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ANAHUAC FIELD. Anahuac field is an oval-shaped oil and gas field near Turtle Bay in central Chambers County, on the coast of Southeast Texas. Its discovery and development were scientifically guided by its primary operators, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Sun Oil Company, and Gulf Oil Corporation. The field draws oil and gas from a faulted domal uplift in massive sands of the Marginulina and upper Frio formations. The source of its primary recovery was a strong water-drive and gas-cap expansion, but since April 1957 the reservoir has been maintained by reinjection into the Frio formation of all the nonassociated and most of the casinghead gas produced in the field. Between its discovery on March 6, 1935, and January 1, 1993, the field produced more than 277 million barrels of oil, and between 1974 and 1993 the field yielded more than 43.3 billion cubic feet of gas. The field is significant because the small number of operators in it followed a systematic drilling program that spaced wells for optimal oil recovery and economic return. Anahuac field was named for the county seat, situated five east of it.
In 1925 and again in 1927 and 1929 Humble Oil and Refining Company conducted early forms of geophysical measures and tests in the area of the future Anahuac field, looking for evidence of an oil-bearing structure. When geophysics offered no encouragement, Humble management allowed the company leases to expire. However, the management did not lose exploratory interest in the area. Late in 1932 Humble made a trade for the right to explore a block of 21,000 acres for thirty-five cents an acre. In the trade Humble gained the right to select any part of the acreage for drilling at five dollars an acre. In May 1933 the company used a reflection seismograph, the latest in geophysical equipment, on the block and found evidence of a structure. With these encouraging results, Humble leased three-fourths of the original block. On December 8, 1934, Humble spudded the No. 1 A. D. Middleton in Section 58, Houston and Texas Central Railway Company survey, in central Chambers County. The well had a show of high-gravity oil at the section between 7,024 and 7,050 feet in the Frio sand in February 1935. On March 6, 1935, the well reached a depth of 7,052 feet with an initial daily production of 120 barrels of oil and a gas-to-oil ratio of 12,500 cubic feet per barrel. The No. 1 Middleton was deepened to 7,088 feet on March 16, 1935, in an attempt to reduce the gas-oil ratio. From the lower depth, the well yielded 547 barrels of oil a day with an improved gas-oil ratio of 435 cubic feet to one barrel of oil.
After the success of the No. 1 Middleton, four more wells were completed in the field by early May. On May 8, 1935, the Railroad Commission of Texas set well spacing at one well to every twenty acres. At the same time the commission based production allowable 50 percent on acreage and 50 percent on well potential. On July 21 an independent partnership, Glenn H. McCarthy and R. A. Mason, brought in the No. 1 White in the James McGahey survey, with initial production of 588 barrels of oil a day, and extended the field about three miles to the north. Although nine wells were completed in the field by the end of July, it was the No. 1 White that proved the substantial size of the field and influenced leasing to the north and east. Although intense leasing drove prices as high as $1,000 an acre, the drilling of wells was cheap and quick in the new field. The average cost of drilling and completing a well to 7,100 feet was $23,000. The average time needed to drill a well through the soft sand and shale of the subsurface was twenty-one days. Even with cheap drilling costs and short drilling time, operators completed only thirty-eight wells by the end of 1935, when annual production for the field was 342,239 barrels of oil. The few operators in the field faced no competition or time constraints in field development. They chose safe locations by staking direct offsets to producing wells because they wanted an orderly development of the field and because they knew little about the producing structure.
Until the summer of 1935, when leasing excitement gripped the town of Anahuac, the county seat consisted of 200 families and few accommodations for newcomers. To meet the demand, new hotels and cafes sprouted as quickly as mushrooms after rain. Although the town had no railroad, a bus company scheduled service through Anahuac. In the field, Humble constructed a camp of twenty-five houses for employees, three warehouses, and a one-unit high-pressure pump station to carry oil through a six-inch line to its carrier in Barbers Hill oilfield and on to its Baytown refinery. In September 1935 Sun Oil Company built a four-inch pipeline in the field that eventually reached its refinery, and Gulf Production Company completed a six-inch line to run to the Hankamer field. Humble built a modern road through the field to replace an earlier wooden one. A canal was dug to supply water for the field from the Trinity River. With these new constructions, operators were set to continue field development.
During 1936, development of the field progressed with the drilling of 106 additional wells. By the end of the year only three operators were working the field, and it was estimated that 50 percent of the field was developed. Production for 1936 was 2,603,280 barrels of oil, almost 2,000 barrels below the set allowable. Although 1937 production almost doubled the 1936 figure, yields were held to just over 2.5 million barrels a year through 1940. By February 1941 Anahuac field covered 7,300 acres and Humble owned 75 percent of it. Four other companies held the remaining 25 percent. At the end of 1941, when the field reached full development, annual production was 4,649,833 barrels of oil from 356 wells and 378,438,000 cubic feet of gas from three producing wells. Annual oil production climbed during the early 1940s until peak production was reported at the end of 1944, when 11,916,137 barrels of oil were brought to the surface. Production was maintained above five million barrels of oil a year through 1975, the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of the field. By 1985, after fifty years of operation, the field gave up over 1.3 million barrels of oil annually. At the end of 1992 Anahuac field reported cumulative production of 277,086,782 barrels of oil, proving the effectiveness of the optimal oil-recovery program set in place by Humble, Sun, and Gulf fifty-seven years earlier.
William E. Galloway et al., Atlas of Major Texas Oil Reservoirs (Austin: University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, 1983). Frank J. Gardner, Texas Gulf Coast Oil (Dallas: Rinehart Oil New Company, 1948). Edgar Wesley Owen, Trek of the Oil Finders: A History of Exploration for Petroleum (Tulsa: American Association for Petroleum Geologists, 1975). Railroad Commission of Texas, Annual Report of the Oil and Gas Division, 1943.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Julia Cauble Smith, "ANAHUAC FIELD," Handbook of Texas Online (_URL_ accessed May 19, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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The Sumxu is also known as the Chinese Lop-Eared Cat, Droop-eared cat, Drop-eared cat, or Hanging-Ear cat. All the names refer to its main feature - pendulous ears. Nowadays, the breed is considered extinct.
It is thought that the pendulous ears were a result of mutation similar to that occurred in the Scottish Fold.
All descriptions of the breed are based on reports of travellers. In 1976, a German naturalist gave rather a detailed description of the Sumxu, when a droop-eared cat had been brought from China by a traveller. The breed was described as long-haired cats with glossy black, yellow or cream coats and pendulous ears. Most probably, they looked like longhair Scottish Folds.
The Cat by Lady Cust (1870) has this brief description:
Bosman relates that in the province of Pe-chily, in China, there are cats with long hair and drooping ears, which are in great favour with the Chinese ladies; others say this is not a cat but an animal called 'Samxces'.
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, described the cat in The Natural History of The Cat (Volume 4 of Histoire Naturelle c. 1767, translated by William Smellie, 1781):
Our domestic cats, though they differ in colour, form no distinct races. The climates of Spain and Syria have alone produced permanent varieties: to these may be added the climate of Pe-chi-ly in China, where the cats have long hair and pendulous ears, and are the favourites of the ladies. These domestic cats with pendulous ears, of which we have full descriptions, are still farther removed from the wild and primitive race, than those whose ears are erect.
I formerly remarked, that, in China, there were cats with pendulous ears. This variety is not found any where else, and perhaps it is an animal of a different species; for travellers, when mentioning an animal called Sumxu, which is entirely domestic, say, that they can compare it to nothing but the cat, with which it has a great resemblance. Its colour is black or yellow, and its hair very bright and glittering. The Chinese put silver collars about the necks of these animals, and render them extremely familiar. As they are not common, they give a high price, both on account of their beauty, and because they destroy rats.
Jean Bungartz also described the Chinese Lop-Eared Cat or Hanging-Ear Cat in his book Die Hauskatze, ihre Rassen und Varietäten (Housecats, Their Races and Varieties) from Illustriertes Katzenbuch (An Illustrated Book of Cats) in Berlin in 1896:
The Chinese or Lop-Eared cat is most interesting, because it provides proof that by continual disuse of an organ, the organ withers. With the Chinese cat the hearing and ears have deteriorated. Michel says the Chinese, not only admire the cat in porcelain, but also value it for culinary reasons. The cats are regarded as special morsels and enjoyed particularly with noodles or with rice. This cat is bred particularly for the purpose of meat production, and is a preferred Chinese morsel; this is not unusual if one considers that the Chinese consume much the sight of which revolts the stomachs of Europeans. The poor creature is confined in small bamboo cages and fattened like a goose on plentiful portions. There is extensive trade with other parts of Asia and the canny Chinese allow no tomcats to be exported so there is no interference in this lucrative source of income.
Due to the restrictive conditions that have deprived the cat of its actual use, its hearing has decreased because it is no longer needed for hunting its own food. With no need for watchfulness, it had no need of sharp hearing to listen for hidden things so its hearing became blunted and as a natural consequence its ears lost their upright nature, gradually becoming lower and becoming the hanging ear that is now the characteristic feature of the Chinese cat. At first impression this is a surprising and amusing look, but this impression is lost with closer examination. If one ignores the characteristic of the ears, one sees a beauty similar to the Angora cat: a long, close coat of hair, albeit less rich, covers the body. The hair is silky-soft and shining and the colour is usually isabelline or a dirty white yellow, although some have the usual colouring of the common house-cat. In size it is considerably larger and stronger than a housecat. The ears hang completely, as with our hunting dogs and are large in relation to the cat.
Although the Chinese cat is found in considerable numbers in its homeland, it is rarely found at European animal markets. Only one such cat has reached us in the flesh; we acquired this years ago when a sailor returning from China brought it into Hamburg. The accompanying illustration is based on this cat. In character it is like the Angora cat and somewhat languid. It prefer to live by a warm fire, is rather sensitive to flattery, hears badly and is at its most animated when given milk or food. Apart from its unusual ears, it has no really attractive characteristics and is a curious specimen of housecat.
In Frances Simpson's The Book of the Cat (1903), contributing author H.C. Brooke wrote:
There is said to be a variety of Chinese cat which is remarkable for its pendent ears. We have never been able to ascertain anything definite with regard to this variety. Some years back a class was provided for them at a certain Continental cat show, and we went across in the hope of seeing, and if possible acquiring, some specimens; but alas the class was empty! We have seen a stuffed specimen in a Continental museum, which was a half long-haired cat, the ears being pendent down the sides of the head instead of erect; but do not attach much value to this.
In 1926, H.C. Brooke wrote in the magazine Cat Gossip that for many years Continental cat shows had offered prizes for the Drop-eared Chinese Cat. On each occasion, the cat failed to materialise and Brooke considered it to be mythical. Other writers suggested the folded or crumpled ears were the result of damage or haematomas. Brooke wrote that although no-one ever saw the cat itself, one always met "someone who knows someone whose friends has often seen them". Brooke himself had been assured by a Chinese gentleman he had met only once that "he knew them well".
HC Brooke, and several other cat fanciers, contacted the Chinese Embassy and Carl Hagenbeck's animal exchange in Hamburg and also a "certain well known author, who has lived for years in China and knows that country well", but their enquiries bore no fruit. The search for this cat became so intense in the 1920s that The American Express Company instructed their representatives at Shanghai and Peking to make enquiries with the wild animal dealers who supplied zoos. They also had no success finding a Chinese Lop-Eared cat for western cat fanciers.
Brooke said that in 1882 he had seen a stuffed specimen in a Continental museum. The specimen was "half-coated with yellowish fur" and Brooke admitted it might have been a fake or a cat with its ears deformed by canker. With all avenues of enquiry finally exhausted, Brooke declared the Chinese Drop-eared cat extinct.
The last reported sighting of the Chinese Lop-eared cat was in 1938 when a droop-eared cat was imported from China. On that last occasion the mutation was believed to occur only in white longhaired cats.
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Success for All (SFA) is a whole school improvement strategy that has been proven to increase children's outcomes. SFA originated in the US, and has been adapted to the UK context. It is now used in approximately 100 schools in the UK, supported by Success for All-UK, a UK registered charity. The reading component of SFA includes systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension.
Between 2008 and 2012 we undertook a large-scale evaluation of the SFA literacy programme, assessing its impact on the literacy skills of pupils as they moved through school. The evaluation was a matched study involving nearly 40 schools (control and intervention).
Our findings when the children reached the end of Reception and Year 1 were statistically significant, and for the end of Year 2 were positive. In Summer 2012, a further period of assessment took place with the pupils when they reached the end of Year 3.
The SFA study involved Louise Tracey, Bette Chambers, Robert Slavin, Nancy Madden, Pam Hanley, and Louise Elliott.


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Miracle fruit brings a change in taste
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And now, finally, after centuries, a scientific mystery has been solved.
We are beginning to understand how miracle fruit can make something very sour, instead, taste very sweet. Miracle fruit: what is it? Have you heard of it?
My first introduction to miracle fruit (also called miracle berry) was when I was in a radio station, and the next guest after me was a chef.
In the studio, live on-air, he gave me a small red berry to pop into my mouth. I bit into it, spat out the small black seed and, as I chewed it, the mashed-up pulp of miracle fruit mixed with my saliva and spread all across the inside of my mouth and, especially, onto my tongue.
It tasted fairly neutral. It certainly did not seem particularly sweet. Perhaps it had a hint of sweetness.
I swallowed the pulp, and after a minute, the chef gave me a lemon to chew. It tasted like candied lemon! Vinegar tasted like apple juice!
Anything acid tasted sweet. And not just sweet, but very, very sweet.
On the other hand, banana still tasted just like banana.
Miracle fruit comes from a shrub, Synsepalum dulcificum, that is native to tropical West Africa. This shrub grows up to six-meters tall, and has brown flowers with small red fruit or berries. Yup, they're the miracle fruit or miracle berry.
The locals have long used it to add sweetness to palm wine or beer that's gone sour, or to make stale acidified maize bread more palatable. The effect lasts for a few hours.
Miracle fruit first came to the attention of Europeans in 1725, when the explorer, Chevalier des Marchais, came across it on a botanical expedition in tropical West Africa.
In 1852, a chemist, W.F. Daniell, was the first European to scientifically study it, and he gave it the name'miraculous berry'.
It took until 1968 for two separate groups of scientists to isolate the active ingredient. It turned out to be a chemical that was mostly protein with about 191 amino acids, and about 14 per cent carbohydrate (sugars such as mannose, galactose and fucose). The active ingredient was given the name'miraculin'.
Soon after miraculin was isolated, Robert Harvey, an American biomedical postgraduate student, became aware of its wonderful property.
At the time, the artificial sweeteners (which have sweetness, and virtually zero kilojoules) had a slightly noticeable after-taste.
But Robert Harvey realised that miraculin did not. He tried mightily to market it as an alternative sweetener, one that was based entirely upon a natural product.
But in 1974, just as he was about to launch it, the US Food and Drugs Administration refused to classify it as 'generally recognised as safe', despite the West Africans having eaten miraculin for centuries with no problems.
Robert Harvey could not afford the several years of testing needed, so miraculin never made it into the marketplace.
However, people have been using miracle fruit to run what they call 'flavour tripping parties'. You pay your money ($10–15 or so), turn up, eat your single red miracle fruit and then, after a minute-or-so, start browsing on the unusual range of foods that have been laid out.
Mind you, the effect happens only in the presence of something rather acid.
So Guinness, when you add some acid lemon sorbet, suddenly tastes like a chocolate milkshake. Tabasco sauce now tastes like hot doughnut glaze. Lemons taste like candied lemons. Goat cheese now tastes like cheesecake.
On a philosophical level, does miracle fruit (or berry) change reality, and even deeper, do we all experience reality differently depending on the context?
Don't know; that's much too hard for science to answer.
But a much easier question to answer is: how do you taste something?
Mostly, you use your tongue, which is linked to your brain. Of course, the sense of smell is also involved, but I won't talk about that right now.
Your tongue has a bumpy surface because it's covered with 2000–8000 raised taste buds of different sizes and shapes.
Some of them look like tiny mushrooms, others like mini-volcanoes and some like cylindrical shrubs. These taste buds contain the receptors for the five basic tastes of sweet, sour, bitter, salt and umami.
Unfortunately, there is simply too much left to chew on, and so I'll finish off the answer of how miracle fruit works, next time.
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- Honours & Awards: 1 Param Vir Chakra, 10 Maha Vir Chakras, 34 Vir Chakras, 4 Shaurya Chakras and 56 Sena Medals.
- Comments: India's first Light Infantry was born out of the peoples' response in 1947, to the invasion of Kashmir by Pakistan. In the difficult days of the invasion, the population formed local defence groups. These were later organised into militias responsible for specific sectors, e.g., Leh, Nubra, Jammu, Punch, etc. Over a period, these were grouped into the Militia battalions. Two of these were later converted into the Ladakh Scouts. The militia battalions operated with skill on the Line of Control (LoC), and in the 1971 Indo-Pak War earned three battle honours.
In 1972, the militia battalions were brought on par with the army units, and in 1976 designated the Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry. Since then, battalions of the Light Infantry have served with honour in different parts of the country, in Sri Lanka and as part of the United Nations Force in Somalia. The 8th JAK LI earned great honour by capturing a Pakistani post at 21,000 feet at the Siachen Glacier in 1987. Naib Subedar Bana Singh, 8th JAK LI, earned the Param Vir Chakra for the Regiment in this battle. He is the first and only recipient of the PVC for the Regiment.


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I have read that holes in semiconductor are nothing but vacancies created by electrons. But how can this vacancy i.e. hole has a mass?
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See physics.stackexchange.com/a/10858/3811 for more details about "what is a hole" than you usually find :-) – Steve B Jul 10 '12 at 22:57
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A quick answer:
Imagine an array of billiard balls with one missing in the middle of the array; there is a "hole" where the billiard ball is missing. For this hole to "move", a billiard ball must move into that position, leaving a hole at the ball's previous position. Since, in fact, the hole movement is entirely equivalent to the billiard ball movement, we can speak of the mass of the hole even though it is the billiard ball's mass that is physical.
Now, in the case of electrons moving through the unfilled valence band, the effective mass is greater than the mass of a mobile electron so hole mass is typically greater than mobile electron mass.
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While the answers above are correct in essence, the inertia of the hole is due to the electrons that must flow to fill up the hole, there is a simple way to understand what the mass of a hole is in a tight-binding model.
If you have an electron in a lattice, and it can hop from one site to another with amplitude a, then the time evolution of the wavefunction is by
$$ {\partial_t \psi(x)} = a\sum_{\langle y,x\rangle} \psi(y) $$
where the sum is over nearest neighbors of x (not including x). If you redefine the phase of the wavefunction in a time-dependent way $\psi(x)\rightarrow e^{iNat}\psi(x)$$ where N is the number of nearest neighbors, you subtract a term from the right hand side which leads to a standard form of the lattice Laplacian, so you have a discretized Schrodinger equation. The continuum limit of this is the normal Schrodinger equation:
$$ {\partial_t \psi} = a\epsilon^2 \nabla^2 \psi $$
Where $\epsilon$ is the lattice spacing. From this, you can read off the effective mass $m={1\over 2a}$.
The point is that mass of a quantum excitation is just the inverse of the hopping amplitude, so it is universal to describe any localized excitation that moves coherently with an effective mass. The harder it is to hop, the more massive the object is. The result is in principle independent of the actual mass of the fundamental particles--- if you make an optical lattice and place a metal BEC in each optical trap, the electrons have to tunnel from one trap location to the next in order to flow, and the effective mass can be as large as you like. In real materials, the effective mass is usually close to the electron mass, but sometimes can be hundreds of times bigger.
If you fill up all the electron states, and consider one hole, there is an amplitude for the hole to hop to a neighboring location. This gives an effective mass as above, proportional to the inverse hopping amplitude. Unlike in classical systems, you don't have to consider dissipation--- the effective mass description is exact. Further, if the hopping amplitude for a hole is fundamentally the same as the hopping amplitude for an electron to fill the hole from the neighbors.
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I think that the answer should be searched in surface metal (dielectric)free electrons. When an electron start to move it became heavier or easyer throgh absorbtion or radiation of some Planck energy.The change in speed is : speed is increasing if electron go through band gap by absorbtion.(Fourier Generalised Tf. and antenna radiation) In orbital valent position the electrons and the holes in which it is formed a filler.When the electron leave the filler, the filler hole mass is the mass of electrons plus the mass of received energy and other posible interaction with other orbital or nucleous.
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Could you please improve the grammar and/or sentence structure of your answer? It is very hard to understand what you're saying as of right now. – Danu Oct 19 at 8:54
For a very common practically important classical mechanical equivalent, consider a bubble of air in the water. The apparent inertia of the bubble is on order of the mass of water displaced by the bubble, as the water around the bubble has to move for the bubble to move. This is an important consideration for ships, submarines, torpedoes, fish, etc, that end up having considerably more inertia than their own mass, and end up accelerating slower with the engine on.
One time I did mathematics for realistic barrel falling into water in computer game; the apparent 'increase' of the mass, in combination with the conservation of momentum, rather accurately describes a large part of the deceleration of object when it is entering water.
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- noun: one who lives in solitude
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[tlhIngan Hol] difference between -meH and -wI' in purpose-clause compound nouns
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On 6/1/2017 4:45 AM, Lieven wrote:
> first of all, how would you linguistically call that what I am talking
> about?
In your subject, you call these things "purpose-clause compound nouns."
Strictly speaking, none of these are compound nouns, which in TKD are
individual words consisting of multiple nouns. All of your examples may
be described as noun phrases, but you can't get more specific when
describing all of them. They break down into purpose clauses and
genitive phrases.
> I have noticed that some words are translated like {pe'meH taj}
> "cutting knife", while others use -wI': {toSwI' qal'aq} "jungle gym".
> And then, sometimes I wondered, why -wI' and not -meH?
> Of course, all phrases make sense in both ways, but is there a
> difference? Why is it not {toSmeH qal'aq} "structure for climbing"?
> Why say {chevwI' tlhoy'} and not {chevmeH tlhoy'} for "territiorial
> wall"?
> "suntan lotion" is translated as {DIr QanwI' taS} - why not {DIr
> QanmeH taS}?
> What do you think about that?
I think it's arbitrary, and you just have to learn which way it's said.
I also think you wouldn't be particularly wrong if you said *chevmeH
tlhoy'* instead of *chevwI' tlhoy',* for example. It would be like the
difference between /border wall/ and /wall of the border:/ one is said
and the other isn't, but the other is still perfectly understandable.
> Next, I think there is also a difference between combinations where
> the meH-ed verb directly influences the noun (pe'meH taj means that
> the knife is for cutting) while other situations are just real
> noun-noun combinations (as in {nISwI' DaH} which is a "array of
> disruptors" and not a "array to disrupt").
> I'm just lacking the right terms to say what I think, so maybe you can
> clarify.
Genitive is a broad concept, and Klingon noun-nouns seem to embrace that
breadth. You seem to be sensing sub-types of genitive. Here's a page
that breaks down various types that appear in Latin:
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Other Words for Unity
Unity as a Adjective has these synonyms:
oneness, singularity, integrity, singleness, congruity, uniformity, congruousness, homogeneity, identity, sameness, resemblance, likeness, similarity, similitude
Example: If there is little unity between your ideas and those of the organization, perhaps you should resign.
unification, uniting, combination
Example: In unity is strength.
Unity as a Verb has these synonyms:
consistency, unanimity, constancy, uniformity, sameness, consensus, agreement, concord, concordance, accord, solidarity, compatibility, concurrence, continuity, consentaneousness, rapport, sympathy, like-mindedness
Example: All members of the association enjoy a unity of purpose.


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Antibiotic residues in 'uncured' sausages such as chorizo, pepperoni and salami may kill friendly bacteria that keeps the meat fresh
Antibiotic residues in sausage meat increase the likelihood of food poisoning
28 August, 2012
Natural Health News — Antibiotic residues in uncured pepperoni or salami meat are potent enough to weaken helpful bacteria that processors add to acidify the sausage and make it safe for consumption
Sausage manufacturers commonly treat sausage meat with lactic-acid-producing bacteria to control the fermentation process so that the final product is acidic enough to kill pathogens that might have existed in the raw meat. Sausages such as like pepperoni, salami, or chorizo are commonly treated this way. But, by killing the bacteria that produce lactic acid, antibiotic residues can allow pathogenic bacteria to proliferate.
Fermented sausages have occasionally been known to cause serious bacterial infections, but it's never been understood why.
Now in a laboratory study published in the online journal mBio, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and University College Cork, Ireland, found that antibiotic concentrations within limits set by US and European Union (EU) regulators are high enough to slow fermentation, the process that acidifies the sausages and helps destroy foodborne pathogens like Salmonella or E. coli.
The results show antibiotics can potentially have a paradoxical effect by reducing the effectiveness of bacteria that should make the sausages safe but not affecting the bacteria that can cause food poisoning.
Antibiotics used on the farm to blame
So how can we be sure antibiotic residues don't interfere with the safety of these products?
The ultimate solution would be to address the problem at source by eliminating the use of antibiotics as growth promoters on the farm and closely monitoring the use of antibiotics in treating farm animal diseases.
The European Union and other countries have banned the use of antibiotics in livestock as growth promoters, though the US remains reluctant to follow suit. However it should be pointed out that the sausage meat samples in this study still had enough antibiotic residues to cause problems. This may be because some unscrupulous farmers 'treat' their livestock with antibiotics when they aren't really sick.
What's in a cure?
The curing process for meat was created out of the need to keep it from spoiling during storage. Curing agents also give these meats a specific flavour that is hard to imitate without them. This is why organic certifiers, controversially, say they allow nitrites and nitrates in organic bacon and other cured meats.
For centuries salt and saltpetre were used to cure meat. Today there are many different levels of curing and in reality even those meat that claim to be 'uncured' have gone through some kind of curing process such as lactic acid fermentation.
Some will still contain nitrates because natural curing agents like celery, beet and spinach juice as well as sugar and sea salt also naturally contain nitrites (which can convert to nitrates). During treatment with natural curing agents the true amount of nitrate formed is unknown and impossible to measure because nitrite reacts quickly with meat components.
In reality most uncured meats are simply those that don't have sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite specifically added as preservatives.
So is cured meat 'better'?
Whatever the advantages in terms of food preservation, cured meat is still problematic from a health perspective.
Under certain not entirely predictable conditions, the natural breakdown products of proteins known as amines can combine with nitrites preservatives to form compounds known as nitrosamines.
Nitrosamines are the same chemicals found in cigarette smoke. There are many different types of nitrosamines, most of which are known carcinogens. Cooking both cured and uncured meats at a very high heat (as in frying) may promote the formation of nitrosamines called heterocyclic amines, or HCAs.
A cancer risk
Most recently the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has concluded that consumption of cured meats is a big risk factor for bowel cancer.
The joint WCRF/AICRS 540-page report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of cancer: a Global Perspective was produced by a large expert panel of scientists from around the world and found convincing evidence of the link between the foods we eat and several types of cancer. Some of its recommendations can be found in a user-friendly format here.
Specifically it found that including just 1.8 ounces of processed meat a day – the equivalent of one sausage or three pieces of bacon – raises your risk of developing bowel cancer by 20%.
In 20011 an update and review of the evidence by WCRF prompted this conclusion:
"There is strong evidence that … processed meats are causes of bowel cancer, and that there is no amount of processed meat that can be confidently shown not to increase risk …Try to avoid processed meats such as bacon, ham, salami, corned beef and some sausages."
Rethinking cured and uncured meats
Diets high in processed meats tend to displace healthier foods with known cancer-fighting properties such as fruits and vegetables and unprocessed grains and pulses.
In addition to bowel cancer, other studies have also found that processed meats increase your risk of colon cancer by 50%, bladder cancer by 60%, stomach cancer by 38%, pancreatic cancer by 67%,
Processed meats may also increase your risk of diabetes by 50%, as well as increasing your risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Although the current research on uncured meats is preliminary it does underscore the fact that both cured and uncured meats are probably best left as a minimal part of the diet, if they are eaten at all.


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text: So why might viruses care about our body clock? Since our cells are miniature factories, making things that the virus must have to copy itself, the virus is less likely to succeed when the production line is shut down. This is what we tested in the laboratory, by infecting cells and mice at different times of the day. We found that viruses are less able to infect in the late afternoon. In contrast, in the early morning, our cells are hives of biosynthetic activity, at least from the virus's viewpoint. So, if a virus tries to take over a cell in the early day, it is far more likely to succeed, and spread faster, than if it encounters a rather less favourable climate in the evening.


Rounds a given number down towards zero
What is the ROUNDDOWN Function?
The ROUNDDOWN Function is categorized under Excel Math and Trigonometry functions. The function will round down towards zero. Basically, it does the opposite of the ROUNDUP function.
As a financial analyst, this function is useful as it helps round a number and eliminates the least significant digits, simplifying the notation but keeping close to the original value.
The ROUNDDOWN function uses the following arguments:
 1. Number (required argument) – This is a real number that we wish to round down.
 2. Num_digits (required argument) – This is the number of digits to which we want to round the number.
Now, if the num_digits argument is:
 1. A positive value that is num_digits > number, it specifies the number of digits is rounded down to the specified number of decimal places.
 2. Equal to zero, it specifies rounding to the nearest integer.
 3. A negative value that is num_digits < number, it specifies the number of digits is rounded down to the specified number of decimal places.
How to use the ROUNDDOWN Function in Excel?
To understand the uses of the ROUNDDOWN function, let's consider an example:
Suppose we are given the following data:
5.20Round down to the nearest whole number
51.421Round down to 1 decimal place
5.1422Round down to 2 decimal places
2785.23Round down to 3 decimal places
2785.2-1Round down to the nearest 10
2785.2-2Round down to the nearest 100
2785.2-3Round down to the nearest 1000
2785.2-4Round down to the nearest 10000
The results we get in Excel are shown below:
ROUNDUP Function
Things to remember
 1. The ROUNDDOWN function behaves like the ROUND function, except that it always rounds a number down.
 2. It can round either to the left or right of the decimal point.
 3. Unlike standard rounding, where numbers less than 5 are rounded down, the function always rounds numbers 1-9 down.
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Time Zones Give an Advantage to West Coast Sports Teams
A new study could make some east coast sports teams consider moving west. The research, conducted in Canada, found that NFL, NBA and NHL teams traveling from west to east had a higher winning percentage compared to teams traveling in the opposite direction.
The results of this study highlight the importance of the direction of the circadian disadvantage on the probability of success.
"These results highlight the importance of circadian rhythms in sport performance. They also raise concerns about well-established practices such as early training sessions and late-night athletic competitions and the possible negative effects on performance and health," said co-author, Geneviève Forest, PhD, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). "These results show that the effect of the circadian disadvantage transcends the type of sport being played and needs to be addressed for greater equity among the western and eastern teams in professional sports."
The study reviewed the past 5 years of regular season games in the NBA, NFL and NHL and noted the winning percentage of the visiting team depending on the direction of travel (east vs same time zone vs west), and the number of time zones crossed for every game. T-tests and ANOVAs were performed to study the effect of the circadian disadvantage and its direction on winning percentage.
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People with disabilities are three times less likely to have a job than people without disabilities, and if they are employed they tend to be paid less, according to a report released by the United States Census Bureau Thursday.
Disabled people are most likely to work in low-paid roles as service workers and administrative support positions. Janitorial staff, dishwashers and truck drivers are among the most common occupations for workers with disabilities.
The Census Bureau found that disabled workers receive wages equal to about 75 percent of what workers without disabilities earn.
More than half of workers with disabilities earned less than $25,000 a year.
The wage gaps persist even when disabled people are compared to people without disabilities in the same jobs, according to the Census Bureau.
The National Governors Association is researching ways that states can partner with the private sector to help people with disabilities find employment, as Stateline has reported. Nationally, more than 30 percent of the adult population receiving income-based government assistance through programs, such as Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, has a disability, according to another recent report from the Census Bureau.
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What is melee?
Melee refers to one of two attack types. Melee is the attack type that a close range combatant uses to physically strike a target unit. Generally this ranges from an attack range of 128, with the exception of a few heroes. Most melee heroes tend to be strength or agility orientated.
What is ranged?
Ranged is referencing the second of the attack types. Ranged attacks are conjured items or energy that is slung at a range to inflict damage to the target. Ranged attacks can very greatly in the overall length of attack. Ranged heroes are commonly intelligence or agility based.
I bet you're wondering why I listed this basic information. Well why isn't this relevant? Knowing the difference between these mechanics can make or break a game. I often see a very irrelevant section in guides consisting of pros and cons, I find this to just be a filler to make the guides longer. Within these guides lye a very common misconception, example:
A guide is generally written by a mediocre DoTA player who wants to share his personal play style with his peer players. The same mediocre player will look at other's guides to see their personal options and then take these guides to heart. The problem with this, is that with most opinions comes falsities. Often a hero will be criticized based on role or attack type:
"A support? No that's lame, where's viper?"
"Dude, we already have 3 carries! We need a support."
"No, I got it, Dazzle doesn't do any damage anyways."
This. DoTA2 matchmaking at it's finest. A misinformed player is not necessarily an ignorant player, just a misguided player. Often times a player provides themselves the notion that because a hero can attack you from a further range, that you automatically will be zoned from the lane. If this is the case then why are Nightstalker and Tiny so well at dominating mid lane? To answer this we have to look at the statistics and truths provided below.
Here is a list of SOME of the items that differentiate between melee and ranged heroes. Some have a quite small margin of difference, and some have a quite big impact on the play style of certain heroes.
Quelling Blade, bonus damage versus creeps: 32%
Vanguard, damage block: 40
Poor Man's Shield, damage block: 20
Skull Basher, bash proc chance: 25%
Manta Style, illusions deal 33% damage and take 350% damage. Cooldown: 35 seconds.
Vladimir's Offering, bonuses: lifesteal 16% and 15% bonus damage. Armor 5, mana regeneration 0.8.
Venom Orb, movement slow: 12%
Quelling Blade, bonus damage versus creeps: 12%
Vanguard, damage block: 20
Poor Man's Shield, damage block: 10
Skull Basher, bash proc chance: 10%
Manta Style, illusions deal 28% damage and take 400% damage. Cooldown: 50 seconds.
Vladimir's Offering, bonuses: Armor 5, mana regeneration 0.8.
Venom Orb, movement slow: 4%
There are certain attack modifications and auras that only affect heroes of a certain attack type. Most of these modifications have quite the impact on a hero. I've provided a list of SOME of these mechanics.
Denied Creep Experience: 36
Vladimir's Offering Melee Damage Bonus
Vladimir's Offering Lifesteal
Skeleton King's Lifesteal
Denied Creep Experience: 18
Drow Ranger's Ranged Damage Bonus
Ranged Units, Chance to miss uphill: 25%
Skadi, Buffplacer (Can stack with Lifesteal orbs)
Orb walking is a vital skill that allows ranged units to generate some severe harass. This mechanic is exploited by using the current spell system to work in your favor. Usually I'd write this section myself, but due to incompetence, I have brought in two sources to properly display this advanced technique:
" One of the strongest mechanics of some ranged carries is their ability to orb walk. An orb is a unique attack modifier that changes how your auto attacks will affect the enemy or yourself, such as lifesteal (Morbid Mask, Satanic), armor reduction (Deso), and movement slow (Orb of Venom, Skadi). Some ranged heroes, like Viper, Huskar, and Drow, have skills that are orbs you can toggle on and off to give unique orbs. The strength of these orbs is that they cost low mana and they count as spells. The reason why it is important that these orbs are spells is that they do not draw aggro from creeps when in lane. In a typical situation, if you right click to attack an enemy hero in the early game, the enemy creeps will re-aggro themselves to you instead of your allied creeps. When you cast a spell on an enemy, the aggro does not change. This is the real power behind orb walking; you can get free harass on the enemies in your lane while while not taking the counter attack from the enemy creeps.
Let's use Clinkz as an example. Clinkz's W, Searing Arrows, is an orb effect. To orb walk, simply press the W key on your keyboard, then left click on the enemy to cast it. This will allow for long range harass with no creep revenge. " - Awes0meo
" Typically when you right-click on an enemy hero, the nearby creeps will agro you, and attack you. When you cast spells on enemy heroes this is not the case. Orb-Walking involves using abilities that have Unique Attack Modifiers. Select the ability once and click on an enemy hero, this is now considered casting an ability so nearby enemy creeps will not attack you. You can repeat this as many times as necessary. On the contrary, however, if you enable auto-cast for the Unique Attack Modifier and right-click on a hero creeps will attack you. " - _URL_
I believe that within DoTA, every basic mechanic is balanced; and punishes the player appropriately. If you are being voided from your lane by Sniper, that's all on you. I'm not saying that DoTA is completely balanced, obviously values change and updates happen often, but what I am saying is that; if you're losing its not the game, its you.
If you have learned anything from this guide, or even if you just enjoyed the little rant, please give this a thumbs up so others may read this and also agree or disagree on this.
These guides are somewhat time consuming to produce, and most of them do lack some at the moment, but for the most part I believe they provide enough information to play properly with the given information. Even though the guide is still UNFINISHED, I still need feedback on how to better it. The opinions and such are always up for change, and your opinion is wanted as long as it's not something that smashes the entire guide because you don't like a little detail. Please keep in mind: if you have the time to read this guide and vote on it then you should have a sufficient amount of time to comment what pleased or displeased you.
Please take the time to provide feedback.
What can I change? What areas need improvement? Is the guide visually unappealing?


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Chimney Swifts have declined by over 50% in just the last 40 years. Chimney Swifts can be helped by making chimneys accessible for the birds or by building Chimney Swift Towers -- specially designed nesting/roosting towers.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
- Plant native trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses that attract more insects than non-native plants. Chimney Swifts feed exclusively on flying insects which are crucial during the breeding season.
- Investigate an alternative venting system if you are converting a furnace or hot water heater to gas, leaving the chimney unlined and uncapped for the swifts.
- Work with an experienced chimney sweep company that can speak to the issue of Chimney Swift conservation and chimney maintenance.
- Encourage your neighborhood parks, schools, and businesses to build chimney swift towers.
- Work with local conservation groups to raise awareness of the need for uncapped chimneys for Chimney Swift conservation.
CHIMNEY SWIFT FACTS
- Chimney swifts have declined by over 50% in just the last 40 years
- Small, agile, fast-flying bird that is readily identified by its "flying cigar" profile
- Breeds across much of eastern North America
- Historically nested and roosted in hollow trees
- Readily adapted to the insides of masonry chimneys
- Winters in the Amazon Basin
IN THE NEWS
October, 2011. KARE-11 Simply Science video with Sven Sundgaard on Audubon Minnesota's Chimney Swift Conservation Project about a Boy Scout building a tower for his Eagle Project.
July 2011. Chimney swift conservation is highlighted in the July–August Audubon magazine, including a sidebar "Tower Power" with Audubon Minnesota's Chimney Swift conservation project noted.
June 30, 2011. "This knowledge has stopped conversation about putting a cap on the chimney," said Roger Storms following participation in a Community Chimney Swift Sit. "Education is a wonderful thing." _URL_
April 2011. Volunteers needed to help restore chimney swift habitat at the Minneapolis American Indian Center – See page 3 of Ojibwe Innaajimowin at _URL_
Dec. 9, 2010. Star-Tribune. Chimney swifts, which have declined 50 percent in the last 40 years, will be given new nesting sites.
Sept. 16, 2010. KARE-11 Simply Science video with Sven Sundgaard on Audubon Minnesota's Chimney Swift Conservation Project. "It is called the flying cigar because of their short, stubby bodies, long wing span," explains Ron.
Aug. 19, 2010. Watch Jon Smithers' video of Chimney Swifts at St. Anne's School in Le Sueur, Minnesota.
July 31, 2010. Star Tribune. As chimney swifts continue to lose habitat, Newport Elementary in Newport and Hillside Elementary in Cottage Grove are helping to save the species.
June 11, 2010. The Daily Reporter. Contractor's work is for the birds. Kraus-Anderson
May 2, 2010. Finding homes for Chimney Swifts. Stephanie Hemphill reports on Audubon Minnesota's efforts to raise awareness about Chimney Swifts and their special habitat needs.
Nov. 16, 2009. KARE-11 story on unique young chimney swifts that have to learn the skills of the swift thanks to the help of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How do I tell if I have chimney swifts and not bats in my chimney?
Swifts like large openings at the top and closed at the bottom unlike bats that like tight openings at the bottom and closed at top. If you see birds entering the chimney at dusk they are most likely chimney swifts. Bats on the other hand are leaving their small roosts at that time.
Should I be concerned about swifts interfering with my use of my fireplace? Swifts are generally gone before the colder temperatures arrive as they spend winter in the Amazon.
I have heard that chimney swifts pose a fire hazard, is that true?
Only one pair of swifts nest in a chimney so matter how many non-breeding swifts might be using it. The nest is so small that it poses a very minimal fire hazard, and certainly is small enough to not block even the smallest of flues. Routine cleaning (when the swifts are gone south for the winter is the best time) will eliminate any potential risk.
The chimney swifts are really noisy, what is going on?
Swifts will make swooshing noises as they enter and leave the chimney and will often chirp. If you are lucky enough to have a nest with young you won't have any problem knowing as they will make some loud, high pitched yips when the parents return with food. This vocalization by the young doesn't last but two to two and a half weeks until the young fledge. You can put a sheet of Styrofoam or something that softens the noise in the flue to reduce the noise during the nesting period.
Some chimney sweeps have told me that swifts cause Histoplasmosis, should I be concerned?
Histoplasma, an organism that can grow in the soil is associated primarily with large scale poultry operations or large amounts of bird or bat droppings. Having you chimney cleaned periodically (while the swifts are not nesting) will prevent any appreciable accumulations of droppings. The chimney sweep will take necessary precautions if there are any accumulated materials at the bottom.
How much difference does it make if I cap my chimney?
Capping of chimneys is undoubtedly a major factor in the decline of the chimney swift (a 50% decline in just the last 40 years. One less chimney means one less family of young that can reproduce in the years ahead. Rather than capping your chimney or installing metal vents when installing a new gas furnace of hot water heater consider alternative venting methods other than running it up an existing brick chimney.


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By Ken Ward Jr.
Why does West Virginia's timber industry mostly consist of loggers and sawmills? Why doesn't the state have many furniture factories?
Forestry professors have made a career of trying to answer these questions. Governor after governor has faced the problem. Businessmen scratch their heads when confronted with this quandary.
Over the years, a list of possible answers has been compiled. Basically, they point to problems that make production costs higher in West Virginia than in surrounding states, making location here less desirable. Among the problems commonly cited:
- Transportation - Problems with West Virginia's road system have become legendary. Loggers in the state can't avoid the fact that heavy, bulky lumber must be hauled over winding, narrow roads. In many places, bridges are not sturdy enough to carry huge log trucks safely.
Industry experts say this situation has improved over the years. Many support construction of Corridor H from Elkins to Virginia as a further improvement that could help the timber industry.
- The West Virginia Development Office says it is disadvantaged because of the furniture industry's reliance on trade shows in North Carolina.
Twice each year, producers, buyers and others connected with the furniture industry gather in the High Point-Winston Salem area of North Carolina to display their wares and take and place orders for the coming season. These shows give the western Carolin a and Virginia areas a distinct advantage as a location for this industry.
- Others have pointed to a lack of training of West Virginia workers in woodworking skills required for furniture factories and other secondary wood processing businesses.
- Mingo County coal and timber baron Buck Harless blames the lack of furniture factories on West Virginia's reputation for labor disputes and a high level of unionization among workers.
Harless believes this image is no longer accurate, particularly as the labor movement has lost political power and membership, but continues to plague state development efforts.
- David E. White, a former West Virginia University forest economist, blames a more complicated combination of wages and transportation problems.
It costs more to transport timber products from rural timber counties like Webster or Randolph, so furniture plants would be better off in areas like Charleston, with interstate highways and river barge transportation.
But wages are higher in Kanawha County than in rural, timber counties. Low wages in those rural counties have helped make their sawmills competitive and offset high transportation costs for raw lumber. This hasn't been the case for secondary wood process ing.
"In short, the comparative advantage that West Virginia has for the primary processing of timber products does not exist for secondary processing," White wrote in 1994.
"West Virginia has not been able to meet the industry's low cost requirements for both transportation and labor conterminously," he wrote. "The result is that much of the state's primary wood products have been shipped for final processing to places outs ide West Virginia where these two conditions are better met."
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Laborers' Local 91 represents union laborers in Niagara County. In 1935, Local 91 was originally founded as the International Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union of America. Local 91 in Niagara Falls is affiliated with the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). The members of Local 91 are involved in various types of construction and industrial projects, including brick masonry; asbestos removal; hazardous materials abatement; paving roads and runways; pipe installation; and bridge and building construction. Local 91 laborers have participated in various projects throughout Niagara County, such as Niagara Hydro-Electric Power Generating Station, AES Somerset Electric Generating Station, the Seneca Niagara Hotel and Casino, and the Yahoo Data Center.
Up until the late 1970s, Local 91 laborers were exposed to asbestos through materials they applied, removed or handled. Exposure to asbestos dust and fibers can cause mesothelioma or lung cancer many years after an initial exposure. Local 91 members were also exposed to asbestos dust by working in close proximity to other tradesmen, including insulators, carpenters, electricians, and fireproofers, who applied or removed asbestos-containing materials. Asbestos was widely incorporated into many building materials and industrial products that laborers applied or removed, including pipe covering, block insulation, roof shingles, joint compound and fireproof materials. It was also common for laborers to be present when asbestos fireproofing was applied to structural steel in order to keep the machine loaded with the insulating material. Among the many general duties of laborers, which would have exposed them to asbestos, laborers swept up dust and debris after drywall finishers sanded asbestos-containing joint compound. Additionally, laborers performed general duties on construction sites, which also exposed them to asbestos.
The dangers of exposure to asbestos dust were unknown to workers who performed their work without wearing masks or protective gear. Inhaling dust and particles from the application of asbestos-containing materials placed workers at risk for developing mesothelioma or lung cancer. Even workers who were not in direct contact with asbestos materials remain at risk for developing an asbestos-related disease, such as mesothelioma or lung cancer. If you or a loved one worked as a Local 91 laborer and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or lung cancer, please contact us regarding your legal rights.


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Half of Shibboleth runs within the web server. For IIS, this half is implemented in an ISAPI filter and extension packaged in a single file called isapi_shib.dll. Because most versions of IIS provide very minimal support for the configuration of extensions on its own, all of the runtime configuration is handled by the SP configuration file (shibboleth2.xml) with the exception of the basic installation of the filter and extension into IIS.
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Loading the Filter and Extension
The low-level IIS installation details have been documented as part of the Windows installation process, and can be found linked from the NativeSPWindowsInstall topic for each supported version of IIS.
Typically, environment variables are used to set the appropriate path information to enable the library to locate the configuration file and initialize itself when IIS or its child processes are started.
titleStartup Failures
If you experience startup problems, you should do the following:
 - Verify the configuration is generally valid by running %SHIBSP_PREFIX%/sbin/shibd.exe -check from the command line.
 - Assuming that reports no serious errors, verify that all of the machine accounts used by IIS have read permission to the SP installation tree.
Enabling the Filter
Populate the element in shibboleth2.xml with elements that reflect the IIS site/vhost configuration, and then use the to apply content settings.
IIS has a design difference that separates it from Apache: it provides no mechanism to securely establish the "canonical" properties of a web site like it's hostname. Instead it divides the web server into "site instances" that can have properties like names and ports attached to them. The SP's portable internals don't understand the concept of a "site", so to correct for this, a non-portable piece of XML configuration is included within the element that performs a mapping between a site instance number/ID and the associated "canonical" virtual host information.
It is critical when performing initial setup, and when adding new Shibboleth-enabled web sites to an IIS server, to create those mappings. Failure to do so will result in the system ignoring requests to unmapped sites. Note that this is also a feature: any site instances you provide no mapping for will be ignored by the software.
Any time you manipulate the configuration section, you'll need to restart IIS completely.
Once the necessary site instance mappings are created, the rest of the per-request configuration is handled exclusively by the component. There is no "native" option as with the other web server implementations.
The module does not provide for integration with the native access control features of the web server. Therefore you will need to either perform such work within your application, or rely on the and the XML-based Access Control plugin (or an alternative plugin to the SP).
Content Settings
The SP supports an extensible set of content settings, properties that control how it interacts with requests and enforces various requirements. On IIS, these settings can be controlled only by attaching properties using the mechanism in the SP configuration.


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Path Analysis in Visio
The well-commented VBA code (provided by guest-poster Al Edlund) which accompanies this article will help you make programmatic sense of the elemental stuff of connected Visio diagrams: connectors, connection points, OneD shapes, Connect and FromConnect.
You'll also see how to produce connected diagrams, find out which shape is connected to which, and more importantly, do some path analysis to find the deeper meaning behind it all!
This guest post was developed and written by Al Edlund. Al is a fellow Microsoft Visio Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and is a networking expert, and a big fan of Visio. He's also told me that networking is also his hobby, so when he's working he's playing, and when he's playing he's working!
Thanks Al for a great effort, now take it away!
Connectors, Connections and Paths
I have seen a couple of recent requests that have focused on how to understand what is connected in a Visio drawing. What is sometimes missed is that there is a difference between connected and a path, which is a series of connections. This path deconstruction is sometimes referred to as graph analysis and is the study of how nodes (vertexes) attach to each other via "edges".
What is sometimes overlooked by the user who wants to analyze the drawing via automation is that there are two levels of domain specific knowledge that are needed. The first is what is being represented by the shapes on the page and the second is how the underlying add-in portrayed that information.
This led me to a put together a two-part project which you can read about in these pages, and download when you're done with the words. The project focuses on these two items:
- Demonstrates some concepts in analyzing a drawing's connections
- Analyzes the path information
Using the Path Analysis Application
Once you've OK'd the VBA macros in the Visio file and clicked the StartTest button on page one, you'll be presented with the project's main form:
Figure 1 Example Menu layout
The path analysis form has two groups. The left one is for demonstrating path analysis and the right one is for drawing (connection) analysis.
The path analysis has three sections: the analysis algorithm, the view layers, and the open Excel button. The analysis algorithms create topology pages to demonstrate search techniques. The edge information and path search information are drawn on different layers which can be turned on/off by the layer buttons. The Open Excel feature is included to allow the user to pull in external data. The description of the workbook/worksheets is included in the code module: modDrawData.
The ConnectionsSearch section has four buttons. Flowchart draws the modified Visio 2007 SDK navigation example. The Drawing button uses the included page connection search to capture the active page connections. The Network button discovers the data from the network page, and the PFD button discovers the data from the pipes/flow/diagram. Lastly, the Save2Excel8 button takes the data from the last analysis and exports it to an Excel2003 format.
The Visio SDK has an example of analyzing a drawing (DemoNavigatingDrawing) which combines both of these concepts (connection analysis and path analysis).
I've included a modified version of this flowchart analysis in the drawing.
Figure 2 Flowchart Example used
The modifications include:
- Adding an additional data entry function
- Including a control transfer shape.
I added these to demonstrate that:
- In a drawing that is aware of the 'directionality' of dynamic connectors the developer may have to adopt a strategy that verifies that all shapes have been included
- Shape.Type = OneD shapes which are not 'Dynamic connectors' may be in the information path.
I've included a network detail drawing as well which brings out a couple of other exposures. In this case the points that require attention include (once again) that OneD shapes may not necessarily be part of an information flow and (to make it a little more interesting) we have to track connector end-points based on their component and connection point.
Finally in the network connections the paths are assumed to be capable of 'full duplex' communications which removes the directionality aspect.
Figure 3 Network Detail Drawing used
Piping Flow (PFD)
The example of a piping flow drawing (provided by another user) as starting points has three sets of objects we want to track. These are equipment (vertices), piping (edges), and instrumentation (probes). The interesting point here is that a probe attaches to a OneD shape (pipes) in the example drawing.
Figure 4 Piping-Flow diagram used
Both the network detail and PFD drawings also demonstrate that you have to be aware of the underlying add-in that created the drawing. In the case of the PFD drawing shape text is stored in a user field.
The captured data from the connection analysis can be saved to an Excel spreadsheet. Excel in this code is 2007 Excel and doesn't do a lot of checking or error catching. It is there for convenience.
Figure 5 Excel Output (PFD drawing)
Path Analysis (Depth-first)
The second part of the project was to demonstrate some of the common methods for analyzing path information. The basic flows are excerpts from Data Structures and Algorithms Using Visual Basic.NET, a Michael McMillan book that was written for VB.NET.
I thought it would be fun to convert the concepts to VBA and then use Visio to draw the constructs and use layering to show how the algorithms worked. The data is based on two mandatory arrays (vertex and edge) and an optional array that allowed me to force some of the shapes to specific places on the page. A tutorial on this material goes well beyond what an article can cover. Mr. McMillan's book is also referenced in the code.
Figure 6 Path Analysis (depth first)
This code should not be considered as anything beyond demo code of some advanced concepts. When you open Visio's VBA integrated development environment, you'll see the following forms, modulas and classes:
Figure 7 Application objects
Here's a quick description of what each code file is about:
- frmPath user interface
- modDrawData the information used to initialize the three main arrays used to create the drawings used in the path analysis section
- modFlowchartNavigator the basic code used in the v2007 sdk that demonstrates an approach to moving through a visio flowchart
- modNavEnhanced an example of how analyzing a drawing might be enhanced using the two examples provided (Network Detail and PFD)
- clsDistOriginal object storage
- clsItemEdge object storage
- clsItemPoint object storage
- clsItempProbe object storage
- clsVertex object storage
- clsShapePos object storage
- clsMyCollection string / array manipulation
- clsMyGraph path analysis code


French Naval Boarding Cutlass Sword 1775
Privateer Naval Boarding Cutlass Sword from the revolutionary and Napoleonic area, XVIII century, circa 1775.
Simple one branch red brass hilt with a flat quillon
Black leather scabbard with two large brass mounts and a brass chape.
Large steel blade with a gutter and engraved...
" Cassaignard Fourbisseur du Roy à Nantes "...
Multiple chisselings on the two side of the blade, representing a crescent and a shining sun with stars....symbols of eternity
Blade very sharp ending with a double edged tip.
Cassaignard was a sword maker in Nantes, with his shop close to the local Stock Exchange, at the sign " A la Victoire".
He was a sword cutler and arquebusier.
Pierre Cassaignard was born in August 1709, died in September 1786 with no male heir to take over his business.
 Cassaignard Fourbisseur du Roy à Nantes
Privateers were part of naval warfare from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Some privateers have been particularly influential in the annals of history.
Sometimes the vessels would be commissioned into regular service as warships.
Privateers in the XVI century were naval officers originally mandated by their national governments to conduct raids in open seas against enemy ships.
Almost all of privateers swords were plunder from seized ships. Thus, the pirates could possess many exotic scimitars, rapiers and other swords from late medieval age to early Renaissance.
The short naval cutlass sword was the favorite weapon for the privateers, making it ideal for cutting riggings, canvas, masts, ropes, deck chores and for boarding battles.
Blade very sharp ending with a double edged tip.
France trying to disrupt the English domination on sea!
 This is the sword used by the Privateers, Surcouf's men...ready to fight against the British Navy.
La Confiance 18 guns-120 men boarding the Kent 38 guns-437 men
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Training Course on Science Classroom Supervision is one of the SEAQIS' flagship programmes to equip school principals and supervisors in academic supervision. SCS activity was held from 24 October to 2 November 2022 through online platform with 16 principals, vice principals, and supervisors who had passed the selection. Dr Indrawati as the Director of SEAQIS officially opened the SCS 2022, while Mr Reza Setiawan (Deputy Director for Programme) officially closed this event.
In the beginning and at the end of the activity, the participants were required to do a pre-test as well as a post-test. The event was facilitated by the experts in the field of education and supervision, such as Dr Harry Firman (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia); Prof Dr H. Jam'an Satori (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia); Prof Dr H. Johar Permana (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia); and SEAQIS academic team with synchronous and asynchronous learning models. Through academic supervision activity, principals or supervisors are expected to provide services, guidance, and assistance to improve the competence of teachers in learning and classroom management.
In this SCS activity, the participants had a lot of discussion with the resource persons and facilitators regarding the materials on Trends and Issues on Science Education, Science Classroom Supervision New Paradigm, Professional Learning Community (PLC), and so on. They also responded to each other while presenting the results of their tasks. During the closing, Ms Andri Novi Lestari gave her testimony after following all the SCS activities and expressed her gratitude to SEAQIS for organising this insightful activity.


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Elders - What Is a Pagan Elder?
Elders - What Is a Pagan Elder?
The title of Elder is earned, not claimed.
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Spend any time at all in the Pagan community, and you're bound to hear someone referred to as an Elder. Typically used as a term of respect and honor, Elder is a status that is generally given to someone, rather than claimed for oneself. It is considered bad form to announce that you are a Pagan Elder - let someone else grant you the designation, if you have indeed earned the status.
You may often find that someone who is a Pagan Elder is a little uncomfortable with the title - not because they haven't earned it, but because often they do their work for the community out of love, rather than because they're out collecting titles. They are individuals who have taught, shared, blazed new trails, spoken out for those who could not speak, and who have, in general, tried to make the world a better place.
Community Leaders
Sometimes, someone has been active in the Pagan community for so long that other people begin referring to them as an Elder. This is not necessarily indicative of age so much as it is a matter of time spent serving the community. Someone who is only forty, but has been active in planning and organization of public events since the age of fifteen has a good two and a half decades in as a Pagan community servant. It would not be unreasonable to refer to this person as an Elder, despite the fact that he or she is only forty.
In many traditions of modern Paganism, there is a lengthy training process involved before someone can be considered clergy. Whether this is a degree system, or a series of classes and continuing education, within each tradition there may be guidelines on what confers the status of clergy. After someone has attained the role of clergy, and spent time doing pastoral counseling or other leadership work, members of the tradition may consider the individual an Elder.
Other Role Models
It's entirely possible that someone can be considered a Pagan Elder who is not a community organizer or licensed clergy. Often, someone who has been involved in the Pagan community for a long time, and has shown that they have a significant amount of knowledge and wisdom to share, can be considered an Elder. People who are teachers, counselors, authors, and other leaders can all be designated as Elders, if others feel they have earned it.
Be sure to read Where are the Pagan Role Models?
How to Honor Our Elders
As the Pagan community grows, our Elders are - quite obviously - getting older. It's important that we, as a community, support those people in as many ways as we can. In addition to treating them with the respect they have earned, we can pay back their service to our community.
If you have a Pagan Elder who is attending your event or ritual, make sure they have everything they need - a comfortable chair, plenty to eat and drink, and assistance if they require it. If they're an Elder who's actually a senior citizen or who has medical issues or disabilities, offer help with things like transportation and housework when it's needed.
Most of all, show by your actions, not just your words, that you're thankful to these folks for taking the time to share their lives with the Pagan community.
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Recently, an entertainment robot is emerging as a new type of a robot. The purpose of an entertainment robot is to provide intimacy and enjoyment for people rather than to give any function. Therefore, not only emotion design but also personality design is needed for an entertainment robot. When we endow an entertainment robot personality, it gives an entertainment robot the consistency and the distinction of behavior.
The purpose of this study is to suggest a design process for constructing personality of an entertainment robot based on psychological types, and prove the possibility of the process with a case study and an experiment.
In this study, four temperaments which are derived from 16 personality types in psychological type Indicator, MBTI(Myers Briggs Type Indicator), were applied to design personality of an entertainment robot. These temperaments are divided into four types, such as Sensing-Perceiving type, Sensing-Judging type, Intuitive-Thinking type, and IntuitiveFeeling type. Based on the concept that a robot has its own temperament factor, we propose an entertainment robot personality design process, which is composed of four steps. The steps are selecting the concept of an entertainment robot, situation scene design and perception device design, reaction design based on temperaments, and demonstration of robot temperaments about the reaction with an experiment. To see the effectiveness of the suggested process, we also conducted a case study, which followed the design process with an entertainment robot.
Through a case study and an experiment, we could find several results. First, the major experimenters match the reaction with the robot temperament. From this result, we could see that robot temperaments are useful guidelines to design an entertainment robot's personality. Second, there are situations, which make the reaction express robot temperament better. This means that situation scene design is an important factor to make reaction express robot temperament more distinctly. Third, there are some reactions, which display the robot temperaments better. This helps robot developers notice the reaction, which should be redesigned.
The process suggested in this study will provide a useful guideline for constructing personality of an entertainment robot. This will make it possible for robot developers to construct robot's personality more easily. As a result, the design of the personality of an entertainment robot will make entertainment robot more intimate and enjoyable.


Is this plan going to affect the Township's schools?
The vision plan will not have a direct impact on schools. School officials have been part of this process to determine any concerns or needs of the district. In particular, Middle School, High School and Washington School officials have all been directly interviewed by Perkins Eastman, because of their proximity to and student usage of the downtown. If there are any recommendations for development, residential or commercial, the Township will carefully weigh any potential impact on the school system.
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1. How is this vision planning exercise different from others Millburn Township has done in the past? What's the plan for implementing the plan?
2. With so many vacancies, why aren't we focusing on the 500 block, "Upper Millburn Ave" in the Vision Plan?
3. Is this plan going to affect the Township's schools?
4. How is the Township going to pay for any of the recommendations that come from the Downtown Area Vision Plan?
5. In the event of construction, how are disruptions going to be mitigated?
6. How is this different from the 2018 Master Plan that also had a public survey and meetings?
7. We have no "Senior Housing" in Millburn Township. Will the vision plan address this need?


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What is Knowledge Integration?
There's a different answer to that question depending on who you ask in the program. For some students it means the ability to combine their passions in ways they never thought possible and doing more than the traditional arts and science program. For others, it means becoming a 'translator' between disciplines.
The Bachelor of Knowledge Integration is a flexible and challenging transdisciplinary program for creative and diversely talented students. KI offers students the opportunity to explore interests on both sides of the traditional arts and science divide, building their program around a core of skills that will equip them to understand and solve complex problems, communicate effectively, and be able to make a difference in and adapt to a changing and complex world.
One degree. Endless opportunities. Meet 3 of our students!
Knowledge Integration students are:
- broad-based: interested in understanding and relating multiple disciplines, and seeking solutions across disciplinary boundaries
- motivated: actively seeking out challenges and testing their own limitations
- team players: excited about effective collaboration
- curious: pursuing knowledge rather than waiting for it
- flexible: ready for challenge, ambiguity and change
- reflective: capable of self-examination and thinking about thinking
- principled: committed to an active sense of responsibility and concern for the consequences of their work, both locally and globally
You might be a traditionalist, looking for a demanding classical education. Perhaps you're an innovator, hoping to work on the frontiers of knowledge. You may be a long-range planner committed to laying a strong foundation for professional or graduate studies.
Like all Knowledge Integration students, you want to keep your options open and exercise as much personal choice as possible in your course selection.
Learn more about:
- Why Knowledge Integration?
- the KI academic program
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When you express interest in organizations through Movement Talent, we will screen your application and identify what, if any, coaching and training we would recommend. We do this because the movement space is unique in many ways, and we want our applicants to not only meet the requirements that the space demands, but to make your candidacy shine.
We work with some of the movement's best trainers and coaches, who can help prepare you in clarifying your personal vision and aspirations, enter a new movement space, make a transition, and/or supplement your onboarding.
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Kudaja Navarrete's career trajectory is not what you'd expect. She was a successful retail manager juggling work and school, but she eventually dropped out of college to focus on pursuing upper management.
Ultimately, it was the skills that Kudaja honed as a manager – and not what she acquired in a classroom – that helped land her a dream position as Operations Manager at Detroit Action. Initially, Kudaja was unsure she has the right qualifications for the job, particularly because she didn't have a college degree.
However, Kudaja's years moving up the ranks in retail management meant that she could take in new information quickly, analyze it, and act on it. Her "non-traditional" background meant she had a diverse skillset and fresh perspective that Detroit Action knew it needed.
"It's my way of paying it forward." Gregory Cendana shares the experiences that led him to pursue movement work, from his childhood to his time understanding the impact of affirmative action at UCLA. He describes the importance of being a lifelong student as the nature of activism work shifts over time.
Greg emphasizes the need to learn from past events and those with experience. His work is grounded in identifying the root causes of inequality and recognizing the interconnected nature of movement work. He passes on advice to those who are interested in movement work, including a reminder to create space for joy and healing.


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C. H. Lin, R. C. T. Lee and C. C. Chang+
Institute of Computer Science
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan 30043, Republic of China
+Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chung Cheng University
Chiayi, Taiwan 62107, Republic of China
In this paper, a dynamic access control mechanism with a single lock for an information protection system is proposed. Each file in the system is assigned a lock value. The access right of a user to a file is revealed by applying straightforward division operations on the file's lock. In addition, our mechanism is suitable for changing a privilege value, insertion or deletion of a user, and insertion or deletion of a file with a small change in the lock value(s). Compared to Wu and Hwangs' and Chang's methods, the computation of a lock value is simple and the verification of an access request is quite efficient.
Keywords: access request, authorized access, dynamic access control mechanism, linear-hierarchy, privilege, requesting privilege, singlekey-lock (SKL) system
Received August 15, 1989; revised November 3, 1989.
Communicated by Lin-Shan Lee.
*Parts of this paper has been presented in the International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Complexity, November 20-22, 1989, Fukuoka, Japan, Sponsored by IEICE Technical Group on Computation (COMP), IPSJ Special Interest Group on Algorithms(SIGAL), and IPSJ Kyushu Branch.