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- 1 How do I adopt a baby in Georgia?
- 2 Is it hard to adopt a baby in Georgia?
- 3 How long does it take to adopt in GA?
- 4 Why is adoption so expensive?
- 5 Can you adopt newborns?
- 6 Is adopting a baby hard?
- 7 How long do you have to be married to adopt in Georgia?
- 8 What is the quickest way to adopt a child?
- 9 Do you get a monthly check when you adopt a child?
- 10 Why is adopting a child so difficult?
- 11 How long does it take to adopt a newborn?
- 12 Is it cheaper to adopt from foster care?
How do I adopt a baby in Georgia?
Process for Families Adopting an Infant in Georgia
- Step 1: Determine what type of adoption you desire.
- Step 2: Choose an adoption professional wisely.
- Step 3: Create your adoptive family profile and complete your home study.
- Step 4: Patiently Waiting and Meeting Potential Birth Mother/s.
- Step 5: Post-Placement Contact.
Is it hard to adopt a baby in Georgia?
Becoming a foster or adoptive parent is not a complicated process. You have already taken the first and most challenging step by seeking information about making a child a part of your family.
How long does it take to adopt in GA?
Uncontested adoptions, where the rights of the parents have been surrendered or terminated, move through the Georgia courts quickly, and it is not unusual to finalize the adoption within 30-45 days from the filing of the petition for adoption, and in some case earlier.
Why is adoption so expensive?
The reason that infant, embryo, and international adoption is so expensive is that (unlike foster care), the cost is not paid for by tax payers. In addition, adoption is expensive because several costs are incurred along the way. The agency must cover its own expenses of staff and other overhead.
Can you adopt newborns?
Dually authorised carers may adopt a child in NSW where the Children's Court has determined the child cannot live with their family.
Is adopting a baby hard?
Adoption is so much more difficult and complicated than people think it is. Domestic infant adoption is actually rather rare, with only roughly 10 percent of hopeful parents being placed with a baby. The wait is often long and full of disappointment and heartbreak. Even after adopting a baby, adoption is hard.
How long do you have to be married to adopt in Georgia?
In the traditional adoption program, American Adoptions requires that adoptive parents be married for a minimum of two years, have no more than two children already, and be between the ages of 25 and 50. However, exceptions can and have been made.
What is the quickest way to adopt a child?
The easiest way to adopt child, and do it quickly is private placement adoption with lawyer though it can be costly. The other way is foster a child and let the agency now that is giving you the foster child you are looking to foster a child to adopt.
Do you get a monthly check when you adopt a child?
As a foster parent, you will receive a check each month to cover the cost of caring for the child, and the child will also receive medical assistance. If you adopt that child, you will continue to receive financial and medical assistance. Remember that for a U.S. waiting child you should not be asked to pay high fees.
Why is adopting a child so difficult?
Adopting babies out of the foster care system is typically difficult, because of a high demand, and children in the foster care system often have very specific emotional and physical needs that some families may not feel equipped to handle. There's always a way to adopt if that's what you're determined to do.
How long does it take to adopt a newborn?
Adopting a foster child can take 6 to 18 months. Adopting a newborn can take 2 to 7 years. International adoptions can take six or more years. Being flexible in your requirements for a child can decrease the time required.
Is it cheaper to adopt from foster care?
Adopting a child from foster care is often funded by the state, and in most cases there are few or no fees. According to Child Welfare Information Gateway, working with a private agency to adopt a healthy newborn or baby or to adopt from another country can cost $5,000 to $40,000.


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From humidity sensors to volume faders, variable resistors have countless applications that depend on a gradual change in a specific physical variable. These simple components utilise a range of ingenious principles to create a change in resistance that corresponds to what's happening in the environment.
Potentiometers, or pots, are probably the most familiar type of variable resistors, often used as analogue volume controls. They're built from a resistive track and a wiper that moves along, from zero resistance to the pot's maximum rated impedance. Pots come in many different varieties, such as trimpots that are only intended to be adjusted from time to time, as well as rotary and sliding designs.
Thermistors are the sensing component of many electronic thermometers. These are usually made of metallic oxides compressed into a sealed bulb of glass or plastic which easily conducts heat. With negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors, which are the more popular variety, as the active ingredient is heated, its resistance drops at a predictable rate.
Force-sensing resistors are flat components whose resistance decreases in measure of how much pressure is applied to them. They are typically made from a conductive layer and an etched track layer, separated by a spacer ring; as they are 'squeezed' together, more of the conductive layer comes in contact with the etched track, reducing the resistor's impedance.
Varistors are key components in devices such as powerboards which incorporate protection against surge and overcurrent. In their default state, their resistance is very high; upon encountering a surge in voltage, their resistance drops dramatically, allowing the spike to be shunted safely to ground.
The active element of many humidity sensors is a humistor. This contains a hygroscopic (water-attracting) element made from a metal oxide, polyamide or other molecules such as PVC. The element absorbs water molecules from the air, or releases them if the air is drier than the element, and its resistance changes in measure of how saturated the hygroscopic medium is.
Light-dependent resistors, or LDRs for short, are components used for a wide range of purposes such as ambient light detection (for example, in sensor lights). They contain an element made from a material such as calcium sulfide, whose resistance can decrease by a factor of about 200 when exposed to bright light compared to darkness.
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"* The first Doctors Day observance was March 30, 1933, in Winder, Ga. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Cha Almond, and the date was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthetic in surgery. (On March 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford Long of Barrow County, Ga., used ether to remove a tumor from a patient's neck.)
* The Barrow County Medical Society Auxiliary proclaimed the day "Doctors Day," which was celebrated by mailing cards to physicians and their wives, and placing flowers on the graves of deceased doctors, including Dr. Long.
* The United States House of Representatives adopted a resolution commemorating Doctors Day on March 30, 1958. In 1990, legislation was introduced into the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate to establish a National Doctors Day. Following overwhelming approval by the House and Senate, then-President George Bush signed a resolution designating March 30 as National Doctors Day. The first National Doctors Day was celebrated in 1991."

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Hi, everyone!
I have written something like this
 toSearch = TextBox1.Value
 b = ActiveSheet.Range("A1:A50").find(toSearch)
 msgBox b.value
I have a text box on form where you can input text to search. Everything works fine untill you enter something with space char.
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Hi, i've data in (A1,A2,A3):
'a cd'(abcd+space). five char
'fghij' (just fghij). five char
'klm'(klm+2 space). five char
' no'(space+no+2 space). five char
and i want only five characther only, if last is space, then only 4, and so on :
=A1, result just 'a cd' only 4 char (a+space+cd)
=A2, result just 'fghij' only 5 char (fghij)
=A3, result just 'klm' only 3 char (klm)
=A4, result just'no' only 3 char (space+no)
remember, just last space doesn't count.
using excel 2003 at xp.
Tq bfore.
It's the CHAR() function. I don't really understand why, but just now I was working on a spreadsheet where it was being used in a long SUBSTITUTE formula. Every time I changed any precedent cell or the cell containing CHAR() Excel would crash, recover, crash again, and then bring up the spreadsheet unuseable, with all cells that used to contain CHAR() being returned as =_TAG_/A.
So, I did a find/replace and changed out the CHAR with a hard-coded string literal - and now it works.
Anyone else experience this?
Formula is to determine the number of weekdays, based on a comma-separated list of "days off". Original, crashing:
=NETWORKDAYS($B$22,$D$22)-SUM(IFERROR(--(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR($B$22),MONTH($B$22),MID($F$22,IFERROR(FIND( CHAR(150),SUBSTITUTE($F$22,",",CHAR(150),ROW(1:31)-1))+1,1),IFERROR(FIND(CHAR(150),SUBSTITUTE($F$22,",",CHAR(150),ROW(1:31))),FIND(" = ",$F$22,1))-IFERROR(FIND(CHAR(150),SUBSTITUTE($F$22,",",CHAR(150),ROW(1:31)-1))+1,1))),2)
I'm using "Evaluate" for the first time. For some reason it's not working and the macro jumps to the end. Can you look at my code and the attached file and tell me if I am using the term incorrectly? The macro is Sub ColNWShears() in Module-1.
The values currently in Col-N are the results I am writing the code to put there.
Sub ColNWShears()
' ColN Macro
' 12/23/2010 by Brad Hudiburg
Dim X, y, z, yRow, y2
' Sheets("SWSel").Select
 Range("N3").Select '3
On Error GoTo EndIt
 X = ActiveCell.Address
 z = ActiveCell.Row
 ActiveCell.Offset(0, -1).Range("A1").Select
 'if blank cell go down col to next value
 If ActiveCell.Value = "" Then
 y = ActiveCell.Value
 yRow = ActiveCell.Row
 y2 = Range(Cells(yRow, 2).Address).Value
 MsgBox "y=" & y & "y2=" & y2 & ", yRow=" & yRow
' y = ActiveCell.Value
 End If
 'go to new row if skipping over nonused SWs
 'if r[z]c[-12]: left of "-" = rc[-12] then cont to return to x
 'else Range(x).Select and ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1").Select
' X2 = 1
 'X2 = Evaluate("IF(LEFT(RC[-12],FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(R" & yRow & "C[-12],""-"",CHAR(1),1))-1)=" & y2 & ",1,2)")
 'IF(ISERROR(LEFT(B3,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(B3,"-",CHAR(1),1))-1)),"", LEFT(B3,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(B3,"-",CHAR(1),1))-1) )
 MsgBox "x2=" & X2
 'MsgBox "x2=" & X2
 If X2 = 1 Then
 MsgBox X2
 ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=rc[-7]*" & y
 MsgBox X2
 ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = ""
 End If
 'add if activecell.row < row(for y)-1 then add eqn again
 If ActiveCell.Value = "end" Then
 GoTo EndIt 'End
 End If
 GoTo Start
'MsgBox ActiveCell.Row
'MsgBox "ActiveCell.Value, y=" & y
End Sub
I have a list of outbound postcodes, some which are 2 char length (eg B1), some 3 (eg BA1 or G13) char, and some 4 char (eg LE16).
I need to update the list so that all entries are 4 char length, but the spaces need to be added in teh middle of the string, for example:
B1 becomes B 1 "space""space"
BA1 becomes BA 1 "space"
G13 becomes G 13 "space"
LE16 stays as LE16
Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom which formula would add the spaces in teh appropriate locations?
Many thanks
Using VBA, what is the best method to find the text string in cell a1 untill the first space?
for example A1 contains
/M50 920116
I like this to become /M50
the lenght of the string is variable
that character can be found by
=CODE(MID(A1,6,1)) in your example, where A1 contains "1029 · etc" -
(it's char(183). Then you can use LEFT(A8,FIND(CHAR(183),A8)-1)
if A8 has the text wanted.
Bob Umlas
Excel MVP
"Dennis" wrote:
> Using 2003
> Would like to use a mid() to obtain all information in the text string (a
> cell) up to the space before the "·" in (1029 · Money Market Acccount)
> Therefore, in this case my formula would return "1029"
> In another case my text is (1029-25 · Money Market Acccount)
> In turn, my desired text would be "1029-25"
> What combination of Find() or Mid() or what ever do I use to do the task?
> Initially, I must ascertain how to obtain the chr() value of
> the "·" character? No?
> Dennis
hi...can anyone help me with this zip-code formatting logic?
For US: The valid format is NNNNN-NNNN
- When US Zip Code length without '-' or'' is >5 and < 9 char then use
first 5 positions
- When Us Zip Code length is <5 chars then move space.
- When US Zip code is having alphabet, invalid and blank then move space
- When US zip code is having 9 char width then pass 5-4 format (99999-9999)
- When US Zip Code length without '-' or'' is >9 then use first 9 char.
- When Zip is empty or not valid, move '00000' to SAP
For CANADA: The valid format is CNC NCN
- When zip code length is >7 char, move first 7 char
- When zip code length is <7 char, move space
- When zip code is blank and invalid then move space.
- When Zip is empty or not valid, move 'A0A 0A0' to SAP
For London (county code GB):
- zip code must not exceed 9 characters (<=9 char). If >9 char then, move
first 9 char.)
- When Zip is empty or not valid, move '000000000' to SAP
For Other countries:
- Pass as


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exogenous (not comparable)
- Having an external cause.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of an organism.
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
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Growth and Inequality: The Case of Indonesia, _PHONE_
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This paper investigates whether the 'Kuznets hypothesis', that economic growth from low levels of GDP per capita is initially associated with an increase in income inequality and later followed by a decline in inequality, is supported by evidence for a less-developed country, Indonesia. The paper outlines the relevant features of the process of rapid growth and structural change, in particular industrialisation since the 1960s. It notes the possible consequences of this process for changes in income distribution, and draws on disparate sets of statistical data to trace trends in income inequality in Indonesia. The paper concludes that the evidence for Indonesia suggests an increase in inequality during the 1970s and a subsequent decrease of inequality until 1997. A comparison of the evidence with historical data for the UK and Japan suggests that income inequality in Indonesia was relatively low.
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In mathematics, the lowest common denominator or least common denominator (abbreviated LCD) is the least common multiple of the denominators of a set of vulgar fractions. It is the smallest positive integer that is a multiple of each denominator in the set. The term has entered popular culture with a different non-mathematical meaning which indicates the least sophisticated element in a particular situation.
'Lowest common denominator' is often used as a figure of speech meaning the most basic, least sophisticated level of taste, sensibility, or opinion among a group of people. The phrase also appears in other places, particularly in engineering, referring to the minimum requirements or common attributes between systems. This can be useful for making different systems compatible, by taking the minimal amount of necessary features, allowing them to communicate or connect. [1]


Flux Removes Lithium In Liquid Aluminium
Flux Removes Lithium In Liquid Aluminium
Flux Removes Lithium In Liquid Aluminium
Flux Removes Lithium In Liquid Aluminium is a solid substance (usually a mixture of chloride and fluoride) used in aluminum foundries. Its purpose is to reduce the oxidation of the melt, minimize the penetration of hydrogen, and absorb the suspended in the melt. Non-metallic inclusions, keep the furnace/ladle wall clear of accumulated oxides, reduce the aluminum content in the residue, remove the dissolved hydrogen in the melt, extract aluminum grains during the solidification process, and modify silicon inclusions in silicon-containing alloys, Oxidize excessive magnesium. The common practice of flux introduction is manual application.
Most of the flux is applied on the surface of the melt and stirred into the melt. Some flux (degassing, grain refinement) is cleaned into the bottom of the preheated perforated bell.
Flux can also be introduced into the melt by injecting it in powder form in a stream of inert gas (argon or nitrogen).
The simplest flux injection technique is to immerse the spray gun in the melt.
The most effective flux introduction method is to inject through a rotary degasser.
Classification of fluxes for melting aluminum
Tundish Covering Compound
Drossing fluxes
Cleaning fluxes
Wall cleaning fluxes
Degassing fluxes
Grain refiners
Silicon modifiers
Demagging fluxes
Flux Removes Lithium In Liquid Aluminium
The problem of no flux in the furnace
When no flux is used in the furnace, the cleaning operation requires more force, which causes damage to the bricks.
If the furnace chamber is not well cleaned, oxides and spinel will accumulate on the furnace wall, especially at the metal wire.
The longer the oxide and spinel stick to the brick, the stronger it will stick until it is difficult to clean up.
At this time, the furnace must be thermally cleaned or cooled so that it can be mechanically cleaned with a jack hammer.
Both of these operations caused damage to the masonry and resulted in production losses.
According to reports, a foundry only uses flux-free mechanical cleaning, and the service life of the bricks is only 12 months.
The rebuilders of his furnace had to follow a regular smelting and cleaning schedule to ensure the lining.
Without flux, the metal is more contaminated by oxides and the product quality is worse.
There are several forms of fusion. Ideally, the flux is injected below the metal surface, where the flux melts and floats to the surface with oxides.
Then a semi-liquid is formed on the molten metal, which can effectively prevent further oxide contamination and reduce hydrogen absorption in the melt.
At the same time, the liquid salt softens the oxides on the furnace wall and reduces the bonding of oxides on the furnace wall.
Finally, the liquid in contact with the skimmed laver will wet the metal particles, bind them together, and then melt again.
In the holding furnace operation, applying flux in this way is the most effective.
In the smelting furnace, Flux Removes Lithium In Liquid Aluminium is often filled with solid metal to make it melt as the metal is smelted. During the smelting process, some salt will wet the surface and reduce oxidation.
Another application method is to spread flux on the surface of the skimming oil, where it melts and works downward through the skimming oil.
This is the most effective way to separate metals from oxidized laver.
The flux will cool the slag, which is a good insulator, so the flux will melt very slowly, unless the bricks have been added before the heating and burning cycle.
If the flux spreads in the combustion chamber, it will evaporate and produce dense smoke.
Since the flux is not left in the furnace, it is wasted.
Finally, the operator applies flux to the wall to soften the oxide and spinel so that they can be easily scraped off during the cleaning process.
Likewise, it is best to heat the refractory material before the flux operation, as the flux is generally more effective at higher temperatures. Cleaning should be done at the end of the combustion cycle.
The same principle applies to the crucible flux, but the flux can be added during the combustion cycle, as long as there is no flame directly hitting the flux.
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Harpago chiragra is the second largest of the Strombidae in the Marshalls, second only to Lambis truncata. It is common on both lagoon and seaward reefs, including the large flat-topped lagoon pinnacles. They are typically on sand or rubble, or sometimes on hard substrate. Adults are nearly always seen paired, with a large female accompanied by one, or rarely, a couple of smaller males. Like the large Lambis truncata, this species is protected (at least where divers from Kwajalein are concerned), although the initial protection recommendations from Fish & Wildlife and the Kwajalein Army regulations on the issue both misidentified it as Lambis scorpius, a very different and much smaller species. More comments about this under L. truncata. The individual in the first two photos below had unusually long and recurved "fingers."
The eyeballs peek out over the opeculum in this aperture view.
Juveniles have thin outer lips on the shell and lack the fingers.
Here the green proboscis bearing the mouth can be seen between the two eye stalks in this juvenile specimen.
As the fingers develop, they remain hollow for a while until they eventually fill in.
The specimen below was putting down an egg mass, seen as the whitish sandy area just to the right of the shell. Like some of the other Strombidae species, H. chiragra mixes up its eggs in a sand and mucus slurry the holds together while the eggs develop. What surprised me is that this female is still rather young, with fingers that have not completely filled out.
Here's another young one getting ready to flip.
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Caroline Anne Forell, University of Oregon School of Law, has published Convicts, Thieves, Domestics, and Wives in Colonial Australia: The Rebellious Lives of Ellen Murphy and Jane New. Here is the abstract.
This Article examines the lives of two female convicts who rebelled against the law and the Australian penal system in the early nineteenth century. It follows Ellen Murphy and Jane New from their first arrests through their experiences with and exits from the penal system. As thieves, convicts, domestics, and wives, Ellen and Jane interacted repeatedly with the law. Both the notorious Jane (who was the subject of a habeas corpus action in In re Jane New), and the more representative Ellen, began thieving as young teenagers in the teeming cities of England. The law arrested, tried, and convicted them. Next it transported them to Van Diemen's Land (now, Tasmania). It then unsuccessfully attempted to manage their lives.Download the article from SSRN at the link.
The law influenced convict women's choices in more overt ways than it did free women although, as this Article discusses, many similarities existed between the legal disabilities imposed on both groups and, on occasion, as with Jane New, the law doubly disabled convict women because they were assigned to their husbands. Nevertheless, Ellen and Jane's interactions with the law illustrate how convict women were able to make meaningful choices even in the heavily regulated penal systems of Governors Arthur of Van Diemen's Land and Darling of New South Wales.


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A co-design prototyping approach for building a Precinct Planning Tool
- 1Architecture Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- 3Curtin University Sustainable Policy Institute, Curtin University, Australia
- 4School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Keywords: precinct planning, co-design, 3D visualisation, workflows, sustainability assessment, agile software development
Abstract. As the world is becoming increasingly urbanized there is a need for more sustainability-oriented planning of our cities. Policy and decision-makers are interested in the use of evidenced based approaches and tools that will support collaborative planning. There are a number of tools in the domain of spatial planning and decision support systems that have been built over the last few decades but the uptake and use of these tools is somewhat limited.
In the context of Australia there is significant urban growth occurring across the major cities and a need to provision planners and developers with precinct planning tools to assist in managing infill and the densification of the existing urban fabric in a carbon constrained economy. In this paper we describe the development of a new precinct planning tool known as the Envision Scenario Planner (ESP), which is being applied initially in two cities, Melbourne and Perth to assist in the urban design and planning of Greyfield sites.
To set the scene in this paper we firstly provide a brief review of the existing state of play of visualization and modelling tools available to urban planners in Australia. The focus on the paper will be to introduce an iterative co-design prototyping approach for developing a best practice precinct planning support tool (ESP) from an earlier tool known as ENVISION. The first step of the approach is an exposure workshop with experts to refine the proposed tool workflow and its functionality. Subsequent iterations of the prototype are then exposed to larger audiences for validation and testing. In this paper we will describe the process and the preliminary findings in implementing the first phase of this iterative co-design prototype approach.


text: We compared the rejection behaviours of three hydrophobic trace organic contaminants, bisphenol A, triclosan and diclofenac, in forward osmosis (FO) and reverse osmosis (RO). Using erythritol, xylose and glucose as inert reference organic solutes and the membrane pore transport model, the mean effective pore size of a commercial cellulose-based FO membrane was estimated to be 0.74 nm. When NaCl was used as the draw solute, at the same water permeate flux of 5.4 L/m2 h (or 1.5 mm/s), the adsorption of all three compounds to the membrane in the FO mode was consistently lower than that in the RO mode. Rejection of bisphenol A and diclofenac were higher in the FO mode compared to that in the RO mode. Because the molecular width of triclosan was larger than the estimated mean effective membrane pore size, triclosan was completely rejected by the membrane and negligent difference between the FO and RO modes could be observed. The difference in the separation behaviour of these hydrophobic trace organics in the FO (using NaCl the draw solute) and RO modes could be explained by the phenomenon of retarded forward diffusion of solutes. The reverse salt flux of NaCl hinders the pore diffusion and subsequent adsorption of the trace organic compounds within the membrane. The retarded forward diffusion effect was not observed when MgSO4 and glucose were used as the draw solutes. The reverse flux of both MgSO4 and glucose was negligible and thus both adsorption and rejection of BPA in the FO mode were identical to those in the RO mode.


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In Club Penguin, players had the ability to throw snowballs. This was done by first clicking the snowball icon in the toolbar (or by pressing the T key), aiming at the target and then clicking it with the left mouse button. When a snowball hit something, it made a "squish" sound. In addition, some objects around the island could also be interacted with using snowballs in certain ways, such as the Clock Tower.
Snowballs were often used in snowball fights, or when a penguin was annoyed or mad at someone. Another possible usage was to "point" or show other penguins where an object is, such as a pin.
Snowballs were also used to operate certain devices, such as the Island Lifter 3000, the Snowball Power Generator and the watering system which used to be at the Mine Shack. Some of these devices had a main usage in parties, such as the machine at the Cliff, which was used to proceed in the quest of the Wilderness Expedition 2011.
In several rooms or during certain parties, snowballs turned into different items (such as food, bubbles, water balloons, paint balloons, trash, etc.). During Marvel Super Hero Takeovers, snowballs thrown while wearing Super Gloves were given special properties, such as freezing certain targets.
In addition, snowballs thrown by Herbert and Sam the Sasquatch had a unique sprite. While Herbert hit a penguin with a snowball, the player would be buried in a pile of snow.
- In almost all the rooms during the Water Parties, the snowballs turned into Water Balloons.
- This was one of the first times where a snowball had special type.
- If you threw a snowball in the Box Dimension, it bounced up and down in the air before it touched the ground, which could mean that the Box Dimension did not follow normal physics laws.
- The Underwater replaced the snowballs with bubbles.
- The Recycling Plant replaced the snowballs with a variety of recyclable items.
- In the Water Dojo, snowballs turned into Water Balloons.
- In almost all the rooms during the Adventure Party: Temple of Fruit, the snowballs turned into fruit.
- During the Star Wars Takeover, if you wore the Stormtrooper Helmet and Stormtrooper Costume while you were in another Planet, snowballs were laser shots.
- The School replaced the snowballs with paper balls (if thrown in the classroom) and Pizza (if thrown in the cafeteria).
- In the Puffle Hotel Spa, snowballs turned into soap bubbles. If you threw it at a penguin, it was covered in bubbles.
- In the Mall, snowballs turned into coins, a reference to how you "make a wish" and toss a coin into a fountain.
- During all of the Puffle Parties, the snowballs were replaced by Puffle O's in the Puffle Feeding Area. Also, the snowballs were replaced by plastic balls in the Forest, except for the Puffle Party 2011 and the Puffle Party 2013.
- At the Pizza Parlor during Camp Penguin, penguins who threw snowballs would throw pizza instead.
- During the April Fools' Party 2008, the snowballs in the Lighthouse and the Beacon were replaced by paint balls.
- In both the Water Parties, the snowballs were replaced by water balloons.
- If you threw a snowball in the Forest during the Holiday Party 2009, it would become an ornament so you could "decorate" the tree.
- During the April Fools' Party 2010, snowballs changed into tomatoes, pizzas, and other snacks. At the Dock, it changed to paintballs.
- At the Medieval Party 2010, in the first challenge of Ye Knight's Quest 2, when a snowball was thrown anywhere, it would melt to water.
- During the Music Jam 2010, if you threw a snowball in the Casa Fiesta room, it would turn into confetti.
- During the 5th Anniversary Party, if you threw a snow ball, it will turn into a red, green, yellow, purple, or whatever color you were wearing.
- During the Holiday Party 2010 and 2011, if you threw a snowball in the Lighthouse or Beacon it would turn into a coin. If you threw a snowball in the??? room it would turn into an ornament.
- During the Island Adventure Party 2011 if you threw a snowball on the Iceberg, it would turn into a fish.
- During the Underwater Expedition, if you threw a snowball, it would slide down to the left because of the island being tilted.
- During the Marvel Super Hero Takeover 2012, wearing one of the three super gloves, the Icy Power Gloves, the Cosmic Power Gloves, and the Lightning Power Gloves would throw a specific kind of power snowball.
- During Adventure Party: Temple of Fruit, the snowballs were replaced with fruit.
- During The Fair 2012 on the Iceberg, the snowballs were replaced with paint balls.
- During Operation: Blackout, members could throw extra large snowballs by wearing the Herbert Disguise.
- During Holiday Party 2012, in the Bakery Penguins could throw snowballs and snowballs would change into ingredients for cookies depending where they stood.
- Players transformed as Frost Bites could throw snowballs, and snowballs would change into freezing snowballs, and you could freeze penguins and other decorated objects.
- When Dinosaurs threw snowballs at Penguins at the Prehistoric Party 2013, it was puke.
- Also during the Prehistoric Party 2013, if you throw a snowball while wearing a prehistoric item, you would throw meat to give to dinosaurs.
- During the Hollywood Party, if you are wearing the Digital Camera the flash will appear and the stars will appear on the other penguin, this means you can see the white squares on the Become a Director catalog.
- During the Marvel Super Hero Takeover 2013, the snowballs were power snowballs if you used power gloves. The snowballs can be increased to a bigger size if you control a robot to throw a snowball.
- During the Medieval Party 2013, you can breathe fire if you turn into an Ultimate Mega Dragon and you can throw a spell when you put on the Wizardly Jacket, Wizardly Hat and Magical Wand.
- During the Holiday Party 2013, if you threw a snowball at the Dock, it would turn into an ornament.
- During the Future Party, snowballs turned into certain types of missiles depending of the robot you were using in certain rooms of the Future Club Penguin Island.
- During the Penguin Prom, if you threw a snowball at the School, it would turn into a graduation cap.
- During the Frozen Party, members could unlock frozen snowballs to freeze rooms by collecting all of the magic snowflakes hidden around the island.
- The Marshmallow transformation could also throw giant snowballs.
- During Pi Day, if you throw a snowball in the Mine Shack, it would turn into a pie.
Club Penguin App
Players who had the Club Penguin App could throw snowballs at their online friends; which was displayed as a big snowball on the screen. When clicking the snowball, a message popped up and asked if the friend wanted to throw back a snowball.
- There was a bug in the Mine Shack, when you threw a snowball it would be round at the tracks. This bug was later fixed.
- The maximum amount of snowballs in a room was 10. If another snowball was thrown, the earliest one was removed.
- Snowballs could be used to rotate the target at the Clock Tower.
- When Rockhopper threw a snowball, Yarr pulled out a mini-telescope and looked after it.
- Bouncer, the Elite Puffle, was specially trained to throw snowballs.
- Third-party cheating programs allowed penguins to throw snowballs off-screen.
- The F.I.S.H. catalog said not to report penguins for throwing snowballs at you.
- There was a server named 'Snowball'.
- The icon of the snowball was changed on April 17, 2014, as part of the toolbar update that took place during the Puffle Party 2014.
- If a penguin was in a certain position on a chair or an item, when hit by a snowball, they went through it.
- If you held the 'T' key and rapidly clicked, you could throw snowballs extremely fast, though this was only client side.
- In an unknown update, if a player got hit by a snowball, they could not perform any action such as waving or dancing. To do so, the player needed to move to another point of the room first.
- A giant snowball appears on the Club Penguin: Game Day! logo and game disc.


Processing sample labels using regular expressions in R
August 15, 2012
I am often found in possession of palaeo core data where the sample identifiers contain a core code or label plus the sample depth. Often these are things generated by colleagues who have used other software where for one reason or another they don't want to store the depth information as a separate numeric variable. I also generate such data sets, not because I want to but because the software often supplied with lab equipment (most recent example is the Thermo Flash EA/Delta V I've been running stable N and C isotope measurements on) that records data/measurements using a single character identifier variable.
The information in these labels is useful and I really don't want to type out all the depths again and it's not just because I am lazy; the more times you have to enter data the more opportunities for transcription errors to creep into your work and analysis. So I have things like this
R> (eg1 <- paste0("CORE", 0:10 + 0.5))
 [1] "CORE0.5" "CORE1.5" "CORE2.5" "CORE3.5" "CORE4.5" "CORE5.5"
 [7] "CORE6.5" "CORE7.5" "CORE8.5" "CORE9.5" "CORE10.5"
R> (eg2 <- paste0("FOO_", 0:10 + 0.5))
 [1] "FOO_0.5" "FOO_1.5" "FOO_2.5" "FOO_3.5" "FOO_4.5" "FOO_5.5"
 [7] "FOO_6.5" "FOO_7.5" "FOO_8.5" "FOO_9.5" "FOO_10.5"
What can be done to process these sorts of data with R to extract the useful information?
With eg2 we could split the strings on _ using strsplit() and process the resulting components. For example
R> as.numeric(sapply(strsplit(eg2, "_"), '[', 2))
 [1] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 10.5
To see how that code works, note that strsplit() returns a list with as many components as elements in the character vector supplied (e.g. length(eg2)). Each component of the list contains the individual character strings created by splitting.
R> head(spl <- strsplit(eg2, "_"), 2)
[1] "FOO" "0.5"
[1] "FOO" "1.5"
Notice that the depth information is in the second element of each list component. To access this information for the first component we might use spl[[1]][2] and the second one via spl[[2]][2]. Notice that the only thing that is changing here is the number in the [[ ]]. To each of the components of spl we are applying the [ function with argument 2; that can be automated via sapply() as shown above. The last part of the example just coerces the character vector of depths to a numeric one.
All of that is a bit of a faff and won't work for eg1 because there is nothing to split on. An alternative solution is to use regular expressions. I'm no regular expression expert and if there is anything in computing that will warp your feeble little mind it is a regular expression. However, these things are incredibly useful for matching or extracting bits of data from strings.
A regular expression contains placeholders or entities that you want to match or find within a given set of strings. For example, here is a modified version of eg1 where the last element has a different format to the rest
R> (eg3 <- c(eg1, "12.5CORE"))
 [7] "CORE6.5" "CORE7.5" "CORE8.5" "CORE9.5" "CORE10.5" "12.5CORE"
To match only those with one or more alphabetical characters are the start of the string we can use "^[A-Za-z]+" as our regular expression and the grep() to do the matching
R> grep("^[A-Za-z]+", eg3, value = TRUE)
The [A-Za-z] means match anything that is a letter in the English language alphabet. I added a qualifier, the +, which means match one or more of these letters. The last bit of the regular expression is the ^, which indicates that matches should begin with one or more letters; anything that doesn't begin with one or more letters will not be matched. If you look carefully at the result, "12.5CORE" is missing because it doesn't start with one or more letters.
To match one or more letters at the end of a string, the $ can be used, e.g.
R> grep("[A-Za-z]+$", eg3, value = TRUE)
[1] "12.5CORE"
Let's turn our attention back to eg1. A regular expression that would match each component of the strings could be "([A-Za-z]+)([0-9\\.]+)". The parentheses group the various parts of the expression which we'll use in a moment. The first set of parentheses matches one or more letters whilst the second set matches one or more digits plus the decimal point. The decimal point has been escaped (which in R requires two not the usual one backslash) as it is a regular expression meta character (like + and *) that matches a single character. We want a literal. so we escape its usual meaning. As we now have a regular expression that will match the format of our sample labels we can proceed to manipulate them. This is where the parentheses come in. As I said, these group matches within the single expression. The matches within the parentheses can be referred to using backreferences. So I could use \\1 to refer to the strings matched by the first set of parentheses and \\2 to matches in the second set. Note we need to double backslash here as this is R.
To achieve our final goal of extracting the depth information from the sample labels we can combine this regular expression with the gsub() function, which does string replacement using regular expressions. If we think about what we want to do, we want to essentially replace the sample label with the extracted depth information to form a new set of strings. So we can match the two parts of our sample labels using our regular expression and replace them with a backreference to the depth part matched by the second set of parentheses. For example:
R> gsub("([A-Za-z]+)([0-9\\.]+)", "\\2", eg1)
 [1] "0.5" "1.5" "2.5" "3.5" "4.5" "5.5" "6.5" "7.5" "8.5" "9.5"
[11] "10.5"
All that remains is to coerce that to numeric and we have our depth data
eg2 can be handled in a similar way but we need to add _ to the characters matched by the first set of parentheses
R> as.numeric(gsub("([A-Za-z_]+)([0-9\\.]+)", "\\2", eg2))
or add it as a literal _ between the two sets
R> as.numeric(gsub("([A-Za-z]+)_([0-9\\.]+)", "\\2", eg2))
If you had a more complicated data set with several cores in the same file, identified by a different core code, regular expressions can be used to extract the core and depth information. For example, given
R> set.seed(1)
R> dat <- data.frame(Label = paste0(rep(c("WAST", "NAGA"), each = 3), rep(0:2 + 0.5, 3)),
+ Value = runif(6))
R> dat
 Label Value
1 WAST0.5 0._PHONE_
2 WAST1.5 0._PHONE_
3 WAST2.5 0._PHONE_
4 NAGA0.5 0._PHONE_
5 NAGA1.5 0._PHONE_
6 NAGA2.5 0._PHONE_
we could add site and label data using
R> rexp <- "([A-Za-z]+)([0-9\\.]+)"
R> dat <- transform(dat, Site = gsub(rexp, "\\1", Label),
+ Depth = as.numeric(gsub(rexp, "\\2", Label)))
R> dat
 Label Value Site Depth
1 WAST0.5 0._PHONE_ WAST 0.5
2 WAST1.5 0._PHONE_ WAST 1.5
3 WAST2.5 0._PHONE_ WAST 2.5
4 NAGA0.5 0._PHONE_ NAGA 0


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This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and increasingly heterogenous labor market histories play an important role. Furthermore, we find strong effects of education for males and strong effects of age and experience for females. Changes in industry and occupation explain fairly little. Extending the analysis to total employment confirms the basic findings, while revealing substantial negative selection into part-time work.


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Answer ID 2414 | Last Review Date 03/18/2019
Can I merge two or more answers together into a single answer?
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The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in Washington, DC. It has been part of the Smithsonian Institution since 1968. It resides in the Old Patent Office Building and has been closed for renovation since January 2000; the Gallery will reopen on July 4, 2006. While the Gallery is closed, many of the works in its collection are travelling to affiliate museums around the world. The collections of the National Portrait Gallery focus on images of famous Americans, such as George Washington.
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Store Cucumbers at Room Temperature So They'll Last Longer
If you want more time to enjoy all the cucumbers you bring back from the market, don't stuff them in the fridge. Cucumbers, according to UC Davis, via Root Simple, should be stored at room temperature.
The reason, Root Simple explains, is that when cucumbers are stored for over 3 days at temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 Celsius), they'll get cold injury: wateriness, pitting, and faster decay. (See how unattractive they look after being stored in the cold in the photo from UC Davis?)
The university also offers lots of other advice for fruit and vegetable storage. While we've covered what and how to store foods in the fridge or counter before, room temperature cucumbers are something we didn't notice before. (You're also supposed to keep tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants out too, but keep the cucumbers away from the ethylene-producing tomatoes!)
Don't store your cucumbers in the fridge | Root Simple


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Published: 20 April 2012
According to Statistics Finland's data on population changes, the number of marriages entered into in 2011 went down clearly from the previous year. A total of 28,408 marriages were entered into, which is 1,544 fewer than in the year before. The marriage rate went down most distinctly in the age groups where most marriages are contracted: among those aged slightly under and slightly over 30.
Number of marriages and divorces 1965–2011
The share of first marriages of all marriages fell slightly, being 76 per cent. The percentage had remained at 77 per cent throughout the first decade of the 2000s.
In 2011, the average age of women who entered into their first marriage was 30.6 years and that of men 32.9 years. Year by year, first marriages are entered into at ever later age. In good four decades, women's average age at the time of entering first marriage has risen by close on eight years and men's by over eight years.
A slightly lower number of divorces was granted in 2011 than one year earlier. Altogether 13,469 marriages ended in divorce, which is 150 fewer than one year previously. At the same time ended the slightly rise in the number of divorces that had started in 2007. However, the decrease is so minor that the divorce rate remained unchanged.
Sixty-nine per cent of the marriages that ended in divorce in 2011 were first marriages for both spouses. In 1990, the corresponding proportion was still 80 per cent.
In 2011, the number of registered same-sex partnerships was 333. Of them, 111 were male couples and 222 female couples. A total of 85 registered same-sex partnerships ended in divorce. Of them, 24 were of male couples and 61 of female couples. In 2010, a total of 322 same-sex partnerships were registered and a total of 64 ended in divorce.
Changes in marital status and mean age of men and women at first marriage in 2002–2011
|Contracted marriages||26 969||25 815||29 342||29 283||28 236||29 497||31 014||29 836||29 952||28 408|
|Divorces||13 336||13 475||13 234||13 383||13 255||13 224||13 471||13 527||13 619||13 469|
|Woman's mean age at first marriage||29,1||29,2||29,7||29,6||29,7||29,9||30,2||30,2||30,3||30,6|
|Man's mean age at first marriage||31,3||31,5||32,1||31,8||32,1||32,3||32,5||32,5||32,6||32,9|
|Divorces from registered partnerships||2||6||15||31||30||67||45||53||64||85|
Source: Population and Cause of Death Statistics. Statistics Finland
Inquiries: Timo Nikander 09 _PHONE_, _EMAIL_
Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma
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The sizes of telescope pointing offsets between successive exposures can be very different, depending on whether the purpose is "mosaicking
" or "dithering
." Mosaicking is done with the aim of increasing the area of sky covered by a particular set of exposures, usually with the goal of providing a seamless joining of contiguous frames. The angular offsets used when mosaicking are generally large, up to the size of the field of view. Only programs observing targets larger than the field of view of the detector need to use mosaicked exposures.
Dithered and mosaicked exposures can be combined using software included in DrizzlePac
. Note that it is sometimes necessary to use software like that in DrizzlePac
to combine even CR-SPLIT or repeat exposures, when pointing drift causes slight misalignment of exposures and differences in how PSFs are pixilated, or when gradual changes in focus over the course of an orbit produce changes in the observed PSF.


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Backyard hose water playThere's nothing better than running around in the back garden with a hose (or a bucket of water if there's water restrictions) on a hot day! Hours can be happily spent dreaming up watery games.
What You Need:
- Garden hose
There are many ways kids can have fun with a garden hose and a bucket:
- Go around the backyard watering the plants.
- Have a water fight game using buckets of water.
- Use a stream of water to play a game of limbo (by going under the stream) or high jump ( by jumping over the stream)
- Use the stream of water for target practice. Use chalk to draw a bulls eye and then try and hit the bulls eye with water.
- Build a dam in a garden bed.
- This activity has been brought to you by The Natural Confectionery Co.
Related natural imaginative play activities:
- A rainy day activity box
- Indoor picnic
- Shaving cream play
- Car wash
- Backyard camping
- Have an outdoor bath


"Where's the next one being held?"
English Lesson: Where's the next one being held?
You and a friend are talking about the recent Olympics. You don't know where the next Olympics is going to be, so you ask your friend.
Where's the next one being held?
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Where's (something)?
"Where's" is a contracted version of "Where is". Use it in spoken English and casual writing.
(an event) is being held
You can use the verb "hold" to talk about having an event. For example, you can:
hold a party
hold a tournament
hold an art exhibition
You can also talk about where and when the event is happening using the expression "___ is being held..." For example:
The 3rd Annual Bell Lake Boat Show is being held on September 15th from 3 to 8pm at the South Pier.
A: Where's it being held?
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"Retail in Asia" interviews Director Stephen Jones on Mixed Use Hub Funan
With a background in retail design in Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, Jones carried out the envisioning, masterplanning, architecture and interior design for this 62,000-square-meter project. Conceived as an experiential civic hub, the mixed-use development integrates public spaces, commercial functions and cultural facilities with its urban location. In keeping in line with the firm's ethos of expanding and challenging the expectations of a multi-disciplinary architectural practice, the design acknowledges the rise in online shopping and the changing role of brick-and-mortar stores to deliver a new era of retail that maximizes engagement for a tech-savvy generation.
In the interview, Jones provides a brief history of the site and holistic process that went into realizing this next-generation model for retail.
Read the entire Q+A below, or head over to Retail in Asia's article here.
RiA : Funan is a very iconic place in the mind of Singaporeans, and part of the collective memory of the city. What is the history behind it?
Stephen: The Funan Centre was built in 1985 and was renamed Funan The IT Mall in 1997 to ride the tech wave and reflect its retail offering. By 2005 it had become Funan DigitaLife Mall, but maintained its tech-centric DNA.
CapitaLand in its plan to repurpose the building wanted to leverage on the special place that the mall occupies in people's lives and at the same time turning into a mixed-use destination. CapitaLand assigned the project to Woods Bagot, that after a first assessment changed the plan from repurposing to actually rebuilding, keeping in mind the sentiment of people towards the building.
Woods Bagot held collaborative design charettes with key stakeholders including current and future tenants, potential shoppers and investors to explore alternative opportunities. The question at the centre of these exercises was: 'How might we create an environment that encourages discovery, enticing people back time and again, a place for reflection and a place for evolution?'
Woods Bagot and Stephen, in particular, have always looked at architecture as a way of creating value for the community and always put people at the centre of their projects. Indeed, the first step was to understand how people perceived the building and how to leverage on this. After conducting focus groups, the team realized that there was a positive attachment to Funan and that the main challenge would have been to maintain the tech side of the mall as narrated by the people, yet transforming it into a mixed-use place.
Tech malls, computer malls are always attached to grey market and definitely not linked to the idea of luxury, but more towards a sense of community and meeting place. Stephen worked towards the preservation of the meanings, through a translation of the tech aspect into a "future-looking aspect," in which technology would be built within the infrastructure and used to make people's life easier. In doing so, the mall would still be linked to idea of digital, but instead of a place where technology is sold (there are retail stores of tech brands), a place where technology enhances the experience such as online to offline customer journey, technology engagement, digital signage, click-and-collect options.
Additionally, the level of attachment of the community as meeting place has been translated into transparent material, see-through structure reflecting connectivity among the different areas.
RiA : In which way the vision for the project matches your architectural philosophy?
Stephen: At Woods Bagot, we put people first, therefore our design practice is social and very much people-centric. Our main focus is urban design, especially city places and large-scale projects.
I have always promoted design as the process of creating places of value, that of course is economic and social, based on efficiency, calibrated on environmental impact, and more importantly, user benefits. Embracing the idea of design as functional art, the values above are merged with aesthetic
 values to create a space of value deliver benefits to the community.
RiA : How has the project evolved from the initial stage to the opening?
Stephen: Design process is a collaborative work among all the stakeholders, from CapitaLand to Woods Bagot and other partner consultants, from the tenants to the users, all of them contribute to shaping the final product.
CapitaLand had an ambitious creative agenda and they demo started to be brave in willing to push the limits to redefine a new lifestyle experience. They worked with Woods Bagot to meet the community's needs and transform the mall into a mixed-use development project.
The design process was not easy, because the idea was to work on a structure that could be flexible. At a certain point, we also considered to make Funan the Centre Pompidou of Asia with changeable parts, but then the design went onto another direction.
The project as you see it, it is built on a tree of life. The Tree of Life design concept is the architectural centrepiece at the heart of Funan, around which Woods Bagot has created an efficient retail offering. The Tree of Life is a wooden and steel structure that rises through six storeys, from Basement 2 to Level 4 at the centre of Funan.
The Tree of Life is symbolic of the idea that creativity grows from collaboration. The roots of the tree rise from the earth and grow sustaining the building – reflected in the earthy tones on the exterior of Funan that shimmer and twist in the sun – and they reach out and connect with the community. The roots extend to different areas of the building which creative communities grow on its various platforms and in the office, co-working and co-living spaces above. On the rooftop an urban farm is
 symbolic of the top of the tree.
The Tree of Life represents a habitat for creativity, and this manifests in platforms up and down the tree, each one a flexible space that centres on a passion or hobby. Referred to as passion clusters, these centre around tech, fit, taste, craft, chic and play, and are destinations for people to come and engage in activities and experiences spanning retail, culture, learning and business, to express themselves and to showcase their creativity.
The Funan project presents some characteristics such as the fact that there is no atrium and this has an impact on rental price definition, which another real estate developer would not have accepted, however, CapitaLand prioritized creativity. Also, the use of space at Funan is very much tied to content. In defining the future of architecture, I find myself immersed in a new dimension where designing space implies envisioning the type of content that the canvas will host.
A building becomes in this sense a platform for curated content and designers might be involved in the creative process as part of the innovative approach into urban mixed-use development.
RiA : We have seen the Funan project being described with many attributes, city communication hub, (add other attributes) to name a few. How would you define it?
Stephen: All of them and more. Projects like this take around 3 years to settle down and assume a certain image in tenants' and customers' mind.
It is still a work-in-progress in terms of definition. Contrary to what I have been hearing, I do not think it sets the bar in Asia or the world for retail, as I believe that this project is so complex that it stands on its own. It embodies connectivity at all levels. It embodies convenience in terms of space orientation.
It is a very brave project in terms of design and aesthetics.
RiA : Funan also embodies the latest trends in terms of appealing to new generations and tech-savvy consumers. What are the aspects reflecting those trends?
Stephen: Yes, the notorious Millennials and Gen Z are definitely part of the target but not the only ones. Funan is a place for everyone. However, the more tech part has been designed thinking of Millennials and Gen Z as users.
You have features such as facial recognition, the idea of click-and-collect, the seamless experience between what is available online and offline within the Funan portfolio and experience, is an aspect Facial recognition office. Funan experience has been designed to engage and exchange, I would say. You have 20 different spaces such as curated studios and leisure destinations to build a community and we have used technology to curate the path for the users.
For example, there are facilities warehouse supporting that enables brands to ship directly from the city centre and customers can collect the products in the stores or using the pick-up offsite to optimize their time. All food concepts at Funan are also to take away with a dedicated counter offsite. In this way, Funan becomes part of people's lives without entering it physically.
RiA: Your answer has a very strong sense of community. In terms of lifestyle for people experiencing the Funan, have you thought-out sustainability and wellness?
Stephen: Everything complies with sustainability and wellness. You breathe it through the design. Everything is functional and there for a reason, which ultimately is the user-benefit.
A green Lease will be implemented to ensure tenant's continued involvement in achieving the energy savings committed during operation stage.
With a porous ground floor featuring semi-public space accessible by pedestrians, Funan is designed to be flexibly ventilated which saves on energy costs. The accessible space also encourages cycling, promoting greener transportation. This is further encouraged through the underground linkway that will connect to City Hall MRT. Fast-charge EV charging stations and electrical bike charging stations have also been included on site.
The environmental coatings (frit pattern) on the building's glass filter the sunlight entering the building to reduce heat gain and save on air conditioning costs.
Computation fluid dynamics (aCFD) calculations were utilised to access prevailing winds and also rain direction through


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Sending Polls
During IBM® Lotus® Sametime® meetings, the chair can use polls to gather feedback from meeting participants. The chair can send a question to the meeting participants and view participants' responses. For example, the chair might ask participants to vote on which job applicant to hire. As participants respond, the chair sees which candidate the participants prefer.
Note Only the chair create a new poll question and send polls. You cannot create poll questions before joining the meeting. However, you can create them and then click the Send later button to send them at a later time.
When sending a poll, the chair can also:
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 - Allow anonymous responses. By default, the chair can see each participant's response to the poll question. (These individual responses cannot be shared with other meeting participants.) The chair can preserve participants' privacy by allowing them to respond anonymously to poll questions.
 - Mark correct answers. The chair can specify correct answers for poll questions. When the chair shares the poll responses, participants can see if they answered the question correctly.
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 3. Select the type of question from the drop-down list. Depending on the type of question you select, some answers might be filled in automatically. For example, if you select a True/False question, the answers True and False automatically appear. You can edit these automatic answers if you like.
 4. If necessary, enter the answers to the question.
 5. (Optional) If you want to mark the correct answers, select the check box or radio button next to the correct answers. You see the answers marked as correct when you view or share the poll responses. Participants do not see the correct answers until you share the poll responses.
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 9. Click the Close Sent Poll icon Close Poll to close the polling window. The question window is closed for all participants (latecomers will not see this poll) but the responses window stays open for you to view.
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NEXGEN IPTV Review – 2020
The rate at which entertainment lovers are switching to cordless has skyrocketed. This is because of the entry of IPTV. IPTV gave television entertainment a new look which means you can stream your favorite television programs right from your device or TV. NEXGEN IPTV is one of the IPTV providers which we are going to review in this blog article. To understand this reviewing of NEXGEN IPTV, a proper understanding of the concept of IPTV and how it works, the types of IPTV out there will greatly help us. How then do we quickly grasp what IPTV is? To answer this question, understanding non-IP television (cabled television) will greatly help us.
IPTV Overview
Non-IP television is the type of television that you see at home. It utilizes the cable (a special type of cable called coaxial cable) to transmit the video signal from the satellite dish through the satellite decoder down to the television screen. As you have seen how cable television is connected, in IPTV, you Don't need to run any connection (unless for your internet data connection which might be wired or wireless). The internet protocol (IP) is the pathway the video signal is sent and received from the IPTV server down to the television screen. It is, as a matter of smooth streaming of video content to have at least 20mbps of internet speed on your device before using IPTV streaming service. Having made an introduction of what IPTV is, let us quickly state the three types of IPTV.
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Stream that your favorite television series, news, and sports events even on the go. You will find this service also on NEXGEN IPTV.
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Access your favorite television shows that you missed here. This feature often comes as Catch Up TV on some IPTV platforms. NEXGEN IPTV Has this service as Catch Up TV as well.
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As we stated in the beginning, NEXGEN TV is a provider of IPTV services. They have been in the IPTV industry for the past three years, and so far offers over 1,000 channels. Channels on NEXGEN IPTV comes from locals such as the United States of America, Canada, Latino, and the United Kingdom. NEXGEN IPTV Comes with a built-in guide for easier setup. To use this service, sign up on the NEXGEN TV webpage. You will receive a message via email with your password and username. Buy any of the subscription package listed on the webpage. Channels on NEXGEN IPTV include; sports channels: CSN CHICAGO HD, CSN CALIFORNIA, BIG TEN NETWORK, ESPN HD, ESPN NEWS HD, ESPEN 2, FN HD, ABC6 HD, A&E HD, BET Jams, American heroes HD, CBS HD, animal planet HD, BBC America HD, cine sony HDR, HGTV HD, H2, TLC HD, MSG HD, animal planet HD Pacific, BET HD, antenna tv HD, CNBC HD, CNN HD, discovery channel HD, Disney life HD, Nick Jr HD, Own HD, USA HD, Paramount network HD, IFC HD, LNM HD, MTV, Nat Geo HD, Yes Network HD, food network HD, Fox news HD, Movie Max HD, OuterMax HD, Fox 29 HD, Dog TV HD, E! HD, Pop HD, GinxTV HD, and so many other channels.
NEXGEN IPTV also has international channels from Brazil, Europe, Russia, the Philippines, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, and India. NEXGEN IPTV has adult channels as well which comes with child protection.
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Starts at $10 per month and gives you access to connect up to five different streaming devices at a go. We advise going for a monthly subscription package on any IPTV platform. This is because a lot of IPTV companies often close down after customers must have paid subscription packages. So going for a month's plan saves you a headache.
The compatible device on NEXGEN IPTV includes; Amazon TV, ANDROID BOX TV Firestick TV, Android phone, iPhone, iPad, Fires TV, smart TV (LG and Samsung), Apple TV, WebTV; MAC and Windows (chrome or Firefox) and Kodi. You may also integrate NEXGEN IPTV on external players such as MX and VLC players.
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NEXGEN IPTV seems promising with over 1000 great channels they offer their customers. The video quality is superb and comes in SD 30 fps and Full HD 60 fps quality. This service when in comparison with another IPTV service out there, seems to behave less buffering issues. The uptime of the NEXGEN IPTV webpage is %100 responsive. Their subscription packages also have no automatic renewal, no credit check, and no hidden charges.
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NEXGEN IPTV provides its subscribers over 1000 channels to choose from. However, these channels are both local and international channels The Majority of which are from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, etc. The subscription plan on NEXGEN IPTV is pocket friendly and allows multiple device connectivity which is amazing.
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Out of Pocket Health Costs Could Lead Some to Dip into Retirement Savings
Medical bills are hurting the financial wellness of employees, particularly younger workers, a survey finds.
With deductibles continuing to climb, many Americans who have health insurance through their employers, particularly younger workers, are struggling when it comes to out-of-pocket medical expenses, according to a survey from Securian Financial Group.
Nearly four in 10 workers on employer-sponsored health plans are personally experiencing or know someone who is having financial difficulty due to medical bills. More than half (52%) of Millennials on a health plan through their employer are personally struggling or know someone who is struggling to pay medical bills.
According to the survey, 28% of employees with health insurance through work facing an out-of-pocket expense of $5,000 or more would use their personal savings to pay rather than other means, including a health savings account (8%) or supplemental group insurance (7%). However, a majority of respondents said they do not know how they would pay (21%), or that they would need to rely on credit cards (12%), a loan from their 401(k) (7%) or family/friends (4%), their tax return (5%), or by selling/pawning a personal possession (2%). Four percent said they would not pay at all.
While solutions for combating unexpected medical expenses are available, most workers do not know about them. The survey found that fewer than half of Americans with health insurance through work (44%) are aware that many employers provide supplemental group insurance options to help employees pay for out-of-pocket expenses and other costs associated with an accidental injury, hospital stay or critical illness.
Securian's survey was conducted online by KRC Research from June 8 to June 12, 2017. A total of 1,010 survey respondents answered an initial screener question on the source of their health insurance. The rest of the survey was answered by a base of 573 respondents who participate in a health insurance plan provided by their employer or their spouse's employer.


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Quasi-Spectral Characterization of Strongly Distance-Regular Graphs
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A graph $\Gamma$ with diameter $d$ is strongly distance-regular if $\Gamma$ is distance-regular and its distance-$d$ graph $\Gamma _d$ is strongly regular. The known examples are all the connected strongly regular graphs (i.e. $d=2$), all the antipodal distance-regular graphs, and some distance-regular graphs with diameter $d=3$. The main result in this paper is a characterization of these graphs (among regular graphs with $d$ distinct eigenvalues), in terms of the eigenvalues, the sum of the multiplicities corresponding to the eigenvalues with (non-zero) even subindex, and the harmonic mean of the degrees of the distance-$d$ graph.
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According to historical scholars, the first hinge dates back to 1600 B.C. and consisted of large stone sockets that acted as pivots to open/close doors. However, the Romans, developed the hinge in such a way, that ordinary people could use them for cabinets, drawers and doors in their own homes. The Romans also placed hinges on their armor for greater mobility. Stronger more powerful hinges were created by the English in the 16th and 17th centuries. These English techniques were brought over to the American colonies and blacksmithing became a popular trade since the need for stronger hardware was growing. In the 1850's Charles Hager, Hager Hardware, developed the wagon wheel and a hinge for wagon doors. The ball bearing hinge was developed in 1899, and the most common hinge, still used today, the butt hinge, in 1900.*


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of making the matzo dough for Shmurah matzo or Shemurah matzo after the water comes into contact with the grain to eventually form the dough after rolling, kneading, and shaping it. The rabbi follows through until the completion of the baking of the matzo dough to ensure that no other ingredients and liquids come into contact with the matzo dough which could cause the matzo dough to become leavened. Before baking the matzo dough, the utensils used in the process as well as the oven are thoroughly cleaned to ensure this is the case.
The flour produced from the grain that is used in making the matzo dough - be it barley, oats, rye, spelt, or wheat flour - must be completely dry and is also stored in a dark, cool place overnight just prior to being used in the matzo-making process. Why store both the water and flour in a dark, cool, place overnight just prior to making the matzo? This is done so that the rate of leavening or fermentation will not be increased, which would otherwise necessitate having to complete the entire matzo-making process in an even shorter period of time than under 18 minutes. Finally, both the water and flour are watched by the rabbi that is in charge to ensure that no other ingredients or liquids come into contact with the water and flour until the matzo-making process has begun.
The difference between Shmurah and non-Shmurah matzo is in the level of quality control for the grain that is used for making the matzo. The qualified rabbi only watched the grain for the non-Shmurah matzo or "regular" matzo from the time the water first came into contact with the grain to make the matzo dough up to and including the completion of the baking process whereas the grain for the Shmurah matzo was watched by the qualified rabbi from the time the grain was cultivated or harvested until the time the grain came into contact with the water to make the matzo dough and up to and including the completion of the matzo-baking process. In both cases, as mentioned, only fresh spring water that was filtered and stored and cooled overnight to room temperature prior to making the matzo dough can be used to make matzo, and the water must also be watched to ensure no contact with leaven has occurred. Finally, in both cases, the matzo-making process is continuously watched until its completion by the supervising rabbi to ensure no other ingredients or liquids come into contact with the matzo dough which would otherwise render the matzo dough chametz or leavened and consequently, unfit for use and consumption during Passover/Pesach. Therefore, due to the close supervision of the grain beginning from the time it is harvested or cultivated as compared with supervision of the grain beginning only from the time it comes into contact with the water to make the matzo dough, Shmurah matzo ensures an extra level of quality control for the grain in the matzo-making process.
There are two types of matzo shapes: round and square. Shmurah matzo is usually - but not always - round in shape while non-Shmurah matzo is usually square in shape. Matzo is either handmade or machine-made; Shmurah matzo is most often handmade.
According to the Jewish laws for Passover/Pesach, matzo that is made with additional ingredients besides water and one of the five religiously prescribed grains can only been eaten by those who cannot easily digest the standard matzo. These include the infirm, the elderly, and young children. A popular type of "enriched" matzo or non-standard matzo is egg matzo made with - you guessed it - eggs. Matzo that is made with additional ingredients beyond the two basic and standard ingredients: water and flour, is called "Matzo Ashirah" in Hebrew, meaning "Enriched Unleavened Bread" or simply, "Enriched Matzo".
The role of Matzo in the Festival of Pesach is so important that the illustrious Rabbi Gamaliel I Ha-Zaken or Rabbi Gamaliel The Elder (9 C.E. - 50 C.E.), the grandson of Rabbi Hillel I Ha-Zaken or Rabbi Hillel The Elder (about 50 B.C.E. - 10 C.E.), once taught that, "Whosoever does not mention the three symbols of Pesach (or Passover) has not fulfilled his duty (to commemorate or celebrate Pesach or Passover). They are: Pesach (or Paschal lamb), Matzo, and Maror".


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