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Effects Of Postal Service Cuts Could Ripple Through Middle Class
Originally published on Sat February 9, 2013 12:11 pm
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
The continued downsizing of the U.S. Postal Service has especially hit African-Americans and armed forces veterans. These are two groups that have long relied on postal jobs for a good income, job security and a path to the middle class. For more, we're joined by Philip Rubio. He's a former letter carrier who's now an assistant professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University and author of the book, "There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice and Equality."
Mr. Rubio, thanks for being with us.
PHILIP RUBIO: Thanks for having me, Scott.
SIMON: The U.S. Postal Service historically has been a large employer of African-Americans. Why is that?
RUBIO: Well, since 1865, since the end of the Civil War, it became a job magnet for African-Americans. Oftentimes, when they couldn't find work in the private sector, especially in the South when textile mills appear and they're only hiring whites or industrial jobs are only open to blacks, you know, the most dirty, dangerous or menial. But 1865's a date when they're actually able to start working.
SIMON: And this history has persisted into our time?
RUBIO: Yes. It was a place where African-Americans could find jobs to pursue while they were trying to find work, maybe in their chosen profession. Maybe they had degrees. It was not uncommon for doctors, lawyers and dentists, or people trying to get those, the graduate and professional degrees, to be working for the post office.
SIMON: And the post office, I guess, has been kind of a job magnet for veterans too?
RUBIO: Yes, it has. Since the Civil War, you know, with veterans' preferences for disabled veterans and, you know, that was a way for the federal government, you know, to tell veterans thank you for your service. The number one government agency was the post office. It was a secure job, the wages were decent, and so with each, you know, with each succeeding war, for instance, you get a lot of veterans coming back.
SIMON: And this has persisted to this day too?
RUBIO: It has. At one point, let's say, I think by 1948, half of all postal workers were veterans. It's down around 31 percent today because not as many people serve in the military, but it's still the biggest employer of veterans.
SIMON: How has working for the post office been for many a kind of gateway into the middle class?
RUBIO: Well, it provided a middle-class status for African-Americans especially. The fact that you had - the pay wasn't always great, but it was regular and with benefits and job security you could accumulate wealth. That means you could provide higher education for yourself and your children. By 1940, 28 percent of black postal workers had some college education, compared to 5 percent overall.
African-Americans also had the protection under the Civil Service Act of 1883. They also had protection in case a local postmaster wanted to fire them for civil rights activity. So, you know, this actually led to black community development.
SIMON: It's irresistible to note that it seems like there will be a substantial number of letter carriers and other people who work for the post office looking for jobs now. Where else can they work?
RUBIO: That's a good question, especially because one out of every two letter carriers, for instance, is over the age of 50. And, well, automation already removed a lot of clerk jobs. That's going to be hard for letter carriers and postal workers in general, to, you know, to transition. I mean, they have a skill and it is a skill, that they perform, and it's, you know, it's a service. The post office is not a charity. It's a - that we should keep alive just so people can have good middle-class incomes. It's a self-supporting universal service.
SIMON: Philip Rubio, assistant professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University. Thanks very much for being with us.
RUBIO: Thank you for having me, Scott. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Step 9: Manually adding participants
Published 2/1/17, 4:02 PM, by Aaron Bird
This tutorial will explain how to manually add a rider to an event. This could be in response to a postal entry.
The steps to manually add a participant can be summarised as:
 1. If you already know the CTT ID of the participant, you should use this ID and add the new participant
 2. If you do not know the CTT ID, you should search for the ID using the participants first name, last name and gender. If a match is found, you should use this CTT ID
 3. If you are 100% there is not already a CTT ID for this rider in the system, you should add the participant and then use the issued CTT ID.


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This kit offers suggestions for activities, demonstrations and experiments that can be performed with our laser pointers. Typical experiments such as measuring the wavelength of laser light and determining the effects of polarization are also explained. The manual even includes the basic theory on laser pointer operation.
Includes: 1 holographic diffraction grating, 1 Polaroid filter, 2 first surface mirrors, 2 lenses (1 short f.l., 1 long f.l.), 1 cylindrical lens, 1 solar cell, 1 rectangular prism, and 3 color filters (red, blue, green). The 28 page instruction manual covers topics involving reflection, refraction, light absorption and more.
Note: A laser pointer is needed but not included.

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Published by Peter Boler on November 10, 2020
In part one of this series, I pointed out that in times of economic downturns, like we are seeing with COVID-19, the natural tendency is to reduce if not eliminate the level of investment in new technologies and methodologies – an obvious approach to dealing with economic uncertainty. However, while this is viable over the short term, the reality is that all businesses have to re-evaluate their operational priorities to ensure they emerge from the crisis in a better position to deal with new economic realities. For many laboratory-dependent organizations, this means looking for ways to become more efficient, perhaps even increasing throughput while spending less, but still generating accurate results.
I want to dig a little deeper into the advantages of the VUV Analyzer™ Platform for Fuels as it relates to improvements in operational efficiency and long-term cost reduction.
Let's start by looking at the platform itself. The VUV Analyzer Platform for Fuels is designed to analyze different fuel types (Figure 1), with no changes in hardware or setup. This is significant because it means you can easily switch between gasoline (ASTM D8071), jet fuel (ASTM D8267) and diesel/biodiesel (ASTM # Pending).
Table 1 highlights the traditional analytical techniques and methods used for the analysis of these different fuels. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, you will need to run multiple samples on different analytical techniques. From an efficiency standpoint, this requires a lot of time and depending on the techniques, significant expertise. Since the VUV Analyzer Platform is automated and uses a single column, there is minimal impact to productivity when switching between analysis types. This allows you to consolidate fuels analysis to a single platform while increasing the efficiency of the analyst. Ultimately you can increase analytical throughput with fewer analytical techniques. But what about cost?
Logically, it would make sense that reducing the number of analytical techniques would have a dramatic impact on cost. In part 1, I showed that when using the VUV Analyzer Platform for Fuels running ASTM D8071, you could reduce the cost-per-analysis from approximately $64.63 USD per sample to $5.21 USD. For jet fuel (Figure 2), cost-per-analysis can be reduced to $3.07 USD per sample compared to FIA (ASTM D1319) at $51.49 USD, and HPLC (ASTM D6379) at $8.98 USD per sample. How is this possible?
The answer is not all that complicated and takes into account three different variables: cost-of-acquisition, cost-of-maintenance and consumables, and cost-of-labor. Let's consider each:
Usually the cost to acquire the hardware gets the most attention as it is the upfront cost needed. Depending on the instrumentation required, it can be inexpensive like FIA or more expensive like GC-MS. To be fair implementing the VUV Analyzer Platform does require more capital investment compared to other techniques, which is reflected in Figure 2 with a higher cost-per-sample on the capital line. It is important to note that the number is greatly influenced by whether or not the VUV Analyzer hardware is being added-on to an existing GC (which reduces the capital requirement) or a new GC. However, the capital investment is only a small part of the story.
Cost-of-Maintenance and Consumables
Consolidating from multiple analytical techniques reduces the number of instruments in the lab. This means less maintenance and consumables cost over time. Simply put, using the VUV Analyzer Platform reduces the number of GCs and gas consumption, eliminates expensive consumables like platinum reactors used in GC-OFID, eliminates the need for ion source cleanings and expensive deuterated standards. Additionally, there are no expensive dyes (FIA) or hazardous solvents like those used in HPLC. The VUV Analyzer Platform has one consumable – a lamp that only needs to be replaced every 2000 hours. To put this in perspective, one user of the VUV Analyzer Platform running ASTM D8071 and D8267 has calculated that they will save approximately $125,000 USD per year (excluding labor) by replacing the other techniques with the VUV Analyzer Platform.
The last variable is labor. Any discussion of labor cost almost always revolves around reduction. However, when I refer to reducing the cost-of-labor, I am actually referring to better utilization of existing resources as opposed to the elimination of that cost. Simply put, since the VUV Analyzer Platform eliminates the need for multiple analytical techniques, is automated and calibration free, and does not require any changes in hardware or setup when changing between fuels types, laboratory resources can be utilized on other high priority projects – which means more productivity.
As discussed in part 1, in times of economic uncertainty, it is usually capital expenditures which get delayed or eliminated first. Laboratories that look to eliminate long-term recurring costs first are often better positioned to emerge from economic uncertainties. Strategic capital investments that have a positive impact on reducing operating costs and generating operational efficiencies over the long term are critical to future success.

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More than 21 million children receive free or reduced price meals during the school year, and too many of these children don't have enough food to eat during summer vacation. Thanks to the Summer Food Service Program, many schools serving low-income communities will help meet this need by providing free meals to children at school cafeterias, parks, public housing complexes, summer camps and churches.
Burke County Schools in Georgia, delivers summer meals to children and allows them to eat on air conditioned buses. Children can choose from hot and cold sandwiches, fresh fruit, juice and milk. With 14 bus routes and over 110 stops, the school nutrition program serves approximately 2,000 students a day, in addition to the meals they serve in summer school, vacation Bible schools and summer camps.
Find summer meal sites in your community by calling the National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY or 1-877-8-HAMBRE.


text: This photograph forms part of an archive which belonged to Isabella T. McNair. Born in Kilmarnock, McNair gained an MA in English from the University of Edinburgh before moving to British India in 1917 to teach at Women?s Christian College in Madras. In 1928 she was appointed Principal of Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. McNair followed in the footsteps of a wave of British missionary women who began arriving in India during the late nineteenth century. A gentle woman, she was noted for her deliberate manner and soft voice, even when disciplining her students. She promoted religious tolerance, allowing Muslim girls who transferred to Kinnaird in the 1930s to fast during Ramadan. After Partition many refugee students were comforted by the warmth of her welcome after the displacement and in some cases violence they had experienced.


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24 easy to print, double sided Body flashcards. Just print and fold. Finished! (Laminating isn't a bad idea either.) Download includes teachers guide for full set!
Key Points of this set:
- Each card is numbered for easy sorting. This set includes cards 25 to 48.
- Body parts in order from head to toes.
- Images appear on the front of the card with text on the back.
- Text is shown both as a word and broken down by syllable.
Cards Appearing in this set:
- head, hair, face, eyes, ears, nose, cheeks, mouth, teeth, tongue, chin, neck, shoulders, belly, back, arms, elbow, hand, fingers, legs, knees, feet, toes, butt


What do liberals and conservatives look for in a date?
September 10, 2013 in Other Sciences / Social Sciences
For their study, titled "The Dating Preferences of Liberals and Conservatives," the research team randomly sampled 2,944 profiles from a popular Internet, and examined the dating preference of users who identified as either liberal of conservative. The data allowed them to compare the way each dater described themselves on a number of dimensions, including race and ethnicity, religion, and the desire to have children, to the characteristics of their ideal date. Overall, regardless of ideology, daters want a partner that shares their characteristics.
Klofstad says that the to seek out partners that are like us could contribute to the increasing political divide between liberals and conservatives. "Parents pass their on to their children. So, if we are more easily able to find someone like ourselves by'shopping' for a partner online, Internet dating could hasten this process of. Of course, this process would occur over, not overnight."
Other findings:
Few individuals were willing to express a definitive political preference. The majority of online daters, 57 percent, reported that their politics are "middle of the road" rather than liberal or conservative. When asked to describe their body type, a larger proportion of daters voluntarily described themselves either "heavy set," having "a few extra pounds" or "stocky" than listed "politics" as one of their interests.
Conservative daters are more likely to be males and are less likely to belong to a racial or ethnic minority group. Liberals are younger, less likely to have been married, and less likely to have children. While liberal daters are better-educated than conservatives, this does not translate into any detectable income disparities between the two groups.
By and large, liberals and conservatives do not differ in their tendencies to seek out a partner that shares their characteristics. There are some notable exceptions, however. Overall, conservatives appear to be somewhat less accepting of dissimilarity. For example, conservatives are more likely than liberals to desire a date who shares their current relationship status, and conservative males are more likely than liberal males to want to date a female of their own race.
Provided by University of Miami
"What do liberals and conservatives look for in a date?" September 10, 2013 _URL_


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As every child grows at a different rate, it's mostly critical to pay attention to your child's height. We recommend that you stop using your mini crib when your child begins to climb or reaches 35" in height.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Today's information is increasing rapidly, doubling every three years. Consequently, the search and recognition stages in computer applications will consume a growing portion of the total CPU time. The SSE 4.2 instruction set, first implemented in Intel's Core i7, provides String and Text New Instructions (STTNI) that utilize SIMD operations for processing character data. Though originally conceived for accelerating string, text, and XML processing, the powerful new capabilities of these instructions are useful outside of these domains, and it is worth revisiting the search and recognition stages of numerous applications to utilize STTNI to improve performance.


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Asset Distance and Search Radius
For each polygon geofence that covers the asset position or is close to it, the Geofencing Extension API returns the geofence geometry together with the asset's distance to this geometry.
- The asset is outside of the geofence – the distance is the straight line to the closest border of the geofence. This is always the case for line and point geofences.
- The asset is inside the geofence – the distance is the straight line to the closest border of the polygon, with a negative sign.
- The asset is outside of the search radius – the geofence is not listed in the response.
- The asset is inside the polygon but further away from the border of the search radius – a special value indicating "far inside" is returned.
In your application, you can use the asset distance to generate events with different severity levels based on specific distance thresholds. You can also suppress superfluous events if the asset is moving along the geofence border, such as, entering or leaving the geofence frequently without a significant change in the asset distance.
- within the polygon 250m from the closest border
- within the polygon more than 20km from the closest border
- outside the geofence 333m from the closest border
- outside the geofence more than 20km from the closest border (this value applies to all non-listed geofences, when the asset is outside of the search radius)
Events such as entering, leaving, flickering along the border of the geofence, or re-entering the geofence do not receive an explicit response; only the asset distances. The same applies to a sequence of events, such as the asset entering the geofence for the third time or leaving for the second time on the same day.


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LANCASTER, PA – Armstrong Ceilings has created an interactive Environmental Impact Calculator on its Web site to demonstrate the difference that recycling old ceiling tiles can make.
By simply entering the number of square feet of ceilings to be recycled, visitors are able to view the environmental impact, including the pounds of waste diverted from landfills, tons of virgin raw materials saved, kilowatt hours of energy saved, gallons of potable water saved, and kilograms of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases avoided.
The Calculator can also display the impact in terms of everyday analogies, such as the number of tires diverted from landfills, pounds of carry-on luggage not carried on, months of electricity needed to power a home, loads of laundry not washed, and miles not driven.
An Alternative to Landfill Disposal
Armstrong introduced the industry's first ceiling recycling program in 1999. Since that time, the company, working in conjunction with its customers, has recycled more than 80,000,000 square feet of discarded ceiling tiles. This represents more than 11,000 dumpsters full of construction waste that would have normally been taken to landfills.
The closed-loop program enables building owners to ship ceilings from renovation projects to an Armstrong ceiling plant as an alternative to landfill disposal. As part of the program, the company even pays freight costs for shipping the old ceilings, which it uses as raw materials in the manufacture of new ceilings.
To access the Environmental Impact Calculator, visit _URL_
To obtain more information on the Ceiling Recycling Program, visit _URL_
Armstrong World Industries Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings and cabinets. Based in Lancaster, PA, Armstrong operates 37 plants in nine countries and has 11,000 employees. For more information, go to _URL_.


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A saliva gland test may be enough to diagnose Parkinson's disease, a new study suggests.
The study, which will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego in March, found that testing a portion of a saliva gland might be a way to determine whether a person has Parkinson's.
"There is currently no diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease," study author Dr. Charles Adler, with the Mayo Clinic Arizona and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, said in a statement.
"We have previously shown in autopsies of Parkinson's patients that the abnormal proteins associated with Parkinson's are consistently found in the submandibular salivary glands, under the lower jaw, and this is the first study demonstrating the value of testing a portion of the saliva gland to diagnose a living person for Parkinson's disease," Adler said.
"Making a diagnosis in living patients is a big step forward in our effort to understand and better treat patients," he added.
Adler and his team studied 15 people with an average age of 68 who had Parkinson's disease for an average of 12 years. Researchers said that the patients had responded to Parkinson's medication and did not have known salivary gland disorders.
Researchers took biopsies from two different salivary glands in each of the participants. The two glands examined in the study included the gland just beneath the lower jaw and the minor salivary gland in the lower lip.
Researchers then stained the biopsied tissue samples and looked to see whether there was any evidence of the abnormal Parkinson's protein.
Researchers noted that there was not enough sample tissue in four of the initial lower jaw biopsies to complete the tests. However, the abnormal Parkinson's protein was detected in nine of the 11, or 82 percent, of the patients with enough tissue to study.
"While still under analysis, the rate of positive findings in the biopsies of the lower lip glands appears to be much lower than for the lower jaw gland," Adler said.
Researchers said that the latest findings provide the first "direct evidence" to support the use of lower jaw gland biopsies as a diagnostic test for patients with Parkinson's disease.
"This finding may be of great use when needing tissue proof of Parkinson's disease, especially when considering performing invasive procedures such as deep brain stimulation surgery or gene therapy," he concluded.
Published by Medicaldaily.com


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Occasionally a USB memory drive will not read or write to the Protocol 3 control.
Requirements for a memory drive to work with the Protocol3 control are:
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To check format type and reformat for the correct type, follow steps below.
- Insert USB stick into PC.
- Open Windows Explorer and right click on the USB stick drive letter.
- Select Properties and note file system type (e.g. FAT or FAT32 most likely.)
- Close the properties window, and right click on the drive letter again.
- Select Format…
- Change the File system type for format to FAT32.
- Un-select Quick Format to truly wipe everything.
- Press Start.


FRASTA: Fracture Surface Topography Analysis
SRI has developed breakthrough technology for diagnosing and predicting fatigue failure in pipelines, aircraft, bridges, power plants, and other structures based on 3-D fractography.
An SRI researcher observes FRASTA images on a computer
SRI's Fracture Surface Topography Analysis (FRASTA) technology analyzes fracture surfaces to determine how and why a structural failure occurred. In fact, the failure event can often be replayed from start to finish. Furthermore, FRASTA provides mechanistic and microstructural information that is not obtainable from conventional fracture surface analyses and can be used to predict the remaining lifetime of structures.
The technology has particular value to those responsible for the integrity of aging structures by facilitating repair, retrofit, and replacement. Application of FRASTA to degrading pipelines, aircraft, bridges, power plants and the like is expected to lead to better decisions for managing and extending the life of a structure and new procedures for monitoring its health.
How FRASTA works
 1. The lifetime of an aging structure is determined by a crack that initiates and grows over a long period of time.
 2. Crack initiation and growth is accompanied by deformation occurring at the crack front.
 3. Deformation produces roughness features on the fracture surfaces.
 4. FRASTA quantifies and analyzes the topographies of the opposing fracture surfaces to determine deformation evolution at the microstructural level.
 5. These data enable the growth history of the crack to be reconstructed from initiation to final failure.
The SRI-developed FRASTAscope is a commercially marketed confocal optics instrument that produces topographic maps of fracture surfaces. FRASTA software manipulates the conjugate topographs, displays images of fracture surface evolution, and plots the crack growth history. Correlation with the operational history of the structure (e.g., pipe pressurization history, hard aircraft landings, and power plant start-ups and shut-downs) provides data useful for predicting lifetime and setting inspection protocols.
As part of our expertise in fracture physics and failure analysis, SRI continues to extend 3-D fracture surface analysis and develop faster, more efficient, and higher-resolution methods to quantify and interpret fracture surface topography. Fourier, wavelet, and discrete cosine transformation techniques are being applied to analyze fractographic data and extract additional information from fracture surfaces. Key goals include deducing load conditions responsible for failures and quantifying the crack nucleation process.


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The standard strain of Serratia marcescens causing sperm agglutination in vitro leading to infertility in female mice without causing inflammation was already available in the laboratory. So, to investigate the underlying mechanism and its role in infertility, the corresponding sperm agglutination factor was isolated. As only the washed cells, and not the supernatant, showed sperm agglutination so the washed cells were sonicated and the proteins in the supernatant were precipitated out with ammonium sulphate at the saturation of 60-80% and purified by gel permeation chromatography followed by ion exchange chromatography. The sperm agglutination factor (SAF) was found to be a ~54 kDa protein. SAF at a concentration of 60 μg was able to cause 100% agglutination of mouse spermatozoa within 30 min of incubation at 37°C, whereas a concentration of 80 μg resulted in instant loss of viability of mouse spermatozoa and major decrease in Mg++ ATPase activity was observed at a concentration of 100 µg. Further, in vivo studies demonstrated that a single intravaginal administration of SAF (10 μg) before mating completely prevented conception in female mice. Thus, SAF might be one of the reasons for female infertility and with its excellent spermicidal activity, it could be developed as a potent vaginal contraceptive in future.
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Sometimes you simply can't help it, and you break into uncontrollable laughter at the least appropriate time possible. It makes sense, when you think about it, since laughter often comes as a reflexive response to discomfort and absurdity.
Even so, it's hard to explain that it's reflexive and not personal when you start losing your breath laughing at a funeral, or at someone else's unfortunate story.
In a popular Reddit thread, people shared stories of the worst time they lost it laughing, and it will make you feel infinitely better about your own memories of insensitive giggling.
This was at a ballet school performance. It was for kids ranging from 5 to 16 year olds.
For one of the younger age groups they did this thing where one kid pranced from one corner of the stage to the other, and then another kid would do the opposite, in a big X pattern. And they would have these gigantic sh*t-eating grins on their faces. Just horribly precious.


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You must be an Insightly administrator to create a new rule.
Lead assignment rules automate the process of assigning leads as they are added to Insightly, making it easier on sales managers and teams to distribute leads evenly or according to specific criteria. You can choose to assign leads in a number of different ways, including:
- Geographic area, by selecting fields like Postal Code, State/Province, or City.
- Number of employees, by selecting the Employee Count field.
- Your own custom fields that you've set up in Insightly.
- Round robin, by selecting a team or multiple individuals to receive leads on a rotating basis.
You can use almost any lead field to set up a rule, and you can choose from many different matching criteria.
Creating a lead assignment rule
- Click the profile icon, and navigate to the System Settings > Lead Assignment Rules page.
- Click the Add Rule button.
- Enter a name for the rule that summarizes the criteria you'll be entering. In this example, we're assigning leads according to the state or province in their mailing addresses, so we're calling it "Assign by Region."
- Select which methods of entry the rule will apply to. These are the ways your leads are being entered into the CRM. Your options are:
- API - When leads are created automatically from sources outside of Insightly through our API.
- Web to Lead form - When leads are added from an Insightly-generated webform that you place on your website.
- Manually Added Leads - Leads entered by one of your users through their web browser or Insightly mobile app. This also includes copied leads, or contacts that are changed to leads.
- Select more than one of the above - You can apply the same rule to more than one entry method.
- Select none of the above - You can create rules that won't be applied to any of the entry methods above, but can be selected when you import leads.
While you can create more than one lead assignment rule, only one can be active for a particular entry method. In other words, you can set up a rule that applies to leads created from the Web to Lead form and are manually entered. But if you create another rule for manually-entered leads, the first rule you created will no longer apply to that entry type.
- Click the Save Rule button.
- The criteria section will now appear for your rule. This is where you tell Insightly which data to look for and whom to assign the matching leads to. To enter your first set of criteria, click the Add Criteria button.
- Select the field and an operator, then enter a value for the leads you want to match to. For each new filter, click the Add Filter Row link and select the AND or OR operator. Use AND to narrow the number of leads that will match, and use OR to broaden the list of matches with either the preceding value or the next value.
In this example, we're creating a set of criteria for a region of western U.S. states. We'll filter our leads by State/Province fields that are equal to CA OR NV OR AZ.
- When your criteria filters use both AND and OR Boolean operators, you'll need to organize them using the Filter Logic field to correctly match the leads. If you're not mixing AND and OR operators, skip this step.
- Select a team, a user, or multiple users. When a team or more than one user is selected, Insightly will assign the leads in a "round robin" fashion. That means the system will rotate the assignments through the group of users alphabetically by first name.
For example, for a three-person team: Lead #1 goes to user Adam Smith, Lead #2 to David Hume, and Lead #3 to Thomas Reid, then Lead #4 will go to Adam Smith and start the cycle again, evenly distributing the leads as they are added.
- Click the Save Criteria button.
- The rule will be updated and saved with your new criteria. Click the Add Criteria button to add your next set of criteria following steps 6 through 10. Continuing our example, we could add other regions for states in New England and the Southeast U.S.
- Click the bar to the left of an item to reorder the criteria, if necessary. Each entry will be executed sequentially, so if a new lead matches the first set of criteria, it will be assigned and the process will end. If it doesn't match the first, Insightly will check the second, then the third, etc. Place the criteria in an order that considers that logic.
It's a good idea to have the last set of criteria be broad enough to catch leads that will slip through all the other rules. For the regional example, we might have a criteria that says "if State/Province is empty, assign to the sales manager."
- Click the Save Rule button to save your changes.
- Now that your rule is set up, enter a test lead through each of the methods you've selected. If the lead isn't assigned properly, adjust your rules and criteria as necessary. (Don't forget to delete your test leads when you've finished testing.)
Testing the process will also help you catch criteria that may have been overlooked. This can be a bit of a logic puzzle at first, but you'll get the hang of it!


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A constant is a fixed piece of data that exists only on the diagram. Use a constant instead of a control when you know that a certain piece of data should always be the same regardless of other parts of your code.
You can use the following types of constants in graphical programming:
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All versions of Windows, thankfully come with the option of creating a recovery disc so that the OS can be restored in case it gets corrupted, or damaged via malware, trojans and/or viruses. Recovery Disk is a very important feature of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which allows you to create a custom recovery disk to restore your Windows in case something goes wrong.
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More info on this cool little experiment can be found here:
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quantum maps arbitrary note values to objects in juggling patterns. higher notes correspond to higher throws by default, but any value can be assigned. additionally, the program allows for a distinction between the left and right hands. note triggers are set to the peak of each object, rather than the traditional catching or throwing position. this produces unexpected rhythmic variations, and allows for chords to exist.


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The cost of food distribution is an important element in food costs. Processed and fresh products for retail sale are transported in shipping containers to their destinations. The variety of container sizes and shapes has made it difficult to develop efficient handling techniques.
Modularization, a concept that geometrically relates food shipping container sizes to one another, offers a way of reducing food costs. This concept has been used in European countries with good results, but little has been done in the United States to implement such standardization. If used, it would permit more efficient transportation and handling of goods, eliminating wasted space and resulting in less damage to goods. Because of diverse package sizes and large capital investments in the packaging industry, modularization can involve high initial equipment costs, but costs can be reduced as size changes are coordinated with new products and normal equipment replacement. Manufacturers would bear the greatest burden of conversion costs and benefit least, while wholesalers would benefit most. Conversion to the metric system would simplify geometric relationships which could help in modularization. If the food industry should convert to the metric system, some manufacturers may design new packages in modular units. Increased food system efficiency could lead to lower food prices, but with neither government nor industry promoting modularization, this is unlikely.
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Recommendation: The Department of Agriculture should initiate the advancement of modularization and enlist the participation of the food industry. Such an effort should include: (1) identifying and quantifying costs and benefits of modularization; (2) determining the most feasible method to coordinate modularization with industry changes; (3) exploring with the food industry what further steps may be necessary; and (4) obtaining the assistance of the National Bureau of Standards. The U.S. Metric Board, when formed, should consider modularization in actions to change food package sizes. Congress should examine the status of efforts to coordinate metrication and modularization and examine food industry progress toward modularization. (HTW)
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in Switzerland. The similarity of the word with the name of Pontius Pilate has given rise to the tradition that the Roman Governor, being banished to Gaul by Tiberius, wandered to this mount and threw himself into a black lake on its summit. But Mont Pileatus means the hatted mountain, because it is frequently capped with clouds.
The story goes, that once a year Pilate appears in his robes of office, and whoever sees the ghost will die before the year is out. In the sixteenth century a law was passed forbidding anyone to throw stones in the lake, for fear of bringing a tempest on the country.
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1. Start out with removing any nail polish on your nails as well as cutting/filing them to the desired shape.
2. The next thing you need to do is find a triangular makeup sponge. You can find these at the Dollar Tree, or can even cut a rectangular sponge!
3. Pick out the two or three (or four!) colors you would like to ombre onto your nails. These can be varying shade of the same color or different colors altogether!
4. To get the ombre effect onto your nails, you can do one of two things:
- Apply the nail polish onto a surface like plastic wrap and mix the edges to create the desired effect. Dab the sponge onto the polish and then onto your nails!
- Apply nail polish directly on the sponge and then onto your nails!
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Genetic testing: healthcare of the future?
Genetics is playing an increasingly important role in health care. New technical advances and information deriving from human genome research are changing health care practices and the economics of healthcare provision. These advances have broad social implications, particularly with the prospect in the future of a significant increase in the choice of genetic tests on the market. Can there be equitable access to such testing? What is the impact of offering tests for conditions for which there is no effective medical treatment at present? What are the quality guarantees for genetic testing, and should there be international standards?
An OECD workshop on genetic testing held in Vienna on 23-25 February was devoted to the discussion of ways to optimise health care benefits while protecting individuals and their families from the potential of discrimination on the basis of the testing.
Participants, including experts from 17 OECD countries, representatives of patients' organisations, industry, non governmental organisations, and the World Health Organisation (WHO), identified four areas where co-ordinated international action is urgently needed:
- Development of internationally recognised and mutually compatible best practice policies for quality assurance and accreditation of genetic tests and services;
- Development of compatible electronic information systems in genetics;
- Enhancement of current counselling services, genetic training and public information;
- Examination of possible impacts of monopolistic licensing practices.
In recognition of the global importance of these issues, the OECD will continue to strengthen co-operation in biotechnology with other international organisations, particularly with the WHO, as highlighted in a Framework for Co-operation signed by the Directors of the two organisations on 16 December 1999.
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The Inlet Manifold Gasket is between the engine and the air intake manifold and it seals both parts together. It allows the air/fuel mixture to go through the air inlets into the engine, ready for combustion inside the engines cylinder. The Inlet Manifold gasket also is used to cool the engine coolant that can flow through it.
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In a PC, to execute the instructions required to switch between segmented addressing of memory and flat addressing. A thunk typically occurs when a 16-bit application is running in a 32-bit address space, and its 16-bit segmented address must be converted into a full 32-bit flat address. On the other hand, if a 32-bit program calls a 16-bit DLL, then the thunk is in the opposite direction: from 32 bit to 16 bit.


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The Impact of the Skin Effect on Deep Submicron Integrated Circuits
Since the first chip was manufactured in a CMOS technology there has been a drive to shrink dimensions of both wires and transistors. The reason is that down-scaling enables designs with more functionality and higher performance. However, with the 0.25um process, interconnects became as important as the gate delay. Today interconnects are the limiting factor for chip performance. This requires that more attention has to be paid to the behavior of interconnects.
Until the recent years, RC models have been used to capture interconnect behavior. However, today when designing high performance circuits, RC models are not accurate since inductance (L) is becoming significant. In some cases not even RLC models are accurate enough to capture interconnect behavior because of secondary effects that affect interconnects. One of these secondary effects is the skin effect. The skin effect is a phenomenon where high frequency current tend to crowd at the surface of the interconnect, due to the inductive effects. This results in a frequency-dependent resistance that increases with frequency.
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15 Terrifying Ancient Medical Practices
We all know medical knowledge was lacking centuries ago. However, there were more crazy ancient medical practices than you might think. See 15 of them.
If you're somehow lucky enough to have the smarts to make the first time machine and travel back to the ancient world, try not to get sick while you're there. Those ancients did some crazy, terrifying things in the name of "medicine." Some ancient medical practices seem insane and barbaric today.
Sure, Hippocrates might have said "do no harm" nearly 2,400 years ago, but there were still plenty of pseudo-medical practices going on that we're pretty sure did some harm. Even if some of these medical procedures did help the patient, they're still horrifying.
See 15 such ancient medical practices that may shock you.
15.) Heroin
Heroin used in ancient medical practices
Heroin might be the street name given to a form of morphine no longer used in American hospitals today, but it used to be a medication given over the counter. Herbs, among many other things, have been used to make medication since ancient times, but heroin took a special kind of pain away from issues.
People used it for headaches, coughs, and much more. They even gave it children, with one medical "professional" saying there was no risk in developing a habit of its use. Well, it did get rid of that cough once.
14.) Human Remains
Skulls used in ancient medical practices
For centuries, people assumed that the things that came out of humans, as well as their remains, could be used in medical treatments. Not only did people think urine could help their teeth, but they also felt human blood and skulls could be used to help treat sicknesses.
People felt this could be useful as far back as the 1500 and 1600s, which was a time when other, better medical knowledge was present. The poor who could not afford human blood, for example, would attend executions and grab some. Vlad the Impaler, you have more possible vampires near.
13.) Rocks
Rocks used in ancient medical practices
Not to be confused with "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson, a rock like you might find right outside was used as a tool for centuries. They might be part of some of the oldest ancient medical practices known to man. It was used most often in dentistry where a doctor of sorts used it to help knock a tooth out. Over time, hammers made more sense and slowly gained prominence.
Today, hammers and drills are still used in some forms of dentistry, just not to the extent as it was used ago. Rocks were also ancient forms of anesthesia too. We'll let you figure that one out.
 12.) Lobotomies
lobotomies used in ancient medical practices
While things like Lobotomies were eventually put to an end, people felt this practice was useful. They never once showed accurate results in this practice that could not be attributed to another source. However, this was not the first time a method like it existed.
Despite this, the concept behind a Lobotomy was that it could cure any horrible brain condition a mentally ill person might have. It was proven not to work, so seeing ancient medical practices as crazy as this go until the 1980s is shocking!
11.) Cocaine
Cocaine used in ancient medical practices
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People have used cocaine for several different things over the years. Just like most things, people thought it helped with headaches. Cocaine did help for this, as it helps in the sinus department. However, the real idiotic assumption was that it helped with depression.
To be fair, it is hard to be depressed when you're on a cocaine high, so technically, it sort of worked. However, using cocaine to cure depression belongs in the list of ancient medical practices we shouldn't try.
10.) Forced Seizures
Seizures used in ancient medical practices
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While doctors to this day will induce medical seizures, they are only done for specific reasons under proper care. Decades ago, the idea was less intelligent. The concept in the 1940s and 50s was the use of electroconvulsive therapy that shocked someone into seizing or convulsing. A common problem afterward was the brain damage or death the seizure called.
The concept of using seizures as treatment dates back to the 1500s, but the early use of electricity was pretty much zero. They'd use various forms of light to cause them, similar to how they can be started for some even today.
9.) Malaria Used to Treat Syphilis
Malaria used in ancient medical practices
If you have one life-threatening disorder, it makes sense to battle it with another potentially deadly thing, right? Well, not so much. However, malaria being used to treat syphilis during the 1920s.
The concept was invented by Austrian Physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who discovered that malaria-induced fevers had some effect on syphilis symptoms. The man even won the Nobel Peace Prize for this too. Seriously!
Forget the fact that fevers alone have been shown to help with numerous things, regardless of Malaria. To the shock of no one, several patients died from this. Ancient medical practices like this make you realize how lucky we are to live today.
8.) Arsenic
Arsenic used in ancient medical practices
Arsenic is often used today as a bioweapon of sorts, and it has been mostly eradicated from medical use in civilized nations around the world today. Before this, people used arsenic in several ancient medical practices around the world for a long time.
The typical things it treated were fevers and headaches. Funny enough, in small doses, arsenic can assist in several medically useful treatments. However, we no longer need it today due to having other medication that does not also kill people as easily as arsenic does.
7.) Castration
Castration used in ancient medical practices
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The medical use of castration was rare because men generally don't want this procedure. However, Babylonians felt that it could be useful as a last resort. Some people used this practice for what we'd call a UTI today or even a kidney infection. At the time, no one knew what these were or how to treat them.
However, the most common usage of castration came for eunuchs. For several harems under the Assyrians and Babylonians, the testicles needed to be removed to be a eunuch. Turkish people forced the removal of both the testicles and penis. By the way, they were not put to sleep to do this, and the testicles were crushed to do the castration. Ouch!
6.) Mercury
Mercury used in ancient medical practices
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People have used mercury for hundreds of years to help with countless different ailments. Its use is one of the most common ancient medical practices known to man. Ancient Persians and Greeks felt it was useful as an ointment while second-century Chinese felt it increased lifespan and vitality.
The most famous use of mercury gone wrong was with Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who thought a mercury pill would make him immortal. From the time of the Renaissance all the up to the 20th Century, we used mercury to treat sexually transmitted diseases too. Most who used mercury died from liver or kidney damage caused by it poisoning them.
5.) Sacrifice
Sacrifices used in ancient medical practices
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One of the ancient world's most common methods of warding off or curing illness and injury was to sacrifice something (often someone) to the gods. This practice might seem silly today, but it did not feel ridiculous if you were the cow, sheep, or human being killed to repair the health of the emperor, chieftain, or another important person.
You might even find this personal at times. Humans who were sacrificed often volunteered, shockingly. Some found it to be a great reward to die for someone else. They were what we call weird people.
4.) Ancient Anesthetics
knockouts were used in ancient medical practices
Modern anesthesia (and similar anesthetics) were not in regular use until well into the 19th century. However, there were a few methods for helping reduce the suffering of a patient during a medical procedure. They boiled down to essentially three things: drugs, alcohol, or being knocked over the head.
The latter was especially popular in ancient Egypt, where doctors started most surgical procedures by a Stooge-esque clunk to the noggin. Remember the rock from before? It was less common for Egyptians. They typically used something more practical when doing ancient medical practices like that of early brain surgery.
3.) Ancient Ophthalmology
Clean rooms used in ancient medical practices
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The Greco-Roman physician Galen (Greek by heritage, Roman by birth) is considered one of the first people to practice some modern surgical techniques. Galen was the first to implement such things as trying to use a clean, sterile area to perform operations in eye surgery.
We're still glad not to be one of the patients whose cataracts was being "cured" by injecting a needle directly into the eye, hoping to sort of suck the thing out.
2.) Bloodletting
bloodletting used in ancient medical practices
Believe us when we say there is nothing humorous about the "humors." The humors were those pesky (meaning nonexistent) bodily fluids that ancient and medieval people thought had to be kept "in balance" to keep you healthy. They were blood, black and yellow bile,


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- zany (noun)
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- "And what a zany an old chap must be, to light a bonfire when there's no youngsters to please." (Thomas Hardy, _Return of the Native_)
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Who do you think first used the word "zany" in English?You may be more familiar with the adjective "zany," but "zany" was first introduced to English by William Shakespeare as a noun. In Shakespeare's play _Love's Labour's Lost_ (written around 1594), one of the characters looks for a zany who "knows the trick to make my Lady laugh." That was the first known use of "zany" in English, but the word had been part of Italian plays long before that. In Italian plays, the "zany" was a character who mimicked everyone else on stage. That goofy pest was always called "Zanni," a nickname for "Giovanni," the Italian form of "John." When English speakers adopted the character, they took his name too, and gradually transformed it into the modern word "zany."


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Suppose $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces whose dual spaces are isometrically isomorphic. It is certainly true that $X$ and $Y$ need not be isometrically isomorphic, but must it be true that there is a continuous (not necessarily isometric) isomorphism of $X$ onto $Y$?
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Indeed, $\ell_1$ provides a strong counterexample. As noted by Matt, the spaces C(X), where X is countable and compact, provide nonisomorphic Banach spaces whose duals are isomorphic to $\ell_1$. If X is countable and compact (and Hausdorff, of course!) then X is homeomorphic to a closed ordinal interval [0, a] (equipped with its natural order topology) for some countable ordinal a; this result is known as the Mazurkiewicz-Sierpinski theorem. About 50 years ago Bessaga and Pelczynski showed that if a and b are infinite countable ordinals and a < b, then C([0, a]) is isomorphic to C([0, b]) if and only if b < a^*w*, where w denotes the first infinite ordinal. Thus C([0, w]) is in fact isomorphic to C([0, w^2]), contrary to Gerald's assertion above. Moreover, the least infinite ordinal b such that C([0, b]) is not isomorphic to C([0, w]) is b = w^w. Combining the Mazurkiewicz-Sierpinski result with the Bessaga=Pelczynski result, one has that each space C(X), where X is countable and compact, is isomorphic to C([0, w^(w^*a*)]) for a unique countable ordinal a. In particular, there are uncountably many nonisomorphic Banach spaces whose duals are isometrically isomorphic to $\ell_1$, namely the spaces C([0, w^(w^*a*)]), where a varies over the set of countable ordinals.
$\ell_1$ has other preduals too. For example, a 1972 paper from the Israel Journal of Mathematics by Yoav Benyamini and Joram Lindenstrauss exhibits a Banach space E whose dual is isometrically isomorphic to $\ell_1$, but E is not isomorphic to any space of the form C(X).
Although Gerald's assertion that the Cantor-Bendixson rank distinguishes between spaces of continuous functions on countable compact spaces is not correct, there is a rank/index that does distinguish between the isomorphism classes of these spaces, namely the Szlenk index. In fact the Szlenk index may be used to prove the 'only if' direction of the Bessaga-Pelczysnki result.
I strongly recommend Chapter 2 of the book Biorthogonal Systems in Banach Spaces by Hajek et al if you want to read about the Szlenk index and a proof of the Bessaga-Pelczynski result. That book also contains a sketch proof of the Mazurkiewicz-Sierpinski theorem; for a full account of that theorem I recommend Section 8 of Semadeni's classic book Banach spaces of continuous functions.
If you want a different example, I think the James-tree space JT would do. JT is separable but its dual is (at least I think so - it is worth checking!) isometrically isomorphic to the dual of the direct sum $*JT \oplus H*$, where H is Hilbert space of dimension equal to the cardinality of the continuum. In particular, $*JT \oplus H*$ cannot be isomorphic to JT because they have different density characters, but their duals are isometrically isomorphic. If you want to check the details of this example consult Chapter 13 of the Albiac and Kalton book recommended above by Matthew.
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If X is any countable, compact topological space, then consider the Banach space C(X). The dual space is the finite measures on X, but as any measure is countably additive, and X is countable, taking some ordering we get an isometric isomorphism between C(X)* and $\ell_1$. But not all such C(X) are isomorphic: you can find such X by taking a countable ordinal w and considering the closed interval [0,w]. This is all very nicely explained in the book "Topics in Banach Space Theory" by Albiac and Kalton.
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One may also remark that $c_{0}$ $\times$ (ℓ∞$/c_{0}$) is a predual of (ℓ∞)$^*$.
However, $c_{0}$ $\times$ (ℓ∞$/c_{0}$) is not isomorphic to ℓ∞.
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Nice example Ady, that one has never crossed my mind. – Philip Brooker Jan 23 '10 at 0:49
More striking than this is that the separable space C[0,1] has dual which is isometrically isomorphic to the dual of the non separable space QC[0,1] (the uniform closure of the step functions on [0,1], so it is also a C(K) space). As Philip mentioned, JT provides a similar example, but of course is not isomorphic to a C(K) space. – Bill Johnson Jan 23 '10 at 16:29
IMO, to be "more striking" is only a question of taste. Since, in my example, the two preduals are homeomorphic, due to an easy application of the Michael Selection Theorem. – Ady Feb 1 '10 at 20:58
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There are non-isomorphic preduals of $\ell_1$, but I'm afraid I don't know a reference for this. Recently, Argyros and Haydon solved a long-standing open problem by constructing a predual of $\ell_1$ with extraordinary properties; $c_0$ would not have done the job...
Actually, I now realize I'm not quite sure about the isometric version -- that is, what happens if you assume the duals are isometric and not just isomorphic. But I would be very surprised if the answer to your question was yes.
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If K, L are countable compact metric spaces, then the isomorphism of C(K) and C(L) depends on the Cantor-Bendixson rank... If the first empty derived set of K is K^(n) and the first empty derived set of L is L^(m) and n \ne m, then C(K) and C(L) are not isomorphic. So, for example, C([0,w]) and C([0,w^2]) are not isomporphic. But (as noted previously) their duals are both isometric to l^1.
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Thanks to Philip for correcting this. – Gerald Edgar Jan 23 '10 at 0:56
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 - Why Does Cleaning Smoke Damage Seem Like Such a Nightmare?
 Cleaning smoke damage is no joke.
 Cleaning Smoke DamageWhen we're talking about cleaning smoke damage, we're talking about a serious job that's no laughing matter. It doesn't, however, have to be a nightmare, even it if might seem like one. Getting informed is a great step to reducing the horror that smoke damage can present. Here's everything you need to know about smoke damage, including why cleaning it can seem like such a nightmare.
 What's the Deal with Smoke from a Fire?
 All smoke is not created equal. What makes up smoke? It's not just the flames itself, but what is burning during the fire that determines the composition of smoke. If mostly wood and organic materials burn, the smoke is very different than if a lot of synthetic materials burn. No matter the fuel, smoke generally consists of chemicals, liquids, solids, and gasses that are produced by the fire as it burns in addition to carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and soot.
 Do You Tackle the Smoke Residue First?
 When people think about cleaning up smoke damage after a fire, most think first of the soot and smoke residue because that is what you can see. The important thing is to tackle the smoke residue first. The tricky part is understanding what the smoke residue is made up of and how best to approach the cleanup.
 This is one of the reasons smoke damage cleanup can seem like such a nightmare. If you clean up the smoke with the wrong products and tools, it can cause more damage and can result in an unsuccessful cleanup. Why? Because smoke from different types of fires is different. It requires different cleaning processes depending on what was burning.
 Are We Talking about a Dangerous Job?
 Cleaning Smoke DamageCleaning up after a fire is never fun, but it can also be dangerous if not done properly. Not only do you have to be aware of the debris and possibly compromised structure of the home, but you have to be aware of the dangers of the smoke residue.
 Synthetic materials, such as furniture, flooring, toys, and appliances, are increasingly common in the average home. When this type of material burns, it leaves behind smoke and soot residue that is smeary and difficult to clean up, but the residue is also toxic and dangerous to breathe and to touch. Cleanup needs to include personal protection including long sleeves and pants, protective eyewear, protective face masks, and gloves. This is true of all smoke cleanup, as all of it is potentially a hazard to your health.
 What about the Smell?
 When we start talking about smoke odor, we start talking about the real nightmare in the cleanup process. Why? Because smoke odor is real, it's terrible, and it's incredibly hard to get rid of. Smoke particles float through the air into every nook and cranny of your home. It goes behind walls, under flooring, into vents, and it settles on your belongings. And the odor goes with it.
 Think you can open some windows and air it out enough to settle back in? Think again. Houses have been torn down due to seemingly everlasting smoke odor. However, when treated properly, you can get rid of smoke odor. Restoration professionals have the tools, the knowledge, and the experience to address the smell without leaving you living in a bad dream of bad odor.
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 A house fire is one of the worst things you can experience. It is, in itself, a bit of a nightmare. The cleanup, however, doesn't have to be, and that includes the smoke cleanup.
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two companies of light infantry or riflemen in a regiment of ten companies. The heavy infantry was known as the infantry of the line, and the light as the light infantry and riflemen. Riflemen, armed with rifles, with the light infantry, were charged with the responsibility of opening an engagement and covering the front and flanks of the infantry of the line. With the advent of the rifled musket, however, the distinction between the classes of infantrymen became nominal. After their muster into service in 1861, these terms all but disappeared.
Virginia infantry regiments and battalions in 1861 and 1862, were officially called " Regiment of Virginia Volunteers," or "Battalion of Virginia Volunteers."
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Grants for Farmers
sweetcowVERMONTThere are many different types of farms in Vermont, some in which raise and butcher cattle, others produce dairy products and some that strictly grow vegetables and herbs. When it comes to farming there are many rules and regulations that need to be put into place to ensure safety and quality of the products.
Some of these rules include, making sure the soil is rich and ready for crops to grow, having clean water for plants and animals, and having the right mechanics like coolers for instance, to keep items chilled to the right temperature.
It is important that these farms continue production, not only for the employees of the farm but, also the residents of Vermont. Being able to possess locally grown products is beneficial for both the state and environment within the state.
"It's about supporting a viable and vibrant and cultural sector of farmland and farming. Economic development benefits so more jobs and more revenue, environmental benefits and tourist benefits with agriculture", said Vermont Agency of Agriculture Business Development Section Chief Chelsea Lewis.
Overall, it is fairly expensive to run and own a farm. Some farmers face the fear of not being able to afford all that is needed to run a farm. According to the Vermont Agency of Agriculture farmers can apply for grants that allows farmer to continue to have an active farm.
"So we have about 8 or 9 different grant programs and all of them have different eligibility criteria, the ones that go directly to farmers are clean water and then there's the working working lance enterprise program. Those are the 2 main areas of grants that goes directly to farmers or another that can go to a group of farmers. A farmer cooperative could apply or an individual farmer could apply to do research which would benefit a group of farmers", said Chelsea Lewis.
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture has their own system where they decide from there who can receive a grant from their business.
"Each program has different criteria and scoring criteria, and each program has a different set of advisors that make the decision", Said Chelsea Lewis.
There are many grants in which farmers can apply. However, the amount of money you receive all depends on the project farmers are looking to complete and their eligibility. The grants that are given out from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture are funded by the Vermont legislature or Federally funded. They decide the terms in which to give grant money to farmers and how much of a grant they can receive.


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A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure. Find accurate definitions of words and phrases.
CHURCH AND SYNAGOGUE
A biblical distinction between Christianity and Judaism. Scriptural equivalents for the faithful in the Old Testament are qahal, the entire religious community of the people of Israel, and edah, a congregation of believers. Greek synonyms for these in the Septuagint translation are ekklesia and synagoga, respectively. In the New Testament the difference between the two became technical, the first, meaning the assembly of people called together by God, and the second an existing religious gathering of people. This is illustrated in the text of St. Matthew's Gospel, where Christ promised Peter that "on this rock I will build my Church [ekklesia]," and Christian tradition has since canonized the terminology by reserving ekklesia for the society of Christ's followers and synagoga for the gathering of the Jews.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.


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Temperature Measurement (Sensing) and Monitoring
Temperature measurement (sensing) and monitoring will be economical and straightforward if we apply the input of TC9400 V/F converter with a voltage from output of a probe, such as shown in diagram below. The V/F output is simply counted to display the temperature. The TC9400 can be used to modulate an RF transmitter for a long distance data transmission.
The temperature display should have latch control, means that the counting process is not transparently displayed on the seven segment until a latch signal is triggered to transfer the counting result to be displayed. After latched, the reset signal would reset the counter without affecting the latched display. [Circuit's schematic diagram source: Microchip Datasheet]


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Accession Number : ADA184128
Title : Intelligence Decision Support System for the Republic of Korea Army Engineer Operation.
Descriptive Note : Master's thesis,
Corporate Author : NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Personal Author(s) : Jang,Chang K
PDF Url : ADA184128
Report Date : Jun 1987
Pagination or Media Count : 87
Abstract : In the current circumstances of the Korean Army, the engineer units perform two major missions-river crossing and obstacle/denial operations - to support the combined arms team. To accomplish these missions, engineer units need various kinds of data and information during the planning phase of operations. This kind of data and information can be provided by the information processing system that is to be developed in this thesis. This thesis is to apply a computer based information processing system to the planning phase of the military operations. The author presents an intelligent decision support system for the Army Engineer Operations, specifically the river crossing and obstacle/denial operations. The purpose of this system is to maintain and analyze the related information stored in the computer and to provide the resulting information to the commanders and their staffs to help them make their decisions more effectively. To accomplish this task, the author has used the structured system analysis and design methodology through the system development process, and has implemented the river crossing operation in a microcomputer with dBASE III Plus as an example.
Descriptors : *INFORMATION PROCESSING, *INFORMATION SYSTEMS, *MILITARY ENGINEERING, *ARMY PLANNING, *ARMY INTELLIGENCE, ENGINEERS, DECISION MAKING, KOREA, MILITARY OPERATIONS, PLANNING, MILITARY COMMANDERS, MICROCOMPUTERS, CROSSINGS, RIVERS, MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN), MILITARY REQUIREMENTS, MILITARY ENGINEERS, THESES, SOUTH KOREA, ALGORITHMS, AREA DENIAL, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Subject Categories : Military Intelligence
Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE


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The temperature profile at a location in water flowing over a flat surface is
experimentally measure to be T(°C) = 20+80e where y is the distance in meters (m) measured normal to the surface with y=0 corresponding to the surface. What is the value of heat transfer coefficient at this location? Assume that the thermal conductivity of water is k=0.62 W/(m*K)
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Even as we struggle to stay balanced amidst the hustle and bustle or worries
and concerns of daily life, the psychic soul finds ways to guide us; and indeed,
when we are at our worst, our soul does its very best work. It speaks to us in
the "languages" we speak best and in a "voice" that is crystal-clear.
The purpose of this book is to show you, the reader, how to tap into the
super-conscious knowledge and wisdom of your soul in order to reach your higher
self and full life potential.
Peek inside and you'll find stories, exercises, and meditations to awaken
your psychic self, with:
- Psychic Explorations: How to Read for Yourself and Others
- The Brainwaves of Consciousness
- The Super-Conscious Mind and the Angelic Higher Self
- The Awesome Power of Dreams
- Writing the Voice of Your Soul
- The Light of Consciousness: The Body's Subtle Energy System
- Healers and Healing
The author strives to give you a direct experience of your soul's inner
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28th mayo 2010
Masters student uses pedal power to create novel machine
An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student at the University of Sheffield, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents.
Jon Leary, 24, a MEng student in the University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, took his bicycle machine design from a Steel City drawing board to the heart of Guatemala as part of his dissertation, which required him to 'make something useful out of rubbish.'
During his four month stint in Guatemala, Jon spent time improving the design for his bicibomba movil – a mobile bicycle-powered water pump to be used for irrigation and general water distribution - by working with the Guatemalan NGO Maya Pedal, who design and build a variety of weird and wonderful bicycle machines using abandoned bikes sent over from the US and Canada. Maya Pedal's aim is to produce machines which can improve the daily lives of locals, without them having to resort to expensive electrical or environmentally damaging fossil fuelled machines. Their machines, which are human-powered sustainable energy sources, range from the bicilavadora (bicycle washing machine) to the bicimolino (corn grinder).
Jon created the machine using a normal bike, which is plugged into a frame with an old electrical pump converted to a friction drive attached to the back wheel. The back tyre of the bike makes direct contact with the former armature of the motor, which is covered with rubber from an old tyre to give better grip. The machine was tested to a range of heights and on flat ground the pump can achieve a 40 litres per minute flow rate - equal to about three normal showers. At 26 meters, a flow rate of 5 liters per minute can be achieved.
The bike frame can be built quickly and easily using only basic workshop tools and materials, including a few lengths of angle iron, some flat lengths of metal, bicycle seat posts and seat tubes, and a scrapped standard electric centrifugal water pump.
Prior to Jon's design, Maya Pedal had already produced a popular machine capable of drawing water from up to 30m below the surface, however many farmers lived on steep inclines and wanted to distribute the water once it had been extracted from the well. As a result, unlike Maya Pedal's other static designs, Jon's bike is completely mobile - when a person is done pumping, they can simply flip the frame upside down and it will sit on top of the back wheel like a pannier rack. This mobility enables users to pump from the bottom of the hill to a mid-way tank until full, and then continue pumping from the mid-way tank to the top of the hill. The number of mid-way tanks can be increased indefinitely, effectively making the pumping distance unlimited.
The machine is now in regular production in Guatemala and at least six more models have been made since Jon's departure from the country last summer. Jon has since produced an open source construction manual for the machine, which is freely available on Maya Pedal's web site. The manual was recently sent to Malawi by students from the University of Strathclyde involved in a rural irrigation project aiming to address some of the agricultural problems that the developing nation is facing.
In two months time, Jon will return to Guatemala with a team of three more of the University's recent graduates from the Department of Mechanical Engineering to design, build and test a wind turbine. The turbine will be designed specifically for Maya Pedal and as a result will be constructed from disused bicycle parts and other scrap materials.
Jon said: "When I was asked to design a novel product from waste material for my Master's thesis, I never would have expected that I'd end up welding together bicycle machines in the highlands of Guatemala! Working at Maya Pedal was like being on Scrapheap Challenge - there is a storeroom full of stripped down bicycle parts, a workshop full of tools and the only limit is your own imagination. There was never a dull day, the volunteers came from all around the world to be there and everyone in the local town was so friendly - it's certainly an experience I'll never forget."
Dr Steve Bradbury from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, said: "It is gratifying to see that the design expertise that we foster in our students can be utilised in worthy projects such as this. It is a result where everybody wins; Jon, the University and most importantly, the people of Guatamala."