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In our previous post, we took a look at how Bethash uses an entirely new system to prove fairness, as compared to cryptocurrency casinos that use an older system, known as 'provably fair'.
In this article, we will explore the practicality of an absolutely fair casino and identify some of the flaws that exist in the provably fair system. These issues, in addition to some other limitations of the technology, are what prompted the BetHash team to begin using blockchain-based provable fairness.
Quick Recap on Fairness: 3 versus 21
If you remember correctly, our previous article explained the basics of how the provably fair system works. The provably fair system works because of 3 components: the server seed, client seed, and the nonce.
Now, for the sake of argument, if any two of these three components are compromised, then the security of the provably fair system breaks down. We will get into the specifics of how this might occur in the next section.
The way BetHash differs here is in fact of a simple numbers game. Instead of relying on three components as per typical provably fair casinos, BethHash relies on the 21 block producers of the EOS blockchain network.
As we have previously explained, the EOS network has a decentralized network of 21 block producers that secure the blockchain network against mutability. If you were to somehow trying to alter the results of BetHash, you would first have to first corrupt at least 11 of the 21 EOS block producers, which is a practically impossible task, since each block producer is voted into position by tens of thousands of EOS users.
Because of this, subvert even one of the EOS block producers is a nigh-impossible task, since every EOS block producer is a well-known, reputable force in the EOS community.
How is the Provably Fair System Corruptible?
The answer to this question lies more in human error and human nature rather than the technology itself. The implementation of the provably fair system differs from casino to casino, which can mean different casinos have loopholes not present in most others.
Then comes the concept of a Zero-day attack. Consider this; the first generation of online casinos used random number generators (RNGs) to ensure fairness until it was discovered that RNGs were not secured enough. This was primarily due to the faulty implementation of the number generation algorithm. A great example is this case, where one person was able to accurately figure out how the cards were being shuffled in an online poker game, despite them being arranged using random numbers.
A Zero-day attack can be defined as the exploitation of faulty code or faulty implementation of a perfectly fine code despite the implementor (in this case, a casino) knowing about this vulnerability. With this in mind, let's take a look at two examples of how a provably fair system could have hidden vulnerabilities:
Example 1: Nonce overflow
This vulnerability has to do with a faulty way of storing the nonce in an unsecured unsigned integer variable. This could, in turn, lead the nonce variable to overflow after a certain number of bets have been made and cause it to return 0, resulting in every future roll to become predictable.
For a detailed explanation of how a Nonce overflow flaw works, visit this article.
Example 2: Force-It Box
In this second example, one programmer was able to detect two vulnerabilities in the way the provably fair system was implemented by one bitcoin dice site. First, the programmer discovered that there was no way for the client-side seed to be entered in the roll, which meant the website could still manipulate the results.
But the second and the bigger vulnerability was caused by the fact that the starting seed was exposed, giving anyone with enough gusto the ability to brute force the encryption and predict all the rolls.
For a detailed overview of how the Force-It Box vulnerability works, visit this GitHub post.
As you can see, although implementing a provably fair system is certainly a step in the right direction towards fairness, faulty implementations can cause the system to break down. On the other hand, with BetHash you are putting your trust in 21 incorruptible factors (EOS block producers) making BetHash a pioneering endeavor towards the evolution of fairness in online games.
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Located on Brisbane's northern outskirts, Griffin is a suburb that combines residential and agricultural land use. It extends from the northern side of the Pine River to Bramble Bay. Add to Description →
Griffin was named after one of the first settlers of the region. He was searching for hardwood timers for use in dwellings and as posts.
Aboriginal tribes, including the Yugerra and Gubbi speaking people, have inhabited the area north of the Pine River for many hundreds of years. This region was clearly shared by the tribes, as there are a number of bora rings, (places where two or more tribes met to celebrate) nearby.
As seen in the aerial photos of Griffin, some vistas of the Griffin region have fantastic views of the mouth of the Pine River and Bramble Bay, and overlook the Hornibrook Highway and Brighton.
Griffin is the location of Osprey House. Osprey House is a well known environmental education centre, run by the Moreton Bay Regional Council and is located on Dohles Rocks Road. The education centre aims to inform the general public about the impact of our modern lives on our environment. The boardwalks, bbq and picnic facilities are accessible at any time, and the lowlands walks often offer glimpses of Ospreys, Brahminy, Whistling Kites and White-breasted Sea Eagles.

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Floki from Vikings: Fact or Fiction
Floki, the best friend of Ragnar Lothbrok, is undeniably one of the most popular characters on Vikings. But is the character of Floki based on a real historical figure or just developed for the show?
While the character of Floki is named after the 9th century Viking explorer Hrafna-Floki, on-screen he actually an amalgam of several Vikings, including a number of explorers linked with the discovery of Iceland, as well as Erik the Red, who created the first settlement in Greenland.
 The historical part of Floki's story only seems to emerge in the later seasons after the death of Ragnar, but it is hard to imagine that the show creators didn't have this in mind from the beginning.
Let's take a close look at Floki and the real Viking on which his story is based.
Floki on Vikings
On Vikings Floki is played by Gustaf Skarsgard, yes, the brother of Alexander and Bill Skarsgard and another son of Stellen Skarsgard – they are Swedish acting royalty.
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On the show, the main characteristics of Floki are that he is a gifted inventor and builder of ships, who creates the ships that allow Ragnar to sail to England; that he is dedicated to the old religion in the face of Christianity; and that he discovered Iceland and founded a settlement there.
Floki and Loki
Just as Ragnar is said to be descended from Odin, on the show Floki is described as a descendant of Loki, and many of the stories of the god are also used to create Floki's character and journey.
Floki and Loki
For example, when Ragnar punishes Floki for his role in the death of Athelstan, Ragnar ties him to two rocks and tortures him by letting water from the cave's roof drip on his head. His wife Helga stays in the cave with him, catching the water to save him from some of the torture.
This is based on the story of the punishment given to Loki for his role in the death of Balder, one of the sons of Odin. Odin has Loki chained between two rocks and a poisonous serpent hung over his head to drip stinging poison onto his head.
Loki's wife, the goddess Sigyn, stays by his side catching the poison in a dish. Sometimes she has to leave to empty the dish, and the poison hits Loki, giving him painful convulsions that cause earthquakes.
Floki and the Discovery of Iceland
One of Floki's key storylines on Vikings is his role in the discovery and settlement of Iceland. This makes it clear that the character on the show was named from Hrafna-Loki (Raven-Floki) Vilgerdarson, one of the first Vikings to visit Iceland.
Floki and the discovery of iceland
But the story of Floki on the show is actually an amalgam of the stories of several Vikings that discovered Iceland in the 9th century, recorded in the surviving manuscripts Landnámabók, the book of settlement, and Islendingabók, the book of Iceland.
These books actually suggest that the Vikings were not the first to discover Iceland. They record that a group of Christian aesthetic priests known as the paper from Ireland and the Hebrides may have already been living in Iceland seeking isolation. But they are thought to have intelligently departed when the Norsemen began to arrive.
Floki as Discoverer
Hrafna-Floki is not credited with discovering Iceland, but rather as being the first man to deliberately sail there.
Floki's journey to discover Iceland on Vikings is based on the stories of two earlier men, Naddod and Gadar Svavarsson.
Floki ad Discoverer
Naddod is said to have been a Viking from Norway who was also one of the earliest settlers of the Faroe Islands, an island cluster that lies pretty much in the center of the sea between Iceland, Norway, and Scotland.
On one of his journeys between Norway and the Faroe Islands, he was blown off course, and found himself on the east coast of Iceland. He explored a little but found no people there, so set off again and eventually reached his original destination. He called the land he visited Snaeland, which means land of snow.
Iceland was again reached by accident by the Danish Vikings Gardar Svavarsson, who was married to a woman from the Hebrides in Scotland. He set off to the Hebrides in order to claim his inheritance, but clearly got blown very far off course as he found himself in Iceland. He too landed on the east coast, but then circumnavigated the landmass, proving that it was an Island.
He seems to have set up a small home for himself on the north coast in a place that he called Husabik, meaning house bay, before leaving the island. He called it Gardarsholmi, naming it after himself.
Floki as Hrafna-Floki
Floki's namesake Hrafna-Floki heard about Iceland from Gardar Svavarsson and decided to set out for the island.
He went with his wife Gro, two daughters, and three other men named Herjolfr, Faxi and Thorolf.
They set off from the Shetland Islands, and began encountering issues from the outset, with one of his daughters drowning. They stopped at the Faroe Islands, where Floki's other daughter stayed to get married.
There Floki also got three ravens. It was Viking custom to take ravens on sea journeys. When they thought that they were approaching land, they would set a raven free. If there was no land nearby, the raven would return. If there was, the raven would head directly for the land, and the Viking sailors would follow the path of the raven.
Floki set the ravens off three times. The first time it returned to the Faroe Islands, suggesting that the still had a long way to go. The second time the raven returned, and the third time they followed the raven to Iceland, just like Floki does on the show.
It was for these ravens that Floki earned the name Hrafna-Floki.
The small crew landed at the bay near Reykjavik, but then headed further north to Vatnafjordur to establish themselves.
The summer and autumn were good, but they found the winter very harsh and lost all of their animals. When the spring came, Floki climbed a great peak to look out over the land. It is said that he saw nothing but ice and snow, and therefore called the island Iceland.
The party decided not to stay and returned to Norway.
Floki as Settler
When Hrafna-Floki and his crew returned to Norway, apparently Floki though that the land was inhospitable and did not recommend it to others. But his crew were more hopeful, and word of the new land spread.
Floki as Settler
The Vikings were always looking for new lands, and not just because they were adventurers. The Vikings needed more lands to cultivate in order to feed their growing population. This is a line of history that Vikings touches on when it looks at the Viking desire to set up farming settlements in England.
Many Vikings were also looking to escape taxation and increasingly centralized rule to live more freely. This is another storyline dealt with by the show as we see Harald established as the first king of all Norway.
Hearing of the new land, the chieftain Ingolfr Arnarson set up an expedition in 874 that established a more permanent Norse colony hear Reykjavik. Thanks to good land for grazing and farming, the colony was a success.
Despite his protestations, Floki later returned to Iceland with his life Gro and lived there until he died. This is a marked difference between Hrafna-Floki and the Floki on our screens, who begins on his expedition to Iceland following the loss of his beloved wife Helga.
Floki and Erik the Red
One of the main characteristics of Floki's character on Vikings is his dedication to the old gods. This actually seems to be based on a different Viking explorer, Erik the Red.
Erik the Red founded the first settlement on Greenland in the late 10th century, after being banished from Norway and Iceland in turn for killing his fellow Vikings in fights.
Floki and Erik the red
After his period of banishment was over, Erik returned from Greenland to Iceland to find others to colonize Greenland with him. He told many of the riches of his new land, which is in fact a harsh environment. So, when Floki does this on the show, his character is borrowing from Erik's story.
Floki's commitment to the old gods may also be a character trait borrowed from Erik. He was a staunch supporter of the old faith and rejected Christianity, despite both his wife and son converting to Christianity and spreading it throughout Greenland.
Floki: Fact of Fiction
While it is clear that Floki is not a faithful representation of any single Viking individual known from the historical record, but rather an amalgam of several, he nevertheless nicely represents and embodies several important themes from Viking history.
The superior technology of the Viking longboats, along with the better weapon and diets, was one of the main reasons that the Vikings were able to dominate their neighbors. The show uses Floki to tell the story of the Viking longships.
The conflict between the old religion and Christianity was an important part of the history of the day. On the show, we see the curious, such as Ragnar, those who converted to facilitate


European Network of Migrant Women
Equal rights and fair treatment for migrant and refugee women and girls of different ethnic backgrounds living in Europe - free from violence, oppression and discrimination.
We strive to combat discrimination and promote the rights and interests of migrant and refugee women within the Europe through coordinated advocacy, exchange of information, capacity building activities, projects and events and representing ENoMW members at both the European and the National level.
To promote equal treatment, equal rights and better integration for migrant women in Europe. Provide regular input on all areas of EU policy development and implementation that have an impact on migrant women's lives. Help shape social policies and design action programmes addressing migrant women's specific needs. Represent member's organisations and lobby for and with migrant women to have a stronger voice at the international, European and state level. Support and empower migrant women organisations and movements through training, resources and collobarative actions.
The ENoMW adheres to human rights standards and international commitments. The ENoMW acknowledges the gendered dimension of immigration. The ENoMW believes that the migration and asylum policies and legislation should be gender sensitive and reflect the fact that migration affects women and men differently. The ENoMW acknowledges that migrant women are affected by Violence against Women in a way that exacerbates their negative experiences, due to racism, gender insensitive migration policies as well as lack of family support, cultural exclusion, legal, economic and communication barriers. The ENoMW believes that the protection of the dignity, integrity and privacy of migrant women throughout the process of immigration, asylum and integration are paramount in fulfilling full human rights of migrant women. The ENoMW recognises that migrant women organisations in Europe play a crucial role in facilitating integration of migrant women by providing information, education and counselling.
♀ ENOMW is a multi-ethnic secular umbrella organisation with the core values rooted in EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND FEMINISM.
♀ ENOMW is a female-only migrant women led organisation that recognises historic structural exclusion of women of colour, ethnic minorities women, migrant and refugee women in Europe.
♀ We recognise the unique and indispensable role of migrant women led organisations in creating safe spaces for the women of migrant descent. We are committed to strengthening migrant women's leadership, increasing their visibility and celebrating their contributions into European societies.
♀ ENOMW recognises that females are a universally and uniquely oppressed group. Discrimination against women is an outcome of globally manifest patriarchal norms and traditions that crosscut ethnic, cultural, economic and age differences.
♀ As a secular platform ENOMW affirms the importance of separation of religion and state. Practicing a religion is an individual freedom that should not interfere with other individual and collective freedoms. Being secular does not exclude having a religious conviction and/or practicing a religion.
♀ No cultural, ethnic or religious practices can or should justify infringement on or violation of universal human rights of women and girls. Any ideas of "cultural relativism" that naturalise inequalities between the sexes are incompatible with ENOMW core values and international human rights framework.
♀ ENOMW recognises that discrimination against women is historically entrenched in other patriarchal projects such as colonialism, imperialism, war-fare and exploitation of natural resources. The sex-based discrimination of women is intrinsically linked with and compounded by other forms of oppression based on race, ethnicity, class, age, legal status, disability and sexual orientation.
♀ ENOMW recognises that gender is a social construct imposed on individuals based on their sex through artificially designed patriarchal roles & stereotypes. Those are damaging to all and are particularly harmful for women. Eliminating gender stereotypes is paramount to fulfilling women's human rights.
♀ ENOMW acknowledges females' unique sexual-reproductive capacity. We recognise the control and violence the women have been subjected to historically on basis of this capacity (FGM, denial of abortion/contraception, forced marriage, sterilisation, rape, among others). ENOMW is committed to exposing, preventing and combating ALL forms of violence and discrimination aimed at limiting, controlling and exploiting female sexuality and female reproductive biology.
♀ ENOMW believes that sexual desire and consent can never be obtained through commercial transactions. We recognise that every woman, regardless of her economic or social status, has the right to sexual relationship based on equality, mutuality and respect, free from psychological, physical or material coercion, pressure or manipulation.
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♀ ENOMW acknowledges that male violence is a pandemic problem affecting women across cultures, classes and ethnicities and manifest at inter-personal, familial, communal and institutional levels. We are committed to political goals of eliminating systemic root causes of this violence.


Special Instructions for Windows Users: ======================================= They only thing you really have to worry about beyond a regular UNIX installation is: 1) Use nmake instead of make. Or, if make is unavailable, you will have to copy the modules by hand. To the correct perl library directory. (c:\perl\site\lib if you are using ActiveState, for instance). 2) Change the "store" directory. This is where all web-mirrored files will be stored. The location for the store directory is found in the XML configuration file at the bottom of Latex.pm under


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Why do some touchscreen gadgets look clearer than most, and why do others attract fingerprints?
Until now, no one really knew. But today, scientists at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society described the development of a test to assess the performance of smudgeand reflection-resistant coatings on touchscreen displays.
It might sounds like a trivial issue but phone, camera and media player manufacturers spend millions to ensure that their touchscreens are easy to view in bright light and resist greasy finger smudges.
However, the structure and mechanisms of screen coatings are poorly understood, so Dr Steven Carlo developed a test to determine the chemical composition and effectiveness of smudge and reflective resistant materials. Carlo explains, "Surfaces are particularly important in consumer products. Our work investigates how products can be modified to reduce smudging and reflections. These modifications can offer improved resistance to fingerprints, anti-reflection properties or enhanced physical resistance."
The basis of anti-smudge coatings is a perfluoro alkyl ether, a derivative of Teflon with added chemicals to enhance its repellent effects. Anti-reflective materials use alternating layers silica and aluminum to bend and diffuse light to reduce glare.
Carlo and his team used depth profile X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to compare the chemistry of these coatings. Anti-reflective coatings need alternating layers, which have differences in their refractive index, a measure of how fast light travels through a material. Fluorocarbons in general have low refractive indices and offer anti-smudge properties.
XPS allowed the scientists to visualize the multi-layer structure and the chemical species present in each layer. In general, they found that the greater the number of layers there are in a coating, the greater the anti-reflective properties. Carlo and his team also discovered that more silica and aluminum layers led to better glare reduction.
The tests should lead to tougher, crisper screens - and may even mean that future touchphones don't require ugly protective skins.

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Threat Assessment Team
The Threat Assessment Alert Team (TAAT) is dedicated to a proactive, coordinated and planned identification, prevention, assessment, management, and reduction of interpersonal and behavioral threats to the safety and well-being of students, faculty, staff and visitors of Roxbury Community College.
Threat assessment is designed to be a preventative process used to identify warning signs and intervene before something preventable happens. Cases are NOT managed on a first-come, first served basis. Rather, all cases are triaged and the most serious cases are managed first. All cases, regardless of the immediacy, will be reviewed and managed in the manner most appropriate for the situation.
In the event of an imminent or significant threat posed, the matter should be immediately referred to the College's Office of Public Safety and/or the Boston Police Department. This document outlines the process the team will follow upon receiving a referral for threatening, problematic, or concerning student behavior.
The College has a commitment to ensure that no retaliatory actions are taken against any person or persons who submit a referral form to the team.
- Kevin Hepner, Vice President of Administration and Finance
- Charles Walker, Interim Executive Director of Human Resources
- Ruth Hines, Health Services Coordinator
- Cecile Regner, Interim Vice President of Student and Academic Affairs
- Oscar Walker, Director of Public Safety
Identifying and Responding to Student of Concern
Signs and Symptoms for Students of Concern
- Erratic behavior, including infrequent class attendance or failure to follow through with responsibilities.
- Increasing dependence on a faculty or staff member, parent, or other person (by demanding excessive amounts of time and attention).
- Social isolation, withdrawal, lethargy.
- Inability to focus on a specific topic in a conversation or activity.
- Disorganized thinking and speech, feelings that are inappropriate to the situation, or other evidence that a student is "out of touch with reality".
- Expression of feelings of persecution, paranoia, or strong mistrust of others.
- Disruptive, explosive, or disrespectful behavior.
- Signs of excessive alcohol or drug use.
- Abrupt change in manner, style, or personal hygiene.
- Overtly suicidal thoughts and/or statements expressed verbally or in writing.
- Statements about harming someone else.
- Expressed uncertainty and anxiety about emotional stability, family situation, and/or relationship problems.
Guidelines for Responding to a Student of Concern
- Share your interest and concern openly and directly.
- Set clear limits about your role with the student.
- Maintain a student's privacy, but do not promise confidentiality.
- Help a student tell his or her story. Offer the opportunity to listen to what is on his or her mind.
- Demonstrate an understanding of what the student discloses.
- Statements made by the student regarding an intention or plan to harm self or others must be reported.
- Inquire as to how the student is attempting to respond to the problem. Help develop response options together.
- Consult with peers, colleagues, supervisors, deans, Dean of Students Office or others if you need additional perspectives before or after talking to the student.
- Suggest a referral to the Student Health Center, Dean of Students Office, or other community resources.
- Follow up as appropriate.


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Acknowledge the effort of your dad with our Astronaut Hello Superhero Balloons Bouquet. As it is unable to measure and explain the amount of effort needed to raise and take care of the family, just like how we get inspired by the first Astronaut who ever walked on the moon.
The Astronaut Superhero Balloons Bouquet consists of 2 balloons in a cluster:
- 1pc 37" Adorable Astronaut Foil Balloon
- 1pc 18" Personalised Name Blue Colored Crystal Clearz Bubble Balloon
Material: Mylar Foil and Superior quality stretchy plastic/poly film; Manufactured by USA Brand
The Astronaut Superhero Balloons Bouquet is
(1) Helium Gas Filled (Floating Time: approx 24 hours);
- Floating time in air: Approximately 24 Hours for Adorable Astronaut Foil Balloon, depending on weather condition/temperature and how balloons are being handled and transported
- Floating time in air: Approximately 3days for Personalised Name Blue Colored Crystal Clearz Bubble Balloon, depending on weather condition/temperature and how balloons are being handled and transported
- Approximately 1.8 meter in total height, Balloons will be tied in cluster.
- Attached to a balloon weight (for balloon to stay grounded)
Warning: Adult supervision is required as uninflated balloons can be a choking hazard. Keep uninflated balloons out of reach from children and discard broken balloons. Do not inhale helium gas at all time, it can be a health hazard.
Disclaimer: Product photos are for illustrative purposes only. Actual colors may vary from the product photos, and may also vary from the PC/Mobile/Tablet's screen due to monitor color restrictions.


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Brinstone is a particularly hard form of stone with above solid density found on numerous worlds, including but certainly not limited to Tallon IV, Aether/Dark Aether and Bryyo. Since its compact atomic structure makes it strong, it is used as a reliable building material in constructing foundations but rarely on war-torn worlds due to its relative fragility to even the smallest of concussive blasts.
A common way to shatter Brinstone obstacles is to fire a missile, which is the only way known to famous space hunter Samus Aran could figure to move through the obstacles during several missions where she encountered the substance, considering her current weapons complement at those times.
- Kreuger displacement: 49.57
- Atomic weight: 99.987
- Vacuum potential: 87.69
- Origin: Unknown
- Metroid Prime (First appearance)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption


Advantages of Afforestation?
Afforestation is the process of planting of trees for the purpose of creating woodland or forest. In the context of the common agricultural policy, the term refers to measures co-financed by the European Union to encourage new woodland development with a view to its beneficial effects for the environment.
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Wiki: The Pine Processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) is a moth of the family Thaumetopoeidae. It is sometimes placed in the genus Traumatocampa. It is an abundant species of pine woods in central and southern Europe, and an important economic pest. The species is notable for the behaviour of its caterpillar larvae, which overwinter in tent-like nests high in pine trees, and which process through the woods in nose-to-tail columns..
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Strategic Resource Allocation
SRA is a process by which to examine the ways our resources are being invested and addresses all institutional costs that will provide a plan to rebuild EWU financial health & sustainability.
The overall approach to strategic resource allocation (SRA) entails a systematic, collaborative, and transparent process to examine the ways our resources are being invested. The process is modeled after Robert C. Dickeson's book Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services (free access through EWU Library), and it will be used to address all institutional costs—both academic programs and support functions.
The effort is divided into several phases and will be conducted in a transparent manner. The campus community will be informed of all process elements and have the opportunity for input to ensure that all institutional activities are treated fairly.


Chikanobu, Carp Jumping under a Wisteria Tree at the Chiyoda Palace
Toyohara Chikanobu (1838 - 1912) Carp Jumping out of the Pond under a Wisteria Tree at the Chiyoda Palace (Chiyoda Ooku Ohanami), 1894. Oban triptych.
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This perfect and exquisite print, the delicate survivor of earthquake, fire and world war is a picture of longing… longing for a delicate and refined past by an artist obsessed with the pace of change, intrigued by the present and drawn to a disappearing history.
The Chiyoda Inner Palace (Chiyoda no Ooku) series of _PHONE_, together with his 1897 series Chiyoda Outer Palace (Chiyoda no on-omote), provided detailed depictions of life in and around Edo Castle before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. In the Chiyoda Inner Palace set, Chikanobu documented various annual ceremonies in the women's quarters, especially those at New Year's, and seasonal activities, particularly those conducted in the palace gardens...
The Palace itself is the Chiyoda Palace or Edo Castle as it was known. It was built in 1457 by the warrior Edo Shigetsugu in what is now the Honmaru and Ninomaru part of the Castle. It later became the seat of the old Tokugawa shogunate who rebuilt it in 1593 and completed it in 1636, but after centuries of power and total domestic and military dominance, the old regime, weakened and no longer relevant, were required to vacate the old Edo Castle in the revolution of 1868. Like so much of Japan's past, the bulk of the medieval castle was pulled down. Chikanobu shows an idealised scene of palace maids wandering under flowering wisteria, carp leaping out of the water.
These prints of the Chiyoda precincts are very beautiful and quite collectible. They only really shine if like this, they are in outstanding condition. The print is backed with album paper, colour, condition and impression are all fine.
Published by Fukuda Kumajiro.
73cm x 37cm.


Table of Contents
Overview of Seven-day Learning Sequence
The video you will watch is an overview that includes segments from a seven-day learning sequence about liquids. The learning goals for this lesson are for students to
 1. Discover through exploration and discussion that liquids can be described by their properties. Some properties are unique to specific liquids, but all liquids share the common property of taking the shape of the container, as well as flowing.
 1. Use the exploration as a context for speaking and listening, writing, and reading to deepen their understanding of liquids.
The teacher used an instructional tool called a 5E Instructional Cycle to plan this seven-day lesson. Take a moment to review her completed 5E lesson cycle.
Time to View
The video includes segments of days one and two. As you view the video, take note of strategies the teacher uses to engage students in exploring and explaining their understanding of the properties of the liquid, as well as the expectations the teacher has for students speaking, listening, and reading.
Open this link to note-taking chart #1 before viewing the video to assist you with writing your observations. The chart may be printed or saved to your desktop.
The next video sequence is a summary of the strategies used to support student acquisition of academic language. As you view the video, take notes on strategies the teacher uses to support the CA CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards (SL1.1a, SL1.5, SL1.6) and Language Standards L1.1j, L1.6, which provide a context for Writing Standard 1.2. You can use note-taking chart #2 to record your notes.


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Here is the model of LSTM cell with the following notation:
- LM ( long memory, same as c = captivated state )
- SM ( short memory, same as h = hidden state )
- Remember gate ( same as forget gate )
- Save gate ( or input gate)
- Focus gate ( or output gate )
- LM' ( new state, that may or may not replace the LM state )
In PyTorch you can:
- implement the LSTM from scratch,
Having many LSTM cells we form LSTM layers. Many LSTM layers we stack into LSTM networks. The next image presents the LSTM network with two LSTM layers and in between the dropout layer.
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We would create this with the following code
nn.LSTM( input_size=128, # input features hidden_size=128, # hidden units (features) num_layers=2, # number of stacked layres dropout=0.2 ) # only if num_layers > 1
num_layers=2, default is:
1. We call LSTM networks stacked LSTM when two or more LSMT layers.
dropout parameter of
torch.nn.LSTM constructor by default is
0. If non-zero, introduces a Dropout layer on the outputs of each LSTM layer except the last layer.
input_size parameter of
torch.nn.LSTM constructor defines the number of expected features in the input x.
hidden_size parameter of
torhc.nn.LSTM constuctor defines the number of features in the hidden state h.
hidden_size in PyTorch equals the numer of LSTM cells in a LSMT layer.
In total there are
num_layers LSTM cells (blocks) like in the image we above.


Gifts That Go Well Together
Faheem's Story
When the drought went on too long, the crops dwindled and the livestock died in the village in South Sudan where Faheem and his family live. That meant there was no food for his children to eat.
And there was no food to borrow from his family or neighbors, either. They were all hungry and Faheem didn't know how he would feed his growing family.
Then World Concern taught farmers and herdsmen like Faheem how to fish. Your gift through the Global Gift Guide provided training, equipment, and materials. Men and women learned how to make and repair nets, carve out boats, and catch fish. And they learned how to preserve the fish so it lasts all year round.
The fish provide a consistent source of food for families, and also a means for income. With the income, parents are able to send their children to school so they have a brighter future.


Logistic Functions Part 3
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Be familiar with and recognize the algebraic form for a logistic model, including the corresponding parameters and if those parameters have any meaning in the context of the functional relationship (e.g. does a parameter control the initial value, rate of change (shape), decreasing or increasing (flip), max/min, limiting values, etc.).
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Cleveland's Black History: Wings Over Jordan Choir had crossover, international appeal in 1930s, 40s
CLEVELAND - They were one of the best African American choirs during the late 1930's and early 1940's.
Cleveland's Wings Over Jordan Choir made broadcast history with the first independently produced national and international radio programs created by African-Americans.
The choir was founded in 1935 by the Rev. Glenn T. Settle, who was the the pastor of Gethsemane Baptist Church on E. 30th and Scovill Ave. in Cleveland.
Pastor Settle believed in using Negro spirituals to spread Christianity. In 1937, the choir performed weekly on the "Negro Hour" on WGAR radio. It quickly became a success.
In 1938 the group adopted the name Wings Over Jordan Choir. At the height of the choir's career they performed before sold out, non-segregated audiences in over 40 states, five European countries, Canada and Mexico.
During World War II, the group toured Army camps in Europe.
WOJC was so popular they published a songbook, recorded an album, got a movie contract and an invitation to the White House.
The choir received numerous honors including a Peabody Award. Wings Over Jordan Choir became the voice of American Negroes.
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Goats who stare at treesWritten by Don Hendershot
They not only stare at them, they eat them. Well, maybe not all trees, but woody browse in general. Hopefully, this penchant for woody invasives like Canada blackberry will make goats the perfect organic weed-whacker for protecting the grassy balds of the Roan Highlands.
The Baa-tany Project is a volunteer-based project operating under a special use permit with the USDA Forest Service. The idea is to use goats — in this case angora goats — to help restore the grassy balds of Roan. The project covers about 79 acres between Jane Bald and Grassy Ridge. Partners for the project include USDA Forest Service, East Tennessee State University, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Southern Appalachians Highlands Conservancy, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Friends of Roan Mountain, North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, Tennessee Division of Natural Areas, Tennessee Eastman Hiking & Canoeing Club, Wake Forest University, The Nature Conservancy and Appalachian State University.
The origin of these balds, like many across the Southern Appalachians, remains a mystery. We know they were here to greet the first Europeans. John Fraser wrote about them in 1787 and Asa Gray, for whom the imperiled Gray's lily is named, called them, in 1841, "the most beautiful east of the Rockies." Besides Gray's lily, there are at least 26 other species listed by the Federal government as, proposed, endangered, threatened or sensitive.
Some scientists believe the balds are remnants of ancient grasslands that evolved during the Pleistocene (from 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago) and perpetuated by the natural conditions of the southern highlands.
Others suggest that large herbivores like woolly mammoths may have helped create and sustain the balds, and that their successors including bison and elk helped maintain the balds. Some researchers believe Native Americans may have burned the high peaks regularly, thinning and altering the soil so that trees could not grow. Others believe the balds are simply the natural evolutionary results of the physical environmental (climatic and edaphic factors) processes of the southern highlands.
Whatever their origin, there is no doubt that balds have become an integral part of the environmental and cultural fabric of the Southern Appalachians. The Baa-tany Project marshaled and herded by Jamey Donaldson, botanist, consultant and adjunct curator of the John C. Warren Herbarium at East Tennessee State University, is a unique experiment integrating and involving the human psyche (through the herder and his goats) in a healing restorative process that may say as much about the environmental struggles of the human condition as it does about the environmental challenges of the high grasslands.


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- Beatrice, Nebraska
- Social History
- National Register of Historic Places
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The Institution for Feeble Minded Youth Farm is nominated to the National Register under Criterion A on the state level for its association with social history. The Institution, now known as the Beatrice Developmental Center, was established in 1885 for the care of the developmentally disabled. The Farm buildings represent a period of the Institution's history when it was largely self-sufficient with the majority of dairy, meat, and produce raised and processed by residents and staff. The period of significance, c.1930 -1947, encompasses the construction of the buildings. The Farm is also significant as the only known complex of its type in the state which provided a dormitory for residents engaged in the farm work. Additionally, the Farm is eligible as a separate because of its significant association with the evolution of institutional treatment for the developmentally disabled. The farm retains a high degree of integrity in terms of buildings and setting; it is the only known extant example of a farm complex historically associated with a public institution.


What's on Your Plate?
What's On Your Plate? kids and their families talk about what they eat, where it comes from, and why that matters
By: Catherine Gund
Edited by: Tanya Selvaratnam
In What's On Your Plate?, seven kids and their families explore the food chain, sharing fundamental questions and vital discoveries. With honesty, humor, and creativity, they face serious issues including the lack of access to fresh food; health problems such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and food allergies; and the national school lunch program. They celebrate time together by cooking and gathering at the table. The stories, recipes, and terrific activities in this book will inspire readers of all ages to be conscious of what they re eating and where it comes from, and to make positive changes in their homes, schools, and communities. The What's On Your Plate? project about kids and food politics started out as a documentary film from the point of view of two curious 11-year-old girls, Sadie and Safiyah. The film was broadcast on Discovery Channel s Planet Green and has been screened hundreds of times around the world, from Washington to Wisconsin, Glasgow to Seoul. Along the way, the girls spoke with friends, teachers, farmers, food activists, politicians, and each other; their journey inspired this book. As Sadie and Safiyah say, We're talking about our neighborhood. What about yours?
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Long before Kerrygold was ever heard of - in fact, as far back as written records go - dairying has played a starring role in Ireland. In the old days, Irishmen kept cattle for milk more than for meat, and status was derived from the bounty of your herd.
How did cows become the cornerstone of Irish wealth? Simple. Ireland was made for milk. It has everything you need to make a cow happy: good soil, a mild climate, moisture-bearing southwesterly winds, and all the green grass you can chew.
It didn't take long to figure out that happy cows produce amazing milk, which can then be churned into unbeatable butter. As early as the 17th century, Ireland was sharing its butter with the world. Irish boats were being met at the dock by salivating Swedes, Danes, Portuguese, Frenchmen, Spaniards and American colonists - just as Kerrygold butter is today.
The butter is so appealingly golden that it looks as though it has been colored, although the color is natural, coming from the beta-carotene in the intense green Irish grass consumed by the cows. Made in the style of all premium European butters, Kerrygold's higher fat content gives its butter a distinctive richness. The foil wrapper preserves freshness and premium quality


How It Began
In 1903, a young Joseph Dager immigrated from Lebanon via Ellis Island to Ohio. Ultimately settling in Utica, OH in 1914, he began making ice cream in the basement of a confectionary in three flavors: chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.
After just two years, the company produced 200 gallons of ice cream a month and the creamy, velvety texture of the ice cream inspired the name: Velvet Ice Cream.
A Family Affair
Velvet Ice Cream quickly turned into a thriving family business when Joseph's sons Ed and Charles built a manufacturing plant and began selling ice cream to local grocery stores and restaurants in the 1930's. When city ordinances hindered their ability to distribute their product, Charles helped to change those ordinances which opened up distribution allowing for expansion.
In 1950, third generation brothers, Joe and Mike Dager began to learn the business from the ground up. After the death of Joseph and Charles, they were named co-vice presidents as sophomores in college and high school.
By the mid 1970's, Joe and Mike officially took over leadership of Velvet Ice Cream. They focused on expanding distribution and creating a destination for people to enjoy and visit the manufacturing facility during the summer.
After thirty years of leadership, Joe passed the torch to the fourth generation, his daughters Luconda and Joanne Dager. He is still very much a part of the heart and soul of Velvet Ice Cream as he serves as Chairman of the Board.
A Place for Everyone
An old grist mill became the permanent home to Velvet Ice Cream in 1960. The mill soon became Ye Olde Mill which housed a turn of the century ice cream parlor that opened in 1970. A devasting fire destroyed the building in the late 1980's but was reopened a year later. Every summer since, the traditions of Velvet Ice Cream are shared with over 150,000 visitors to Ye Olde Mill, Ohio's only ice cream museum, ice cream parlor and restaurant.
A Century of Tradition
Velvet Ice Cream continues to honor the legacy of the family business by making ice cream in small batches, not in mass production, and using essentially the same recipe that Joseph Dager used in 1914.
Today, Velvet Ice Cream produces and distributes more than five million gallons of ice cream every year with distribution centers located across the Midwest region: Bucyrus, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis, Louisville and Marietta.
Velvet Ice Cream is truly an original!
Velvet TimelinE


MCLP Class discusses leading with values
Imagine having to whittle a list of 60 values down to 10, 5, 2, and ultimately 1. Over the past few weeks the Multicultural Leadership Program (MCLP) Class of 2012 has been doing exactly that.
Discussion leader Diana Hauman, President of Ddh Enterprises, Inc., stressed at the MCLP session Feb. 4 that the values each of us hold drive our relationships, actions, wellbeing, and the way we lead. They also affect how others view us. "My perception is my truth," she said.
Different people view situations differently because of their personal values, Hauman said before posing the following real-life situation to the class.
You are at a dinner where four couples and good friends are present. The check was brought at the end of the meal which you caught a glance at first – it equaled $300. One person at the table took it upon himself to split the check and asked each couple for $120. Knowing that each couple should have owed $75, how would you deal with this situation?
The MCLP participants conducted a detailed discussion from each person's perspective based on their primary value. As they verbalized their own opinions and what their reactions would be, they worked together in understanding why what one person says could be perceived differently by another. Two other situations were presented by Hauman, then discussed by the class.
More about the Feb. 4 MCLP session can be found here.


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From Dirk Enzmann <>
Subject st: Confidence intervals for rates (dependent events)
Date Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:57:01 +0100
This is not a specific stata question, but I don't know where to look for an answer to the following problem (perhaps it is too easy but I can't see it):
In a sample a part of the respondents have experienced victimizing events. Only a part of these events have been reported to the police. The rate of events reported to the police is
number of reported events / number of experienced events.
For example, 13 of 267 respondents have experienced a victimizing event, none of them did report it to the police, thus the rate of events reported is 0 % (here I am talking of events, not individuals!)
Because the events cannot be assumed to be independent (some victims have a high rate of vicitimization because they are more prone to become a victim) the construction of a confidence interval for the rate of events reported becomes difficult (to me).
Question 1: If nevertheless a use a binomial test to construct a confidence interval (say: 0 of 13 events reported, 95% CI = 0 to 24.7%), is it correct that the width of this interval is a lower bound and thus a conservative estimate?
Question 2: (a) My intuition tells me that multilevel modeling could be a solution to obtain a correct confidence interval by treating the events and the events reported as the first level and the victims as the second. Is this correct and how should I specify this model to obtain a confidence interval?
(b) Alternatively, could I treat the events (and events reported?) as coming from a negative binomial distribution and use this for constructing a confidence interval? How can this be done technically?
(Apart from constructing confidence intervals I would like to test the rate of reporting for different subgroups or different kind of events.)
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jackdaws in snow
all our dreams
Comment: a haiku set in winter time (fuyu 冬), inspired by various Japanese woodblock printings such as Crow on Snowy Branch by Watanabe Seitei, Two crows in snow by Ito Sozan and Crows in Snow by Takahashi Biho. The dark plumage of the jackdaw (nishikokumarugarasu 西黒丸烏) stands in stark contrast to the whiteness of the snow (yuki 雪), making it clearly visible even at a distance. As underlined by the poet himself, 'jackdaws in a dream can mean positive things including finding love, and that's been a driving force in my life'; a positive symbol that can be shared by each reader, inscribed within classic aesthetic coordinates. Note the semivowel 'w' in line 1, which gives a sense of openness and softness to the opening ku, and the reiteration of the sound 'th' in the following verse, which effectively renders the sense of revelation underlying this poem.


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properties used to makepennies. as well as a lot of electrical wiring. copper is also the originating mineral from which malachite and azurite form due to
mining of copper ores is carried out using one of two methods. this useful property prevented the heavy drag caused by the growth of weed that limited the
this ks3 education resource looks at copper mining extraction and it is ductile and it can prevent bacterial growth (see copper properties and applications).
copper is found in many minerals that occur in deposits large enough to mine. these include azurite malachite chalcocite acantite chalcopyrite and bornite.
learn about the geologic properties of copper how much exists how it is mined and where to find copper deposits on earth.
copper is opaque bright and metallic salmon pink on freshly broken surfaces but soon turns dull brown. copper crystals are uncommon but when formed are
from greek "kyprios" of cyprus the location of ancient copper mines; latin "cuprum". copper group. chemical properties of copperhide. this section is
che pure copper is soft and exposed surface has a reddish orange tarnish. pure copper is rarely found in nature. it is also believed that copper has the power to
copper is a chemical element with the symbol cu (from latin cuprum) and atomic number 29.. the concentration of copper in ores averages only 0.6% and most commercial ores are.. many electrical devices rely on copper wiring because of its multitude of inherent beneficial properties such as its high electrical


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By J. R. Cooper, Ph.D, NeoTech Aqua Solutions, Inc.
The NeoTech Aqua ReFleX™ water purification chambers are the most efficient and compact units available today. They require an order of magnitude less energy and less than 25% of the system volume to achieve the same or better purification result as competing chambers. This is the first in a series of three white papers explaining the benefits of these systems. This paper explains in detail the theory behind the operation of these chambers, including some computational examples of performance. The second paper presents both in-house and third party data demonstrating that performance in full scale systems as well as describing the protocols under which those data were taken. The final white paper presents an analysis of those results which show that the unique optical nature of the ReFleX™ chamber leads to the capability to measure the dose delivered to a target contained within the chamber simply by measuring the intensity of the ultraviolet light at a single point on the chamber wall and the water flow through the chamber.


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Prince of Wales Hotel National Historic Site
The Prince of Wales Hotel National Historic Site © Parks Canada
Built in 1926-27 during one of Waterton's windiest and snowiest winters, the Prince of Wales Hotel is the park's most recognized landmark.
During its construction the extreme weather conditions and poor access created many problems for contractors Douglas Oland and James Scott, from Cardston, Alberta.
On December 10, 1926 hurricane-force winds (estimated at 145 km/hr) blew each of the hotel's wings about 7.5 cm off their foundation. The men managed to winch the sections back in line. Three months later winds reached speeds of over 129 km/hr, again pushing the building off its foundation. This time Oland feared structural damage if they tried to pull back the now fully-framed building so he decided to leave it slightly out of plumb.
The hotel is named after Edward, Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VIII, and, like its namesake, it has a colourful history. If its Douglas fir pillars could talk they would tell you a tale of American imagination and money, built with Canadian grit and patience.
A Railway Hotel
Today many people recognize the Prince of Wales as a railway hotel, but few realize it was built by the Great Northern of United States and not the Canadian Pacific.
The last in a chain of 1920s luxury hotels, backcountry chalets and tent camps, the Prince of Wales offered a final stop for affluent visitors travelling Glacier National Park's backcountry by horseback.
For just over $1,000 you could ride the train to either East or West Glacier and then enjoy a week's adventure in the wilderness via several routes created by the Great Northern. After 1927, many folks chose to go to Goat Haunt's backcountry ranger station and hop aboard the M.V. International to come to Waterton. After a stay at the Prince of Wales hotel, guests were bussed back to Montana to catch their train home.
The Second World War and the 1930s depression put an end to this mode of travel through Glacier and into Waterton but many of the hotels and two of the chalets remain.
A National Historic Site
In February 1993 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board approved the Prince of Wales' designation as a National Historic Site, recognizing its architectural style (rustic design tradition, with peaked roofs, gables, balconies and timber-frame interior that give it an appearance of a giant alpine chalet) and its contribution to tourism in the mountains. On July 23, 1995 a commemorative plaque ceremony was held at the hotel.
More information on the Prince of Wales National Historic Site


Define withholding tax codes (Financial Accounting Global Settings)
Define withholding tax codes
In this activity you define the withholding tax codes.
In contrast to the withholding tax category which controls the essential calculation options, the tax code mainly determines the tax percentage rate.
You can find more information in the field documentation.
Maintain the required tax codes.
Further notes
All calculations for extended withholding tax are made in the respective country currency. This means that you have to maintain amounts in the company code country currency.


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Wonder! How to clean a commercial deep fryer? Don't be worried as the cleaning process is simple and you can do it without a cleaning expert. It is a common commercial kitchen appliance that needs regular cleaning. Because a recent study by NFPA shows that 21% of restaurant fires are caused by dirty fryers.
A dirty fryer can change the taste of your food dramatically. Moreover, Its dirtiness may damage the longevity of the machine. A dirty fryer coil may take a longer time than usual that wastes more energy. Therefore get ready with all the supplies to clean the deep commercial fryer.
What You Will Need to Clean the Deep Commercial Fryer?
Before you start cleaning your commercial deep fryer, you need the following supplies. All of the materials are important and you cannot skip any of them.
- Nitrile Gloves: protects your hands and skin from extreme heat.
- Safety Goggles: protect your eyes from a splash of hot oil or water.
- Vinyl Apron: It is a heavy apron that protects your skin and clothes.
- Drain Valve Extension: easily emptied the oil container.
- Scrub Brush Long Handle: it helps to reach where your hand cannot reach.
- Fryer Rod: a metal tool that cleans the food debris
- Fryer Coil Brush: It helps to reach all over the machine to clean inside.
- Stock Pot: a basin to keep the oil.
How to Clean a Commercial Deep Fryer
There are two parts of the machine, the interior, and the coil. First, we will show you the interior cleaning process then we will focus on the coil of the deep fryer. The best way to clean the fryer is to boil it.
Why Should You Boil the Deep Fryer?
Old food and grime can affect the taste of the food and change the flavor as well. There are proteins, polar contaminants, and other materials that can affect your oil to deteriorate. If you boil the fryer all the contaminating will vanish and keep the oil fresh. To start boiling, drain all of the oil to a container then do the following.
- Use a fryer rod to clean the remaining food debris from the dryer.
- Rinse the fryer with hot water to clean the excess stored fat.
- Fill the oil tank of the fryer 3-4" and add fat fryer cleaner. Before that, read the instructions on how much to use the liquid with a specific amount of water.
- Turn on the machine and put it on the medium temperature level. Boil for 20 minutes.
- Let the water cool for 2 hours, drain the water slowly then use a hand brush to clean the interiors of the machine.
- Never use a metal scraper. The metal scrap can damage the components of the fryer and also might leave behind metal shavings.
- Rinse thoroughly with clean water and wipe the interior to avoid oil and water mixing.
While using the machine, there are extra oil drops around the machine, especially at peak hours. Later oil becomes sticky and greasy. Therefore, for a healthy deep fryer, clean the exterior with the following steps.
- Clean the exterior of the fryer with a cleaning spray. We recommend using nine heavy-duty cleaners to remove the grease and disinfect the sticky surface.
- Rub the stubborn spots with a synthetic pad to remove them.
- Wipe the exterior and let it dry completely before starting to use the machine.
- Clean the floor using a degreaser cleaner to disinfect.
- Rinse and dry the exterior of the fryer completely after cleaning is complete.
How to Clean the Coil of the Deep Commercial Fryer
The coil is the main part of the deep fryer that makes oil hot to fry things. Sometimes the food debris and other liquid materials trap the coil. That's why the fryer takes a longer time to heat the oil. To clean the coil you don't have another cleaning process. When you do the above cleaning the coil is cleaned.
Though if you need to clean the coil and the interior of the fryer separately take the coil out. Place it on a big pan and use the scrub to clean if anything is left after boiling. Then wash and wipe it with a clean dry cloth. Place it back and it is ready to use.
How a Deep Fryer Works
The deep-frying cooking method uses fat or oil to cook food. The process works by submerging the food completely into the oil. When food is submerged, the moisture of the food turns into steam. That allows the formation of crust to begin. The surface of the food dries to create a crispy brownie surface.
Benefits of Deep-Frying
A deep fryer has significant importance in a commercial place, as the restaurant needs to cook faster at peak hours. To cook a lot of food at the same time a deep commercial fryer is most essential. Look at its other benefits below.
- It is a faster way of cooking that saves and maintains time.
- When it reaches 3000 F, it creates Maillard and caramelization flavor.
- When the food is cooked with proper heat, it creates a crispy crust surface by drying all of the moisture from the food.
- Food is less greasy and retains its shape.
- Comparatively, it keeps the kitchen neat and clean, which is easy and safe to use.
You may buy a standard and expensive deep fryer but without proper cleaning, a commercial deep fryer is a hazard. To keep it working faster, regular maintenance is essential. Most importantly the deep fryer coil should be cleaned at least once in two weeks.
You can use the special kit to clean but the method we have explained is both effective and economical. However, you should filter the frying oil and clean the exterior every day as the fryer is used rapidly in the restaurant.


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Analytical frameworks for electricity security
Given the salient role that electricity plays in modern economies, the task of ensuring electricity security is a top priority for policy makers. The process is an extensive and complicated one that involves careful consideration of costs and benefits. This document summarises the steps involved in developing a framework for electricity security. It defines outages, describes approaches to assessing how much they cost, and outlines the institutional responsibilities to prevent and/or react to them. In doing so, it lays out the existing approaches available to policy makers and the challenges they face in creating electricity security frameworks, including clarifying the costs and benefits, establishing reliability planning structures, and assigning institutional responsibility for various tasks. It then previews how policy makers and other stakeholders need to adapt frameworks for electricity security in the face of major trends affecting the sector – namely, the clean energy transition, cyberthreats and climate change.


Hulk (ship type)
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For the early European coastal craft, see Hulk (medieval ship type).
Not to be confused with scow or barge.
A hulk moored in Toulon harbour.
More recently, ships have been hulked when they become obsolete or when they become uneconomical to operate.
Sheer hulk[edit]
Sheer hulk at Sheerness Dockyard positioned to make a lift
A sheer hulk (or shear hulk) was used in shipbuilding and repair as a floating crane in the days of sailing ships, primarily to place the lower masts of a ship under construction or repair. Booms known as sheers were attached to the base of a hulk's lower masts or beam, supported from the top of those masts. Blocks & tackle were then used in such tasks as placing or removing the lower masts of vessel under construction or repair.
These lower masts were the largest and most massive single timbers aboard a ship, and erecting them without the assistance of either a sheer hulk or land-based masting sheer was extremely difficult.
Accommodation hulk[edit]
Main article: Barracks ship
French ship Mars, barracks for marines
Receiving hulk[edit]
A receiving ship is a ship that is used in harbor to house newly recruited sailors before they are assigned to a ship's crew.[1]
Receiving ships often served as floating hospitals as many were assigned in locations without shore-based station hospitals. Often the afloat surgeon would take up station on the receiving ship.[citation needed]
Prison hulk[edit]
Main article: Prison ship
Powder hulk[edit]
Salvage pontoon[edit]
Floating storage and offloading units[edit]
Coal hulks[edit]
Service as a coal hulk was usually, but not always, a ship's last.
Other services[edit]
Her front line days over, HMS Temeraire served as a prison hulk, receiving ship, victualing depot, and finally a guard ship before being paid off and sold to the breakers.
A vessel's hulking may not be its final use. Scuttling as a blockship, breakwater, artificial reef, or recreational dive site may await. Some are repurposed, for example as a gambling ship; others are restored and put to new uses, such as a museum ship. Some even return revitalized to sea.
One vessel rescued from this ignominious end was the barque Polly Woodside, now a museum ship in Melbourne, Australia. Another is the James Craig, rescued from Recherche Bay in Tasmania, now restored and regularly sailing from Sydney, Australia.
See also[edit]
 3. ^ Brown, Henry Collins (1919). "The Clipper Ships of Old New York". Valentine's Manual of Old New York (New York: Valentine's Manual) 3: 94–95. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
 4. ^ Information on the wreck "Johanna Smith" Check |url= scheme (help). California Wreck Divers. Retrieved 2010-02-27.


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Climate change impacts on European crop production – new HFFA Research Paper published!
This summer news on extreme weather events is ubiquitous. Central Europe experienced unprecedented dry spells and heat waves leading to stress for humans and also agricultural crops. This raises the important question: What exactly are the climate change impacts on crop production in Europe?
The answer to this question can now be found in our latest research paper: in HFFA Research Paper 01/2019, we explore the climate change impacts on European arable farming that can already be observed today. And we also take a look at impacts that are projected to occur in the future.
The paper was written by a team from HFFA Research and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): Sophia Lüttringhaus, Steffen Noleppa, Christoph Gornott and Hermann Lotze-Campen.


Anger Choices Worksheet
Anger Choices Worksheet
Cut and stick worksheet showing different things that people might do when feeling angry. Children to sort the pictures into groups of things they should do when angry and things they should not.
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The site of the bridge is located along the River Thames to connect Nine Elms Riverside (US Embassy / Embassy Gardens) to Pimlico Gardens. The bridge is intended to provide walk and cycle access between a number of popular destinations such as between the new US Embassy in Nine Elms, Victoria Station and Westminster Cathedral. To enable this crossing, it must span approximately 220m over The River Thames. PLA required that structure for the bridge could be introduced within 30m zones either side of the crossing but that a 150m navigation zone is left unobstructed of any supporting structure and is provided with a minimum of 10m free head clearance for boats. As the river banks are located at +5.00 AOD, the underside of the bridge must rise 5m to provide the 10m clear span in the central navigation zone. If the bridge is designed to cross perpendicular to the embankment, it would not have the necessary length to bridge the 5m drop in height with a shallow accessible ramp. It would end at 5m above the level of the embankment at both ends, therefore requiring lifts which can be cumbersome and time consuming and when out of service for repairs, they make the bridge completely inaccessible for a disabled user.
The proposal aims to create a bridge crossing that is step ‐ free, without the use of lifts‐ for pedestrians and cyclists and uses the manner of movement of pedestrians and cyclists as the basis for the structure and aesthetic expression of the bridge. It is designed to cross the first 30m zone beyond the embankment diagonally to acquire a longer length compared with a straight crossing in order to provide the 10m headroom clearance over the 150m wide navigation zone. At this point, the bridge changes orientation to the opposite direction and continues as a 1 in 21 straight crossing to centre of the crossing. When the bridge reaches its apex at 17m A.O.D., a height which is determined for structural reasons, it is mirrored to connect to the embankment on the other side. This design enables step ‐free crossings over the river that take 1.8 minutes for cyclists and 5.75 minutes for pedestrians at average speeds. From the perspective of a cyclist the bridge eliminates the need for a cumbersome and time consuming journey up a lift and down on the other side.
From the perspective of pedestrians, the bridge is accessible by all users. Wheelchair users do not have to ride separately to bicycle users or a family member. Therefore, everyone can enjoy crossing the bridge with the same level of freedom.


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hours apart to avoid increasing aluminum absorption.
You may need more calcium if you are taking the following anticonvulsants:
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I need to write the function on C language which takes a byte array (it reperesents package) parse it, do some stuff and return a changed byte array.
My approach:
 char* ParsePackage(const char* byteArray);
typedef struct
 char name[4];
 float value;
} packageStructure;
I use the struct packageStructure to which a byteArray is casted, then I am trying to get data by accessing fields of that struct: "filename.cpp"
include "filename.cpp"
char* ParsePackage(const char* byteArray)
 packageStructure* tmp = (packageStructure*) byteArray;
 // get values of structure fields and do some staff with them:
 return (char*)modifiedByteArray;
I am not satisfied with the result, because the whole data from byte array is written to the first field of the struct, which is a name, to the second filed goes some random value;
So expected questions here are: that I am doing wrong (how to alter my approach to make it work)? Can you offer other methods of parsing byte array?
thanks in advance!
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How is the "byte array" created and populated? – Joachim Pileborg Oct 8 '12 at 9:03
int main(void) { ParsePackage("tex123"); return 0; } – spin_eight Oct 8 '12 at 9:05
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I'm guessing that "tex" should be the name and 123 should be the value. However as you can see it doesn't work that way, especially with floating point values. You can't convert a number in a string to a floating point value just by casting.
Instead you have to extract the first three characters from the string and put into name, then you have to extract the next three characters and as a string use e.g. strtof to convert the string to a floating point number.
When creating a string again, you can use snprintf for that.
You have to do something like this:
char* ParsePackage(char* byteArray)
 packageStructure tmp;
 /* Extract values from string, first the name */
 memcpy(tmp.name, byteArray, sizeof(tmp.name) - 1);
 tmp.name[sizeof(tmp.name) - 1] = '\0'; /* Make sure it's terminated */
 /* Then the value */
 tmp.value = strtof(&byteArray[3], NULL);
 /* Now do whatever you need to do with the structure... */
 /* Convert back to a string */
 /* For that we need a string */
 static char output[16];
 /* Then put the data from the structure into the string */
 snprintf(output, sizeof(output), "%s%3.0f", tmp.name, tmp.value);
 /* Return the string */
 return output;
However, instead of doing this work yourself you should find a library for serialization, which will handle all the gory details for you.
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"tex123" is a string literal right???... as per _USER_'s function invocation. – Jeyaram Oct 8 '12 at 9:21
_USER_ char* ParsePackage(const char* byteArray); – spin_eight Oct 8 '12 at 9:26
_USER_ Pileborg. am I right that to use a serialization I need to include additional libraries(like boost) that arent presented in C standart library. I want to solve my task only by means of C standart library. Also I am searching for the approach where I can get all needed values at ones from data stream into structure, and I wonder if it is possible, if not I need to understand why. – spin_eight Oct 8 '12 at 9:32
_USER_ You can of course implement your own serialization using only standard C, pointer arithmetic and standard functions. Basic serialization is not tha hard, you just have to make sure that the serialized format is well defined. If it's only one structure like in your example, it's very easy by having fixed-sized fields in the "byte stream" (string), otherwise you will have to store the types and possible the field lengths inside the string. – Joachim Pileborg Oct 8 '12 at 9:39
Thanks for the link on serialization, I shall spend my time on reading about it. I have already faced with serialization, but it was much easier for me because I was free to use any libraries, and I used Qt with it's QData stream where serialization and deserialization is a piece of cake compared to one in C language. – spin_eight Oct 8 '12 at 9:59
I am not sure what do you want exactly, but it seems that you want to use the name as a string and the value as a float when the input is a string.
I would do it something like this:
packageStructure ParsePackage(char* byteArray)
 char *modifiedByteArray = malloc(100);
 packageStructure tmp;
 strncpy( tmp.name, byteArray, 3 );
 tmp.name[3] = 0;
 tmp.value = atof(byteArray+4);
 return tmp;
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input is byte array, which I got from server, that array(package) is formed in certain format to parse array I am trying to use struct. I know how to parse it unit by unit, but actually i am interested if it is possible to get values from that array using cast to struct – spin_eight Oct 8 '12 at 9:35
_USER_, yes, you can, but the representation of float in memory is not as simple as "123", you can read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point – Marcus Oct 8 '12 at 9:43
Marcus,thanks for link – spin_eight Oct 10 '12 at 9:32
_USER_, you're welcome – Marcus Oct 10 '12 at 10:50
As per code, Your text "tex123" is read-only.
 .size ParsePackage,.-ParsePackage
 .section .rodata
 .string "tex123"
 .globl main
 .type main, _USER_
 pushq %rbp
 .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
 .cfi_offset 6,
so trying to alter that string literal is a bad idea.
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ok, thanks for pointing it out. Can you give me some info on casting byte array to struct, can I solve my task by doing this? – spin_eight Oct 8 '12 at 9:36
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During my experiments I found that it is possible to cast a byte array to a struct. And this allows to solve task with deserialization in more elegant(my own opinion) way.
My first tries failed because I tested them on the wrong input which was a string literal. Here is the working example:
typedef struct Test
 char name[2] ;
 float number;
 } Test;
char* TestStruct(char* byteArray)
 Test str;
 str = *(Test*)byteArray;
 return byteArray;
int main(void)
 Test str;
 str.number = 0.25;
 return 0;
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The purpose of this URL is to check the username and password and registers a new OpenID as belonging to a particular user.
Parameters your URL should accept
Submission method: POST
* openid_urlthe OpenID to be authenticated
* user_idthe primary key (i.e. username / email ) for the user
* passwordthe password for the user
* clickpass_merge_callback_url- a URL at the OpenID provider (i.e. Clickpass) to process the outcome of the process
Is it this sentence that is meant to cover the case?
You may also provide information to Clickpass through third party websites which you log into using the Clickpass Service. Such information shall be stored by Clickpass and handled by Clickpass in accordance with this policy.
Sounds like it's in the right ballpark but why not specifically say 'you may provide us your user names & passwords and we wont use them ever again'? The 'log into using the Clickpass service' could easily be (mis)interpreted as referring to OpenID SSO rather than to the merge process.
They do acknowledge the future relevance of OAuth.
Separately, am I alone in seeing the irony of OpenID deployers, in order to address the perceived 'User Provides URI' barrier, exploring mechanisms that
a) hide the whole complexity of identifiers from the user
b) rely on shared infrastructure to facilitate IDP discovery


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How Ho Chi Minh's Body Is Kept Preserved
How Ho Chi Minh's Body Is Kept Preserved
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 Avid collectors of weird and unusual experiences need to make their way to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi to learn the fascinating story of how the beloved Vietnamese leader was embalmed following his death in September 1969.
 The grand tomb
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 The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam © dronepicr/Flickr
 The Ho Chi Minh mausoleum was inaugurated in 1975 and was inspired by Lenin's Mausoleum in Russia. The columned exterior is made of grey granite while the eerily cold inside is constructed from red, black, and grey polished stone. The designers added distinctive Vietnamese architectural styles, such as the sloping roof, to differentiate it from the Russians'. One distinct element of each mausoleum is the same – and that is the preserved bodies of their respective leaders carefully looked after and centrally presented in a dimly lit glass case.
 The embalming process
 When Vietnam's beloved leader passed away of heart failure in 1969, officials began planning his preservation. They flew in a team of Russian scientists from the "Lenin Lab" who, as the nickname suggests, successfully preserved Lenin's body after his death in 1924. By the time Ho Chi Minh died the scientists had made significant strides in their experimental embalming routine.
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 A commemorative statue in Ho Chi Minh City © dronepicr/Flickr
 The team of scientists were flown in to Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam war and were taken to a top-secret temporary tomb lying north of the capital. There they began the long process of embalming Ho Chi Minh. American troops were actively searching for the leader's body; if they had captured it, it would have been the best bargaining tool to force Vietnamese soldiers to release American POW's. The Vietnamese knew this and kept Ho's body hidden in an underground chamber deep in the jungle.
 Eventually, war hostilities escalated and Ho's body had to be moved to a safer location. His body was transported some 15 km down the Red River (also known as the Hồng Hà and Sông Cái) and placed inside an enormous cave outfitted with air conditioners, electricity, running water and a full laboratory where the scientists carried out the rest of the lengthy embalming process. It wasn't until peace agreements were signed in 1975 that the mausoleum was inaugurated and Ho Chi Minh's body was securely laid inside the grand tomb. It is a place for devoted Vietnamese to honour their cherished leader; but, ironically, at the cost of denying Ho Chi Minh's wishes to be cremated.
 Post-embalming maintenance
 Keeping a body preserved for decades requires routine maintenance. The team who regularly tend to Lenin's corpse pay excruciating attention to detail to preserve Ho Chi Minh's body as well. "Uncle Ho" is reportedly sent back to Russia around October/November each year for a twoto three-month upkeep routine involving washing and re-embalming the body as well as carefully maintaining his facial features. The result is the near-immaculate, albeit a little plastic-looking, preservation of Vietnam's revered leader. Please note that photos and videos inside the mausoleum are strictly forbidden.
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 Ho Chi Minh's final resting place © David McKelvey/Flickr
 The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is open to tourists Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 7:30 am to 10:30 am, as well as Saturday and Sunday from 7:30 am to 11:00 am. It is closed on Mondays and Fridays. The earlier in the day you go, the better – regular lines are enormous!
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So is it possible to have more than one active partition?
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Only one partition can be marked active. But to enable multiple OS on different partitions to work, the active partition will have a bootloader that allows you to select and boot operating systems from any partition.
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additionally, some boot loaders can look into and extended partition when they are finding operating systems (like GRUB.) but only the four total partitions (three primary and one extended that can contain multiple logical partitions) thats how you can have more than four OSes – PsychoData Sep 23 '13 at 2:02
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This is not a complete answer. You can also have a dynamic partition and GPT style partitions. The limits on these other types of partitions styles are different then your typical basic primary partition. – Ramhound Aug 6 '12 at 12:43
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