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This post is authored by Mike Burbey, Sr. Outposts SA
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency, access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies.
As part of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, customers are responsible for capacity planning while using AWS Outposts. Customers must forecast compute and storage needs in addition to data center space, power, and HVAC requirements along with associated lead times. This blog demonstrates how to create a dashboard and alarms to assist in capacity planning. Amazon CloudWatch is used to capture the metrics and create dashboards while Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) sends notifications when capacity exceeds a threshold.
Create a dashboard
- First, log into the account that the AWS Outpost is installed in. In the AWS console go to CloudWatch, then click on Dashboards, then click on Create dashboard to create a dashboard for AWS Outposts capacity.
- Provide the dashboard a name and click Create dashboard.
- Select a line widget and click Next.
- This widget is metrics-based. Select Metrics and click Configure.
- Click Outposts.
- Click By Outpost and Instance Family.
- Select all of the InstanceFamily options where the Metric Name is InstanceFamilyCapacityUtilization then click Create widget.
- The first widget has been added to the dashboard. This widget displays the percent of capacity used for the entire instance family. Additional widgets may be created to display the capacity available or for a specific instance type (in this case, c5.2xlarge).
- Now, I add an Amazon EBS capacity widget to the dashboard. To do this, click Add widget, select Line as the widget type and Metrics as the data source.
- Click Outposts.
- Click Outpostid, VolumeType.
- Select EBSVolumeTypeCapacityUtilization and then Create widget.
- The dashboard now has two widgets setup. Click Save dashboard. If you do not save the dashboard, your changes do not save. The following image shows what your two dashboards should look like.
- Dashboards are useful for monitoring capacity over time. It is unlikely that someone is looking at the dashboard at the moment when usage increases. To ensure you are notified when an increase in utilization happens, you can create an alarm that sends a notification to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).
When creating CloudWatch alarms, only one metric can be configured per alarm. So, a single alarm can only report on a single EC2 instance family. Additional alarms must be configured for each EC2 instance family deployed in an AWS Outpost. To learn more about CloudWatch alarms, visit the technical documentation.
- To create a new alarm, click Create alarm.
- Click Select metric.
- To select a metric for EC2 capacity utilization, select Outposts, By Outpost and Instance Family. Select the Instance Family to create an alarm for. In this example, the alarm is created for the C5 Instance Family and is based on capacity utilization. Click Select metric.
- Define the threshold to alarm when the metric is greater than or equal to 80% and click Next.
- When setting up the first alarm, an Amazon SNS topic must be created. The topic can be re-used when setting up additional alarms. Click Create topic. Enter a name for the SNS topic and email addresses that should receive the notification. Click Add notification, then click Next.
- Enter a name and description for the alarm, click Next, and click Create alarm.
Amazon SNS requires topic subscriptions to be confirmed. Each email address receives an email message from AWS Notifications. Remember to create an alarm for each EC2 family type and EBS volume to ensure that alerts are received for all resources on the AWS Outpost. For more information on Amazon SNS, visit the developer guide.
You now have visibility into the compute and storage capacity of the AWS Outposts. This provides visibility to inform capacity planning activities. To learn about additional CloudWatch metrics available for AWS Outposts, visit the user guide.
For additional information on AWS Outposts capacity management check out this webinar to learn more about additional AWS Outposts metrics and the installation process.


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India's First Comic Book on Organ Donation
A non-governmental organization Shatayu working in the field of voluntary organ donation has come up with a comic book to inspire school students and their parents. The illustrated comic titled 'Super Donor' is meant for students of standard VI to XII.
India's First Comic Book on Organ Donation - Super Donor
The comic on organ donation will be distributed among all the students. Chairman of Shatayu Dipak Patel says, "The objective behind this is to initiate the young generation and their parents in organ donation. If any family member is brain dead, then the relatives are the ones who can take the decision to donate organs. This can help save several other lives."
The comic also has a voluntary organ donation form which is meant for the children to give to their parents to be filled up. "The comic, we hope, will tell the youngsters as well as their guardians how each one of us has the power to save lives".
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Hard Drive Installation (via WinZip) from Device Manager for R208743.exe
1.Click the location, e.g. Americas, from which you want to download the file.
2.When the File Download window appears, click Save this program to disk and click OK. The Save In window appears.
3.From the Save In drop-down menu, click to select Desktop and then click Save. The file will download to your desktop.
4.If a Download Complete window appears, click Close. A new icon appears on your desktop.
1. Double-click the new icon on the desktop labeled R208743.exe.
2. The Self-Extractor window appears and prompts you to extract or unzip to C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R208743. If you did not print these instructions, write down this path.
3. The WinZip Self-Extractor window appears
4. Click OK.
5. If the Self-Extractor window is still open, close it.
Removing Incorrectly Installed Driver First in Windows 9x or Me
1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. From the Control Panel, double-click System.
3. Click Device Manager.
4. Under Other Devices, click to highlight Unknown Device.
5. Click the Remove button at the bottom of the window. The device and category both disappear.
6. Click Refresh. The Hardware Wizard appears.
7. Click Next.
8. Click Specify the location of the driver and then click Next.
9. Click Search for the best driver and if there is not a check mark is in the checkbox next to Specify a location, click to put one there.
10. Click once in the textbox beneath Specify a location, type C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R208743 and then click Next.
Windows finds the correct driver and asks you to verify it.
11. Click Next to install it.


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Creating a table of two indexes
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I am trying to make a temperature conversion table but when I print at the end, all my values are jumbled. How can I seperate the calculations and label the results for each?
bF = input('Input the beginning temperature in Fahrenheit');
eF = input('Input the endung temperature in Fahrenheit');
disp('Temperature in Fahrenheit & Celcuis')
F = [bF:10:eF];
for k = 1
C = (F-32)*(5/9);
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Benjamin Kraus on 3 Dec 2020
You need to merge F and C into a single matrix and transpose that matrix:
fprintf('%8.1f\t%8.1f\n',[F' C']')
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Benjamin Kraus on 3 Dec 2020
As your code demonstrates, it is not necessary to use a for loop to perform the same computation on every element of a vector in MATLAB. You can do that in one line of code without a loop.
The requirement to use a loop looks like a homework requirement. You can do this using a for loop, but it isn't necessary, and your current code is not using the for loop correctly.
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Growing Bromeliads at Home
Find out how easy it is to bring winter color to your home with tips from Garden Expert Sonia Uyterhoeven at The New York Botanical Garden.
To induce flowering, increase the light level. Most bromeliads flower in the winter. If you are having a difficult time getting a mature plant to flower, you can force it by placing a fruit bowl with apples next to the plant for 7 to 10 days. The ethylene gas produced by the fruit will help to encourage flowering, although you need to be patient.
Flowers of bromeliads in the genus Aechmea have colorful bracts that hold their color for several weeks to several months.
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arcs are another important means for constructing house systems, mainly those which emphasise the time factor, like for example Placidus' system.
Diurnal arcs are those semi-circles which are described by a celestial body moving above the horizon from its ascending point in the East to its descending point in the West. Each point in the sky marks such a diurnal arc. The arc resulting from the movement of the descending point to the next ascending point is called nocturnal arc. Put together, diurnal and nocturnal arcs result in a full circle.
In astrology, only those points are important which are projected onto the ecliptic, usually the planets, Sun and Moon. Astrologically speaking, these are always located on some point of the ecliptic - and this ecliptical point also has a diurnal or nocturnal arc. This means that all points on the ecliptic ascend and descend at some stage.
Placidus used these arcs to construct his house system by saying that a particular point on the ecliptic which has covered half the distance above the horizon has reached the midday (upper) culmination, which is, astrologically speaking, exactly at the point of the Midheaven. This means that this point on the ecliptic corresponds to the Midheaven as one of the four cardinal points. And the point on the ecliptic which begins its diurnal arc in the East, corresponds to the Ascendant. In order to define the intermediate houses, he concluded that the point which has covered one sixth of its daily path from East to West, corresponds to the cusp of the twelfth house, and the point on the ecliptic which has covered two sixths marks the cusp of the eleventh house, etc. (cf. illustration 5).
If this system is complemented by the nocturnal arcs, the house system according to Placidus is deduced from the daily movement of the ecliptic reflected by the diurnal arcs.
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Translated from German by Karin Hoffmann


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F40 – the group that has fought for fair funding for schools in England for over two decades – has published a Briefing Paper outlining its current position in relation to the national funding formula for schools and will present it to Members of Parliament on Monday 15 October.
Following the introduction of the government's new national funding formula (NFF) in April, f40 has reviewed its position and agreed the main elements of future campaigning aimed at achieving further improvements to the formula.
"F40 welcomed the government's commitment via the NFF to a fairer system for allocating school funding, and the extra £1.3billion made available for schools between 2018 and 2020," said Ivan Ould, who chairs the group and is also Lead Member for Children and Families at Leicestershire County Council.
"But f40 has fundamental concerns about the NFF and believes it has failed to deliver the level of fairness of funding allocation that is required and there is unanimous recognition within our membership that there is still more work to do to tackle remaining locked-in inequalities."
The main issues raised by f40 are:
- f40 seeks a significant increase in the amount invested in education funding to meet the cost pressures facing all schools. The government must take account of f40's index linked activity-led formula which sets out the true costs of delivering to Ofsted standards. This clearly shows the real cost of running a school. f40 believes the current funding shortfall in schools is £2bn pa.
- Funding continues to be allocated on an historic basis and the average of decisions made in the past by local authorities that had different spending powers. There is no rationale or understanding of the needs of children or schools. f40 continues to argue that an index-linked activity-led formula is the only way to ensure sufficient funding in the system, which is correctly balanced to meet needs. This would allow for future changes of policy direction and allow the creation of a world class system of education to allow our pupils to compete in the post-Brexit age with the rest of the world. Index linking means that the activity-led formula can keep pace with the cost changes as they occur. We will present our updated modelling to the government this month.
- f40 seeks a review of the amount of funding for basic entitlement (core costs such as teachers and heating) relative to the educational additional needs. Core costs must be sufficient to run the school before the costs of additional support are added to school budget. An NFF underpinned by an index-linked activity-led formula could achieve this.
- A key principle for the NFF was that pupils of similar characteristics should attract similar levels of funding wherever they are in the country (allowing for the area cost adjustment). Therefore, NFF should be applied to all schools on a consistent basis. However, the protections applied, such as the 0.5% funding floor, 'lock in' some of the historical differences. Transition to the new formula is sensible but locking in past inequalities is not.
- The Minimum Funding Level (MFL) is applied to bring schools up to an artificial minimum level, but schools with pupils with few additional needs are being funded at the same level of funding as a school with a greater number of additional needs pupils. This is not fair. An activity-led NFF should undertake this role. If the Minimum Funding Level is to stay, then it should be fairly applied to take account of the additional educational needs of individual schools.
- The NFF needs to cover all the funding for mainstream schools, not just the pupil-led elements. NFF has elements that are individual to each school e.g. business rates and sparsity. Funding for these cannot continue to be based upon historical costs. Exceptional premises should be funded at realistic, not historical levels. f40 believes that all schools should be exempted from business rates with a one-off compensating cost adjustment nationally for local government.
- f40 seeks continued funding flexibility to support specific local issues or organisational requirements. The government should allow an element/percentage of the formula to be targeted using local discretion (via the Schools Forum or similar representative group).
- f40 seeks to see plans for the funding formula beyond 2020. We require the establishment of rolling 3-4 year budget settlements for schools which are inflation-proofed, including funding for cost-of-living increases.
- f40 seeks an appropriate quantum of funding be made available for the high needs block. An immediate injection of new funding, estimated on increased costs and demand since 2015, of at least £1.5bn pa. is required. High needs funding supports the most vulnerable pupils in our schools: those with complex SEN, those who are excluded or at risk of exclusion and those that cannot access education for medical reasons. Demand for high needs funding is out-stripping the budgets available. Complexity of the high needs services demanded by children (and their parents) is far greater than just a few years ago: more accurate medical assessment and improved methods of treatment increase demand still further. The high needs crisis has been created in part by the continued use of historic funding levels. Short-term attempts to fix the problem are woefully inadequate. We also want to see the introduction of an annual index-linked review for this block and we request a review of SEN policy and guidance to help manage down demand more effectively.
- f40 seeks a review of the early years national formula to make it fit for future use. An increase in the quantum of funding for early years providers is needed to take account of the pressures of the living wage and the impact of 30 hours. We also seek an annual index-linked review for this block.
- f40 seeks clarity on the way that the Central Schools Services Block will work. It should be index linked to meet increasing costs.
- f40 wants to see parity with Multi Academy Trusts with them being held more accountable, especially with regard to pay and distribution of funding between individual academies in the MAT. An NFF means equality for all schools, including those in MATS.
- f40 seeks a review of the way that Home to School Transport is funded and used. Government needs to recognise the real impact of reducing school transport on pupil choices.
Cllr Ould continued: "Implementation of the NFF has clearly had more to do with stability and the protection of schools against loss, rather than creating a fairer funding system across all schools and local authorities. We contend that an additional funding is needed along with an additional "F" to create a new NFFF – a National Fair Funding Formula.
"In essence the government failed to effectively deal with the core problems associated with the fair funding of our schools. Therefore, the job isn't finished and f40 has no choice but to continue to campaign for further change to assist our schools with very low levels of funding."


How Lighting, Camera Distance and Vampirism Portrays the Death of the Rural Countryside in 1980s America in the Movie 'Near Dark'
America in the nineteen-eighties was a difficult time for farmers and landowners as the expansion of cities destroyed agricultural land and engulfed small towns. Literature and film created in this time period often portrayed rural communities as a utopia due to a negative stigma associated with the advancement of technology and growth of urban life (Dyer 54). The feature film, Near Dark, released in 1987 uses camera distance, lighting and vampirism to portray the death of the rural countryside in nineteen-eighties America.
The movie follows Caleb, a young man having grown up in a rural farming community who wants nothing more than to escape the small-town life and travel "a thousand miles from here tonight." The opening scenes of the movie show the sun setting over the rolling fields, the light fading and darkness falling the further Caleb drives into his small town. This is the first sense the viewer has that lightness, and therefore life, is a feature of the rural areas. As the movie progresses, city scenes are shot solely in the night's darkness, while the countryside remains a contrasting golden hew of daylight. This portrays the sinister aspects of city life. If the protagonist had been a city man falling prey to the vampiric lifestyle, the film would have lost this representation entirely. However, having the vampires, one of which is the love of Caleb's life, lure him into the city, contrasts the innocence or rural life with the malevolence of urban. Vampires, trapped in limbo between life and death, are often shot with there faces half in darkness and half in light. The light depicting the life they yearn to have in the country, the dark depicting the cities that engulf them. Mae, a vampire, meets Caleb in the country, suggesting the city moving into the country. Mae's line, "look, the night, it's so bright it'll blind you," suggests she's been kept in the dark from her crimes, and therefore the cities' crimes. In "Rural America in Film and Literature" Dyer argues that this depiction is idealized: "Although this sentimental yearning for ponds, vegetable gardens, and old houses set deeply in the woods seems relatively harmless, it frequently prevents us from recognizing and understanding the hard realities of our rural population: financial difficulties of the farmers, unemployment of miners and loggers, boredom and confusion of youth living in small country towns." The title itself, Near Dark, is a commentary on the lighting, the skyscrapers that will soon cast a shadow over the countryside, leaving it in darkness. Dyer points out that this sense of rural utopia is fictionalized and portrays a biased view of rural standard of living.
Furthermore, camera distance is used to create a similar effect. After Caleb is initially bit by Mae, he runs home to safety. The fields he runs through are shot with loose framing to suggest freedom and safety. He can run in any direction, it's only the vampire bite and the growing infection that slows him down. However, the moment Caleb is kidnapped by the vampires he is sequestered into an RV where the framing is tight suggesting the confinement of the expanding cities. Tight framing and confined spaces are used every time Caleb is pressured to act in a criminal manner; the train car with only one exit, the dive bar where Severn instructs Caleb to kill for the first time, and the hotel room where the vampires find themselves under the attack of the police. These close shots give the impression of claustrophobia, while the shots of the ranch are always loose with wide frames. When Caleb's father and sister visit the police to enquire about Caleb's missing person's case, we once again have tight framing and shadowy lighting. This suggests that the country folk are turning towards authority, and therefore the city for help, which is leading them into darkness. In the end, it is not the police or even the hospital that brings Caleb to safety and health, but rather his return to the countryside.
Lastly, a significant historical event of the nineteen-eighties is the discovery of AIDS, a disease rampant in many young urban men (CDC 430). In cinema, vampires have often been symbolic of the detriments of unsafe blood transfer and the spreading of disease (Marty 416-432). Near Dark is no exception. Caleb and Mae's first sexual encounter, a simple kiss turned bite, leads to the transfer of blood that infects Caleb and turns him into a vampire. A creature of the night. A city dweller. The drinking of blood is played out in overtly sexual ways, often leading to the death of the human, which suggests the spreading of AIDS throughout the city, causing an influx in mortality. It should be noted that when Caleb watches Mae kill for the first time there are oil rigs in the background. She sucks the blood from a man while the city sucks the "life" from the Earth. Since vampires acting sexually towards their prey before killing them is not unlike the oilrigs "raping" the rural landscape. Although the vampires reside in the city, their prey tends to be people in rural areas, like the country folk in the dive bar, people that won't be missed. Furthermore, when Caleb chooses not to kill in order to survive, there's a sign in the background reading "Because Clean Hay Pays," which once again connects the countryside to life and survival. In the end, Caleb cannot overcome his sickness until he returns to his home in the country. He no longer wants to run away from small town life, instead he's found contentment within. The last scene is of Mae choosing to love by joining Caleb in the country; she too is given a second chance at life now that she has put the city behind her. In "Embracing the metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980s and 90s" Abbott writes, "Since Stoker's novel, vampires, particularly in film, have been increasingly attracted to cities in which they are free to hunt amongst the crowds… The vampire in cinema is no longer an outsider representing the pre-modern but rather embraces the metropolis as its home and through it modernity itself." When Caleb and Mae leave the city, they no longer embrace modernity and therefore can no longer be considered vampires.
The nineteen-eighties were a time when rural life was depicted in film and literature as a utopia that should be strived towards, as the expansion of city goes hand in hand with the expansion of crime (Dyer 54). Although this a skewed view of rural living, it is a reminder that with change comes fear. Much like changing from human to vampire. Near Dark uses lighting, camera distance and vampirism to depict the death of the rural countryside due to the expansion of cities. However, it also suggests hope. Hope that people can realize when something is wrong, fight against it, and return to what is safe and pure. An especially poignant line, delivered by Mae in this film is, "Don't think of it as killing. Don't think at all." This line juxtaposes the intention of the film, to have the viewer consider the expansion of evil, and take action against it.
Abbott, Stacey. "Embracing the metropolis: Urban vampires in American cinema of the 1980s and 90s." Vampires: Myths and metaphors of enduring evil 28 (2006): 125.
Bigelow, Kathryn. "Near Dark." Perf. Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen. F/M (1987).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. "HIV and AIDS–United States, _PHONE_." MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 50.21 (2001): 430.
Dyer, Joyce. "Rural America in Film and Literature." The English Journal 76.1 (1987): 54-57.
Fink, Marty. "AIDS Vampires: Reimagining Illness in Octavia Butler's "Fledgling"." Science Fiction Studies (2010): 416-432.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Broadview Press, 1997.
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This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Mar. 2005.
A little anxiety is perfectly normal when an airplane begins rotating toward the ground in a 60-degree nose-down attitude. But the thought of spin training need not cause you to break out in a cold sweat. In fact, many pilots find that the actual spin experience, while exciting and dramatic, usually isn't as bad as they imagined it was going to be. And in relatively short order, pilots learn they can squelch their natural reactions to spin entry and take command of the situation. More importantly, such pilots learn how prevent the conditions necessary for an airplane to spin in the first place.
What Is Spin Training?
Too many pilots mistakenly believe they are "spin trained" after performing a couple of intentional, oneor two-turn spins. The practice of intentional, precision spins by itself, however, offers little in the way of practical knowledge about spin avoidance during critical flight operations. Pilots so trained are really no more prepared for an accidental stall/spin departure than pilots who have not performed spins. The signature, intentional, one-turn spin is merely one of several training exercises used not only to stretch the pilot's envelope, but also to train the pilot to react appropriately while under the demanding and unnatural conditions of a departure from normal flight. No course of instruction will be effective, however, if it ignores the well-understood process of human learning (defined by the FAA as a "change in behavior as a result of experience"). It is in the spin-training environment where pilots can be exposed to numerous experiences specifically designed to push learning to its highest level. Since knowledge deficiencies have been identified as a central source of breakdowns in pilot performance, spin training experiences must impart information that is both relevant and useful. Stall/spin awareness training, for instance, ultimately must be tied to specific accident scenarios. Hence, training exercises must simulate actual events as realistically as possible. True spin training -- training provided by instructors well-versed in the theory and practice of high-angle-of-attack flight -- is but another prong in the overall stall/spin awareness strategy introduced by the FAA in April 1991 (see Advisory Circular 61-67C, "Stall and Spin Awareness Training"). To be effective, spin training must include at least a review of power-on and power-off stalls; turning stalls; spin avoidance with realistic distractions; spin dynamics; intentional incipient spins; spin-to-spiral transitions; and inadvertent stall/spin departures from unusual attitudes and typical accident scenarios. Professional spin-training programs for general aviation pilots typically include three to five hours of flight time and upwards of two dozen assorted spin entries. The primary objective cannot merely be to show pilots how to intentionally spin an airplane; rather, complete spin training must also focus on improving the pilot's ability to recognize and avoid situations likely to precede an inadvertent stall/spin. Additionally, though spin dynamics can be quite complicated, pilots learn that the catalyst behind spinning is simple and straightforward: yaw and stall. If an airplane is stalled in the presence of excess yaw, the airplane has no choice but to spin. This is true regardless of airspeed or the airplane's attitude. And in the vast majority of spin accidents, the yawing and stalling are pilot-induced. For example, excess yawing typically comes from the application of too much rudder. The skidded base-to-final turn is a classic example. But excess yawing can also be present during a full-power climb, too, wherein the pilot holds insufficient rudder to cancel the slow-flight effects of the engine (torque, P-factor, spiral slipstream). On the stall side of the equation, trying to fly an airplane in wings-level flight (+1.0 G) at Vso results in a stall. Performing a level turn with 60 degrees of bank (pulling +2.0 G) at 1.41 Vso similarly stalls the airplane, albeit with more aggressive stall characteristics. The order in which these actions are taken is critical. The memory aid "PARE" can be used to ensure the correct sequencing of the primary recovery controls (see NASA Spin-Recovery Technique at right). There are volumes of published spin research, FAA certification standards require light, single-engine airplanes to recover from spins using NASA standard actions, and survey results show that FAA-approved Test Pilots overwhelming apply NASA Standard actions during spin testing. And yet, some in the GA community still refuse to believe in the efficacy of the tried-and-true NASA recommendations.
Is Spin Training Beneficial?
A common argument against spin training attempts to weigh its benefits against the following hypothetical: "Even a spin-trained pilot won't be able to recover a spin entered while in the traffic pattern." Nice try, but stall/spin accidents do not occur in a vacuum. While 95 percent of stall/spin accidents begin below traffic pattern altitude, pilots don't suddenly wake up to find themselves spinning in the traffic pattern. Instead, it is the pilot who actively participates in the stall/spin process through an incomplete understanding of stall/spin dynamics and the improper manipulation of the controls. The true test of the value of spin training is this: "How likely is it that a stall/spin-aware and properly spin-trained pilot will allow an inadvertent spin departure to occur in the traffic pattern in the first place?" The Air Force and the Navy, for example, believe their spin training programs to be beneficial. A representative from the Navy's Tactical Air Training Branch testified during Congressional Hearings in 1980 that a "significant decrease in the stall/spin accident rate in all operational modes [as well as] pilot documented saves" was credited to the Navy's mandatory and intensive spin-training program. The results of a 1976 FAA Stall Awareness Study lend support to this: Test subjects who received stall/spin awareness training plus 30 minutes of hands-on spin training did not allow the airplane to depart into a single inadvertent spin during a subsequent evaluation flight. A noted spin instructor conducted three interesting spin-training experiments during the 1990s as well. One involved 12 primary students who each had approximately 20 hours total time. Another involved 10 Private pilots who ranged in experience from 100 to 290 hours. And the third involved 12 Commercial pilots with at least 150 hours of flight time. At the end of the various training increments (approximately one month later in two of the three experiments), an evaluation flight was conducted during which the instructor induced a number of "accidental" spins as the subjects performed various maneuvers. Though the methodologies differed in each experiment, the results shared common traits:
 1. Pilots who did not receive spin training consistently failed to recover from the spins;
 2. Pilots who only received training in intentional spins were often unable to recognize the spin departures. When they did, it often took multiple turns and the recoveries tended to be inconsistent;
 3. Pilots who received spin training in the context of real-life accident scenarios consistently initiated corrective actions within the incipient phase of the departure, and oftentimes immediately upon departure.
In the short term at least, contextual spin training appears able to reduce the occurrence of accidental spins during critical flight operations.
Is Spin Training Safe?
A myth that continues to circulate is the notion that mandatory spin training was deleted way back in 1949 because more pilots were being killed during spin training than the training was saving. No evidence can be found to substantiate this claim. While it is sad-but-true that the average flight instructor is neither competent nor capable of conducting spin training safely, spin training at the hands of professionals has been conducted safely for a long time. Survey results compiled from 20 aerobatic schools in 1997, for instance, revealed that an estimated 250,000 spin entries had been performed with students without a single spin accident occurring during the training flights. Multiple thousands of spins later, that record still stands among the survey respondents. If you elect to expand your envelope with spin training, do your homework: Thoroughly investigate your options; evaluate the school, the training airplane, and the spin instructor; and don't settle for anything less than a complete treatment of the spin environment with an instructor who routinely spends a lot of time there.
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Genetic material from a 10,000-year-old skeleton suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes.
Scientists from Britain's Natural History Museum and University College London reported the finding Wednesday after studying the remains of an individual known as "Cheddar Man."
The skeleton was discovered over a century ago. It was found inside a large hole in the Cheddar Gorge area of southwest England.
The researchers cut a hole into the skull of the human remains and removed DNA from bone powder.
The letters DNA are short for the term deoxyribonucleic acid. Scientists call it the chemical of life.
DNA is made up of genes. Genes, like letters in words, carry a huge amount of information. They tell cells how to make all the materials for life.
The British scientists say their tests showed Cheddar Man had dark, wavy hair, blue eyes and "dark to black" skin color.
The researchers say the evidence suggests that Europeans' light skin coloring developed much later than experts had thought.
Cheddar Man overturns people's expectations of what kinds of genetic qualities go together, said Tom Booth, who worked on the project.
"It seems that pale eyes entered Europe long before pale skin or blond hair, which didn't come along until after the arrival of farming," he added.
Some experts believe that ancient humans who lived in extreme northern areas may have developed light colored skin. They note light skin is able to take in more sunlight than darker skin. Sunlight is required for the body to produce vitamin D.
Cheddar Man shares genetic similarities with other human remains found in Spain, Hungary and Luxembourg. All those individuals lived in the Mesolithic Period, also known as the Middle Stone Age Period. The group, known as Western Hunter-Gatherers, moved to Europe from the Middle East after the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
The Associated Press says Cheddar Man is the oldest complete skeleton found in Britain. Human beings had lived on the island off and on for thousands of years before his time, but they disappeared during periodic ice ages.
Cheddar Man would have been one of a very small population of hunter-gatherers in Britain at the time. Scientists, who have been studying his skeleton, say he appears to have had a healthy diet but died in his 20s, possibly through violence.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Jill Lawless reported this story for the Associated Press (AP). George Grow adapted her report for VOA Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.
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powdern. a very fine, dry substance
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A: If you use Windows event forwarding and collection, you might run into processing problems when many events are forwarded from a large set of event source computers on a regular basis. For example, you can encounter this problem when you configure event collection and forwarding for all security events that are generated on all domain controllers (DCs) in your Active Directory (AD) forest. You can limit the event collection and forwarding processing impact with two configuration tweaks: turning off the pre-rendering of events on event source computers and setting the maximum number of events that can be sent from an event source computer per second.
The task of pre-rendering events on the event source computer can be very processor-intensive when dealing with a large number of events. You can turn off pre-rendering on the level of each individual subscription defined on a collector machine. To turn off pre-rendering, type the following Windows Event Collector Utility (wecutil.exe) command on the event collector machine:
wecutil ss /cf:events
The /cf: switch in the command changes the ContentFormat from "renderedtext" to "events" for the subscription named . To view all subscriptions defined on an event collector, you can use
wecutil es
To control the maximum number of events that are sent per second to the event collector by the source computers, you can use the following Group Policy Object (GPO) setting: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Event Forwarding/ForwardResourceUsage. This setting can be applied only to Windows Vista and later computers and affects all subscriptions that are linked to the forwarder on the event source computer.


In a German newspaper article an interviewed professor says:
For a long time the Japanese didn't have any interest in clocks: Until 1871, there hadn't even been a word for time and therefore no time measurement.
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Auch die Japaner hatten lange kein Interesse an der Uhr: Bis 1871 hatten sie nicht mal ein Wort für die Zeit und daher auch keine Zeitmessung.
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Is it true that there was no word for time before the Meiji Restoration? Which word is he referring to? 時間 or the kanji 時?
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 What actually happened at the end of 1871 is the switch to the western (Gregorian) calendar system. Before that, traditional time & calendar system was widely used. – naruto Jan 9 '17 at 5:15
 - Out of curiosity: Could you add the exact source? – Torsten Schoeneberg Jan 11 '17 at 5:23
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 _USER_ Yes, of course: It was in the Dossier part of "Die Zeit", issued 2017-01-05. The article is a long interview with Prof. Karlheinz Geißler. It couldn't find that article online, though. – elzell Jan 11 '17 at 7:17
The word 時{とき} is probably the oldest native Japanese word for "time". This term appears in the 万葉集{まんようしゅう} written in Old Japanese and compiled from poems composed from the 300s through the 700s, completed some time after 759 CE. These are some of the oldest surviving examples of written Japanese, suggesting that this term is quite ancient indeed. Consequently, claiming that ancient Japanese had no word for "time" is patently wrong.
The Japanese language also has the Chinese-derived on'yomi term 時刻{じこく}, also used to refer more specifically to the concept of "hour", as in "a specific length of time in a day". This term appears in the 平家{へいけ}物語{ものがたり} dating to the 1100s. Even prior to that, we know that the Ritsuryō legal system in place from the mid 600s through the Nara period ending 794 made use of water clocks to track the passage of time during a day: definite evidence of the Zeitmessung ("time measurement") that Professor Geißler mentions. In the traditional reckoning, each day consisted of 12 hours: 6 of day, and 6 of night. This meant that the length of a daylight hour and of a nighttime hour changed over the course of the year, with the shift of the seasons. Consequently, an argument could be made that the traditional Japanese hour required a greater awareness of time than the western hour -- timekeepers would need to be much more intimately in tune with time day-by-day in order to evenly distribute the number of hours in a day and night.
Even the western definition of "hour" has been known to some extent in Japan since the 1500s, when westerners brought their own clocks as gifts. So here too, Professor Geißler's claim falls through.
The term 時間{じかん} itself, though apparently extant earlier, does seem to have been repurposed in 1881 as a specific translation of the western term "time" in reference to philosophy. The Daijirin entry here explains:
〔明治初期には英語 time は「時・時刻」と訳され、「哲学字彙」（1881年）に訳語として「時間」と載る〕
 (The English term "time" was translated as 時{とき} or 時刻{じこく} at the start of the Meiji period [beginning 1868; here, likely including the 1870s], with the term 時間{じかん} appearing as a translation term in Tetsugaku Jii (1881) ["Philosophical Dictionary", compiled by Inoue Tetsujirō])
Notably, most (maybe all?) such "translation terms" were existing words in Japanese that were repurposed to express more western concepts, such as 社会{しゃかい} "society", or 自由{じゆう} "freedom, liberty".
Key points:
 - The concept of "time" clearly existed even in ancient Japanese culture.
 - The concept of "hour" as a specific span of time has also existed, for essentially the entirety of recorded Japanese history. Granted, that definition might have differed from the modern western concept, but it was a specific idea of "time measurement".
 - The main shifts related to "time" in the Meiji period were:
 1. widespread translation of western materials in an urgent and strategic push to catch up technologically, leading to the rejiggering of various cultural ideas, including "time", and
 2. the promulgation of the Gregorian calendar and western-style 24-hour day, as opposed to the traditional 12-hour day, with six hours of day and six hours of night.
You had specifically asked:
Is it true that there was no word for time before the Meiji restauration?
No, that is not true.
What word is he [Professor Geißler] referring to? 時間 or the kanji 時?
Professor Geißler is far enough off-base that I don't think he's referring to any specific term -- I suspect he doesn't know enough about Japanese history or the language for either term to be immediately relevant to his statement.
Professor Geißler clearly got the wrong end of the stick. I note that he is apparently a Professor of Wirtschaftspädagogik, or "economics pedagogy", with no apparent work in Japanese history, culture, or language. In his defense, it is easy to misapprehend things outside of one's field of expertise.
I think the word [時間]{じかん} was created in the Meiji era, but the word [時]{とき} is older. So it's definitely wrong that "the Japanese didn't have any interest in clocks (until 1871)".
I searched in an old-Japanese dictionary and found the usage of 「とき」 in 竹取物語:
Here, the word [子]{ね}のとき refers to a certain time which is around midnight.
竹取物語 was written more than 1000 years ago. So the word 「とき」 is at least 1000 years old.
The installation of the Gregorian calendar was on 1872.
It doesn't mean Japanese didn't have a concept of time, they used a lunar calendar (different one from Chinese).
They had a Japanese clock which divides a day in six and a night in six.
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Must-Know: What is the idea behind ensemble learning?
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In ensemble methods, more diverse the models used, more robust will be the ultimate result.
"In statistics and machine learningensemble methods use multiple learning algorithms to obtain better predictive performance than could be obtained from any of the constituent learning algorithms alone."
Imagine you are playing the game "Who wants to be millionaire?" and reached up to last question of 1 million dollars. You have no clue about the question, but you have audience poll and phone a friend life lines. Thank God. At this stage you don't want to take any risk, so what will you do to get sure-shot right answer to become millionaire?
You will use both life lines, isn't it? Let's say 70% audience is saying right answer is D and your friend is also saying the right answer is D with 90% confidence because he is an expert in the area of the question. Use of both life lines gives you an average 80% confidence that D is correct and gets you closer to becoming a millionaire.
This is the approach of ensemble methods.
The famous Netflix Prize competition took almost 3 years before the goal of 10% improvement was reached. The winners used gradient boosted decision trees to combine over 500 models.
In ensemble methods, the more diverse the models used, the more robust will be the ultimate result.
Different models used in ensemble improves overall variance from difference in population, difference in hypothesis generated, difference in algorithms used and difference in parametrization. There are main 3 widely used ensembles techniques:
 1. Bagging
 2. Boosting
 3. Stacking
So if you have different models built for same data and same response variable, you can use one of the above methods to build ensemble model. As every model used in the ensemble has its own performance measures, some of the models may perform better than ultimate ensemble model and some of them may perform poorer than or equal to ensemble model. But overall the ensemble methods will improve overall accuracy and stability of the model, although at the expense of model understandability.
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The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge has passed the halfway mark, but it's not too late for teachers and students to sign up. Since the fall, CoderZ and Amazon Future Engineer have been bringing real-world industry to Title I classrooms with this free, three-hour virtual learning experience. Students can sign up for the challenge to learn the basics of computer science at any time until the end of the current school year. They will also uncover how Amazon uses computer science and robotics daily to deliver customer goods.
Schools that support students from underserved communities who finish the challenge will have the chance to keep learning on CoderZ's cloud-based platform with its virtual robots and game-like "missions." For teachers who want to continue with CoderZ, Amazon will also sponsor free access to the yearlong curriculum for 100,000 students from underserved communities within the United States for a full semester during 2020 – 2021.
"We're truly delighted to be partnering with Amazon Future Engineer," said Ms. Yaarit Levy, VP Business Development at CoderZ. "This challenge has proved to be an excellent way to keep students engaged and learning even if they can't be together with teachers at this time."
The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge provides a unique learning experience for students in grades four and up where they can explore and practice coding skills while taking an inside look at real-world industry. Participating students will see how what they learn in class relates to future job opportunities. That makes this challenge a great bonus unit for any STEM/computer science class or curriculum.
Aligned to CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards, the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge can be broken into four, 45-minute or three, 60-minute lessons for any class (Introduction to Computer Science, AP Computer Science Principles, science, math, etc.). As part of the experience, two Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients introduce the challenge and guide participating students. As students make their way through the competition, the Scholarship recipients share details about their own personal journeys into computer science, which is helpful for younger students to hear firsthand.
Aside from the sponsorships, students' cyber robotics learning doesn't have to stop once they have completed the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge. They can continue their coding journey via CoderZ's comprehensive offerings such as CoderZ Adventure for elementary students, the Python Gym course for students in grades seven through 12, and the middle school curriculums Cyber Robotics 101 and Cyber Robotics 102. Teachers can even register their classes for the all-new CoderZ League Sprint Challenge that will be played in March.
Throughout the year, Amazon Future Engineer is committed to providing access to high-quality computer science education for hundreds of thousands of students from underserved and underrepresented communities. In addition to sponsoring continued access to CoderZ for more than 100,000 underserved students, the Amazon Future Engineer program more than doubled its own reach to more than 5,000 schools, benefitting more than 550,000 K-12 students across the country.
For more information about the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge, go to _URL_
CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. Developed for students in grades 2 and above, the gamified STEM solution allows students to work at their own pace, easily programming real and virtual robots from anywhere in the world. The platform enables students to acquire computational thinking, problem-solving and creativity skills, together with coding and STEM learning, all via a flexible and scalable virtual solution. For more information go to _URL_.
The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge has passed the halfway mark, but it's not too late for teachers and students to sign up. Since the fall, CoderZ and Amazon Future Engineer have been bringing real-world industry to Title I classrooms with this free, three-hour virtual learning experience. Students can sign up for the challenge to learn
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This tutorial is going to show you how to activate a twitter widget (API 1.1) in JS animated templates. If your template comes with a twitter widget HTML code like:

In order to activate it,
- Go to _URL_
- Log in, if needed, into your twitter account.
- Click "Create New".
- On the next page under Configuration you can change the default settings, when needed (like height, theme, link color etc). The results of your manipulations can be seen on the right. Or you may skip the step if you wish to make changes to the widget later.
- Click "Create Widget". This will create a new field with some code highlighted.
- Copy the code.
- Open the.html file in Dreamweaver and paste the code where you would like to see your twitter widget.
- Save the changes and open the file in a web browser. The twitter widget should appear where you added the code.
- Using Firebug for Firefox you may change the default height/width etc of your widget to match the layout of your site.
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Benefits of olive oil for a foot massage and its method
Feet massage is often done using oil from natural oils, including olive oil, which is the subject of this article, where we will review the benefits of olive oil for foot massage.
You can download this file that contains 6 steps to make a healthy foot massage using olive oil, which will ensure that you get the maximum benefit in the right way.
Foot massage sessions have spread today, due to their effectiveness in relieving body pain, as the foot contains the nerve ends of the nerves spread throughout the rest of the body, and people who spend long working hours standing, undergo foot massage sessions, in order to relieve their pain,.
Often massages are done using oil from natural oils, including olive oil, which is the subject of this article.
Benefits of olive oil for the body
Benefits of olive oil
Olive oil is one of the well-known natural oils known for its great benefits to the human body, and this oil consists of a group of unsaturated fatty acids such as: omega-3 and omega-6 as well as oleic acid.
These fatty acids have a large and important role in the human body, which made olive oil one of the oils of choice for use in massages.
Benefits of olive oil to massage the feet
Olive oil has antioxidant properties
The antioxidant properties of olive oil contribute to treating inflammation of muscles and joints, and protecting them from the waste of deposited metabolites, as the accumulation of these wastes in the cells of muscle tissue as well as joints causes inflammation in the joints and the surrounding muscles.
Therefore, olive oil is used in massaging the feet for its ability to relieve and remove these pain and inflammation.
Foot fungus removal
One of the important benefits of olive oil is that it works as an anti-fungus, as olive oil eliminates the fungi in the feet, and repairs the dead cells that are next to those fungi, thus obtaining a smooth foot.
Treating cracked feet
These cracks are often caused by dry feet and lack of attention and care for them, and these cracks often increase in the winter, and massage with olive oil is useful in treating cracked feet, as olive oil moisturizes the feet and provides the necessary care.
Reach a state of calm and relaxation and reduce stress
When massaged with olive oil, it stimulates blood circulation in the cells of the body, which helps in nourishing the cells, expelling waste and toxins from them, this blood circulation when it works normally, it increases muscle relaxation, and this effect is reflected on the person, and he enters a state of calm And tranquility.
Activating blood flow to the cells of the body
With massage, olive oil expands blood vessels, thus stimulating blood flow to the massaged area.
Treat insomnia and facilitate sleep
Insomnia mostly results from excessive thinking and increased levels of anxiety and tension in a person, as the nerve cells in the human body cannot prepare the body for the sleeping position.
Body massage in general works to relax muscles and nerves, and reduce levels of anxiety and tension in humans, while olive oil stimulates blood circulation, nourishes cells and rid them of toxins, and thus increases the level of energy production in cells, and the tension and turmoil in nerve cells in particular is removed, to become a person Able to sleep and away from insomnia.
How to massage the feet with olive oil:
 - The masseur first rubs the entire foot with olive oil.
 - The masseur begins massaging the front of the foot, pressing it with the thumb to deliver the olive oil to the deep muscle tissue and treat its infections.
 - The masseur performs a massage with rubbing on the front of the foot area in order to stimulate blood flow to this area, thus the person enters into a state of relaxation.
 - The masseur moves to the heel area, and he massages this area with gentle pressure on it to ensure that the oil reaches the internal tissues, to perform its function in removing pain and inflammation, and treating cracks.
 - Since the heel area is the strongest area on the foot, pressure is applied to this area with regular circular movements, as most of the foot pain is concentrated in this area.
 - The masseur massages the soles of the arched foot and rubs it in order to stimulate blood circulation in it and deliver the oil to the deep tissues.
 - Moving to the toes, where the toes are tightened and pressed with oil, to remove the fungi in them, as well as what should not be forgotten between the toes, to remove the bacteria in this area.
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Exercise 5.1.2
$\star$ Describe an implementation of the procedure RANDOM(a,b) that only makes calls to RANDOM(0,1). What is the expected running time of your procedure as a function of $a$ and $b$?
Let $n = b - a$. The algorithm is as follows:
 1. We find the smallest integer $c$ such that $2^c \ge n$ ($c = \lceil \ln{n} \rceil$)
 2. We call RANDOM(0, 1) $c$ times to and get a $c$-digit binary number $r$
 3. If $r > n$ we go back to the previous step
 4. Otherwise we return $a + r$
This produces a uniformly random number in that range. However, there is a possibility to have to repeat step 2. There is $p = n/2^c$ chance of not having to repeat step two. The geometric distribution suggests that on average it takes $1/p$ trials before we get such a number, that is $2^c/n$ trials. Since we perform $c$ calls to RANDOM(0, 1) on each trial, the expected running time is
$$ \O\bigg(\frac{2^c}{n} c\bigg) = \O\bigg(\frac{\ln(b-a)2^{\ln(b-a)}}{b-a}\bigg) = \O(\ln(b-a)) $$


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Water + Mandarin Experiment
- A bucket of water
- A mandarin
Method: fill a bucket with water and put mandarin in and see what happens.
My experience: So first we put the mandarin in the water and it was struggling to float(it still did though). Next we peeled the mandarin and put it in. It sank to the bottom like a rock. Then we put the peels in and they floated. Then my friends put the piece onto the peel and put it in the water it floated. I found out that for mandarins the skin is what keeps the buoyant.


After floods, trauma haunts survivors
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) They may have escaped death but witnessed hundreds, including their loved ones, die in front of their eyes. The victims of the Uttarakhand floods may need more than medical care for their bruises, they would need psychological counseling as well, say experts.
The tales of horror from the devastating floods include that of 13-year-old Harmanpreet, who was reduced to eating from garbage cans after starving for over 43 hours.
People recounted sleeping on deadbodies and family members seeing their loved ones being washed away.
Doctors say the trauma remains for very long with those who survive such disasters and medical help is needed to deal with this.
"The victims of incidents like these suffer psychological trauma. We call it Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) in medical terms," said Mitali Srivastava, Head, Department of Clinical Psychology, Delhi Psychiatry Centre, Cosmos Hospitals.
"The post-disaster trauma occurs when someone experiences a direct or indirect loss," said Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Delhi Psychiatry Centre.
"It may occur due to loss of some dear one, or loss of poperty, or even if someone has just witnessed the incident. In case of a family member being lost, people also suffer from survivor's guilt. The impact is huge and professional intervention is must," he said.
Sameer Kalani Consultant Psychiatrist, Cosmos Institute of Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences (CIMBS), said it is the replaying of the trauma that gets blocked in the victim's brain that leads to anxiety and other problems.
"After a situation that posed a threat to ones life and integrity, this is how the human brain reacts. Someone may have seen the floods, someone may have seen dead bodies. After the incident is over, they get flashbacks and they get anxiety attacks," Kalani told IANS.
"It happens because a of lack of Serotonin, a nuero-chemical. A person may be sitting quietly and suddenly a flashback may occur and he would have an anxiety attack," Kalani explained.
"The patients have depression, high distress levels, anxiety attacks, nightmares and flashbacks," Srivastava added.
"It's a devastating condition and people need some kind of solace," she said.
Doctors say expert help is needed to avoid further damage.
"The mind tries to suppress the trauma and in an attempt to avoid it, flashbacks are created. The most important thing is a ventilation; talking about the trauma helps a lot," Kalani said.
"In the counseling we did after the (26/11) Mumbai terror attack, we realised psychological help for a few weeks will help prevent further illness and disorders," he added.
Srivastava said a technique called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can help a victim in releaseing the blockages that cause the disorder.
"EMDR is one of the most researched psychological techniques used on such patients. In this technique, movement of the eyes in a defined way is used to reprocess the whole trauma and release it by removing the blockage," she said.
Mittal addeed hypnotic-therapy is also useful.
"In this technique, hypnotism is used to reach the back of patient's mind and clear the blockages," he added.
Doctors in the national capital are also helping the patients through a helpline - _PHONE_.
"We are mostly getting calls from people whose family members are missing. These people have a sense of hopelessness. There are others whose family members have come home, or some family members have come while some are missing. The common problems these people are facing are a sense of anxiety, sleep disorders and depression," Kalani added.
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Two Methodist Hospitals Earn Accreditation in Echocardiography
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Methodist University and Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown have received a "seal of approval" that heart patients can trust for high-quality echocardiography services.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Germantown Hospital and Methodist University Hospital have been granted a three-year term of accreditation in Echocardiography in the area of Adult Transthoracic by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC).
Early detection of life threatening heart disorders and other cardiovascular diseases is possible through the use of echocardiography procedures. Echocardiography, or echo, is a simple test that uses sound waves to create moving pictures of the heart. These pictures show the size and shape of your heart. They also show how well your heart's chambers and valves are working.
Accreditation by the IAC means that these two hospitals have undergone a thorough review of their operational and technical components by a panel of experts. The IAC grants accreditation only to those facilities that are found to be providing quality patient care, in compliance with national standards through a comprehensive application process including detailed case study review.


Meaning of U in English
I. ˈyü noun
( plural u's or us ˈyüz)
Usage: often capitalized, often attributive
a. : the 21st letter of the English alphabet
b. : an instance of this letter printed, written, or otherwise represented
c. : a speech counterpart of orthographic u (as long u in mute, short u in cut, or u in rule )
2. : a printer's type, a stamp, or some other instrument for reproducing the letter u
3. : someone or something arbitrarily or conveniently designated u especially as the 20th or when j is used for the 10th the 21st in order or class
4. : something having the shape of the letter U
II. abbreviation
Usage: often capitalized
1. uncirculated
2. uncle
[German und ]
4. under
5. unified
6. uniform
7. union; unionist
8. unit; united
9. universal
10. university
11. unpleasant
12. upper
III. symbol
Usage: capitalized
1. ital intrinsic energy
2. uranium
IV. ˈyü adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: u pper class
: characteristic of the upper classes — usually used in contrast to non-U
V. abbreviation
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External marketing environment factors essay
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Are contractors doing enough to attract capital?
June 28, 2018 - Forest sector contractors in British Columbia are a shrinking breed. The industry has contracted in so many ways but one could argue the most impacted in the supply chain is logging contractors. Contractors are getting larger, owners are aging, and average margins are poor. Risks are increasing while the reward is decreasing. The result is fewer logging contractors. Those left are being asked to do more, and will have to do more.
This spring we have seen the impact of the reduction of logging contractors and the risks associated with operating on the land base. Even with a longer than normal winter harvesting season and the use of satellite yards to lengthen the hauling season, we are seeing sawmills at risk of production shutdowns because of log shortages. The trees are on the land base but there is not enough capacity to harvest, process, and transport logs to sawmills within the seasonal opportunities.
This shortage exists because logging contractors are not generating a sufficient return to be sustainable, recruit and train new staff, or invest in innovation. Over the last few years, TimberTracks has been analyzing logging contractor accountant prepared year-end financial statements to understand the situation of the industry supply chain. We underwent a robust third-party verification process to ensure our analysis and sample is representative of the industry. The results were worrisome.
There are two types of capacity challenges for the supply chain. The first is labour. The workforce is aging and forestry is not generally considered an attractive vocation for younger people. The days are long, the risks are high, and the compensation is not as good as historically found in other mechanized industries such as mining and oil and gas. The collective industry needs to assess its image and how it attracts young people to careers in forestry.
The second capacity challenge is return on capital. Without getting into the specific details, the evidence indicated that logging contractors are financially underperforming the requirements of their capital-intensive industry. The reasons for underperformance are myriad and beyond the scope of this column. How the industry arrived here is not important. What is important is how we move forward to make sure that the supply chain is sustainable.
If we look to other capital-intensive industries we see that supply and demand principles are evident. When demand is high and supply is low, prices rise. When supply is high and demand is low, prices sink. The forest industry has gone through cycles of high supply and high demand of harvesting capacity but return on capital has experienced a long, slow downward trend regardless of contractor demand and supply. The low return on capital has resulted in a supply chain that is an unattractive place to invest capital.
Owners of logging contractors are aging and need to have succession plans. Many multi-generational transfers are occurring, but usually rely heavily on the older generation taking most, if not all, of the risk of funding the transition. Succession plans to employees or unrelated third-parties are becoming almost unheard of. These businesses are worth more in a complete dispersal than they are as a going concern. Is it any wonder that contractor capacity is shrinking?
The long-term solution to supply chain sustainability is creating an attractive investment environment for capital. We are often asked about the proper return on capital for logging contractors. The answer to that question is really dependent on the returns of realistic alternate investments with a risk adjustment based on the circumstances. Contractors are usually financially dependent on, at most, a few customers and that has concentration risk. They also almost exclusively depend on the fortunes of lumber prices. Investment in a logging contractor would need to yield a return risk adjusted higher than could be experienced in a diversified investment such as a public stock market index which usually made up of large corporate enterprises with broad industry, geographic, and product offering diversification.
As we look to the future of forest sector contractors, we have to understand how we manage the long-term sustainability to attract capital and young people to the business. The inability to generate proper returns on capital will invite capital to invest in other industries. It would be a shame if the Canadian forest industry ground to a halt, not because of market demand or wood supply, but because no one was left to harvest and transport logs to sawmills.
Aaron Sinclair, MBA, is the president of Timber Tracks Inc., based in Prince George, B.C.
June 28, 2018
By Aaron Sinclair
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Introduced: Hurricane Nuking Ban
June 10, 2020
File this under "Laws no one would have imagined necessary until the age of Trump".
Washington Post:
Last August, Axios reported that President Trump repeatedly asked top national security officials to consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. Now, one congresswoman wants to make it illegal for Trump, or any president, to act on this idea, which experts say would be both ineffective and extremely dangerous.
On June 1, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Tex.) introduced the Climate Change and Hurricane Correlation and Strategy Act, a bill that explicitly prohibits the president, along with any other federal agency or official, from employing a nuclear bomb or other "strategic weapon" with the goal of "altering weather patterns or addressing climate change."
In a phone interview, Garcia told The Washington Post that the bill was drafted as a direct response to last year's report that Trump has floated the idea of nuking hurricanes to his senior homeland security and national security advisers. Trump denied ever making such a suggestion in a tweet shortly after Axios published its report.
The bill comes at the start of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which is off to a roaring start, with Tropical Storm Cristobal, the earliest-recorded third-named storm of any season, striking Louisiana on Sunday. The season is expected to bring above-average storm activity, with 14 to 19 named storms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Indeed, the idea of nuking the weather into submission is nothing new: According to James Fleming, a professor at Colby College and author of "Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control," people have been discussing the possibility for almost as long as nuclear weapons have existed.
In October 1945, Vladimir Zworykin, associate research director at Radio Corporation of America, suggested that if humans had technology to perfectly predict the weather, military forces could be sent out to disrupt storms before they formed, perhaps using atomic bombs. That same year, UNESCO director Julian Huxley spoke at an arms control conference in Manhattan, where he discussed using nuclear weapons for "landscaping the Earth" or dissolving the polar ice cap. In a 1961 speech at the National Press Club, U.S. Weather Bureau head Francis Reichelderfer said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea," according to a 2016 report by National Geographic.
The United States even conducted several near-space experiments using nukes, including Operation Argus, a 1958 field test in which the military and the Atomic Energy Commission detonated atomic bombs more than 100 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean in an ill-conceived effort to induce artificial radiation belts in Earth's magnetic field. According to Fleming, the Argus tests, along with subsequent high-altitude nuclear detonations, helped "fuel discussions" leading to the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which prohibits atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.
While nuking a hurricane in an attempt to destroy or weaken it would probably cause an international uproar, the Partial Test Ban Treaty wouldn't prohibit the president from doing so. In addition, there's no domestic law or international treaty that would prohibit such an action, according to Scott Sagan, a professor of political science at Stanford University.
"It would be a stupid thing to do, but it would not be an illegal thing to do," Sagan said. He said test bans wouldn't cover the actual use of a nuclear weapon against a perceived threat to the United States. In such circumstances, the president has sole authority to use nuclear weapons.
Hurricane experts have long maintained that detonating a nuclear device in a hurricane would have little effect on it, according to an FAQ page on the NOAA website. As the agency explains, the energy released by nuclear weapons pales in comparison to the energy released by a typical hurricane, which the NOAA describes as comparable to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding "every 20 minutes."
Even detonating multiple nuclear bombs inside a hurricane is unlikely to disrupt the storm, although the radioactive fallout released downwind could have catastrophic impacts for people and the environment.
5 Responses to "Introduced: Hurricane Nuking Ban"
 1. doldrom Says:
 I would favor the bill if they left out the part starting "with the goal …"
 Just ban employing nuclear bombs, which was te stated aim of the non-Proliferation Treaty.
 We were forewarned, because to my recollection, Trump was asking, before he was elected: What the point was of having nuclear weapons if you can't use them.
 - dumboldguy Says:
 After wading through "Look at Me" Chucky's usual inane and irrelevant comments, one finds some intelligent discussion of the topic by doldrom. Yep, banning use of nuclear weapons PERIOD would solve the problem, but we know that's not going to happen. Can we settle for just keeping the stable genius and his minions from uselessly firing one off against a hurricane?
 (And the list of stupid things done in the past with nuclear weapons or suggested by people who should have known better is pretty scary)
 2. […] the money might be a needful exercise, on the Trump recession now being a real thing, and in the "In what sane world would a law like this be needed?" […]
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Application of horizontal screw decanter centrifuge and its working principle and parameters
Jun 26, 2019
Horizontal screw decanter centrifugee, which may be called horizontal screw decanter centrifuge, is a specific type of centrifuge, and it is used in some industries and fields, so it needs to be familiar and understood. How to use it correctly and reasonably, to make full use of the product and avoid waste.
1. Application industry and application range of horizontal screw decanter centrifuge
Food industry: slag removal in juice production, de-soy of soy protein, dehydration of peanut protein, scouring of animal and vegetable oils, and dehydration of fishmeal and bone glue.
Petrochemical industry: grading of older soils, grading of drilled mud, clarification of sulphuric acid, clarification of coal tar, and dehydration of dyes and barium sulphate.
Environmental protection industry: industrial abrasives, wine tanks, power plant sludge, dewatering of paper mill sludge, beer industry wastewater and steel smelting wastewater treatment.
2. Working principle of horizontal screw decanter centrifuge
The working principle of the horizontal screw decanter centrifugeis specifically: when the mixed liquid to be separated enters the centrifuge drum, the solid phase particles with a larger specific gravity in the mixed liquid are deposited on the rotating drum under the action of centrifugal force. On the inner wall, the solid phase particles are scraped off and exited from the slag discharge port by a spiral blade that moves relative to the drum, and the supernatant liquid obtained after the separation flows out of the drum through the opening of the raft, thereby achieving solid-liquid separation.
In this type of centrifuge, the relative movement between the screw and the drum is realized by a differential, the outer casing of the differential is connected to the drum, the output shaft is connected to the screw, and the input shaft and the secondary motor are connected. connection. Therefore, while the main motor electric drum rotates, it also drives the rotation of the differential housing, and drives the planetary gear to operate, and transmits the torque to the spiral according to a certain ratio, so as to achieve continuous separation of materials.
3. Working parameters of horizontal screw decanter centrifuge
Horizontal screw decanter centrifuge This kind of centrifuge has corresponding working parameters, and the user can determine the appropriate parameters according to the material properties of the suspension, the liquid phase and solid phase requirements after separation, and the processing capacity of the centrifuge. The value is to ensure that the centrifuge has good use and quality of work. In the specific working parameters, there are such parameters as the processing volume, the rotating drum speed, the difference between the rotating drum and the spiral, and the diameter of the overflow plate. After determining the appropriate value, the centrifuge can have a good separation effect. _URL_


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A car of mass 1.5 tonnes pass over a bridge formed the arc of a circle of radius 20m.
a) Find the force exerted by the car on the road at the top of the bridge if the car is travelling at 10m/s.
b) What speed would cause the car to be on the point of lifting up off the bridge at its highest point
What I've done:
F = mv^2 / r
F = 1500 * 10^2 / 20
F = 7500 N
---- Don't know if this is anything (the answer in the book is 7200N)
tan(t) = v^2/rg
tan(t) = 10^2/20*9.8
tan(t) = 0.510
(t) = tan^-1(0.510)
(t) = 27.02 deg
Force of car on road = mg sin (t)
= 1500*9.8sin (27.02)
= 6678.23 N
However as I said previously the answer is 7200 N.
b) No idea really... not sure of the formula to use
The answer for b) is 14m/s.


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St. Albert of Magdeburg
Feastday: June 20
A monk of St. Maximin Benedictine monastery in Treves, Albert was sent by Emperor Otto the Great to convert the Russian subjects of Princess Olga at her request after she became a Christian in Constantinople at 70 years of age. When Olga's son Svyatoslav, a pagan, took the crown from her in 961, the missionaries were forced to flee, and some were killed near Kiev. Albert escaped, spent four years at the imperial court in Mainz, and then was made abbot of Weissenburg Abbey, where he became known as a patron of learning. In 962, at Otto's insistence, he was named first archbishop of Magdeburg, Saxony, with jurisdiction over the Slavs. He spent the rest of his life trying to spread Christianity among the Wends and reforming religious groups in his diocese. He died on a visit to Merseburg.


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