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Views of stakeholders on career guidance services provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta secondary school in Kasama district of Zambia
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The study investigated the views of stakeholders on career guidance services provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta Secondary school in Kasama district of Zambia. The study was guided by the following study objectives: to establish views of stakeholders on how career guidance was being provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta secondary school, to assess teachers' ability to communicate in sign language during career guidance activities at Nsonta secondary school; to explore views of stakeholders on content of career guidance provided to pupils with hearing impairment at the study school, and to document views of stakeholders on the relevance of career guidance services provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta Secondary School. The study was qualitative in nature and used a case study design. Interview guides were used on a sample of 25 pupils with hearing impairment two career guidance teachers and six subject teachers. The sample was selected using purposive sampling techniques while analysis of data was done thematically. The study revealed that: career guidance services were mostly provided through one to one approach, in groups and industrial education visits. It was also confident that career guidance teachers dealing with pupils, were knowledgeable of sign language. Hence, communicated effectively with pupils with hearing impairment regarding information on career guidance. Among the content of the information shared were: comprehensive sexuality, time management, choosing a career, knowing one's ability, studying techniques and choosing right friends. In terms of relevance, learners with hearing impairment had conflicting views. While the majority of the pupils considered the guidance service they received from the guidance teacher as relevant, however, the study expressed concerns such as failure among other pupils to comprehend some of the topics and limitations in use of sign language by some teachers. The study recommended that, teachers have adequate knowledge and skills in sign language through Continuing Professional Development (CPDs) programs to communicate well with pupils with hearing impairment and for them to benefit from the career guidance services being currently provided in the study school.
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Crown Lengthening Procedure for Short Crowns
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1. How long does it take for a crown lengthening to heal?
It usually takes 7 to 10 days. If bone trimming is done then Your gums should heal for aboutone to three months before the tooth is prepared for the final crown.
2. What is the procedure for crown lengthening?
3. Is a crown lengthening necessary?
A crown lengthening can reduce the bone level and gum tissue in order to gain better access to your tooth. When a tooth breaks, or if there is severe decay, the remaining healthy tooth area is reduced and this can affect the potential for a successful tooth restoration.
4. Does a crown lengthening hurt?
The dentist removes a small amount of gum and bone around the tooth, and several weeks are needed for healing. The new "taller" tooth is then prepared for the crown. The crown lengthening procedure starts with anesthesia, and then the periodontist removes excess gum tissue to expose more of your teeth.
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Bootham Park Hospital 2008
Just a short stroll out of the city walls through Bootham Bar and along the road called Bootham will be rewarded with a vista of many beautiful Georgian buildings. A few hundred yards along, set back off the road in its own grounds stands what you might mistake for a country house. It is in fact, Bootham Park Hospital, formerly the notorious York Lunatic Asylum.
In 1772 at a meeting at York Castle, the Archbishop of York called together gentlemen of the three ridings of Yorkshire, along with Dr Alexander Hunter and architect John Carr. His intention was to create a lunatic asylum to prevent the mentally ill from being placed in unsuitable institutions like prisons.
Carr's practice was at its peak and the grand building was completed by 1777. With its applied Tuscan columns, pediment and fashionable Venetian windows, it was reported in the press as 'an elegant and expensive affair', but it didn't please everyone. William Mason, a Precentor at the Minster, wrote that its extravagant design was a waste of public money and suggested it should instead be advertised as 'a lunatic hotel'.
It was later discovered that despite its grandiose exterior some patients were held in terrible squalor. Indeed the conditions at the asylum were the stimulus for the foundation of the The Retreat at York which became world renowned for its pioneering treatment of the mentally ill.
The abuses at the York Asylum later became the centre of a great controversy. A national investigation in 1813-14 led to questions in Parliament. Some of the asylum records were burned in a suspiciously timed fire and two different sets of financial accounts were discovered. The resulting scandal led to substantial reforms in the way the hospital was run.
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Golden Historical Acrylic - Azurite Hue
An inexpensive greenish blue, Azurite was the most important pigment in European painting during the Middle Ages and Renaissance until Prussian Blue replaced it in the 18th century. A natural mineral found in many parts of the world in the upper oxidized portions of copper ore deposits; it is often compared to the green pigment Malachite because of its chemical composition. Weaker and less intense than many of the blues we have today, this blend of Phthalo Blue Red Shade, Zinc White and a touch of Raw Umber is also let down with gel to create an interesting color mixture. It creates an earth color blue that doesn't overpower other colors.
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Presented by Hannah Pickett of Hannah Pickett Dance
This video gives an insight into improvisation, improvisation in performance and choreography together with some creative tasks to try. It shares Hannah's recent professional work, Score10, which is a live improvisational work of contemporary dance and electric and percussive music.
About Hannah Pickett Dance: Hannah is a Dance Artist and Choreographer based in Milton Keynes. She uses improvisation and set choreography to create dance with professionals and young dancers. To find out more visit Hannah's website: _URL_.
This video series is for young dancers to expand and develop their dance technique and practice during Spring/Summer 2020.
Useful for: school students, youth dancers and young people interested in artistic collaboration.
For more information please click on the PDF Document below and download this excellent resource.
Based on the elements of Earth, Wind, Water and Fire us the following sound score to make a solo of opposing qualities.
Think about dynamic, speed, quality, levels and facing to vary your dance delivery.
How are you feeling / what do you want the audience to feel?
Use the following music: _URL_
Use Vivian's professional company if you get stuck to inspire ideas:
An international collaboration between Vivian Triantafyllopoulou's professional dance company based in London with the Athens based band Sevengill.
A choreography that explores motivation by observing human relationships. Where and how we find motivation and the power to move fowards - alone or with others. What makes us want to wake up every the morning and how can we influence each other? A unique meeting of talented dancers from London and the live music of the Greek post metal band that sparks a dance collaboration with a genre of music that we are not used to.
Performers: Christina Prompona, Jacob Elliott Roberts, Fanny Pouillot
Film link: _URL_ (trailer of professional work)


Understanding The
Insurance Appraisal Process
Has your insurance company forced you into the Appraisal Process?
What? When? Where? How? Get the answers your need.
Many homeowners and business owners find themselves disagreeing with their insurance company's analysis of their insurance claim. However, most are unaware that they can dispute the insurance company's findings via the Insurance Appraisal Process! Even though the policyholder (you) submits a contractor's estimate, receipts for repairs or materials, or even photos showing damages that the insurance company did not include for repairs... they still won't budge.
Most policyholders are unaware of how to dispute and resolve their claim with the insurance company. Policyholders have a choice and a voice within their policy for this very purpose. It's called The Appraisal Clause - also know as The Appraisal Provision. Now, don't let this scare you. It may seem like a fancy clause that would take a law degree to understand. However, a simple way to understand it is that it's the insurance industry's version of arbitration. Although similar, the Appraisal Process is NOT an arbitration or mediation and the umpire is not an arbitrator, mediator, or judge. Insurance Appraisal, Mediation, and Arbitration are separate things.
In short; Arbitration requires attorneys and a legal process, where Insurance Appraisal does not require attorney's or a legal process. (For a more detailed description visit "Arbitration and Apprisal - What's the Diference?")
Most Policies Have the Insurance Appraisal Clause
If you feel your at a dead end with your insurance company and want to resolve your claim you'll need to check your policy for the Appraisal Clause. Most policies will have the provision listed under the "What to do after a loss," section or the "Conditions" section of the policy. Below, you will find a sample of a typical Insurance Appraisal Clause included in most policies. Keep in mind that policies can be different in each state. Therefore, you should read your own policy to see if this clause exists. It will say something similar to the following ;
OK, But How Does the Insurance Appraisal Process Work?
The Appraisal Provision allows the policyholder (you) to hire an independent appraiser to determine the value of their damages. In turn, the insurance company will also hire their own independent appraiser. The two appraisers will then get together and select an umpire. The umpire is basically the arbitrator, or what you might call the judge. If a disagreement between the two appraisers arises, they can present their differences to the umpire who will make a ruling.
OK; so far so good, the basics of the insurance appraisal process are beginning to come together. We have an independent appraiser for the policyholder. We have an independent appraiser for the insurance company. Finally, there is an Umpire. These three individuals are known as The Appraisal Panel. The object of the Appraisal Panel is to set or determine The Amount of Loss. The Amount of Loss is the total dollar amount needed to return the damaged property back to its original condition, either by repair or replacement.
Once the Appraisal Panel is set, the policyholder's chosen appraiser and the insurance company's chosen appraiser will review the documents, estimates, and differences between them. The two independent appraisers will try to discuss and resolve the differences in damage and in cost. For example; the insurance company may determine that brick on a home does not need to be replaced. Where as, the contractor or appraiser for the policyholder says that it does have to be replaced. The two appraisers will discuss their reasons for their position and try to come to an agreement, first if it should be repaired or replaced, and secondly the cost to return the brick back to it's original condition prior to the loss.
One benefit of the Insurance Appraisal Process is that the two independent appraisers have not been subject to the bickering and anger between the policyholder and the insurance company. Basically, it's the hope that cooler heads will prevail. All the appraisers really have is the amount of the damage and the difference between the two estimate numbers. They do not have the previous baggage or anger that led up to the Appraisal. The process was designed so that these two individuals, who have no interest in the outcome, could discuss a settlement based on the facts presented to them.
Sometimes issues arrive where the two independent appraisers can't agree on certain items. In this event, the two appraisers will submit their differences to the chosen umpire. The three will discuss the issues and try to reach an agreed settlement of the differences. As stated above; the settlement or final number is called The Amount of Loss. The final amount is known as the Appraisal Award. The Award is signed by the individuals who agree on The Amount of Loss. However, only TWO of the three individuals need to agree. (An agreement between the two independent appraisers, or the umpire and either appraiser) Once any TWO of the three individuals on the Appraisal Panel sign the award... the dispute is over! The amount on the Award binding and is paid by the insurance company, to the policyholder.
Can I Use An Insurance Attorney To Dispute My Claim?
The Appraisal Clause was initiated to lower the number of lawsuits filed against insurance companies. The courts found that many lawsuits were entering the legal system where the cost to repair or replaced damaged property was being disputed. In many cases the suites were being resolved when professional engineers and contractors could address the issues. The Appraisal Process was created to get such individuals together and keep these disputes out of the courtroom. Assuming you acquired an estimate of repair to your property for $100,000, from a contractor or insurance claims expert. Your insurance company has created an estimate for $30,000. This would be a clear dispute between the amounts of damage. This type of dispute is exactly what the Appraisal Clause was developed to resolve.
The clause allows parties on both sides of the insurance policy to dispute their differences using this less costly provision. Let's face it; the courts are filled with lawsuits. The Insurance Appraisal Process allows for the dispute to be settled out of court. Using Insurance Attorneys and lawsuits can have insurance claims tied up in court for years. The Appraisal Provision was designed to keep these disputes out of court for a less costly and timelier resolution.
Insurance Claim Attorneys will usually represent policyholders for bad faith practices. Bad Faith is a whole other issue and sometimes happens after the Appraisal Process has been completed. Bad Faith claims are for much larger suites against insurance companies when it is alleged that they did not act with good faith of the policy they sold to the policyholder. In summary; disputes between the amount of damages and repairs will follow the Appraisal Process before entering into the legal system. Many Insurance Attorneys will also advise the policyholder to engage in the Appraisal Process before any lawsuits will begin.
How Do I know if the Insurance Appraisal Process is a Good Option for My Claim?
If the Appraisal Clause is in your policy then it is always an option. However, it's wise to point out that Appraisal is usually an option when there is a substantial difference in the amount between the two estimate totals. For example; let's say a fire completely destroys a house and the homeowner's personal property within it (Know as the Contents). The differences between what the insurance company wants to pay and what you wish to receive is $5,000. In this situation, the Appraisal Process is not the best idea. After paying the fees involved for the appraisal, you may not end up with much of the $5,000 being disputed.
Now, if we take the same fire that destroys the property and the dispute between the policyholder and the insurance company is $40,000, appraisal should be considered. The policyholder now has a chance to recover substantially more money than originally offered.
Also, the Appraisal Clause is only applicable if a dispute arises from a covered loss. If the insurance company denied the claim as something not covered then this is not a dispute on the amount to repair, but rather a dispute on coverage. For example; homeowners and business policies due not cover floods. Flood policies are purchased separately. So, if there is no coverage for the flood damages then the Appraisal Process is not an option.
Simply put, the Insurance Appraisal Process is to determine the "amount of loss," to property only. The Appraisal Panel is not to determine coverage, policy provisions, deductibles, how much was previously paid on the claim, etc. Let's say there was an appraisal for a grand piano that fell off a delivery truck on the highway. The Appraisal Panel's job is not to determine who's at fault, the policy coverage limit, if the truck had a registration, or anything other than "How Much is the Piano Worth."
As with our example earlier, if the insurance company offers a settlement of $10,000 to repair a roof and the policyholder has contractor bids for $15,000, then the Appraisal Process may not be the best option. The Appraisal Process may cost more than the $5,000 that's being disputed. Unfortunately, the differences in repair/replacement costs are usually much greater. When an insurance company generates an estimate for a claim of $75,000 and the policyholder has acquired professional bids several contractors of $200,000 or more, its time to invoke the appraisal clause.
Beginning the Insurance Appraisal Process
Either party associated with the policy can invoke the Appraisal Process. However, such a request must be made in writing. Each policy will have a time limit of when this can take place


A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13 Follow up
Under repeated advisement of my work colleage he really wished to see me implement my psuedo code precisely. This made me realize there was one ambigiouity to my psuedo code was stack.Push should only be called if the character is NOT a matching close character. Now onto the code.
public void LanguageTest()
Hashtable language = new Hashtable();
language.Add(')', '(');
language.Add('}', '{');
language.Add('>', '<');
language.Add(']', '[');
bool valid = IsValidExpression(language, "([](<{}>))");
valid = IsValidExpression(language, "({<)>}");
private static bool IsValidExpression(IDictionary language, IEnumerable expr)
Stack stack = new Stack();
foreach (char c in expr)
if (language.Contains(c))
if ((char) language[c]!= (char) stack.Pop())
return false;
return true;
A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13
Basically the question this is looking to solve is handling proper expression syntax/precedence similar to the standard calculator problem of solving 5+5/5=6 as opposed to solving it as 2.
Example of a legal expression: "([](<{}>))".
Example of an illegal expression: "({<)>}".
Which involes a much simpler version of Prefix or PostFix/Reverse Polish Notation ( _URL_ ) than the math expression since there are only pairs of operations. A rather basic psuedo code implementation of this could be done as follows
HashTable Close [ ")" -> "(", "}" -> "{", ">" -> "<", "]" -> "[" ]; Stack holder;
Read expression
do while not end of expression {
if(close.ContainsKey(expression[i])) –Check to see if letter is a closing operand
{ –Reached closing operand, top of stack should be matching opening operand
if(close[expression[i]!= stack.PopTop()) throw InvalidExpressionException
Push (expr[i])
} –Do looping to end of expression


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Idioms Quiz: Money 3
Many idioms are based on money and payment. Test your knowledge of English idioms with the questions below. To learn more about an individual idiom, click on the "more about this idiom" link.
1. cost the earth | charge the earth
These Persian carpets cost the earth, so
 1. they must be good quality
 2. they can't be very good
 3. let's get them while they're cheap
more about this idiom: cost the earth | charge the earth
2. for my money
 1. he buys books from online bookstores
 2. he thinks bookshops charge too much
 3. he can't afford books sold in bookshops
more about this idiom: for my money
3. make ends meet
Fiona earns just enough to make ends meet, so
 1. she's looking for a better-paying job
 2. she's saving up for a car
 3. she has plenty of money
more about this idiom: make ends meet
4. pick up the tab | pick up the bill
Larry is a very generous guy and he
 1. never picks up the tab
 2. always picks up the tab
 3. occasionally picks up the tab
more about this idiom: pick up the tab | pick up the bill
5. rags to riches
This girl I knew in high school has had an unusual life. She went from rags to riches after she
 1. got a job in a bank
 2. lost millions of dollars gambling
 3. became a top international model
more about this idiom: rags to riches
6. talk turkey
Before we could talk turkey about the deal, we had to
 1. see the samples
 2. pay the money
 3. go to Turkey
more about this idiom: talk turkey
7. tighten your belt
Carly will have to tighten her belt because
 1. she's been putting on weight
 2. she's lost her job
 3. she's short of time
more about this idiom: tighten your belt
8. under the table
 1. refereeing their games
 2. influencing the score in some games
 3. playing golf in their free time
more about this idiom: under the table
9. wheeling and dealing
Thanks to some very good wheeling and dealing, Graham
 1. won the game of cards
 2. passed his driving test
 3. got the building contract
more about this idiom: wheeling and dealing
10. worth its weight in gold
James says the one thing in life that's worth its weight in gold is
 1. a good education
 2. a gold necklace
 3. a life sentence
more about this idiom: worth its weight in gold
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How to Delete Text Messages From an iPhone With IOS 7
Text messages are stored on your iPhone. If you have a lot of text messages stored on your phone, the device may take longer than usual to load them. Even if you don't have many messages, you should delete texts that contains sensitive personal or business information. If somebody else gets access to your iPhone, he may be able to transfer all your messages to an iCloud account and compromise your data.
Deleting Text Messages
Tap the "Messages" icon on the home screen to open the Messages app. Messages and iMessages are organized into conversations. Note that iMessage text bubbles are blue and regular text message bubbles are green. Conversations that contain unread messages have a blue dot next to the contact name. Tap the conversation to open it and then locate the messages you wish to delete. Hold on a text message and tap "More." To delete several messages at once, tap other messages to select them. Tap the trashcan icon and then tap "Delete Message" to confirm and erase the messages. Tap the "Delete All" option only if you want to delete all messages in the conversation. To delete entire conversations, swipe the conversation to the left in the list of conversations and then tap "Delete." You can use these procedures to delete both regular and iMessage texts.


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Ewww! That Smell!
Some of you may be familiar with the Gingko biloba tree. They can be found in cities around the world where they have been planted for their beauty and spectacular color change. What casual visitors to these cities may not know is the seed pods produce an odor reminiscent of feces when they are stepped on. Yep, in some cities, at some times of year, you have to tread lightly around Gingko" trees and check your shoes before you go inside. What some of you may also not know is Gingko biloba is the oldest known tree species on the planet. Apparently smell isn't everything when it comes to survival.
In this video you can see the oldest Gingko biloba in Europe. Note the shape of its trunk. Have you seen other trees with trunks like this?
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Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
 1. To what locality can all the living gingko biloba trees be traced?
 2. How did the view of the Gingko tree differ between China and Japan? Explain your answer as fully as you can.
 3. What is unique about the sperm of the "Gingko" tree? What other plants share this trait? When do these plants appear in the fossil record?
 4. How do Gingko trees disperse their seeds so the young trees don't compete with the parent tree?
 5. How does Gingko biloba respond to pollution? Does this response surprise you given the age of the species? Explain why or why not.
 6. Gingko biloba trees come as both male and female trees. Humans have shown a preference for the male tree. What do female trees have that male trees don't? How is this connected to a preference for males? Why do people fear this preference may impact the genetic diversity of the species?
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culmination meaning in hindi
Pronunciation of culmination
culmination in Images
culmination Antonyms
culmination Definitions and meaning in English
 1. a final climactic stage
 2. (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon
 3. the decisive moment in a novel or play
 4. a concluding action
 5. conclusion; climactic stage
culmination Sentences in English
 1. समापन
 The reforms marked the successful culmination of a long campaign.
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Epidemiology of imported malaria to Catalonia (Spain): 20012006
Abstract number: P746
Quesada M., Cardenosa N., Millet J.P., Acosta L., Oviedo M., Caylà J.A., García R., Rodríguez E., Sánchez L., Domínguez Á.
Objective: To describe the epidemiology of malaria imported to Catalonia in six years (20012006).
Methods: In this retrospective study, we investigated malaria using data provided by database reports of illness of obligatory declaration from 2001 to 2006. Epidemiological data were analysed by age, sex, country of origin, country and date of trip, reason of travel, chemoprophylaxis, type of malaria, specie of plasmodium, treatment, length of hospital stay and outcome.
Results: During the study period, 1000 cases were notified in Catalonia, 94% (944) laboratory confirmed. Missing information or indeterminate results affected all variables. Almost all malaria cases (99.8%, 936) were imported: 87.6% (784) from Africa, 8.7% (78) from Central and South America, 3.6% (32) from Asia and 0.1% (1) from Oceania, by 24% (192) Spanish citizens and 76% (623) immigrants. Forty-nine percent of cases (441) were imported from Western Africa. In 80% (674) of patients P. falciparum aetiology, 14% (120) P. vivax, 4% (32) P. ovale and 2% (15) P. malariae were confirmed. Among the subjects, 60% (600) were men. The youngest patient was 5 months and the oldest 92 years old, 52% of patients (522) were in the age group 21 to 40 years old. Most common reasons for travel were individual travel 43% (254), tourism 37% (219) and professional or missionary travel 17% (102). In 25% (210) cases some kind of chemoprophylaxis was documented, but only 29% (60) specified which drugs were taken and only 10% (21) of cases did it correctly. Chemoprophylaxis consisted in mefloquine in 57% (85) of cases, chloroquine phosphate in 12% (18) and doxicicline in 7% (10). Fifty-nine percent (533) of patients required hospitalisation and 16% (75) of them stayed at the hospital more than 7 days. Four cases of malaria death were reported, all of them due to P. falciparum infection. These patients were Spanish adults that travelled to African countries and did not take chemoprophylaxis. Two hundred three children living in Catalonia and travelling to their parents' endemic country of origin became infected by Plasmodium spp., 55% (111) of them did not take antimalarial drugs.
Conclusions: During the period 20012006 in Catalonia P. falciparum was the main aetiology. Western Africa is the region and the continent from which most cases are imported. Immigrants contribute with most of cases. Children and Spanish adults deserve special attention because they often do not take preventive measures.
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Liver & Ascites
Pathophysiology: Liver & Ascites
Ascites occurs when there is a disruption in the pressure forces between intravascular and extravascular fluid spaces, which allows extravascular fluid to accumulate in the anterior peritoneal cavity.
The most common causes of ascites include chronic parenchymal liver disease (alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis due to viral hepatitis C), malignancy, and heart failure.
Classification by mechanism of ascites formation
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Gas turbine air intake filter media request higher efficiency due to working environment and conditions,so nano superfine fiber is necessary during production to increase filter media performance.
This filter media is applied to the air intake filter of gas turbine. It will filtrate the dust and impurities when air goes through media to enter in compression room. Its filtration function keeps clean air to be supplied, which assures that gas turbine generator maintains safe and smooth operation. If the filtration precision is not high, the dirt will pass and stick on compressor blades, accordingly, washing times is increased to clear blades. Thus the generator set will consume more energy but output less electricity. Besides, the dust particles easily cause blockage at air intake and come into collision with compressor blades, which will seriously affect the performance and safety of generator set, shorten its lifetime. Therefore, high quality filter media is especially important to apply in the gas turbine air filters.


Friday, 12 June 2020
'The first fear...'
We're Building The Ship As We Sail It
The first fear
being drowning, the
ship's first shape
was a raft, which
was hard to unflatten
after that didn't
happen. It's awkward
to have to do one's
planning in extremis
in the early years -
so hard to hide later:
sleekening the hull,
making things
more gracious.
 1. Wonderful poem. Thanks, nige!
 2. I noticed another instance of the metaphor, not by a poet but by a philosopher:. I wonder whether there is a common source, but can't now think what it could be.
 3. Yes, thanks for that George. These images of sailing and staying afloat do apply very widely. Here's Michael Oakeshott on the business of governance: 'In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea: there is neither harbour for shelter, nor floor for anchorage, neither starting place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel: the sea is both friend and enemy: and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behaviour in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.'
 4. The other day I read and enjoyed this analysis by Kay Ryan of Larkin's poem about a funeral in Ireland:
 5. Thanks Zoe – that's wonderful.


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WCSCMP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual WCSCMP(3) NAME wcscmp - compare two wide-character strings SYNOPSIS _TAG_ int wcscmp(const wchar_t *s1, const wchar_t *s2); DESCRIPTION The wcscmp() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strcmp(3) function. It compares the wide-character string pointed to by s1 and the wide-character string pointed to by s2. RETURN VALUE The wcscmp() function returns zero if the wide-character strings at s1 and s2 are equal. It returns an integer greater than zero if at the first differing position i, the corresponding wide-character s1[i] is greater than s2[i]. It returns an integer less than zero if at the first differing position i, the corresponding wide-character s1[i] is less than s2[i]. CONFORMING TO C99. SEE ALSO strcmp(3), wcscasecmp(3), wmemcmp(3) COLOPHON This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at _URL_ GNU 1999-07-25 WCSCMP(3)
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Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines
2.3.1 Simplified von Neumann Automaton Replication
Von Neumann's automata replicative process closely mirrors the biological one. In the original model, instructions exist in two copies. One of the copies is read and acted upon to construct another machine, but without instructions. The second copy is then read and copied twice, and this double copy is inserted into the passive constructed offspring machine which is then turned on and released, thus completing the act of replication. There is no logical necessity for having two sets of identical instructions. Von Neumann employed two copies of the instructions because it eliminated the criticism that the instructions might, in the first (construction) phase, become corrupted and so not be able to transmit a true version for the use of offspring machine. Another solution is to provide the machine proper with an automatic "wired-in" copy routine which the program calls for at the proper time.
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RhinoSpike is a unique online service where users can submit text to be read aloud by native speakers of 49 different languages, including Japanese. Users can also participate in the site by fulfilling requests for audio themselves. For example, a native Japanese speaker may submit a request for a paragraph of English text to be read aloud. You may then fulfill that request by recording the audio, in English, and upload it to the site.
- Free to sign up.
- Get any text you want recorded for free in the language you're learning (I'm guessing Japanese).
- Great tool to use in conjunction with Lang-8 (get your journal entries corrected in Lang-8, then get them recorded in RhinoSpike!). One-two punch.
- No real method of quality control.
RhinoSpike won't teach you Japanese, but it's an excellent tool to have in your arsenal. Learning to listen to a language is just as important as learning to read, write, or speak a language.
In some ways, you're taking a leap of faith using this service, as you don't really have a way of guaranteeing that your text is read by someone competent. However, generally speaking the audio seems pretty high quality.
Overall, RhinoSpike is a great way to not only get some experience learning how to listen to and decipher Japanese, but also allows you to get involved with a language learning community as well, meaning you'll meet other people interested in learning a language too (and you can help each other out!).


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OUR LOCAL INITIATIVE
Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait (HBWW) ® is a project of the March of Dimes focused on decreasing the rate of preterm births in communities with a disproportionately high number of babies being born prior to 37 weeks of pregnancy.
The Broward Healthy Start Coalition received HBWW funding from the March of Dimes in 2020 to work within a Collective Impact framework to decrease the rates of preterm births in cities and zip codes in Broward County with elevated preterm birth rates. The project conducts a root cause analysis through the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data specific to prematurity and maternal health in the priority populations
Our efforts and strategies are developed and implemented with a racial equity lens by an advisory board comprised of key stakeholders in the community and a Project Navigator who leads the activities. With the knowledge that no two communities are exactly alike, the project strives to learn about the issues affecting individual communities through canvassing efforts and conversations with community members. Embracing what we learn from communities, we in turn use that information to educate those most impacted by adverse birth outcomes through public events while bringing awareness of preterm birth rates to community leaders, health care providers, and other key stakeholders.


later corrected their Instagram post to say the shepherding aspect was not accurate, but before the correction was made social media users took screenshots of the post and shared it widely. One tweet with the false information was retweeted more than 72,000 times and received more than 277,000 likes. Wombat experts in Australia said other animals commonly use wombat burrows for shelter and occasional access to resources such as water. "I would describe this as wombats tolerating other species using burrows they dig," Scott Carver, a senior lecturer in wildlife ecology at the University of Tasmania, told The Associated Press in an email. He said there was no evidence the wombats were "sharing or encouraging other animals" to go into the burrows. Carver, whose research has focused on wombats, said the idea they are herding other animals is likely just a misinterpretation of a wombat following another species into a burrow. Julie Old, associate professor at Western Sydney University, told The Associated Press in an email that wombats have multiple burrows and when they are not using them other animals take advantage. "Wombats are 'ecological engineers' because they build burrows, thus providing habitat for a range of other species, assisting in soil turnover etc.," she said. "They are also the largest burrowing animals." ___ This is part of The Associated Press' ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.


text: This paper concerns covariance matrix based spectrum sensing over frequency selective channels. The impact of frequency selective channels on the covariance matrix of received signals is analyzed in frequency domain and it is shown that the phases of channel spectra degrade the performance of covariance matrix based detectors. To overcome this problem, we propose a new detector which employs only the magnitude spectra of received signals and thereby achieves considerable performance gain. Theoretical performance, in terms of the false-alarm and detection probabilities of the proposed detector, is analyzed. Simulation results verify our theoretical analyses and demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed detector.


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CARE & SUPPLIES
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CHAMELEON CARE SHEET
Chameleons make rewarding pets, but they need a lot of attention. Their care can be more demanding than many other reptiles, and some species are particularly difficult to keep. Some of your first considerations should be about the appropriateness of a chameleon in your care. It is important to recognize that chameleons are shy, solitary animals that would much rather be left alone. Some chameleons show stress and anger when being handled, but we believe that handling builds trust.
Frequent handling can be tolerated with most captive breed species. Wild caught chameleons are prone to stress during such interactions which can lead to illnesses that are difficult to catch and treat. Further, similar stress can occur under inadequate husbandry conditions, so it is important to provide an appropriate environment and consistent care.
Additionally, being solitary animals, chameleons do not tolerate cohabitation with other animals, even their own species. In most circumstances, your chameleon should be housed alone.
Most chameleons are easiest to keep in a screen or wire mesh enclosure. These are available in various forms. Aluminum-framed screen cages and PVC framed mesh enclosures are the most common. Chameleons do not do well with the stagnant air associated with most tanks. Further, there are occasionally issues with reflection and barrier confusion in glass enclosures.In general, it is easiest to keep chameleons in screen enclosures to eliminate these issues.
Many new keepers often worry about their ability to maintain humidity and temperature in mesh enclosures. Thankfully, there are various methods of doing so. mentioned below. Chameleons are, for the most part, arboreal animals. When designing their enclosures, it is important to remember this andprovide branches and other items for climbing.
Enclosures should provide sufficient vertical space, but not neglect horizontal room. Adult male Panther or Veiled Chameleons do well in cages 4 feet tall and 2 feet square. Females do well in somewhat smaller enclosures. When placing your enclosure in your home, remember chameleons live in trees and bushes and height is one of their protection mechanisms from predators. As a result, having the cage low to the ground can be potentially stressful for your chameleon, and you should consider elevating the enclosure to provide for this comfort.
Chameleons require a decent amount of foliage cover to feel secure. While some keepers are inclined to provide fake plants, live plants are far superior, and also have other benefits. To start with, live plants help maintain humidity in the enclosure which is important for chameleons. Further, some species, like Veiled Chameleons, are omnivores and will eat some of the leaves from the plants in their enclosure. Additionally, live plants provide excellent coverage and climbing area.
It is important to stick to nontoxic plant species in case your chameleon or its feeders should ingest any of the plant. Some commonly utilized species include various Ficus trees, Hibiscus, Pothos and Schefflera. These plants should be washed prior to being placed in the enclosure to remove any pesticides used by their supplier. In addition to plants, both vertical and horizontal branches should be provided for the chameleon to use. Such branches should be of varying diameter to provide the chameleon with the ability to grasp surfaces of different dimensions. Manzanita and wooden dowels with push pins or thumbtacks to hold them in place work well.
Substrates should be avoided in chameleon enclosures. They provide a risk of impaction to the animal, are a breeding ground for bacteria and fungus and are of little use to chameleons. Bare bottom enclosures or use of paper towels is recommended. It is, however, important to keep the bottom of the enclosure clean to prevent fungal and bacteria buildup.
Chameleons require UVB radiation to aid in calcium absorption. Many lights claim to provide UVB radiation for reptiles but these claims are often overstated or inaccurate. Even bulbs that claim to have equal UVB output to other recommended bulbs frequently do not test nearly as high in independent studies.
In general, the Reptisun 5.0 is considered to be the best bulb for chameleons. It provides the appropriate amount of UVB lighting with generally good results for keepers. That said, your chameleon will need to be able to sit within 12 inches of the bulb to properly utilize the rays and the bulb should be replaced every 6 months to a year. In addition to a UVB source, an incandescent light source should be provided for basking. Wattage will vary depending on desired basking spot temperature, distance from basking spot and ambient temperature. You will want to place the bulb in such a way as to provide a temperature gradient in the enclosure for your chameleon to vary its body temperature as it pleases. This gradient should range from areas in the mid 70s to a recommended basking temperature in the high 90s. Care should be taken to prevent your chameleon from being able to get too close to a basking light, as serious burns can occur, seemingly without the chameleon becoming aware during occurrence.
Mercury vapor and other similar bulbs advertise their ability to provide both heat and UVB radiation in one. These should generally be avoided with most chameleon enclosures, however; as they fails to provide independent UVB and temperature gradients in most enclosures. The UVB radiance levels and radiance distances are simply too high to be used in most chameleon enclosures effectively and should be avoided by new keepers.
Chameleons don't tend to recognize standing water as a source of drinking water. As a result, and since water bowls can be a source of bacteria and fungal buildup, standing water sources are not recommended for chameleons. Instead, chameleons should be misted heavily a couple times a day for a minimum of 5 minutes each session. Many chameleons don't begin drinking until a couple minutes into a mist, and as a result, require misting sessions of this length. The chameleon will start to lick its lips and lap water off the leaves of the plants in its enclosure. In addition to misting, you can provide a drip system whereby a container above the cage gradually drips water onto the leaves inside the enclosure over a period of a few hours a day. You can make one by punching a small hole in the bottom of a deli cup, or other container until it is of appropriate size to gradually drip water into the cage.
Often, new keepers try to incorporate a waterfall into their enclosure on the recommendation of a pet store or the manufacturer. Unfortunately, while it eliminates the issue of the chameleon not recognizing standing water and helps humidity, it is also a breeding ground for bacteria and fungus that you are encouraging your chameleon to drink from. Further, chameleons tend to defecate in such devices only adding to the problem. It is best to avoid these waterfalls and stick to misting and drippers. In general, misting a few times a day, a drip system and live plants are sufficient to provide appropriate humidity in screen enclosures. If shedding issues occur or humidity otherwise seems too low, a humidifier aimed at the enclosure can be utilized as long as it is kept clean.
FEEDING AND NUTRITION
A varied diet is important for chameleons. It helps balance their nutrition and prevents hunger strikes. Excellent staple feeders include well-fed crickets, silkworms and roach nymphs, and treats include farm raised flies, hornworms, mantids, stick insects and superworms. Your feeders should be well fed themselves to promote a well balanced diet. Provide them with a diet of various leafy green vegetables and fruit. Broccoli, soy and spinach, however, should be avoided, as it is known to bind Chameleons' calcium absorption pathways. In addition to providing your feeders with appropriate food, you'll need to occasionally dust your feeders with vitamin and mineral supplements as you feed them to your chameleon. Vitamin supplements should be used less often than calcium supplement and the frequency of each will vary based on the chameleon species, sex and age.
An important aspect of chameleon care is observation and noting changes in health and behavior early. Illness in chameleons progresses quickly. Often, once it is noticeable, it may already be extremely difficult to treat. A healthy chameleon should not sleep during the day, should have full, open eyes with turrets that are not sunken in, should have a firm grip for its size, should not have extra bends or elbows in its limbs or a flexible casque (head crest) and should not make crackling or popping sounds when it breathes. If you observe any inconsistencies or notice any behavior changes, you should seek out a qualified reptile vet for assistance.
Some chameleon species are able to change their skin colors. Different chameleon species are able to change different colors which can include pink, blue, red, orange, green, black, brown, light blue, yellow, turquoise and purple.Color change in chameleons happens in social signaling and in reactions to temperature and to camouflage. The relative importance of the changing colors varies with the circumstances as well as the species. Color change signals a chameleon's physiological condition and intentions to other chameleons.
Chameleons tend to show darker colors when angered, or attempting to scare or intimidate others, while males


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Detail at the nanoscale reveals secrets behind tooth decay
July 01, 2020
Northwestern University researchers have cracked one of the secrets of tooth decay. In a new study of human enamel, the materials scientists are the first to identify a small number of impurity atoms that may contribute to the enamel's strength but also make the material more soluble. They also are the first to determine the spatial distribution of the impurities with atomic-scale resolution.
Dental caries — better known as tooth decay — is the breakdown of teeth due to bacteria. ("Caries" is Latin for "rottenness.") It is one of the most common chronic diseases and a major public health problem, especially as the average life expectancy of humans increases.
The Northwestern discovery in the building blocks of enamel — with detail down to the nanoscale — could lead to a better understanding of human tooth decay as well as genetic conditions that affect enamel formation, which can lead to highly compromised or completely absent enamel.
Enamel, the human tooth's protective outer layer, covers the entire crown. Its hardness comes from its high mineral content.
"Enamel has evolved to be hard and wear-resistant enough to withstand the forces associated with chewing for decades," said Derk Joester, who led the research. "However, enamel has very limited potential to regenerate. Our fundamental research helps us understand how enamel may form, which should aid in the development of new interventions and materials to prevent and treat caries. The knowledge also might help prevent or ameliorate the suffering of patients with congenital enamel defects."
The study was published on July 1 by the journal Nature.
Joester, the corresponding author, is an associate professor of materials science and engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and an affiliated faculty member of the International Institute for Nanotechnology. Karen A. DeRocher and Paul J.M. Smeets, a Ph.D. student and a postdoctoral fellow, respectively, in Joester's lab, are co-first authors.
One major obstacle hindering enamel research is its complex structure, with features across multiple length scales. Enamel, which can reach a thickness of several millimeters, is a three-dimensional weave of rods. Each rod, approximately 5 microns wide, is made up of thousands of individual hydroxylapatite crystallites that are very long and thin. The width of a crystallite is on the order of tens of nanometers. These nanoscale crystallites are the fundamental building blocks of enamel.
Perhaps unique to human enamel, the center of the crystallite seems to be more soluble, Joester said, and his team wanted to understand why. The researchers set out to test if the composition of minor enamel constitutents varies in single crystallites.
Using cutting-edge quantitative atomic-scale techniques, the team discovered that human enamel crystallites have a core-shell structure. Each crystallite has a continuous crystal structure with calcium, phosphate and hydroxyl ions arranged periodically (the shell). However, at the crystallite's center, a greater number of these ions is replaced with magnesium, sodium, carbonate and fluoride (the core). Within the core, two magnesium-rich layers flank a mix of sodium, fluoride and carbonate ions.
"Surprisingly, the magnesium ions form two layers on either side of the core, like the world's tiniest sandwich, just 6 billionths of a meter across," DeRocher said.
Detecting and visualizing the sandwich structure required scanning transmission electron microscopy at cryogenic temperatures (cryo-STEM) and atom probe tomography (APT). Cryo-STEM analysis revealed the regular arrangement of atoms in the crystals. APT allowed the researchers to determine the chemical nature and position of small numbers of impurity atoms with sub-nanometer resolution.
The researchers found strong evidence that the core-shell architecture and resulting residual stresses impact the dissolution behavior of human enamel crystallites while also providing a plausible avenue for extrinsic toughening of enamel.
"The ability to visualize chemical gradients down to the nanoscale enhances our understanding of how enamel may form and could lead to new methods to improve the health of enamel," Smeets said.
This study builds on an earlier work, published in 2015, in which the researchers discovered that crystallites are glued together by an extremely thin amorphous film that differs in composition from the crystallites.
The research was supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health (grants NIH-NIDCR R03 DE025303-01 and R01 DE025702-01) and the National Science Foundation (grant DMR-_PHONE_).
The title of the paper is "Chemical Gradients in Human Enamel Crystallites." In addition to Joester, DeRocher and Smeets, other authors of the paper are Linus Stegbauer, Michael J. Cohen, Lyle M. Gordon and James M. Rondinelli, of Northwestern; Berit H. Goodge, Michael J. Zachman and Lena F. Kourkoutis, of Cornell University; and Prasanna V. Balachandran, of the University of Virginia.


Museo Vigeland
The Vigeland Museum (Vigeland-museet, often called Vigelandsmuseet ) is a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Its history began in 1919 when noted sculptor Gustav Vigeland made an offer to Oslo Municipality to donate his works sometime in the future. Vigeland's total body of works consisted not only of sculptures, but also woodcuts, drawings, sketches and photographs as well as letters, other writings and a personal library. In return, Vigeland wanted an atelier. The atelier could be rebuilt as a museum after his death. Even Vigeland's flat on the third floor was preserved as a part of the museum.
The building of the would-be museum commenced in 1921, as soon as a contract between Vigeland and Oslo had been formalized. The architects were Lorentz Harboe Ree and Carl Buch, and the style was neo-classic. In 1923 Vigeland moved in, one year before the middle part and northern wing were completed. The southern wing was completed in 1930. The atelier was used by both Vigeland and other artists.
Vigeland died in 1943, during the hard economic times of World War II. The building was opened as a public museum in 1947, partially thanks to budget surplus from the municipal cinema company Oslo Kinematografer. The museum is still owned by Oslo municipality via its etat of culture, and the current museum director is Jarle Strømodden.
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Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - Solution
Each solution consists of three parts:
-Date: the date of the newspaper appropriate to the crime. For some reason, the game never tells you this!
-Visits: the set of addresses you must visit before you are allowed to appear before the judge. Some addresses can be visited by either Holmes or the Irregulars, in which case they should be visited by the Irregulars for a higher score. Such addresses are listed under 'Irregulars'. Some addresses, on the other hand, must be visited by Holmes in person.
-Answers: the answers to supply to the judge. Only look here if you must!
Volume I
The Mummy's Curse
-Date: 4/12/1889
-Visits, Irregulars: 1.Jardine-Matheson
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Ellis, Henry 2.London University 3.Weatherby, Clarissa
-Answers: 1.who killed Turnbull? Phillip Travis 2.motive? C (Turnbull lambasted Travis) 3.who killed Weatherby? Phillip Travis 4.motive? D (Weatherby was chosen) 5.who killed Windebank? Phillip Travis 6.motive? B (Windebank didn't choose him)
The Mystified Murderess
-Date: 7/4/1888
-Visits, Irregulars: 1.S. Goff
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Clarendon, Guy 2.Halliday's Hotel 3.Old Bailey 4.Shinwell, Porky 5.Trevelyan, Dr. Percy
-Answers: 1.who killed Clarendon? Loretta Nolan 2.motive? C (wanted tiara) 3.why did Frances go to Hallidays? B (hypnotized) 4.who was burglar? Guy Clarendon 5.why? B (father cut him off)
The Tin Soldier
-Date: 6/10/1890
-Visits, Irregulars:
-Visits, Holmes: 1.David Sennett 2.Princess Theater 3.Grand Hotel 4.French Embassy
-Answers: 1.who killed the General? Phillip Arneau 2.motive? B (avenge honor) 3.what was the general trying to say? D (murderer plays Napoleon) 4.what did the general call his wife? C (horseface)
Volume II
The Two Lions
-Date: 8/17/1888 (7/4/1888 also useful)
-Visits, Irregulars:
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Central Carriage Stables 2.Lestrade, Inspector 3.O'Neill, Carroll 4.Shinwell, Porky
-Answers: 1.who killed the lions? Thomas O'Neill 2.motive? C (get Oldenburg jewels) 3.accomplices? Stephen Lyons and Barry O'Neill 4.role of Barry? B (fastened pouches) 5.role of Lyons? A (picked lock) 6.who killed Lyons? Thomas O'Neill B (poison) 8.why? D (avoid payment)
Pilfered Paintings
-Date: 1/1/1891
-Visits, Irregulars:
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Pike, Langdale 2.National Gallery 3.Jardine Matheson (shipping company) 4.Well's Warehouse 5.Murray, H.R. 6.Murray, Mortimer 7.Carlton, The 8.Armitage's Gallery 9.Meek, Sir Jasper
-Answers: 1.who stole the paintings? Cole 2.who put Cole up to it? Brady Norris 3.motive? D (Norris afraid of discovery) 4.who killed Cole? Brady Norris 5.Pierre Donet's involvement? B (forger) 6.Coffman's part? C (drove up the bidding)
The Murdered Munitions Magnate
-Date: unknown! (no newspaper mention)
-Visits, Irregulars:
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Camp, Richard 2.Egan, Captain 3.Grant Arms, both locations 4.Lestrade, Inspector 5.Ragland, Lord Robert 6.Zobar, Emile
-Answers: 1.who killed Allen? Ragland 2.motive? D (Allen had learned of plan) 3.what was SP10? A (new naval gun) 4.what happened at Spaniard's Inn? B (Ragland sold to Meshkof) 5.what was Camp doing? A (visiting fiancee) 6.why was cigarette pinched? C (smoked through holder)
Volume III
The Solicitous Solicitor
-Date: 6/26/1890
-Visits, Irregulars: 1.Bell's Baths 2.Heathcliff, August
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Lestrade 2.Monroe, Virginia 3.Murray 4.Porter, Margaret 5.Tuttle 6.Wallace, Brenda
-Answers: 1.who was murderer? Swarthmore, Henry A (poisoned envelopes) 3.why? C (blackmail) 4.accomplice? Livingstone, Cedric 5.role? C (partner, poison)
The Banker's Debt
-Date: 4/11/1890
-Visits, Irregulars: 1.Brown, Mabel
-Visits, Holmes: 1.British Museum 2.Evenson & Co. 3.Farmer, Dahlia 4.Mason, Oswald 5.Millbank Prison 6.Olive, Violette 7.Small, Aggie 8.Treasury, The
-Answers: 1.who was murderer? Hawke, Errol 2.why? C (surprised Mason) 3.bearing of treasury work? D (none whatsoever) 4.role of Violette Blue? B (fled with Hawke) did Hawk know? A (broke into Evenson)
The Thames Murders
-Date: 6/9/1890
-Visits, Irregulars: 1.Murray
-Visits, Holmes: 1.Bagatelle Club 2.Elephant and Castle 3.Jacquard,Roland 4.Lindsay, Kathleen 5.Shinwell, Porky 6.Tankerville Club
-Answers: 1.killer of Revell? Maude 2.why? B (ordered by Moran) 3.killer of maude? Twiggs 4.why? D (take securities) 5.killer of Attard? Twiggs 6.why? A (self-defense) 7.killer of Twiggs? Jacquard 8.why? B (securities) 9.killer of Jacquard? Marco Escobedo 10.why? D (jealous)


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This is a pretty basic question, but I can't get my head around it. I'm learning Linux and one of the questions i've been given is;
*The word sentimentalment includes the same three characters (e.g. "ent") which appear three times. The word "blayblapblam" also contains the same three characters repeated three time (e.g. "bla").
How many words can you find which contain any three characters repeated three times, like the examples "sentimentalment" and "blayblapblam", but which also begin with lower case "d". Use /usr/share/dict/words as your list of possible words and grep to find the answer. The "d" is not one of the characters considered when detecting the three-character strings.*
So far, I can return instances where the same three letters appear twice;
grep -E '^d(...).*\1' /usr/share/dict/words > output
Which to me reads, look for a word beginning with 'd', then combination of three letters, 0 or more characters before the same group (1) appearing again.
I've tried the following;
grep -E '^d(...).*\1.*\1' /usr/share/dict/words > output
Which if my understanding is correct (which it obviously isn't), returns group one, then zero or more characters, then group one again.
Can someone point out where I'm going wrong? Any help is appreciated.


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INDIAN JOURNAL OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, cilt.12, ss.209-220, 2013 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Pinus brutia Ten., Pinus halepensis Mill., Pinus nigra Arnold, Pinus pinea L. and Pinus sylvestris L. forests cover approximately 10.91 million hectares area in Turkey. Since there are a lot of settlements inside or near these wide Pinus forest lands, the usages of Pinus species are very common among local people. Within this paper, 130 ethnobotanical and traditional medicinal studies published up to 2011 which were dealed different areas of Turkey are examined and the usages of Pinus species are compiled from 54 of them. It has 269 records that are to be proof of the wide range of ethnobotanical usages of pines. Due P. halepensis has a narrow distribution, the records about ethnobotanical usage of it does not exist in the investigated literature.


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Lonar Lake, which was created by a meteor hitting the Earth, is a saltwater lake in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. The crater thereby formed is the only en:hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock. A lake that evolved in the resulting basaltic rock formation, is both saline and alkaline in nature. Geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, naturalists and astronomers have reported several studies on the various aspects of this crater lake ecosystem. The crater's age is estimated to be 52,000 ± 6,000 years (Pleistocene). It is the second largest impact crater in basaltic rock and is partially filled by a salt water lake. 19°58′36″N 76°30′30″E / 19.97667°N 76.50833°E / 19.97667; 76.50833
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НИИ Communication (Communications Research Institute) was a two day workshop in partnership with Nothing Specialists that gathered together professionals from various fields to explore and prototype new forms of communication for a post-internet society.
The workshop followed a set design process, where teams worked in parallel, presenting their work to each-other after each stage. Each day was a full cycle – from discovering the topic, to defining the problems, and then developing a set of possible tools and solutions.
Day one of the workshop was dedicated to research. The teams exploreed the theme, evaluated the problems and technicalities and then applied their thinking to a Russian cultural context. Each team then created a draft of their chosen project. The outcome was a detailed model of 'communication for a post-internet society'.
On day two, each team developed a prototype application of this model using the research findings from day one. Participants used a wide range of prototyping methods – and were encouraged to present explorations and speculative designs grounded in their own experience and knowledge.
A selected team will be invited to share their findings with global community at the FutureEverything Festival in Manchester in Feb 2015. More details will be announced soon.


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An award-winning approach
Our expertise in designing programmes with real business impact has been recognised by the Association for Business Pscychology. In 2017 we won their award for "Excellence in Coaching & Training" for a blended learning programme we designed and delivered for a team of Graduates at City & Country, a heritage property developer. This built on our award in 2016 with a director development blended learning programme.
Blended learning involves using a range of learning methods to establish understanding and develop skills. We use a mixture of online learning, face-to-face experiential learning and coaching to move senior people from intellectual acceptance into action.
Our approach creates evidence of success over time, improving confidence and demonstrating the value of development to the organisation.
We work hard to ensure that professional development initiatives are tailored to individual and organisational need. We get to know our learners, so that we can create effective relationships to support real changes in behaviour at work.
The Case for Investing in Development Programmes
We recognise that professional people are usually trained to be experts in their field, not to lead and manage a business through change.
Equipping busy, established professional people with the skills to embrace change is challenging, but vital. Here are some reasons why investing in learning makes good, commercial sense:
- Business growth relies on skilled people being able to deliver consistently
- Realising the potential of high performers, and keeping them, means providing real opportunity for professional growth and progression
- New ways of working requires adaptability
- Being able to delegate effectively frees up time to think strategically and provide direction to a team
Delivering Changes in Behaviour
Learning to inspire a team, having a difficult conversation or coaching a colleague does not fit with traditional didactic learning models. Acquiring these skills begins with experiential learning, but also takes practice, a positive attitude and proper support in the work-place. Athena Professional can help you to set up an intelligent, integrated approach to make investment in learning worthwhile.
Evidence of Impact
Establishing the impact of development programmes helps to generate commitment to learning. Establishing ability at the outset and conclusion of any learning intervention helps to generate evidence of impact. We use a range of tools and methods to obtain qualitative and quantitative information on performance to build a picture of individual or team progress.
At Athena Professional we create evidence of compliance as part of the learning experience. Our learning programmes include opportunities for participants to identify their learning needs, reflect, and record how they use new knowledge and skills.
Compliance with CPD provisions
We can also help organisations to set up compliance with cpd regulations, where required, at an organisational level, for example by:
- Working out who needs to demonstrate which competencies; not everyone needs to meet them all!
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Orchard orioles mostly eat insects and spiders during the breeding season. Besides insects they will also eat fruit, especially during the non-breeding season. These orioles were attracted to fruit that was left in the trees at the South Padre Convention Center. Down in tropical areas of Central America, during the winter, the orchard oriole will eat nectar and pollen from flowers. While they feed at the flowers pollen often collects on their feathers and then drops off at the next flower that they visit. Thus they join butterflies and bees as important pollinators in the area.
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- A copy of a current DOT physical.
- A negative Pre-employment DOT drug screen completed within 30 days of the first day of training. The required forms are available at most hospitals and clinics. The cost of the DOT physical/drug screening is the student's responsibility. See the Drug Testing Requirements and providers available in Sioux Falls at the end of the packet.
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 What is the style of the play Lion in the Streets by Judith Thompson
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Lion in the Streets is a two-act play with sometimes violent and terrifying incidents engulfing the audience with its representations. Isobel, a ghost, must watch as others make life-altering mistakes in an urban setting. The imaginative style of the narrative, as each twist and turn becomes painfully obvious, accentuates the repetitive cycle of an urban lifestyle.
Judith Thompson conceived this play as a radio play and invites the audience to experience each extract as it occurs. The seemingly detached, even random occurrences are linked as Thompson uses Isobel to wander between scenes much as she would if she was passing-by. In this way, the play develops its purpose as Isobel seeks to find her murderer and thus "ascend" into heaven.
The "lion" is in everyone and, when exposed, has the potential to explode or "roar" when internal and external forces collide. The metaphor of the lion in the streets - it can threaten but it is also representative of the power within us to overcome indicates stark contrasts. The contrasts also indicate Thompson's style. The living Isobel was an immigrant child who did not blend into her surroundings and ultimately pays the price for that and the deceased Isobel - a ghost - goes sometimes noticed and sometimes unnoticed.
This style of Thompson's in Lion in the Streets exposes the conflict between the inner self and that which people expose to the outside world. Thompson effectively destroys any illusion of a safe environment. The audience is drawn in to the play, willingly or otherwise and the theatrical and dramatic representations complete the picture.
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New challenges in public order policing: the professionalisation of environmental protest and the emergence of the militant environmental activist
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Over the last decade there have been significant changes in the nature of protest which have posed new challenges to policing organisations. This article using the case of environmental protest charts the changing nature of protest and using a new typology identifies a new form of protester that has been termed the Militant Environmental Activist. The characteristics and innovative tactics used by these activists are examined and it is argued that they amount to a 'professionalisation' of protest. The article then moves on to highlight the 'fragmented' policing structure that has evolved to tackle these activists encompassing both public, 'hybrid' and private policing agencies. Finally, the article briefly examines some of the strategies these policing agencies are developing to combat these new challenges.
|Journal||The International Journal of the Sociology of Law|
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Encyclopedia - Distinguished Service Cross (U.K.)
The British Distinguished Service Cross medal was awarded by military authorities to serving members of the Royal Navy for meritorious actions in the face of the enemy.
Instituted in 1901 as the Conspicuous Service Cross the medal was awarded to warrant and subordinate officers; it was renamed the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) in October 1914 and made available to all Royal Naval personnel below the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
Some 1,983 DSCs were awarded during the course of the First World War. From 1916 a Bar was made available to denote formal recognition of further acts of merit to existing DSC holders.
The medal, which was made of silver, was 41mm in height and 35mm wide. The obverse of the medal showed the Royal Cypher on the circular central medallion surmounted by a crown; the reverse was plain other than for a hallmark with the year of the war engraved on the lower arm.
A "blimp" was a word applied to an observation balloon.
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If a document uses a Managed Metadata field, is there a way to make the term set browser in Word 2010's Document Information Panel display the term sets in a language other than the default language of the Managed Metadata Service? For instance, even if the document comes from a document library on a site created in French and opened with Word 2010 whose default display language is French, if the default language of the Managed Metadata Service is English, the Document Information Panel will display metadata in English. If you change the default language of the Managed Metadata Service, Word 2010 will follow the new default.
Is there a less drastic way to select this language within the DIP?
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As far as I can test this, the answer is no. I have tried by checking the cache and playing with local language and remote language options and I cannot find a way around this. – Hugh Wood Nov 15 '12 at 13:51
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According to Nick Hobbs, page 10 in the reference below, Managed Meta Data are not "compatible" with the Document Information Panel.
Clearly, there are some obvious stengths in linguistic management within metadata mamagement, and it would be even stronger, if document infromation panel would comprehend this feature.
However, a possible scenario could be to associate the desired field programatically to the regional variations of the selected terms... maybe another too drastic approach?
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text: OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effects of increasing gas prices on mortality. METHOD: We developed a simulation-based partial equilibrium model that estimated the public health effects of a 20% rise in gas prices. Estimates on price elasticity for gasoline, price elasticity of motor vehicle crashes, relations among gasoline use, air pollution, and mortality were drawn from literature in economics, epidemiology, and medicine. RESULTS: For sustained 20% increases in gasoline prices over 1 year, and assuming other prices and factors were constant, we estimated: 1994 (range, 997 to 4984) fewer deaths from vehicle crashes and 600 (range, 300 to 1500) fewer deaths from air pollution. Combining both, we estimated 2594 fewer deaths. A Monte Carlo simulation involving varying assumptions on elasticities and relations indicated that 95% of the combined reduction in deaths was between 1747 and 3714. CONCLUSION: Results suggest that high gas prices have public health implications.


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Pronunciation: en-de-vêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb, intransitive
Meaning: To try hard, attempt, to take pains, to make an effort.
Notes: Today's Good Word is spelt endeavour in Jolly Old, like labour and colour. This word was immortalized on the ship that carried Captain James Cook on his "voyage of discovery" around the globe in the late 1660s. This trip made such an impression on history that we placed her name on the fifth and final NASA space shuttle to be built. The verb may be used as a noun, as in, "His work was a monumental endeavor." An endeavor is an extraordinary attempt; any lesser attempt is just a try.
In Play: As viewers of the British mystery series Inspector Morse will know, the good inspector preferred to be called just "Morse", without revealing his Christian name. Toward the end of the series we learned why: his father was an admirer of Captain Cook and in his fervor had named his son, Endeavour. Remember that endeavor means "to try hard": "Susan Liddy-Gates endeavored to retrieve the money Hans Opp had taken from his clients in a Ponzi scheme, but failed to do so."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes from the French phrase se mettre en devoir de faire quelque chose "to make it one's duty to do something". Devoir came from Old French dever "duty, obligation", in turn from Latin debere "to owe". The neuter past participle of debere is debitum, which also served as a noun meaning "thing owed". English borrowed its terms debit and debt from this word, even while it was borrowing its French grandchildren. Debere originally meant "to deprive someone of something", because it came from Latin de- "away, un-" + habere "to have". (We shall endeavor now to offer Chris Berry the show of gratitude he so deserves for submitting today's extraordinarily Good Word through the Alpha Agora.)


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This paper investigates whether people are equally irrational in finance and everyday decisions by examining the responses of a 20-question survey conducted at Pace University. Results from our data indicated that we could not conclude that people are more irrational in one area more than the other. People appear to be equally overconfident in both. Testing for frame versus substance, the second set of data; the t-test signifies that people are more irrational in their finance decisions than they are in their everyday decisions with more than 99% certainty. The third and final category of responses were tested for problem solving: in other words are people more rational in solving problems, such as "Montay Hall" questions, in finance or everyday. From the t-test results we were not able to conclude that people are more irrational in their finance decisions than they are in their everyday decisions. The test did however confirm previous research that people, given a second opportunity, usually do not choose to change their first response even if by calculating the probability it is the more rational decision. It seems reasonable to obtain different results for different decisions making traits. On the basis of these results we conclude that although people are irrational in general they may be more irrational in finance or everyday depending on the irrational behavior being examined.
Kats, Milena, "Are We Equally Irrational in Financial and Everyday Decisions?" (2006). Honors College Theses. Paper 44.


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Researchers Study The Lowdown On The Shakedown
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
In continuing a trend that has seen scientists looking to the mechanics of nature for inspiration, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying the ways in which furry mammals shake themselves dry.The study – which involved 33 different animals, including 16 species and five dog breeds - found that furry mammals can shake 70 percent of the water off their bodies in just a fraction of a second. They also saw that smaller mammals shook at higher oscillations to compensate for their diminutive radius, according to the research team's report published recently in the Journal of Royal Society Interface.
Equipped with a hose and high-speed video camera, Georgia Tech mechanical engineering professor David Hu, along with his colleagues Andrew Dickerson and Zachary Mills, teamed up with Zoo Atlanta to study the drying technique of furry mammals that likely played a role in the evolution and survival of these animals.
"What would you do on a cold day if you were wet and could not towel off or change clothes? Every warm-blooded furry creature faces this dilemma often," Dickerson said. "It turns out that oscillatory shaking exhibited by mammals is a quite efficient way to dry."
The report cited two factors that play an important role in determining how these furry mammals shake off the water that is held close to their bodies by the forces of surface tension. Smaller animals had to oscillate their bodies and heads rapidly to overcome this attractive force. For example, a tiny mouse swings its body 27 times per second, but a grizzly bear does the same thing four times per second.
The skin of furry mammals, which tends to be loose against their bodies, also plays a role in getting these animals dry during a shakedown. As furry mammals oscillate, this loose skin "whips the fluid around much faster than if the skin was tight", said Hu. This whip action increases the acceleration of water droplets on the skin–sending them flying around the animal.
Mammals use this combination of factors to generate forces between 10 and 70 times that of gravity, yet they do so while trying to expend the least amount of energy – a crucial balance that needs to be kept during the colder months.
While wetting down animals and filming them with a high speed camera provides a potentially great viral video, the researchers said they hope the study will provide a window into technology that could remove liquid or dust from machines, like the Curiosity rover that recently landed on the surface of Mars.
"We hope the findings from our research will contribute to technology that can harness these efficient and quick capabilities of drying seen in nature," Dickerson said.
"In the future, self-cleaning and self-drying may arise as an important capability for cameras and other equipment subject to wet or dusty conditions," Hu added.
In addition to observing live animals, the scientists built and studied a ℠robotic wet-dog-shake simulator' that was designed to eject water from its surface.
Hu and Dickerson said their future research will center other ways animals interact with water in the natural world.


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Interview Sinéad Mac Aodha
Interview with Sinéad Mac Aodha, Director of Literature Ireland. Promoting the best of Irish literature in the finest translations for readers worldwide.
- Category: Irish Language
- Thematic area: Cultural and Linguistic Continuity
- Call topics: Social inclusion and solidarity (e.g. recognition of sign languages)
- Major objective: Thematic areas: Promotion
- Area of intervention: Integration of indigenous languages into standard-setting


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A new study published in PlosOne provides evidence of a relationship between dietary patterns, fish intake or n-3 PUFA intake from seafood and symptoms of anxiety in pregnancy, and suggests that dietary interventions could be used to reduce high anxiety symptoms during pregnancy.
According to researchers who questioned 9,500 women about their diet, women who eat fish regularly are 50% less likely to have high anxiety levels at 32 weeks' gestation (than women who never eat fish).
Little is known about relationships between dietary patterns, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) intake and excessive anxiety during pregnancy.
To examine whether dietary patterns and n-3 PUFA intake from seafood are associated with high levels of anxiety during pregnancy.
Pregnant women enrolled from 1991–1992 in ALSPAC (n 9,530). Dietary patterns were established from a food frequency questionnaire using principal component analysis. Total intake of n-3 PUFA (grams/week) from seafood was also examined. Symptoms of anxiety were measured at 32 weeks of gestation with the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index; scores ≥9 corresponding to the 85th percentile was defined as high anxiety symptoms. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to estimate the OR and 95% CI, adjusted by socioeconomic and lifestyle variables.
Multivariate results showed that women in the highest tertile of the health-conscious (OR 0.77; 0.65–0.93) and the traditional (OR 0.84; 0.73–0.97) pattern scores were less likely to report high levels of anxiety symptoms. Women in the highest tertile of the vegetarian pattern score (OR 1.25; 1.08–1.44) were more likely to have high levels of anxiety, as well as those with no n-3 PUFA intake from seafood (OR 1.53; 1.25–1.87) when compared with those with intake of >1.5 grams/week.
The present study provides evidence of a relationship between dietary patterns, fish intake or n-3 PUFA intake from seafood and symptoms of anxiety in pregnancy, and suggests that dietary interventions could be used to reduce high anxiety symptoms during pregnancy.
- Read Eating fish 'could lower anxiety during pregnancy'
by Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, The Telegraph, 13 Jul 2013.
- Sources: Dietary Patterns, n-3 Fatty Acids Intake from Seafood and High Levels of Anxiety Symptoms during Pregnancy: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, PlosOne, 12 Jul 2013.
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Rossi Defines the E-Cat
In the meeting with the Energy 2.0 Society last weekend (see here: Andrea Rossi was asked to provide a short description or definition of the E-Cat. I don't recall him ever giving such a concise description before, so I thought it might be interesting to post what he said.
"The E-Cat is a fluid heater, and it is a device that heats a fluid that can be water, air, oil, whatever; and it allows to have a COP that is by orders of magnitude higher than the COP that is normally given by normal devices that have to heat fluid. And the COP is coefficient of performance, the ratio between the energy that is produced and the energy that is consumed."
We have seen the term "fluid heater" before, since that is the title of his US Patent


As the number of dead pig carcasses in the Shanghai Huangpu River continues to rise, another Chinese river has found itself with a similar problem.
A thousand dead ducks were found floating in the Nanhe river, which runs through the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, on Tuesday. Liang Weidong, a local official in Sichuan, told the state-run Xinhua News Agency that the dead birds were found inside roughly 50 woven plastic bags. Officials removed the birds from the bags and properly sanitized and disposed of the carcasses. Thankfully, the Nanhe river isn't a drinking water source for the area, which officials believe will prevent any threat to local citizens.
Meanwhile, local government officials are seeking to calm the nerves of the most vocal segment of population, the netizens. Many concerned citizens on China's Twitter-like microblogging site, Weibo, are alarmed about what seems to be a bizarre trend of the dying or dead animals being dumped in rivers.
"How can you tell they are harmless when you don't know how the ducks died?" one user posted on Weibo, according to the Financial Times.
Earlier this month, officials were removing thousands of dead pigs from the Huangpu River, which happens to be one of Shanghai's main drinking water sources. Shanghai officials ensured its residents that the dead pigs had no effect on the quality of drinking water, despite the fact that almost 16,000 of the animals were found and removed. According to state news, the pigs had died from a common virus, the porcine circovirus, which isn't harmful to humans.
The pigs were eventually determined to have come from a farming village outside of Shanghai called Jiangxi. Farmers whose pigs had died resorted to illegal river-dumping because of a recent crackdown on the illegal purchase of dead and sick pigs.
Local newspaper Tianfu Morning News reported that tests are being conducted to ensure that the water has no toxins harmful to humans and to determine the cause of death.
Other cases of dead pigs were also discovered in the Xiangjiang River in Hunan province. According to, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported last week, roughly 50 pigs were found on a shoal in the Xiangjiang river and were fished out and buried nearby.


Useful Fruit Software releases Pear Note 1.1 - Make sharing notes easier
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[] Columbia, MD - Useful Fruit Software is proud to announce Pear Note 1.1, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. Pear Note 1.1 adds the ability to share notes with others by exporting text, audio, or video. Also new, users can import externally recorded audio or video.
Pear Note records audio or video while the user takes notes, allowing the user to later find what was being said when they typed something. They can then play back the entire recording, or jump to the point they need to hear.
Pear Note 1.1 builds on Pear Note's recording capabilities by allowing users to share notes with coworkers and classmates that are not Pear Note users. Notes can be exported as plain text or rich text documents to share thoughts. Also, users can export recorded audio or video as AAC files or QuickTime movies so others can hear or see what they missed.
Pear Note 1.1 allows users to import externally recorded audio or video into a note. Users can import audio into a new note and take notes while playing back the recording. This is useful in situations where it is not feasible to take notes live. Alternatively, users can record audio on an external device instead of their Mac and later import that audio to sync with the notes they typed.
Additional new features in 1.1 include enhanced text editing capabilities such as lists, links, and tables as well as numerous user interface and stability enhancements.
Feature highlights include:
* Records audio, video, every keystroke, and slide changes
* Playback navigation utilizing text notes or slides
* Search to find notes quickly
* Rich Text Notes
* Spotlight support for pear note documents
* QuickLook support for pear note documents
* Spell Checking
* Export text, audio, and video
* Import audio and video
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* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
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In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a bit of discussion about why the beds appeared to be quite dark – sandstones are generally lighter in colour (being composed mainly of quartz). Is this due to some weird mineralogy? Or just an effect of modern day weathering?
Here's a close-up of one of the dark beds:
It does appear that the dark colour does indeed seem to be a result of minerals actually in the rock, rather than formed by weathering on the surface. However, I'm still not sure what these minerals are; presumably there's just enough squeezed in between this quartzite's cemented quartz grains to change it's optical properties. You'd probably have to make a thin section to know for sure what they are – any guesses?
A bit further up section, you find much more familiar-looking, pale quartzites:
Two things of interest here*. Firstly, the appearance of much coarser gravel-rich horizons indicates a more high energy environment: stronger currents are afoot that can move around larger sediment grains. Secondly, just as in the first picture, there are numerous squarish holes surrounded by rusty weathering halos, which mark the former location of iron-rich minerals that have now been oxidised. From their shape, I suspect that these were detrital pyrite grains, which are one of the bits of evidence for an anoxic atmosphere in the Archean; it is only in a reducing, anoxic atmosphere that pyrite can be eroded, transported, and redeposited, rather than being chemically destroyed as it has been on exposure to the modern elements. The fact that these pyrites occur in both in the pale and the dark quartzites seems to rule out weird anoxic geochemistry as the explanation for the latter. Perhaps the stronger currents evident in the light quartzites have just winnowed away any darker minerals.
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Most keyfobs out there that open cars, garage doors, and gates use a rolling code for security. This works by transmitting a different key every time you press the button. If the keys line up, the signal is considered legitimate and the door opens.
[Spencer] took a look into hacking rolling code keyfobs using low cost software-defined radio equipment. There's two pars of this attack. The first involves jamming the frequency the keyfob transmits on while recording using a RTL-SDR dongle. The jamming signal prevents the receiver from acknowledging the request, but it can be filtered out using GNU Radio to recover the key.
Since the receiver hasn't seen this key yet, it will still be valid. By replaying the key, the receiver can be tricked. To pull off the replay, GNU Radio was used to demodulate the amplitude shift keying (ASK) signal used by the transmitter. This was played out of a computer sound card into a ASK transmitter module, which sent out a valid key.