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CSIRO and a consortium of Australian Opal miners (Opal Producers Australia Limited) have unveiled the world's first automated device to grade opals using image analysis, at the 2009 National Council of Jewellery Valuers forum in Sydney.
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences image analyst Leanne Bischof helped develop the Gemmological Digital Analyser (GDA).
Ms Bischof said that opals have a unique range of colour characteristics that makes them by far the most difficult gemstone to appraise.
'Qualities such as 'flash,' the way an opal reflects light and colour as it is rotated, can vary with human eyesight and lighting conditions,' Ms Bischof said.
'A person's judgement of an opal's colours, the brightness of those colours and the area each of them covers is a really difficult task, even for a skilled opal assessor. You really need objective image analysis and automation to assist with that.'
Incorporating the expert knowledge of over 60 opal industry professionals, CSIRO designed a GDA prototype with Australian company Applied Robotics.
CSIRO then developed the complex mathematical algorithms to drive the image analysis system behind the GDA.
A small camera inside the GDA takes 871 images of the stone as it rotates on a stage which moves 360 degrees horizontally and tilts 90 degrees vertically.
High powered computers linked to the GDA analyse the images and quantify the opal's gemmological characteristics, providing a classification grade based on colour, clarity, carat, cut and character and a summary graph showing proportions of the opal's colours.
A database of information on the GDA graded opals will allow participating jewellers and industry organisations to accurately assign a dollar value to a particular grade of stone depending on the daily market price.
Director of Opal Producers Australia Limited and Lightning Ridge Opal miner Peter Sutton said the value of the Australian opal industry is estimated to be worth around $50 million a year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
'We suspect this figure is grossly underestimated because valuations for a single stone can sometimes vary by thousands of dollars,' Mr Sutton said.
The demand and trade for other Australian commodities like wheat, coal and gold have benefited from the introduction of an independent grading system, ensuring fair prices for producers and the supply of a consistent quality product to customers.
'We wanted to create an objective grading system that would improve the demand for and value of the Australian Opal industry, giving miners a fair price and consumer's confidence to trade with grade quality assurance,' Mr Sutton said.
'This will be an independently-graded Australian opal product, which we will brand as Opallia.'


Genealogy Friday: Why Family Reunions Are Dying Out
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Recently, I had someone ask when we were going to have the next family reunion. I honestly answered "I don't know."
With over 500+ descendants living, we are lucky to have the same faithful group of about thirty to attend each year. We've noticed that there just is not a large interest in getting together.
That same weekend, I saw a large family group that had gathered for an extended holiday weekend. This family of 80+ individuals had gathered from not only all over the country, but some members even came from other parts of the world. On top of that, they all attended church together.
It is important to gather and celebrate being a family and our ancestors
I wondered, why they had such a wonderful turn out when other family reunions are dying out.
So why are family reunions dying out?
 1. The younger generation has no interest in getting together. Often they do not even know who the reunion is for or how they are related to this family group.
 2. The older generations are dying out and have not shared stories and memories of their family. On several lines of my family, as well as numerous other family's I've talked with, this is a common reason that family reunion has not continued.
 3. No one has an interest in stepping up and taking over the planning of the family reunion.
 4. There are too many other obligations, distractions and commitments to be met. This is especially true with families that have children involved in sports and/or the arts.
 5. Illness can often affect families so that individuals are unable to attend.
 6. Finances can affect individuals, depending on the distance of travel and other financial obligations for the reunion.
 7. No interest in family history. Sadly, this is still very common, especially with the younger generations. They have no interest in their roots or where they came from.
What are some reasons you've discovered family reunions are dying out?


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The goal for the Senior Firewall Engineer is to ensure the integrity of high availability security infrastructure in order to provide maximum performance and stability for critical applications and services.
The Sr. Firewall Engineer is additionally responsible for providing guidance and mentorship to other Firewall and Networking members.
As the Senior Firewall Engineer your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the firewalls and security devices within the data system
- Install, support and maintain firewall and other security hardware and software infrastructure according to industry best practices, including firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention devices, and VPN concentrators
- Diagnose advanced problems and solve issues, often under time constraints
- Subject matter expert for the firewall team and consult with other business units when necessary.
- Monitors network performance and implements performance tuning when necessary.
- Create and update documentation utilizing organizational standards to ensure retention and collaboration of knowledge
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Manage firewall/security systems by establishing and enforcing policies; defining and monitoring access.
- Reporting firewall operational status by gathering, prioritizing information; managing projects.
- Work closely with colleagues to meet team goals and improve processes and practices
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text: The transformation of natural habitats into urban landscapes dramatically alters thermal environments, which in turn, can impact local biota. Ectothermic organisms that are oviparous are particularly sensitive to these altered environments because their embryos cannot behaviorally thermoregulate and the surrounding environment determines the temperature experienced during development. We studied the effects of urban and forested thermal environments on embryo development and hatchling phenotypes in two non-native lizards (Anolis sagrei and A. cristatellus) in metropolitan Miami, Florida. To determine if embryos from urban and forested sites are adapted to their respective thermal environments, we incubated eggs from each site using temperatures that simulate likely nest conditions in both urban and forested environments. For both species, urban thermal environments accelerated embryonic development, but had no impact on egg survival or any of the phenotypic traits that were measured (e.g., body size, running performance, and locomotor behavior). Our results provide no evidence that embryos from urban and forested sites are adapted to their respective thermal environments. Instead, the lack of any major effects suggest that embryos of both species are physiologically robust with respect to novel environments, which could have facilitated their success in establishing in non-native ranges and in human-modified landscapes.


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New Ideas in Urban Research
The May issue of Urban Link highlights the contributions made by doctoral students graduating from the University of Pennsylvania whose research is on urban-related topics. Students, who represent Schools from across the University, share findings from their dissertations and identify novel policy recommendations for the urban community. They include:
- Marta Bruce, "The Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Psychological Outcomes After Serious Injury in a Cohort of Black Men: A Multi-Methods Study"
- Chandan Deuskar, "Planning and the Politics of Informal Urbanization"
- Xiaoxia Dong, "A Philadelphia Rideshare Story: An Investigation of Rideshare's Impact on Transit"
- Caitlin Gorback, "Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity"
- Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys"
- Ruth Moyer, "Changes Within the Urban Environment and Their Effect on Crime and the Criminal Justice System"
- Hongyu Xiao, "Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive?"


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Recreational marijuana is now legal in nine states. Advocates argue cannabis can help everyone from veterans to cancer sufferers. But legalization has been built on myths—that marijuana arrests fill prisons; that most doctors want to use cannabis as medicine; that it can somehow stem the opiate epidemic; that it is beneficial for mental health. In this meticulously reported book, Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, explodes those myths, explaining that almost no one is in prison for marijuana; a tiny fraction of doctors write most authorizations for medical marijuana, mostly for people who have already used; and marijuana use is linked to opiate and cocaine use. Most of all, THC—the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drug's high—can cause psychotic episodes.
"Alex Berenson has a reporter's tenacity, a novelist's imagination, and an outsider's knack for asking intemperate questions" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker), as he ranges from the London institute that is home to the scientists who helped prove the cannabis-psychosis link to the Colorado prison where a man now serves a thirty-year sentence after eating a THC-laced candy bar and killing his wife. He sticks to the facts, and they are devastating.
With the US already gripped by one drug epidemic, Tell Your Children is a "well-written treatise" (Publishers Weekly) that "takes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit" (Mother Jones).
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Rank tests for clustered survival data when dependent subunits are randomized.
In clustered survival data, subunits within each cluster share similar characteristics, so that observations made from them tend to be positively correlated. In clinical trials, the correlated subunits from the same cluster are often randomized to different treatment groups. In this case, the variance formulas of the standard rank tests such as the logrank, Gehan-Wilcoxon or Prentice-Wilcoxon, proposed for independent samples, need to be adjusted for intracluster correlations both within and between treatment groups for testing equality of marginal survival distributions. In this paper we derive a general form of simple variance formulas of the rank tests when subunits from the same cluster are randomized into different treatment groups. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to investigate small sample performance of the variance formulas. We compare our non-parametric rank tests based on the adjusted variances with one from a shared frailty model, which is an optimal semi-parametric testing procedure when the intracluster correlations within and between groups are the same.
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ISO/TS 24534-5:2008 provides the requirements for an Electronic Registration Identification (ERI) using symmetric encryption techniques that are
- based on an identifier assigned to a vehicle (e.g. for recognition by national authorities),
- suitable to be used for:
- electronic identification of local and foreign vehicles by national authorities;
- vehicle manufacturing, in-life maintenance and end-of-life identification (vehicle life-cycle management);
- adaptation of vehicle data, e.g. in case of international re-sales;
- safety related purposes;
- crime reduction;
- commercial services, and
- adhering to privacy and data protection regulations.
It specifies the interfaces for a secure exchange of data between an electronic registration tag (ERT) and an ERI reader or ERI writer in or outside the vehicle using symmetric encryption techniques.
Symmetric encryption techniques are based on secret keys shared by a particular community of users, i.e. in closed user groups in which it is trusted that keys are not revealed to outsiders.
ISO/TS 24534-5:2008 specifies:
- the interface between an ERT and an onboard ERI reader or writer,
- the interface between the onboard ERI equipment and (road side) reading and writing equipment,
- security issues related to the communication with the ERT.
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HaikouWade-Giles romanization Hai-k'ouPinyin Haikou, conventional Hoihowcity in and capital of Hainan sheng (province), southern China. Hai-k'ou is the provincial capital of Hainan sheng. It is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, facing the Luichow Leizhou Peninsula, across the Hainan (Qiongzhou) Strait (9.5 miles [15 km] wide). Hai-k'ou Haikou originally grew up as the port for Ch'iung-shanQiongshan, the ancient administrative capital of Hainan Island, which is situated some 3 miles (5 km) inland.
Qiongshan was opened to foreign trade under the Treaty of
Tianjin (1876),
Haikou began to rival the old administrative city.
Haikou was created a separate administrative county in 1926; it overtook
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Cast Resin transformers are known for the excellent and advantageous fire behavior. In no way can a dry-type cast resin transformer be considered as suitable or acceptable if it hasn't been F1 certified.
SETF went the extra mile to attain this certification and make sure that every Copper-Cast transformer supplied is F1 classified according to the HD 464 S1 standard.
One Copper-Cast coil was placed in a test chamber. The combined effect of burning and flammable material and 24 resistors radiant panels resulted in a flux of about 3 W/ towards the tested object. The heat transfer and the burning was sustained for 40 and 70 minutes respectively.
The smoke outlet maximum recorded temperature rise was 283 degrees Kelvin (way beyond the 420 K accepted by the standard)
The smoke outlet temperature rise measured after 45 minutes was 71 degrees Kelvin (which is almost half the 140 K stipulated by the standard)
The smoke outlet temperature rise measured after 60 minutes was 46 degrees Kelvin (again an outstanding 50% of the 80 K allowed by the standard)
The minimum visible light transmittance in the air outlet chimney was 40% after 21 minutes of sustained burning, and the averaged transmittance was 80%. Two figures that are way above the minimum 20% required by the standard
With those results at hand you are now sure that every Copper-Cast ordered and delivered is going to have a superior behavior even in the unfortunate event of a fire.
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An Urban Explorer's Guide To Finding & Exploring Secret Bunkers
By Matt Scofield
February 19, 2020 6:00 AM ‐ UndergroundUrbExLong Reads
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I've been fascinated by secret underground bunkers for 20 years or more, I've been lucky enough to have visited some of the most secure underground hideouts in the country and have researched hundreds of sites across the UK.
Bunker exploration is a subset of urban exploration, a closely related past time which involves exploring and photographing decaying and forgotten man-made structures. Bunker exploration focuses on man-made and man-used underground spaces, and therefore shouldn't be confused with the hobbies spelunking, caving or potholing, which focus on natural cave systems.
In this guide to bunker exploration I will share some of the techniques that urban explorers use to find bunkers and underground structures, tips on how to safely gain access and advice on staying safe and making the most of your time underground.
Bunkers are generally categorised by their usage. For example an artillery bunker for defending weapons and ammunition against enemy fire. Industrial bunkers, which house data storage and underground control centres. Personal bunkers are generally constructed within a house. Munitions bunkers are used to store high explosives in order to prevent and contain any potential blasts.
However in the world of bunker exploration, explorers categorise the locations they visit based on its method of construction. This is because the bunkers are usually now abandoned, so their most recent use is of less importance when you consider that bunkers often go through several different uses during their lifetime and often start out as something completely different.
Urban explorers tend to recognise and even discover bunkers to explore based on the following traits.
Purpose Built
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
Purpose built bunkers are generally either semi-sunk concrete reinforced blockhouses, facilities constructed just below the surface of the ground using a technique called "cut and cover", or a network of chambers and tunnels excavated underground or within a hill or mountain. Essentially, purpose built bunkers are holes in the ground that didn't exist before the bunker was constructed. They can range from being partially above ground through to being fully subterranean deep-level shelters.
One of the most famous purpose built bunkers is the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a US military bunker built into the side of a mountain near Colorado Springs. Building a bunker from scratch costs a lot of money. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex cost about $140 million back in the 1960s, that's around or $1 billion in today's money.
One of the bunker's can be seen here heading South along East Main Road.
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A cheaper option than building a bunker from scratch is to re-purpose an existing underground space. Most commonly this is cave networks or underground mines or quarries, which are converted into secure underground locations. This technique was widely used in Wiltshire in the run up to the two World Wars and the Cold War.
Several former stone quarries were converted in to huge underground ammunition stores, subterranean aircraft factories and armed forces command centres. These type of bunkers are most prevalent in Wiltshire, but similar structures built within similar underground spaces exist all around the world.
One of the most impressive examples of this type of facility is the mammoth Burlington bunker in Corsham. It's less of an underground bunker and more like a subterranean city, its tunnels and roadways seem to stretch endlessly and the whole complex is constructed in a former stone quarry.
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Hidden Bunkers
Whitehall Ministry Of Defence, London
Another method of bunker building is to construct the facility under or within a building. This can mean building a hardened network of chambers in the building's foundations at the same time the building is being constructed, or an existing basement is retrofitted, hardened and converted into a bunker. In Switzerland, there is an unusually large number of this sort of bunker because of a law requiring protective shelters to be constructed for all new buildings since 1963.
The most famous examples of bunkers of this kind are in central London. The British's government's PINDAR bunker was constructed in the 1990s beneath the Ministry of Defence headquarters on Whitehall and includes COBRA, Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
Just across the road is Winston Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms, built in a reinforced basement beneath the treasury building. The bunker is now one of London's most famous tourist attractions.
Nuclear Bunkers
Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
Nuclear bunkers can be constructed in any of the three previously mentioned methods, but they tend to have very distinctive design elements, characteristics and, because they are more modern having been built during the Cold War, tend to be in better condition and have more interesting features.
Nuclear bunkers were still being constructed in the UK as far into the Cold War as the early-90s. They are constructed to a much more robust standard of engineering compared to older wartime bunkers as they needed to be able to offer blast protection and protect their inhabitants from the dangers of radioactive fallout.
Because nuclear bunkers were kept on standby until the late-80s and early-90s, they are generally still in very good condition and the specific details of their uses are better documented. A great example of this is the Hack Green nuclear bunker in Nantwich, Cheshire. It is now open to the public as a museum, which perfectly demonstrates how interesting bunkers of it era are. It's packed full of broadcast, monitoring and survival equipment from the era and the purpose of every room in the two-level bunker is understood.
How To Spot A Bunker
Admiralty Citadel - Horse Guards Parade, London
If you're reading this page then you probably already have some interest in secret bunkers, perhaps you've been driving a long and noticed a suspicious looking mound of grass in an otherwise flat area at the roadside or a hardened basement-level door in the side of a local building. But how can you find out what's behind these doors?
If the door is in the side of a building then there's no easy way to find out. The door could be a fire exit from a lower level of the building or even access to underground services. Many cities have underground electrical substations for example.
There may still be a few telltale signs. Obviously a bunker won't have any windows, so if there are none at the same level as the door, then this may indicate a shelter of some kind.
You should also look for ventilation, a bunker will almost always have independent air ventilation and filtrations systems, separate from the rest of the building. This will likely be more than small vents on the wall and is more likely to be large ventilation ducts or standalone air vents popping up out of the ground near the door.
Even after discovering air vents and a lack of windows, it's still going to be very hard to determine what's behind the door. You may need to find out who owns the building. If it is owned by the government or a local council then it is possible they have some kind of shelter under their offices. This might also be the case if the building is occupied by the emergency services or utility providers, such as gas, water and electric companies.
It's a long shot, but step back and take a look at the building's roof. You might find that if there is a bunker hidden below the building that there is some sort of communications array on the roof. The purpose of most bunkers is to maintain the smooth running of the country in the event of a disaster, and this requires good communications access.
Fortunately, other types of bunkers are easier to spot. Any purpose built bunker will normally have a very visible and very bunker like entrance. The entrance to any underground space which has been re-purposed will also look distinctly bunker-like, but still these can be hard to spot and other less exciting entrances can look like bunkers.
A lot of bunkers are semi-sunk, meaning that they are built in a hole in the ground but their upper level or levels are housed in a steel reinforced concrete mass above ground level. One such fortress can be found right in the middle of busy central London on Horse Guards Parade. Despite the fact it's so visible and imposing, most tourists and locals walk past the huge structure without questioning what's inside it.
This type of bunker is very easy to spot, the massive concrete block will have no windows and no doors apart from one huge metal blast door. There's often usually large vents on the side of the building and many bunkers of this type will have a small communications mast near by or on its roof.
Hack Green Bunker
Bunkers which are entirely subterranean have equally as identifiable surface features, but there are other structures that can be mistaken for bunkers.
When it comes to getting into an underground hideout, there's only three options...
Adit - a horizontal or almost horizontal entrance into the ground. This is probably the most obvious type of entrance. If you see a doorway leading into the side of a mountain or hill, then there's clearly something underground there. Although, it could be nothing more than an underground water reservoir, which does look very bunker like.
Slope shaft - an inclined entrance consisting of a doorway leading to steps that descend down to bunker level. This sort of entrance can be quite hard to spot, but when you stumble across one it's pretty obvious what it is. You'll normally see a door on the side of a small mound or building. The opposite side of the building will slope off into the ground, which clearly indicates that all that's behind the door is a tunnel into the ground.
Vertical shaft - a shaft which


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Dead Neck Sampsons Island Dredging/Renourishment Project—Restoring and Protecting Shorebird Habitat
Mass Audubon is seeking regulatory approval to restore coastal bird habitat on Dead Neck Sampsons Island.
What is the project?
Mass Audubon and Three Bays Preservation are seeking permits to restore coastal bird habitat on Dead Neck Sampsons Island by renourishing important nesting areas on the island. Dead Neck has been the site of many renourishment projects over the past 30 years. Sand that has been deposited on Dead Neck has eroded over the years and been carried westward to accrete at the western end of Sampsons Island. Renourishment will restore eroded nesting habitat for vulnerable shorebirds and strengthen the island against breaching. The dredging will restore the channel between the island and Cotuit which has filled in and has required dredging several times previously since the 1930s.
Why is Mass Audubon a proponent?
Mass Audubon works to protect the nature of Massachusetts. Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program protects vulnerable populations of shorebirds on approximately 160 beaches in the state (more than 70 mi of coastline) through partnerships with private landowners and with local and state agencies. We protect about 40% of the piping plovers nesting in the state and about 50% of the least terns—both of these species are listed under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act. Restoring habitat on the island will advance our objectives in bird conservation.
Who owns Dead Neck Sampsons Island?
Sampsons Island is owned by Mass Audubon having been given to us in the 1940s to be protected as a "as a tern sanctuary." Dead Neck is owned by Three Bays Preservation and is managed under a conservation restriction for "bird protection… and conservation purposes." Only about 10 of the 160 beaches that Mass Audubon protects are owned by Mass Audubon and therefore we have a relatively rare opportunity and strong obligation to protect nature on our own properties to exemplary standards.
How will the project serve to protect birds?
The dredging and renourishment project proposed by our two organizations will restore and protect habitat for coastal birds. Nourishment of Dead Neck will 1) restore acres of open sand habitat for nesting birds, 2) provide a sand source to widen the Nantucket Sound beach over approximately 5-10 years, and 3) protect the island from breaching. Protecting the island from breaching is critical to maintaining Dead Neck Sampsons Island as an island relatively isolated from mainland ground predators. Breaching is predicted to result in disintegration of the island, and cause the remainder of Dead Neck to join with Oyster Harbors; the remainder of Sampsons Island would attach to Cotuit. The project proposes to increase nesting and productivity through habitat restoration as described, and also through vegetation, predator and disturbance management.
What information is used to predict the outcomes of the project?
Coastal geologists are working on the project to direct the design. In addition, a similar project took place on the island in 2000 which produced desired outcomes. When a similar volume of material was placed on Dead Neck in 2000, we documented a dramatic increase in nesting terns and over time, increased abundance of nesting plovers as the south coast of the island widened. As that material drifted toward Sampsons Island and accreted, the number of pairs of all species declined again, and productivity also declined as the smaller nesting areas became more vulnerable to predators and storm overwash.
Have alternative designs been considered?
Alternative sources of sand for renourishment have been considered including a mainland source, other maintenance dredging in the area, and off-shore mining. All of these are less environmentally sound and more expensive than the proposed project. Sediments used to renourish Dead Neck must be compatible with existing sediment to provide new, safe nesting habitat. For example, incompatible sediment coming from an upland site might cause water to puddle which would create a hazardous nesting site for birds. No other channels in the region are available for dredging having been used in previous projects to strengthen the island. Off-shore mining from natural shoals is known to reduce habitat for sea ducks and other animals.
Finally, the coastline of Barnstable has been altered significantly through groins and shoreline armoring. These alterations have reduced the movement of sand from land to the coastline and caused some areas of the coast to be starved of sand leading to significant erosion such as at Dead Neck. Because of the movement of sand along the coast, Sampsons Island has accreted greatly over the past several decades. The project design replaces the sand from Sampson's Island "upstream" to Dead Neck which provided the source of sand through previous renourishment projects. Adding additional "external" sand to the project through off-shore mining or from mainland sources would increase the need to dredge Cotuit channel to keep it from closing. The project is considered to take advantage of a closed sand transport system with sand being back-passed from Sampsons Island to its original source.
What are possible adverse effects of the project and how will they be mitigated?
In designing the project and through the permitting process we have considered possible adverse effects to storm damage protection, marine fisheries, shellfish, and coastal birds. We continue to solicit comments from the public and experts to avoid and minimize possible adverse effects. We anticipate that perhaps up to three nesting territories of plovers will be displaced through the removal of sand, however, based on prior projects we expect to gain 15 or more new nesting territories through habitat restoration and enhancement.
What's at stake?
Dead Neck Sampsons Island has provided habitat to rare coastal birds for decades. It is the most important site for plovers on the southern Massachusetts coast west of Monomoy. In addition, large numbers of least and common terns have nested on the island historically. The endangered roseate tern has nested on the island and uses foraging habitats near the island to prepare for migration. Mass Audubon and Three Bays Preservation are dedicated to restoring habitat on the island to continue protection to these vulnerable coastal bird species.


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In this tutorial, we will see the steps to add shading (background colour) and border to any paragraphs in a word document. Let us take the following paragraphs as an example.
Now if you wish to add border and different shading colour both the bullet points then you can follow the below mentioned steps.
Step 1: Select the first bullet point and navigate to Paragraph section in Office Home menu.
Step 2: Click the Shading dropdown and pick your preferred background colour. You should be able to see the preview as shown in the above screenshot.
Step 3: Now to add borders to the selected paragraph, click the Border option available next to Shading.
Step 4: For this example, we are going Outside Borders options.
Step 5: Now repeat the above steps from 2 to 4 for the second bullet point as well.


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Mary Cassatt (artist)|
American, 1844 - 1926
The Letter, _PHONE_
drypoint and aquatint on laid paper
plate: 34.6 x 22.8 cm (13 5/8 x 9 in.) sheet: 43.6 x 30.3 cm (17 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 8, State iv/iv
Chester Dale Collection
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In The Letter, as in the other prints from this series, Mary Cassatt explores the private realm of women in the nineteenth century. Though such domestic activities may at first glance seem trivial, Cassatt consistently endows her subjects with a gravity that underscores the seriousness of their occupations.
Correspondence often consumed a large part of a woman's day; she not only wrote to friends and acquaintances, but she was also responsible for answering invitations, responding to inquiries, and dealing with the daily domestic cares of the household. For Cassatt, who was an American expatriate living in Paris, the importance of letter-writing to keep in touch with family and friends must have held a special significance. The dropleaf desk in this composition still belongs to the artist's family; at one time, Cassatt herself may have used it to write letters.
Several aspects of The Letter reflect Japanese influence. The flattening of space is typical of the Japanese woodcuts popular in Europe at the time, as is an interior setting.
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I don't know about OpenCV, so I can't tell you what
cv.GetMat() does. Apparently, it returns something that can be used as or converted to a two-dimensional array. The C or C++ interface to OpenCV that you are using will probably have a similarly names function.
The following lines create an array of index pairs of the entries in
grey_image_as_array that are bigger than
3. Each entry in
non_black_coords_array are zero based x-y-coordinates into
grey_image_as_array. Given such a coordinates pair
y, you can access the corresponsing entry in the two-dimensional C++ array
The Python code has to avoid explicit loops over the image to achieve good performance, so it needs to make to with the vectorised functions NumPy offers. The expression
grey_image_as_array > 3 is a vectorised comparison and results in a Boolean array of the same shape as
numpy.where() extracts the indices of the
True entries in this Boolean array, but the result is not in the format described above, so we need
zip() to restructure it.
In C++, there's no need to avoid explicit loops, and an equivalent of
numpy.where() would be rather pointless -- you just write the loops and store the result in the format of your choice.


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Objective: To report on the chiropractic care of a 6 year old female with subluxations, constipation and neck pain.
Clinical Features: A 6 year old female with constipation, neck pain, vertebral subluxations and gastrointestinal pain.
Interventions and Outcomes: High-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) adjustments at specific vertebral locations were administered at the areas of vertebral subluxation. Mother and patient reported bowel movements improving from once every 4-5 days to bowel movements every day along with resolution of neck pain.
Conclusion: Successful chiropractic care for a patient with a challenge in lifestyle due to irregular and sporadic bowel movements. Frequency of bowel movements was achieved as well as a decrease in gastrointestinal and cervical pain.
Author Keywords: Chiropractic, constipation, gastrointestinal tract, vertebral subluxation, pediatric
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How can I test the pH of my water?
Updated 4 months ago by Graeme
For the testing of water pH we recommend a liquid pH testing solution or an electronic instrument.
Note: You cannot use pH litmus paper to test water.
We do not advise customers to check the pH of our water with litmus paper test strips due to the formulation of the test strips. pH test strips are typically used for mixed liquids such as blood, urine or saliva but are not very accurate when measuring the pH of plain water. In addition, if the litmus paper is not formulated to check for mineral content (calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, etc.) which is what makes the Santevia water alkaline, you will get a "neutral" or non-result. Expected results are a pH increase by about 1.5 - 2.0 units on the pH scale. Results may vary depending on the source water.
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Water-hydraulic vehicle built by Purdue students
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A group of Purdue University undergraduates built an industrial riding lawn mower that's a cut above the rest.
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The students created what is thought to be the first vehicle that uses water in all of its hydraulic systems, including power steering, power brakes and transmission.
Recent advances in water hydraulic systems have allowed them to perform as well as petroleum hydraulic systems. Because water offers several environmental and economic advantages over petroleum hydraulic fluid, the students teamed up to demonstrate that such a vehicle is now possible.
Recent graduates Jason Brown of Pendleton, Ind.; Dan Sellers of Bourbon, Ind.; and Dan Pitstick of Rensselaer, Ind., worked through their final semester at Purdue to build the machine. Nathan Schoonover, of Evansville, Ind, who graduated in December, also worked on the project.
Although the mower was redesigned to prove a point, it does have a practical purpose. Mowers leak some hydraulic fluid, and on golf courses that fluid can kill grass on greens that often cost tens of thousands of dollars to construct and maintain.
Jacobsen, a division of Textron Inc. of Racine, Wis., donated the Greens King IV mower, which is a 31-horsepower, front-wheel drive mower with three sets of gang mowers that are raised and lowered hydraulically.
Gary Krutz, professor of agricultural and biological engineering and the students' advisor, says water hydraulic systems only would be practical in vehicles that use high-pressure systems, such as heavy equipment used in construction, agriculture, forestry and mining. (Automobiles have hydraulic brake and steering systems, but these are not typically highly pressurized.)
Using water in hydraulic systems currently costs twice as much as using petroleum products, but that could change as more applications are found for water hydraulics.
"If all of the research and development were done, all of the major companies would be using water instead of hydraulic fluid," Krutz says. "Because the industry is in its infancy, mass production hasn't lowered the cost. But once you start mass producing the necessary parts from ceramic, fiber-reinforced plastic or stainless steel, the prices will drop."
Research at Purdue on water hydraulic systems currently focuses on hydrostatic bearings. Hydrostatic bearings would be used in cars or industrial or agricultural equipment. "These would work well with cars in the future that use fuel cells, because you would be able to use the water in the fuel cell and in the gear box," Krutz says.
The water used in the mower isn't straight from the tap; ordinary city water contains too many minerals and impurities and could cause build-up and corrosion. Instead, the system uses distilled water that has been de-ionized to remove any electrical charges that could cause corrosion.
Corrosion also is the reason parts for water hydraulics systems have to be made of stainless steel, plastic or ceramics. But the more expensive parts would be worth it because using water in hydraulic systems makes machinery more energy efficient, saving money.
The boost in energy efficiency is due to water's lower viscosity. Viscosity is the measure of how fast a liquid flows. Water flows up to 1,000 times faster than hydraulic fluid at normal air temperatures. Once the machine is warmed up, water is still less viscous.
Improved viscosity means less energy is required to push the hydraulic fluid through the system, making it more efficient. An engine that uses direct gearing is 95 percent efficient; one that uses hydraulic systems is 60 percent efficient. (Hydraulic systems are used in place of gears because they offer variable speed and can be placed in different locations around the vehicle.)
By using water instead of heavier petroleum fluid, Krutz estimates the efficiency could be boosted at least 10 percent.
"That doesn't sound like much, but that would mean a savings of 500 million gallons of gasoline in the United States each year," he says. "I'm also willing to predict that the lower friction will result in less wear for the equipment."
Replacing hydraulic fluids with water won't be without problems, however. Because tighter fittings and higher quality parts are needed to prevent leaks and corrosion, water systems are more costly. Also, the reduced viscosity of water means that turbulence within the system could reduce efficiency if the parts aren't engineered properly.
Krutz predicts that costs could drop quickly if even one manufacturer decided to focus on water hydraulic systems. "All we need is for one major lawn mower company to decide to use this technology in a premium machine, and the cost would drop significantly," he says.
Stainless steel and ceramics are among the expensive materials most needed for water hydraulic systems, and as the cost of these materials drop, replacing petroleum hydraulic fluid comes closer to becoming cost effective.
"Do you remember how you used to have to replace the muffler on your car every three years?" Krutz asks. "Steel producers figured out how to make stainless steel cheaper, and the auto manufacturers began using it to make mufflers. Now mufflers last as long as most people own a car.
"This price reduction in stainless steel is also making water hydraulic systems affordable, but steel materials still require a lot of engineering work to eliminate turbulence in the system."
Additional equipment for the project was donated by Danfoss Nessie, Milwaukee, Wis.; Fairfield Manufacturing, Lafayette, Ind.; Indianapolis Valve and Fitting, Indianapolis; Parker Hannifin, Cleveland, Ohio; and Swagelok Co., Salon, Ohio.
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Graduate students Louis Cassens (right) and Michael Thomas put a revolutionary lawn mower through a trial run recently near Purdue's Food Science Building. The mower uses ordinary water in place of hydraulic fluid. (Purdue Agricultural Communication Service Photo by Tom Campbell.)
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Using BitLocker with server backup
BitLocker Drive Encryption (Bitlocker) is a data protection feature in Windows SBS 2011 Essentials that protects against data theft or exposure on data stored on fixed and removable data drives and the operating system drive. BitLocker helps protect against "offline attacks," which are attacks made by disabling or circumventing the installed operating system or made by physically removing the hard drive to access the data separately. BitLocker helps ensure that users can ready the data on the drive and write data to the drive only when they have either the required password, smart card credentials, or are using the data drive on a BitLocker protected computer that has the proper keys. BitLocker offers more secure data deletion when computers are decommissioned.
When drives, folders, and files are backed up by the server, an unencrypted version is saved to the server. During full system restore, this unencrypted version is copied to the computer. After a successful full system restore, you have to reactivate BitLocker on the server.
For more information about BitLocker Drive Encryption basics, see "BitLocker Drive Encryption in Windows 7: Frequently Asked Questions" (
Setting up BitLocker on your server
To use the BitLocker data protection feature with Windows SBS 2011 Essentials server backup:
 1. Enable the BitLocker feature in the Server Manager
 2. Assign a drive letter to the backup hard disk drive
 3. Turn on BitLocker in the Control Panel.
To enable the BitLocker feature
 1. On the server, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
 If you manage Windows SBS 2011 Essentials remotely, you must access the server using Remote Desktop Connection.
 2. In the Server Manager navigation pane, click Features.
 3. In the Features Summary, click Add Features.
 4. In the Add Features Wizard, click to select BitLocker Drive Encryption, and then click Next.
 5. Click Install.
 6. When the wizard finishes, click Close, and then click Yes to restart the server if required.
 7. After the server restarts, click Close.
To assign a drive letter to the backup hard disk drive
 1. In the Server Manager navigation pane, click Storage, and then click Disk Management.
 2. Right-click the backup drive, and then click Change Drive Letter and Path.
 3. Click Add, choose a drive letter from the drop-down menu, and then click OK.
 4. Click Yes, and then close Server Manager.
To turn on BitLocker
 1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
 2. Click System and Security, and then click BitLocker Drive Encryption.
 3. Click Turn on BitLocker for each of the drives that you want to protect, and then click Yes.
 4. Choose the method that you want to use to unlock the drive after it is encrypted. If you choose to use a password, you can print it or save it in a file.
 If you choose to save a password in a file, you should not keep the file on the server. The password key that is saved in the file is in clear text.
 5. Click Start Encrypting. Depending on the size of the drive and the amount of data, it might take several hours to encrypt the drive.
 6. When encryption is finished, unlock the backup drive using the BitLocker password that you created. Server backup, and file and folder restore should work as expected.
Restoring files and folders to a different server
If you want to restore files and folders to a different server, you should install BitLocker on the server following the instructions in the Setting up BitLocker on your server section. After setting up BitLocker, unlock the drive before you start the Restore Files and Folders wizard.
Performing server restore
If the server that you need to restore was encrypted using BitLocker, you can still use the full system restore media provided with your server and the Full System Restore wizard to recover the hard disk drive image, including the operating system, from a backup, and then restore the data to the new or repaired computer.
In the event that a server restore needs to be performed, before beginning the server restore process, do the following:
 1. On a client computer that supports Bitlocker, enable BitLocker if it is not already enabled. For instructions, see BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide for Windows 7 (
 2. Attach the backup hard drive to the client computer.
 3. Decrypt the hard drive. For information about decrypting the hard drive, see What is the difference between disabling BitLocker Drive Encryption and decrypting the volume (
 Decrypting the hard drive might take several hours.
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Oracle Sunset Transmigration is the 40th release on Absent Erratum. This anonymous submission features a total of 1 eponymous track of 20 minutes and 19 seconds. It was released on October 2nd, 2020.
Particles of darkness descend upon the soil as night falls ; the exterior retreats into the interior, where it is illuminated and inspected, its fragile composition dismantled, then mended – its unspoken language first heard; its unwritten orthography first read; its syntax untangled and coiled around the light. Amidst the weightless threads of speech and sound, Absent Erratum searches, rummaging around in the words that are formed as she touches them. Their meanings stay hidden; their shapes are obscure; and so she traces the filaments and fibers out into the gloom, where a stray glimmer rests on the leaves and branches. It disappears into her hands, a requiem for a vocabulary already forgotten.
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Virtual Instrumentation of a Soil Bin for Improved Precision 1999-01-2825
The existing instrumentation of a soil bin was retrofitted with virtual instrumentation techniques to achieve improved repeatability and more precise measurements. Current-loop sensors were added to the prime mover for improved speed control. Soil preparation operations were instrumented to determine penetrometer forces as a function of soil penetration depth, soil surface smoothness, compaction force, and soil surface elevation. Test hitch-points for agricultural implements were instrumented with wheatstone bridge force transducers. Implement depth was found with ratiometric linear transducers. Distance and speed determinations utilized an optical encoder with a resolution of 3.0 × 10-4 m. Temperature measurements were also recorded with solid state current transducers.


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GEMS Education has a global network of world class international schools. With 50 years of experience in education, GEMS provides high quality holistic education to over 100,000 students from 150 countries. It employs over 9,000 education professionals, specialists and staff from around the world.
The GEMS approach to learning focuses not only on academic excellence, but also in helping students develop their character and creativity so that they achieve their full potential as human beings.
GEMS Education also supports Governments' education reform agenda by working with Ministries of Education to lift school performance and improve the standards and expertise of government schools across the globe.
GEMS Education has offices in the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, India and Singapore.
The Post: Assistant Company Secretary
Reporting to the senior director of business operations this post will be responsible for the planning of committee meetings across the group ensuring the availability of attendees, facilities and required equipment, arranging conference calls and the attendance of required participants.
- Develop and manage a robust document library of minute's, agendas and supporting documents for the internal committees and manage the distribution and communication of information across internal committees.
- The production of committee packs including compiling and distribution of agendas prior to scheduled meetings.
- Attending and minuting of committee meetings, the distribution of minutes and liaison with the Chairman's office, Committee Executives and their respective assistants to ensure the delivery of agreed action points in a timely manner.
- Assisting the company secretary in matters relating to board meetings including the minuting and scheduling of meetings.
- Manage the escalation of issues arising from internal committee meetings ensuring their timely resolution and the provision of outcomes to respective committee members.
In order to be considered for this appointment you should have a minimum of 10 years experience as Assistant Company Secretary or Board level Executive PA within a Fortune 500/FTSE 250 or large publicly listed organisation and be used to managing confidential and time critical information.
ILEX/IQPS Qualified with Pitman/T–Line would be advantageous but not essential.
- Job Location:
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Company Industry:
- Education, Training, and Library; Administration; Legal
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- Employer (Private Sector)
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Probiotic Drinks Help Against Allergies, Wageningen University Study
6/16/2011 7:29:34 AM
Probiotic drinks such as Yakult and Vivit can alleviate the symptoms of pollen allergies, says Wageningen UR PhD scholar Yvonne Vissers. They do this by diminishing the amounts of certain proteins that cause hay fever. The probiotic drinks also stimulate the manufacture of allergy-inhibiting substances. Particularly good results were obtained with Lactobacillus plantarum lactic acid bacteria. Vissers describes her findings in the thesis she defended on Friday 10 June. Allergies are an excessive reaction by the immune system to foreign substances in the body, such as pollen, flakes of skin or house mites. In cases of pollen allergy, the body makes an immune protein known as IgE, which attacks the intruding pollen. This causes histamine to be released, which is responsible for the classic allergy symptoms such as a runny nose, sneezing, and red and watery eyes.


Create a bcrypt hash on commandline
Its easy to create a bcrypt hash on commandline with this command:
Just replace the Placeholder USER and PASSWORD with the corresponding values.
The Result should be something like that:
The part before ":" is the username. The rest is the bcrypt password hash. The -C parameter specifies the computing time for the bcrypt algorithm. The higher the value the better is the security but also the runtime.
More information about "Create bcrypt hash "
To get an explanation about all parameters and further information, just type htpasswd -h into the shell and hit enter.
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From Security-as-a-Hindrance Towards User-Centred Cybersecurity Design
Authors: Rick Van Der Kleij
Abstract: Cybersecurity controls in the workplace are viewed by many people as a hindrance that results in wasted time. End-users often bypass controls to get their work done and because of this, even the technically most secure systems can become unsecured. One crucial reason for this could be a lack of attention paid to usability factors by the software development teams that de-sign controls. In this paper I investigate how to design cybersecurity controls in such a way that the user is more likely to behave in a secure manner when confronted with these controls. I put forward three practices that, when employed alongside each other, hold the promise to produce usable and effective cybersecurity controls.
Keywords: security-by-design, human-centered design, usable security
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Create Office of Building Energy and Emissions Performance (OBEEP)
Statutory Language:
LL97 § 1: "§ 651. Office of building energy and emissions performance. a. There shall be in the department an office of building energy and emissions performance. The office shall be headed by a director, who is a registered design professional, who shall be appointed by and shall report to the commissioner. The duties of the office shall include, but not be limited to:
1. Overseeing implementation of building energy and emissions performance laws and policies for existing buildings, new construction and major renovations;
2. Establishing or administering protocols for assessing annual energy use in buildings;
3. Monitoring buildings' energy use and emissions, and reviewing building emissions assessment methodologies, building emissions limits, goals and timeframes to further the goal of achieving a 40 percent reduction in aggregate greenhouse gas emissions from covered buildings by calendar year 2030, relative to such emissions for the calendar year 2005;
4. Creating an online portal for the submission of annual building emissions assessments by owners;
5. Receiving and validating annual building emissions assessments;
6. Auditing building emissions assessments and inspecting covered buildings, as necessary, to ensure proper reporting;
7. Determining recommended penalties, including minimum penalties, for buildings that are noncompliant with applicable emissions limits;
8. Reviewing applications for alternative methods of compliance with building emissions limits, including adjustments of emissions limits, deductions for the purchase of greenhouse gas offsets or renewable energy credits, deductions for the use of distributed energy resources, and adjustments for special categories of buildings or for special use and occupancies;
9. Working in close coordination with the mayor's office of long-term planning and sustainability; receiving advice and recommendations, as applicable, from the advisory board established pursuant to section 28-320.2 of the administrative code; and
10. Ensuring the participation and cooperation of agencies, including but not limited to the department of environmental protection, the department of housing preservation and development and the department of citywide administrative services. Such participation and cooperation shall include, but not be limited to, detailing agency staff to assist office staff consistent with agency and office functions and reporting to the office on building energy performance issues and related enforcement efforts."


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Editing the text rules that contain the source CSS for login screens
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Make the branding of your site more consistent by editing the source CSS of your login screens. For example, you can customize the screens so that their appearance fits the site's color scheme and typography.
When you edit the source CSS, ensure that you follow Pega guardrails and understand potential security risks of your custom structure. For more information about guardrails, see Application Guardrails landing page.
The following CSS rules contain the source CSS for your login screens:
CSS for the pyForgotPassword HTML.
CSS for the Web-Login, Web-login-LDAP, and pyDisplayAuthScreenSelector HTML.
CSS for the authentication IDP buttons in the pyDisplayAuthScreenSelector HTML.
 2. Expand the Technical category and click Text File.
 3. In the File Name column, click the Filter icon, and then find the rule name of the login screen or IDP button that you want to edit.
 4. Click the CSS rule form name that you want to open.
 5. On the Main tab, enter your customized login screen CSS or upload a new CSS file.
 To change the background color of the login screen, enter the following code:body { background-color: ; }
 6. Click Save.
 The customized CSS of your login screen is built into your application instance.
 7. Save the changes by clicking Check-in.
 8. Optional:
 To verify how the login screen reflects your customized CSS, in the Actions list, select Preview.
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If you receive mailings that address your company by name, or you've produced a used a word-processing application to produce personalized form letters for your clients, you've seen variable data in action and put it to work. Adobe InDesign enables you to prepare layouts that can accept variable data — text or images — from a specially prepared source file. These capabilities make it possible to prepare customized product listings for specific customers, send out postcards that address their recipients by name, or prepare open-house invitations without the need to hand-address note cards or envelopes.
1. Create your data source, either in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, Apache OpenOffice or Apple Numbers, or in a text-editing application such as Microsoft Word, WordPad or TextEdit. Use the first row of your document to enter the names of your data fields. These fields can contain text to use for personalization, or file paths that lead to graphics or photos. Add an @ sign at the beginning of the name of any field that contains file paths.
2. Export your data in comma-delimited or tab-delimited format, using the CSV or TXT file type, respectively. If you create your data file manually in a text editor, separate the fields in each record with commas or tabs, depending on which file type you prefer, and separate records with carriage returns. In a CSV file, enclose any data field that contains commas or quotation marks inside double quotation marks so the punctuation won't be mistaken for field delimiters.
3. Create your Adobe InDesign layout, and decide which text areas you want to customize with variable data drawn from your CSV or TXT file. For example, add a thank-you or attention-getting headline in which you'll insert the first name of a person, or set up a block of body copy talking about the conditions on a city street to personalize with the document recipient's street name. Leave space for variable images in areas in which you want to display images drawn from the file paths in a data source.
4. Open the InDesign "Window" menu and choose "Data Merge" to open the panel of the same name. Click in your InDesign text at a location at which you want to feature variable data, and either click on the name of the desired field in the Data Merge panel, or drag and drop the field name onto your layout. To add a visual within text, include an empty image frame in your text frame at the point at which the merged visual should appear, and drag the image field name onto the inline placeholder.
5. Preview your merge before you combine its data with your layout. Open the flyout menu at the top right corner of the Data Merge panel and choose "Preview," or click on the unlabeled Preview button at the bottom of the panel. Use the Data Merge panel's navigation arrows to click through the individual records as they'll appear. Turn off the preview when you finish looking through it. If you see errors in your data file, edit it and re-export or resave it. Open the flyout menu at the top right corner of the Data Merge panel and choose "Update Data Source" to refresh the link to your data file.
6. Open the Data Merge panel's flyout menu and choose "Create Merged Document" to combine your target InDesign layout file with your data source. When the Create Merged Document dialog box opens, designate which data records to merge -- all, one or a range -- and type in numbers to identify specific records. Set the "Records Per Document Page" drop-down menu to "Single Record" to start a fresh document page for each record, or to "Multiple Records" if you're building labels or other items that create multiple individual copies out of a single sheet of paper. Turn on the check box for "Generate Overset Text Report With Document Creation" so InDesign creates a document that lists all the places in your merged output in which the addition of merge data forced your text to exceed the capacity of its frame. If you're merging images, activate the "Alert When Images Are Missing" check box so InDesign inserts a missing link alert where an unavailable image should appear.
7. Enter the size of your page margins and your desired data flow on the Multiple Record Layout tab of the Create Merged Document dialog box, if you plan to output multiple records per page. Data flow indicates whether your records fill the page in rows or in columns. Enter the distance between rows or columns, depending on the flow option you choose. Use the "Preview Multiple Record Layout" to scroll through a pre-merge view of your data.
8. Click on the "Options" tab of the Create Merged Document dialog box to specify content placement. These settings control how images fill or fit into the frames in which they appear, whether to remove blank lines inserted by your merge data and how many pages to create in a single merge-output file before starting a new output file.
9. Click on the "OK" button in the Create Merged Document dialog box. Adobe InDesign creates your merge file in a separate layout document, incorporating the design from your target document with the data from your delimited file.
- If you add text data fields to your InDesign document's master pages, don't add them to your document pages as well, or your merge will not proceed correctly.
- To disconnect your layout from its linked data source, open the flyout menu at the top right corner of the Data Merge panel and choose "Remove Data Source." To use an alternate data-source file, choose "Select Data Source," navigate to the location of the source file and reinsert new data fields on your layout, even if your new file contains fields with the same names as the source it replaces.
- If the application in which you create your data source displays an error message when you try to create a field label preceded by an @ sign to denote a set of file paths, type an apostrophe before the @ sign.
- You can't incorporate line breaks into text inserted into a data merge field. If you need the flexibility to break up merged data in this fashion, create your data in several fields so the break can appear between them.
- Once you insert data fields into your layout, you can format them as if they were regular layout text.
- To merge directly to PDF files instead of creating a new InDesign file that contains your merged results, open the Data Merge panel menu and "Choose Export To PDF." This choice presents you with the same settings and choices as the Create Merged Document dialog box, with the addition of the ability to set PDF-file options. Click on the "Export" button in Export to PDF dialog box, navigate to the location for your output file and click on the "Save" button to instigate the merge.
- Although the format of an InDesign merge field looks like simple text — a data-field name surrounded by angle brackets — you can't type the field information into your layout to create merge fields. Unless you use the Data Merge panel to add fields to your layout, InDesign will ignore your field markers.
- You can't choose to merge multiple records on a single output page if your target document — the layout in which your merge takes place — contains more than one page.
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Background: There is a recognized need to deliver oral health information to people during clinical encounters to enable them to develop personal skills in managing their own oral health. Traditional approaches to individual oral health education have been shown to be largely ineffective and new approaches are required to address personal motivations for preventive behaviour. This systematic review aims to identify and assess the effectiveness of behaviour models as a basis for individual oral health promotion.
Methods: Electronic databases were searched for articles evaluating the effectiveness of health behaviour models in oral and general health between 2000 and 2007. Eighty-nine studies were retrieved and data were extracted from the 32 studies that met the inclusion criteria.
Results: Thirty-two studies were identified in the fields of clinical prevention and health education, motivational interviewing (MI), counselling, and models based interventions. MI interventions were found to be the most effective method for altering health behaviours in a clinical setting.
Conclusions: There is a need to develop an effective model for chairside oral health promotion that incorporates this evidence and allows oral health professionals to focus more on the underlying social determinants of oral disease during the clinical encounter. There is potential to further develop the MI approach within the oral health field.


Ford's "Pinto" Memo
The following figures are drawn from the 1973 memorandum* written for and circulated amongst senior management
at the Ford Motor Company concerning cost-benefit analysis of retrofitting or altering production of autos and light
trucks susceptible to fires from leaking gas tanks after roll-over.
Fatalities Associated with Roll-Over-Induced Fuel Leakage and Fires
Expected Costs of producing all US cars and light trucks with fuel tank modifications:
Expected Costs of producing vehicles without fuel tank modifications:
Thus, the costs for fixing the roll-over problem was $137 million, while the computed cost of cases where injuries occur was only $50 million.
It is unclear exactly how this information was utilized by Ford management, and controversy remains about how early in time senior managers were aware of the problem of crash-induced fires in the Pinto, which became the focus of civil and criminal litigation.
What would you do? Why?
*"Fatalities Associated With Crash Induced Fuel Leakage and Fires," by E.S. Grush and C.S. Saundy, Environmental and Safety Engineering.
**By the way, the $200k and $67k figures for the average value of a lost or injured adult life is drawn from the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) calculation of the estimated costs to society of automobile accidents. It is not a low-ball figure fabricated by Ford. (For example, the $200k for death was calculated by adding estimated direct costs of $163k -- such as loss of future earnings, plus $37k of indirect costs -- such as hospital and insurance costs, legal and court costs, victim pain and suffering, funeral costs, and property damage.) This is the calculation typically used by the U.S. Federal government for performing cost-benefit analyses of highway construction projects (e.g. determining how safely we should build our roads and highways). Even today, such figures are commonly used by many state and local, as well as federal, government agencies to weigh costs of various tax-supported programs.


Know everything about Memphis? Try to answer these questions about science and geography
John Beifuss
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Time sure flies when you're having, um, anxiety over the effectiveness of an infectious disease vaccine.
In other words: Hey, it's already been a month since our inaugural "Memphis Memories" quiz! So now it's time for Quiz No. 2 — the second in a series of seven that will take us through August (when the final quiz, as you might expect, will focus on Elvis).
Like its predecessor, this is a multiple-choice quiz with 21 questions (because this is 2021, OK?). The first quiz focused on "Pop Culture." This second quiz has something of a catch-all and very liberally applied theme: "Geography, Science and Weather."
Once again, the purpose of this quiz is to entertain as much as to inform. This isn't a meaningful test of knowledge, but perhaps it will provide a few moments of amusement.
The answers appear at the bottom of the quiz.
The questions
1. Bright kid, promising future: In 1865, this 18-year-old man who would change the future of America — and the world — worked as a telegraph operator in Memphis.
A) Alexander Graham Bell.
B) Thomas Edison.
C) Theodore Roosevelt.
D) Booker T. Washington.
2. According to city records, Memphis has about 9,580 streets, roads, drives, boulevards and so on. Which of these groups of Memphis-area street names is fictional?
A) Panda Lane, Otter Drive and Doberman Cove.
B) Parrot Cove, Parakeet Road and Mockingbird Lane.
C) Ham Road, Gravy Drive and Grits Street.
D) Elvis Cove, Zorro Cove and Uncle Remus Drive.
And to think Errol Flynn probably never knew there is a Memphis neighborhood named "Sherwood Forest"...
3. Speaking of streets, which of these is not an actual street name in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood?
A) Robin Hood Lane.
B) Friar Tuck Road.
C) Nottingham Place.
D) Bullseye Boulevard.
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4. Because of its success in breeding this particular animal, the Memphis Zoo is sometimes referred to as:
A) The Hippo Capital of the World.
B) The Monkey Metropolis.
C) Penguin Nation.
D) Giraffesville, USA.
Osage orange is a deciduous member of the mulberry family.
5. Once common hereabouts, the deciduous shrub that bears the bumpy spherical fruit known as the "Osage orange" is significant in Memphis history as:
A) The source of an early vaccine to prevent Yellow Fever.
B) The discarded original name for Sam Phillips' Sun Records label (which would have featured an Osage orange design instead of a rising sun, anticipating the Beatles' Apple label).
C) The reported inspiration for the name of the historic Black neighborhood of Orange Mound, developed for homeowners in 1890 and soon promoted as "the largest concentration of blacks in the United States except for Harlem in New York City."
D) The favorite food of Elvis' pet chimp, Scatter.
6. On July 22, 2003, Memphians learned what for most of them was a new word: derecho. A derecho is:
A) A newborn jaguarundi. (The Memphis Zoo on that day became the first institution to record a captive birth of the small wild cat, native to Mexico and Central and South America.)
B) A severe, fast-moving, straight-line windstorm. (That day's derecho left 70% of Shelby County without power.)
C) A type of temblor too localized to be classified as an "earthquake." (The early-morning derecho shook Midtown beds while most residents still were sleeping.)
D) A virus first identified by scientists in Central America. (Classes were canceled and students asked not to leave campus when Rhodes College administrators responded to a quickly debunked derecho scare.)
7. Here's another word for your vocabulary: Loess. Which of these statements is true?
A) A rich, wind-blown silt that resulted in part from rocks ground to dust by retreating glaciers at the end of the Ice Age, loess is the primary type of soil found in the Memphis area.
B) Made extinct by the rapid development of the Memphis riverfront, the loess — a songbird related to the similarly extinct Carolina parakeet — was common to the hardwood forests of West Tennessee until the mid-19th century.
C) Roughly equivalent to four feet, a loess is a unit of measurement used by geologists in determining the depth of Memphis' Artesian aquifer and other locations of subterranean water.
D) Post-mortem investigation determined that the signature curl of Elvis' lip and the famously wiggly jumpiness of his leg were due to the presence of an otherwise harmless nervous-system parasite known as a loess.
8. Aedes Aegypti is:
A) The architect who designed Graceland when Elvis' future home was built in 1939.
B) A Cajun spice used in the "dry rub" of Rendezvous ribs.
C) A founding member of Three 6 Mafia.
D) The type of mosquito that brought Yellow Fever to Memphis.
If it's pink and palatial, it may be the Memphis Pink Palace Museum.
9. Now known as the Memphis Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium (or "Pink Palace," for short), the "Memphis Museum of Natural History and Industrial Arts," as it first was called, opened in 1930 in a pink marble mansion on Central Avenue that originally was built by...
A) Composer W.C. Handy.
B) Claurence Saunders, founder of the Piggy Wiggly grocery chain.
C) Colonel Henry Van Pelt, the so-called "father of Memphis journalism," who in 1840 became owner of the daily newspaper he would call "The Memphis Appeal."
D) Robert Church Sr., the South's first Black millionaire.
This photo of J. Goldsmith & Sons Co. at 123 Main Street is believed to date to about 1910.
10. In 1937, the Goldsmith's department store on Main Street became a Memphis pioneer among retail establishments when it adopted this technological innovation:
A) Escalators.
B) Air-conditioning.
C) Self-service elevators.
D) In-store recorded music, played over speakers (later disparaged as "Muzak").
11. A beloved and once seemingly ubiquitous harbinger of summer, these circle-shaped ice-cream delivery vehicles with striped canopy roofs roamed the streets of Memphis in the 1960s and '70s at a puttering 15 mph. The vehicles were called:
A) Merrymobiles.
B) Popsi-Wagons.
C) Frosty Wheels.
D) Cream Carts.
"The additional stories which will top the 15 in the foreground should tower over developer William B. Clark's other high-rise office building to the northwest, the White Station Tower at 5050 Poplar." So stated the original caption to this photograph when it appeared in The Commercial Appeal during construction of the $20.9-million Clark Tower.
12. The 34-story Clark Tower in East Memphis opened in June of what year?
A) 1958.
B) 1964.
C) 1972.
D) 1986.
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MUSIC NEWS:John Paul Keith delivers mix of Memphis rock, soul and blues on 'The Rhythm of the City'
Ross Hornish walks with his dog Miles across Madison Avenue, with a surprise Valentine's Day gift for his girlfriend, as below freezing temperatures and snow flurries cover Memphis, Tenn. on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
13. So you felt cold the other day? Well, boo-hoo. Memphians who experienced the city's record low temperature on Christmas Eve, 1963, would have loved our recent single-digit highs. On that day, the temperature (in Fahrenheit) sunk to:
A) Zero degrees.
B) Minus 8 degrees.
C) Minus 13 degrees.
D) Minus 32 degrees.
14. Would you rather be scorched or frozen? On July 13, 1980, Memphis hit a record-high temperature of:
A) 105 degrees.
B) 108 degrees.
C) 121 degrees.
D) 142 degrees.
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15. In 2019, 14-year-old Jackson Oswalt earned some attention when he constructed, in his Midtown home:
A) A functional full-scale model of R2D2.
B) A DNA splicer.
C) A working replica of "Old Sparky," Tennessee's electric chair.
D) A nuclear fusion reactor.
16. According to the 2019 report of the U.S. Census Bureau, Memphis, with 651,073 residents, ranks No. 28 on the list of most populous American cities. No. 29 is Louisville, while No. 27 is


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A Comparison of France and Germany
The Social Foundations of Industrial Power challenges the theory of industrial convergence, which maintains that as societies become more modern, they develop increasingly similar industrial structures and industrial relations and "converge" to resemble a single model of the advanced industrial society.The book opens by analyzing the considerable differences between the pay scales for direct labor in French and German industry. It then takes up and summarizes the results of the authors' research into such questions as: How has the wage-labor relation developed in each society?


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The National Weather Service out of Morehead City and Hyde County Emergency Services are forecasting severe weather for eastern North Carolina Thursday afternoon into Friday afternoon.
In addition to widespread heavy rain, the National Weather Service is watching the potential for stronger thunderstorms Thursday night, which would have the potential for strong winds or even tornados, especially along the coast.
The anticipated impacts for Hyde County are as follows:
- Gale force winds and dangerous seas affecting all coastal waters and the Pamlico Sound.
- Maximum wind gusts of 40+ mph.
- A total rainfall accumulation of 3.70 inches is expected but locally higher amounts of 4+ inches are possible. Minor to moderate flooding may occur.
- Given the heightened surf conditions and potential for beach erosion, it is possible the dunes along Highway 12 north of the pony pens, in the area of the wash over, will be compromised and the roadway could be impacted.
Mainland Hyde County:
- Large waves and dangerous seas affecting all coastal waters and the Pamlico Sound.
- Maximum wind gusts of 25 to 30 mph increasing geographically from northwest (Ponzer) to southeast (Engelhard).
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Independent Knee
Hey Fellow Fighters,
I usually post articles in the Muay Thai section, but thought this area would be more fitting.
I posted an article about properly using the Independent Knee. Videos are located at the following link:
Independent Knee Article
One of my favorite knees to teach students is the Independent Knee (IK) and is the foundation I teach the other knees. An IK is a knee without the use of a clinch or leaping off the ground (AKA Flying Knee). I teach it one of several ways; grabbing the shoulder, the top of the head or nothing at all. Like most "advanced" techniques the IK should be set up with some other technique, i.e.; punch, kick, etc. The time that you may not have to set up the IK with another technique is if you're fighting someone that pushes their way forward with their head down, i.e.; an unskilled boxer turned Muay Thai Kickboxer.
Here's how to do the basic Independent Knee:
1. Punch or kick your opponent and when you see they have ducked or covered.
2. Reach out with your right hand and grab their right shoulder or top of their head.
3. Tuck your chin and have your left arm come across your face covering your right temple.
4. Push your knee out (not up - VERY IMPORTANT)
5. Lean your torso back
6. Pull the shoulder/head with you
7. Drive your knee with your hips
You can do this without grabbing anything. Just drive your knee out towards your opponent.
Some of the problems that I've seen with this technique are:
1. Not setting up the Independent Knee and just throwing it out there.
2. Not throwing it like you mean it - If you're going to use the IK, use it forcefully.
3. Not leaning far enough back to get the hips into the motion.
4. Not protecting your melon.
Here are two videos that use the Independent Knee. See if you can determine who uses the technique more effectively. Why is one technique better than the other? What did they do right? What did they do wrong? What could they do to improve their technique?
Buakaw vs. Kalakoda, K-1 Max Elimination, 05Apr06
Zambidis vs. Drago, K-1 World Max, 26Jun07
A blog to help reinforce the lessons I teach my students by seeing actual fighters using the same technique. Feel free to post constructive feedback.
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A study found an association between migraine headaches and breast cancer. In this study, women who got migraines were more than 30% less likely to develop invasive breast cancer compared to women who didn't get migraines.
The researchers reviewed the medical histories, including migraine histories, of nearly 3,500 women ages 55 to 79. More than 2,000 of the women had been diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. The researchers compared the risk of breast cancer between women who got migraines and women who didn't get migraines.
- Invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC) was 33% less likely in women who got migraines.
- Invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) was 32% less likely in women who got migraines.
Migraine only seemed to affect hormone-receptor-POSITIVE invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC). The risk of hormone-receptor-negative invasive ductal breast cancer was the same whether or not the women got migraines. This result suggests that hormones play a role in how migraines may influence breast cancer risk.
The researchers also looked at whether any migraine treatments might have affected the outcome. But it was definitely the migraines that had the effect on risk, not the migraine treatments.
Estrogen can promote the development and the growth of hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer cells. Doctors also have seen a link between estrogen levels and migraine headaches in women. When estrogen levels fall -- right before your period, for example -- women who suffer from migraines are more likely to have one. When estrogen levels rise -- during pregnancy, for example -- women who suffer from migraines are less likely to have one.
The researchers think that the same changes in estrogen levels that make a woman prone to having migraines also may cause the lower breast cancer risk they saw in this study.
This type of research offers doctors information on how breast cancer happens and helps them create better ways to prevent or treat breast cancer. Stay tuned to Breastcancer.org for the most up-to-date news on research that shapes the future of breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.


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- Take care to avoid hurting yourself and soil borne diseases by wearing gloves.
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Dandelion Readers Units 1-10 Set 3 - Sit, Sam
Dandelion Readers follow the same phonic progression as the Dandelion Launchers.
The key difference between the two book series is the amount of text on a page. Dandelion Readers have more text than the Dandelion Launchers.
In Set 3 'Sit, Sam':
- Units 1-7 introduce the initial sounds of the alphabet and adjacent consonants.
- Units 8-10 introduce consonant blends.
There are 3 parallel sets, each with 10 books including a reading game in each book.
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I am new to OpenCL programming and my input is a 3D array. I am calculating the index as:
 int gidX = get_global_id(0)?1:get_global_id(0);
 int gidY = get_global_id(1)?1:get_global_id(1);
 int gidZ = get_global_id(2)?1:get_global_id(2);
 int index = gidX + (gidY*SizeX) + (gidZ*SizeY*SizeZ);
Is this the right way to do it? How do I use the local thread ids with 3d arrays? I had used it with 2d arrays as:
 int tid = get_local_id(0);
 int gid = get_global_id(0);
 int index = tid + gid*width;
And, is there a way I could use image3d_t type for my 3D volume?
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It depends how you have your 3D array linearized to memory.. but Rick's answer coded as an inline function would work fine. The other optimization you may want are prefetching to local memory when possible.
/* Visualize as a cube. You are looking at the front in x,y coordinates. Z is depth. You have stored it by starting at (x=0, y=0) and taking the depth z lists of elements one by one and placing them in a contiguous array.*/
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int matrix3D_lookup(int x, int y, int z, int sizeZ, int sizeX){
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What you seem to need is some basic information about the functionality and working principles of OpenCL. Please have a look to the following links:
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You code samples for getting gidX, gidY and gidZ do not make much sense and the calculation of the index is wrong, too. The calculation depends on the ordering of your 3D matrix. It should look something like:
int index = x + y * sizeX + z * sizeX * sizeY;
But you should check the documentation first. Especially the working principle of the local ids are not explained quickly.
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The United States and Selected Countries Have Similar Natural Hazard Mitigation Policies but Different Insurance Approaches
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Natural hazards adversely affect hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each year and cause extensive property damage. In 2007, a year that was not considered an exceptional one for natural hazards, natural hazards caused an estimated 14,600 deaths and $70 billion in property losses. For that year, the insurance industry covered $23.3 billion in losses. In catastrophic loss years, such as 2005--the year that saw Hurricane Katrina--losses can be far greater. Scientific assessments indicate that climate change is expected to alter the frequency and severity of natural hazard events, and as a result, losses can be expected to climb. Given this scenario, examining policies that are used in other countries to reduce the loss of life and property caused by natural hazard events and examining insurance approaches that provide coverage for natural hazard losses can help identify practices in both areas that could benefit the United States. Similarly, given the ongoing challenges facing the United States, international cooperative efforts may provide instructive examples of risk management and disaster reduction. Because of Congressional interest in these areas, GAO was asked to (1) identify policies used by other countries to reduce losses caused by natural hazards; (2) examine the extent of international cooperation among selected countries, including the United States, to mitigate natural hazards; and (3) identify approaches that other industrialized countries use to insure natural hazard risk and regulate insurers.
The countries that we studied use a variety of policies to reduce losses from natural hazards that are similar to policies used in the United States. As we have previously reported, mitigation policies, assessing and mapping hazard risk, land use planning, building codes, and public awareness, can be used to reduce the risk of losses from natural hazards. The countries we studied also participate in a variety of international efforts to minimize natural hazard risk. We found that these efforts are consistent with key practices in collaboration that we identified in prior GAO work. The six countries we studied use a variety of approaches to insure natural hazard risk and regulate insurers. Generally, their approaches involve both the government and the private sector. In four countries with government insurance approaches, property insurance policies include natural hazard insurance coverage at a fixed premium, and three of these countries have a government guarantee. All six countries have some type of private insurance approach, and four of these countries offer optional coverage of various natural hazards and have risk-based premiums. Finally, five countries have a centralized (federal-level) agency to regulate the private insurance industry. Three of these government agencies regulate the entire financial services industry--for example, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority oversees banks, building societies, insurance companies, and other entities. Some of the functions of some of these agencies include authorizing insurance companies to do business, assessing solvency, and determining whether insurance companies comply with regulations. Australia and Germany have private sector-only approaches to insurance, and government involvement in pricing insurance is limited. For example, in Germany, prices are controlled only with respect to the company's overall financial safety and the equal treatment of all policyholders.


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Introduction to Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS can be used to style websites in the fastest and easiest way.
Tailwind CSS is basically a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without any annoying opinionated styles you have to fight to override.
The beauty of this thing called tailwind is it doesn't impose design specifications or how your site should look, you simply bring tiny components together to construct a user interface that is unique. What Tailwind simply does is take a 'raw' CSS file, process this CSS file over a configuration file, and produces an output.
Why Tailwind CSS?
- Faster UI building process
- It is a utility-first CSS framework which means we can use utility classes to build custom designs without writing CSS as in the traditional approach.
Advantages of Tailwind CSS:
- No more silly names for CSS classes and Id's.
- Minimum lines of Code in CSS file.
- We can customize the designs to make the components.
- Makes the website responsive.
- Makes the changes in the desired manner.
CSS is global in nature and if make changes in the file the property is changed in all the HTML files linked to it. But with the help of Tailwind CSS we can use utility classes and make local changes.
Installation: There are two ways to use the CSS we can install them on our server or we can use the CDN link as well.
Method 1: Install Tailwind via npm
- Step 1:
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npm install tailwindcss
- Step 3:Use the _USER_ directive to inject Tailwind's base, components, and utility styles into your CSS file.
- Step 4: This is used to create a config file to customize the designs. It is an optional step.
npx tailwindcss init
- Step 5:This command is used to compile style.css is the file that has to be compiled and output.css is the file on which it has to be compiled. If the file output.css is not created earlier then it will automatically be created.
npx tailwindcss build styles.css -o output.css
Method 2: Using Tailwind via CDN
Limitation of Tailwind: But there are some limitations when CDN is used. Some of them are:
- Customize Tailwind's default theme can't be used
- Directives like _USER_, _USER_, etc can't be used
- Can't install third-party plugins
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