Use Amazon S3 ARNs instead of passing large payloads - AWS Step Functions
Use Amazon S3 ARNs instead of passing large payloads
Executions that pass large payloads of data between states can be terminated. If the data you are passing between states might grow to over 262,144 bytes, use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store the data, and pass the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) instead of the raw data. Alternatively, adjust your implementation so that you pass smaller payloads in your executions.
For example, a state machine can pass input to an AWS Lambda function, like in the following example.
{ "StartAt":"Invoke Lambda function", "States":{ "Invoke Lambda function":{ "Type":"Task", "Resource":"arn:aws:states:::lambda:invoke", "Parameters":{ "FunctionName":"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:MyFunctionName", "Payload":{ "Input.$":"$" } }, "End":true } } }
Rather than pass a large amount of data in the input, you could save that data in an Amazon S3 bucket, and pass the ARN of that bucket in the Payload parameter. Your Lambda function can then use that ARN to access the data directly. The following is example input for a state machine execution, where the data is stored in data.json in an Amazon S3 bucket.
{ "Data": "arn:aws:s3:::MyBucket/data.json" }
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Affects Version/s: Minecraft 18w10c, Minecraft 18w10d, Minecraft 18w11a
Fix Version/s: Minecraft 18w16a
Linux Mint 17.3 (3.13.0-37-generic)
Oracle Java 1.8.0_151
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Dry sponges placed in flowing water (as opposed to water source blocks) have no effect on the water and remain dry.
- Place a water source block on a flat area and allow it to spread
- Place a dry sponge block in the flowing water at least one block away from the water source
The water surrounding the sponge is removed for several blocks, including the water source so that all the water disappears. The sponge becomes wet.
No effect on the water at all. The sponge remains dry.
Edit (and facepalm): If the sponge is placed in the source block, the effect should spread to the flowing water but does not. Flowing water is just not affected at all by the sponge.

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The Mastadge was a beast of burden found on Abydos. They are large, hairy quadrupeds with a long neck, larger than a horse, with a considerably keen sense of smell. Though the origins of the Mastadge are unclear, these creatures may be related to Terran horses who adapted in the harsh heat of day and cold of night in the Abydos desert. They were apparently well suited to living on the harsh desert climate, and also appeared to be able to breath during sandstorms.
The Mastadge has been domesticated for the Abydonians and, among being used for food and clothing, aided in labor during the thousands of years the population was oppressed by Ra. It is capable of galloping at great speeds. (Stargate)


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Wild: 10-13 years
Captivity: 20 years
Females: 500 lbs
Males: 710 lbs
Name of Young
- American Elk are the second largest member of the deer family. The males of one subspecies, called the Roosevelt Elk, may reach the weight of 1300 lbs. The largest member of the deer family is the moose.
- Males begin growing antlers at around 11 months of age. Their antlers are fully grown when the elk reaches 4-6 years old. The antlers are 5.6 feet across on average and can weigh up to 40 lbs.
- Newborn elk weigh about 35 lbs at birth, and they are born with spots which fade by the end of the summer. By the time they are 6 months old, they are almost the size of an adult white tailed deer.
- During the mating season male elk bugle and grunt. Females may respond to their calls with a barking noise. Males will roll in mud during the breeding season to become more attractive to the females.
Did You Know?
Elk are important to many Native American tribes. In Lakota culture the spiritual elk was a symbol of strength and courage. Another name for elk is Wapiti. This word means "White Rump" in the Shawnee language.

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What is neuroscience nursing?
Neuroscience nurses care for people with a variety of neurological conditions and disorders across the lifespan and in all health care settings. There are many specialities encompassed within this field of practice including (but not limited to) the following:
- neurotrauma, e.g. brain and spinal cord injury
- Neuroscience critical/intensive care
- long-term neurological conditions, e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, epilepsy
- life-limiting neurological conditions, e.g. motor neurone disease, Huntingdon's disease.
Understanding long-term neurological conditions
Most people with long-term neurological conditions live active and fulfilling lives and are cared for out of hospital, but may require admission to hospital for reasons that may or may not be related to their disorder. Many people will be supported by a specialist nurse and nursing team during their hospital stay, but since the publication of the National Service Framework: long term conditions (DH 2005) it has been recognised that when people are admitted to hospital for reasons other than their neurological condition, their neurological needs are not always met.
The RCN believes that caring for people with a neurological condition is everyone's responsibility and nurses and health care professionals need to ensure that they have the knowledge and skills to be able to meet their needs. To this end the RCN, through the Neuroscience Forum, has been working on developing learning materials to facilitate the professional development of the nursing workforce. For example an e-learning package has been developed in collaboration with the MND Association to enhance the care provided to people with motor neurone disease.
RCN members with an interest in caring for people with neurological conditions may join the Neuroscience Forum to both take advantage of and contribute to the development of the RCN professional offer in this specialism. The Neuroscience Forum also runs a Facebook group as a place where you can get involved in honest and open discussions on the issues that affect you and your field of practice.


Boston Dynamics robot dog does battle test with French army
Boston Dynamics: Spot, a quadrupedal robot from the North American Boston Dynamics, is being used in French army training. Currently, the "robot dog" helps soldiers to conduct reconnaissance during activities.
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France's main military school, posted photos of the actions on Twitter. The institution describes the tests as a way to make students aware of the challenges of tomorrow and robotization on the battlefield.
According to Ouest-France, soldiers from the military school participated in two days of training in different scenarios. The exercises involved offensive and defensive actions, and an urban combat test.
Each scenario was practiced only with humans and then with students and robots. In this way, they analyzed the differences of having machines operating on the battlefield.
Despite delaying operations, Spot helped keep troops safer. One soldier said he died during a human-only test, something that can be avoided when the robot was used to perform reconnaissance.
However, one of the problems with the robotic dog was battery life. During one of the exercises, he ran out of energy and needed to be removed from the field to be recharged.
Robots on the battlefield
Spot's presence on simulated battlefields raises questions about where it will be deployed in the future. Boston Dynamics began its history by creating models for the American army, but distanced itself from the military by focusing on the commercial market.
Today, the company is very concerned about the use of robots to harm humans. So much so that Spot's terms prohibit the use to hurt or intimidate any person or animal, or as a weapon or to enable weapons.
It is possible to argue that the French army uses the robot to patrol buildings and that would not be harmful to anyone. But recognition is the prelude to a military confrontation, which makes the distinction fragile.
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Question: Can Worms Eat Potatoes?
Do worms like banana peels?
They'll make short work of what otherwise would have taken up space in your trash.
To make food easier for the worms to consume it is good to chop or puree it..
Do worms like coffee grounds?
Soil-borne bacteria and fungi break down the various chemical components of coffee grounds after several months. Earthworms are also able to use this food source. Earthworms consume coffee grounds and deposit them deep in soil. This may account for noted improvements in soil structure such as increased aggregation.
Do worms eat carrots?
Carrots are a good worm food but you have to consider that worms don't feed on materials that are fresh so the carrots and any other organic material that you add to your worm farm has to start to decompose to enable the worms to feed on it.
Do worms eat egg shells?
Worms will swallow eggshell powder to add grit. Since Red Wigglers don't have teeth, they need a bit of grit to help break down the food scraps. Eggshells are perfect for this.
What should you not put in a worm farm?
What To Not Feed WormsMeats, bones, fat and anything oily or greasy.Dairy products including butter, sour cream, milk, whole eggs (egg shells are ok) and cheese.Canned sauces, peanut butter and other processed food.Citrus foods like lemons, limes and oranges.Onions and garlic.Spicy foods such as hot peppers.More items…•
Do worms like oatmeal?
Aside from animal manure, you can also feed them the following organic wastes: … Starchy food wastes – these can be in the form of bread, oatmeal, and pasta. Bedding materials – the materials that you place inside the worm bin can also be consumed by your red wigglers.
What is the best food for worms?
The Best Worm Foods for Your SoilFruit peelings (not citrus)Melon rinds.Carrots.Coffee grounds.Teabags.Bread.Cereal (unsweetened)Pasta (plain)More items…•
Can worms eat tomatoes?
*Tomatoes are slightly acidic, but worms still seem to like it and will tolerate it just fine in moderation. … Those fruit trimmings can go to your hungry worms and they'll turn your kitchen waste into some of the most rich, nutritional compost you can get your hands on!
Do worms eat bread?
Fruit and vegie scraps, teabags and coffee grounds, crushed eggshells, small amounts of bread or pasta, moist cardboard and newspaper. you're not overfeeding your worms. Uneaten food will begin to smell and attract unwanted pests. … This means you can feed your worm farm a few handfuls every few days.
Do worms eat grass clippings?
What can I use as a worm blanket?
You can use several sections of newspaper soaked in water. Or, use a worm blanket made from jute. Jute worm blankets are all-natural, breathable and just the right thickness to hold in moisture. Some worm bins come with a blanket.
How fast do Worms multiply?
How do you attract worms?
See how to attract worms to the garden! When the frost leaves the ground, the earthworms start moving upward in the soil looking for mates….What a Worm WantsReduce tilling your soil.Leave organic matter on the surface.Add manure and compost.Ditch the chemicals.Use an organic mulch to keep soil moist and cool.
What should you not feed worms?
Do worms eat cucumbers?
One thing to remember is that the worms are not going to eat the food right away. It has to start decomposing a little before they chow down. That might take a day or two for cucumber peelings or melon rinds and a little longer for pumpkin or squash. Here you can see cucumber peelings that are almost all eaten.
Can worms eat cabbage?
Worms tend to avoid plants in the brassica family. Contrary to their reputation, worms are not able to eat anything and everything you put into a worm bin. … Brassicas (cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, turnips, etc.) and alliums (onions, garlic, shallots, scallions, leeks, chives, etc.)
Do worms eat rice?
Bread, rice, pasta, processed foods – you can add the odd crust or bits of cooked rice off the dinner plate, but don't add lots of starchy foods. Worms don't like them and they may go off or attract pests. … Worms love coffee grounds but mix them with other foods and paper.
Can you put coffee grounds in a worm farm?
Coffee grounds have about the same amount of nitrogen as grass clippings – 2% or so, meaning they heat up quickly when added to compost and help turn the entire pile into a beautiful dark rich soil. They are also very suitable for the worm farm, with those little guys loving used coffee grounds.
Do worms eat hair?
The key point here is that worms eat organic matter. … They will also eat shredded newspaper, egg cartons and cardboard. And while this one always prompts people to screw up their faces, worms will also consume human (and pet) hair and nails.
Are tea bags good for worms?
Tea Bags: Yes! The tea bags will start to break down in the worm bin, and the worms will finish off the contents. The string and paper tab might not break down as quickly. You can rip them off before saving a tea bag.
How do you maintain a worm bed?
Lift up the bedding and underlying material to bring air into the system. Keep your worm bin in an environment with a fairly constant temperature that is neither too hot nor too cold. Never keep your worm bin in an area that receives direct sun exposure, or in an area that will become colder than 5 degrees Celcius.


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regulatory rules encourage the ORSA output to form part of the decision making process of the firm. This has fostered a cultural shift in firms, where firms actively consider the ORSA and SST when making key decisions, so as to ensure that the impacts are fully explored and understood.
- The ORSA and SST illustrates the risk profile of the firm – whilst it may be easy to identify what the key risks to your business are, it takes real discipline to formally consider these risks and quantitatively assess their impacts. This assessment enables decision makers to really understand what the key risks are, what can be lived with and what requires more active management.
- Reverse stress testing is a key part of most ORSA processes and is actively encouraged by the regulatory authorities. Reverse stress testing asks a firm to consider the risks, or combination of risks, that could lead to failure of the firm. Whilst the event may be improbable, actively considering it enables decision makers to better understand what the tipping points may be and identify actions to prevent such points being reached.
- The ORSA process tends to focus on downside risks, i.e. risks that cause a loss to the firm, lead to lower profits or less available capital. Many firms are focused on protecting the business and view the ORSA and SST as a crucial tool to do this. However, upside risk should also be considered – there are scenarios where, if the firm has positioned itself appropriately, it can take advantage of changing market trends or consumer preferences, perhaps establishing a first mover advantage.
- The regulatory requirements mean that firms focus on the business planning horizon, which for most firms is 3-5 years. Whilst some firms do think of longer-term risks, these are the exception rather than the rule. As a result, there can be excessive focus on short-term, immediate impact risks that materialise over a very short space of time. Consideration may not be given to risks that arise over the longer-term.
- The regulatory focus can cause some issues:
- The regulatory requirements can ultimately lead to reports that have too much material and are too long, meaning that the key messages can be lost in a haze of filler material.
- Given the regulatory expectations, the ORSA process can be very long-winded, taking many months to complete. This means it can lose relevance as external environments change and the stresses considered become irrelevant.
- The exercise can be viewed as a compliance exercise which adds no value to the business – it is completed to avoid any regulatory sanctions, meaning that the potential value that could be added is lost.
- The regulatory requirements mean that the exercise can be treated as a cyclical "business as usual" process, rather than as an exercise that can enable leaders to form new perspectives on the business.
In my opinion, the SST that adds most insight to the business is one which is:
- Gets senior leadership engagement,
- Focuses on key results,
- Considers upside and downside, and
- Considers short-term (level 2-3 uncertainty) and long term (level 4 uncertainty) risks.
Stress and Scenario Testing – how to start
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". This is true in the case of SST. Consideration of SST can be a long journey, as it may ultimately lead you to consider your business in a new light. Hence, you may use it to continually explore new things. However, the crucial thing really is to just start – that first step is the most important one to take.
In terms of how to approach SST, there's no defined way. Whilst regulatory rules in the life insurance approach add structure, these structures can cause problems, so don't think that a life insurers' approach is necessarily best. The following points give some food for thought and some generic considerations:
- Firstly, if you think it's important to do, then it is important to do right; fully commit to it! Allocate time and resources to it. Block off a day and try take those involved away from the day-to-day tasks (i.e. distractions!) that they will otherwise engage in.
- Be clear on what you want out of the exercise. For example, it could be that you just want to consider some plausible futures and how they may impact your business, rather than making any significant strategic or tactical decisions.
- In advance, ask those involved to give it some thought. In terms of establishing scenarios to explore, the points below may help:
- Sometimes the easiest place to start is what scares you – the stuff that keeps you awake at night. What would kill our business? Once you start exploring issues like that at a leadership level, you may find that there are some issues which require genuine focus and some which do not.
- Consider what your competitors are doing. Don't copy them, but consider their actions and ask why they are doing it. Are there things you should be doing? Are there scenarios where their actions would give them a huge benefit versus you?
- Consider the risks you take on a day to day basis – you may buy, you may sell, you employ staff, you incur expenses, you pay taxes. What variation in these items have you seen? How have you dealt with it? What level of variation can you tolerate and manage? What level would create a challenge?
- Consider the key assumptions that you have about your business – what are they? Sometimes our assumptions can become so deeply ingrained in the way that we think, we forget what exactly they are – assumptions. Just because we believe something to be true, does not mean it actually is. They may not actually be based on reality! Consider what your assumptions are, what could prove them to be untrue and what impacts that may have.
- Consider related industries and look at emerging trends. Do the patterns emerging there indicate any issues that may emerge from your industry? E.g. decrease in air travel – does this bode well for the domestic tourism industry?
- Consider upside – don't just focus on bad things. What would happen if sales exploded? Could you handle it, or would you make commitments to a large volume of customers that you would ultimately be unable to satisfy? Would that destroy your business? What if you grow by 20%, not 5% - how would you handle this?
- Consider PESTLE – political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental issues and how they could change over time and the impacts they would have. Recall the examples given at the outset of this article.
Stress and scenario testing is a powerful tool that enables business leaders to identify what their key risks are and how potential future evolution could impact on their business. It can generate unique insights to your business. I must also emphasise that the world constantly changes. Business leaders don't always cause these changes, but the success or failure of your business will depend on your ability to respond to them. SST gives you a head start in developing your response.
Dave O'Shea is an actuary in KPMG Ireland's life insurance practice and has been involved in stress and scenario testing for a number of insurance companies.
The views of this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland, the Enterprise Risk Management Committee, or the author's employer.
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 Strategy Under Uncertainty, Courtney, Kirkland and Viguerie, Harvard Business Review, November 1997
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Hogan Rings
Navajo Slab CorralFrom the mesa edge we saw, on a south-facing bench, two Navajo hogan rings and a stone corral, and climbed down to them.
They were old. No historical pottery scatter at all. One of the rings still carried the juniper cribbing of the roof, though it had fallen. In the desert juniper can endure for hundreds of years.
The hogan's door did not face east as is traditional, because the ring had been built against a sandstone slab; however, the north wall did appear to have been knocked out, customary ritual to release the spirit of a dead person.
The corral had been formed ingeniously by piling cedar to wall up the ends of a cleft formed when a fallen slab split in two.


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It could be that it is not the monitor which is in "power save mode", but the computer itself.
When you cannot get a computer out of "power save mode" by any other means, typically the cause is that the button-cell-type battery of your computer, which is located on the motherboard, is empty.
Usually, this happens on a computer which is a few years old, since its batteries will have run out after such a long time. (The motherboard battery is used to store various settings when the computer power is off, such as date and time. When your computer detects this battery is empty, it goes into a low-power mode).
The solution is to replace the button-cell battery on the motherboard of your computer:
- open the case of your computer;
- visually locate the motherboard (the main electronic circuit board) of your computer;
- visually scan the motherboard for a button-cell battery (it looks like a digital watch battery, but a bit larger);
- remove this motherboard battery from your computer;
- restart your computer: it should now power up normally (you may get some warning messages during the start-up sequence, but ignore them);
- set the date and time of your computer using the "Date and Time" control panel;
- you can now use your computer normally, but you will lose date and time settings when you disconnect the computer power cord, since there is no motherboard battery present to store them;
- take the motherboard battery to an electronics store and get a replacement;
install the new battery in your computer;
- restart your computer, and set the date and time again; the settings will now be saved using motherboard battery power.


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There are 5 trials each with success probability of 0.02. The probab of winning only at the 3rd AND 5th trial is 0.02^2 * 0.98^3.
What if I am asked the prob of winning at the 3rd OR at the 5th trial?
How do I do it? And why?
The probability of winning when playing one game on the slot machine is 2%. Mr Brown tries 5 times(assume independently). What is the probability of winning only at the third and the fifth trials?
That is the exercice and in class we solved it like this: 0.02^2* 0.98^3.
In class we never seen the "OR" and I was wondering what I am supposed to do if at the exam they put me an exercice with "Or" istead of "and". Can you help me? Can you explaining me what all your questions mean? I mean can you let me see how they are different? Thank you so so much.
But you really need to discuss this with your instructor. Find out her/his take on the language of this question.
well I was just trying to figure out what to do in case I find an "OR" somewhere. We are not supposed to hae the same exercices we did in class. They are usually things we have never seen before, that is why I was wondering about the or.
So to wrap up: if I find something that appears to mean "3rd(let's say) or 5th but not both" I compute the prob of getting ONLY the 3rd as success just thinking the others are all failures. do the same with the 5th and sum them.
If I find "3rd or 5th or both" the same as before plus the probab of having exacltly those two successes.
Is this right? Are there any other cases I might find? Might you please let me see how to answer the questions you posed, I have no idea where to start?
Thanks a lot


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This is a term commonly used in conjunction with being reflective. Reflexivity is about being able to recognise the influence of oneself on a situation. This influence may involve the influence of age, illness, physical, racial characteristics; other material considerations such as economic class; psychological elements such as emotional and cognitive aspects; social aspects (for example gender, ethnicity); historical and cultural contexts; and structural factors (for example social class). Being reflexive involves being able to locate and understand yourself from those above perspectives, which then enables you to be aware of whatever thinking, biases or blind spots might be influencing the way you interpret people and situations, and therefore the way you practice (DHSC, 2018).


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How Does a Garbage Truck Work?by Dale Devries
In 1938 the Load Packer was introduced by Garwin Industries, which revolutionized the sanitation industry. It was the first true compacting garbage truck. The trucks at that point could carry twice as much as before because they could compact the trash while driving through the city. By the 1950s there were many of these garbage trucks in use, and other manufacturers also started making them. By the late 1950s and early 1960s they started to manufacture industrial-strength compacting trucks. These trucks could handle larger objects and compacted better, allowing them a 25 percent larger load.
How the Compactor Works
The trucks are loaded by sanitation engineers along neighborhood streets. The trash is loaded into a hopper in the back of the truck of rear loaders. Hydraulic cylinders operate the compacting mechanism, which takes the trash out of the hopper and places it into the body of the truck. As more trash is placed into the body, the more it gets compacted. Because the compacting unit is on the outside of the body of the truck, it keeps the trash from falling out of the truck when it is full or moving. When the truck is full the driver takes the trash to the dump. The rear of the truck tilts up like a dump truck and the hydraulic cylinders move the compacting panels out of the way. The trash is then dumped out of the truck and the back hosed out.
Other Types of Garbage Trucks
There have been many variations of the garbage truck since its invention. The front-loading truck has a hopper in the front of the truck at about waist level to the workers. They load into the hopper and it takes the garbage up over the top of the truck and dumps it into the body. It is then compacted and this truck dumps the same as the rear loader. Recycling trucks also come in various versions. Some are side loaders in which the hoppers are on the sides and lift up into the truck. Some have separate hoppers for each type of recyclable material. There is even one type that has a robotic arm that grabs the can from the side of the street, goes up a conveyor, dumps the material and places the can back on the street. This is a similar operation to the commercial garbage bins you see outside of restaurants and other businesses. These trucks normally collect the bin from in front of the truck, lift it over the truck and dump into the body of the truck. These types of trucks take away the need for more workers.


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Iris histrio subsp. histrio
Botanical Name: Iris histrio subsp. histrio (added by P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
Botanical Synonyms:
Reticulata (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
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Chromosome Count:
2n=20 (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
General Description:
Hight 10-15cm, Flower is blue or purpleviolet with white dots, size is 6-7cm, appear in February. (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
Distinguishing Features:
Preferred Habitat:
Requires dry summers (More than I. reticulata or I. histrioides) (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
Native Range:
Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Armenia (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
Status in the Wild:
Commercial Availability:
Rare (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
Sources Cited:
"Iris" book by Fritz Koehlein (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
Additional Comments:
Easier to grow is ssp. aintabensis. (Turkey, province Aintab) (P. Bohnert, 17-MAY-07)
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Create, add conditions and optimize a transatlantic route – Part 1
The TIMEZERO software program provides all the resources for preparing and organizing your trips out to sea exactly as you like. The advanced features multiply the possibilities, all while providing more safety.
The Weather Routing module is an optional feature. The most direct route isn't necessarily the best route and that is why a feature such as the Weather Routing module is so interesting.
There are numerous factors that should be considered during the creation of a route, notably if you are planning a long trip that takes multiple days. While there is not a perfect way to create a route, there are a few tips that we will present in this article.
Context : Diego de Miguel, TIMEZERO Ambassador and head of the Sailing living lab project
The Sailing Living Lab is an innovative project and quite unique. The Acrobat is a real laboratory of the seas open to companies and institutions interested in new maritime technologies. The boat is capable of sailing in the most difficult and farthest flung zones of the planet. On-board, the captain Diego de Miguel, creator of the project and a sailor since he was 7 years old! The team is made up of engineers, reporters and scientists that together carry out tests, studies, research and discoveries.
After two years of navigating at sea in the Mediterranean, the project is taking another direction as a transatlantic crossing looms. Starting from the Canary Islands, they must travel to the Caribbean before travelling up the East Coast of the USA, carrying out studies.
To carry out the transatlantic voyage, our TIMEZERO Ambassador Diego de Miguel presents us with his strategy for such a trip. He depicts with precision, the features of the Weather Routing module available for TZ Navigator v3.
From downloading weather data to the creation of a route, discover the different steps for preparing a transatlantic voyage safely and efficiently with TIMEZERO, under the guidance from an experienced professional.
Step 1 : Create a route between the Canaries and Cape Verde
To create a route with TZ Navigator, you have to start by downloading the weather forecast data from the "Update" workspace. The first step is that you have to select the type of weather data that you want to get. In our case, we chose wind, waves and currents. For the number of days, we selected a duration of 7 days. Knowing that on average, you will need 5 days to cross the Atlantic. With an internet connection, the software extracts the files and integrates them automatically.
From there, we go to the "Planning" workspace to create the route. It's from the workspace that we can see the weather data displayed as a layer over the chart and we can see the evolution over time by using the time bar on the bottom of the screen.
The tool bar is located on the left side of the screen. You just need to select the tool "Launch Routing" to create the Weather Routing module feature with a departure point (the Canaries) and an arrival point (Cape Verde).
The software calculates the best itinerary based on the meteorological weather data that you downloaded and the unique features of your boats sail performance (polars). The boat polars should be pre-entered from the "Polars" workspace.
With TIMEZERO, you can access simply and directly the polar files in order to adjust them based on the state of the sea, the wind speed, and the different sails. The polars of your boat are provided by the boat manufacturer but TIMEZERO has a library of 150 different types of polars to choose from as well. You can then adjust the polar percentages in the software program to get the data as precise as possible which can change in function with unique factors that effect every boat (age, weight, modifications, etc.)
Watch the video which demonstrates using the Weather Routing module to sail from the Canary Islands to Cape Verde:
Step 2 : Create a route between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean using the Weather Routing module
In this simulation exercise, the Weather Routing we created was from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. A crossing that takes multiple days, around 2 weeks give or take. The TIMEZERO software offers the ability to download up to 16 days of weather forecasts. To ensure that the route is reliable, the weather data has to be reliable. For the sake of simplicity, we are going to make the assumption that the weather data is reliable to the full extent of its duration. After all, this exercise is primarily about seeing the power of the algorithm within TIMEZERO.
Once the weather data has been downloaded from the "Update" workspace, we can draw a route between the Canary Islands and the Antilles. The software calculates and draws the optimal route. This time, the presented route is not what you might personally view as the correct way to go and this is because the software program might indicate that a heading to the west while you would personally have the notion to want to head south. The route will most likely have a zig-zag pattern. This is so as not to have the wind directly behind the boat otherwise it is too slow. You always need to angle against the wind.
Watch the video which demonstrates using the Weather Routing module to sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean:
In part 2, discover how to set conditions to the route you created. Furthermore, our TIMEZERO ambassador Diego de Miguel unveils how to optimize the download of your meteorological data, notably for a multiple day crossing on a budget.
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Regardless of your pharmaceutical facility's location, due to security protocols, it can take some time for EMS/EMT to reach a person in your facility who needs medical attention. You'll want to be as prepared as possible to deal with any medical situation such as cardiac or airway emergencies. Our R15 portable emergency oxygen device can provide a victim with a continuous flow of 100% oxygen for 15 minutes at 6 L/minute during the critical minutes before the EMS/EMT arrive.
If someone is struggling to breathe or has collapsed due to an airway or cardiac emergency, we recommend you call 911 and then use the R15 Emergency Oxygen on the victim until EMS arrive. These are some examples of the types of emergencies an R15™ should be used:
Shortness of Breath/Troubled Breathing
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Unlike compressed gas cylinders which are potentially explosive, the R15 is the only safe alternative emergency oxygen system for all facilities. Plus, the R15 can be placed on a shelf or any visible area where everyone can see it for quick access in emergencies. Oxygen cylinders must be stored in fire resistant cabinets and only people who have specific training may activate an oxygen cylinder. The R15 is the only accessible emergency oxygen with no special storage or training required. It is an essential emergency safety device to have on hand. Every second without oxygen can negatively affect survival: improve your emergency preparedness program by adding emergency oxygen with the R15.
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The R15 portable emergency oxygen unit for your facility is safe to place anywhere. Since the placement of the AED (automated external defibrillator) is a familiar emergency response location, it is both logical and convenient to place the R15 with the AED. To determine additional locations for the R15, an excellent model is in airports where their goal is to have access to AED's and other safety equipment within 1 – 3 minutes. Every second without oxygen can negatively affect someone's survival. Key locations to place the R15 include: next to security stations, near elevators, cafeterias, main reception areas, near lavatories, in secured or restricted access, eye wash stations, laboratories, photocopy & printer areas and on walls in main corridors.


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How an incident's due date is calculated
Answer ID 2215 | Last Review Date 01/03/2020
What is an incident's relative due date (incidents.rel_due) and how is it calculated?
Service Level Agreements, Response Time
When an incident is created, an initial due date is calculated. This value only changes when the response requirements associated with the incident are changed due to the application of a service level agreement (SLA) or if the RECALC_INCIDENT_DUE configuration is set.
The relative due date is calculated by taking the incident's time of creation and adding the response time (from response requirements) associated with the incident. In addition, the due date takes into account the work hours that are configured in the Default Response Requirements table or the hours configured in the applied SLA.
For example if RECALC_INCIDENT_DUE is set to 0, the incident's response time is 45 minutes and the incident comes into the system at 9:00am on 10/10/07, the due date will be 10/10/07 at 9:45. This value does not change regardless of customer updates to the incident and/or additional responses. The value only changes if the response requirements change.
Similarly, if the work interval is configured to be 8:00 to 17:00 on Monday through Friday, and the response requirement is 540 minutes (9 hours). If an incident comes in at 3:00pm on Friday, the date due will be 3:00pm on Monday because the work intervals are taken into account when calculating the date due.
When incidents are created outside of business hours, the time the incident remained in the queue until the business hours begin is not counted against the due date. For example: Business hours are M-F 8:00 to 17:00. The response time is three hours. An incident submitted on Saturday at 15:00 would be due Monday, 11:00 am.
Note that the Resolution Time that is configured for the response requirements or an SLA is never used in calculating the date due value. Both the Response Time and the Resolution Time are based on the created time stamp of when the incident is initially created in the system.
For examples of when the RECALC_INCIDENT_DUE is enabled, see Answer ID 4729: Description of RECALC_INCIDENT_DUE configuration setting
For additional information, refer to the 'Configuring resolution due calculations' section in online documentation for the version your site is currently running. To access Oracle B2C Service manuals and documentation online, refer to the Documentation for Oracle B2C Service Products.
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Recently I was given the opportunity to work in a React Native project, as a developer, most of my experience was with React, so I was thrilled with expanding my knowledge in this area.
As I started studying the platform, I got really interested in how to make animations using React Native, and in this blogpost, I am going to share my experience, and create a guide for beginners on how to start animating your React Native apps. In this guide, we are going to create a Burger Button that when activated spins and turns into an X button. For this, introductory knowledge of React Native will be required.
To follow the code, use the instructions in Getting Started with React Native, and then we can start our guide.
There are different techniques provided by this library to animate your component's properties, the most basic being 'Animated.timing'. To show this we are going to begin creating a simple burger button.
Any resemblance with a music playing app is purely coincidental. But before we can begin animating this component, we have to add a wrapper to the views we want to animate, so we can dynamically change its properties. This wrapper is provided by Animated, and it needs to be used for all of the components you wish to animate.
Now that we have setup the basis, we are going to use the 'Animated.timing' function to begin animating the relevant properties. This function takes a property with a value created by Animated's method Animated.Value, and updates it according to instructions. First we are going to translate the upper and lower parts of the button to the middle. Why we need to do this for our animation will be explained later.
With this, we have our first animation in React Native. As you can see, we created a function that uses Animated Timing to change the value of our translateY property, and passed this value to our Animated Views through an object called animatedStyles.
Now we are going to see how to animate more complicated properties, such as color, and rotation. To achieve such animations, we are going to have to use the mathematical concept of Interpolation, which consists of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points (according to Wikipedia).
Fortunately, we don't need any mathematical knowledge for this, we can use Animated to interpolate our data, which means, it can calculate which colors would make sense in the animation between two given colors. For example, this is how it would look like if we wanted our button to change colors from green to red when activated. Additionally, we are going to use interpolation to clean up our code, and remove the repeated values in the translate animations.
To interpolate our data, we have to use our animated property's method 'interpolate', and pass into it an input range and an output range. The input range must be the value of the range of our animated property, and output range the initial and final value of the component's property we wish to animate.
Interpolate supports mapping strings, this way, you can pass rotation values, and colors (either by names or RGB hex codes). To continue the animation of our button, now we are going to make the middle part of the button disappear as the animation occurs.
Additionally, we can pass an array with more than only two numbers to both input and output range parameters, with this we could make an animation that has different interactions in the output depending on the range of the input, like an animation that is really fast in the beginning, and slower in the end, similar to keyframe animations in CSS.
For now we have only used Animated's timing method, but there are other possibilities to animate your values. For the rotation we are going to use Animated.Spring, which is an animation function that does not take a duration, it only needs a toValue to work, but you can set friction and tension or speed and bounciness to improve your animation. The spring animation imitates a physical spring, and so, it overshoots the toValue that you provide, the amount it overshoots depends on the values we set before.
To make this animation run in parallel with our previous animation we need to use Animated's parallel function, which takes an array of Animated methods and runs them in parallel. In our example we are going to use high tension and low friction on our spring, so it will be really bouncy:
With this, we have finished our animation. Other possibilities for composing animations are sequence, that waits until one animation ends for the other to begin, and delay, that waits a given amount a time after an animation begins to start the next one.
Comparison with CSS animations
If you have any experience with CSS animations, you can see the similarities. With CSS animations we can declare a transition which will watch for a given CSS property change and automagically interpolate the values for this property to pass during the transition, or we can declare a keyframe animation and decide what we want to happen in the progression of our animation.
With React Native we have to use an approach similar to the CSS keyframe animations, and declare how we want our animation to progress. The main advantage of CSS animation vs React Native Animation is that not all of the properties of CSS are in React Native styles, one example we have on our burger button is the transform origin CSS property.
If we wanted to create the rotation animation of our button, we could declare the transform origin of our upper part of the burger, for example, as left and simply rotate it to 45 degrees, and reach the same animation as the one we did in this course, which needed a translateY to the final position where rotating 45 degrees from the center of the bar would reach the position we want.
But this is not a problem with Animated, it's a problem with React Native in general, but more and more CSS properties are being added to React Native, and I believe, eventually it will reach a realm of possibilities very similar to that of CSS3 in general.
In the introduction of the blogpost I talked about the possibility of creating native animations, but until now we haven't used any of it. Not everything we can do with Animated is supported by the native driver, as a rule of thumb, we cannot animate layout properties, we can animate things like transform and opacity.
In our project, we can use native driver for anything, except the background color and the height of the middle part of the button. But Animated only supports one driver per animation, so we cannot declare a Native Driver for this animations that do not support it, we have to declare a separate, non native driver for them. The way we use the native driver is very simple, we simply have to set a boolean in the animation to true, as follows:
This won't change our animation, it will simply make it more fluid and consume less memory.
With these few basic concepts, we can get started creating useful animations that will improve our users experience with our apps.
Furthermore, with React Native and Animated, we can also track gestures using the Animated.event method and create dynamic animations, like dragging an element or scrolling. Also, we can use libraries to improve our animations, some that I tend to use are libraries that create SVG animations, like flubber.js and D3-Interpolate.
There is still much to be improved in React Native's Animated API, but the path ahead for the platform is very exciting and filled with very smart people. This was my take on how to start with animating your React Native apps, any suggestions are more than welcome.
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How Sacred Is Sacred Art?
by S.P. Bachelder | Ελληνικά
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As an artist, and an Anglican Catholic, I read with particular attention Addison Hart's letter on the comments of Shaun King asking for the destruction of white Jesus.
One must ask then, should sacred art be sacred? Protected from the accidents of history? Or all art? And who decides what is sacred? Or for that matter, what is art?
As we watched the Taliban destroy the Bamyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, and blow up the ancient African City of Palmyra, and as we now continue to watch zealots destroy the mosques and ancient tombs of Saints that are sacred to all the Abrahamic religions, who can say with certainty what qualifies as sacred or civilization's patrimony beyond religious relevance? Violence against ideas has expressed itself through the physical destruction of objects of sacred traditions for thousands of years. Professor Erin L. Thompson observed in a June 24th article in the New York Times that we tend to destroy rather than protect cultural objects during times of transition. In fact destruction is the norm historically. Bronze statues were ripped from pedestals, melted down, recast to look like the winners and returned to the same pedestals. If there was neither time nor money at the end of a war, the victor's head would be recast and attached to the losers body.
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The Migrant Education Program
The migrant education program provides help with education and other needs for children ages 3-21 who move frequently because they, their parents, or guardians work in agriculture, fishing, or forestry. Since 1996, the United States government has offered this assistance to families who work in agriculture. The Program is available in every U.S. state and Puerto Rico.
Migrant Education Program Goals
The goal of the Program is to help children and young people overcome problems that result from repeated moves, so the children can be successful in school, graduate from high school and go onto college or employment after graduation. The additional support for children from highly mobile, agricultural families gives them the same change for success as other students. In addition, the Program offers some services for young people under the ages of 22 who are not attending school.
Migrant Education Program Services
In school, the Program offers extra help for the students who need it most. The Migrant Education Program at your school might offer:
- In-class assistance
- Help with homework before or after school
- Summer school
- Preschool for children ages 3-5
- Parent meetings
In the community, the program helps with support services. Some examples are:
- 24 hour accident insurance for all eligible children
- Helping parents learn about the community and where they can get help finding employment, child care, food, clothes, and health services
- GED or English classes for youth who are working
Who Qualifies for Migrant Education Program Services?
Children and young people ages 3 to 21 years old:
- Who have not yet graduated from high school;
- Who moved with their families across school district boundaries within the last 3 years;
- Who moved so they or their parents could look for work in agriculture, fishing, forestry, ranching, dairy, canneries or meat packing plants;
- And whose families depend on agriculture work to survive.
After You Join the Migrant Education Program:
- All information provided by parents if confidential by law.
- Oregon keeps the information on a computer system. Only Migrant Program personnel may use the system.
- The Migrant Education Program in your school district will decide which services each child will receive.
- All eligible children and youth are covered by accident insurance 24 hours a day. The insurance pays part of the medical costs when a child is injured in an accident, including in school sports.
- The children and youth are eligible for Migrant Education Program services for three years from the date of the qualifying move.
- The Program is voluntary and free to all eligible children.


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Are Ouija Boards Dangerous? What to Know
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Are Ouija boards dangerous or is it all in your mind as some people argue? You can explore both sides of this discussion and decide for yourself if Ouija boards really are dangerous.
Are Ouija Boards Dangerous?
If you ask a psychologist, the answer is the Ouija board itself isn't dangerous, but the person with their fingers on the planchette might be. If you ask a medium, you will often get the same answer with a footnote: that it might not be the person that is dangerous, but a spirit.
Why Are Ouija Boards Dangerous?
There are many psychological reasons why a person might be dangerous as a result of using a Ouija board according to psychology professionals. The main one is the belief that the Ouija board is communicating with spirits. Psychologists believe a susceptible person may convince themselves that they are possessed by a demon.
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Psychological Dangers of Ouija Board
According to the mental health industry, the psychological dangers of Ouija boards rest with the mental health of the participants. Psychologists/Psychiatrists believe that psychic phenomena such as demonic possession, poltergeist activity, and hauntings by spirits are the result of various mental illnesses. This professional belief automatically displaces any supernatural or paranormal causes for the patient's condition.
How to Avoid Getting Caught Up in Superstitions
There are many creepy tales that circulate about the Ouija board, and it's easy to get caught up in the various superstitions about Ouija boards. The idea of communicating with spirits can feel spooky, and this creep factor can affect the most logical people when the planchette seems to move by itself by responding to questions. This can make you scared or even traumatized, so it's important that you stay grounded during a Ouija session. If you begin to feel afraid, then close the session and try again another time.
Ouija Board Gives Answer You Don't Like
You may ask questions you really don't want answered and start to regret it, especially if the information delivered by the Ouija board isn't true. For example, a participant may flippantly ask, "When am I going to die?" and the planchette slides to give a specific answer.
Avoid Asking Certain Questions
It's easy to avoid this type of response situation. Set guidelines prior to your Ouija board session about the type of questions prohibited. A personal guideline should be, if you aren't prepared to hear the answer to a specific question, then don't ask it.
Mediums Warn of Dangers of Ouija Board
Many mediums and Ouija board enthusiasts often warn of Ouija board dangers. They warn against playing with a Ouija board as though it were a game. They believe the board serves as a gateway to the other side where spirit dwells. Players are advised that it is very possible to invite disembodied entities to cross over and wreak havoc in their lives.
Scared woman
Safeguard Against Unwanted Spirits Lingering
The easiest way to prevent unwanted spirits from lingering long past the use of the Ouija board is to take proper steps to close the gateway at the end of your session. All you do is slide the planchette to "Good Bye" then turn it upside down with the feet pointing up. You should store the planchette upside down and wrapped in a cloth to prevent it from making contact with the board. For an added precaution, you can open and close each session by placing the room in protective white light and stating only those entities/spirits of the light can enter.
Dangers of Ouija Boards From Malevolent Spirits
Some mediums and psychics believe that only low frequency entities and spirits use Ouija boards as a form of communication. These beings don't vibrate at high enough frequencies to achieve communication any other way. This alone is a warning of the dangers of Ouija boards. These spirits or often demons are adept in deception.
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Why Low Level Spirits Are Dangerous
The low frequency beings using the Ouija board often pretend to be someone you once knew. The spirit may offer a few small truths to gain your trust. This information almost always takes a turn and becomes dark and misleading. By design, the communication can cause confusion, anguish, and even isolation.
How to Counter Ouija Board Misinformation
To mitigate any fearful information that comes through the Ouija board, take everything with a grain of salt. If you dislike the information you're receiving, end the session and try again another time. Never continue to communicate with an entity or spirit that makes you uncomfortable.
Malevolent Entities Waiting to Communicate
Many people believe malevolent entities are waiting to communicate with unsuspecting victims. One such being is called Zozo (also Zaza or Zuzu). Zozo is reported to be a negative entity that takes over sessions and seeks to wreak havoc in the life of any Ouija board user. While there is no proof Zozo is anything more than an urban legend or trick of the mind, many people have experienced the Zozo phenomenon.
How to Recognize Negative Entities
There are several telltale signs that you are communicating with a negative entity. Once you know what to look for, you can quickly end your Ouija board session. If you notice any of the following odd behaviors, immediately slide the planchette to "goodbye" and then turn it upside down. End your session and store the board appropriately.
 - Ouija board planchette slides to number 9 and counts backwards to 0.
 - Planchette slides between Z and a vowel repeatedly.
 - Planchette exhibits laughter by sliding back and forth between the letters H and A.
 - Planchette moves erratically.
 - Planchette cycles through the alphabet in either alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order.
You Become Emotionally Attached
If you are a frequent user, you can run the risk of becoming emotionally and psychologically attached to the Ouija board. This is especially dangerous if you rely on the Ouija board for advice and guidance in your life. This can lead to an obsessive behavior and even result in you shutting out friends and loved ones.
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How to Avoid Dangers of Ouija Board Attachment
You should constantly remind yourself that no game can dictate how you should live your life. You have free will and you live in the real world, not the world of a Ouija board. In spite of being consciously aware of these facts, you discover you're relying on the board in an unhealthy manner, seek professional guidance either through a mental health professional or a spiritual advisor, such as clergy.
Ouija Board Use Unleashes Psychokinetic Activity
There are anecdotal reports connected to Ouija board use about physical attacks and objects being thrown and smashed by unseen forces. In some cases, the activity continued even after the individual stopped using the Ouija board. This is known poltergeist activity.
How to Prevent Ouija Board Caused Poltergeist Activity
Poltergeist activity is caused by the phenomenon known as psychokinesis, which is frequently related to a living person although it can be generated by spirits. If you experience poltergeist activity during a Ouija board session, properly end the session and see if the activity stops. If it continues, you may need to help from a paranormal expert. In addition, you might need to talk with a therapist to resolve any residual emotional problems you have from the experience.
Demonic Possession Through Use of Ouija Board
The most frightening danger associated with the Ouija board is the possibility of demonic possession. This fear was heightened by the movie, The Exorcist, and the spirit Captain Howdy communicating through the Ouija board that led to the fictional demonic possession.
Possessed-looking woman
When to End Ouija Board Session
If any of the participants in the Ouija board session exhibits odd behavior, promptly end your session. You can perform a cleansing burn with sandalwood or other incense to clear out any negative energies. If it continues and you fear a demonic possession, infestation, or oppression, then you're dealing with a spiritual issue, not a paranormal one. You should seek help from clergy trained to deal with possession.
Ouija Board Dangers When You Believe It's a Game
Many people believe the Ouija board is just a game. This attitude makes them vulnerable to the dangers of Ouija boards. Communicating with spirits should never be taken lightly. You should be cautious when you use a Ouija board and make sure you are using spiritual protection techniques. Familiarize yourself with the signs of spiritual oppression. If, at any time, you feel the situation is out of control, any of the participants are uncomfortable, or you feel any sense of spiritual danger, end the session immediately using proper closing techniques.
Why Are Ouija Boards Dangerous?
A lack of respect for a divination tool, like a Ouija board, can make it dangerous to use. When you understand how to use a Ouija board and how to avoid possible dangers, it can be another tool for communicating with spirit.
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Driven by southern policy makers, the three-year project provided practical advice to both researchers and policy makers, by improving understanding of the research-policy nexus. The project generated valid and reliable knowledge about research-policy linkages (and gaps) in developing and transition countries, and developed a set of operational conclusions and tools that could assist policymakers, researchers and donors.
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Turn Your Bags and Bottles Into Oil
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Plastic shopping bags are, of course, made of plastic, which is made from petroleum. A Japanese inventor has figured out how to convert them into fuel.
The gadget essentially melts plastic bags and bottles and condenses the vapors into crude oil that can be used for home heating, according to PhysOrg.com. The process takes about an hour and emits water vapor and CO2.
A power plant in the Washington, D.C., area is testing similar technology but on a far larger scale. The machine offered by Blest Corp. is believed to be the first developed for home use. The company offers it in three sizes, from a small desktop model (shown) to a 5,000-pounder capable of producing 5 kilos of oil an hour.
The machine works with polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene. Blest says it can convert two pounds of plastic into one quart of oil using one kilowatt-hour of energy. The crude oil can be further refined into gasoline, but you'll need another machine — sold by Blest, of course.
At $10,000, the machine certainly isn't cost effective, but the company hopes to bring costs down as demand rises.
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A bilateral investment treaty (BIT) is an agreement establishing the terms and conditions for private investment by nationals and companies of one state in another state.
-These types of investments are called FDIs.
-BITs are established through trade pacts.
-Most BITs grant investments made by an investor of one Contracting State in the territory of the other a number of guarantees, which typically include fair and equitable treatment, protection from expropriation, free transfer of means and full protection and security.
-CriticismNGOs have spoken against the use of BITs, stating that they are mostly designed to protect the foreign investors and do not take into account obligations and standards to protect the environment, labour rights, social provisions or natural resources.
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Zhang J, Mitra S, Suo Y, Cheng A, Xiong T, Michon F, Welkenhuysen M, Kloosterman F, Chin PS, Hsiao S, Tran TD, Yazicioglu F and Etienne-Cummings R A closed-loop compressive-sensing-based neural recording system Journal of Neural Engineering 12(3):036005 (2015)
This paper describes a low power closed-loop compressive sensing (CS) based neural recording system. This system provides an efficient method to reduce data transmission bandwidth for implantable neural recording devices. By doing so, this technique reduces a majority of system power consumption which is dissipated at data readout interface. The design of the system is scalable and is a viable option for large scale integration of electrodes or recording sites onto a single device.
The entire system consists of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with 4 recording readout channels with CS circuits, a real time off-chip CS recovery block and a recovery quality evaluation block that provides a closed feedback to adaptively adjust compression rate. Since CS performance is strongly signal dependent, the ASIC has been tested in vivo and with standard public neural databases.
Implemented using efficient digital circuit, this system is able to achieve >10 times data compression on the entire neural spike band (500-6KHz) while consuming only 0.83uW (0.53 V voltage supply) additional digital power per electrode. When only the spikes are desired, the system is able to further compress the detected spikes by around 16 times. Unlike other similar systems, the characteristic spikes and inter-spike data can both be recovered which guarantes a >95% spike classification success rate. The compression circuit occupied 0.11mm(2)/electrode in a 180nm CMOS process. The complete signal processing circuit consumes <16uW/electrode.
Power and area efficiency demonstrated by the system make it an ideal candidate for integration into large recording arrays containing thousands of electrode. Closed-loop recording and reconstruction performance evaluation further improves the robustness of the compression method, thus making the system more practical for long term recording.


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Can Beets Be Transplanted Into Garden
Can I plant beet seeds indoors and then transplant them into the garden in spring?
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American College of Sports Medicine honors Brett Wong's research as nation's best
EUGENE, Ore. -- Brett Wong is on a mission to help uncover the mechanism that regulates our ability to withstand heat stress. The goal is to help improve survival rates among those who suffer the most during heat waves: the elderly and people with conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
The award-winning University of Oregon doctoral degree student's research is the first to identify histamine receptors as contributing to increased blood flow during heat stress. Skin blood flow is a key factor in compensating for exposure to prolonged heat waves.
"These are the same receptors that are involved in seasonal allergies for which people take antihistamines," says Wong, who is the lead author on an article describing his findings in the November issue of the Journal of Physiology. Co-authors are Brad W. Wilkins, research associate, and Christopher Minson, assistant professor of human physiology and co-director of the UO Exercise and Environmental Physiology Laboratories.
Theirs is the first study designed to examine a potential role for histamine receptors in skin blood flow in humans. They tested the H1 and H2 histamine receptors and found that only the H1 receptor was involved in skin blood flow changes. The National Institutes of Health (Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) funded the study.
"Many deaths in the Midwest have been associated with an inability to increase skin blood flow and regulate body temperature," Wong says. "If we can understand the basic science behind increasing skin blood flow in healthy young individuals, we'll be able to help at-risk populations."
Led by Wong, the UO research team outfitted 11 human subjects in water-perfused suits and increased their core body temperature to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. He threaded four hollow microfibers into the skin on their forearms and used microdialysis to target doses of nitric oxide or two types of antihistamines. Laser-Doppler flowmetry (LDF) was used to monitor changes in skin blood flow during heat stress.
"I personally don't like needles but it's a very powerful technique to study skin blood flow," says Wong, who knows firsthand what the subjects will experience, having tested the technique on himself.
A water-perfused suit is designed to tightly control skin temperature. The subjects wore a plastic coverall over the water-perfused suit, and the feet were wrapped in towels and plastic bags to minimize heat loss.
Current evidence suggests that sweating and increased skin blood flow (cutaneous active vasodilation) is mediated by the co-release of a neurotransmitter with acetylcholine from cholinergic nerves in the skin. However, the precise mechanism of action, and even the neurotransmitter itself, is unknown.
Earlier this year, Wong's previous work in this area won the top national award for student research from the American College of Sports Medicine. The prize is given annually to only one student in the United States whose research is considered to be the most outstanding in the country.
Originally from Sierra Madre, Calif., Wong earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Davis. His master's degree is from the UO, and he expects to complete his doctoral degree in summer 2005. He plans to continue his research and eventually to teach in a university setting.
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Inspired by child development and brain research, we introduce a computational framework which integrates robotic active vision and reaching. Essential elements of this framework are sensorimotor mappings that link three different computational domains relating to visual data, gaze control, and reaching. The domain of gaze control is the central computational substrate that provides, first, a systematic visual search and, second, the transformation of visual data into coordinates for potential reach actions. In this respect, the representation of object locations emerges from the combination of sensorimotor mappings. The framework is tested in the form of two different architectures that perform visually guided reaching. Systematic experiments demonstrate how visual search influences reaching accuracy. The results of these experiments are discussed with respect to providing a reference architecture for developmental learning in humanoid robot systems.


How To Lock Up Your Bicycle
We've all seen them " lone bicycle wheels locked to parking meters, and broken bike locks hanging from fences with no bicycle in sight. Maybe you've come back to where you left your bike " and found that it's been stolen! We here at MassBike never want this to happen to you.
Here's what you can do to avoid bicycle theft:
 3. Each lock should have its own built-in locking device (a key-lock or combination lock, but not a padlock). Don't use a cable that's secured by a U-lock " once the thief gets through the U-lock, he's got your bike!
 4. Pull your cable lock through both wheels, and lock it around a bike rack or other closed loop stand. Open-top posts (like parking meters or traffic signs) let thieves lift bikes over them. If you use a cable lock and a Ulock, you don't need to remove your front wheel to secure it.
 5. Wrap your U-lock around a secure post. Then pass it around your rear wheel rim inside the bike's rear triangle. It's not necessary for the lock to secure the frame " if the U-lock locks the rim inside of the frame triangle behind your seat-tube, the bike cannot be stolen by removing the rear wheel. If you can get the frame as well that is a bonus.
 - Don't leave removable gear on your bike. Take pumps, lights, and other accessories with you.
 - Write your name and telephone number on a piece of Tyvek (a sturdy cloth-like plastic available at hardware stores), and identify yourself as the bike's owner. Put this inside your rear tire between the rim and the inner tube. A bike shop will see this if they are asked to repair a flat tire!
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It is possible to go a little overboard:
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Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya are very important for businesses in Kenya. Businesses in Kenya need good vision and mission statements in order to have a clear picture on where the business will be in the future. Read more in Business Training in Kenya.
Vision Statement in Relation to Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
A vision statement in relation to Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya is a mental image of the organizations future or destination. It defines what the organization wants to become in the future. A vision is a desirable future state of the organization. It is a short and inspiring statement of what the organization intends to become and achieve at some point in future.
Importance of a Vision Statement in Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
- Helpful in bridging the gap between the present and the future of an organization.
- It is a source of inspiration because it gives hope for the future for both the employer and employee.
- It forms the criteria for decision making when need be.
- It explains the organizations significance and how it will improve whatever market place in which it participates.
- It describes what has to be achieved if the organization is to be successful.
- Creates organization interest and commitment.
- Helps in defining the actions and goals that will help in achieving the vision statement created.
Approaches to developing a good vision statement for Businesses in Kenya
One of the ways of developing Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya is reviewing the SWOT analysis. (SWOT=Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats). Also hold brainstorming sessions with the top management to discuss the companies top priorities. The last but not least ways of developing Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya is by drawing graphic visions of the future i.e. conducting imaginary future trips though the organization
A good vision should have the following qualities as articulated by the top management in order to have impact on the employees.
It must be conveyed in a dramatic and never ending manner.
A good vision statement should be inspirational i.e. a statement that provokes employees to give their best
Must be communicated constantly
It must keep linking the events of the present and the future in order to bridge the gap effectively.
It also must also incorporate beliefs such as being able to achieve objectives.
Components of Vision Statement in Relation to Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
The components of Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya are;
- Developing a great new product i.e. inspiring and further development of existing products in the company.
- Should aspire to serve customers through defined product portfolio.
- Should ensure quality of the organization is portrayed.
- Should be responsive to customers' needs and services
- Providing an enjoyable work environment
- Should ensure financial strength and stability
- Should ensure sustainable growth of the company for the benefit of its stakeholders
Mission Statement in Relation to Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
A mission statement is the basic purpose for which or reason why the organization exist. It is the fundamental statement of purpose of an organization and it defines the deserved level of performance of the company.
A mission statement is an organization vision translated into written form and makes concrete the managers view of the direction and purpose of an org. it is the overall goal of the org that provide a sense of broad direction and a guide to decision making.
It is the focal point of the organization activities that defines both current and future organization activities. In developing org mission management must thoroughly understand and consider the result of environmental analysis.
Importance of Establishing a Good Mission Statement in Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
An effective mission statement is important to the organization success because of the following:
One of the importance's of establishing a good mission statement is that it defines the overall organization vision by defining the path to realize it.
Another effect on Businesses in Kenya is that it helps to determine the coordination of organization activities by providing a framework for all members to work together to achieve a common purpose.
It determines the relationship in each of the key markets with which the organization interacts.
Another effect on Businesses in Kenya is that it provides a sense of direction and purpose which leads to a better independent decision making and setting of priorities at all levels of management.
The effect of a good mission statement on the Businesses in Kenya is providing the basis or rationale for organization resource and location i.e. allocation of both human and non human resources.
It determines various organization job responsibilities or job position necessary to produce goods and services
It forms the basis of developing org objectives and strategies. Objectives and strategies must be consistent and be in support of the mission statement
Another effect of a good mission statement on Businesses in Kenya is that it defines the organizations culture by defining values and beliefs to be held while carrying out activities to achieve the mission
A mission statement affects decisions of stakeholders e.g. investment or communication projects
A mission statement must be clearly communicated to avoid misunderstanding of organizations purpose
Characteristics of a Sound Mission Statement in Relation to Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
The following considerations are important in developing a good mission statement for the Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
Defining a specific target market or groups or audience for the mission and their relative expectations e.g. customers, employees, shareholders, supplies, stakeholders in general
There should be a balance between the narrowness and the breadth of the mission i.e. avoid too narrow or too broad mission statements
Determine the type of business the org is in at what business it should be in i.e. provide the strategic market options such as market penetration, market development, product development and diversification strategies
Uniqueness- a mission must be unique to the org in order to provide competitive advantage or differentiation and to minimize substantially by others
Should be market oriented rather than product oriented i.e. focus on the needs of the customers rather than product features and attributes
Components of a Mission Statement in Relation to Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
Components of a good mission statement are the kind of information contained in a mission statement. It varies from one organization to another but it should include the following areas:
Company productthe principal product produced and delivered in the organization must be identified in the statement
Market or customersthe mission should also define the target market by answering the following questions:
- Who are the customers
- Where are they located
- How did they buy our products
- How much
- How can they be reached
- What do they look for when buying the products
Business activitiesconcerned with current and future business activities including those of potential customers. This should address issues such as:
- What are the market trends in the potential market
- What changes in market structure might occur as a result of development, competitive activities
- What innovations will change the customers buying habits
- What needs does that the customer feel that it has not been adequately addressed
Technologythis addresses the firm's basic technologies. The info provided here should include tools, machinery, materials, techniques and processes used to produce goods and services
Organizations self conceptthis refers to the organization view or impression about itself through the assessment of its strengths, weaknesses, competition and the ability to survive in the market place
Organizations philosophy- a statement which reflects on the organization basic beliefs and values that should guide all members in conducting organization business. It establishes the organization values, beliefs about business, humanity and its role to society and the world at large.
Conclusion on Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya
All this information is suitable for one to understand the importance of setting up a good vision and mission statement. It explains the importance of Successful Mission and Vision Statements in Kenya


NASA To Hire Crypto Expert For Data Scientist Role
NASA To Hire Crypto Expert For Data Scientist Role
NASA To Hire Crypto Expert For Data Scientist Role
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is reportedly working on hiring a data scientist who has experience working with blockchain and cryptocurrency.
The agency's intention to employ this data scientist was announced through an advert on Linkedln.
The person who gets the job being offered by NASA will be working at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory located in Pasadena, California. The advert did not specify how much knowledge about crypto the person will need.
In addition to the blockchain and cryptocurrency experience, the ad states that candidates should have a Master's or Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or any other similar and relevant fields.
This new member of staff at NASA is required to have knowledge about big data, machine learning, database management, AI, cloud computing, robotics, statistics, and internet of things.
The person is also required to have a strong background in mathematics as their role will deal with a lot of things that make use of the field.
Duties of the data scientist
Some of the duties specified for the data scientist include creating analysis programs for large data sets. This suggests that the agency may be looking to study blockchain and cryptocurrency further.
The data scientist will be responsible for creating programs to help analyze any data about digital assets.
The job posting talks about how the data scientist will be responsible for the development and conceptualization of applications which will be used in various tech sectors such as cloud computing, intelligent digital assistants, multi-mission estates, next-generation flight hardware, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
US agencies and cryptocurrency
Several countries have developed applications for cryptocurrency wallets and are using them in different industries. You can see the list of the best Bitcoin wallets here. The US government has shown a negative perception towards cryptocurrency and restrictive policies have been created.
Many crypto related businesses have stopped doing business in the US or have created US-centric platforms to circumvent the country's unfriendly regulations.
The world's cyberspace is being controlled by nations that make use of digital assets.There are 27 places to buy Bitcoin in the United States listed on. The asset class provides access to data that puts these countries in a position of power in the various geopolitical battles that occur worldwide.
The US has started delving deeper into the study of cryptocurrency exchanges in a bid to get ahead of other countries that are making use of the asset class.
China and South Korea are some of the countries that are ahead in the crypto game.


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Colouring is achieved through the dispersion
of the coloured particles in the food.
Aluminum-based insoluble food colours are used to colour oil-based products, such as chocolate, buttercream, and candy and pastry coatings. It is perfect to limit colour bleeding when several colours are side by side.
- Ideal for fatty substances, such as chocolate
- Less aggressive colouring than the water-soluble variety
- Colouring through dispersion to limit bleeding
* As food safety standards vary from one country to the next, see product description for more information


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Ceremonial masks have played significant roles in many native tribal cultures around the world. Several of the most vivid, colorful and striking American Indian ancestral masks come from West Coast American Indian art created by the Northwest Native people. These groups are located in the region from Oregon that stretch all the way through Washington state and British Columbia all the way to southern Alaska next to the Pacific coast.
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Northwest Coast Native American ceremonial masks portray many different types of humans and animals including mythical creatures from Northwest Native legends. Some of the masks were portrait masks where they were created to represent particular persons. Animal masks had exceptional denotation for specific clans since all members of a tribe were apparently descended from particular animals. There are three main types of masks, which vary in their complexity. The distinct face mask is the simplest ceremonial masks of the three and is carved and engraved from a piece of red cedar wood.
Another type of ceremonial mask is a motorized mask with movable parts. This type of mask was essentially created after the Europeans introduced the Northwest Natives to strings and hinges. Northwest Natives soon utilized this European technology to allow the eyes and mouths of masks to open and close.
A third type of Northwest Native American Ceremonial Masks is the conversion mask which is also the most multifaceted type of ceremonial mask. This type of mask has an external mask that can open up to expose an internal second mask form. Occasionally this inner mask structure can also unlock to reveal a third mask formation.


Oxford's university challenge: describe this cactus
Interviewers say their pointed questions about cacti help to find students who think rather than merely recite facts
A cactus. Describe... Photograph: Getty
Teenagers being interviewed for a place at Oxford might be handed a cactus and asked to describe it, or asked whether someone who risks their life in an extreme sport is a hero or a fool, according to sample questions released by the university today in an attempt to demystify its admissions procedure.
Candidates applying to study music might be asked what kind of musical instrument they would invent, while applicants for English literature might be asked why Coronation Street's 50th anniversary would be of interest to a scholar.
The university published details of the sample interview questions to help explain the reasoning behind apparently bizarre inquiries from admissions tutors.
The interviewer who set the cactus question, Martin Speight, of St Anne's College, said: "We give the student a cactus in a pot and a close-up photo of the cactus's surface structure and ask them to describe the object in as much detail as possible using the plant and the photo. We are looking for observation, attention to detail, both at the large and micro scale."
Candidates seeking a place on an undergraduate degree in biological sciences are expected to deduce why the cactus is bulbous, or why it has a particular array of spines.
"There will frequently be more than one logical answer to these questions, and we are likely to follow one answer with another question – for example: 'The big spines are to stop the cactus being eaten, yes, but by what sort of animals?'," Speight said.
"We would also bring in more general questions at the end of the cactus discussion such as what are the problems faced by plants and animals living in very dry habitats such as deserts."
The Coronation Street question is intended to show that the techniques of literary criticism can be applied to other media and open up discussion about storytelling, collaborative writing and how a writer such as Dickens can move from being regarded as "popular" to being accepted as part of the canon.
Candidates for psychology might be asked what is "normal" for humans. Dave Leal, of Brasenose College, said: "There were various ways that this question might be approached, but some approach that distinguished the normal from the statistical average was a good start. Issues such as whether normality is to be judged by biological factors that might be held to be common to humans, or whether it's normal within a particular culture or at a particular period of history, might also be worth addressing."
Mike Nicholson, director of undergraduate admissions at Oxford, said interviews were meant to replicate Oxford's tutorial system, encouraging students to think rather than recite facts.
"There are many myths surrounding Oxford interviews, and they can be the most anxiety-provoking part of the Oxford application process for students. These questions show that the interviews are not designed to see how quickly students get the 'right' answer or show off specialist knowledge, but to gauge how they respond to new ideas."
Oxford's selection process also involves assessing potential through aptitude tests, written work, exam grades and references.


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The following is an excerpt from Paul Cohen's "The Discovery of Forcing", pp 1091, in which he explains why we do not want to add new ordinals to a countable transitive model $M$ when extending it using forcing:
Suppose $M$ were a countable model. Up until now we have not discussed the role countability might play. This means that all the sets of $M$ are countable, although the enumeration of some sets of $M$ does not exist in $M$. The simplest example would be the uncountable ordinals in $M$. These of course are actually countable ordinals, and hence there is an ordinal $I$, not in $M$, which is countable, and which is larger than all the ordinals of $M$. Since $I$ is countable, it can be expressed as a relation on the integers and hence coded as a set $a$ of integers. Now if by misfortune we try to adjoin this $a$ to $M$, the result cannot possibly be a model for ZF. For if it were, the ordinal $I$ as coded by $I$1 would have to appear in $M(a)$. However, we also made the rigid assumption that we were going to add no new ordinals. This is a contradiction, so that $M(a)$ cannot be a model. From this example, we learn of the extreme danger in allowing new sets to exist. Yet $a$ itself is a new set. How then can we satisfy these two conﬂicting demands?
1 I think this is a typo and he meant to write $a$.
What I understand: If $M$ is countable then it cannot contain all countable ordinals (since the set of all countable ordinals is itself uncountable) hence there is at least one countable ordinal not in $M$. Since it is countable it is a subset $a$ of $\omega$. If we adjoin $a$ to $M$ then in particular $a \in M(a)$ so that we have added an ordinal that was previously not in $M$.
What I don't understand:
Why can't $M(a)$ possibly satisfy ZF? If $M$ is a countable model of ZF and we add an ordinal $a$ not in $M$, why is it impossible for $M(a)$ to still satisfy ZF?
Thank you for your help.
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Note that part of the working assumption is that passing from $M$ to $M(a)$ does not add ordinals; earlier on that page P. Cohen states:
An important decision is that no new ordinals are to be created.
and also in the text you quoted:
So $M(a)$ cannot satisfy ZF because it does not contain the ordinal that $a$ encodes.
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Thank you! I'm sorry but I still don't understand. My current understanding of Cohen's text is "Assume adjoining $a$ to $M$ does not add any new ordinals. Let $a$ be an ordinal not in $M$. Then $M(a)$ contains $a$ and hence an ordinal that was not previously in $M$ which is a contradiction to $M(a)$ does not contain any new ordinals. Hence $M(a)$ cannot satisfy ZF." What am I missing? – Matt N. Jan 24 '13 at 12:19
_USER_: The text you quoted was really about some of the technical problems related to the discovery of forcing. Once he made the decision that ordinals should not be added he had to ensure that the sets he did add did not somehow encode new ordinals. But these new sets also had to be... new. This is (I believe) what he means by "these two conflicting demands." – Arthur Fischer Jan 24 '13 at 12:36
_USER_. The way I read Cohen's text, $M(a)$ is the result of adding $a$ to $M$ in some unspecified way. What he wants from it is that it contains $a$ and has no ordinals that weren't already present in $M$. He then argues that if $M(a)$ satisfies all of this it cannot be a ZF model; if it were, we could decode $a$ and a new ordinal would appear. – Miha Habič Jan 24 '13 at 12:37
_USER_: (This is a correction of my previous comment; lots of errors there.) Also note that $a$ is not an ordinal in the text quoted. As $I$ is assumed to be a countable ordinal, there is a well-ordering on $\omega$ of order-type $I$. We can then encode this well-ordering (via, say, a nice pairing function) as a subset of $\omega$. The new set $a$ is then this encoding in this example. – Arthur Fischer Jan 24 '13 at 12:59
_USER_: If $a$ codes a well-ordering of $\omega$, then by Replacement any model of ZF containing $a$ must contain the order-type of the well-ordering it codes. – Arthur Fischer Jan 24 '13 at 17:07
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Lake Water Quality
Monitoring water quality in lakes and reservoirs is key in maintaining safe water for drinking, bathing, fishing and agriculture and aquaculture activities. Long-term trends and short-term changes are indicators of environmental health and changes in the water catchment area. Directives such as the EU's Water Framework Directive or the US EPA Clean Water Act request information about the ecological status of all lakes larger than 50 ha. Satellite monitoring helps to systematically cover a large number of lakes and reservoirs, reducing needs for monitoring infrastructure (e.g. vessels) and efforts.
The Lake Water Products (lake water quality, lake surface water temperature) provide a semi-continuous observation record for a large number (nominally 4,200) of medium and large-sized lakes, according to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD) or otherwise of specific environmental monitoring interest. Next to the lake surface water temperature that is provided separately, this record consists of three water quality parameters:
- The turbidity of a lake describes water clarity, or whether sunlight can penetrate deeper parts of the lake. Turbidity often varies seasonally, both with the discharge of rivers and growth of phytoplankton (algae and cyanobacteria).
- The trophic state index is an indicator of the productivity of a lake in terms of phytoplankton, and indirectly (over longer time scales) reflects the eutrophication status of a water body.
- Finally, the lake surface reflectances describe the apparent colour of the water body, intended for scientific users interested in further development of algorithms. The reflectance bands can also be used to produce true-colour images by combining the visual wavebands.


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hyperbole examples for kids: story
A hyperbole is simply a phrase with an exaggeration that is meant to have impact. Hyperboles are not literal. They're meant to paint a funny picture or make a point. Here are some examples of hyperboles to illustrate the point and to help you identify them when they come up in speech or writing.
* I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
* You snore louder than a freight train.
* He sleeps like a log.