Paralabrax Clathratus
Onshore, Nearshore, Kelp Forests
4 - 14 pounds
12" - 28"
Kelp Bass Game Fish Quality Very Good
Kelp Bass Meal Quality Excellent
Kelp Bass Fly Fishing Quality Poor
Kelp Bass
Kelp Bass
Also Known As: Calico Bass
Kelp Bass (Paralabrax clathratus) Fish Description
The Kelp Bass, or also known as the bull bass or calico bass is part of the marine-ray finned fish species.
Adult Kelp Bass have an olive green hue, while their adolescent counterparts are more towards a lighter brown. The upper part of the Kelp Bass' head has pale yellow spots, whereas the body has black, white, and/or olive green marks. You can also find they have rows of rectangular white spots across their back. Their ventral areas are often cream or white. To help distinguish Kelp Bass from other marine bass is by their calico-like spotting on the underside of their belly. On the margin of the operculum of the Kelp Bass, a large spine is present. And from third to a fifth of their dorsal fins are all the same length.
Diet and Size
Kelp basses are carnivores and piscivores, but they can also eat non-insect arthropods. They commonly consume other fish, mollusks, crustaceans, other marine invertebrates, planktons, and algae. Their diet expands as they grow older. The Kelp Bass also shows cannibalistic tendencies. They feed heavier during spawning, from May through September, and feed lighter during the winter.
The Kelp Bass may reach up to 2.4 ft. and the maximum weight known is said to be 15 lbs.
Interesting Fact
The scientific name of the Kelp Bass is Paralabrax clathratus. The first half of that name, Paralabrax, is defined from the two Greek words as "near Labrax." Labrax, a name of a European bass. And the second half, clathratus refers to the spottings or the markings on the sides of the fish.
Kelp Bass Fishing Techniques
Kelp Bass is considered to be a light tackle. They can be caught from breakwaters in sandbars, but you can also find them in kelp beds. Popular methods anglers use to catch them include: drifting, trolling, and still-fishing from fishing kayaks or anchored boats.
Lures that replicate the Kelp Bass's diet would bode well, usage of various seafood such as anchovies, sardines, queenfish, crustaceans, and arthropods. But work especially better when colored brown or olive.
When it comes to choosing the rod, the faster ones work best. A 7 or 8 ft. saltwater rod would a baitcasting reel or spinning reel would be a good use. And considering you'll most likely be catching these in the kelp forests, using a braided fishing line would be notably helpful so you can cut through the kelp if ever the fish gets tangled. And if the fish refuses to bite straight braid, a fluorocarbon leader could come in handy for fishing to keep the Kelp Bass away from the kelp and rocky structures.
For catching Kelp Bass, especially when fishing near kelp beds, is that immediately after they strike at a lure, they would run back towards the kelp beds in a diving pattern. Do your best in avoiding the chance to return to those kelp beds in preventative measures of getting your line tangled.
Habitat and Distribution
You can fish for Kelp Bass all year round in fisheries such as Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. The most action you can get for these fish should be around the warmer months, between May and October, but scoring a large fish is still possible between November and April.
The Kelp Bass can also be caught around islands such as Catalina and San Clemente islands during their overnight fishing expeditions.
They commonly live in kelp forests they are found to be almost exclusive in this type of habitat. Younger Kelp Bass often stay amongst the kelp blades and seaweed in rocky areas, while Adults may stray further from the kelp forest to deeper and rockier habitats, as they are less susceptible to be predated on. Though adult Kelp Bass can be found in depths such as up to 200 ft., they are still found common in shallow waters going only as deep as 8 to 69 feet.


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Paul's concern for "body" in 1 Corinthians 5, 6:12-20
Abraham, Finny R.
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In 1 Corinthians Paul demands a strong control of the body from the members of the church in Corinth. The main reason for Paul's demand for a strong bodily control is because of his concern of pollution or impurity that can affect the Corinthian body (church). Throughout 1 Corinthians Paul takes on various subjects that have the potential to pollute the embodiment. Porneia, "sexual immorality", is one such polluting agent that can contaminate the embodiment and spread widely its negative influences. In this thesis I will specifically look into Paul's concern about keeping the body away from porneia "sexual immorality" as seen in chapters 5 and 6. I will argue that Paul viewed the "Corinthian body"1 as an entity that was polluted from within itself because of porneia and was concerned about the sustenance of the church. The thesis of this work is to argue that Paul considered the Corinthian "bodies" (both individual and group) as being at risk of spreading the polluting effects of porneia and to propose that the way to keep the "bodies" away from the polluting agent (porneia) would require each individual to know his/her "embodiment" and guard against contamination through the rituals of the community. [TRUNCATED]

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Liberals spending $50M to teach K-12 students and their teachers coding
New CanCode program targets students, underrepresented groups
The Liberal government is following up on a 2017 budget promise to spend $50 million to help children learn to code as soon as they start school.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced the government's new CanCode program, which hopes to train about one million students from kindergarten to Grade 12 coding and other digital skills, during a stop at Microsoft Canada in Mississauga, Ont. on Monday.
The government says they also want to train students, including traditionally underrepresented groups, in coding to prepare them for the future workforce.
The funding also includes training for 63,000 teachers to learn how to incorporate new technology in the classroom.
The money will be divided between a number of projects, including $10 million for Actua, a group that engages Indigenous youth, girls, at-risk youth and young Canadians living in remote areas in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Coding is already part of the curriculum up to Grade 6 in Nova Scotia and taught in New Brunswick.
In 2016, British Columbia announced plans to have mandatory coding for students between Grade 6-9 by September 2018.
Other recipients of the $50 million include:
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
- Canada Learning Code
- Cybera Inc.
- Kids Code Jeunesse
- Saskatoon Industry Education Council
- Brilliant Labs
- FIRST Robotics Canada
- Let's Talk Science
- Grandir sans frontières
- Science North
- The Learning Partnership
- Pinnguaq Ulnooweg Development Group
- Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc
- Fusion Jeunesse Elephant Thoughts Educational Outreach
- Science World


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A.3 CPU Scheduling and Process Priorities
The CPU is another system component for which processes may contend. Although the AIX kernel allocates CPU effectively most of the time, many processes compete for CPU cycles. If the system has multiple CPU (SMP), then there may be different levels of contention on each CPU.
The following sections provide information about CPU scheduling and process priorities:
A.3.1 Changing Process Running Time Slice
f # /usr/sbin/schedo -t n
A.3.2 Using Processor Binding on SMP Systems
However, starting with AIX 5L, specific improvements in the AIX scheduler enables Oracle Database processes to be scheduled optimally without processor binding. Therefore, Oracle no longer recommends binding processes to processors when running on AIX 5L version 5.3 or later.
A.4 Setting the AIXTHREAD_SCOPE Environment Variable
In addition, on AIX 5L version 5.3 or later, if you set systemwide contention scope, then significantly less memory is allocated to each Oracle process.
 - Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell:
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Doing this enables systemwide thread scope for running all Oracle processes.
A.5 Network Information Service external naming support
Network Information Service external naming adapter is supported on AIX. To configure and use Network Information Service external naming, refer to the "Configuring External Naming Methods" section of Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide.
A.6 Simultaneous Multithreading on AIX 5.3 and Later Versions
If Simultaneous Multithreading is enabled, and AIX 5.3 and later version operating system is used, then the v$osstat view reports 2 additional rows corresponding to the online logical (NUM_LCPUS) and virtual cpus (NUM_VCPUS).
If Oracle is run on AIX 5.3 and later versions without Simultaneous Multithreading, then these rows are not reported.
A.7 Configuring IBM JSSE Provider with Oracle JDBC Thin Driver
If you want to configure SSL on IBM JDK, then you may face the following issues:
 - IBM JSSE does not support SSLv2Hello SSL protocol
 For SSL clients using Thin JDBC connectors, you must set oracle.net.ss1_version system property to select TLSv1 SSL protocol or SSLv3 SSL protocol
 - IBM JSSE does not allow anonymous ciphers
 For SSL clients using anonymous ciphers, you must replace the Default Trust Manager with a Custom Trust Manager that accepts anonymous ciphers.
 See Also:
 IBM JSSE documentation for more information on creating and installing Custom Trust Manager


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SY-GP300 Electric Surgical Unit
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The high-frequency electrosurgical unit is an electrosurgical instrument that replaces the mechanical scalpel for tissue cutting. It heats the tissue when the high-frequency high-voltage current generated by the effective electrode tip when in contact with the body, and realizes the separation and coagulation of the body tissue, thereby achieving the purpose of cutting and hemostasis.
High-frequency electrosurgical unit is increasingly used in various endoscopic operations, such as: laparoscopy, prostatectomy, cystoscopy, hysteroscopy and other operations. Because the high-frequency electric unit can cut and coagulate at the same time, it is widely used in operations that are difficult to access and perform with a mechanical scalpel (such as: abdominal duct ligation, prostatic urethral mass removal). The outstanding coagulation effect of the high-frequency electrosurgical unit makes it widely used in the operation of diffuse bleeding sites, such as liver, spleen, thyroid, breast and lungs..
Product advantages
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How to Make a Felted Ball
Felted balls are so fun to make! Use them as embellishments on projects, string them together for a garland, or use them as jewelry.
1. Pull off a small piece of wool from one or more colors of roving.
2. Gently pull fibers apart to fluff the wool. The finished ball will be about half the size of this fluff of wool.
3. Using palms of your hands, roll wool into loose ball; change direction often to make a round ball. Wind errant fibers around ball as evenly as possible to keep smooth.
4. Fill a small bowl with very warm water as hot as your hands can comfortably tolerate. Add a drop of liquid laundry or dish soap. Dip ball of wool into bowl of hot, soapy water.
5. Squeeze excess water out of ball.
6. Roll ball between palms of your hands like you would roll a ball of modeling clay. Roll it very gently to avoid forming large cracks or lumps that cannot be taken out. Let ball dry.


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2 tutorial questions, for understanding
Hey just trying to figure out the reasoning for a few tutorials. I have been following the adafruit learning center stuff too and its made me rethink a few of the tutorials in the starter pack.
Question 1: Tutorial 1, led blinking (basic question) - theres a ground connection for the led through a resistor.. but what purpose does the 5v connection serve? the 5v is provided by the pin and the circuit is complete. this seems redundant.
Question 2: Tutorial 7, Buttons - there is a cable going to 5v, and the resistors on the buttons are connected to that rail, rather then the ground. the buttons are already connected to pins, so why are the resistors not connected to ground, and remove the 5v connection cable?
Really would like some help on this so I can move on! Thanks in advance :D


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KII Assessment and Report
WHAT IF YOU COULD GROW YOUR INFLUENCE?
The KII™ ("kay-two") is the FIRST and ONLY research-based assessment of Influence Potential.
Piloted at Clemson University, the KII™ provides you an accurate benchmark of your aptitudes on the Seven Influence Traits™; each are needed to increase influence. You'll learn which of these traits are already strengths and which need improvement.
The KII™ is the world's only scientifically, validated assessment that accurately measures your capacity to be influential.
The Keller Influence Indicator® delivers a unique, custom report that:
- Explains your K-Factor™ score.
- Defines each trait clearly and reveals how it is currently impacting your influence.
- Shows your K-Factor™ score and each influence trait score in relation to the general population with easy to read graphs.
- Shows strengths--what you are already doing right.
- Reveals the blind spots keeping you from reaching your full potential.
- Suggests growth actions you can make within each trait
- Teaches you how each trait can be applied at home, at work and in your community.
The KII™ dynamically measures your ever-changing scores on each of the Seven Influence Traits™. This allows you to accurately track your influence development over time.
Your ability to influence others is NOT static. You can change minds, shape opinions, and move others to act to:
- Become a more effective leader
- Increase your salary
- Get a promotion or better job
- Move forward an initiative
- Close more deals
- Launch a project
- Help a worthy cause
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text: The Prosperity Fund programme in Brazil will support better public services, more sustainable energy and investment, and more efficient international trade. The programme is evolving to 'build back better' after the COVID-19 pandemic, including focusing on vulnerable groups and in the Amazon region, working on issues such as solar energy, primary health, and skills development. All Prosperity Fund programmes follow robust due diligence procedures and take a 'do no harm' approach as a minimum standard. The UK is working with indigenous communities across Brazil, including in the Amazon region. The UK supports the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) Early Movers programme, which helps indigenous communities to develop sustainable income sources and strengthen food security: 19,593 families have benefitted so far. Through Partnerships for Forests, the UK also supports almost 2,000 indigenous people to strengthen livelihoods through sustainable forest management. The UK Government is committed to promoting and defending the human rights of all individuals, including indigenous peoples.


DaddyO, Can You Teach Me How To Make My Girl Squirt?
DaddyO's BDSM
by DaddyO
Face it guys, women ejaculate! From my experience, a flooded bed sheet is not uncommon.
Female Ejaculate
When a woman has an orgasm, how much comes out?
The amount of ejaculate a woman produces is debatable, but studies show it can be as little as a teaspoonful per ejaculation. The flooded bed sheet scenario comes about when a woman is led through multiple ejaculatory orgasms.
Skenes Are Keen
Her ejaculate is produced and released from the body's Skene glands (also called the Paraurethral glands) during sexual arousal. This ejaculatory fluid is essentially the same fluid you produce, but without the sperm. The fluid itself is clear, milky, and fairly odorless* with a watery consistency.
The size, capacity and placement of the Skene glands varies greatly between different women. The positioning of the glands plays such a major role in how effectively your woman can be a "squirter" that some women think they are not capable of squirting. The truth is, if they are having orgasms, they most likely already are ejaculating.
Most All Women Can Squirt
Due to the differences in each female's anatomy, instead of the fluid being released from the vagina, on some females it is pushed back up into the bladder when her muscles tighten post-climax. So the fact is, many women experience retrograde ejaculate, while others ejaculate outside the body.
Some women produce so little ejaculate that it's not even noticeable. At best, a little may drip out rather than squirt. Just as some men are able to thrust their ejaculate out and others simply dribble forth, don't be dismayed if your woman isn't able to produce a squirting ejaculation. She may simply not be biologically equipped to do so. There are some rare cases in which a woman is missing her Skeen glands, or it is so underdeveloped, that squirting becomes an impossibility.
If she is able to have her ejaculate fluid shoot from the Skene glands through the urethra, it can cause a much more powerful and intense orgasm. This is similar to the way the ejaculate liquid rushing through your penis creates an intense climax for you. The "exploding" sensation of the rushing hot liquid adds to the intensity.
The G-Spot
I like to call it the "O" Spot
So how do we get this magically orgasmic experience to occur? One must learn and discover the Grafenberg spot (commonly referred to as the "G-spot"). This is an area on the front wall of her vagina, about two inches in, which is often found to be extremely sensitive to stimulation. Women who have their G-spot stimulated tend to report ejaculation much more often than women who don't. Some women can orgasm and ejaculate when their G-spot alone is stimulated. In fact, for some women the urge to ejaculate may never occur without G-spot stimulation! But this doesn't mean all women need G-spot stimulation for ejaculation to occur either. Many women learn to ejaculate without G-spot stimulation at all. G-spot stimulation seems to make fluid expulsion more likely to occur for most women. A woman can learn to ejaculate under any kind of stimulation as long as when she orgasms, her pelvic muscles contract intensely enough to expel the ejaculate fluid.
DaddyO's Finger-Banging Technique
Men have died trying to obtain this valuable information; but I'm going to give it to you for free
There are some G-spot manipulation techniques that I have found work much better than others. The three fingered come-hither motion with the mermaid-tail rhythm on the G-spot is what I have had the most success with. It works most ideal on women with vaginas where two fingers fit in quite easily. Inserting the third finger seems to solidify your control. You then need to do it with force, but you also have to be careful not to scratch the G-spot with your fingernails. Like any vaginal stimulation, it needs to be done slowly and sensually at first. The woman also needs to be assured to "let go."
I will go into this step by step in greater detail later, so keep reading...
G-spot stimulation responses vary from woman to woman. Some love it, others won't. Be flexible with how she responds to you. Her first ejaculation through G-spot stimulation, if she's even capable of it, may take from ten minutes to over an hour. Explain that just prior to ejaculation, she may feel like she's about to pee. If this happens, make sure she relaxes her bladder and allows the fluid to pass and press out as if peeing. Otherwise, if she follows her initial instinct to stop peeing, the ejaculation will stop. Remind her that the feeling is simply a sign that she is about to ejaculate and if there is any urine at all it will be just a little and diluted. Since it supposedly feels like she will need to urinate, make sure she knows there is no shame in wetting the bed.
Tip: Have her empty her bladder right before playtime so she knows the release is mainly ejaculate and not urine.
And for God's sake, don't just reach into her towards her G-spot right away! Until she's highly aroused, her G-spot won't respond to your touch and her Skene glands won't have had a chance to fill with ejaculate fluid. Plus her pussy will be raw and non-lubricated. You will actually be making her less turned on.
Don't bite! (unless she likes biting)
And no! Licking your fingers or spitting on her cunt is not acceptable. Do your work arousing her or apply lube to your fingers.
That's it. You got it.
Have her lay on her back with her legs spread apart. If she enjoys giving up control, have her wrists restrained or if you are in a group setting, have people hold her arms down. Begin by stimulating her clitoris and vulva with your tongue or fingers until she's aroused and very wet. Then lay down next to her, with your hand between her legs into a position where you can insert your fingers into her easily. I have found having one hand cupping her neck and the back of her head while your dominant arm reaches across her belly and your dominant hand maneuvers between her parted lips and into her vaginal opening, makes the best position. Make sure that your fingernails are trimmed short and filed dull, otherwise she'll be very sore. Apply some lube to your index finger, even if she is dripping wet and begin exploring. Once inside, turn your palm up and signal with your index finger to make a hook. Imagine you want to signal to someone to come toward you with a "come hither" motion. In this finger position, feel your way along the upper front wall of the vagina with your finger. If she is aroused enough you will find a two inch area which will feel enlarged and slightly rough. It is located directly beneath the clitoris.
This is it! You have found her G-spot. Consider the G-spot to be the iceberg and the clit to be its tip.
Initially, stroke it with your finger slowly, rubbing it with a very soft up and down motion, as if rubbing a tiny little kitten. If the little pussy starts getting aroused, start pushing harder. Gradually increase the pressure and gauge how she feels. Most women I have experienced get more aroused as more pressure and force is added, but that may be due to the fact that I play with women who are either masochists or enjoy rough play. As you continue stroking her G-spot with your lubricated finger, try stimulating her clitoris at the same time with your other hand or mouth and tongue. This technique is optional, and does not work with everyone, but can do wonders for some. Use a constant and steady rhythm and pace. Maintain some level of constant pressure on the spot until the very end. Do not pull out your fingers until playtime is long over.
The Double-Finger Stroke
Once the single finger stroke is mastered, move on to the double finger stroke, which is the same as the single finger stroke, but uses two fingers instead of one. Alternate between using the two finger stroke and the walking fingers approach, which is to use your two fingers as you would in the double finger stroke, but move them in opposite strides of each other as if your fingers were walking. After mastering these techniques, try sliding your two fingers out a fraction of an inch and violently pushing them back in, similar to the in-and-out motion of hard intercourse, but with smaller strokes. This is extremely important: when you feel her vagina contracting and she nears orgasm, you may be tempted to stop. DON'T DO IT! Instead you must stroke faster. Apply a firmer and more intense touch if she is enjoying it, otherwise stroke gently but always stroke more rapidly.
This is one of the key nuances of finger banging that cannot be taught without lots of practice. Remember to remind her to relax her bladder and press out as if urinating when her orgasm begins. When she orgasms, her vagina may push your finger outward. Don't pull out! Instead, press in gently. This is generally when the most surprising amount of "squirt" happens. If it's more than a few teaspoons, remember, it's a mixture of female ejaculate and diluted urine, so watch your eyes!
Sadly, she may orgasm and not ejaculate any fluid. Take pride in the fact that she has had an orgasm. Ejaculation takes practice and might not happen for her the first time. Also,


echo the world of artisans you've just visited, as well as something more. They are also Jacqueline and Fabrice's unwitting self-portrait, the mirror of devoted craftspeople determined to keep passing on their own singular gift.
Road Kit
Spring, summer, and fall are all delightful times to visit Provence. For general information, see and For driving maps, see See for local weather conditions. The full 224-mile (360-kilometer) loop described above begins in Avignon, heads east through the villages of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Roussillon, and Moustiers-Ste-Marie, then circles back west through Les Baux-de-Provence to Avignon again.
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Map the public health training courses and programs offered in Latin America, and identify regional training strategies and competencies developed in health workers.
An internet search was conducted to identify public health training courses and programs offered by Latin American institutions. The following data were collected: name, country, and province/state of the training institution; course name; type of institution; educational level; modality; accreditation; year first offered; periodicity; and contact information. The programs and curricula on offer were analyzed by training level using descriptive content analysis, and the main competencies developed were identified.
The mapping identified 2 296 public health training opportunities in all Latin American subregions, distributed across 29 of the Region's 33 countries; these were fairly heterogeneous, both conceptually and programmatically, with uneven geographical distribution within and between countries. In the analysis of curricula and programmatic contents, a need for greater linkage with essential public health functions was detected.
It is necessary to adapt the competencies and skills developed by the courses and programs to the demands of users of the regional health services, programs, and systems in order to achieve programs aimed at tackling the socio-environmental determinants of health and the production and reproduction of inequalities.


This code identifies cases which contain component SNAP members and in which a discrepancy in the SNAP case exists.
Casework Action
 1. Identify the discrepancy in the case by the error message on the PAL.
 2. Review and correct the coding on Form 552 that caused the discrepancy. This includes, but is not limited to, the following factors:
 - unit composition;
 - the correct amount of income budgeted in the SNAP calculation;
 - the appropriate cross-reference case number in Item 60 for each member of the SNAP unit;
 - the number of people on the SNAP payee case for the component case matches the number on the Form 552 for the component case;
 - correct coding for SNAP in Items 15, 20, 22, 23, 60, 80, and 90.
 Contact other casework staff or the customer to obtain needed information, if necessary.
 3. Determine if a correction to Form 552 for the component case is required. If so, make the correction. If the component case is in a different caseload, initiate a referral to the appropriate supervisor for the change required.
 4. Determine the effect of any changes made on SNAP eligibility. Determine if an underpayment or overpayment occurred and take appropriate case action. Record the action taken on Form 514.
 5. When the discrepancy that caused the code to appear is corrected, the case no longer appears as Code F.


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How to Extract Text from Images (OCR)?
Sometimes we need to get the text out of photos or scanned documents for further editing and use. There you can use OCR software which is available for free - Free OCR to Word is a pretty straight forward and no fuss application that extracts the text from images or photos taken from digital cameras or Smartphones.
Launch Free OCR to Word and click
"Open..." to select the image file containing
text (The program supports image file formats like PNG, PSD,
ICO, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, etc.) and it will display in the image
window. Click "Fit Image", "Fit Width", "Enlarge" and
"Reduce" to adjust the image to the right size. If
needed, click "Rotate ACW" or "Rotate
CW" to correct it to the up-right position. Drag your
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zoom in as much as possible.
Click "OCR" to extract
the text from the selection. The extracted text will display
in the text window in several seconds. Click the text
window and you can find some documents tools on the
top. "Clear Text Window" is to delete all of
the text and there is "Remove Line Breaks"
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- 12 Letter-sized (8½" x 11″) sheets suitable to pass through your inkjet printer or draw directly using a permanent marker or pencil – use for appliqué, paper piecing, quilting and embroidery.
- Water-soluble, it can also be used as a stabilizer, either as backing or a topper, for various projects.
- Easily tears away or simply wash as normal to dissolve the paper.
- Ideal for: quilting patterns, foundation piecing, hand work, needlepunch, shadow work, heirloom work, counted cross stitch, quilting templates, thread sketching, edge work, 3-D applique, cut work and charted needlework.
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Memories of My Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic. The urban buildings and settings can be looked upon as a kind of collective history, as carriers or witnesses of times past. But it is only the town dwellers that experience urban time itself, the time they live in, but through their memories also times past. In this past some elements take symbolically dense expressions. Through reliving and narrating their experiences the symbolically important factors in this urban relationship will be outlined for investigations concerning three towns, Helsinki, the capital, Vyborg, the ceded and lost Karelian town, and Jyväskylä, a town with dense commercial and cultural dimensions in the middle of Finland. The aim of the book is to use different theoretical concepts as guidelines in analysing the different narrative texts.
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Åström, A et al. (eds.) 2004. Memories of My Town: The Identities of Town Dwellers and Their Places in Three Finnish Towns. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. DOI: _URL_
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(Alternative spellings: wergild, wergeld, weregeld, etc.) was a reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide, although it could also be demanded in other cases of serious crime. The payment of weregild was an important legal mechanism in early northern European societies, such as those of the Vikings
, and Anglo-Saxons
; the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood revenge. The payment was typically made to the family or to the clan. The word means, literally, "man price".
The size of the weregild in cases of murder was largely conditional upon the social rank of the victim. Thralls and slaves technically commanded no weregild, however it was commonplace to make a nominal payment in the case of a thrall and the value of the slave in such a case.
Weregild was also known to the Celts, who called it ericfine. Other cultures had similar customs e.g. the Slavonic glowczyzna.


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Objective: To analyze the association between prediagnostic prostate-specific antigen kinetics and the risk of biopsy progression in prostate cancer patients on active surveillance, and to study the effect of prediagnostic prostate-specific antigen values on the predictive performance of prostate-specific antigen velocity and prostate-specific antigen doubling time. Methods: The study included 137 active surveillance patients with two or more prediagnostic prostate-specific antigen levels measured over a period of at least 3 months. Two sets of analyses were carried out. First, the association between prostate-specific antigen kinetics calculated using only the prediagnostic prostate-specific antigen values and the risk of biopsy progression was studied. Second, using the same cohort of patients, the predictive value of prostate-specific antigen kinetics calculated using only post-diagnostic prostate-specific antigens and compared with that of prostate-specific antigen kinetics based on both preand post-diagnostic prostate-specific antigen levels was analyzed. Results: Of 137 patients included in the analysis, 37 (27%) had biopsy progression over a median follow-up period of 3.2 years. Prediagnostic prostate-specific antigen velocity of more than 2 ng/mL/year and 3 ng/mL/year was statistically significantly associated with the risk of future biopsy progression. However, after adjustment for baseline prostate-specific antigen density, these associations were no longer significant. None of the tested prostate-specific antigen kinetics based on combined preand post-diagnostic prostate-specific antigen values were statistically significantly associated with the risk of biopsy progression. Conclusions: Historical prediagnostic prostate-specific antigens seems to be not clinically useful in patients diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer on active surveillance.
- Active surveillance
- Prostate biopsy
- Prostate cancer
- Prostate-specific antigen doubling time
- Prostate-specific antigen velocity
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Professional painting supplies are going to come in handy if you are expecting a baby soon, particularly if you are looking for second hand furniture.
Second hand furniture is a great way to save money when preparing for the new arrival, and is a really environmentally friendly option, as baby furniture is used for such a short period of time when preparing for the new arrival.
How can you, however, ensure that it is as safe as the products you buy from the shops, which are forced to undergo rigorous testing before they can be sold in the UK?
Exercise some common sense and check these tips to help you make the right choice:
- Get a new mattress
This is essential for anything your baby sleeps in whether it is a Moses basket, crib or full-sized cot. There have been studies showing that babies who sleep on a mattress that has been used before are significantly more likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome. Therefore, always get a new mattress, even if you know it has only been used by a sibling.
- Check the paint
If you need to repaint then make sure you use a safe paint, and if possible don't paint immediately before the baby arrives. Check how old the product is, is there a chance it could have lead paint? If so, chuck it out.
- Check the fire safety
Upholstered items should always include a label that says "All filling materials meet the 1988 safety regulations" or "Filling materials and covering fabrics meet the requirements for resistance of cigarette and match ignition in the 1988 safety regulations".


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Egypt finds itself once again at a crossroads, grappling with a trifecta of challenges that could reshape its economy. The recent eruption of conflict in the neighbouring Gaza Strip
In recent months, Russia has significantly increased its imports of aluminium, the crucial raw material for aluminum production, from India. This strategic move by Russia serves multiple purposes, including diversifying its supply sources, reducing dependence on China, and lowering production costs. This development has gained attention amid the backdrop of sanctions imposed on Russia.
According to data from the Indian Commerce Ministry, India's exports of alumina to Russia surged from nil in the corresponding period of the previous financial year to a substantial 2.58 lakh tonnes in April-February of the financial year 2022-23 (FY23).
This surge in imports by Russia comes as the country faces challenges in its aluminum production due to geopolitical events. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is the world's second-largest producer of aluminum, Russia lost access to two critical sources of alumina. A Ukrainian refinery suspended its alumina production, and Australia banned alumina supplies to Russia.
Alumina plays a vital role in the production of aluminum metal, as well as being used in various applications such as abrasives and refractory materials due to its hardness and high melting point.
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With Australia and Ukraine no longer supplying aluminium to Russia, the country sought alternative sources. China and India stepped in to fill this gap, with India's alumina exports to Russia witnessing a remarkable increase. Russia has now become the third-largest consumer of Indian alumina by volume and value, surpassing China in this regard.
Notably, alumina has become India's most valuable export to Russia in terms of volume. This shift in supply dynamics is crucial for Russia's Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer outside China. Rusal needs to secure alumina supplies to sustain domestic aluminum production, especially when faced with a challenging aluminum price environment.
In summary, Russia's increased alumina imports from India reflect a strategic move to secure essential raw materials and diversify its supply sources, particularly in the face of geopolitical disruptions affecting its traditional suppliers. This development underscores the intricate interplay of global supply chains and geopolitics in the aluminum industry.


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16 July 2007
Photo: Clare Chenoweth
The blessing for the Snow Leopards' fertility was followed by the birth of twin cubs in 2005.
The young Gyalsay Rinpoche's face lit up as he watched the elephants roll over onto their sides to be washed and scrubbed with warm water by their keepers.
He is believed to be the current incarnation of the original monk who gave the blessing at Taronga zoo and is currently in Australia with his tutor Lama Karma Dorjee for a few weeks.
The 14th Dungyud Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Ngawang Tenzin were especially delighted as they observed the playful six year old Asian elephant, Gung, cavorting and trumpeting his way around the exhibit after his bath.
The two monks had previously blessed the elephants and were pleased to see them being so well cared for and obviously enjoying their new exhibit.
Khenpo Ngawang Damchoe, the monk who blessed the Snow Leopards before they became pregnant and had twin cubs, shared an intimate reunion with the now grown-up cubs when he was specially introduced to them by their keepers.
He affectionately calls them his 'children' and was keen to see how they were progressing.
The group was then given a comprehensive tour of the Zoo by Zoo Friends Volunteer Guides to meet Australian animals including koalas, emus, Little Penguins, kangaroos and a very sleepy Tasmanian Devil curled up under its heat lamp. Despite the chilly weather, many of the animals were active and feeding. One particularly sprightly koala treated the monks to a rare display of activity as he scampered across the ground and shot up a tree in his exhibit.
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ISO 22837:2009-Vehicle probe data for wide area communications
This International Standard specifies the following.
Reference architecture for probe vehicle systems and probe data. This reference architecture provides a general structure for probe vehicle systems within which a wide range of actual probe vehicle systems can be built whose physical characteristics may differ (e.g., in their choice of communications medium).
The reference architecture is used to:
- clarify the major building blocks and logical interconnections of probe vehicle systems for which this standard will be used;
- categorize probe data in accordance with the information model described below.
Basic data framework for probe data elements and probe data. This framework specifies how to define probe data elements and probe messages. Specifically it provides the following. - Rules for mapping information models (as defined in ISO 14817) of probe data to probe data elements/messages. The information models show the logical structure of entities and concepts involved in probe data.
To completely define probe processing, the standardization of probe data elements and probe messages is not sufficient. Standards are also required for processed probe data (the output of probe processing) and downlink elements and messages (to convey these results to vehicles and other users). This International Standard prescribes an initial set of probe data elements that are important for transmission from vehicles to land-side processing centres. The standardization of other probe data issues will be addressed in future work.
Publication date: January 2009


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Mixing Math and Poetry
What kind of poem am I?
(12 + 144 + 20 + (3 x (4^.5)))/7 + 5 x 11 = (9 ^2) + 0
HintThe carat symbol (^) means raised to the power of, and a number raised to the power of one half is its square root.
AnswerA mathematical limerick!
A dozen a gross and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Is nine squared and not a bit more!
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Question: Can You Graft A Rose To A Tree?
Can you graft a rose to an apple tree?
Can roses grow under trees?
If you are trying to grow roses under a tree with large surface roots, it may be best to grow the roses in pots. Do not build up the soil around the tree and cover the roots in order to provide sufficient soil for a rose or any plant. … Sunlight is essential for roses to grow and to bloom.
Can Roses thrive in shade?
Roses are generally regarded as full-sun plants, and they usually aren't considered for shade gardens. … In general the roses that flower the most, like floribundas and shrub roses, will do better in the shade… Anything less than six hours of sun will sacrifice some blooms.
Can you graft onto a mature tree?
What trees are compatible for grafting?
Likely Grafted PlantsApple especially types for fruit.Ash.Beech.Birches, many weeping and some other varieties.Camellia.Cedar varieties, such as weeping blue atlas cedar.Cherries, the oriental ornamental flowering types (Prunus serrulata)Citrus.More items…•
Can you graft Apple to any tree?
Grafting onto existing trees Remember that you can graft onto any apple tree, including crab apples. So if you have a crab apple tree in your back yard, you can "top work" edible varieties onto it. You can graft onto any apple tree you buy at a nursery.
How long does a tree graft take to heal?
three to eight weeksDepending on the temperature, grafts heal in just three to eight weeks and begin to produce fruit within one to three years.
Do roses like coffee grounds?
Roses do like coffee grounds, but too much too close can give them a nasty nitrogen burn and can kill your roses. Never sprinkle coffee grounds right next to the plant.
Do roses like sun or shade?
Can I graft any tree?
Most fruit trees are compatible within their species, but many are also compatible within their genus. That means that Prunus species such as plums, nectarines and peaches can be grafted onto the same tree. … Another common "fruit salad tree" is created when many types of citrus are combined on a single rootstock.
What can I graft onto a cherry tree?
1 Answer. IIRC, anything from the "Prunus" family, which includes plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines, and almonds as well as cherries. My personal rootstock preference is for "Mazzard" but that may depend on your soil type.


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SOFTLab's Nova in New York
NOVA, FLATIRON HOLIDAY INSTALLATION BY SOFTLAB
Nova was commissioned by the Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership through a competition held by the Van Alen Institute. The installation takes its initial inspiration from the traditional gazebo ("I shall gaze") as a pavilion within in a landscape that looks out in all directions. We used the rich historical context of the Flatiron Plaza site to frame the various landmark buildings and pedestrians through a series of scopes. These scopes create a pavilion that is different from all sides at street level, but from views above the pavilion looks like a seven pointed star. The structure is made up of aluminum that gains its strength through a cell-like structure similar to a sponge or soap bubbles. Each cell acts like both a stone and part of a three dimensional truss.
Each cell is unique, exposing a crystalline interior. On the interior the aluminum structure is clad in acrylic laminated with 3M Dichroic Film creating a kaleidoscopic effect. The dichroic film changes color and reflectivity depending on the viewing angle. The dichroic along with the mirrored finished composite aluminum panels cladding the exterior turns each cone into a pedestrian scale kaleidoscope that remixes the surrounding buildings, urban context and pedestrians in fun and unexpected ways.
The overall structure is made of a modular system we developed with the help of ARUP. Each cell is made of two dimensional panels that get attached together to form a three dimensional cell. Each cell acts like a stone. These cells come together to form a structurally stable dome in the center with each scope acting as an arch. The seven arches come together to create a very stable structure that has at its base a larger platonic half sphere, but also exhibits the nuances and idiosyncrasies of the cell-like system. This gives us both a very stable shape and a surface with many different angles to take advantage of the kaleidoscopic effects produced by the 3M Dichroic Film.
Design Team : SOFTLab
Supported by: 3M and ARUP
Location: New York
Photographs: Alan Tansey
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noun: A long novel, often in several volumes, that tells the story of an individual, family, or society across several generations.
From French roman (novel) + fleuve (river). Earliest documented use: 1936. Plural romans-fleuves.
"And it'd be a shame to miss out on the delights of the roman-fleuve as summer reading: there's a thrill in buying 12 volumes to read end-to-end."
Tim Martin; I'll be Joining the Dance Online; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); May 17, 2008.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. -Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (_PHONE_)
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A finger traces a line between two stars, then onto a third and fourth until a picture appears in their mind. In drawings this is denoted by actual lines but in reality, these lines aren't there. What is there is the perception of shapes turned into constellations in the sky. That blazing ball of intent fire screaming between these stars, connecting them in our eyes, is our focus. A beam of light, of imagination, making something exist. Twisting and turning and disappearing then reappearing again this beam is a source of stories, culture, and navigation. Our focus can turn nothing into anything so never lose sight of it.
The Dynamic Beam Automatic Out the Front Knife is an automatic knife known as an out the front knife based on how the blade deploys. The blade comes out of the handle from the top of the knife as opposed to swinging out from the side of the handle like in switchblades and stilettos. The zinc alloy handle has a molded arrow design in the center pointing towards the blade. The switch to deploy the blade is centered in the middle of the handle as opposed to the side for convenient use and the switch itself is textured for grip. The silver, steel blade has a centered fuller for depth of design and reduced weight for accuracy and precision in use. The blade is textured with an outward arcing pattern seemingly mimicking a beam of light. The Dynamic Beam Automatic Out the Front Knife comes with its own black nylon sheath that has a belt loop for ease of carry and storage. Follow your focus.


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2. Use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor to insert images and hyperlinks to the description.
Please note you can select No fixed meeting date if you don't have a date for a designated meeting/event.
You can set the Registration to three different options:
None means that the meeting will show on your calendar but won't have any registration component for people. You can still register people while logged into your Databank through their record.
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1. Set Status
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2. Set the Meeting Type and Activity
If you want to add a new type just enter it in the blank field. If you have multiple calendars for your Organization you can use the Meeting Type to determine which meetings to show on which calendar.
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Enter a location name and the details of the location. If you've already entered the information before for a different meeting you can select it from the drop down menu.
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U of A scientists find that past learning and success play a role in how birds build their nests
When building a nest, past experience raising chicks will influence the choices birds make, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Alberta.
The results show that birds that have successfully raised families adhere to tried-and-true methods when building their nests, while less successful birds will try something new.
"We found that when presenting a choice between a familiar material, coconut fiber, and a material that had not been encountered before, the white thread, and zebra finches that had successfully raised chicks, preferred to stick to the same material that I had used previously." Explained Andres Camacho Albesar, PhD student at Faculty of Science, that birds that fail to raise chicks build nests with equal quantities of familiar and new materials.
Male Zebra Finch Choice series
The research shows that nest building is a behavior that builds on previous learning and experiences, and sheds new light on the decision-making processes that birds use when creating nests.
"It is very similar to human architecture that is always adapting – from changing patterns to improved building materials – and birds also adapt their nest-building behavior based on learning by trial and error," added Camacho Albizar, who conducted the study under Lauren's supervision. Guillette, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology.
The study also showed that all birds took fewer days to complete their second nests compared to the first.
Nests for Zebra Finch
Nests built by previously successful zebra birds (left) and unsuccessful (right). The nest on the left is primarily constructed of coconut fiber, which is a familiar material to birds. The nest on the right is built in a more equal proportion of familiar and new materials, in this case a white chain. (Image: Animal Cognition Research Group)
"This study adds to the small and growing field of research into nest-building behavior that challenges long-standing assumptions about why animals do what they do," Goylett said.
"While one can find many references in both the scientific and scientific literature indicating that nest building in birds is fully preprogrammed, our work demonstrates that birds learn and modify the materials they place in their nest based on previous breeding experiences with this or similar material.. "
This research was funded by the Canadian Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering.
The study, "If It's Not Broken Don't Fix It: Breeding Success Affects Nest Building Decisions" was published in Behavioral processes.


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This section describes how to modify the Compose window.
You can modify the following in the Compose window:
Change the location of the tools in the window
Alternative text associated with the tools
Enable and disable emoticons
Create your own dictionary
To modify the Message Composition window, edit the rtfeditor.html file.
Functionally, rtfeditor.html is called by comp_fs_lr.html. This function assembles the code and assigns the functions to the graphics by calling WMtoolbar() in main.js that also handles colors and text-only versions. The rtfeditor.html file generates the "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" control area by calling the i18n_compose_controls() in /i18n.js.
Example 5–6 shows the necessary changes to be made in the file en/i18n.js for changing the text "Recipients" to "Send to".
// Message Composition.... i18n['recipient'] = ' Send To '


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THE CLAN ANDERSON
An Oak Tree
Mac Ghille Aindrais
Origin of Name:
Son of Andrew
The Anderson tartan is referenced in a book, The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland, published by W & AK Johnston, 1906. Likewise samples of the tartan were included in collections of tartans by John MacGregor Hastie and by James Cant. The sett (pattern) of the Anderson tartan includes these primary colors: red, azure, black, white, yellow, blue, green. The azure color predominates the tartan, making it somewhat unique among the Scottish tartans. Another distinguishing characteristic of the Anderson tartan is that it has seven distinct colors whereas most Scottish tartans typically have three to five different colors.
The Anderson crest consists of a strap and buckle encircling an oak tree. The oak tree rests on the "wreath", which for the Andersons is a twisted strand of red and silver threads. The wreath has six loops, with silver and red in an alternating pattern. Silver is the first loop on the left side, and red is the last loop on the right side. The Clan motto, STAND SURE, is written in the top portion of the strap. It is correct for all Andersons to wear a crest, as a sign of being a clansman.
STAND SURE is the Anderson clan slogan or motto. Clearly, it reflects the spirit we all feel as Andersons. As does an oak tree, Andersons "stand sure" and firm in their Scottish heritage. Stand Sure is as relevant today, as it was throughout history, to recall the strength and pride of Andersons in any situation.
It is inappropriate for anyone to wear a Scottish coat of arms unless that person (or the direct descendent) has been granted the coat of arms directly by the Lord Lyon. Feathers worn in conjunction with the crest are likewise incongruous with Scottish law, as the feathers (one, two or three) denote chief, chieftain or armiger.
Terry Anderson, Given name Fredrick Terrell Anderson is head of the Terry Anderson Clan. Shown in this photo with his wife,
Marylou Andersonn nee Ferguson dancing at their oldest son, Mark's wedding.


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Tian'anmen Square Beijing / Peking
The Square of Heavenly Peace is the symbolic center and political heart of Beijing. On this square, Tian'anmen Square, located apart from the gate of the Forbidden City, is the immense mausoleum of former leader Mao Zedong.
The square measuring 880 by 500 meters and has a total area of 440,000 sqm oppervakte ware a million people can come together. In the middle of the square stands the Monument to the People's Heroes.
The square is flanked by tall buildings from the fifties, the Great Hall of the People and the National Museum of China.


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PHILADELPHIA – Google might help internal medicine residents identify rare kidney problems but offered no help in the diagnosis of common renal conditions, investigators reported here.
A study showed that internal medicine residents aided by Google achieved equal status with nephrology fellows for diagnosis of kidney disorders but were significantly less accurate than attending nephrologists (P<0.001).
Subgroup analyses showed that "Googlers" were no match for attending nephrologists for common or uncommon kidney disorders (P<0.001, P=0.014), Peter Schrier, MD, of Hofstra North Shore-Long Island Jewish School of Medicine in New York, and colleagues concluded in a poster presentation at the American Society of Nephrology meeting.
Nephrology fellows also outperformed residents using the Internet search engine for diagnosis of common renal problems (P=0.031), but the Google-aided residents did better with rare kidney disorders (P=0.029), the researchers reported.
"Google is a good tool to help medical residents diagnose renal diseases, but it does not take the place of an experienced and trained physician," they wrote. "Googling may be especially useful in the case of rare or syndromic diseases, but is less likely to be useful in diagnosing more common renal diseases."
The study grew out of recognition that patients often cite information obtained from the Internet in their discussions with physicians. Moreover, studies have suggested that medical students, residents, and attending physicians have increasingly turned to the Internet for information on diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions, Schrier and colleagues noted in the study introduction.
The observations led investigators to ask whether physician residents could improve their clinical skills with the aid of the Internet, as compared with more experienced physicians. To get the answer, they recruited five attending nephrologists, five nephrology fellows, and six firstand second-year internal medicine residents.
Using a standard textbook of renal medicine, investigators compiled 100 pairs of common and uncommon renal conditions and key words associated with the diseases' characteristics. Attendings, fellows, and residents were randomly assigned the matched pairs of key words and asked to identify the renal conditions.
Examples of common conditions included hepatorenal syndrome, acute interstitial cystitis, and rhabdomyolysis. Rare conditions included tuberous sclerosis, pheochromocytoma, and ethylene glycol poisoning.
Residents were given the top 10 results from a Google search for the assigned conditions as an aid to their decision-making. Attending nephrologists and fellows made decisions without the information from the search.
Overall, the medical residents correctly assessed their assigned renal conditions significantly less often compared with the attending physicians (72.2% versus 84.7%) but were correct as often as the nephrology residents (72.2% versus 71.5%).
Separate analyses of the results by common and uncommon renal conditions showed that the Google-aided residents were less accurate than were the attending nephrologists for common conditions (76.6% versus 90.5%) and for rare conditions (65.2% versus 76.1%).
The residents also answered correctly less often than did nephrology fellows for common kidney disorders (76.6% versus 82.3%) but were significantly more accurate in recognizing the rare conditions (65.2% versus 56.2%).
"This study is unique in that it compares heuristic and algorithmic problem solving, using the dominant technology of our time: the Internet via Google," said Schrier. "It also addresses which types of problems are best solved using the heuristics of an experienced clinician and which conditions benefit the most from algorithmic problem solving with the aid of a search engine.
"Finally, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the utility of Internet searching as a diagnostic tool."
Primary source: American Society of Nephrology
Schrier PB, et al "Paging Doctor Google! Google searching as a tool for diagnosing renal disease" ASN 2011; Abstract TH-PO855.


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Novel technique for the short-term culture and laboratory study of Didymosphenia geminata
Kuhajek J, Wood SA 2014. Novel technique for the short-term culture and laboratory study of Didymosphenia geminata. Diatom Research – special issue on Didymo. Volume 29, Issue 3.
Techniques for assessing the freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata in the laboratory under controlled conditions are described. Two methods for harvesting free, unattached cells from mats, and two methods for assessing cells were developed. Free cells were harvested from mats up to 28 days old using either a static method or a shaking method.
Harvested cells were then assessed using two multi-well formats: a multiplefollowed by a single-cell method. The multiple-cell method was found to be a rapid screening tool for fine-tuning parameter ranges to be assessed in the single-cell assay. The single-cell method, through careful monitoring, allowed quantitative assessment of cell processes.
Attachment to a substratum was observed to be critical for survival and the division of free D. geminata cells. Although cells attached readily in the multiple-cell method, the inclusion of a hydrophobic substratum was essential for attachment to occur reliably when using the single-cell method. The improvement of the single-cell method through inclusion of a hydrophobic substratum was investigated, and results with and without the substratum were compared. A temperature of 18 degrees C was found to be more suitable than 12 degrees C for conducting the assay and the optimal pH range for the assay was found to be 7.6 to 8.2.


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What is the function of Microfibrils?What gives cellulose its strength?Structure and properties of the cellulose microfibrilWhere to find cellulose microfibrills?
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What is the function of Microfibrils?
What is the function of Microfibrils?Microfibril is a very good fiber or fiber-like fiber composed of glycoproteins and cellulose. It is commonly, but not always, used as a general term in describing the cellulose structure of protein fiber, for example. Tail hair and sperm. The most structural pattern observed is the 9 + 2 pattern in which the two central fibrous proteins are surrounded by 9 other pairs. Cellulose in plants is one example of non-protein compounds that use the term for the same purpose. Cellulose microfibers are inserted on the inner surface of the primary cell wall. As the cell absorbs, its volume increases and new, isolated microfibrils are created to help increase cell viability.
cellulose fibril synthesis and orientation by cellulose synthase or rosette terminal complexes that reside in the cell membrane. When cellulosic fibrous cells are synthesized and grow outside the cell, they press against neighboring cells. Since the neighboring cell cannot move easily, the rosette complex is transported around the cell via the phospholipid liquid membrane.
Eventually, this results in the cell being wrapped in a layer of microfiber. This layer becomes the cell wall. The organization of microfibers forming the primary cell wall is quite disordered. However, there is another mechanism in the secondary cell walls leading to its organization.
In principle, the lines on the secondary cell wall are made with microfibrils and microtubules. These lines force the microfibers to remain in a specified area during closing. During this process, the microtubules can be self-depolymerized in different orientations and repelled again. This leads to another direction in which the cell continues to wrap.
What gives cellulose its strength?
What gives cellulose its strength?Cellulose is a polysaccharide of glucose molecules. Then it is long. Cellulose is exactly the same as amylose, except that it is not alpha bound, but beta bound. Beta cellulose bonds give each polymer a flat and rigid structure. Since each cellulose molecule is flat, they can be stacked on top of each other. When stacked, they line up and form H bonds. This is how cellulose forms fibrils in the cell walls of plants. This is very strong and durable. I think this answers your question. Humans can't digest cellulose because we don't have enzymes capable of breaking beta bonds.
Structure and properties of the cellulose microfibril
Structure and properties of the cellulose microfibrilCellulose is the final raw material. Cellulose is more present in the biosphere than any other material. Its basic structure is simple: a long chain of glucose units linked by b (1,4) bonds. It is the ability of these chains to bond in hydrogen-bonded fibers (microfibres) that gives cellulose unique properties of mechanical strength and chemical stability.
Cellulose microfibers contain two crystalline forms, cellulose:
 - Ia
 - Ib
which the chains are packaged slightly differently. The chain composition is similar in both forms, a smooth ribbon with a 180 ° torsion between successive glucosyl residues. This chain compound is stabilized by two hydrogen bonds parallel to the glycosidic bond, one from O-3 to the oxygen ring of the previous glucose unit and the other from O-2 to the next O-6 glucose unit.
 In the core chains, the compound is a C-6 trans boat. In the surface chains, there is a mixture of gauche-gauche and gauche-trans compounds with the gauche-trans gland, which is dry cellulose but less so when wet. The combination of trans-gypsum at C-6 in the core chains allows the O-6 hydrogen bond to the side chain, as well as allowing an intramolecular hydrogen bond from the previous O-2 residue of the same chain. This hydrogen bond does not exist in surface chains.
This difference in hydrogen bonding means that the surface chains have little freedom to move out of the shape of the flat band. The lack of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the surface chains also means that they can form more hydrogen bonds in water or adjacent polysaccharides.
Where to find cellulose microfibrills?
Where to find cellulose microfibrills?Cellulose, a fiber carbohydrate found in all plants, is a structural component of plant cell walls. Because the earth is covered with vegetation, cellulose is the most abundant carbohydrate, accounting for over 50% of the total carbon in the vegetable kingdom. Cotton fibrils and filter paper are almost completely cellulose (about 95%), wood is about 50% cellulose and leaf dry weight is about 10% -20% cellulose. The most widely used cellulose is in the production of paper and paper products. Although the use of non-cellular synthetic fibers is on the rise, Raven (made of cellulose) and cotton still make up more than 70% of fabric production.
Cellulose, like amylose, is a linear glucose polymer. This is different, however, in that glucose units are bound together by β-1,4-glycosidic bonds, forming a structure longer than amylose. This extreme linearity creates a large amount of hydrogen bonding between OH groups in adjacent chains, causing them to close closely to the fibers. As a result, cellulose has little interaction with water or any other solvent. For example, cotton and wood are completely insoluble in water and have considerable mechanical resistance. Since cellulose does not have a spiral structure, it does not bind to iodine to form a color product.
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8.1. Explain the purpose of (a) prevent controls and (b) detect controls. Why would it be important for an entity to have both types of controls?
In order to prevent, detect and correct material misstatement the auditor performed the procedures called Test of Controls. There are two types of controls: Prevent Controls and Detect Controls.
Prevent Controls can be applied to each transaction during normal processing in order to avoid errors. When planning controls, an auditor should take in consideration all possible scenarios (What can go wrong WCGWs) which would result in an error. By designing effective controls the auditor can prevent and correct detected errors as...view middle of the document...
3. Inspection of physical evidence
Enquiry - the technique which an auditor uses to seek information of knowledgeable persons inside or outside the entity and involve questioning by an auditor to determine how the control is completed and whether it has been carried out properly and on a timely basis. I think this type of test of controls has the lowest reliability of the evidence because Inquiry alone does not provide sufficient audit evidence to detect a material misstatement, and it is not sufficient to test the operating effectiveness of controls.
Observation – technique which an auditor uses to observe the actual control being performed. Observation provides audit evidence about the procedure being observed but is limited to the point in time at which the observation takes place and by the fact that employees may perform the procedure more accurately when they know they are being watched.
Inspection of physical evidence – technique that relies on the auditor testing the physical evidence to verify that a control has been performed properly. Inspection of records and documents provides audit evidence of varying degrees of reliability, depending on their nature and source and, in the case of internal records and documents, on the effectiveness of the controls over their production.
Re-performance – technique the auditor use to re-perform the control to test its effectiveness.
8.5. Does the auditor have to test every control? Explain.
The auditor does not have to test every control, but he or she must apply professional judgment in decision on which controls should be selected for testing and establish the extent of audit testing to be performed. The auditor usually choose controls testing that they believe will provide the most efficient and effective audit evidence, which further provide assurance that controls are working.
8.9. What is the relationship between the results of tests of controls and substantive testing?
If the results of the tests of controls confirm the auditor's preliminary evaluation of controls and control risk, the planned substantive audit procedures are not modified.
If the results of the tests do not confirm their preliminary evaluation of controls and controls risk, the auditor revises the overall audit risk assessment for the related account and the planned audit strategy, and that increases the level of substantive procedures.
8.10. Explain the process of documenting the auditor's conclusions. What must be documented?
Once controls have been tested, the auditor documents their work in a working paper. This is the documentation standard that is required by ASA 230 (ISA230) Audit Documentation.
1. The auditor sets out the PURPOSE OF THE TEST which assists in performing testing by reminding the auditor of their overall purpose in testing of controls and identifies any exception or issues.
2. WORK PERFORMED: the auditor documents the...


Information and Advertising Policy: A Study of Fat and Cholesterol Consumption in the United States, _PHONE_
Pauline M. Ippolito, Alan D. Mathios
The study examines changes in the consumption of fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol from 1977 to 1990, a period when federal policy governing diet-disease claims changed. The study finds that dietary improvements occurred more rapidly in the post-1985 years, when the rules were relaxed. The study also includes a variety of detailed data on differences in consumer knowledge and sources of dietary fats over the period.


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Outage Probability and BER of the Ground to Train Communication Link of a Curved Track in Raining Turbulence with Pointing Errors
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We model the outage probability and bit-error rate (BER) for an intensity-modulation/direct detection optical wireless communication (OWC) systems for the ground-to-train of the curved track in rainy weather. By adopting the inverse Gaussian models of the raining turbulence, we derive the outage probability and average BER expression for the channel with pointing errors. The numerical analysis reveals that the rainfall can disrupt the stability and accuracy of the system, especially the rainstorm weather. The improving of the shockproof performance of the tracks and using long wavelength of the signal source will improve the communication performance of OWC links. The atmospheric turbulence has greater impact on the OWC link than the cover track length. The pointing errors caused by beam wander or train vibration are the dominant factors decreasing the performance of OWC link for the train along the curved track. We can choose the size of communication transmitting and receiving apertures to optimize the performance of the OWC link.
KeywordsGround-to-train, curved track, inverse Gaussian model, optical wireless communications, raining turbulence
Document typePeer reviewed
Document versionFinal PDF
SourceRadioengineering. 2017 vol. 26, č. 4, s. 938-945. ISSN _PHONE_/4


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Sustainability and Renewable Merino
Wool runs on grass
The primary inputs for wool production are water, sunshine and fertile soils to grow grass – the primary diet of sheep.
As such merino production inherently has the potential of being fully sustainable providing it is operated within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.
They must operate, or be in the process of implementing, a grazing management strategy based on long term sustainability.
The management system must embrace holistic farming principals with the goal of developing a resilient ecosystem that can regenerate, withstand stress and rebuild itself when necessary.
This goal should be to aim for 100% ground cover all year, with a focus on perennial grasses to regenerate the ecology and increase biodiversity.
Holistic farming principles include:
- Clear goals for the people involved
– Clear goals for the land in use
– Clear goals for the business
- Clear goals for the management of livestock
The management process should involve:
- Reviewing these strategies regularly
– Making decision with these goals in mind
– Monitoring the health of your land, your business and the people involved


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The most popular method for monitoring depression is significantly flawed and needs replacement. So says R. Michael Bagby, clinical research director at the University of Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health. Although the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, developed in 1960, has long been a "gold standard" in psychiatric evaluation, Bagby says its shortcomings are well noted.
Bagby was the lead researcher of a metastudy that analyzed 70 independent research papers on the Hamilton scale's efficacy published since the last major review in 1979. The study was funded in part by Eli Lilly and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.
Bagby says one of the scale's greatest problems is poor sensitivity to changes in a depressed individual's condition. This shortcoming makes it difficult to accurately monitor whether a patient is improving or declining and also confuses the approval of new antidepressant drugs, because the scale is a benchmark in judging their efficacy during clinical trials. Furthermore, the symptoms inventoried on the HAMD, as the scale is known, are simply out of step with modern research.
Although other scales have been introduced, none has achieved as widespread use as the Hamilton. In 1999 a cross-disciplinary team developed a revised version called the GRID-HAMD, but Bagby and his colleagues say that the entire concept needs to be retired.
Kenneth Evans, director of medical and scientific services at Axon Communications and a key developer of the GRID-HAMD, acknowledges that the metastudy's claims are valid. He is currently chair of the Depression Inventory Development Team, a collaborative effort among clinical researchers and representatives from 14 pharmaceutical companies that seeks to develop a new screening tool. Initial versions are currently being tested for efficacy.
This article was originally published with the title Replacing Hamilton.


Why lard should be an essential part of your SHTF stockpile
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(Natural News) Pig fat is an underrated culinary ingredient. Commonly known as lard, it is often considered "unhealthy" fat that can clog up your arteries. However, lard is actually healthier than most people have been led to believe.
Lard isn't just for cooking. It is a versatile substance that has many practical uses. Here are a few good reasons why preppers should stockpile lard for everyday use even before SHTF. (h/t to AskAPrepper.com)
Lard is rendered pork fat, often taken from a pig's belly, that has been strained of any meat bits or other impurities. During the Great Depression, many people used lard to help them survive and stave off malnutrition. It was cheap, accessible, and rich in calories. As such, it was commonly used in cooking, baking, frying, and preserving other foods. It is actually lower in saturated fat than butter or any other animal fat. Lard provides many essential calories, but contains no trans fats. It is also a good source of essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A, D, E and K. (Related: Frying your food in lard is healthier than using sunflower oil, say scientists.)
As lard is also used for food preservation, it should come as no surprise that it has incredible staying power. It can stay fresh for much longer, compared to butter, vegetable oil or coconut oil. Without refrigeration, you can keep it stored in an airtight container for as long as three months. You can also substantially extend its shelf life by keeping it sealed in the freezer for up to three years. However, to keep it fresh, you may need to occasionally reheat your lard every few months, and pour it into a new container with a nice, smooth surface. Outside of cooking, lard can also potentially be utilized for a number of household uses.
Cooking and household uses for lard
 - Cooking oil. Due to its high smoke point and desirable flavor, lard is commonly used as a substitute for cooking oil. When used on cast iron cookware, it does not leave behind a sticky residue that is common with vegetable oils.
 - Food preserver. In olden times, when modern conveniences such as refrigeration did not yet exist, lard played a big role in food preservation. Meat could be cooked and stored in lard over the winter.
 - Spread. In a pinch, lard can be used as a spread on bread, just like butter. It can even be used as a dip to get an extra calorie boost. In the past, this was often done to help ward off malnutrition.
 - Base for poultices. Lard can be used as a base for making a number of medicinal poultices and salves.
 - Hand cream. Lard can make for a good skin moisturizer. It is useful in protecting the skin from drying, chapping, and cracking.
 - Machine oil. Lard can be used to keep machines oiled and moving freely, while also cooling them down. Additionally, it protects metals against rusting and corrosion.
 - Waterproofing treatment. Beef tallow and lard are useful in waterproofing fabric, leather, and materials used for building a shelter. Simply coat your clothing or other material in a layer of lard to help it shed water.
 - Soap. Soap has traditionally been made out of animal fat. Just like with beef tallow, you can use lard to make your own emergency soap.
 - Lamp oil. Because lard is flammable, it can be used as an alternative to lamp oil or candle wax.
If you want to learn more about the practical uses of lard and other food items, you can read more articles by going to Preparedness.news.
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Teach students skills not brand names.
The current aproach is to teach a brand name. Students don't learn computers and office programs, they learn Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. This is like teaching all the shop kids to use a hammer but only if it's a B&D #4 hammer with B&D #4 nails.
Students come out of school and sit infront of a machine that isn't Office and they have a panic attack; "but this isn't Word, how can it possible write words?"
Stick them infront of anything but WindowsXP desktop and they can't even figure out how to reach out and touch the bloody mouse.
Teach students how to use word processors not Word. They should use two or three at least during the yer they do word processing, spreadsheets and basic databases (this was Grade10 around here). If a file format can not be opened in multiple word processors; it's not accepted within the schools; sort of like all those government offices deciding that documents to and from constituents should be accessible on more than just Windows/Office crippled systems.
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Boy Helps Blind Deer Find Food Daily
In this day and age it's nice to see something that raises our spirits.
Every day before going to school a young boy helped a deer, who just happened to be blind, find food. This story first came to us from Reddit, and Reddit user Bluecollarclassicist.
A blind deer lived in a neighborhood in Illinois, where bluecollarclassisit lives.
An animal like this could not normally live long in a suburban environment; but due to the efforts of this one child, the deer now has a chance to survive.
The survival rate of any animal declines when they live outside their natural habitats, but add in vehicles and urban sprawl and their chances recede even further, particularly if they're blind, as this deer was. Chances of being hit and killed by an automobile were much higher than that of a sighted animal.
As luck would have it, this particular deer wandered into a neighborhood where a kind-hearted and generous boy lived. Not only did the boy give up time he could have spent playing, he watched over the animal and made certain it had a safe place to rest and food to eat.
Fortunately, the news about this wonderful story flew and reached the ears of a local rescue organization who undertook the deed of moving the deer to a place where it could live safely and happily.
The deer's 10-year-old benefactor never tried to adopt him as a pet, he just searched for the deer quietly every day until he found him.
With the rescue organization now alerted to the deer's plight, they caught him and moved him to a shelter where he could be safe and have a peaceful life among other animals.
Bluecollarclassicist and his wife thought this was one of the sweetest and kindest examples of someone being helpful and understanding they had witnessed and hope to reward the young boy's selfless acts by taking him to visit the deer where the wildlife rehabilitation group placed him in relative safety at the state wildlife preserve. Not all heroes wear capes.
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Update on the Soccer Pythagorean derivation
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I want to give an update on my efforts to derive a Pythagorean (or Pythagorean-like) formula for use in soccer. As I said in other posts, the most challenging part is coming up with the term that captures the probability of a drawn result. This is rather difficult when you assume that the goals follow a continuous probability distribution, because the probability that teams X and Y will have the same number of goals is zero for a continuous distribution. I tried to work around this by assuming a Poisson distribution and working out the probability of a drawn result, but I end up with some nasty infinite sums that can't be simplified. Also, there aren't any parameters that can be changed in a Poisson distribution:
P(i) = P(lambda,i)
and that lambda term is the average number of goals during the season.
I was looking through some of the papers that I have on soccer goal distributions, and I found that some researchers use an extreme value distribution to model goal distributions during a season. As a matter of fact, I discussed one of these papers on this blog a few months ago. Extreme value distributions are flexible like Weibull distributions and can be used to handle extreme events in soccer, like your 6-0 or 13-1 results. I'm thinking that that distribution might be a better one to use. Perhaps I could also look at the probability of teams X and Y scoring goals between a continuous interval like [-0.5, 0.5] or [2.5, 3.5] (where the actual goals scored is in the center of the interval) in order to come up with a draw probability.
I have a midterm in my course this week, but I hope to have something to present on here soon.
(Oh, and an explanation of one of the math terms: the notations [a,b] and (a,b) in mathematics are used to represent an interval between a and b. The square brackets mean that a and b are included in the interval; the round brackets mean that a and b are not included. Infinity can never be reached, so there is always a round bracket on that end: (-∞, b] or [a, +∞). )
UPDATE (18 Oct, 9:20pm): I made a breakthrough in my derivation of a "Pythagorean" for soccer teams and leagues. I kept the Weibull distribution and solved for the probability that teams X and Y scored goals between a continuous interval. The actual number of goals is a discrete number that lies at the center of the interval. I got an expression for the probability of a n-score draw, where n is the number of goals, which you can sum up to whatever number of goals you wish. Unfortunately the resulting expression is much more complicated than the one that predicts a clear win, and includes some special functions that were canceled out in the first term.
I'll write a separate post that presents the complete formula and my derivation in an attached PDF.
UPDATE #2 (19 Oct, 11:30pm): I forgot to move this post to the top. And I won't be able to write that post tonight. I had too much going on; sorry.
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Purpose: Sodium benzoate (NaC7H5O2), a common food preservative, is the salt form of benzoic acid. It is used as an alternative treatment in patients with hepatic encephalopathy or urea cycle disorders as it is believed help stimulate ammonia removal via a non-urea cycle based pathway. Despite its use, sodium benzoate is not an FDA approved medication and has no commercially available oral formulations, although an IV formulation is available in combination with sodium phenylacetate (Ammonul®). The objectives of this study were to prepare a sodium benzoate solution and determine the stability of an extemporaneously prepared oral solution over a 90-day period.
Methods: An oral solution of sodium benzoate was prepared and a 1 ml sample was withdrawn from each bottle immediately after preparation and at 7 and 14 days and assayed for drug concentration by stability-indicating high performance liquid chromatography. Stability of sodium benzoate solution will be defined as maintenance of greater than or equal to 90 percent of the initial concentration.
Results: The sodium benzoate maintained 96% and 93% of the initial concentrationt at 7 and 14 days, respectively. Therefore, sodium benzoate oral solution in cherry syrup is stable for a minimum of 14 at room temperature.
Decker, Andrew S.; Lull, Melinda E.; and Hutchinson, David, "Stability of Extemporaneously Prepared Sodium Benzoate Oral Solution" (2015). Pharmacy Faculty Publications. Paper 85.
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Sometimes after an accept method has read some input from the user, it may be necessary to insert a modified version of that input back into the input buffer. The following two functions can be used to modify the input buffer:
Arguments: stream new-input
start end buffer-start rescan
Summary: Replaces the part of the input editing stream stream's input buffer that extends from buffer-start to its scan pointer with the string new-input. buffer-start defaults to the current input position of stream. start and end can be supplied to specify a subsequence of new-input ; start defaults to 0 and end defaults to the length of new-input.
replace-input queues a rescan by calling queue-rescan if the new input does not match the old output, or if rescan is t.
The returned value is the position in the input buffer.
Arguments: stream object type view
buffer-start rescan query-identifier for-context-type
Summary: Like replace-input, except that the new input to insert into the input buffer is obtained by presenting the object object with the presentation type type and view view. buffer-start and rescan are as for replace-input, query-identifier is as for accept, and for-context-type is as for present.
If the object does not have a readable representation (in the Lisp sense), presentation-replace-input may create an "accept result" to represent the object and insert it into the input buffer. For the purposes of input editing, "accept results" must be treated as a single input gesture.
The following two functions are used to read or write a token (that is, a string):
input-wait-handler pointer-button-press-handler click-only
Summary: Reads characters from the interactive steam stream until it encounters a delimiter, activation, or pointer gesture. Returns the accumulated string that was delimited by the delimiter or activation gesture, leaving the delimiter unread.
If the first character of typed input is a quotation mark (
will ignore delimiter gestures until another quotation mark is seen. When the closing quotation mark is seen,
will proceed as discussed previously.
If the boolean click-only is t, then no keyboard input is allowed. In that case, read-token will simply ignore any typed characters.
input-wait-handler and pointer-button-press-handler are as for stream-read-gesture. Refer to 15.2.1, The Extended Input Stream Protocol for details.
Arguments: token stream
is the opposite of
; given the string token, it writes it to the interactive stream stream. If
and there are any characters in the token that are delimiter gestures (see
will surround the token with quotation marks (
Typically, present methods will use write-token instead of write-string.