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Lemon Sole is a medium sized flatfish found along the northern European coast on coarse gravelly and rocky bottoms at depths ranging from 40 to 200 m. They mature relatively quickly and live up to nine years.
Lemon Sole appear to be at medium levels of abundance, although information about population size is somewhat limited. In the United Kingdom, they are generally taken by beam and otter trawls as bycatch in mixed whitefish fisheries that target Cod, Haddock, and Whiting. Bottom trawls can damage the seafloor. Management of Lemon Sole in the United Kingdom is limited and bycatch levels are mostly unknown.
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Body-color brake lamps are lamps that in their off state match the body color of the car. When energized, all body-color lamps, as well as conventional lamps, appear bright red. The speed of response to a body-color brake lamp may differ from the speed of response to a conventional lamp for two reasons. The first is that the difference between off-and on-state luminances varies primarily with off-state luminance. When the difference is larger than for the conventional lamp, the increased luminance contrast may speed reaction time. The other reason that responses for the two types of lamps may differ is the greater chromaticity contrast that body-color lamps have between their on and off states.
This study separately evaluated the effects of luminance contrast and chromaticity contrast for body-color brake lamps. One set of chromatically neutral lamps of varying lightness (from black to white) was tested, along with a set of chromatically varied lamps of equal lightness, and a conventional lamp. The lamps were tested pair-wise in a dual-task paradigm where one task involved simple compensatory tracking, and the other task was to respond to the onset of either of the two brake lamps. Reaction times were recorded.
The primary findings are statistically significant effects of both luminance contrast and chromaticity contrast on reaction time to brake lamps. Neither of these effects is large; the difference between fastest and slowest mean reaction times was 33 msec. The effect of luminance contrast is such that lamps that are light in their off state yield slower reaction times. Performance with the lightest lamp in this study was slightly worse than performance with the conventional lamp. None of the chromatic lamps degraded performance relative to the conventional lamp. The pattern of responses to the chromatic lamps suggests that for all lamps that are different from red in their off state, the effect of chromaticity contrast will be to speed up reaction time slightly compared to the conventional lamp.

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Measuring for a curve
Measuring for a curve, like everything else, is simple when you know how.
We hope the following guidelines will be of some help.
The main principle to understand is that accuracy is achieved by working/ measuring from point to point.
For example in the sketch below, the blue line and dots represent external point to point dimensions of a panel of glass. i.e chord, radius, depth of bend, and girth. The red line and dots represent the internal dimensions of the same panel of glass.
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Excessive iodine can lead to goiters. However, the relationship between the water iodine concentration (WIC) and goiter rate (GR) is unclear. This study aims to explore the factors that influence children's GR in areas with high WIC and analyse the threshold value of the GR increase associated with the WIC. According to the monitoring of the areas with high WIC in China in 2018–2020, a total of 54 050 children in eight high water iodine provinces were chosen. Drinking water, urine and edible salt samples of children were collected. The thyroid volume (Tvol) was measured. A generalised additive model (GAM) was used to analyse the relationship between the WIC and GR in children. Among the 54 050 children in areas with high WIC, the overall GR was 3·34 %, the median of water iodine concentration was 127·0 µg/l, the median of urinary iodine concentration was 318 µg/l and the non-iodised salt coverage rate (NISCR) was 63·51 %. According to the GAM analysis results, water iodine and urinary iodine are factors that influence the Tvol and GR, while the NISCR affects only the GR. When the WIC was more than 420 µg/l or the urinary iodine concentration was more than 800 µg/l, the GR increased rapidly. When the NISCR reached more than 85 %, the GR was the lowest. Thus, in areas with high WIC, WIC more than 420 µg/l may increase the risk of goiter, and the NISCR should be increased to over 85 % to avoid goiters in children.
Global warming increases the risk of pests and weeds before wintering, and decreases the grain yield of winter wheat. Therefore, the sowing date should be delayed properly. But the variety of winter wheat that can adapt to late sowing remains unclear. Here, we selected two winter wheat cultivars and evaluated four sowing date treatments on 1 October (early sowing), 8 (normal sowing), 15 (late sowing) and 22 (latest sowing) over two wheat-growing seasons at the experimental Station of Shandong Agricultural University (35°96′N, 117°06′E), Daiyue District, Taian, Shandong, China. We examined the effects of sowing date on a few traits, and found that, compared with normal sowing, though spike number decreased, grain yield was maintained above 9300 kg/ha under late and latest sowing. The main reason was that the more accumulated N from jointing to anthesis resulted in a higher grain number per spike. The higher net photosynthetic rate after anthesis, through optimizing N distribution in the canopy and increasing Rubisco content of flag leaves, improved dry matter accumulation rate and contribution ratio of vegetative organs, ultimately, ensured consistent grain weight. The grain yield of high-tillering winter wheat cultivars decreased from 9370 to 8346 kg/ha. The main reason was that spike number, accumulated N from jointing to anthesis and net photosynthetic rate decreased significantly, which reduced the dry matter accumulation rate, and only satisfied less grains to achieve consistent grain weight. Therefore, low-tillering winter wheat cultivars are more adaptable to late sowing, and can reduce the harm of global warming.
This paper explores the relationships among positive and negative work reflection during leisure time, psychological capital, and radical and incremental creativity. We collected data from 500 dyads of employees and their direct supervisors, and employed the structural equation model to test our research hypotheses. The results reveal that positive work reflection during leisure time is positively related to radical and incremental creativity, while negative work reflection during leisure time is negatively related to the two types of creativity. Our findings also suggest that psychological capital mediates the effects of positive and negative work reflection during leisure time on radical and incremental creativity.
This study aimed to identify the important capacities that were most urgently needed during emergency response and factors associated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) professionals' field coping-capacity for public health emergency.
Professional workers (N = 1854) from 40 CDC institutions were chosen using the stratified cluster random sampling method in all 13 municipalities of Heilongjiang Province, China. Descriptive analysis and multivariate logistic regression were used.
Of 10 key capacities, the 3 that were most urgently needed during emergency response fieldwork as identified by respondents were crisis communication capacity, personal protection capacity, and laboratory detection capacity. Overall, 38.1% of respondents self-rated as "poor" on their coping-capacity. The logistic regression found that proficiency in emergency preparedness planning, more practical experiences in emergency response, effectiveness in training and drills, a higher education level, and a higher professional position were significantly associated with the individual's field coping-capacity.
This study identified CDC professionals' most urgent capacity need and the obstructive factors and highlighted the importance of enhancing the capacity in crisis communication, personal protection, and laboratory detection. Intervention should be targeted at sufficient fund, formalized, and effective emergency training and drills, more operational technical guidance, and all-around supervision and evaluation.
We report a new pulsed chemical vapor deposition (PCVD) process to deposit nickel (Ni) and nickel carbide (Ni3Cx) thin films, using bis(1,4-di-tert-butyl-1,3-diazabutadienyl)nickel(II) precursor and either H2 gas or H2 plasma as the coreactant, at a temperature from 140 to 250 °C. All the PCVD films are fairly pure with low levels of N and O impurities. The films deposited with H2 gas at ≤200 °C are faced centered cubic-phase Ni metal films with low C content; but at ≥220 °C, another phase of rhombohedral Ni3C is formed and the C content increases. However, when H2 plasma is used, the films are always in rhombohedral Ni3C phase for the entire temperature range.
Several epidemiological studies have been performed to evaluate the association of fruit and vegetable consumption with risk of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), but the results remain controversial. Thus, we conducted a systematic meta-analysis to assess the associations of fruit or/and vegetable consumption with risk of MetS, separately.
We searched PubMed, EMBASE and Web of Science databases up to July 2017 for relevant available articles. Pooled OR with 95 % CI were calculated with the fixedor random-effects model.
A total of nine studies for fruit consumption, nine studies for vegetable consumption and seven studies for fruit and vegetable consumption were identified as eligible for the present meta-analysis. The pooled OR (95 % CI) of MetS for the highest v. lowest category were 0·87 (0·82, 0·92; I2=46·7 %) for fruit consumption, 0·85 (0·80, 0·91; I2=0·0 %) for vegetable consumption and 0·76 (0·62, 0·93; I2=83·5 %) for fruit and vegetable consumption. In subgroup analyses stratified by continent where the study was conducted, the inverse association of fruit consumption (0·86 (0·77, 0·96)) and vegetable consumption (0·86 (0·80, 0·92)) with risk of MetS remained significant in Asia. There was no evidence of small-study effect.
Our meta-analysis indicates that fruit or/and vegetable consumption may be inversely associated with risk of MetS. It suggests that people should consume more fruits and vegetables to decrease the risk of MetS.
Early life is considered a critical period for determining long-term metabolic health. Postnatal over-nutrition may alter glucocorticoid (GC) metabolism and increase the risk of developing obesity and metabolic disorders in adulthood. Our aim was to assess the effects of the dose and timing of a fish oil diet on obesity and the expression of GC-activated enzyme 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (HSD1) in postnatal overfed rats. Litter sizes were adjusted to three (small litter (SL)) or ten (normal litter) rats on postnatal day 3 to induce overfeeding or normal feeding. The SL rats were divided into three groups after weaning: high-dose fish oil (HFO), low-dose fish oil (LFO) and standard-diet groups. After 10 weeks, the HFO diet reduced body weight gain (16 %, P<0·05), improved glucose intolerance and decreased hyperlipa


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Those little bags that you find in a box of new shoes or a new camera can be very useful. Here's what you can do with them and some information about just how dangerous they actually are. Following is a transcript of the video.
Don't throw these away: Silica gel bags. They're usually found in a box when you buy new shoes or a camera. Usually, we throw them out.
Silicon dioxide dries out anything around them. Non-toxic, not poisonous, they do pose a choking hazard. Keep them away from children. Here's what you can use them for.
2. Save a wet phone. It's more effective than rice. Put the phone in a jar full of the bags.
3. Save old photos. Put a few of the bags in a box of old photos. It saves them from sticking together or getting ruined.
4. Defog your windshield. Put a bunch of the bags under your windshield. It takes care of the fog and saves precious time.
5. Extend the life of razor blades. The bags absorb the moisture from your blade.
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Many taxpayers have applied for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) listing on the application an individual or entity other than the entity's true responsible party as the principal officer, general partner, grantor, owner, or trustor. The use of such an individual or entity, a "nominee", has resulted in IRS records containing incorrect information. Entities that used nominees on their applications should consider updating the information shown on the original application.
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Any entity that applied for an EIN listing a nominee as the "principal officer", etc., and listing the nominee's Taxpayer Identification Number as that of the principal officer, should send the IRS a letter providing the name and Taxpayer Identification Number (Social Security Number, Employer Identification Number, or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) of the true responsible party. Entities that submitted applications that showed, as the principal officer, an individual or entity who is no longer the true responsible party also should update the entity's information.
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This paper is principally concerned with the theoretical and experimental study of a set of voting classifiers which we think is likely to provide an accurate answer to the simplicity-accuracy tradeoff: decision committees (DC) [Nock Gascuel1995]. DC is informally the Boolean multiclass extension of polynomial discriminant functions. A decision committee contains rules, each of these being a pair (monomial, vector). Each monomial is a condition that, when fired, returns its vector. After each monomial has been tested, the sum of the returned vectors is used to take the decision. This additive fashion for combining rules is absent from classical Boolean classifiers such as Decision Trees (DT) or Decision Lists (DL). Furthermore, unlike these two latter classes, the classifier contains absolutely no ordering, neither on variables (unlike DT), nor on monomials (unlike DL). When sufficiently small DCs are built and adequate restrictions are taken, a new dimension in interpreting the classifier is obtained, which does not exist for DT or DL. Namely, any example can satisfy more than one rule, and a DC can therefore be interpreted by means of various rule subsets (in a naive conversion of a DT or a DL into rule sets, any example satisfies exactly one rule). Decision committees resemble or generalize other rule sets [Cohen Singer1999]. In this paper, the authors consider DNF-shaped formulas, in which the output of a monomial is not a class (called ''positive''), but a (non-negative) confidence in the classification as positive. A default class predicts the other class, called ''negative'' (this is a setting with two classes). Computing the class of an observation boils down to summing the confidences of the rules it satisfies, and then deciding the positive class if the sum is greater than zero, and the negative class otherwise. Decision committees are a generalization of these formulas, in which we remove the setting's constraint (two classes) and authorize the membership prediction to arbitrary classes, thereby leading to a true voting classifier. This voting fashion is a feature that decision committees share with decision tables [Kohavi Sommerfield1998]. However, decision tables classifiers are based on majority voting of the examples (and not of rules), over a restricted ''window'' of the description variables. They necessitate the storing of many examples, and the interpretations of the data can only be made through this window, according to this potentially large set of examples. Decision committees rather represent an efficient way to encode a voting method into a small number of rules, and the way a class is given can be brought back to early works in machine learning [Clark Boswell1991]. More formal details are provided in the next section.
Among our theoretical results, that are presented in the following section, we provide formal proofs that the simplicity-accuracy tradeoff is also hard to achieve for DC, as well as for the construction of complex votes involving DT. This last result shows that, while mixing C4.5 with boosting provides one of the most powerful classification algorithms [Friedman et al.2000], pruning boosting is essentially heuristic [Margineantu Dietterich1997].
The algorithm we propose for the induction of DC, WIDC (for Weak Induction of Decision Committees), has the following key features. It uses recent results on partition boosting, ranking loss boosting [Schapire Singer1998] and some about pruning Boolean formulas [Kearns Mansour1998]. WIDC follows a scheme close to C4.5's for decision trees [Quinlan1994], or ICDL's for decision lists [Nock Jappy1998] ; as such, it differs from previous studies in voting classifiers (boosting, bagging [Breiman1996]) by features such as the fact that no modification is made on the example's distribution during induction. It is also one if its differences with the SLIPPER rule induction approach [Cohen Singer1999].
On multiclass and multilabel problems, WIDC proposes a very fast and simple solution to ranking loss boosting, optimal in fairly general cases, and asymptotically optimal in most of the remaining ones. The general problem of ranking loss boosting was previously conjectured -Hard [Schapire Singer1998]. Though our ranking loss boosting algorithm is not always optimal, we also show that the general ranking loss boosting problem related to Schapire Singer (1998) is actually not -Hard, and can be solved in polynomial time, though it seems to require the use of complex and time-expensive algorithms, related to the minimization of (symmetric) submodular functions. This also partially justifies the use of our simple and fast approximation algorithm.
The last section of this paper presents experimental results obtained with WIDC on thirty-one domains, most of which are readily available and can be found on the UCI repository of machine learning database [Blake et al.1998].
In order to keep the paper self-contained and as concise and readable as possible, we have chosen to put an appendix at the end of the paper containing all proofs of our results.


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HISTORY OF FOIE GRAS
Literally translated from French, foie gras means "fat liver," but its origins date back far before French cooking made it a delicacy. The ancient Egyptians hunted and then domesticated geese, and discovered that waterfowl developed large, fatty livers after eating large amounts in preparation for migration. To replicate this naturally occurring large liver, the Egyptians, over 4000 years ago, developed the technique now known as gavage to produce a fattier bird. Colorful relief paintings found on the tombs of aristocratic Egyptians depict the hand-feeding of geese, which served as an important source of nutrition around the Nile region. The practice of gavage spread throughout the Mediterranean, and was adopted by the Greeks and then the Romans, the latter of whom made foie gras into a delicacy in its own right. As Rome expanded territorially, its gastronomic influence also expanded, turning foie gras into a food enjoyed by gourmands, who fattened their ducks explicitly for the purposes of its production.
After the fall of Rome, and during the medieval period, it was the Jewish population who kept the tradition of foie gras alive. Goose meat served as an excellent source of nutrition and the animal also provided cooking fat that conformed to Jewish law. Wherever Jews moved across Europe during the Middle Ages, they brought with them the tradition of goose fattening.
During the late sixteenth-century Renaissance, classical texts and cookbooks were revisited, and interest in foie gras was once again piqued. In France, Louis XIV, a gourmand, enjoyed haute cuisine, but his tastes began to trickle down to the aspirations of the French middle class. After the French Revolution, with centuries of food admiration so deeply etched into their culture, the bourgeois became the new consumers of cuisine, and they began to frequent a new establishment known as the restaurant. Chefs who had lost their aristocratic patrons cooked instead for Parisian middle class society.
Foie gras became popularized in the United States in the late nineteenth century as Americans brought a love of the food back with them from travels in Europe. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century, however, that American farmers began to produce foie gras here in the U.S. The majority of foie gras consumed by Americans now comes from small North American farms. Demand for foie gras has grown, prompting chefs across the country to add the item to their menus. And though it has enjoyed a long history, foie gras is still produced using the traditional methods passed down by generations – by hand, and with care and attention that small, artisan farmers give to their ducks.
A useful timeline of the history of foie gras, beginning in 2498 BC and ending in 2008 AD, can be seen at The Wall Street Journal website.
Tomb relief showing Egyptians hand feeding ducks
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Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction, Second Edition introduces communication theory, interpersonal communication, and public communication and culture through the lens of contemporary critical theory. John T. Warren and Deanna L. Fassett focus on public advocacy as a more meaningful way to approach public speaking through coverage of topics and issues that readers are most passionate about. By situating communication concepts and theories within contemporary and engaging cultural scenes, the book is much more than a survey of ideas - it demonstrates the power of communication in our everyday lives. This new edition enhances the book's focus on the connections between public advocacy and traditional public speaking, and the 2nd edition also includes two new chapters on listening and small group communication. New and updated examples have been added throughout the text, and new end-of-chapter questions and activities have been added to reinforce concepts and allow students to put their learning into practice. Key features include: *Takes a critical/cultural approach: Students come to appreciate how communication occurs within the context of power and our different cultural locations *Written in an engaging narrative style: The authors' own stories, and the narratives woven throughout each chapter, create a sense of relevance for the content *Provides a focus on public advocacy: Connecting students' work to the process of being critical, active citizens, this feature shows how civic engagement can improve our communities *Illustrated with contemporary examples: Theory and concepts are demonstrated through discussions of marriage equality, affirmative action, disability, and social media
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One thing you need to do is determine how to space out the tiles and draw them. If this were a simple rectilinear grid of tiles, you could use the AutoCAD® ARRAY command to fill in the tiles. But for the garden path, you need to have each row of tiles offset from the previous row.
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Retail operations go beyond just tasting rooms. They include public tours, merchandise sales, and food-service vendors. This course provides examples of common retail operations and the tools necessary to identify and mitigate the various retail risks present at distilleries during future planning.
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The FRIDA program began working in the region in 2004. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, LACNIC published a book presenting the activities carried out by FRIDA and the projects funded by the program.
The book summarizes the results achieved by the program and its long-term impact on the projects it has funded. We would like to highlight that most of the projects supported by the program in the form of Awards, Grants and Scale-Ups are still in operation and some have even evolved thanks to new sources of funding and partnerships which have led to new projects and goals.
The book includes a file for each project funded up to 2015 which describes its main objectives, most relevant activities, outcomes and impact. These files are organized under 4 topic categories:
- Devices, infrastructure and technologies. Accelerating and expanding access.
- Creating and developing skills and content for sustainable human development.
- Mobile Internet for social inclusion, growth, political participation and active citizenship.
- Internet for promoting, guaranteeing and exercising Human Rights and fundamental freedoms.
Each of these sections begins with an introductory article contributed by regional ICT experts who have been actively involved in FRIDA in various capacities throughout the ten years of the program: Amparo Arango (Dominican Republic), Edmundo Vitale (Venezuela), Ida Holz (Uruguay) and Valeria Bentancour (Ecuador).
The book also includes six articles written by leaders of different projects funded by FRIDA describing the problems for which they attempted to find a solution through the use of ICTs with the support and funding provided by the FRIDA program, and how the use of technology allowed them make concrete progress in the fields of telemedicine and health, open data and digital media, community networks, and gender and education.


DCC Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse
So what is the meaning of DCC. DCC stands for Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse and is a function thar can be used to make a mathematical checksum of the e-mail. This checksum is sent to participants in DCC. If a e-mail/checksum has been seen enough times on the network then it can be classified as a spam e-mail.
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Opportunities for learning exist everywhere. The Joy of Learning is an sttempt at school, showing some ways in which these opportunities can be made use of. We believe that learning can be more fun. both for the student and the teacher, when based on real experiences.
The joy of Learning is fundamental to our philosophy of preschool education where the xpeerience of learning is carried out in a relaxed and fun-filled atmosphere.
Learning takes place in a full-filled and relaxed atmosphere. The activities like bird feeding, role play, nature walk help children understand environment better and they give gheir share in saving the environment. Children learn from their teachers and in turn, children's activities encourage teachers to further explore.


1530s as a cautionary tale designed to be heard by those involved in the Wakefield-Pontefract Feud, a dispute between Sir Richard Tempest and Sir Henry Savile which had led to much bloodshed in the Halifax region around that time.
For years, controversy raged as to the truth of the story. Thomas Wright refused to include it in his 1738 book, The Antiquities of the Town of Halifax in Yorkshire, believing it to be too fanciful. Meanwhile, R.H. Beaumont who had provided the Beaumont-Watson Transcript, also considered it to be little more than legend, claiming the historical record shows that the families had been at peace during the period in question. He cited evidence that they appeared to have "attested each others charters", the fact of which is still something of a puzzle. However, whilst there is still no documentary evidence confirming the original murders of Beaumont et al by Eland, the Feud's historical accuracy was largely substantiated by the discovery in 1890 of a writ dated 6th July 1351 condemning "Adam Beaumont, William de Lockwoode and very many other felons indicted of the death of John de Eland, one of the King's Justices".
One remaining issue of contention is the precise location of the death of Sir John de Eland the Elder. The ballad recorded in the Holroyd-Turner Transcript describes the spot thus: "beneath Brook Foot a hill there is to Brighouse in the way… From Lane End came Eland then". As previously mentioned, this corresponds to Brighouse Wood Lane today. However, in an article entitled "The Eland Murders, 1350-1: A Study of the Legend of the Eland Feud," published in Volume 51 of The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (1979), J.M. Kaye takes issue with this location on the grounds that in the 14th Century the road between Elland and Brighouse ran via Lower Edge and Rastrick. As late as 1720, a map of the county shows no road on the north bank of the Calder between the two towns and no substantial highway was constructed until the Elland-Obelisk Turnpike in 1815. He also argues that the 1351 writ states the murder occurred "apud Brygghous" (near Brighouse) whilst in the 14th Century Brookfoot was a quite distinct settlement over half a mile away.
Yet Kaye's contention that the murder could not have occurred where the ballads claim seems to lack any acquaintance with the local topography. Whilst Brookfoot would have been almost a mile distant from the centre of Brighouse then, the ballads state it occurred at Lane Head, on the hill between Brookfoot and Brighouse which is equidistant from the two. Moreover, if there was no road recorded along the north bank of the Calder until after 1720, it would have made little sense for the ballad writer to locate the murder in that place, unless it actually happened there. Routes of some description must have existed in the area as Cromwellbottom Hall is sited on the north bank and if the Eland family enjoyed hunting rights to Elland Park Wood, they would be familiar with the woodland in the area and would probably be quite happy to travel through it, especially as Elland Old Hall was also on the north bank of the Calder so they would've been spared crossing the river. Whilst this is not decisive evidence, it is certainly a stronger case than Kaye's.
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What is Wide Awake Hand Surgery?
Wide awake hand surgery is surgery of the hand and wrist that is done without sedation, without a tourniquet, and without general anesthesia.
This new surgical approach involves injecting local anesthetic around specific nerves in the hand and wrist. There is no need for general anesthesia, hospitalization, and the associated risks, expenses, and inconveniences. Immediately after wide awake hand surgery, you can simply walk out of the operating room, go home or back to work - just like you would after a dental procedure.
As patients seek to minimize their medical costs and time away from work, wide awake hand surgery is in higher demand. The technique is safe, effective, efficient, and cost-effective, and results in high patient and surgeon satisfaction.
How is it different from other anesthesia?


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I would like to insert a automatic number field in a report that is not bound to any table. I.E. if I wanted to insert the date or time, I would simply type" =Date() ". However I would like to have every report that I generate include a auto number/random number. Any Suggstions?
PS This is for a MS Access 2000 report page.
Is There A Way To Remove Digits And Digits Only?
Is there a way to remove digits and digits only?
Hello, I feel a little embarrassed. An acquaitance
asked me a question. Namely, he works for a REIT
company and he has to put together a project where
they must retrieve various documents from the
archives. By convention, the documents are stored
according to the name of the street the property is
on, not by the street address number, and prefixes
such as "North" or "South" are ignored in ordering the
He has an excel file with a list of all the
properties, but sadly, the properties are input with
the street number and directional prefixes (e.g.
"East" for "East Clinton" street) in the cell. So
sorting them in the Excel file would not at all
correspond with the order they would appear while
searching in the archives for them.
Is there a way to remove digits and digits only? I am
aware of Len and
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I'm not sure if this is the right area or not, but how do I make it so that only numbers can be entered into a textbox, or If It dedects that non-digit charachters are entered, It changes the text.
i have an exercise on school which involve time (digital clock) recording i have made my vb and un the program but when i enter the hour, minute and second in the textbox the time in the label stop i don't know how to make it continue working... you help will be vey much apreciated, thanks!
How Many Digits
Is there a way you can tell how many digits are to the left of the deciaml point in a variable dimmed as single? And how can you tell if there are numbers to the left of the decimal point in a variable dimmed as a single?
Hello. i am Running VB 6.0. i am making a countdown clock for school and every time it gets one digit in seconds, like 19:09, it cuts off the 0 and says 19:9. How can i insure that the variable stays two digits?
Hey people do you know how i can get 4 digits to be displayed in a text box?
Sum Of Digits
From memory, so no warranty of any kind
Function SumOfDigits (ByVal Number As Integer) As Integer Dim r As Integer Do While Number > 0 r = r + Number Mod 10 Number = Number / 10 Loop SumOfDigits = rEnd Function
What's the easiest way to find the # of digits (or letters) in a string or in a int? Is there a built in function or do you have to do it manually?
Since I am new with vb i have a little question.
I'm calculating in a ppc program some numbers and i want that the result
only have 2 digits after the comma. Can anyone helpme?
SQL AND ADO SIG DIGITS
I am retrieving a value from the database that resides as "10.0" (a float value) When using Query Analyzer I am retrieving "10.0".
When I run a stored procedure and utilize the ADO object to display the value it shows a "10". "10" is not the same as "10.0" for my application.
Please let me know if there are any settings to ensure that the value is returned as inputted. The alternative I have is to store the values a varchar data.
Note: Implied decimal values will not work for this application. The significance of the data is not known prior to receiving it.
Getting Three Digits Off The Website
The use of my program requires it being added to the startup group. I may be a throwback for even considering these types of things, but because it's going to be permanently running in the background, I want to minimize the footprint in every way possible.
I do, however, want the program to be able to check what the latest version is on the website. All it needs is to pull down is three digits from the website, be it checking the filename of the latest version posted or reading a three character text file.
My question then is can I do this without adding a control? Is there some sort of API that could do this?
If the control is the only way to go, would INet be the best way (smallest footprint) to go about it?
Ok, i know the solution is probably really simple but i don't really know what to search for when looking for a solution.
I am renaming files using a number ordering system but i need the files to be numbered as follows:
If the length of digits is only 2 then:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05...10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
If the length of digits is only 3 then:
001, 002, 003...010, 011, 012, 013...100, 101, 102, 103
Obviously i can get the length of digits as Len($String) so that's fine. I just need to know how to insert the preceding zero's (this is so that Windows lists them in the correct order).
Thank you for any help.
Long To Digits?
is there a way that i can divide a long into its seperate digits and put them in an array? ie-

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What's the usage of 고 있다 in this case? The normal usage is to state that the act mentioned in the preceding statement is continued but it doesn't seem fit this example.
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Here, 놀고 있어 is not a declaration, but a command: it's the same as 놀고 있어라.
So the meaning is something like "Go keep playing over there."
There is not much practical difference between 놀아(라) and 놀고 있어(라) here - after all, mom is telling the kids to keep playing - but 놀고 있어 sounds softer to me, which fits the situation better. Essentially, mom is saying "Thanks, but it's OK if you keep playing."
In other context, there can be a difference in meaning: e.g., if I say 공을 던져, I'm asking to throw the ball, presumably once. If I say 공을 던지고 있어, then I'm clearly asking to keep throwing the ball (or balls) multiple times.
있다 can be used as an auxiliary verb behind another verb, like -고 있다. It means that the action that the front verb indicate is continuing or the result of the action keeps going.
So when the mom said "놀고 있어", she told her child to continue playing.
Other examples,
먼저 먹고 있어. 금방 다녀올게. Please keep eating this first. I will be right back.
TV 보고 있어. 거의 다왔어. Please keep watching TV. I'm almost there.
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Adding an Assistant or Game Manager for Extra Help
By Dr. David Hoch, CMAA on October 03, 2017 hst Print
With all of the responsibilities and the extensive time it takes to accomplish everything, an athletic administrator has an extremely hectic and perhaps, at times, overwhelming position. Without some extra help, some individuals may face extreme frustration and possible burnout.
While game management is only one of the hundreds of these responsibilities, it does consume many evenings, particularly in the fall and winter seasons and makes for extremely long days. Help covering these contests represent a good starting point to provide some relief. And there are basically two possibilities – adding an assistant athletic director or game managers for individual contests.
What is the difference between the two options? An assistant, for example, should have some knowledge, experience and ability involving a full-range of tasks and duties and not just providing coverage of contests. This individual would be assigned to help with specific aspects of athletic management, some of which would be handling occasional game management responsibilities in place of the athletic administrator.
A game manager, as the title implies, has a very specific responsibility and that is to be the supervisor at an assigned contest. An out-of-season coach, a teacher or an assistant principal could easily fill this part-time position with a little training. With written step-by-step guidelines and one evening "shadowing" the athletic director while he is managing a game, an individual with a basic understanding of athletics should be able to handle the responsibilities.
However, the difference goes beyond the actual scope or duties of each position. It will probably cost more to fund an assistant athletic director's position than paying for game managers for individual contests. The undetermined variable, however, is the number of games that would be covered by someone other than the athletic director.
While adding an administrative assistant could also provide help, the following suggestions should be considered specifically with regard to assisting with coverage of games.
 - Prepare a proposal detailing the hours and responsibilities involved in game management requirements for a season. Hard data can go a long way in an effort to substantiate the reasons for additional personnel.
 - Invite your principal or superintendent to join you in the step-by-step procedures to set up, manage and close up after a typical contest. Show this individual the detail and effort involved. And then explain that this process is repeated several times a week, week-after-week during a season.
 - Create a job description for both assistant and game manager positions. These documents should include the basic responsibilities and should be shared with your supervisor – the principal or superintendent – so that this individual can get a clearer picture of what is involved. Also, a job description for both alternatives is necessary in order to draw a fair comparison between these two alternatives.
 - Take a look at a typical seasonal schedule and try to determine how many evenings should be covered in an ideal situation and what amount would be the bare minimum in order for you to meet personal and family needs. With this information, you can develop a cost analysis of adding an assistant or utilizing game managers.
 - Come up with a creative way to fund game management personnel if inclusion in the budget is not possible. One option is to use gate revenue to pay the individuals filling this position. First, you would need approval from your supervisor and follow the proper payment procedures that are used in your district. This would probably involve depositing funds in your school account and writing checks for each person filling this occasional position.
 - Schedule a meeting with your principal or superintendent to present your data, share possible solutions and ask what help they think is ultimately possible. With insight and feedback from this conversation, prepare your formal proposal.
If your proposal is approved, you will still want to monitor your game management responsibilities. As schedules expand or additional sports are added, you may need to tweak your coverage plan. Of course, if your suggestion for providing help isn't approved, you will want to continue to document your time and efforts. It also means that you should network and keep looking for creative solutions.
There should be little doubt that adding an additional individual, or several, to provide help is a key ingredient in order to survive both during a season and for a long, successful career.


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In popular usage, the leg extends from the top of the thigh down to the foot. However, in medical terminology, the leg refers to the portion of the lower extremity from the knee to the ankle.
The leg has two bones: the tibia and the fibula. Both are known as long bones. The larger of the two is the tibia, familiarly called the shinbone. "Tibia" is a Latin word meaning both shinbone and flute. It is thought that "tibia" refers to both the bone and the musical instrument because flutes were once fashioned from the tibia (of animals).
A wide range of conditions may affect the legs such as restless leg syndrome, edema, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), shins splints, claudication, spider veins and more.
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Plan for Microsoft 365 Groups when creating teams in Microsoft Teams
When considering the use of Microsoft 365 Groups or when creating teams, consider what the team will be used for, who should have access, and what outcome the team will expect to achieve. Pay special attention to the number of channels you create as people can quickly become overrun by content spread too thin (across too many channels).
There are two scenarios that warrant some discussion around planning of Microsoft 365 Groups and their impact on (or by) Microsoft Teams:
 - First, since customers could have existing investments in Groups, we currently support both Public and Private groups, for the number of members currently supported, please see Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams. As mentioned previously, you want to manage the membership of people to a team using the Teams client rather than the Microsoft 365 admin center. Given this scenario, if people are used to threaded conversations in Microsoft 365 Groups, it is worthwhile noting that a Groups conversation is essentially email and not the same as a chat message in a Teams channel. Educate your people about this difference and suggest they adopt the more flexible chat message format in Teams versus emailing the Group using Outlook or OWA.
 - Second, for customers who don't have existing Groups defined in Microsoft 365, you can either create them using the Microsoft 365 admin center, the Teams web, or desktop clients. As mentioned previously, manage all future membership to the Microsoft 365 group using the Teams client. Since membership to a team is also defining membership to Microsoft 365 Groups, you should prepare people for this change.
Teams respects Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy (in private preview)
Any Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy that has been set by your admin will be applied in Teams when users create or edit team names. This includes things like mandatory prefixes or suffixes and excluding banned words.
This feature is in private preview, which means that if you're not part of this preview, Teams doesn't yet adhere to this Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy.
To learn more, read Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy in Teams.
The following articles are a good place to find readiness and adoption content for your Microsoft 365 Groups:


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Why test for L-Lactic Acid?
Lactic acid is found in many food and beverages. In the wine industry, the course of malolactic fermentation is monitored by tracking the falling level of L-malic acid, and the increasing level of L-lactic acid. Lactic acid is responsible for reducing the acidity of wines providing a smoother flavour. Similarly, the quality of food produce such as baby food, meats, dairy products, fruit and vegetables and animal feed can be established by measurement of L-lactic acid content. This acid is also used and measured in the cosmetics and tobacco industry.
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The L-lactic acid assay kit Randox Food Diagnostics supply is designed for the quantitative in vitro determination of L-lactic acid in red and white wine, beer, and fruit juices. Excellent sensitivity and inter and intra-assay precision of >5% ensures high quality dependable results. This assay is suitable for manual use or for automation on a range of analysers. The test principle is based on the following enzymatic reaction.
The amount of NADH formed in the above reaction is stoichiometric with the amount of L-lactic acid present in the sample. It is the NADH which is measured by the increase in absorbance at 340 nm. This method is specific for L-lactic acid determination. This product is currently supplied to the wine/beverage and food producers globally.


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Many of you are using PowerArchiver to conveniently encrypt and send files to your colleagues and partners. In fact, with various government legislations around the world (GDPR in EU, FIPS 140-2 requirements in the USA), you more than likely to be required to do so.
PowerArchiver has FIPS 140-2 validated encryption in ZIP format. It is the safest way to send encrypted files, as your recipient will more than likely have a zip utility that will open it. There is no alternative to exchanging data with coworkers and business partners while remaining GDPR and FIPS 140-2 compliant. There are various methods to encrypt files in PowerArchiver, so here we made a small guide to show you two easiest ways.
Encrypt files to ZIP format via PowerArchiver:
Encrypt files to ZIP format via Explorer shell extensions:
These two methods are the most convenient methods to encrypt your files and send them to others, or store them. Doing so, you will satisfy GDPR legal requirements for storing customer data, as well as the White House executive order for using FIPS 140-2 validated methods to store customer data (make sure you turn FIPS 140-2 mode on).


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What Is A Telephoto Lens?
What Is A Telephoto Lens?
Widely used among both professional and amateur photographers, telephoto lenses are incredibly popular and can help take your photos to a whole new level.
Telephoto lenses are used in landscape, portrait and sports photography and can enhance the precision of your images. A telephoto lens has a long reach, allowing you to magnify a subject that is several meters away.
Here's what you should know about the benefits and disadvantages of using a camera equipped with a telephoto lens
Telephoto Lens Definition
A telephoto lens is generally defined as any focal length beyond 'normal'. Put simply, this is any focal length beyond around 50mm
Some people confuse telephoto lenses and zoom lenses, usually because most telephoto lenses are of the zoom variety. However, the two are not necessarily related and one can find telephoto lenses in both the Prime and Zoom configurations. You can read more about the differences between zoom and prime lenses here.
What Does A Telephoto Lens Do?
Essentially, a camera equipped with a telephoto lens allows you to capture far-away subjects or simply have a close object fill more of the frame.
Because of this, telephoto lenses are ideal for wildlife photographers or other individuals who cannot move close to their subjects because of physical constraints or safety concerns, likewise event and sports photographers also find them essential. However, these types of lenses also enhance the artistic appeal of a photograph by blurring the background behind your subject, making them very popular for portrait photographers as well.
This is known as'subject isolation' - allowing the photographer to eliminate distractions and ensure that the viewers focus is on their chosen subject. Telephoto lenses excell at this, regardless of where they are applied
Most Commonly Used Telephoto Focal Lengths
Here are the most commonly used telephoto focal lengths:
 - 70–200mm lenses:
 These lenses are ideal for capturing portraiture and events. You can capture a sharp subject with a blurred background so the focus remains on the subject. They are often the 'fastest' (wide aperture) telephoto zoom lenses, making them popular for low light situations like events and indoor sports where a slower zoom lens, or less versatile prime lens, may not be ideal.
 - 100–400mm lenses:
 This lens type allows photographers to accurately capture subjects that are far away. While usually'slower' this lens type is a popular choice for wildlife photographers shooting in bright outdoor situations.
 - 85mm prime lenses:
 These lenses are great for shooting portraits as they have a shallow depth of field. You can easily capture sharp subjects that appear crisp and concise. As a Prime Lens, they are generally some of the fastest lenses you can get, creating fantastic subject isolation under controlled conditions.
 - 135mm prime lenses:
 Similar to 85mm lenses, 135mm have a shallow depth of field that is ideal for shooting portraits, weddings and sporting events. They can be rather large and bulky however, making them less ideal for photographers on-the-go compared to an 85mm
 - Super telephoto prime lenses:
 These types of lenses typically start at around 600mm. While generally large, bulky and slow, they provide a field of view generally un-acheivable with any other lens and are popular for wildlife, deep sky astro and bird photography.
Why Use A Telephoto Lens?
Because a telephoto lens closes the distance between the photographer and the subject, it is perfect for capturing wildlife and sporting events.
Here are the benefits of using a camera equipped with a telephoto lens:
 - Photography subjects are magnified and appear closer to the camera.
 - Telephoto lenses help produced blurred backgrounds, providing excellet subject isolation
 - Telephoto lenses are ideal for creating flattering portraits, generally focal lengths below 50mm can create undesirable distortion which can be unflattering for human subjects. Between 70 - 135mm is often cited as the ideal focal range for flattering portraits.
Best Telephoto Lenses to Choose
There are countless telephoto lenses on the market to choose from. With so many options, how do you know which one to choose? Here are three of the best-selling telephoto lenses available from C.R Kennedy:
Pentax D FA 70-200mm f/2.8 ED Lens
Weather sealed and optically precise, the Pentax D FA 70-200mm f/2.8 ED Lens is one of the best lenses on the market. The Pentax has a bayonet hood and a long petal configuration that snaps easily into position and helps elminate flare without darkening the edges of your image. The hood also comes with a removable section that allows you to enable the filters without removing the lens.
Each lens comes with a clutch mechanism that allows you to manually focus the adjustments. The lens also comes with various modes of operation, including the ability to limit your focus within a selected range, greatly improving the speed and accuracy of the autofocus.
Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Contemporary Lens
Another quality lens is the Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Contemporary Lens. It's sturdy and durable but has a lightweight construction that allows for flexibility. Designed for mirrorless cameras, it seeks to strike a balance between weight, size and optical performance. The lens also comes with an optional tripod mounting ring, allowing for maximum stability while photographing subjects.
The lens also features excellent optical stabilisation for when you need to go handheld.
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 Lens
The Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 Lens is very light and compact prime lens, allowing for flexibility without making a compromise on image quality
While many 135mm lenses feature faster apertures, this is often at the expense of size and weight, making this lens ideal for those looking for excellent portraits without sacrificing portability.
If you are ready to purchase a high-quality telephoto lens that is both affordable and functional, look no further than C.R. Kennedy.
C.R. Kennedy is one of Australia's leading distributors of cameras and photographic equipment. We offer a wide range of Lenses along with Mirrorless, Full Frame, and Action Cameras.
If you need more information on macro lenses and camera lenses in general, check out more articles on the C.R. Kennedy blog.
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The Voting Process
Learn more about voting:
An Easy Read resource created by Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) that describes the process of voting, including the different types of elections, political parties and how to prepare to vote when you have a disability.
View ASAN's complete voting toolkit. It is a great resource for people with disabilities and has information about the laws and policies in every state. There are two different versions of the tool kits available: an easy read edition, and a plain language version.


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According to the authors of this paper, in the past three years there has been an increased interest in Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in the academic community, specifically with the game World of Warcraft (WoW). Several areas of research have analyzed individual player attributes such as player motivations (Yee, 2005) and player characteristics (Bartle, 1996). An increasing amount of research has been dedicated to the social aspects of the game. Research in this area has looked at various types of social interactions among players, guild formation, and even the spread of viruses across a server.
This paper attempts to describe the structure of arena teams in relation to the overall structure of the social network on a particular server. By looking at guild relationships and arena team composition, the authors hope to shed light on which arena teams have the highest efficacy and are most successful in "ladder" competition. Currently, arena team players are given a rating based upon how many battles they won. By comparing this to arena team composition via by treating the rating of each arena team as a vector, this study aims at determining which factors are most important in developing an accomplished team via network visualization. In particular, the authors wanted to find out how an arena team's overall centrality in the network affects their overall success, and in addition, if there is a contrast in how arena teams are formed on large versus small servers (either through guild or non-guild relationships).
The first image represents a look into the Spinebreaker (PvP) server - 3 mode Alliance side: 16,534 players, 4065 guilds, and 5758 arena teams. The second is a visualization of the top 50 Horde teams in the the Windrunner (PvE) server.


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Just in from our Cool Plant Research desk: A team of scientists at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center are working on a way to harvest dandelions as a source for natural rubber.
The Russian dandelions, a cousin of the hated yellow flowers seen in lawns across America, look similar, but contain extra-bouncy insides that scientists can use as a supplement to traditional sources of rubber.
The Russian species — known scientifically as Taraxacum kok-saghyz, or TKS – have long, thick roots that have the right mix of rubber polymers, proteins and fatty acids in them that contain a natural latex. Break open a TKS root, roll the sticky, milky white cream that oozes out around in your palm, let it dry and it will bounce like a ball.
You can read more about the science and techniques of extracting raw materials from these plants here.


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Creating an adventure game like Cross of the Dutchman involves the creation of many different characters. In previous articles, we've demonstrated how the creation process takes place, however this article takes a more detailed view at the creation of Grutte Pier in Cross of the Dutchman!
Fist, sketches are made to give an impression of the type of character. These sketches are discussed between the art director and producer to make sure they match the story and direction of the game. This phase takes a couple of hours to complete, depending on whether we're working on a leading character or a villager NPC.
Once the design is approved, the character is drawn posed from different perspectives, as well as a colored version. This helps the 3D artist create the right proportions for each individual character. Creating these drawings takes about 2 hours to complete, and is done by the art director.
At this stage, the 3D Artist takes over, and starts building the 3D Mesh for the character. Each artists has his or her own techniques for creating a character, but it is really up to the complexity of the character that decides how long this process takes. It can be anywhere from a couple of hours to a full working day.
When the mesh has been completed, the process of unwrapping starts. This is a process where each part of a character is flattened onto a sheet. This may sound weird but it allows a 2D artist to start creating the textures for a character. One of the difficulties a 3D artists faces when unwrapping is that all assets need to fit within a square. Because texture sizes usually are increased by powers of 2, it means that textures can be created in steps of 256×256, 512×512 or 1024×1024 pixels (and lower or higher if required). We use high-res textures for characters, and lower resolution textures for less important objects such as scene props.
The 3D artist is done for a while, and it is now up to the 2D artist to create the textures using the square map (or UV Map). In Cross of the Dutchman, we add lighting detail to textures, because it allows us to generate a lot of detail that we would not be able to achieve when using conventional lighting methods. Also, at this stage it is possible to create normal maps or shaders that give depth or gloss to specific surfaces, yet within this project we do not rely on such techniques mainly because of the chosen artistic direction, but also because of the huge amount of additional work it generates.
So, we have our model and texture, but we don't see any movement just yet. This is where the assets are being handed over to the animator, who starts the process of "rigging" and animating the character. Rigging is a process where we give our 3D asset the means to move around. Really it means adding arms, legs, fingers and a backbone to allow the character to move. Animation itself is much like moving the bones in the character in a way similar to how a puppeteer would do it. There are different ways of animating 3D models, but for now we are sticking with "keyframe" animations.
That's it! Our character is done! I hope you liked this article, but do speak up if you want us to go more in-depth in any of these subjects!


Antonio Turiel: «Diesel is coming to an end»
A modest proposal
An ecosocial modest proposal by Miguel Brieva from the coronavirus pandemic. How about if we take advantage of such a complex and extraordinary situation to draw some valuable conclusions?
Irresponsibility. The fire to come
[Xabier Vázquez Pumariño] A society with a little more consciousness and responsibility would be terrified of the surrounding continuous forest masses of pines, eucalyptus and acacias which are inflammable and inextinguishable, and
Fascism is back to stay


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TECH TIP: Picatinny vs. Weaver Rail Specifications
Readers often ask "What's the difference between a Weaver scope rail and a Picatinny Rail?" The answer is not as simple as it seems. The dimensions of a Picatinny Rail should be consistent (from one rail-maker to another), since there IS a government spec. Conversely, there is some variance in "Weaver-style" rails. The width of the groove is the most important difference between Picatinny Rails and weaver rails. "Mil-spec" Picatinny rails will have a grove width of 0.206″ while Weaver rails typically have a narrower, 0.180″ groove width.
Brownell's has a helpful GunTech Article that discusses the Picatinny Rail vs. Weaver Rail. That article explains:
"What are the differences between the 'Picatinny' and the 'Weaver' systems? The profile of the two systems is virtually identical. Depending on the quality of the machining done by the manufacturer, the two systems should be indistinguishable from the profile. The key difference lies in the placement of the recoil grooves and with width of the grooves. MIL-STD-1913 (Picatinny) grooves are.206″ wide and have a center-to-center width of.394". The placement of these grooves has to be consistent in order for it to be a true 'Picatinny'MIL-STD system. Weaver systems have a.180" width of recoil groove and are not necessarily consistent in a center-to-center measurement from one groove to the next.
In many instances, a Weaver system has a specific application that it is machined for, so interchangeability is not necessarily an issue. A MIL-STD-1913 system must adhere to the specifications listed above in order for it to be considered MIL-STD, since the military desires uniformity in the recoil grooves to allow for different systems to be mounted on the weapon with no concern for compatibility.
Now, what does this mean to you? Boiled down, it means that accessories designed for a Weaver system will, in most cases, fit on a 'Picatinny' system. The reverse, however, is probably not the case. Due to the larger recoil groove, 'Picatinny' accessories will not fit a Weaver system. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, but for a good rule-of-thumb, [full-width] 'Picatinny' won't fit Weaver, but Weaver will fit 'Picatinny'."
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In Vegetable Literacy, Deborah Madison reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these connections can help home cooks see everyday vegetables in a new light.
This groundbreaking new cookbook celebrates the diversity of the plant kingdom. Destined to become the new standard reference for cooking vegetables, it shows cooks that, because of their shared characteristics, vegetables within the same family can be used interchangeably in cooking. It presents an entirely new way of looking at vegetables, drawing on Madison's deep knowledge of cooking, gardening and botany. For example, knowing that dill, chervil, cumin, parsley, coriander, anise, lovage and caraway come from the umbellifer family makes it clear why they're such good matches for carrots, also a member of that family. With more than 300 classic and exquisitely simple recipes, Madison brings this wealth of information together in dishes that highlight a world of complementary flavors. The recipes showcase combinations that are simultaneously familiar and revelatory, such as:
Inspiring improvisation in the kitchen and curiosity in the garden, Vegetable Literacy will forever change the way we eat and cook.
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A while back in this thread, before Eric Chan pointed out that there were two image processing pipelines in Lightroom and that all my integer TIFF testing wasn't really relevant to raw processing, some of you asked about different error measures than CIELab Delta-E, specifically something related to hue errors. These color difference measures can get quite complicated. Here's an example
. I can, if there's sufficient interest, implement some of these more complex, and presumably, accurate, measures, but I'll present here just the basics. In the precious post, I presented the Delta-E curves.
Here's a set of Delta-H curves, the basic CIEL*a*b* difference metric that measures hue error:
Like Delta-E, Delta-H can't go negative.
Here are the Delta-C curves, which measures differences in what's called "metric chroma", the radial distance from the grey axis:
Delta-C is positive if the test color is more chromatic than the reference, and negative if the test color is less chromatic than the reference. The fact that there's a tendency towards positive Delta-C indicates that making positive LR exposure adjustments tends to make the colors more chromatic than they should be. You can see that from the scatter plots as well.
If you look at the numbers in the Delta-H and Delta-C plots, you can see that most of the chromaticity error comes from too much chroma, not from hue shift.
And, although it's not a CIELab standard, I like to look at hue angle errors. The big potential problem with looking at hue angle alone is that errors near the grey axis, where they are inconsequential, can have the same value as errors in highly chromatic colors, where they are significant. Still, it gives indications of any possible hue shift bias. Here is the hue angle data:


text: Research disrupts the social world, often by making respondents aware that they are being observed or by instigating reflection upon particular aspects of life via the very act of asking questions. Building on insights from the first Hawthorne studies, reflexive ethnographers, and methodologists concerned with panel conditioning, we draw on six years of research within a community in southern Malawi to introduce a conceptual framework for theorizing disruption in observational research. We present a series of poignant-yet-typical tales from the field and two additional tools—the refresher-sample-as-comparison and study-focused ethnography—for measuring disruption empirically in a longitudinal study. We find evidence of study effects in many domains of life that relate directly to our scope of inquiry (i.e., union formation, fertility) and in some that extend beyond it (i.e., health). Moreover, some study effects were already known and discussed in the broader community, which was also affected by our research in unintended ways. We conclude that the assumption of non-interactivity in observational research is shaky at best, urging data-gatherers and users to think more seriously about the role of disruption in their work.


British Government Condemns Ex-Gay Therapy As Harmful
British Health Minister Norman Lamb
British Health Minister Norman Lamb has issued the following condemnation of ex-gay therapy on behalf of the government's health programs:
The Department of Health does not condone the concept of therapists offering 'cures' for homosexuality. There is no evidence that this sort of treatment is beneficial and indeed it may well cause significant harm, to some patients.
It is incumbent on professionals working in the National Health Service to ensure that treatment and care, including therapy, is provided to every patient without any form of discrimination.
If someone is suffering a mental health problem, clinicians will try to help patients with whatever is causing them distress. This could involve helping someone come to terms with their sexuality, family arguments over their sexuality, or hostility from other people.
We know from research that the incidence of depression, anxiety and suicide within the gay community is significantly higher than within the heterosexual community and this is why 'No health without mental health' identifies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as a specific group for whom a tailored approach to their mental health is necessary.
Just last month, the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy came out against ex-gay therapy, pointing out that it had "no basis in science or medicine" and advising members not to offer it to clients.


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Study Co-authored by Robert Gegear Provides New Insight into the Sun Compass That Helps the Monarch Butterfly Navigate
Published in Nature Communications, the study, conducted at UMass Medical, looks at the role of clocks in the insect's antennae.
Published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, the study, by Robert Gegear and scientists at UMass Medical School, focuses on the role of circadian clocks located in the insect's antennae
Each fall, monarch butterflies make a remarkable journey from the northern United States to central Mexico, where they overwinter. To successfully navigate to a target located up to 2,500 miles away, the butterflies employ a biological compass that makes use of the changing position of the sun in the sky.
Previous work, including a 2009 paper in Science* describing research led by Steven Reppert, MD, professor of neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, showed that the butterfly's antennae are critical components of that compass. Circadian clocks located in these light-sensitive structures, the paper reported, enable the butterfly to determine where the sun should be at any particular hour.
A new study, published online this week by the prestigious journal Nature Communications, and co-authored by Reppert, Robert Gegear, PhD, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and Patrick Guerra, PhD, and Christine Merlin, PhD, postdoctoral researchers in neurobiology at UMass Medical School, has shed new light on how the butterfly's brain uses the information from those clocks and what happens when the clocks malfunction.
In the study, conducted at UMass Medical School, the researchers set out to determine whether monarch butterflies can orient themselves successfully in a southerly direction with only one antenna or when the two antennae send conflicting information to the brain. They found that the butterflies can, in fact, navigate successfully with a single antenna. However, when they painted one antenna black (to prevent it from sensing light), the butterflies oriented in the wrong direction. If the painted antenna was then removed, the butterflies reoriented themselves in the proper direction.
It appears, the authors note, that the timing information from the two antennae is integrated within the butterfly's brain. It also appears that the circadian clocks in the antennae work independently, and that the information from either clock is sufficient to properly calibrate the butterfly's sun compass. However, when both antennae are present but sending desynchronized timing information to the brain (as when one antenna is exposed to light but the other is blacked out), the brain attempts to integrate these conflicting signals and the result is an improper compass heading.
The scientists also conducted genetic tests aimed at determining whether the circadian clock in one of the butterfly's antennae can influence the operation of the clock in the other antenna. They found that the expression of genes linked to the operation of the circadian clock in a functioning antenna was unaffected when the other antenna was painted black. They also determined that circadian clock genes were expressed throughout the antenna, suggesting that the entire antenna, or any part of it, can function as a clock.
"This research is a great example of how an interdisciplinary approach can be used to better understand a complex biological system," Gegear said.
In his current research at WPI, Gegear is focusing on a different pollinating insect: the bumblebee. His work is exploring, broadly, the relationship between the bees and flowering plants. In work that encompasses biology, evolutionary ecology, cognitive psychology, and behavioral neuroscience, he is investigating how the bumblebee's simple brain is capable of remarkably complex cognition, and how the mental activity of bees and the decisions they make as they gather food and pollinate plants ultimately have profound consequences for the ecosystem and the human food supply.
Read the Nature Communications paper.
*"Antennal Circadian Clocks Coordinate Sun Compass Orientation in Migratory Monarch Butterflies," Christine Merlin, Robert J. Gegear, Steven M. Reppert, Science, Vol. 325, pp. _PHONE_, Sept. 25, 2009.
July 18, 2012


Understanding Shopify Theme Styles and Presets With settings_data.json
Shopify theme styles and presets with settings_data.json
Building custom presets for Shopify themes can be super useful, especially if your theme might be used by many merchants, and you want to curate their experience when using your theme.
You've most likely landed here because you've been looking to customize the theme settings of your Shopify theme, and stumbled upon two files in the config directory—settings_schema.json and settings_data.json. This article will look at the differences between settings_schema.json and settings_data.json. We'll deep dive into the various uses and nuances of the settings_data.json file.
What are theme settings?
Theme settings—also referred to as theme options—allow a merchant to customize the look and feel of their online store. Theme settings are predetermined by the theme developer who builds the theme. They are built and stored in the config directory inside the settings_schema.json file. Theme settings control the organization and content of the menu in the theme editor.
settings_schema.json vs. settings_data.json
The settings_schema.json file controls the organization and options available to a merchant in the theme editor. It's used to create and edit the theme settings available for a merchant within a theme. The theme settings follow the specified file format outlined by the Shopify documentation.
The settings_data.json file stores the theme settings data saved from the theme editor. It can also include 'theme styles', also known as presets. If presets are defined, it enables a merchant to choose a theme style which is predetermined by a theme developer. The theme style then sets specific values for the keys defined in the settings_schema.json file.
Digging into settings_data.json
So let's take a look at settings_data.json. When viewing the settings_data.json file found inside most free themes from the Shopify Theme Store, you'll notice it's broken up into a two different objects; current and presets.
Shopify theme styles and presets with settings_data.json - current object
As seen above, the current object contains data for the current theme settings. These are the values which are currently set in the theme editor. A theme only ever uses the data stored in current.
Theme styles aka presets
In the Debut theme, the presets object contains data for two different theme styles, Default and Light. These theme styles can be applied using the theme editor.
Because a theme only ever uses the data stored in current, any presets that are applied simply update the values in current to match those of the preset. It's important to note that there are some input values that won't update via theme style. These have to do with specific input types.
Overwriting presentational values with theme styles and preserving content
One really great thing about presets is that Shopify handles some of the logic involved when it comes to updating content.
Imagine you were a merchant, and you spent a bunch of time customizing the content of your website, like updating the logo of your site and changing the images on your homepage. Then you decide you don't like the Default theme and would rather go for the Light version. It would be a terrible experience if a merchant then had to input all of that content again, especially when all they wanted to change is which theme style is being used.
This is where preserving specific input types becomes important. Shopify only overwrites what it deems to be a presentational value with a theme style. Shopify does not overwrite content values with a theme style.
The existing input types include:
These are input types which are whitelisted, considered presentational, and are overwritten when applying a theme style via the theme editor:
The values of these input types will be overwritten by a defined preset, as the Shopify platform considers them presentational. As with anything, depending on how a theme is developed and how someone has built a theme's settings, this will dictate whether or not these items truly contain presentational values. However, most of these input types lend themselves to presentational elements such as a color or font, to show or hide an element, or choose a value in a range for layout displays.
How section data is stored in settings_data.json
When navigating the settings_data.json file, you'll quickly see that you can define a sections object in your presets and that it also appears inside current. This sections object will be generated for you if you have section files, which gives merchants the ability to add Shopify sections to their theme using the theme editor, without pre-defining which sections appear by default for current.
You'll also notice that dynamic sections can have pretty id names if pre-defined in your settings_data.json file initially. However, if you add them dynamically and have the file auto-generate a current object for you, then they'll have automatically generated id's.
Shopify theme styles and presets with settings_data.json - section order
These id's are then stored in a content_for_index array just below, which defines the order. This array inside current is updated anytime a user changes the order using the theme editor. You can also manually adjust the order by moving around these values in the array.
Managing multiple stores with a single theme using presets
I've seen some pretty clever uses of presets over my time working at Shopify. One example of this is using settings_data.json to manage a single custom theme used on multiple stores. The way this is set up is pretty straight forward—each preset defined in the settings_data.json file represents a specific store, all of which are using the same theme.
For example, a single company might have more than one online store because they have subsidiaries or branches that each have their own url and inventory; but the themes of the store are similar. For example, Greenhouse Inc. has three branches: Greenhouse Nurseries, Greenhouse Grocery, and Greenhouse Living. Each of the branches sells different types of products, and has different concerns, customers and URLs—but they all share a common theme.
In cases like this, the presets named in a theme can be for each company branch, for example greenhouse-nurseries, greenhouse-grocery, and greenhouse-living. Then a single theme can be used for all three stores, each with its own preset containing its own theme settings. This file and its theme are tracked by some kind of version control, and that single theme is used for every store. The current object is then mapped to the appropriate preset, which defines a list of settings—maybe a specific color swatch change, different Google Analytics tracking number, etc.
Because settings_schema.json doesn't ever overwrite presets, you can store any information you want in a preset, whether or not it maps directly to a theme setting found in settings_schema.json.
While we're on the subject of URLs, learn what a canonical URL is and why they're important.
Gotchas when tracking changes
One thing to keep in mind when editing or changing the settings_data.json is how you're keeping track of changes to it, and how that works within your existing workflow.
Because this file is updated by the theme editor, I often see that it is listed as untracked in version control; whether it's listed in a.gitignore file, as a file to ignore in a config.yml (Theme Kit), or an.env file (Slate). When it is untracked, the changes you make directly in the file can easily be overwritten by the theme editor, or vice versa, if the changes aren't pulled down from your store and committed/tracked before starting a new feature.
Start thinking about how you can use theme styles and presets
Building themes, especially dynamic ones, can be hard. But creating theme styles with presets for Shopify themes doesn't have to be. It's important to understand the differences between settings_schema.json and settings_data.json file and that theme styles are built using presets.
Be creative with how you use theme styles and presets in your next project; the possibilities are whatever you can imagine and build!
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Using Spring Connectors in SOLIDWORKS Simulation to Reduce Complexity in Your Analysis
By Paolo Olmos
I recently worked on a customer project which involved answering the question, "How can I represent complex sub-assemblies or components that are part of a larger assembly using SOLIDWORKS Simulation?" The customer wanted to include ball screws and linear rails. These sub-assemblies include bearings, threads, and complex mounting geometry that would require a significant amount of time and effort to setup - and a significant amount of time to solve. Additionally, if I were to miss an element in the setup, the analysis could fail or the results may be invalid. One way to simplify an analysis that involves complex sub-assemblies or components is to replace them with spring connectors. Replacing components with spring connectors allows you to:
 - Reduce the number of components that need to be meshed, improving solve time
 - Simplify the analysis setup, reducing the overall time necessary to execute the analysis
While maintaining the inherent stiffness of the components you remove by replacing them with an equivalent spring stiffness. As an example, let's take an assembly made of 2 plates with a spring in the middle. Including the spring in a linear static analysis with a 100 lbf load applied, the results show a displacement of 0.282 inches. To use a spring connector in this situation, the spring component is suppressed and replaced with a virtual spring that uses the stiffness data you have for the modeled spring. As you can see in the screenshots below, we can get the same displacements as the analysis that included the modeled spring.
Spring Connector
Right: Results With Spring, Left: Results With Spring Connector.
Comparing the setup and solve time between the two studies:
 - The setup time was short for both studies, but imagine if the spring was a more complex sub-assembly or component. It would require time to define contacts, material, and fixtures for all the elements in the sub-assembly or component. The setup time could be substantially longer.
 - The solve time for the actual spring took 6 seconds to solve versus 2 seconds for the spring connector analysis.
A couple of other things to consider when using spring connectors:
 - Make sure that the face selected for one body shares a common projected area on the face selected for the other body. If you don't, SOLIDWORKS Simulation cannot create the spring and will display an error when you try to run the analysis. In the example above, the faces selected had the same area and were directly overlapping when looking at the top view.
 - You can create split lines to separate the faces of each body in order to create a common projected area between them. In the example above, this technique would have been required if the spring was significantly smaller than the plates.
As you can see in this brief overview, spring connectors can help you obtain accurate results, while saving you time to setup and solve your analysis. Keep a look-out at this space for a follow-up blog article that covers using spring connectors to represent the ball screw and linear rail assemblies mentioned earlier, or watch my webinar: SOLIDWORKS Simulation - Representing Ball Screws and Linear Rails in Your Analysis.
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