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The Offshore Engineering group conducts applied and fundamental research of value to the offshore engineering community. Alongside the research activities, the group is strongly involved in education within the Offshore and Dredging Engineering interfaculty curriculum. Both the research and education are carried out in close cooperation with the energy-oriented companies focused on the offshore developments.
The research mission of the group is to provide mechanics-based tools and solutions to offshore engineering challenges. The focus of the research is placed on the integral modelling and design of offshore structures under various loads such as wind, waves, currents and ice. Currently on the frontline are the research projects associated with the deep water challenges, developments in the Arctic and expansion of the offshore wind sector.
The educational mission of the group is to educate Offshore Engineers who will be in high demand at the energy-focused companies working with oil, gas and renewable energy. We accomplish this by providing the students with a strong fundamental background, applied knowledge and direct and indeed very active contacts with the industry.


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Noun1.facial vein - any of several veins draining the face
anterior facial vein, vena facialis anterior - a continuation of the angular vein; unites with the retromandibular vein before emptying into the internal jugular vein
posterior facial vein, retromandibular vein, vena retromandibularis - posterior branch of the facial vein; formed by temporal veins in front of the ear
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Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
Published August 29, 2012
In experiments, captive bears showed that they could perform numerical tasks, including distinguishing the number of dots on an image.
Even though bears have the largest relative brain size of any carnivore (still not as big as primates), surprisingly little research has been done on their cognitive abilities, according to the study. (Read "Animal Minds" in National Geographic magazine.)
The new research shows for the first time that "bears and other animals that have been neglected by cognitive scientists... may show abilities similar to species more like humans," study co-author Jennifer Vonk, a comparative psychologist at the University of Oakland in Rochester, Michigan, said by email.
Will Work for Food
For the experiment, three black bears in their enclosure in Alabama's Mobile Zoo were given the opportunity to approach a touch-screen computer on a rolling cart. The large carnivores, which are generally "motivated to work for food," proved willing participants, Vonk said.
When a bear walked up to the computer, the screen flashed two images—for instance, a set of large dots and a set of small dots, which were both randomly colored black or red. Each bear was already trained to touch the computer with its nose or paw, and would do this to choose an image, according to the study, published in June in the journal Animal Behaviour.
If the bear touched the "correct" category—randomly determined by the scientists—the computer beeped melodically and the animal got a food reward. If the bear touched the incorrect category, the computer buzzed and the next pair of images was shown.
To show if the bear had learned what image was correct (say, a high or low number of dots), the scientists showed them a new set of images that were of the same type as the previous ones.
The results showed all the bears were able to choose the correct image that got them food. It set the stage to look closer at their ability to "count."
A further experiment discovered that one bear, named Brutus, could also discriminate numbers.
Brutus was shown two images—one with a set of large dots and another with a set of small dots. This was followed by another two images, in each of which the dots were moving and placed on a background of a different size than the previous images.
The bear still chose the correct image despite these "conflicting cues," suggesting he can "count" the dots to distinguish the one to get him a treat, Vonk said. (Watch video: "Smart Animals.")
Even so, "it's too early to call it counting per se," she noted.
Because the task was voluntary, Vonk struggled with the bears all trying to participate at once—knowing a treat was imminent. "The hardest part was giving only one access to the screen," she said. (See bear pictures.)
Dave Garshelis, who was not involved in the study but serves as bear project leader at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, said that the bears may have found it relatively easy to respond to the color of the dots because they resemble berries, one of the black bear's main food sources.
For instance, black bears are able to discern the preferred ripe blackberries—which are black—from unripe blackberries, which are red.
He also added that the experiment was geared toward visual acuity—the most comfortable sense for humans, but not so much for bears, whose sense of smell is a thousand times greater than a person's.
In the experiment, "you've actually stripped them of their main sense that they make decisions by, which is their sense of smell," he said.
Garshelis suspects the bears would have performed even better on the tests if there'd been smells emanating from the screen.
Bears Evolved Smarts to Find Food?
It makes sense that bears would be smart—as loner omnivores, the animals must problem solve to root out a variety of food sources, the authors noted.
Garshelis agreed that bears' cognitive abilities may result from them having to respond to rapidly changing food sources.
"Imagine if you were on a buffet line and you're moving through and making the choice of what to put on your plate, and the people who set the food up are constantly changing it in front of you and you never know what's coming," he said.
That's what bears face when finding fruit each summer, which can be abundant one year but scarce the next, he said.
Roger Powell, a bear expert at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, agreed, adding via email, "All I can say is that from over 20 years of doing research on bears, I was constantly impressed with their intelligence.
"They are highly adapted to find new foods that become available and to take advantage of foods that are very different and that must be acquired in new ways the bears have never used before," said Powell, who was not involved in the research.
Overall, the finding may open up possibilities for comparing the cognitive abilities of bears and primates, Vonk said. Primates have been performing computerized tasks for decades.
"It is exciting to consider," the study said, "that such divergent species can be tested in the same way to promote a fuller picture" of animal smarts.
NASA's "eyes in the sky" tracked Monday's tornado as it moved through Moore, Oklahoma.
These six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.
Scientists say they've learned why penguin wings, now used for swimming, no longer get the birds off the ground.

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Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14?15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.
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Build Your Own Radio Controlled Vehicle
- Paint Your RC
- Tools & Supplies
- Build RC Planes & Helis (18)
- Build RC Cars & Trucks (19)
- Build RC Boats & Subs (6)
- Build Your Own Track (12)
Robotics and animatronics, along with radio controlled hobbies are a great way to get the younger generation (or anyone) interested in science and technology.
You Made an RC Out of What?
Check out these unusual RCs that gadget geeks like myself have built.
About.com Miniatures describes the basic tools for working with miniatures, including scale models such as RCs.
Kids Can Build Their Own RC
It's always fun when you can combine radio controlled vehicles with another activity that kids love -- and make it educational too. LEGOS, those plastic building blocks that provide endless hours of entertainment make building your own RC a snap. Elenco and Learning Resources also have cool construction sets that allow novice mechanics from 4 to 16 to experience the fun of building their own car without any automotive expertise.
Electronic Projects for RC
For the true do-it-yourself RC builder, find drawings, parts lists, and descriptions for chargers, circuits, sensors, servos, switches, and many other electronic RC parts to build from scratch.
What You Need to Build an RC Submarine
Learn about the things you'll need in order to make your own radio controlled submarine. Includes links to RC submarine plans and building tutorials.
Lego Baseplate Jigs
The Cool Tools blog describes using large Lego baseplates and some building blocks to create jigs or platforms for working with things like RCs. Create a custom fit to hold an airplane, car body, or other parts while gluing or painting, etc.
How Does Weight Affect RC Performance?
Weight plays a role in overall performance of an RC. Find out how to control your weight and why.


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This article will explain where the My Organization contact information, Transfer Point of Contact, Administrative Point of Contact and Permanent Rescue Contacts are displayed and populated in Shelterluv.
Under Configurations > General Shelter > My Organization, you will find:
- My Organization contact information
- Transfer Point of Contact
- Administrative Point of Contact
On System Generated Documents
- Contact information in the top right corner will populate from My Organization
- "Owner" information will populate from your Transfer Point of Contact or the adopter's contact information on the following documents:
- Complete Medical History
- Treatment Sheet History
- Spay/Neuter Certificate
- Rabies Vaccination Certificate
For example, in the Complete Medical History document:
The email address and phone number that displays on all contracts is populated from the Administrative Point of Contact.
In Microchip Auto-Uploads
- Upon intake, a new animal's microchip is registered to your organization using the following fields from My Organization:
- Shelter Name
- Street Address
- Transfer Point of Contact's email address
- Transfer Point of Contact's phone number
- The email address that is entered under the "Microchip Registries" section is used for Found Animals' "Permanent Rescue Contact" feature in the auto-upload files.
- The email address entered here must match an existing registry account at Found Animals.
- Remaining on file as the "Permanent Rescue Contact" ensures that you are called and emailed at the same time as the pet owner if Found Pet Alerts are triggered for the pet.
As the "Reply to" Email Address
The "Reply to" email address for certain system generated emails will populate from your Administrative Point of Contact. These system generated emails include the following:
- Email sent for document delivery at checkout (Important Documents including adoption Contract, Receipt, etc.)
- Email sent from Animal and Person Record profiles (system generated documents and attachments)
- Application requests verification mail (triggered when a known email starts an application)
- Foster emails (invitation to access foster profile, foster email pleas, etc.)
- Scheduling requests and confirmation emails


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Monitor CPU Usage of All Running Processes - Part I
November 2, 2005
This article illustrates how to monitor CPU usage on different running process on one machine and on multiple machines. In many organizations, the SQL Server Database administrator and System administrators have the responsibility of trouble shooting and identifying the cause of high CPU usage during certain periods in a day on a machine.
This article demonstrates how to keep track of the CPU load history on each running process that is running on a machine. This article also discusses how to find new processes that are being run and any old process that are being killed, etc.
This article uses "Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process" WMI class to get the information from the performance counters of a machine.
Method 1 illustrates how to query all the running process and their CPU usage on the local machine.
a. Machine and the login used should be capable of accessing Windows management instrumentation.
b. Operating System on that machine should be above windows 2000.
a. Create the Folder C:\monitorprocess. [Refer Fig 1.0]
b. Create the file C:\monitorprocess\ListProcess.vbs and copy and paste the below code. [Refer Fig 1.1]. Download the code from listprocess.VBS_
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'Objective: To Find the CPU usage of each running process that are running on the local machine 'Created by : MAK 'Created Date: Oct 27, 2005 strComputer ="." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" > strComputer > "\root\cimv2") Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process",,48) wscript.echo "Computer Name",> "," > "Process Name" > ","> "CPU Usage" For Each objItem in colProcess if objItem.Name <> "Idle" and objItem.Name <> "_Total" then wscript.echo strcomputer > "," > objItem.Name > ","> objItem.PercentProcessorTime end if Next
c. Execute the listprocess.vbs code using the command below. [Refer Fig 1.2]
When this VBScript is executed, it displays all the processes that are running on a current machine and their CPU usage. [Refer Fig 1.3]
Computer Name,Process Name,CPU Usage.,System, 0.,smss, 0.,csrss, 0.,winlogon, 0.,services, 0.,lsass, 0.,svchost, 0.,svchost, 0.,svchost, 0.,svchost, 0.,spoolsv, 0.,residentAgent, 0.,cpqalert, 0.,DWRCS, 0.,pmsvc, 0.,LocalSch, 0.,tmcsvc, 0.,LCRMS, 0.,FrameworkService, 0.,Mcshield, 0.,VsTskMgr, 0.,mdm, 0.,mgabg, 0.,tcpsvcs, 0.,snmp, 0.,Win32sl, 0.,wuser32, 0.,cpqdmi, 0.,naPrdMgr, 0.,SoftMon, 0.,explorer, 0.,chkadmin, 0.,UpdaterUI, 0.,shstat, 0.,ctfmon, 0.,svchost, 0.,notepad, 0.,notepad, 0.,notepad, 0
d. The output can be stored to a CSV file by executing the command below. [Refer Fig 1.4]
C:\monitorprocess>cscript/nologo Listprocess.vbs > LocalProcess.csv
When executed, it is stored in a CSV format file that can be opened and viewed using MS-EXCEL. [Refer Fig 1.5]


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A video letter is a communication tool allowing people to connect with communities around the world. Video letters can take the form of a "postcard"– small video snapshots intended to be sent from one community to another, or to advocate for a specific social cause. It can also take the form of a full length "Video Letter" that more closely resembles a media advocacy piece or short form documentary. Both provide a simple, but powerful, framework for self-representation.
Youth media, and more specifically the video letter, has the following goals:
1. To Inspire youth to reflect about themselves, their communities and the world.
2. To inspire leadership and advocacy within their communities.
3. To provide the media tools and platforms (as an alternatives to mainstream media) to share their stories and raise awareness about their communities and cultural identities.
4. To open up communication and understanding between communities where physical dialogue is difficult.
5. To empower youth to become advocates for social change, and proud members of strong communities.
A video letter is a youth friendly media advocacy tool that fosters self-representation and empowerment. These films afford an opportunity for communities to provide inside perspectives that are often under-represented, overlooked or ignored by mainstream media.
Video letters are made through a series of workshops where youth are taught basic film production and journalism along with human rights and advocacy concepts including the rights of the child as declared by UNICEF in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
It is a relatively accessible and affordable means to self represent. All that is needed are cameras, a computer with Internet access and an interest in creating youth media.
After the film is made, it can be shared with communities around the world. We often use the video letters in workshops as an example and to inspire communication between two or more communities. These films are also highlighted on this website– a nodal point for all the video letters which together will be a powerful manifestation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.


Can Any Good Come From The Pandemic?
From The Sentencing Law & Policy blog.
 What might be the positive changes that come as a result of zoom hearings and the other responses that courts have had to the pandemic? Professor Matt Bender has authored this timely new paper now on SSRN Here is its abstract:A defendant's fundamental right to a public trial, and the press and community's separate right to watch court have been threatened by the shift to virtual hearings. These independent constitutional rights can be in harmony in some cases and clash in others. They cannot be incompatible. Public interest in criminal justice transparency is increasingly crystallized, but courts have often become more opaque, which jeopardizes First and Sixth Amendment rights.This paper addresses the conflict and confronts a key question: how can we be assured that remote and virtual hearings like Zoom arraignments or trials guarantee the same rights as traditional court hearings? Instead of rejecting virtual criminal hearings outright, new proposals are offered for how virtual courtrooms can safeguard constitutional rights. The prevailing belief that criminal defendants should reject virtual trials is questioned. Virtual trials may lead to better outcomes for defendants than traditional trials, specifically during the ongoing pandemic. Beyond preserving rights in a virtual courtroom, the ways technology can improve the criminal justice system are explored.Through an analysis of existing indigent defense and First Amendment scholarship, the myth that traditional court decorum should trump open court and virtual hearings is addressed. Judicial legitimacy and transparency may benefit when criminal cases are accessible on virtual platforms or livestreamed. Transparency can help safeguard defendants's rights and improve indigent clients's representation and outcomes. Instead of disrupting the courtroom — whether a hearing is virtual or traditional — convenient public access helps a community learn more about the criminal justice system and evaluate cases, judges, and attorneys.These proposals have significant implications for courts and clients by providing a framework for virtual litigation, and leveraging technology for a more equitable criminal justice system. Livestreams and virtual, remote hearings can improve the right of representation for indigent defendants by increasing access to quality counsel, reducing costs, creating a more competitive legal market, and expanding a client's choice of attorneys.
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July 23, 2016 /
In principle, water ATMs had been proposed for areas that did not benefit from piped water supply. Even this was controversial because the underlying message was that only basic drinking needs would be taken care of, rather than all basic household/domestic needs. In practice, there has been slippage. In the first place, the Delhi Government was meant to be installing water kiosks providing free water in 'underdeveloped' areas. Yet, the first water kiosk installed was near a metro station for the convenience of the travelling public. Further, alongside the free water distributed in those kiosks, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) agreed in late 2015 to a proposal for setting up water ATMs in various parts of Delhi at a price of Rs 5 per 20 litres. Supply through water ATMs is probably an excellent option to fill specific gaps where there is no water supply, preferably on a temporary basis. There are, however, various reasons why water ATMs should not become a permanent tool for accessing drinking water.


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The Development Of Cationic Dyes In China
Jun 19, 2017
 Cationic dyes are produced with the development of petrochemicals. In the 1950s, with the advent of acrylonitrile fibers, Geigy and Bayer of Germany have developed cationic dyes for acrylonitrile fibers. China in the early 60s have also been research and development to produce the first generation of a variety of cationic dyes. 70 years and the development of the second generation of X-type cationic dyes, to expand the chromatographic range, improve the dyeing performance, taking into account the compatibility between the ternary color. 70 years of trial production and production of the third generation of M-type cationic dyes, known as the migration of cationic dyes, can be applied to a variety of acrylonitrile fiber dyeing.Cationic Dyes
 The world's production of dyes in developed countries, the production of cationic dyes and alkaline dye production accounted for only 10% of the total output of dyes. China's cationic dye production in the 1990s was more than 2 thousand tons / year, accounting for more than 1% of total dyestuff production, but also part of the export. Cationic dyes in the X-type three primary colors and cationic pink FG and brilliant red 5GN for the larger varieties. In recent years at home and abroad to research and development of dyeing performance, special, new structure of the species, as well as the improvement of old products, energy saving, waste management and other fields.Cationic Dyes
 Cationic dyes on the affinity of acrylic, dyeing, due to rapid diffusion and slow diffusion, prone to uneven dyeing phenomenon, and once the uneven dyeing, it is difficult to extend the dyeing time by correcting. Cationic dye dyeing, in order to get a uniform staining results, should be appropriate to reduce the rate of dyeing. Factors affecting the dyeing rate of cationic dyes in addition to the types of acrylic, there are the following aspects:1. Temperature is an important factor in controlling leveling. When the dyeing temperature reaches the glass transition temperature (75-85 ℃), the dyeing rate of the dye increases rapidly. Therefore, when the dyeing temperature reaches the glass transition temperature of the fiber, it should slowly increase the temperature, generally every 2 ~ 4 min temperature l ℃. Can also be 85 ~ 90 ℃ when the insulation dyeing for some time, and then continue to heat up to boiling 2. Dyeing bath pH value, adding acid in dye bath, can inhibit the dissociation of acidic groups in acrylic fiber, reduce the number of anionic groups on the fiber, so that the Coulomb gravitational pull between the dye and fiber decreases, the dyeing rate decreases. The effect of pH on the dyeing rate is more significant with the carboxylic acid group-containing acrylic fiber, and the dyeing rate of the sulfonic acid group-containing acrylic fiber is less affected by the pH value of the bath. Dyeing should be reasonable control of the pH value of dye bath. Cationic dyes are generally not alkali, the best pH value of dyeing is generally 4-4.5, dyeing dark dye bath when the pH value can be higher, light color should be carried out at a lower pH value. The pH value of the dye bath is generally adjusted with acetic acid, acetic acid can reduce the dye bath pH value, but also improve the solubility of the dye. In the dye bath at the same time by adding sodium acetate, can stabilize the dye bath pH within the required range.Cationic Dyes


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Baleage vs. Haylage: What's really the difference?
Listen to a discussion of the content in this article on this episode of the BeefWatch podcast. You can subscribe to new episodes in iTunes or paste _URL_ into your podcast app.
Often times the terms baleage and haylage are used interchangeable in conversation due to the state or country of the farm/ranch or simply by the type of operation. So how are baleage and haylage different and why are they used?
The ensiling or fermentation process of preserving forages takes place in both haylage and baleage, hence the names. Baleage can be confused with traditional dry hay because it is still a square or round bale, but it is simply hay that is too moist to store safely as dry hay so it is wrapped or otherwise sealed in plastic. Baleage can be fermented as individual bales or in a tube/inline.
Both baleage and haylage begin with mowing the forage and combining into a windrow typically. The next step is where the differences begin to be more apparent. Haylage is forage chopped using a silage chopper and packed in a bunk, silo, or bag. Some producers may chop right after the mower or allow for some minimal drying prior to chopping to reach a moisture content of 60-70 percent. This is sometimes referred to as the wilt stage and also may be referred to as silage. This is a common moisture for producing haylage although haylage is more commonly chopped at a lower moisture content of 40-60 percent, which also may be called low-moisture haylage. Producing chopped silage is a tried and true method that continues to produce high quality forage with which most producers are knowledgeable or at least familiar. Neighbors or silage crews can usually be found easily and are able to perform all the tasks associated with making silage or haylage. Haylage may not be an option for producers who do not have the equipment needed to feed a silage. In this case, baleage may be a better option, with minor equipment changes needed to feed and with more management flexibility than haylage.
Baleage is partially dried forage, preferably 45-55 percent moisture, which is baled and wrapped with at least 6 layers of 1 mil plastic. Monitoring the moisture content is critical in reducing the risk of spoilage once baled. The process of fermentation in baleage is slower and less complete compared to haylage or silage due to a more loosely packed forage (more oxygen), a larger particle size (less available sugars), and lower moisture, typically. The slower fermentation results in a pH higher than that of haylage. A pH of around 5.0 is present in the bales, which results in more challenging preservation during the fermentation process.
Baleage can create high quality forage if done properly. Some advantages over dry hay include less loss during storage, fewer weather delays at harvest, and faster turnaround from when the forage is down in both regrowth and time on the ground. The equipment changes are not significant but need to be considered. Wrapping equipment is cheaper than a silage chopper, but handling the bales requires different equipment than the classic bale spear or grapple. Disadvantages include getting forage baled at the best moisture content, wrapping within the first 12-24 hours to minimize damage and quality loss, plastic maintenance if holes occur by the environment or animals, plastic disposal, and reduced ability to transport without proper equipment.
Baleage and haylage produce high quality feed when harvested and stored correctly. High quality baleage may be utilized as a cheaper protein supplement alternative on winter range. Each have advantages and disadvantages. While distinct processes result in two different products, the terms haylage, baleage, wet hay, chop, wilt silage, or another are often used interchangeably in conversation. Being clear on the method being discussed is important when attempting to produce a high quality forage for livestock.
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Configure Blob Storage with Private Access
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In this IT Pro Challenge virtual lab, learners configure an Azure storage account with a private blob container, use it to upload a file and make this container available through a shared access signature. Those pursuing Data Analyst, Network Engineering, and System Administrator careers benefit from allocating and using cloud storage.
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This virtual lab will prepare you to create and customize Azure storage in a private blob (a setup to hold vast amounts of data) container and make it selectively available through a shared access signature. You will also upload a file to the container, use Bash through Cloud Shell to run commands, and check your work after completing each exercise. Upon completion of this lab, you will know how to allocate storage capacity and manage container access effectively.
Beginning learners who have used a Windows system and a command-line interface will have adequate preparation to succeed in this guided virtual lab. It is recommended that lab participants set aside a full thirty-minute time block to do lab exercises in one sitting. Learners will not be able to come back to lab activities in progress. However, participants may take the virtual lab more than once. Learners who have a file ready for upload before starting the lab will find it helpful in completing the lab more effectively. The lab sets up an Azure portal with a resource group and web app already provisioned.
If you pursue a career as a System Administrator, Network Engineer, Cyber Operator, Data Analyst, or Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineers, you will want to take this virtual lab. You will learn how to customize and allocate storage accounts effectively, manage private containers to allow only authorized users, and upload data from a system to the cloud storage. Furthermore, you will enter and manipulate Bash commands in Azure Cloud Shell to set up a shared access signature helpful in safeguarding a private storage container, while allowing authorized users access. Much work to manage systems, networks, storage, and security happens inside Azure cloud shell, and this lab expands Bash knowledge.
Understanding the Scenario:
You are a system administrator for a company that is migrating its application services from its data center to Azure. You need to create and deploy an Azure virtual machine that hosts Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. You also need to add a data disk to the virtual machine and implement Azure Disk Encryption as a proof of concept.
Create a Storage Account That Has a Blob Container:
In this virtual lab portion, you will create and configure a storage account. Then, you will add a blob container and set the public access to private. By making the storage private, you cannot read the container contents unless you have a key or the credentials. Azure automatically assigns a primary key when you create the storage account.
Upload Files to the Storage Account:
The lab exercise asks you to upload a file, you have on hand, to the private storage account created previously. You can add metadata, information about the file's contents when you upload or afterward. Metadata consists of key-value pairs and helps you to organize and retrieve data. For example, if you ever upload four hundred videos, you can track different content through the metadata. Also, you can manage and manipulate metadata through applications, like Azure Cloud Shell and command-line tools.
Generate a Shared Access Signature for the Private Container:
The instructions have you enter and run commands in Bash, to generate a read-only shared access signature (SAS) for a limited period. To use Bash, you open Cloud Shell and set the storage account, through the advanced settings. In this lab exercise, you use the storage account you created in the first lab section. As a result of executing a SAS, you get a SAS token. Make sure the SAS can work for at least twenty-four hours. You use the SAS in the next lab section.
Test the Web Application:
You open the Web Application and enter the credentials (storage account name and key and SAS token) to access it. The Web App returns two URLs, one with and another without the SAS token. You check that the URL without the SAS token generates an error, and the one with the SAS token returns the file.
You will know how to create and use a private container to upload files and to manage access. Upon completion, you will:
 - Provision Azure storage.
 - Create a blob storage container that has private blob access.
 - Upload a file to the blob container.
 - Set the metadata of a blob.
 - Generate a SAS token for the storage container.
 - Verify that a web app has access to a file in the blob container.
You will also have hands-on experience with Bash in the Azure Cloud Shell, which will be handy in managing files uploaded and efficiently managing private containers.
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Evidence for separate disease phenotypes in intestinal Crohn's disease.
Borley NR., Mortensen NJM., Chaudry MA., Mohammed S., Clarke T., Jewell DP.
BACKGROUND: This study investigated the hypothesis that separate phenotypes of Crohn's disease exist which display differing patterns of recurrence with a tendency to preservation of phenotype between serial operations. METHODS: Some 483 abdominal operations (278 patients) were identified from a prospectively compiled database. Patterns of recurrence (reoperation) were analysed by Kaplan-Meier plots and log rank tests according to disease phenotype (perforated, stenosed or ulcerated). Serial operations were analysed by agreement of phenotype and microscopic features of disease using kappa statistics and correlation coefficients. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in recurrence according to disease phenotype (median reoperation-free survival time 43.0, 50.2 and 47.9 months for perforated, stenosed and ulcerated types respectively; log rank chi(2) = 3.5, P = 0.18). There was poor agreement in phenotype between serial operations (kappa = 0.22 for first/second operation and kappa= 0.15 for second/third operation) and no significant correlation between pathological features was identified (r between -0.19 and 0.48). CONCLUSION: No evidence was found for the existence of separate disease phenotypes with differing natural histories or underlying pathological characteristics.


text: Welcome to the Skill Up MOOC E-guidance in higher education to promote graduates' lifelong career development. High quality career guidance in higher education integrating information and communication technologies can help graduates transition to the workplace more effectively. It can also help reduce shortages and mismatches of employability skills by informing undergraduates about what types of jobs are available, the skills required to access those jobs, and paths to develop those skills. However, while career guidance and counselling has a strong tradition in some European Higher Education systems, in others the access to guidance services is relatively basic or even non-existent. Our MOOC aims to train career guidance workers and counsellors, providing them with the knowledge, methods, techniques and tools to offer effective guidance in higher education and vocational training centres, so that they can help undergraduates make well-informed choices about their career paths and the professional skills they need to develop. This MOOC is especially intended for higher education and vocational training. It's for advisors, career counsellors, counsellors, educators career mentors and coaches. That said, the course is also a unique opportunity for all of the educational community – including other educational levels and sectors – in order to gain insights into effective career guidance in higher education and vocational training. The contents of the MOOC are structured over five weeks. Each week corresponds to a course module that includes new contents, case studies and a variety of authentic learning activities aimed at transferring and applying knowledge to the professional practice. This MOOC is a result of the Skill Up project, funded by the European Union's Erasmus plus programme. The Skill Up project is developing practical and scalable ways to enhance new graduates' employability skills by improving the connection between higher education curricula and the demands of the labour market. Join the Skill Up MOOC to discover how effective guidance and counselling in higher education using ICT can be a catalyst for new graduates' employability!


text: Building and maintaining effective financial models See-Through Modelling provides a solid theoretical and practical basis for becoming an advanced financial modeller in Excel. It gives the theory and practical detail necessary to build and maintain a financial model yourself. This is done with particular reference to project finance and by drawing upon the lessons learned from UK PFI. In this book Dominic Robertson covers the key aspects of financial modelling, including: - Financial theory - Modelling theory - Excel theory and techniques - A step-by-step practical guide to building a project finance operating model - Computer set-up and efficient use - Keyboard skills - Macro-economic data collection He also includes key practical techniques such as how to: - Greater strategic vision due to vast forecast flexibility - Lower risk of modelling errors due to standardised modelling - Decrease reliance on individual analysts due to increased ease of model interchange - Clear, detailed and holistic modelling function training outline Learning to build a UK PFI project finance model is an extremely good place to start to learn financial modelling. UK PFI is like the world in miniature with simplified operations and simplified finance but containing all the accounting and cash elements that make for a wide-ranging experience. See-Through Modelling is for finance directors who are looking for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of their enterprise and those who want to understand the benefits of adopting a see-through modelling strategy within their enterprise. It is also an invaluable resource for aspiring financial modellers in general and project finance modellers in particular.


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TEMPERATURE EFFECT ON DIODE
The following graph shows the effect of temperature on the characteristics of diode
A-B curve: This curve shows the characteristics of diode for different temperatures in the forward biase. As we can see from the figure given above, that curve moves towards left as we increase the temperature. We know with increase in temperature, conductivity of semiconductors increase. The intrinsic concentration (ni) of the semiconductors is dependent on temperature as given by:
Eg is the energy gap
K is a voltage man constant
A is a constant independent of temperature
When temperature is high, the electrons of the outermost shell take the thermal energy and become free. So conductivity increases with temperature. Hence with increase in temperature, the A-B curve would shift towards left i.e. curve would rise sharply and the breakdown voltage would also decrease with increase in temperature.
A-C curve: This curve shows the characteristics of diode in the reverse biased region till the breakdown voltage for different temperatures. We know ni concentration would increase with increase in temperature and hence minority charges would increase with increase in temperature. The minority charge carriers are also known as thermally generated carriers and the reverse current depends on minority carriers only. Hence as the number of minority charge carriers increase, the reverse current would also increase with temperature as shown in the figure given on the previous page.
The reverse saturation current gets double with every 10 C increase in temperature.
C-D curve: This curve shows the characteristics of a diode in reverse biased region from the breakdown voltage point onwards. As with increase in temperature, loosely bonded electrons are already free and to free the other electrons, it would take more voltage than earlier. Hence breakdown voltage increases with increase in temperature as depicted in the figure shown in the figure given on the previous page..


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EUROTAST Fellow Ryan Espersen is presenting a paper at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015.
Title: Manifestations of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Colonial
Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Abstract: Saba is a small and steep island in the Dutch Caribbean, just 13 square kilometers in area and 890 meters in elevation, with very little immigration among a population that never exceeded 1,900 prior to emancipation in 1863. The island never developed into a full-fledged plantation economy, which resulted in a population somewhat evenly split between wholly European descent residents and those of African descent, whether enslaved or free. These demographic conditions are conducive towards a feasible diachronic, dialectical study concerning how ideologies of race, class, and gender manifested in the material and social environment of preemancipation colonial Saba. This research combines extensive archival research together with archaeological excavations of key social contexts relative to the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
While this study identified particular material and social characteristics
that are representative of the enslaved, free Sabans of African descent, "poor white" Sabans and those among the upper class, it also highlights the dangers inherent in interpreting archaeological assemblages in isolation from those representative of other relevant, contemporaneous groups within the spectrum of a given region or culture's social organization.


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Facts You Didn't Know about the Chevrolet C1500 Suburban
- The Suburban was originally intended as a military vehicle. The first unit came off the assembly line in 1936. Its use was intended for National Guard and Civilian Conservation Corps units. It shared a resemblance with commercial trucks and had provisions for seating eight passengers at most.
- Having such a long history since its inception, the Chevrolet Suburban has a record of being a heavily modified truck. It has changed its appearance over 25 times, spanning twelve generations of models. The latest model is scheduled to be released in 2013.
- For over twelve generations, the Chevrolet Suburban has had one main problem: fuel economy. With such large dimensions, heavy weight, and a powerful engine to match, no wonder the Chevrolet Suburban needs more gas per mile. According to the EPA, its MPG when driving in the city and on the highwayare 14 and 20 respectively.
- With it having measurements of 222 inches and weighing 6300 lbs., it holds the record for being the longest non-commercial vehicle in GM's stable. It has also been the subject of criticisms such as inadequate garage space and off-center steering wheels.
- The Chevrolet Suburban and the GMC Yukon XL has a similar history: they're basically twins who share the same name and identical appearances. The 'Suburban' name was dropped from the GMC name and was renamed 'Yukon XL' in 2000, but that didn't stop the similarity: today, they're both built in the same factory.
- The Suburban, with its wide frame and its 'carry all, haul anything' reputation, has had a lot of uses. There was a time when it was used as a military vehicle. Today, the Suburban's uses range from being a police car, a fire chief's vehicle, an EMS fly-car, or even a luxury car a limousine.
- The Suburban has also seen uses as a car for security. In fact, security forces for foreign dignitaries use them. The most popular security force to have a fleet of Suburbans is the US Secret Service, which uses black Suburbans. There have been occasions when these have been used to transport the President of the United States when he goes to less formal engagements.


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CaC2 is an insulating ionic crystal. However, Y2Br2C2, which can be described as containing C24- ions, is metallic in two dimensions and becomes superconducting at 5K. Describe the possible electronic structure of C24-. In the crystal, monoclinic crystal symmetry leads to distortion of the Y6 surrounding structure. How might this change the electronic structure of the ion?
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It's hard to believe that 26 years before the outbreak of the American Civil War, 28 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, and 35 years before African Americans were allowed to vote, Oberlin College opened its doors to both white and black students alike to get a high quality, equal education. In 1835, It became the first University to regularly admit black students and hold a policy that it would accept any qualified student regardless of race. Oberlin was home to many ardent abolitionists and played a significant role in the Underground Railroad. Oberlin was a key stop and offered shelter to fugitive slaves on their escape to other northern states or Canadian territory. Not only was Oberlin the first college to regularly admit African-Americans but it became the first coeducational university in the country. In 1837, four female students enrolled with the rest of the male student body and 3 of them received their Bachelor of Arts degree in 1841. They are the first women ever to receive this type of degree. Oberlin College is truly a path setter in the way it laid the foundation for blacks and women to receive a higher education. It's also appropriate that the first African-American woman to receive a Bachelor's degree graduated from Oberlin in 1862.
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Alexander H. H. Stuart (1850–1853): Secretary of the Interior
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart was born in 1807 in Staunton, Virginia, attending the College of William and Mary before graduating from the University of Virginia in 1828, the same year he established his law practice in Staunton. From 1836 to 1839, Stuart served as a Whig in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was then elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served a single term (_PHONE_).
In 1850, President Millard Fillmore tapped Stuart to become his secretary of the interior. During his three-year tenure, Stuart introduced a civil service system for evaluating employees, urged the creation of an agricultural bureau, and lobbied for a building to house the department. When the Whig Party dissolved in 1856, Stuart became a member of the Know-Nothing Party, which also soon disappeared from the political scene. In 1857, he was elected to the Virginia state senate and, during his tenure, served as chairman of the committee that investigated John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.
Though he served as a delegate to the 1861 convention that discussed Virginia's secession from the Union, Stuart opposed the move. Because of his age, he did not take up arms during the Civil War; after the conflict, he was a central figure in Virginia's reconciliation with the North. Though he was elected to the United States Congress in 1865, he was prevented from assuming his seat because of his southern roots.
In 1873, Stuart was elected to a three-year term in the Virginia House of Delegates before serving as rector of the University of Virginia from 1876 to 1882, and then again from 1884 to 1886. From 1871 to 1889, he served as trustee of the Peabody Fund. Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart died in 1891.


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High in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, there is a creek that splits in two. If you were a trout, you could choose between swimming down one stream to the Pacific Ocean, or down the other to the Atlantic. The place is known as Two Ocean Pass, and the exact spot is called Parting of the Waters.
About 35 miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park, Two Ocean Pass sits along a remote meadow on the Continental Divide Trail. Here, at the headwaters of North Two Ocean Creek, the terrain flattens out and the creek splits into two tributaries, the Pacific Creek and the Atlantic Creek, each heading off in opposite directions to join up with progressively bigger and bigger rivers.
Accessible only by hike or horse, Parting of the Waters marks the start of these divergent journeys, one a 1,353 mile trip to the Pacific via the Snake and Columbia Rivers; and the other, 3,488 miles by way of the Yellowstone, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and finally the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic.
According to the National Park Service, the convergence of the two creeks creates an east-west migration route for cutthroat trout, who use it to get from the Snake River to the Missouri. Lewis and Clark tried to find this Northwest Passage. They should have just followed the fish.


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The distributed matrix solving method distributes the matrix solution across a network to utilize available processors and RAM. This significantly improves computational speed for ANSYS HFSS-IE.


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X-rayed objects
X-rays allow conservators to look underneath the surface of an object without damaging the object itself.
rusted lump of metal
Excavated iron, with an x-ray showing a buckle inside. Accession number 1981.895
For example, this excavated iron above just looks like a lump of material. It is not even obvious that there is something inside it. Analysis using x-ray radiation showed that there are the remains of a harness buckle inside. In fact the actual harness has rusted away. All that remains are the traces of the corroded metal in the shape of the original object. The buckle was probably used on an animal harness.
x-ray of two pieces of a broken sword
Pattern welded Anglo Saxon sword, with an x-ray showing the pattern. Accession number Sw.U.5
X-ray analysis of these two pieces show that they are are both part of an Anglo Saxon sword. The sword has been made using a technique called pattern welding. Pattern welding is what can be seen in the 'herring bone' patterns visible on the x-ray image.


to calculate percentage. Several replicate measurements are needed to increase precision. Densiometer measurements are influenced by adjacent canopy height and tend to overestimate canopy cover because canopy is viewed at an increasingly oblique angle toward the edges of the mirror. Photos taken with a hemispheric or fisheye lens can be used in a similar fashion, except that canopy cover is evaluated on the images rather than directly in the field. Hemispheric photos have the same biases as spherical densiometer measurements. Bias can be reduced by using a smaller view angle (about a 10 degree arc), which reduces bias associated with oblique viewing angles.
The densitometer provides a point measure of canopy cover. The densitometer is a small sighting instrument with crosshairs and a bubble level that allows the observer to determine whether canopy is present directly overhead. This instrument is sometimes referred to as a moosehorn, and several variants exist. Since the densitometer measures canopy presence at a single point, multiple sample points must be measured to obtain a canopy cover estimate. Sample points can be spaced along a transects (see the example Measurement of canopy cover at the edge of pavement (CCEP)) or arranged in a grid pattern to obtain an estimate for a large area. Using a densitometer is directly analogous to using the dot grid method to estimate canopy cover from aerial imagery. Consequently, sample size considerations are the same as discussed for the dot grid method.
Tree diameter (DBH)
Tree trunk diameter at breast height (4.5 ft height if English units are used) is one of the most commonly measured tree size statistics. However, tree form, ground slope, and other factors can complicate this measurement. We have developed a Simplified guide to measuring DBH that discusses a number of these common issues.
Tree height
There are many methods for measuring tree height. Tree height can be measured directly with a calibrated measuring pole or indirectly through trigonometric relationships by using a clinometer or a similar device. Many websites describe methods for measuring tree height..
Tree condition/health
Evaluating tree condition is always a subjective enterprise, because such evaluations rely on visual assessments made by observers. The simplest scales rate the condition of living trees as good, fair, or poor. If more detail is needed, various aspects of tree condition are independently rated. Certain ratings (e.g., canopy thinning or live crown ratio, decay ratings) provide information about chronic health problems, whereas others (e.g., current season foliar symptoms) reflect recent health impacts. Quantitative rating scales (discussed below) can simplify assessments and reduce variability between different observers.
The USDA Forest Service Inventory and Analysis program has developed detailed standardized methods for rating tree condition and many other tree and plot factors. Illustrated manuals describing these methods in detail are available online. Detailed scales for evaluating tree health and condition developed by The Urban Forests Centre at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, which are part of the Neighbourwoods inventory program, may be available on the Internet. The Neighbourwoods program is designed to minimize bias among different surveyors. This website includes scales and in some cases photographs for evaluating the following conditions:
Hazard trees
Some of the factors listed above relate directly to a tree's hazard rating. An illustrated guide to hazardous trees is available online at the USDA Forest Service St. Paul Field Office web site. ISA publishes a widely-used guide titled "A Photographic Guide to The Evaluation of Hazard Trees in Urban Areas, 2nd edition". This publication can be ordered from ISA.
Proximity to infrastructure and hardscape damage
Conflicts that develop between trees and infrastructure are often evaluated in ground surveys. The proximity of overhead wires, buildings or other structures, other trees, traffic signs, and sidewalks and curbs can all require management actions to maintain public health and safety or tree health. Distances between trees and various hardscape elements can assessed by measuring distances directly (using tape measures, distance measuring wheels, or rangefinders) or can be rated qualitatively based on visual inspection (not a problem, potential/future problem, current problem). If damage or conflicts are present, the nature and extent of the problem can also be noted and prioritized for corrective action.
Rating scales
Various types of tree assessments do not lend themselves to direct measurement but can be estimated visually. For instance canopy dieback, an important tree health parameter is difficult to measure directly but the percentage of the canopy affected by dieback can be estimated by a trained observer. Other assessments, such as canopy cover, can be assessed using reasonably precise methods, but the amount of time and effort required may not be justified based on the use of the data. In such cases, ocular estimates may be used even though more precise methods are available.
As noted above, visual rating scales can be developed for many of the assessments that are made in ground surveys. Qualitative rating scales can be quite objective if only the presence or absence of a characteristic is noted (e.g., presence/absence of leafy mistletoe). Subjective qualitative scales (e.g., rating mistletoe infection as light, moderate, or heavy) are also commonly used, but it can be difficult to obtain consistent ratings from multiple observers when subjective scales are used. However, such scales can be useful if qualitative categories are augmented with more quantitative explanations (e.g., light mistletoe rating=less than n infections). Photo keys that illustrate different qualitative rating classes can also help make qualitative ratings more objective and repeatable among different evaluators.
Quantitative rating scales are also commonly used. Scales are used to simplify the estimation of quantities such as counts or percents. Different types of scales ay be appropriate for different types of ratings. For instance, when estimating percent cover in small circular area (e.g., within the dripline of a tree), a scale using 25% increments (0-25%, 26-50%, etc.) is typically easy to use and can be rated consistently. For estimating plot canopy cover, canopy dieback, or other quantities that can vary across a wide percentage range, the following 0 to 6 scale is useful:
Rating Percentage range
0 none / not present
1 more than 0 but less than 2.5%
2 2.5% to less than 20%
3 20% to less than 50%
4 50% to less than 80%
5 80% to less than 97.5%
6 97.5% or more
Note that the classes in this scale are not uniform in size and are largest near 50% and smaller near 0 and 100%. Various studies have shown that observers are able to estimate percentages (such as percent cover) that are close to 0 or 100% with greater accuracy than they can estimate percentages near 50%. This makes sense intuitively. For instance, it is easier to distinguish between 2% and 12% cover than it is to distinguish between 45% and 55% cover, even though the absolute difference is 10% cover in either case. The scale above is similar to the Daubenmire (1959) scale except that the class edges have been modified so that the midpoints of the scale increments are equally spaced in an arcsine transformed scale. Percentage data is typically binomially distributed and the arcsine transformation (arcsine of the square root of the percentage expressed as a decimal) is used before this type of data is analyzed using standard parametric statistical tests. By using a pre-transformed scale (Little and Hills 1972), ratings can be statistically analyzed without further transformation.


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Study: Jogging Outside Can Make You Stupid
What has always been known as a cornerstone of good health and exercise, a new study reveals that jogging outside may actually have some detrimental effects on the brain.
While it is known to clear the mind, jogging outside in busy, traffic-filled areas could actually cause mental decline.
According to Belgian researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, people who live in a city and exercise outdoors have higher levels of inflammation and lower scores on cognitive tests than those who jog in the suburbs.
In a study, they separated exercisers into two groups who exercised three times a week for 12 weeks, between midday and 1 PM.
One group alternated and walking in a busy, urban area – the other in a rural location.
The researchers then gave the joggers a test to measure their response time and attention span.
They found that high levels of air pollution in the city prevented participants from getting some of the brain-boosting benefits of exercise, such as the ability to absorb new information and a reduced chance of mental health problems.
The city joggers also had significantly higher blood levels of some inflammation markers, Men's Health magazine reported.
This is important because inflammation in the brain is associated with mental illness.
The question is, were the people who decided jogging outside in a traffic-filled area already mentally ill, or did the jogging drive them to mental illness?
Stephen Willard | Elite.


I have a content-type, that can be structured like this:
 - content-type A
 - title
 - summary
 - part one title
 - image
 - text
 - part two title
 - image
 - image
 - image
 - text
 - image
 - part three title
 - text
 - image
 - text
I have no control about the position and the amount of elements that can occur. I just have the types, like heading, text, image. Actually i have only fields or rather field-groups.
How can i give the editors the possibilty to move these fields or field groups inside the content type so they can determine the position? Is there something like nodequeue for fields?
Or should i alternatively cut the content-type to smaller pieces and organize it with nodequeue? I haven't worked with nodequeue before, is it possible to give a queue a menu-entry for example?
edit: Just before i asked my question i was watching a tutorial of Display Suite and if i understood correctly i can change the layout of a content-type globally. I'm looking for a solution that gives more control over each "article" created with a content-type. Maybe i was unprecise in my question...?
If I get your question right you want both the number of parts, the combination within the parts and order within the parts to be different. This may be a little difficult to implement but definitely doable.
I am assuming that you are going to have only title, text and image type in each of these parts.
Using fieldset module create three field collections name weighted title(containing textfield with cardinality as one and weight[integer value with cardinality as one]), weighted image(image field and weight field) and weighted text(containing a text field and weight field)
Now create a field set named type, add weighted title, weighted image and weighted text as the fields in this fieldset. Make sure that you keep the cardinality of these fields as infinity. To make sure that it is not confusing, we will need to remove the drag and drop option withing the type fieldset.
The UI needs to be worked on to make it more intuitive. Without these enhancements to implement
part two title
image image image text image
We will have to do it as
Solution : title 1 image 2
image 3 image 4 image 6 text 4
and for
part three title
text image text
Solution : title 1 text 2 text 4 image 3
Hope you are not lost :P
If I get it right, you would like to let users set the position of the field-groups when they edit a node.
If that is what you want, then I would add a "position" field to every field group (hide it on the node display, but make it visible on the node edit page).
Then you can use the value of the "position" field in template files (node.tpl.php) to add classes to the field-groups for example. Then use these classes in CSS to position the field-groups.
 - Interesting approach, though not too easy to maintain. Imagine there are 8 parts in a node and now we need to add one between 2 and 3. That would mean to change the position value of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. – Volker Nov 30 '12 at 16:30
This sounds like a problem better solved by multiple content types with role and/or user specific permissions. You can easily group content of various types with views, nodequeues, or taxonomy to name a few - any of which can of course be assigned to a menu item.
Otherwise, your best bet if you choose to stick with this is to use Panels as nodes, let editors create panels on the fly, arrange them how they want in predefined layouts, etc - but this is likely a training and maintenance nightmare.
With Panelizer you can can allow users to customize the position of a nodes fields and other content. The settings are specific for a node.
You can also setup one or more default variants with fields and other content (blocks etc) placed in regions. Users can then choose one of your default variants to be used for their node.
You can setup what content a user should be able to place in a node.
I recently found the Paragraphs module, which is another great way of accomplishing the tasks of my original question. It's like creating mini-content-types that you can add and move around. Fancy.
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text: In this paper, a high-performance optimal fractional emotional intelligent controller for an Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) in power system using Cuckoo optimization algorithm (COA) is proposed. AVR is the main controller within the excitation system that preserves the terminal voltage of a synchronous generator at a specified level. The proposed control strategy is based on brain emotional learning, which is a self-tuning controller so-called brain emotional learning based intelligent controller (BELBIC) and is based on sensory inputs and emotional cues. The major contribution of the paper is that to use the merits of fractional order PID (FOPID) controllers, a FOPID controller is employed to formulate stimulant input (SI) signal. This is a distinct advantage over published papers in the literature that a PID controller used to generate SI. Furthermore, another remarkable feature of the proposed approach is that it is a model-free controller. The proposed control strategy can be a promising controller in terms of simplicity of design, ease of implementation and less time-consuming. In addition, in order to enhance the performance of the proposed controller, its parameters are tuned by COA. In order to design BELBIC controller for AVR system a multi-objective optimization problem including overshoot, settling time, rise time and steady-state error is formulated. Simulation studies confirm that the proposed controller compared to classical PID and FOPID controllers introduced in the literature shows superior performance regarding model uncertainties. Having applied the proposed controller, the rise time and settling time are improved 47% and 57%, respectively.


text: Vertex elimination is a graph operation that turns the neighborhood of a vertex into a clique and removes the vertex itself. It has widely known applications within sparse matrix computations. We define the ELIMINATION problem as follows: given two graphs G and H, decide whether H can be obtained from G by |V(G)|−|V(H)| vertex eliminations. We show that ELIMINATION is W-hard when parameterized by |V(H)|, even if both input graphs are split graphs, and W-hard when parameterized by |V(G)|−|V(H)|, even if H is a complete graph. On the positive side, we show that ELIMINATION admits a kernel with at most 5|V(H)| vertices in the case when G is connected and H is a complete graph, which is in sharp contrast to the W-hardness of the related CLIQUE problem. We also study the case when either G or H is tree. The computational complexity of the problem depends on which graph is assumed to be a tree: we show that ELIMINATION can be solved in polynomial time when H is a tree, whereas it remains NP-complete when G is a tree.


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A Continuous Thread
A Continuous Thread is a permanent artwork commissioned by the NYC MTA, Arts For Transit and Urban Design. The project consists of six laminated glass windows on the elevated train platforms; each containing a singular, colorful lace doily 4'h x 10'w. Meticulously hand drawn, digitally printed, and then laminated between multiple layers of glass, these images create a unique effect of depth and dimension - shifting and changing as the viewer moves across the platform, and as the light changes throughout the day. In The Shadow Of The Design, a poem by Susan Auld accompanies the artwork.
Located at the 79th Street station of the D train in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, this piece celebrates the historically Italian, and more recently, Asian and Latin American residents that make up this vibrant neighborhood.
Iconic images of home, doilies are passed from one generation to the next - linking past, present, and future; homemade family heirlooms that hold memories and celebrate a sense of comfort and belonging. As a counterbalance to the industrial landscape of the subway platforms, these epic but very intimate domestic objects, act as visual anchors hovering delicately within the windows; a continuous layering of thread that resonates as home.


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La Jardinera de la Esperanza (The Gardener of Hope)
La Jardinera de la Esperanza, depicts a young girl lying on garden patio steps, cultivating a variety of plant pots. The sculpture is sited four metres beneath the surface Punta Nizuc, Cancun. The pots are propagated with live coral cuttings rescued from areas of the reef system damaged by storms and human activity. This technique, a well-established procedure in reef conservation, rescues damaged coral fragments by providing a suitable new substrate.
The sculpture, a synthesis between art and science, conveys a message of hope and prosperity, portraying human intervention as positive and regenerating. The young Girl symbolizes a new, revitalized kinship with the environment, a role model for future generations. The interaction between the inanimate and living forms highlights a potential symbiotic relationship with the life systems of the underwater world. Over the past few decades we have lost over 40% of our natural coral reefs. Scientists predict a permanent demise of 80% by 2050. The Gardner of Hope is designed to focus attention on this important, often forgotten, ecological issue.
Built into the base of the sculpture are specialized habitat spaces designed to encourage individual types of marine creatures such as moray eels, juvenile fish and lobsters.
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The most obvious difference is that Canada is a lot colder than the United States.
If something is 'obvious' it is easy to see or understand without a lot of effort. It is something that is noticeable. Notice the following:
 1. There was a small sign next to the road, but it wasn't that obvious.
 2. It's very obvious that you aren't interested in what I'm saying.
cultural pockets
In the U.S., there are many more of those cultural pockets.
A 'cultural pocket' is an area where a group of people from one particular culture live in a community. Notice the following:
 1. Why would a cultural pocket of Puerto Ricans form in a place that is so cold?
 2. There are cultural pockets in the United States where you feel like you are almost in a different country.
The U.S. has many, many more sort of culturally diverse areas.
If a place has people who come from all different countries or cultural and religious backgrounds it is considered to be 'diverse.' Notice the following:
 1. One of the cool things about living in a big city is that the people are very diverse.
 2. The student population at my university is very diverse.
significant difference
I think diversity is one significant difference between Canada and the U.S.
A'significant difference' is a different that is very big or important. Notice the following:
 1. The most significance difference about my life here is that I don't drive anywhere.
 2. The only significant difference between Sara and her twin is that one is a little taller.
point to
One thing that many tourists point to as a reason for going to Canada is that it's safer than in the U.S.
Used like this, 'point to' means the same as'refer to.' The meaning of the sentence is that the reason that tourists give for going to Canada is that it's safer than the U.S. Notice the following:
 1. All of the evidence points to the fact that we are looking for at least 3 criminals in the bank robbery.
 2. She points to her desire to have a safe home for her family as a reason for moving out of the city.
roots or subdued
I think the roots in Canada are a little bit less and subdued.
'Roots,' in this sense, are cultural traditions or feeling of belonging or wanting to stay in a place. When something is'subdued' it exists, but not in as strong or obvious a way as in other places. Notice the following:
 1. She put down very strong roots during only a few months in Asia.
 2. My dog is a lot more subdued now that he is older. He was wild as a puppy.


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The Ontario government introduced Bill 132, the "Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment), 2015" (the "Act") on October 27, 2015. This Act is part of the Ontario Government's Action Plan known as "It's Never Okay: An Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment." If passed, the Act will amend six provincial statutes with respect to sexual violence, sexual harassment, domestic violence and other related matters. The intention of the Act is to "improve support for survivors in the justice system while protecting students and workers…from the threat of sexual violence and harassment."
Of importance to employers, there are proposed changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act("OHSA") under the Act. These changes will create specific duties for all employers to develop policies and procedures to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, including a duty to investigate incidents and complaints. These amendments will impose a financial burden on employers.
The important proposed amendments to the OHSA are:
- an expansion of the existing obligation for employers to have a workplace harassment policy or program to include workplace sexual harassment within that policy;
- a duty for employers to ensure an investigation is conducted into incidents and complaints of any workplace harassment, including workplace sexual harassment;
- a duty for employers to ensure that the complainant and the respondent of any workplace harassment complaint be informed of the investigation results;
- a duty for employers to ensure any corrective measures that need to be taken as a result of an investigation into workplace harassment occurs; and
- an expansion of the role of Occupational Health and Safety inspectors by granting inspectors the power to order investigations and corresponding reports, at the employer's expense, into workplace harassment complaints.
The Act will also expand the definition of "workplace harassment" in the OHSA to include "workplace sexual harassment," which will be defined as:
"(a) engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or
(b) making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome."
For the benefit of employers, the proposed changes to the OHSA include the addition of a provision to clarify that a reasonable action taken by an employer or supervisor relating to the management and direction of workers or the workplace is not workplace harassment.
New law will mean significant changes for employers
If the Act is passed, the proposed changes to the OHSA will come into force on either July 1, 2016 or six months after the Act receives Royal Assent, whichever date is later.
As with any proposed legislation, the Act may undergo revisions in the legislative process before it is passed into law. The Act, if passed, will have a significant impact on employers as it will require a review and revision of existing workplace harassment policies and programs, and make employers subject to increased powers by OHSA inspectors.


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I want to use the Python field calculator to remove the hyphen from a field column. For example, I would like to parse out the hyphen from an entry like "123-45-6789" and read "123456789".
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Why the down votes? – Nathan W Dec 26 '12 at 2:28
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Use the built-in str.replace method accessible on all string objects.
Put this in the Expression box (replacing "FieldName" with your own):
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The sub method in Python's regular expression module should do the trick.
import re
no_hyphens = re.sub('-','','123-45-6789')
This will replace any instance of a "-" with an empty string.
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How To Tell If Your Cat Is A Runt: 5 Signs to Look For
Many litters come out with runts. A runt is the smallest and weakest of the born kittens. While newborn kittens are fragile, runts are more vulnerable. Knowing how to tell if your cat is a runt will allow pet owners to give the proper care the feline needs. Runts are not a lost cause – you can still give them a happy and fulfilling life.
I've had many cats ever since I'm a child, so I know well when a kitten is a runt. I also volunteer at a local shelter from time to time, where many runts are either rescued or surrendered due to their failing health.
Signs that a cat is a runt
Contrary to some beliefs, not all litters have runts. Many turn out fine and all the kittens are equally healthy. But if you're adopting, it will help a lot if you'll know whether your cat is a runt or not. The following are some of the common signs to look for:
1. Smaller than normal size
One of the tell-tale signs that a cat is a runt is its small size. For adult cats, you'll easily see that they are smaller than other kitties of the same age. This is due to poor nourishment during and after pregnancy. (Learn more here how to tell if your cat is pregnent)
However, you have to understand that some cat breeds are smaller than others. It's best to see the parents or at least the other kittens in the litter so you can make a comparison.
2. Inability to suckle
Inability or difficulty suckling is a sign that a kitten is a runt. This is due to their weaker and smaller bodies. As the other kittens struggle to reach the mother cat's nipples, the runt is typically left behind. In most cases, the owner has to interfere through syringe feeding to ensure that the runt gets to eat. learn Here how to force feed a cat
Many mother cats will help the runt suck milk from its nipples. Unfortunately, there are cases where the mother cat completely rejects or abandons the runt because of its lower chance of survival.
3. Physical deformity
If the cat has a physical deformity, there's a high chance that it's the runt of the litter. Some of the runt kittens I've seen have crooked legs, bulging eyes, uneven paws, and underdeveloped organs. In fact, the runt in my cat Watson's litter had crooked legs. Fortunately, a family took the kitty in and had him treated by the vet.
You will notice the runt will have difficulty walking or moving. It also tends to move less due to the discomfort brought by the congenital deformity. This will contribute to the runt's failure to receive proper nutrition from its mother cat.
4. Obvious weakness
Runts are often weak. While the other kittens are playing and wrestling around, the runt can be seen sitting on a corner. This is obviously seen on the initial days after birth since the healthy kittens will often move to locate their mother.
Also, runts often have underlying illnesses, which makes them even weaker. This is the reason why this kitty requires intensive attention to increase its chance of survival.
5. Fading Kitten Syndrome
The Fading Kitten Syndrome (FKS) is very common among runts born by undernourished mothers. Take note that the entire litter can have FKS, not just the runt. But since runts are smaller and weaker, they are more likely to succumb to this condition.
The Fading Kitten Syndrome causes weakness, extremely poor appetite, isolation from the litter, and malnourishment. It's called 'fading kitten' because this condition kills a lot of newborn kittens slowly as if they are fading.
Proper care is needed to save a runt showing signs of FKS. It's best to involve the vet if you suspect that your cat has this condition.
Is it bad to pick the runt of the litter?
No, it's not really bad to pick the runt of the litter if you're planning to adopt a cat. While they are smaller and weaker than the others, it doesn't mean they won't be amazing pets. Proper care will help the runt regain its healthy so it will become stronger.
When deciding to pick the runt, you should check its interaction with the mother cat. If the mama cat nurses and grooms the runt, it's a good sign that the runt can survive and live normally.
Meanwhile, rejected runts have to be fed by the breeder. This means that the kitty won't get its mother's milk. This works, too, but make sure that you get the kitty checked by a veterinarian.
Also, you should only deal with a responsible and licensed breeder. Legitimate breeders run tests on all the kittens to ensure that they are in good health. Also, they won't give you a sickly kitten, no matter if it's the runt or not.
For those who are adopting from a shelter, picking the runt is a noble choice. As you know, not all shelters or rescue organizations have enough funds to sustain all the animals. The weakest often end up not getting adopted. And when that happens, some shelters will euthanize them as more and more animals arrive.
Remember that the runts can still be the stars of the litter. You just have to care for them properly.
How to care for a runt
If you have a runt cat, it's important to formulate a plan on how to raise it. The following are some of the things to keep in mind:
Always keep the vet involved
A runt is like a sickly child. You always have to stay connected with the doctor. Before bringing the runt cat home, visit the vet's clinic for a comprehensive checkup. This way, the vet will diagnose if the kitty has underlying health problems or organ issues.
Feed multiple times a day
Also, it's important to feed a runt multiple times a day in small servings. Ideally, you should purchase a kitten formula if the mother cat is no longer around. Learn here how to feed a toothless cat
But if the runt is under a month and its mother is still nursing, it's best to let it suckle on its mama. The kitty will need some help to reach the nipple and ensure that the other kittens will not steal his spot.
Keep the runt warm
Kittens can't control their body temperature during the first weeks of life. Runts are more vulnerable because they are weak, and cold temperatures can easily become deadly for them.
For this, you can use a heating pad, but make sure that it's not too hot for the kitty. Blankets are also a big help.
Monitor 24/7
Lastly, always monitor the runt. If the kitty is only a few weeks old, it's not advisable to leave it alone at home. You have to keep tabs on its condition 24/7. Take note that even the litter's healthy members will require round-the-clock monitoring between 1 to 8 weeks. After that, you can wean the kitty from the kitten formula and transition it to kitten food. Please read here how long can you leave a cat alone
Can there be more than one runt in a litter?
Yes, there can be more than one runt in a litter. However, the 'true runt' is often just one. This is more common on mother cats with very large litters. Since there are many kittens that compete for nutrition, more than one of the members may turn out underweight and small.
However, just because a kitten is small doesn't mean it's automatically a runt. You have to check its health. If it doesn't have problems suckling, the size is just probably normal.
Do runt kittens stay small?
Yes and no. Some runts grow to normal size. Meanwhile, others remain smaller than their ideal size, but it doesn't mean that the cat isn't healthy. It's possible that it just got stunted, which occurs to other animals and humans as well. Learn more here why is my cat so small
How long do runt cats live?
A runt can live as long as any healthy cat. The rule of thumb is that if the runt made it to six weeks, it's likely going to survive. About how long, it depends on the kitten's general health and the care it will receive.
As long as they are provided proper care and nutrition, a runt will become a healthy feline. However, you have to watch out for health problems. And if the runt has a physical deformity, it will not develop properly. This could be tied to a more serious health problem.
Do runt cats have health problems?
There's a very high chance that the runt of the litter will have heart defects. Umbilical hernias and deformities are also possible. If you are getting the kitten from a breeder, make sure that he or she provides a full report on the cat's health.
On a lighter note, some runts will not have any serious problems and will thrive under proper care.
Do mother cats reject runts?
There's a chance that a mother cat will reject the runt because of its poor health. It's said that mother cats can detect the chance of survival of their kittens. And if the runt is too weak, the mama cat will likely abandon or reject it. Still, there are instances when the mother cat gives more attention to the runt. learn


MySQL Tables With UTF-8
Here is how to properly setup your database to store and query UTF-8 characters
1. You will need to make sure your tables are setup to store UTF-8 values.
e.g. show create table {tablename}; <– this will output table setup
If you see the 'DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1′, then you will need to change it to 'DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8′
e.g. alter table {table name} default charset utf8;
2. Now that we have setup all the tables to be able to store UTF8 characters, the next step is to display them from your script.
To properly display utf-8 characters, you will need to tell it that the output contains UTF-8 characters.
e.g. set names utf8;
The above command needs to be called before your 'select' statements. Otherwise, all you queries will return with a question (?) marks for any values that contain utf-8 characters.


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As any graduate has discovered, there's a difference between work and learning about a job in a classroom. The Troup County School System's work-based learning program is designed to bridge that gap by giving students experience in their chosen field before graduation.
Students now choose a pathway in school, like a major in college, to study in their chosen field. The work-based learning program allows students to receive class credit for working at a job.
"Some are aligned with their pathway, some are not," said Patsy Smith, coordinator for work-based learning at Troup High School, about jobs students currently hold. "We're trying to reconfigure that. We want to get all the students to where they align with their pathway."
Students who participate in work-based learning at THS can use either one or two classroom periods at the end of the day to go to their job. For those that take one class period, they are required to have at least five hours per week, or 90 hours at the end of the semester. For those that take two class periods, at least 10 hours of work per week, or 180 hours per semester, is expected.
"We want to show them what it will really be like" in the working world, Smith said. "… I try to find them training stations, jobs where they can learn in their chosen fields."
Students who do work in a field they plan to continue in after school get a head start on finding out if they are in the right pathway, Smith said. For students like Casey Watts, who works at Quality Machine on West Lukken Industrial Drive, the opportunity allowed him to get into a field he enjoys.
Watts was a metal shop student at THS before the program closed. After attending a job shadow at Quality Machine and Fabrication, he approached Bill Holloway about a job there. He was hired the next week, and Feb. 8 will mark a year working at the shop.
"It's something I like doing," Watts said of his job.
Watts gets to run a lathe and help with jobs like repairing and fabricating replacement rollers for area mills.
"I learned a lot of tricks" of the trade, Watts said of working at the shop versus taking classes. "Mr. Bill has taught me a lot."
After he graduates, Watts wants to attend tech school for welding and college for machining.
Kinsley Hanners is an intern in the program, which means she doesn't get paid. Choosing the education pathway, Hanners works with Kindergarten team leader Kimberly Fitch at Whitesville Road Elementary School.
Hanners works with the young students and helps Fitch with lesson plans and preparations after students leave. As part of her internship, she also is required to lead three lesson plans during the semester.
"It's helped a lot," Hanners said of the hands-on experience compared to learning about it in a classroom. "Seeing how the children act and react (is very valuable). You're not just hearing it from somebody else."
Hanners said the internship has even strengthened her resolve to become a teacher.
"I like it a lot," she said. "All the kids are really nice, they like me a lot. It's really sweet."
Fitch said Hanners has a natural ability with the children and is always willing to stay late to help her prepare for the next day. Hanners also has been a part of school meetings and faculty discussions, giving her insight into what teachers do after class.
"She's also seen some of the last-minute things that pop up," Fitch said. "As a teacher, you have to be flexible. That's something that she's learned."
At Troup High School, students also have the opportunity to work out of the school in Amy Hicks' graphic arts shop and Lamont Pitts' automotive shop. Students in both shops are paid employees of the school system.
Hicks takes jobs from the school system, alumni association, non profits and churches for printing fliers, business cards, publications, posters, banners and anything else the shop can produce. Three students currently work in the shop, taking on jobs with deadlines to meet and customers that they need to please.
The shop makes enough money to cover its costs, Hicks said, so it doesn't cost the school system any additional money.
Trevor Spradlin, one of Hicks' students, said Hicks convinced him to come work in the shop. He enjoys working with the offset printer, which can print small publications. He plans to operate a screen-printing business one day and the program has allowed him to already get certifications in design and sign printing.
Alyson Brooks, another of Hicks' students, said she wants to get into graphic design and loves the idea of being able to create "something from nothing." She said working with real clients and deadlines gives students in the program a true understanding of what is expected of them.
In Pitts' automotive shop, Nick Nixon and Hunter White were working on a county-owned vehicle that needed repair. Students in the automotive program work on practice units and models, but once participants in the program they have the knowledge, they relish being able to "dive in" and work on the real thing, Pitts said.
Nixon and White both plan to work in the automotive or diesel field later. Nixon also works at LaGrange Toyota.
"You do hands-on stuff all the time in here," Nixon said.
White added that the program allows students to get a real perspective on things that they talk about in class.
"It clicks more than just reading it in books," he said.
Pitts also allows Nixon and White to supervise other students, giving them experience not only in working on engines, but management.
Smith said although many students in the program have a foothold into gainful employment, and many can earn certifications while participating, most plan to get post-secondary education in their fields.
"We're trying to bridge that gap," she said of allowing students to gain experience in their field before committing to it after high school. "… We're not just teaching them to graduate, then go straight to work."