per day you switch on the heater say 4 time (2 bath for 2 person per day). Total time switch on is 1 hour (of pre heating) + 2 hour of showering at 2kw per hour. therefore total consumption is 6kw per day.
*above calculation does not factor in current water temperature within the heater tank
So there you have it, a simple guide to calculation (you will notice storage heater does have more consideration than instant heater).


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Compliance education for recreational fishers
Fisheries Compliance has identified certain segments of the population that have higher levels of non-compliance with recreational fishing rules than desirable. Within these populations it appears that ignorance of the rules is a major contributor with social and cultural factors also playing a part.
A comprehensive initiative targeting at risk populations is being undertaken to educate and raise awareness of fishing rules, the reasons for these rules and the need for New Zealand to manage fisheries in a sustainable manner. The initiative includes school talks, community meetings, brochures describing fishing rules in various languages, more signage on at risk beaches, and more extensive use of the Honorary Fishery Officer network.


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| Style over substance|
The Silva method, also known as Silva Mind Control, is a hypnosis-based self help program developed by a repairman named José Silva. It claims, among other things, to increase your IQ and help you talk with God by staring into space several times a day.
Method and madness
The heart of the Silva method relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of the brain. Silva came across some work pointing out the differential functions of the left and right hemisphere of the brain and came to the conclusion that the right brain is mystical and all powerful and that everyone is stuck in the left hemisphere. This is patent nonsense and goes against every bit of evidence in neuroscience. Silva though ran with it and claims his method unlocks the power of the right hemisphere allowing people to manifest anything they could possibly want.
Some parts of the method should not be taught to children, or only taught with proper care for their use. In particular, "glove anaesthesia" can get kids in trouble if they just "will the pain away" without attending to the underlying issues. Tales have been told of children carrying on playing with arterial bleeding after making the hurt go away, leading to fatal exsanguination.


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Tips for Health Care Providers: Preventing Tubing and Luer Misconnections
Health Care Providers:
ACT to prevent tubing misconnections! To help reduce risk to patients, consider the following strategies, based on recommendations from The Joint Commission1 and ECRI Institute2, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care.
- Assess and clearly label each device, including low-risk devices and high-risk catheters.
- Ensure good communication between health care staff during patient transfer.
- Inform non-clinical staff, patients, families, and caregivers they must get help from clinical staff whenever there is a real or perceived need to connect or disconnect devices or tubing.
- Trace a tube from the patient to the point of origin prior to connecting any new devices or replacing old ones.
- Vigilantly check and recheck Luers to ensure proper connections prior to each use.
Risk managers, nurse managers, clinical educators, and similar personnel may consider taking the following steps to help prevent misconnections:
- Tell clinicians, patients and caregivers in home-based or ambulatory care when new devices are intended for use in the health care facility or home health agency.
- Emphasize the risk of tubing and catheter misconnections in orientation and training.
Health Care Facilities:
ECRI Institute recommends that facilities create a multidisciplinary task force—with staff from nursing, risk management, clinical engineering, and purchasing—to identify potential misconnections hazards and develop strategies for combating them3. Consider the following actions to help prevent misconnections:
- During initial use, check new devices and equipment to identify potential misconnections and take immediate corrective actions, if necessary.
- Report adverse events and near misses, following your facility protocol.
- Report any issues to the FDA through its MedWatch reporting system.
- Health care personnel employed by facilities that are subject to FDA's user facility reporting requirements should follow the reporting procedures established by their facilities.
1 Joint Commission. April 3, 2006. Sentinel Event Alert. "Tubing Misconnections—a persistent and potentially deadly occurrence." Issue 36. _URL_ (PDF - 31KB)
2,3 ECRI Institute. March 2006. Health Devices. "Preventing Misconnections of Lines and Cables." Volume 35, Number 3, pages 81-95. _URL_ (PDF - 387KB)


How to Stop Pitting in Aluminum
John Adams
Aluminum pitting is a common type of corrosion that occurs in the presence of water and salt dissolved in the water. You can prevent pitting in your aluminum surface by cleaning, treating and sealing the aluminum surface.
An aluminum boat is particularly susceptible to pitting.
 1. Dry the surface to be protected and sand it. Start sanding with the 400-grit sandpaper, then follow with the 800-grit sandpaper. Then sand the surface with the fine steel wool.
 2. Apply an aluminum cleaner to the surface using the steel wool. Rub this into the surface until it is thoroughly cleaned. Follow the cleaner's application and drying instructions.
 3. Buff out the entire surface using a clean cotton or wool cloth, or preferably an orbital buffer. Apply aluminum polish to the cloth or orbital buffer, and use the cloth or buffer in circular motions until you have removed all traces of the aluminum cleaner. Follow the polish's application and drying instructions.
 4. Once the surface is dry, apply an aluminum sealer to the surface using a second cloth. Do not use the same cloth used in Step 3. Let the surface dry for the period specified on the aluminum sealer's container and reapply if recommended.
 5. Tip
 If your surface gets scratched or dented, this will break the sealant applied in step 4 and allow moisture and salts to restart the corrosion cycle. To address this, you will need to repeat steps 1 through 4 at and near the damaged surface.
 Perform steps 1 through with little pause in between. You do not want the aluminum to sit exposed for long after the sanding. This will leave the surface susceptible to more corrosion.
 Many of the chemicals mentioned in this are harmful to the skin. Wear protective clothing, especially gloves, and follow all warnings.


A common question for people starting to program on Windows is, "What makes a valid Windows file name?" You want to use this information to make simplifying assumptions in your code: that names can be no longer than MAX_PATH, that two names won't differ only by case, etc. Unfortunately, the answer to what makes a valid file name in Windows is not simple.
Due to the layering of Windows architecture, the definition of a "legal" file name may vary depending upon the component of the operating system you are dealing with.
· NTFS and the Posix subsystem have the most permissive definition of a "legal" name. The name may be up to 32,768 Unicode characters long. The name can contain trailing periods, trailing spaces, and two files may have names that differ only in case (e.g., README.TXT and readme.txt).
· The Win32 subsystem enforces additional constraints on legal file names. The name can be at most MAX_PATH characters long (defined in windef.h as 260 characters), may not have trailing dots or spaces, and file names are case preserving, not case sensitive — if two files exists with names that differ only in case, you will only be able to manipulate one of them through Win32 APIs.
· DOS and 16-bit Windows applications are still limited to "8.3" names.
See Inside Windows 2000, pages 729ff, for more information on the different constraints on file names.
These differences have practical consequences for any code that attempts to manage files that could be created by another program. If your management code uses DOS (heaven forbid!) or Win32 APIs to manipulate files, it is possible for the untrusted program to create files that your program cannot open or manipulate. For example, a user connected to Posix-based FTP server could create files with file names longer than MAX_PATH. If the administrator uses a Win32-based program to manage the FTP upload directory, then he will not be able to open, delete, or otherwise manipulate the files with long file names.
If you are writing a Win32-based program that manages arbitrary files, consider prepending "\\?\" to the start of file names before you call CreateFile( ), DeleteFile( ), RenameFile( ), etc. This escape sequence at the start of a file name instructs the Win32 subsystem to bypass its normal name checking functions, and you will be able to use any valid NTFS name from your Win32 program.


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The capstan on an old ship.
- an apparatus, mainly on ships, around which cables or hawsers are wound for hoisting anchors, lifting weights, etc.: it consists of an upright, spool-shaped cylinder that is turned on an inner shafting by machinery or by hand
- a rotating spindle in a tape recorder mechanism that regulates the speed at which the tape is driven past the head
Origin of capstanMiddle English ; from Old ProvenÃ§al cabestan ; from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Classical Latin capistrum, halter, muzzle ; from capere, to take: see have
- Nautical An apparatus used for hoisting weights, consisting of a vertical spool-shaped cylinder that is rotated manually or by machine and around which a cable is wound.
- A small cylindrical shaft used to drive magnetic tape at a constant speed in a tape recorder.
Origin of capstanMiddle English, from Norman French, from Old Provençal cabestan, from cabestre, noose, from Latin capistrum, halter, probably from capere, to seize; see kapin Indo-European roots.
- (nautical) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
- (electronics) A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.
- catnaps, cat naps
From French cabestan, of uncertain origin.
capstan - Computer Definition
On magnetic tape drives, a motorized cylinder that traps the tape against a free-wheeling roller and moves it at a regulated speed.


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|Oracle® Database SQL Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10759-01
CHR returns the character having the binary equivalent to
n as a
VARCHAR2 value in either the database character set or, if you specify
NCHAR_CS, the national character set.
For single-byte character sets, if
n > 256, then Oracle Database returns the binary equivalent of
n mod 256. For multibyte character sets,
n must resolve to one entire code point. Invalid code points are not validated, and the result of specifying invalid code points is indeterminate.
This function takes as an argument a
NUMBER value, or any value that can be implicitly converted to
NUMBER, and returns a character.
Note:Use of the
The following example is run on an ASCII-based machine with the database character set defined as WE8ISO8859P1:
SELECT CHR(67)||CHR(65)||CHR(84) "Dog" FROM DUAL; Dog --- CAT
To produce the same results on an EBCDIC-based machine with the WE8EBCDIC1047 character set, the preceding example would have to be modified as follows:
SELECT CHR(195)||CHR(193)||CHR(227) "Dog" FROM DUAL; Dog --- CAT
For multibyte character sets, this sort of concatenation gives different results. For example, given a multibyte character whose hexadecimal value is
a1 representing the first byte and
a2 the second byte), you must specify for
n the decimal equivalent of '
a1a2', or 41378. That is, you must specify:
SELECT CHR(41378) FROM DUAL;
You cannot specify the decimal equivalent of a1 concatenated with the decimal equivalent of a2, as in the following example:
SELECT CHR(161)||CHR(162) FROM DUAL;
However, you can concatenate whole multibyte code points, as in the following example, which concatenates the multibyte characters whose hexadecimal values are
SELECT CHR(41378)||CHR(41379) FROM DUAL;
The following example uses the UTF8 character set:
SELECT CHR (50052 USING NCHAR_CS) FROM DUAL; CH -- Ä


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Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center
WSU-TFREC is the research and extension center of Washington
State University dedicated to the tree fruit sciences. Located
in the primary fruit producing region of the world, the center features
a cooperative, multidisciplinary approach to tree fruit production.
This Areawide II Program builds on the successful codling
moth areawide management project (_PHONE_) that reduced in-season
organophosphate use in apples and pears by 75%. Project goals are
to further reduce broad-spectrum pesticide use, expand the use of
mating disruption in pome fruits and new cropping systems, and increase
efficacy of biological control in orchards for secondary pests.
Apple and pear production are at risk under the Food
Quality Protection Act (FQPA) because these fruit comprise a
significant fraction of the diets of infants and children.
Fruit Research at WSU Prosser
A Lygus bug parasitism survey revealed moderate levels of wasp parasitism
in several stone fruit growing regions. Studies of thrips ecology
showed greater thrips abundance in orchard borders compared with
orchard interiors. Click on link below.
Research at WSU Prosser
For Lygus abundance surveys, sweep net sampling was the most effective
sampling method. Lygus damage was correlated to Lygus abundance
in apples. A California phenology model was utilized to predict
first Lygus hatch. Thrips abundance was greater in orchard borders
compared with orchard interiors. Click on links below.
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Flourish Spices and African Food
West African food is an essential part of Olajumoke Elkanah's life, so when she moved to Oregon and discovered that the closest place to buy the ingredients she needed to cook her cultural dishes was over an hour's drive away, she knew she needed to do something. She opened Flourish Spices and African Food in 2022 with the goal of making all the spices, snacks, and produce necessary for her favorite West African dishes affordable and accessible for all.
Ola believes that sharing food has the power to bridge cultures and bring people together. Sign up for one of her cooking classes and she might just let you in on a few of her cooking "secrets" passed down through three generations of her family.


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sd_bus_slot_set_floating, sd_bus_slot_get_floating — Control whether a bus slot object is "floating"
sd_bus_slot_set_floating() controls whether the specified bus slot object
slot shall be "floating" or not. A floating bus slot object's lifetime is bound to the
lifetime of the bus object it is associated with, meaning that it remains allocated as long as the bus object
itself and is freed automatically when the bus object is freed. Regular (i.e. non-floating) bus slot objects keep
the bus referenced, hence the bus object remains allocated at least as long as there remains at least one
referenced bus slot object around. The floating state hence controls the direction of referencing between the bus
object and the bus slot objects: if floating the bus pins the bus slot, and otherwise the bus slot pins the bus
sd_bus_slot_set_floating() to switch between both modes: if the
b parameter is zero, the slot object is considered floating, otherwise it is made a regular
(non-floating) slot object.
Bus slot objects may be allocated with calls such as
sd_bus_add_match(3). If the
slot of these functions is nonNULL the slot object will be of the
regular kind (i.e. non-floating), otherwise it will be created floating. With
sd_bus_slot_set_floating() a bus slot object allocated as regular can be converted into a
floating object and back. This is particularly useful for creating a bus slot object, then changing parameters of
it, and then turning it into a floating object, whose lifecycle is managed by the bus object.
sd_bus_slot_get_floating() returns the current floating state of the specified bus slot
object. It returns negative on error, zero if the bus slot object is a regular (non-floating) object and positive
On success, these functions return 0 or a positive integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.
Returned errors may indicate the following problems:
These APIs are implemented as a shared
library, which can be compiled and linked to with the


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How To Hit A Forehand In Tennis
Learning how to hit a forehand in tennis may take you a little practice, but hitting a tennis forehand is a great way to exercise and have fun. Hitting a good forehand in tennis will depend primarily on the technique you use. Using the correct technique will have you impressing your opponent in no time.
To hit a forehand in tennis, you will need:
- Tennis Racquet
- You have to select a hand grip to be able to hit any stroke in tennis including a tennis forehand. A tennis grip is how you hold the racquet in your hand. There are three types of tennis grips, western, continental, and semi-western. The western or semi-western grip is ideal for a tennis forehand. To hold the racquet in a western position you simply hold the racquet in a hand shape position making sure your thumb is pointing up.
- To hit a forehand in tennis you will need to first get into the ready position. The ready position is the stance you take before you actually hit the ball. Being in the ready position will allow you to hit your tennis forehand hard. The ready position also allows you to remain balanced so that you can hit a tennis forehand.
- Hold the racquet vertically in front of your body with both hands on the grip of the racquet. To hit your tennis forehand, you will need to turn your racquet to horizontal. Now spot the tennis ball and aim to place the tennis ball in the center of the racquet. Brush up through the ball and bring the racquet across your body.
- Buy a racquet that is big enough for your body.
- Never leave tennis balls laying around of the tennis court.
- Make sure you use the right grip.


Mitsubishi breaks long distance Terabits record
Companies could enjoy cheaper international telephone calls and broadband data connections following optical network enhancements...
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Companies could enjoy cheaper international telephone calls and broadband data connections following optical network enhancements achieved in Japan.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has succeeded in sending data at 1.3 terabits per second down a fibre-optic cable 8,400 kilometres in length.
While the speed does not represent an overall speed record, it is a record for the distance, which is equivalent to that from Tokyo to Southern California, the path that fibre-optic cables between Japan and the US often run.
The achievement could be replicated by operators across the world, including those that transport data and voice calls between UK and US companies.
Getting more data to travel along a fibre-optic cable is extremely important for the cable operators.
The high cost of laying undersea cables and keeping them in working order adds to the price telecommunication carriers pay to use the cables.
If more data can be sent along a single fibre, the construction and running costs can be shared between more customers and the price to each customer can be reduced.
One of the standard technologies employed commercially on such cables is dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), a system that allows multiple beams of light to travel along the fibre at the same time without interfering with each other.
Researchers at Mitsubishi Electric used DWDM to group 65 signals together, each giving data speeds of 20 gigabits per second bps. This initiative achieved the total speed of 1.3 terabits per second.
To be able to send the data over the distance tested the engineers worked to refine the amplifiers used in the system, said Takashi Mizuochi, manager of the lightwave transmission team at Mitsubishi Electric's research centre in Kanagawa outside Tokyo.
At intervals along the route of the fibre, amplifiers must be placed to boost the light signal and clean up any interference with the signal.
First, the team improved the amplifiers to produce a stronger light beam that can travel up to 75 kilometres without the need for amplification. Current systems can only manage gaps of around 45 kilometres before an amplifier station is needed, said Mizuochi.
Secondly, the team expanded the bandwidth of the amplifiers so that they would be able to handle more channels. The new amplifiers have a 36-nanometer bandwidth compared to a 30-nanometer bandwidth on normal amplifiers, thus allowing around 10 more channels to be carried down the fibre.
With the 8,400-kilometre barrier broken, Mizuochi is turning his attention to longer distances.
"Now we are trying to expand the distance to 9,000 kilometres," he said.
Why this distance? A transpacific fibre cable often runs in a ring with different paths being taken by the northern and southern halves of the ring. The northern half covers a distance of 9,000 kilometres, he said.
Mitsubishi Electric plans to disclose more details about the transmission system during a presentation at the Optical Fibre Communication Conference scheduled to be held in Anaheim, California, on 20 March.
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waiver n[Anglo-French, from waiver to waive]
: the act of intentionally or knowingly relinquishing or abandoning a known right, claim, or privilege
: the legal instrument evidencing such an act compare estoppel, forfeiture NOTE: Acts or statements made while forming or carrying out a contract may constitute a waiver and prevent a party from enforcing a contractual right (as when an insurer is barred from disclaiming liability because of facts known to it when it issued the insurance policy). Varying standards are applied by courts to determine if there has been a waiver of various constitutional rights (such as the right to counsel) in criminal cases.
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The Sampling check generates a set of features from one or more layers that you can step through to visually inspect. The sample is generated from the feature classes you choose to include based on what is loaded in the map. You can also assign weights to the feature classes, which increases or decreases the number of features for the feature classes that are included in the sample. A value of 1 is the highest weight; 5 is the lowest.
The sample is calculated based on one of the following methods:
- A fixed number of features
- A percentage of all the features in the specified extent
- A number derived from a calculation based on the confidence level, margin of error, and acceptance level
- A polygon grid that is loaded in the map or from a geodatabase
You can choose to run this check on any of the extents that are usually available with checks, such as the selection set, current extent, or the full database.
Once you have defined the criteria for the check, you can configure the notes and a severity rating. The notes allow you to provide a more specific description for the feature that has been written to the Reviewer table and are copied to the Notes field in the Reviewer table. The severity rating allows you to indicate how important the results from a check are in terms of your quality assurance/quality control processes. The lower the number, the greater the priority the check's results have.
- Start ArcMap.
- Open a map document or load data in the map.
- On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Data Reviewer.
- Start a Reviewer session in one of the following:
- Click the Select Data Check drop-down arrow on the Data Reviewer toolbar, click the plus sign next to Advanced Checks, then click Sampling Check.
The Sampling Check Properties dialog box appears. All the visible layers that are currently loaded in the map appear in the Choose Layers list.
- If necessary, type a unique name for the check in the Check Title text box.Note:
The check title can be used to describe the conditions you are looking for with the check. This is useful when you have multiple instances of the same check to validate the same feature classes or tables but with different validation parameters.
- Uncheck the check boxes next to the names of the layers you do not want to include in the sample.
By default, all the visible layers are included in the sample.Tip:
You can click Select All or Clear All to check or uncheck all the check boxes next to the layer names, respectively.
- To adjust the weight, or the significance of the layer in the sample, right-click the layer name in the Choose Layers list and choose a weight option.
- Weight 1 (highest)—The layer is going to have more features included in the sample than other layers with weight values of 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- Weight 2—The layer is going to have more features included in the sample than other layers with weight values of 3, 4, or 5.
- Weight 3—The layer is going to have more features included in the sample than other layers with weight values of 4 or 5.
- Weight 4—The layer is going to have more features included in the sample than other layers with a weight value of 5.
- Weight 5—The layer is going to have the fewest features included in the sample.
- Chose a method for generating the sample.
- Number—A specified number of features from the feature classes chosen in the Choose Layers list is included in the sample.
- Percentage—A specified percentage of the features from the feature classes chosen in the Choose Layers list are included in the sample.
- Auto Calculate—The number of features included in the sample is determined by the following:
- Confidence Level—The level of confidence that the sample size is statistically significant. The default value is 95%, but you can also choose 90%, 98%, or 99%
- Margin Of Error—The acceptable margin of error in the confidence level. The default value is 4%, but you can also choose other values that range from 1% to 10%.
- Acceptable Error—Indicates the acceptable error ratio. The default value is 2%, but you can also choose 1%, 5%, or 10%.
- Do one of the following to configure the calculation method:
To create the sample based on a specific number of features
Click the Number option, then type the number of features you want to include in the sample in the text box.
To create the sample based on a percentage
Click the Percentage option, then type the value that represents the percentage of all the features you want to include in the sample in the text box.Note:
The value specified for the percentage is divided by 100. For example, if you want to sample 50 percent of the features, type 50 not.5.
To create the sample based on automatic calculation
Click the Auto Calculate option, then click the Confidence Level drop-down arrow to choose the confidence level for the data, click the Margin Of Error drop-down arrow to choose the acceptable margin of error for the data, or click the Acceptable Error drop-down arrow and choose the acceptable level of error for the sample.
To create the sample using a polygon grid
Click the Use Grid option. Click the drop-down arrow in the Grid Parameters area to choose the polygon grid or click Browse to load one. Click the Unique ID Field drop-down arrow and choose the field that contains the field you want to use to identify the grid cell. Type the number of cells you want to use in the sample in the Number of grids to sample text box.Tip:
The value you choose from the Unique ID Field drop-down list populates the QC_GRID cell in the Reviewer table.
- If necessary, type descriptive text for the check results in the Notes text box in the Reviewer Remarks area.
If necessary, click the Severity drop-down arrow and choose a value that indicates the priority of the check's results in the Reviewer Remarks area.
The severity indicates the importance of the check result. The values range from 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest priority and 5 being the lowest.
Click the Run Data Check button on the Data Reviewer toolbar.
The Features to Validate dialog box appears.
Choose an option in the Features to Validate area.
- Selection Set—The check is run on the features that are currently selected in the map.
- Current Extent—The check is run on the current map extent, which is controlled by the map scale.
- Definition Query—The check is run on the features that are displayed based on definition queries that have been created for the feature class.
- Full Database—The check is run on all the features in the feature class.
To run the check only on features that have been edited in a versioned workspace, check the Changed Features Only check box.
The Changed Features Only option is available only for a versioned database.
- Click OK.
A progress window appears while the sample is being generated. The results dialog box appears once the check is finished running.
- Choose the Write to Reviewer Table option.
- Click OK.
The sampling check records are written to the Reviewer table.


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Roquefort cheese or blue cheese, conspicuous by its mould and blue-green veins, has anti-inflammatory properties which could ward off heart diseases, says a new finding.
The cheese, which is aged in caves of Southern France, could perhaps explain why the French enjoy good health despite a diet high in saturated fat, a situation dubbed the French Paradox.
A process that occurs as the cheese ripens is good for a healthy gut, helps slow arthritis, and can slow the signs of ageing, such as cellulite, according to Cambridge-based biotech company Lycotec.
Researchers led by Ivan Petyaev and Yuriy Bashmakov, found that the properties of the blue cheese worked best in acidic environments, such as the lining of the stomach, the Daily Mail reports.
It suggested regular consumption by the French of Roquefort, Camembert and other moulded fermented cheeses could be one of the reasons the nation has the lowest rate of cardiovascular mortality in the developed world.


LED Office Lighting: the Best Color Temperature to Increase Productivity
Dec 20th 2018
For a while now people have wanted to know more about the positive effects of LED lighting. Many studies have been conducted to find out how much LED lighting impacts the productivity and alertness of people at work and in school. Studies have even been performed on soldiers in the US Army to see how different lighting affects their productivity—soldiers show slower response times on cognitive tasks measuring spatial and verbal memory with fluorescent lighting instead of LED lighting.
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In this article, we're going to tell you all about color temperature and how it can positively affect the productivity of people while they're at work. We're also going to tell you what specific color temperatures are the best options for offices. Here we go!
First Things First: What's Color Temperature?
Easily stated, color temperature is measured in degrees Kelvin (K).
The color temperature describes how the light appears when the human eye looks directly at the illuminated bulb.Bulbs with color temperatures of approximately 2700K appear yellowish white. As the color temperature increases to 3000K and 3500K, the color starts to appear less yellow and whiter. Color temperatures above 5000K appear more bluish white.
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Daylight Is Ideal
Here's the thing, the best type of lighting that an office can have for optimized productivity is good old natural daylight.Unfortunately, there aren't many offices, or any, that have constant access to natural daylight. Therefore, the next best solution is to mimic natural daylight with artificial light. The color temperature of daylight is typically between 5000K and 7000K. The daylight color temperature at noon is 5600K and sunlight color temperature varies depending on the time of day and weather conditions.
To give the perception of daylight, Superior Lighting suggests offices use light sources with color temperatures of 5000K or higher.
As you might imagine, the amount of blue light in the spectrum of light sources increases with increasing color temperature. Higher color temperatures have a greater impact on mental activity, alertness, and the central nervous system.
How LED Lighting Affects Us
Bright white light that mimics daylight can improve performance for people at work. In addition to aiding people visually and helping them complete tasks that are otherwise impossible to complete without artificial light, the brightness and wavelength of ambient light can also impact the human circadian system, biological clock, mood, and alertness.
Researchers have found that exposure to short wavelength or blue light during the day directly improves alertness and performance. Blue-enriched white light stimulates the brain,improves alertness, performance, and sleep quality. The intensity and color temperature of artificial lighting affects physiological processes in the human body, including: blood pressure, heart rate variability, and core temperature.
Is Fluorescent Lighting Bad for Office Workers?
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For many years, fluorescent lighting has been the go-to solution for office spaces all across the world. Previous to that, the only option was incandescent lighting. When fluorescent lighting came along, offices where quick to adopt as it was a significantly cheaper option.
There have been many scary stories about fluorescent lighting, as when it was introduced there had been term studies about the implications. Rumors began to circulate that fluorescent lighting induced migraines, and that it caused sleep-pattern disruption. There were even rumors that it caused cancer. Let's address these three rumors.
 - Fluorescent lighting causes migraines. While it has been proven that fluorescent lighting does not cause migraines, it can make people who do suffer from migraines feel worse at times. People with migraines are very sensitive to light, and bright lights such as fluorescent lighting can turn a mild headache into a full-blown migraine.
 - Fluorescent lighting causes sleep-pattern disruption. Normally, people who work in offices work during the day then leave work before evening and have some time before they go to bed. For such people, fluorescent lighting will have no effect on their sleep patterns, as the negative effect that fluorescent lighting has on the production of melatonin – which is a natural chemical we produce that helps us sleep – will have diminished by the time bed time arrives.
However, people who work in the evenings under fluorescent lights then go straight to bed may have difficulty sleeping, due to their lack of melatonin. Additionally, some studies have shown that florescent lighting can make people tired and sleepy during the day.
 - Fluorescent lighting causes cancer. This rumor came about because it was found that fluorescent lights emitted radiation. Studies have shown that the amount of radiation (around the same amount as cellphones emit) given by such lights is nowhere near enough to cause cancer.
Is LED Lighting Better than Fluorescent Lighting?
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LED lighting is definitely better for businesses as it is more energy-efficient, the bulbs last a great deal longer and the lights can be dimmed as required so they use much less energy. But is LED lighting better for people working in offices?
You have to remember that overhead lighting is not the only source of light that office workers are subjected to.Some offices do actually have windows, plus there are computer monitors, laptops, cellphones, televisions … office work can be a bombardment of light at times.
Anything that helps sap a person's morale will result in them producing less-than-perfect work, and will leave them feeling tired and jaded. For the many reasons outlined above, choosing LED over fluorescent lighting will help make your office environment a more pleasing place to work.
It could be considered a no-brainer –making the switch from fluorescent to LED lighting is one of the best things you can do for your business, and one of the best things you can do for the people who work for you.
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It can't be denied that natural and artificial light affects peoples' health. Purchase LED office lighting for your office location today. Find the perfect lighting style, wattage, and customization options you need with Superior Lighting today. Visit our website to view our entire selection of LED light fixtures. Reach out to our knowledgeable team with any questions or comments by filling out our online contact form.
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Grow, Wisconsin
Grow is a town in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 473 at the 2000 census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.4 square miles (91.7 km²), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 473 people, 160 households, and 127 families residing in the town. The population density was 13.4 people per square mile (5.2/km²). There were 175 housing units at an average density of 4.9/sq mi (1.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 99.15% White, 0.21% African American, 0.21% Asian, and 0.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.63% of the population.
There were 160 households out of which 38.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.6% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.6% were non-families. 17.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.39.
In the town the population was spread out with 33.2% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 106.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.5 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $36,484, and the median income for a family was $40,000. Males had a median income of $25,500 versus $22,000 for females. The per capita income for the town was $13,133. About 12.2% of families and 18.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.2% of those under age 18 and 19.0% of those age 65 or over.
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Donna Joyner - Case Studies in Neurology
This mini course activity is offered to help student apply what they're learning in the first and second year of medical school in Neurology into a real world context. This involves looking at case studies of common neurological illnesses using small group collaboration. Case studies provide an authentic experience for medical students by introducing them to the practice of medicine and the process of diagnosing illnesses. By become acquainted with these illnesses at the same time you are learning the physiology, you will gain a better understanding of Neurology.
You will work in groups of four to gather data, research resources, and create hypotheses and differential diagnoses. The course will be presented in Blackboard and feature a discussion thread, a chat space and an "ask the expert" section which will allow consultation with a clinical "colleague" on the case. There will also be an areas to communicate with the instructor,either through a whole class discussion thread or private e-mail. Certain assignments will require collaboration to be featured in a provided wiki space. The final project will be a case study featuring the diagnosis based on a case study, written in the form of a SOAP note.
This course spans 6 weeks. Unit 1 will run for 3 weeks and Units 2-4 will each last a week. The weeks run from Monday to Sunday. For the discussions, you must submit your initial post by the Wednesday of the week and post at lease once to each member of your group by the Friday of that week. Also you must respond to everyone that posts to your discussion.
At the end of this course, you will:
- Demonstrate your understanding of a medical case study to familiarize yourself with how they work and how they help you to practice diagnosing illness.
- Generate a SOAP note by collaborating with your classmates using the case studies.
- Demonstrate your ability to work on a cooperative team to navigate patient diagnoses through the activities of online discussions and the use of case studies to develop diagnoses using the SOAP note.
- Relate clinical issues in Neurology to your existing knowledge of the Neurological system through an analysis of common neurological illnesses and their features by writing a 1-2 page, single spaced paper describing how you arrived at the diagnosis of the illness in your case study.
How You Will Be Evaluated
The purpose of this course is to begin to acquaint you with the process of diagnosing illness. This process includes gathering information, documenting it in an organized way and working with colleagues to form conclusions. There is no right answer in this module. You will not be graded according to accuracy of diagnosis. Rather, you will be graded on your data gathering skills, analytical processes and how well you collaborate with your peers. I am provided you with a rubric that will guide you toward successfully completing this module. Use it to gauge how to perform your activities.


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The teletype is a printing telegraph. Printing telegraphs first appeared in the middle of the 19th century. In the USA the principal manufacturer was the Teletype corporation, as it was known after AT&T bought Morkrum-Kleinschmidt in 1930. Teletype machines are generally electro-mechanical where only signal conditioning is done electrically, everything else is mechanical.
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The sky is defined as a infinitely large sphere placed around your world. You can define a constant color for it, or have gradient effects.
The sky color is defined by two fields: skyColor and skyAngle. If you want a single color sky, like the figure on the left above, then you specify a skyColor as the RGB of the desired color, don't specify the skyAngle. The skyAngle is only used when a gradient effect, like the image on the right above, is intended. If you want a gradient effect then you specify the color for the upper pole of the sphere as the first color in the field skyColor. Next you specify at which angle you want a new color (the angle is measured from the upper pole) in the skyAngle. The second color in the skyColor field specifies this last color. The browser should create a gradient between the first and second colors, starting at the upper pole and ending at the angle specified in the skyAngle field. You can specify any number of colors and angles, the number of angles should be the number of colors minus 1. The first color always corresponds to the upper pole. For instance the following combinations were used to create the above images:
|0 (upper pole)||0 0 1|
|0 (upper Pole)||0 0 1|
|1.2||0 0 0.6|
|1.57||1 0 0|
On the left image only one color was specified. In this case no angles are specified because the first color is always the upper pole color. The Sky is all blue.
On the right image from 1.57, roughly 90 degrees, to the lower pole the color used is the last color specified, i.e. red.
Similarly to the sky, the ground is also an infinitely large sphere. The ground sphere is placed inside the sky sphere. The only difference between these two spheres is that in the ground sphere if you do not specify a color, you can see through it, i.e. you can see the sky sphere. Usually, for the ground sphere colors are only provided for the bottom hemisphere.
The following images provides a ground combined with a sky.
The ground color and angles used were:
|3.14 (lower pole)||0.5 0.5 0|
|1.57||0.5 0.5 0|
From 1.57 radians to the upper pole the ground is transparent because no color was specified, therefore allowing you to see the sky sphere. Note that you must specify at least two colors for the ground, otherwise there will be no ground. If you want a ground with a constant color just specify twice the same color. Specifying only one color doesn't provide you with a background.
You can place images on the sides, top and bottom of a conceptually infinitely large box placed inside the ground sphere. Since the box is placed inside the sky and ground spheres, in order to see through these you should use images with transparent parts.
The source code that follows was used to produce the background for the above image
The image used for the sides of the box is
The border presented in the image is only to give you the notion of the image size, it is not part of the image. Black is the transparent color of this image. Looking at the image one can see that the mountains start only at half of the image, they don't start from the bottom of the image. This is because the desired effect was to have the mountains starting when the ground was over and the sky started.
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There are clearly advantages to online training of employees, particularly in respect to cost and time management. So what is reasonable to include in an online course, and how much time needs to be spent with a qualified trainer in person? My feeling is that 32 hours of online training covering the mandatory topics and eight hours of hands-on training is reasonable. The hands-on portion should include, at minimum, the following: donning and doffing personal protective equipment, working with monitoring equipment, practice/demonstration of sampling techniques, and a question-and-answer period.


What Does The Word Dorsal Mean?
What is the root word for dorsal?
Relating to the back or near the backside of a bodily organ: The dorsal part of the tongue refers to the back of it.
Etymology: from Middle French dorsal, from Late Latin dorsalis, corresponding to Latin dorsualis, "of the back" from dorsum, "back", dors, "back of the body" + -al, "pertaining to, referring to"..
Why is it called a dorsal fin?
Functions. The main purpose of the dorsal fin is to stabilize the animal against rolling and to assist in sudden turns. Some species have further adapted their dorsal fins to other uses. The sunfish uses the dorsal fin (and the anal fin) for propulsion.
What's another word for anterior?
Some common synonyms of anterior are antecedent, foregoing, former, preceding, previous, and prior. While all these words mean "being before," anterior applies to position before or ahead of usually in space, sometimes in time or order.
What is dorsal in human body?
Dorsal cavity As its name implies, it contains organs lying more posterior in the body. The dorsal cavity, again, can be divided into two portions. The upper portion, or the cranial cavity, houses the brain, and the lower portion, or vertebral canal houses the spinal cord.
Is dorsal front or back?
In humans, ventral and anterior, dorsal and posterior are interchangeable because we walk upright, or bipedal. … Anatomists, when considering the human body, refer to the head as superior, toward the feet as inferior, the front of the body as anterior or ventral and the back of the body as posterior or dorsal.
What are the 4 body planes?
The anatomical planes are four imaginary flat surfaces or planes that pass through the body in the anatomical position. They are the median plane, sagittal planes, coronal (frontal) planes and horizontal (transverse) planes (figure 2).
What is difference between ventral and dorsal?
The term ventral refers to the anterior (front) aspect of the embryo, while dorsal refers to the posterior (back).
What is another word for dorsal?
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What does the word dorsal mean in medical terms?
Medical Definition of dorsal (Entry 1 of 2) 1a : being or located near, on, or toward the upper surface of an animal (as a quadruped) opposite the lower or ventral surface. b : being or located near, on, or toward the back or posterior part of the human body. 2 chiefly British : thoracic.
Where does the word dorsal come from?
Etymology. From Middle English dorsal, dorsale, from Medieval Latin dorsālis ("of or relating to the back").
Where is your dorsal?
The dorsal cavity is at the posterior, or back, of the body, and includes the head and the back of the trunk. It is subdivided into the cranial cavity and spinal cavity.
What is dorsal heart?
In general, Dorsal side means Back side and Ventral side means front side. Means, the back side of heart will be Dorsal and Front side toward our chest will be ventral.
What do you mean by dorsal?
Medical Definition of Dorsal Dorsal: Relating to the back or posterior of a structure. As opposed to the ventral, or front, of the structure. Some of the dorsal surfaces of the body are the back, buttocks, calves, and the knuckle side of the hand.
What do you mean by dorsal side?
The dorsal (from Latin dorsum 'back') surface of an organism refers to the back, or upper side, of an organism. If talking about the skull, the dorsal side is the top. … For example, in a fish, the pectoral fins are dorsal to the anal fin, but ventral to the dorsal fin.
How do you use the word dorsal in a sentence?
Dorsal sentence examplesThe lungs are small and occupy only the dorsal portion of the thoracic cavity. … Tail long, its apical half-clothed on the dorsal surface with long hairs. … These processes stretch across the body cavity to be inserted in the dorsal and ventral middle lines.More items…