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Social phobia -- Effect of interpersonal electronic surveillance on, Online social networks, Social media, Internet -- Social aspects, Electronic surveillance
The advent of social media has created a new type of information seeking to reduce uncertainty: extractive information seeking, which refers to when people seek information about their target by perusing their online social media profiles. The social compensation hypothesis suggests that those who suffer from social anxiety in face-to-face contexts might use a computer-mediated communication context (such as Facebook) to mitigate their face-to-face anxiety. The goal of this study is to find a relationship between general social anxiety (GSA) and interpersonal electronic surveillance (IES), a type of extractive information seeking. Results from this study indicate that while there is a positive relationship between general social anxiety and extractive information seeking, the relationship was not statistically significant. Due to finding non-significant results, implications for future research should follow up on the possibility that extractive information seeking has become normative to the point that social anxiety no longer mediates extractive information seeking.
Rasmussen, Jordan J., "Relationship Between Social Anxiety & Facebook Surveillance" (2017). University Honors Theses. Paper 448.


text: The hemoprotein indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is the first and rate-limiting enzyme in the most significant pathway for mammalian tryptophan metabolism. It has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly due to its dual role in immunity and the pathogenesis of many diseases. Reported here are differences and similarities between biochemical behaviour and structural features of recombinant human IDO and recombinant mouse IDO. Significant differences were observed in the conversion of substrates and pH stability. Differences in inhibitor potency and thermal stability were also noted. Secondary structural features were broadly similar but variation between species was apparent, particularly in the α-helix portion of the enzymes. With mouse models substituting for human diseases, the differences between mouse and human IDO must be recognised before applying experimental findings from one system to the next.

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New Davis-Stirling Act & Reserve Funding — Updated Law Amounts to New Set of Civil Code References for Reserve Funding Matters
By Robert Nordlund, Association Reserves and David Swedelson, SwedelsonGottlieb
Reserve%20article.pngThe body of statutory law (as opposed to case law) governing California Community Associations, known as the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, went into effect on January 1, 1986. As the industry developed and matured over the last 27 years, approximately 50 changes and amendments were made to the Act. While those adjustments were well-intended, the net effect yielded a disorganized and confusing body of law. To address this problem, a multi-year effort was launched to rewrite the Davis-Stirling Act. This "new" Davis-Stirling Act, signed into law in 2012, becomes the guiding law for California residential community associations on January 1, 2014. So you are probably asking what are the major changes and how does the re-write affect reserve funding issues? The answer is no major changes have been made regarding reserve funding. For the most part, the new updated law amounts to new set of Civil Code references for reserve funding matters. Fortunately, the majority of the changes are just re-organization and renumbering. But there have been changes made to the Act as it applies to reserves.
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Having children and a disability of your own (Om du har barn och har funktionsnedsättning)
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If you have children, it is good idea to talk to your child about your disability. It can help you to understand each other and make everyday life easier. The text is written in an easy to read language (lättläst).
It is important for you as a parent and adult to listen to children's questions and thoughts. It is important to talk to your child about your disability.
You can talk about different situations where the disability affects your family. It may be, for instance, explaining what happens if you get stressed. The children need to understand for themselves and be able to explain it to friends and others.
What can the habilitation clinics (habiliteringscenter) do?
The habilitation clinics can support you when talking to your child about your disability. We can talk to you, with your child or with you together. It can depend on your needs and how old the child is.
If you need more support with other health care, we will help you find the right one. This can be, for example, at child and adolescent psychiatry (BUP) or a healthcare centre (vårdcentral).
What does the law say?
The Healthcare Act states that children have the right to information and support. Everyone who works in healthcare should be able to give it to the children.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all children have the right to say what they think when it concerns them.
In order for the healthcare staff to be able to help the children, we ask all patients if they live with children under the age of 18. It can be your own children, someone else's child or siblings.
If you have questions
If you have questions about children and your disability, you can talk to someone at the habilitation clinic you are in contact with. You can also ask to talk to the children's representative (barnombud). There is a children's representative at each adult habilitation center.


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The International Consortium on Closing Civic Space (iCon)
The Human Rights Initiative (HRI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) created an international consortium (iCon) of scholars and experts from around the world to conduct research and develop concrete recommendations on how best to address and push back on closing space around civil society. The ultimate goal of iCon is to develop evidence-based solutions that enhance the resilience and sustainability of civil society and broaden constituencies for human rights.
iCon fills existing gaps in the current response to closing space by exploring legal and non-legal strategies that can and should be used to counter closing space. iCon members conduct research that is not only rigorous and academically informed but also relevant for policymakers. Moreover, this effort incorporates the voices and reflects the experiences of civil society, particularly those human rights and social justice groups that are under pressure.
This brief consolidates key lessons and recommendations from several years of research conducted by the CSIS International Consortium on Closing Civic Space (iCon) regarding how civil society can respond to narrowing civic space.
This report maps out three global initiatives that have emerged in response to closing civic space with the goal of keeping the space open, highlighting good practice and lessons learned.
Eight well-respected international organizations serve as an Advisory Group to iCon. Members of the Advisory Group play an instrumental role in providing strategic guidance to CSIS on the work of iCon and on the overall direction of research. The Advisory Group also ensures that the research that is generated by iCon is transmitted to key constituencies around the world.
- The Fund for Global Human Rights
- The Prague Civil Society Centre
- Conectas Human Rights
- Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
- The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
- PEW Research Center*
- Erin McCarthy, Civil Society Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development**
- The Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York
* The Pew Research Center's role is limited to generating research findings. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. The opinions expressed herein, including any implications for policy, are not attributed to Pew Research Center.
**Erin McCarthy is serving as an individual member of the Advisory Group.


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Escape from the castle's rotary tower with this exciting Quadrilla set featuring two transparent stairways. As the marbles make their way down the rail they sound three hanging bells.
- The quadrille series games by Hape are award winning - recognized by the International toy industry with awards such as the "Spiel gut" (good toy) Award and Oppenheim toy Portfolio Platinum award winner this game is sure to entertain
- Supports S. T. E. M learning - watch your child develop their imagination, problem solving skills, counting, color identification and more while playing while "escaping the castle walls".
- Prepare your child for the future - quadrille marble runs help children to develop spatial and reasoning abilities, and has even been highlighted as a developmental tool for computer programming by the wall street journal!
- Massive 102 piece set is interchangeable with other sets - quadrille components are fully interchangeable among sets and Use Standard 5/8" Or 16mm marbles. Escape from this castle's rotary tower with exciting quadrille set featuring two transparent stairways. As the marbles make their way down the rail they sound three hanging bells while they are on their journey.
- Made from a renewable resource - you want the very best for your child and Hape delivers! Our toys provide hours of endless entertainment while using non-toxic, renewable materials that can also be recycled! The toy is and safe for your child!


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Kernel Korner - Unionfs: Bringing Filesystems Together
Now home directories from both /alcid and /penguin are available from /home.
Unionfs supports multiple read-write branches, so the user's files will not migrate from one directory to another. This contrasts with previous unioning systems, such as BSD-4.4's Union Mounts, which generally supported only a single read-write branch.
Most Linux distributions are available as both ISO images and also as individual packages. ISO images are convenient because they can be burnt directly to CD-ROMs, and you need to download and store only a few files. To install to a machine over a network, however, you often need to have the individual packages in a single directory. Using the loopback device, the ISO images can be mounted on separate directories, but this layout is not suitable for a network install because all files need to be located in a single tree. For this reason, many sites maintain copies of both the ISO images and also the individual package files, wasting both disk space and bandwidth and increasing management efforts. Unionfs can alleviate this problem by virtually combining the individual package directories from the ISO images.
In this example, we are mounting over two directories, /mnt/disc1 and /mnt/disc2. The mount command is as follows:
# mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/mnt/disc1,/mnt/disc2 \ > none /mnt/merged-distribution
In the previous example of the ISO images, all of the branches in the union were read-only; hence, the union itself was read-only. Unionfs also can mix read-only and read-write branches. In this case, the union as a whole is read-write, and Unionfs uses copy-on-write semantics to give the illusion that you can modify files and directories on read-only branches. This could be used to patch a CD-ROM. If the CD-ROM is mounted on /mnt/cdrom, and an empty directory is created in /tmp/cdpatch, then Unionfs can be mounted as follows:
# mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/tmp/cdpatch,/mnt/cdrom \ > none /mnt/patched-cdrom
When viewed through /mnt/patched-cdrom, it appears as though you can write to the CD-ROM, but all writes actually will take place in /tmp/cdpatch. Writing to read-only branches results in an operation called a copyup. When a read-only file is opened for writing, the file is copied over to a higher-priority branch. If required, Unionfs automatically creates any needed parent directory hierarchy.
In this CD-ROM example, the lower-level filesystem enforces the read-only permissions, and Unionfs respects them. In other situations, the lower-level filesystem may indeed be read-write, but Unionfs should not modify the branch. For example, you may have one branch that contains pristine kernel sources and then use a separate branch for your local changes. Through Unionfs, the pristine sources should be read-only, as the CD-ROM was in the previous example. This can be accomplished by adding =ro to a directory in the dirs mount option. Assume that /home/cpw/linux is empty, and /usr/src/linux contains a Linux kernel source tree. The following mount command makes Unionfs behave as a source code versioning system:
# mount -t unionfs -o \ > dirs=/home/cpw/linux:/usr/src/linux=ro \ > none /home/cpw/linux-src
This example makes it appear as if an entire Linux source tree exists in /home/cpw/linux-src, but any changes to that source tree, such as changed source files or new object files, actually go to /home/cpw/linux.
With a simple modification, we also can use an overlay mount. That is, we can replace /home/cpw/ linux with the unified view:
# mount -t unionfs -o > dirs=/home/cpw/linux:/usr/src/linux=ro > none /home/cpw/linux
Most filesystem operations in Unionfs move from higher-priority branches to lower-priority branches. For example, LOOKUP begins in the highest-priority branch in which the parent exists and then moves to lower-priority branches. During the lookup operation, Unionfs caches information for use in later operations.
CREATE attempts to create files in the highest-priority branch where the parent directory exists. The CREATE operation uses the cached lookup information to operate directly on the appropriate branch, so in effect, it moves from higher-priority branches to lower-priority branches.
Unionfs uses several techniques to provide the illusion of modifying read-only branches, and at the same time, maintains normal UNIX semantics. If there is an error while creating a file, error handling must be performed. Error handling proceeds from lower-priority branches to higher-priority branches. Starting in the highest-priority branch in which the parent exists, Unionfs attempts to create the file in each higher-priority branch. Finally, if the operation fails in the highest-priority branch for the whole union, then Unionfs returns an error to the user.
In contrast to CREATE, the UNLINK operation always proceeds from lower-priority branches to higher-priority branches. Because the last underlying object to be UNLINKed is the highest-priority object, the user-visible state is not modified until the very end of Unionfs's UNLINK operation. The most complex situations to handle are partial errors. If removing an intermediate file fails and Unionfs simply removes the highest-priority file, a lower-priority file becomes visible to the user. To handle these error conditions, Unionfs uses a special high-priority file called a whiteout. If Unionfs encounters a whiteout, it behaves as if the file does not exist in any lower-priority branch. Internally, to create a whiteout for a file named F, Unionfs creates a zero-length file named.wh.F. Getting back to UNLINK—if an intermediate UNLINK has failed, instead of deleting the highest-priority file, Unionfs renames the file to the corresponding whiteout name.
This careful ordering of operations has two effects. The first is that UNIX semantics are maintained even in the face of errors or read-only branches. The user-visible state isn't modified until the operation is attempted on the highest-priority branch. The success or failure of the operation is determined by the success or failure of this branch. Through the use of whiteouts, a file can be deleted even if it exists on a read-only branch. The second effect is that when no errors occur, files and directories tend to stay in the branches where they were originally. This is important because one of the goals of Unionfs is to keep the files in separate places.
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This painting is entitled "Quaille, an English Water Spaniel."
I include it because this English water spaniel because, except for color and the docked tail, this animal reminds me of a heavily-built golden retriever. It doesn't remind me of a more-lightly built golden, but something about Quaille that says he could make it as a show golden.
At a distance he also could remind one of a Welsh springer spaniel. In fact, it is well-known that the water spaniels were absorbed into several spaniel breeds, including both breeds of springer. One of the founding dogs in the field spaniel studbook was a cross between a cocker (English) and English water spaniel. He was listed as a Sussex spaniel only because he was liver in color.
That should tell you that the term Sussex spaniel was a much broader term than it is today. After all, one of the leading characteristics of English water spaniels is they had MORE leg length than most land spaniels. The modern Sussex spaniel has very short legs, and for a while, virtually all field spaniels were short-legged. They looked a lot like long-haired dachshunds with docked tails.
I'm preparing a post on the history of field spaniels. It will be posted early to the middle of next week.


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The Logan Museum received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to help improve preservation of and access to its collections. The museum used the grant and cost-sharing funds to install mobile storage equipment and to rehouse approximately 8,000 ethnographic objects and to purchase cabinets to rehouse approximately 69,000 archaeological objects in conditions that meet current professional museum standards. Through the two-year project, the Logan Museum is:
 1. Replacing inappropriate and substandard storage equipment;
 2. Mitigating inappropriate environmental conditions;
 3. Alleviating overcrowding and lack of accessibility;
 4. Creating new space for the growth of collections.
The following images illustrate why rehousing archaeological and ethnographic objects was the Logan Museum's highest preservation priority.
Non-archival and unstable wooden storage
units in ethnology storage.
Weapons racks pose safety risk to museum
staff and are unstable and overcrowded.
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mold outbreak in Tobin collection storage area.
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The James River was the main waterway of Colonial Virginia, used for commerce and transportation. The influential planters built their stately homes near this river and her tributaries. The earliest towns were founded on her shores.
We have a map, at the right, (also found at _URL_ that shows the path of the James. When you view this map, you will instantly see why the tributaries of the James were called "curles" -- they scrolled and twisted across the landscape.
The legend on the map says 'Map of the Curles of the James in Henrico County, Virginia with Jordans, Cockes and Related Familes.' We will be collecting and researching the profiles belonging to these related famiies:
Families include (but not limited to)
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Director of Technology Stephen Bannasch describes the complex algorithms that he's been programming behind the scenes to get virtual atoms to behave like real atoms, forming gases, liquids and solids while you manipulate temperature and the attractive forces between atoms. See salt crystallize and explore how the intermolecular attractions affect melting and boiling points. Imagine what chemistry class would have been like (or could be like today) if the foundation of your chemical knowledge started here.
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These cold and rainy days are perfect for a hot cup of cocoa and a homemade marshmallow. If you haven't had a homemade marshmallow, you are in for a real treat. The texture is AMAZING! As a convert myself, I was astounded to discover the pillowy soft texture of a freshly made marshmallow. They melt in your mouth and you can cut them into beautiful shapes.
So, I'll share an easy recipe with you as well as some fun food science facts about marshmallows.
First, marshmallows are actually a foamthey are a made with sugar and gelatin with plenty of whipped in air. Click here for the recipe link and below I'll show you the step-by-step.
1. Start by measuring the corn syrup with sugar, water and salt in a saucepan. You will need a candy thermometer for this step. Temperature is critical to make sure you bring the mixture to the appropriate sugar concentration. The temperature will affect the crystallization and texture of the candy.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Then, without stirring, take the mixture to 238F which is the soft ball stage. Make sure the candy thermometer does not touch the bottom of the pan to get an accurate measurement. Be very, very careful as the sugar is molten and can cause serious burns if touched.
For more information about the different cooking stages of sugar, click on this link to the Exploratorium site on the Science of Candy. It's a great link and hilarious as well.
2. While you are waiting for the sugar mixture to come up to temperature, mix the unflavored gelatin and water in a bowl for at least 5 minutes. This step is hydrating the gelatin. Gelatin is a protein that will stabilize the foam and keep the air bubbles that you will whip in from collapsing. I think powdered gelatin has a stinky smell when it is rehydrated. Gelatin is typically an animal product in case you are vegan or vegetarian. Don't worry, the marshmallows won't taste or smell like that.
3. Once the sugar solution is up to 238F and the gelatin has been hydrated, carefully pour the hot mixture into the bowl with the gelatin and using the whisk attachment, gradually take the mixture to high speed for 12 min.
4. The mixture will transform from a transparent solution to a thick, white mixture that looks like a taffy marshmallow. Add the vanilla.
5. While the mixture is thick, it still flows.
6. Spread the mixture into an oiled 9 X 13 glass dish lined with parchment and oiled again. I use a spray oil to even coat the pan and even the spatula, to prevent sticking. The mixture is sticky and tacky!
7. The recipe says to let the mixture sit for 3 hours or more. I don't always wait that long though. Remove the marshmallow from the dish onto a cutting board with powdered sugar.
8.Using powdered sugar to prevent stickiness, I cut the marshmallows into shapes like stars, trees or snowflakes. Toss the marshmallows in powdered sugar to coat them.
And there you have it! These marshmallows are beautiful in a cup of hot cocoa or delicious on their own! Enjoy!


text: |Abstract:||Subject agreement and synthetic negation for the verb 'be' show extraordinary local variation in the Survey of English Dialects (SED, Orton et al. 1962-71). Extracting partial grammars of individuals, we confirm leveling patterns across person, number, and negation (Ihalainen 1991; Cheshire, Edwards, and Whittle 1993; Cheshire 1996). We find that individual alternations of forms bear striking structural resemblances to invariant dialect paradigms, and also reflect typologically observed markedness properties (Aissen 1999). In the framework of stochastic Optimality Theory (Boersma and Hayes 2001), variable outputs of individual speakers are expected to be constrained by the same kinds of typological and markedness generalizations that are found cross-linguistically. The stochastic evaluation of candidate outputs in individual grammars reranks constraints by perturbing their ranking values, often matching the individual grammar to variable frequencies encountered in the linguistic environment. As a result, individual variation samples the typological space of possible grammars and reflects features of categorical grammars it comes into contact with. In addition to relating individual and group dialectal variation to typological variation (Kortmann 1999; Anderwald 2003), the findings suggest that an individual grammar is sensitively tuned to frequencies in the linguistic environment, leading to isolated loci of variability in the grammar rather than complete alternations of forms as in a competing grammars model.


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Bronx Adolescent Skills Center Sit-In
Until very recently, the students of the Bronx Adolescent Skills Center (ASC) TASC Program were taught math by a phenomenal teacher. This teacher sadly had to go on medical leave early in 2017, which left them feeling hopeless. The students went from learning math in a fun and interactive way, to being sat in front of a computer to learn math independently. The week of March 26, 2017, the students decided that they were not going to simply take what was given to them. They decided to express their frustrations as a united group and protest in hopes of getting a new math teacher.
For months, the students have learned about civil rights and peaceful protests. Our staff at the Bronx Adolescent Skills Center encourage the youth of the center to advocate for themselves, especially when that advocacy is related to their mental health challenges and the types of accomodations to which they are entitled. These conversations have complemented their school Social Studies lessons in the history of civil rights and peaceful protesting in the United States. Taking these lessons from history and their personal experiences to heart, the students decided to put what they learned into practice.
The protest was organized entirely by the students themselves, with support from Adolescent Skills Center staff. The students wrote a letter to their school Assistant Principal outlining their concerns. Below is an excerpt from the letter the students wrote:
"The students of District 79 at the Bronx Adolescent Skills Center currently feel that we are not being taught math correctly. We are wondering if a teacher can be brought in to teach us math so we can have a better understanding. With the TRA's taking place on April 5th, students feel like they will not pass the math section which will hinder them from taking the TASC exam at a later date…In conclusion we would really appreciate if you take the time out to help us out in this difficult time of the year."
The students also signed a petition to accompany their letter. Parents got involved by calling the Re-Start Academy's superintendent, Tim Lasante. Two students called the principal of Re-Start Academy, Joan Indart-Etienne, and voiced their concerns directly to her as well.
On Monday, March 27, the Bronx Adolescent Skills Center staff helped the students organized a peaceful sit-in protest instead of going to math class. The students gathered tables, chairs, and other materials to draw signs for their protest with the help of ASC staff. The day of the sit-in, the students' Assistant Principal joined them and listened as they expressed their concerns about their education. The students stood together, bold and brave, and unwilling to take no for an answer.
I attended the protest with other Bronx Adolescent Skills Center staff. Together, we stood with the students, prepared to offer them any support they needed. We told the students that they did not have to take what was handed to them due to their circumstances. The students did not know what the outcome would be, but they were prepared to continue advocating for what they needed. The day after the protest, a new math teacher was sent to teach our students.
The staff of the Bronx Adolescent Skills Center, as well as all of MHA-NYC, are extremely proud of these students and their parents for their activism, dedication to their education, and courage to advocate for their needs. After the protest, the students and staff displayed their protest posters in the hallway of the Bronx Adolescent Skills Center. We hope that this story inspires other youth to advocate for the change they want to see within their schools and community. Students never have to simply accept what is given to them, no matter their circumstances. There is strength in numbers.


A Necessary Balance
The fragile balance between human activity and environmental conservation is particularly delicate when it comes to winegrowing and the grapevine growth cycle. This is why Familia Torres tries to minimize its impact on the environment by implementing a series of actions and practices based on years of research and aimed at improving biodiversity at its estates and vineyards.
The flora and fauna of the vineyards is not secondary. They represent a natural asset that provides a mutually beneficial relationship, a highly sensitive balance that calls for deep understanding and observation in order to take wise, decisive action.
What guides Familia Torres is an idea championed by the third generation under Miguel Torres Carbó, who said, "The more we care for the Earth, the better our wine." For this reason Familia Torres has not used insecticides or weed killers in its vineyards for decades and now, under the fifth generation, has sought organic certification for the majority of its vineyards, especially those in predominantly dry climates with little rainfall.
 - When it comes to weed control, the winery plants cover crops between the rows instead of resorting to traditional weed killers. This plant cover reduces soil erosion, encourages the development of organic matter, and improves biodiversity, because the cover crops provide a home and habitat for several beneficial species.
Cover crops at Mas La Plana estate, a Familia Torres property
 - Familia Torres also works on restoring old wells and shafts on all of its estates, as well as building rainwater harvesting ponds that provide birds and amphibians with a watering hole.
Pond at Mas La Plana estate, a Familia Torres property
 - It is well known that monocultures deteriorate biodiversity, which is why Familia Torres has integrated wildlife corridors into the landscape. Flora and fauna can move freely through these corridors, thus allowing ecological processes to continue uninterrupted. Wildlife corridors enable the free flow of life. This is why Familia Torres estates also maintain their original crops (mostly grain and olive groves) which preserve the specific landscape and life of each site. In short: preserving a sense of place, an identity.
 - The same approach led to the introduction of insectariums and insect hotels. Why? The grapevine moth is among the most significant pests. Its larvae feed on grape clusters and berries. Instead of turning to insecticides, we seek assistance from the moth's natural predators, like the ladybug, by creating a habitat that encourages their presence.
Insect hotel to combat the grapevine moth
 - In similar fashion, the winery has installed several bee hives, like the ones at Mas La Plana, to ensure pollination. Given how susceptible bees are to environmental diseases, they serve as an early warning system to monitor the health of the natural surroundings.
A beekeeper handles a hive frame at Mas La Plana, a Familia Torres property
 - As a way of protecting and increasing the presence of bird species, Familia Torres has installed nesting boxes where the birds can lay their eggs. This also attracts bats, which are excellent allies in the fight against the grapevine moth. They can eat more than 600 insects in a single night.
A nesting box at Mas La Plana estate
 - The reforestation of hillsides and woodlands improves their structural integrity due to the stabilizing influence of the plants. Furthermore, drainage channels prevent flash floods caused by heavy rainfall from inundating the vineyard parcels, which would otherwise wash away the soil and deteriorate the biodiversity.
The majority of the forests have a Technical Forest Management and Improvement Plan. Every year, the winery clears vegetation to reduce the risk of fire, fells trees to improve the productivity of the forest, extracts biomass as a source of energy, or reforests deteriorated areas. Maintaining forested areas between the vineyards creates a mosaic landscape, which provides for a more varied environment and encourages biodiversity by creating a refuge and habitat for local wildlife.
The presence of insects invites other animals who see them as a source of food, natural predators like birds, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals, thus perpetuating the food chain. It is a circle of life in a constant process of renewal and which renews us in turn. It is life giving life.
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A small bicycle manufacturer has daily fixed costs of $1800 and each bicycle costs $90 to manufacture. What is the function of the cost to manufacture x bicycles C(x). Graph C(x). What is the manufacturing cost of 14 bicycles and how many can be made with $3780.
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The fixed cost of manufacturing the bicycles is equal to $1800. The variable cost of manufacturing one bicycle is $90.
The cost of manufacuring bicycles as a function a function C(x) of the number of bicycles manufactured is C(x) = 1800 + 90*x
The graph of the cost function C(x) = 1800 + 90*x is:
The cost of building 14 bicycles in a day is 1800+90*14 = $3060
The number of cycles that can be built with $3780 is x = (3780-1800)/90 = 22
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Journal of Archaeological Science doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.016
Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain
Archaeologists disagree about how farming began in Britain. Some argue it was a result of indigenous groups adopting domesticates and cultigens via trade and exchange. Others contend it was the consequence of a migration of farmers from mainland Europe. To shed light on this debate, we used radiocarbon dates to estimate changes in population density between 8000 and 4000 cal BP. We found evidence for a marked and rapid increase in population density coincident with the appearance of cultigens around 6000 cal BP. We also found evidence that this increase occurred first in southern England and shortly afterwards in central Scotland. These findings are best explained by groups of farmers from the Continent independently colonizing England and Scotland, and therefore strongly support the migrant farmers hypothesis.


Bentsen surname meaning, origin - danish surname Bentsen
The meaning of the surname Bentsen is: Means "son of BENT".
The surname Bentsen is present in the lists: Surnames, Danish surnames, Surnames start with letter B.
Number for the surname Bentsen
The number of the surname seven (7) characterizes talented people who are able to achieve great success both in the scientific field and in the Humanities. The ability to think, analyze, and plan their actions, and the ability to attract others, helps people with the surname Bentsen become the head of various groups of people and organizations.
Stones of the number 7 for the surname Bentsen: malachite, jade, carnelian (carnelian), pearl, jet, obsidian, hematite (Bloodstone), onyx, opal, amethyst, emerald, Selenite, flint, rhodonite, fluorite.
Planet number 7: Neptune.
Zodiac Signs number 7: Pisces, Virgo.
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Informativity in Image Captions vs. Referring Expressions
Elizabeth Coppock | Danielle Dionne | Nathanial Graham | Elias Ganem | Shijie Zhao | Shawn Lin | Wenxing Liu | Derry Wijaya
Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)
At the intersection between computer vision and natural language processing, there has been recent progress on two natural language generation tasks: Dense Image Captioning and Referring Expression Generation for objects in complex scenes. The former aims to provide a caption for a specified object in a complex scene for the benefit of an interlocutor who may not be able to see it. The latter aims to produce a referring expression that will serve to identify a given object in a scene that the interlocutor can see. The two tasks are designed for different assumptions about the common ground between the interlocutors, and serve very different purposes, although they both associate a linguistic description with an object in a complex scene. Despite these fundamental differences, the distinction between these two tasks is sometimes overlooked. Here, we undertake a side-by-side comparison between image captioning and reference game human datasets and show that they differ systematically with respect to informativity. We hope that an understanding of the systematic differences among these human datasets will ultimately allow them to be leveraged more effectively in the associated engineering tasks.


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Title of Translation
Title of Original Work
Bonaparte n'est pas mort d'un cancer
Date of Translation Publication
Original Work Publication Date
An anonymous author wrote the text, "Bonaparte Did Not Die of Cancer" in 1821. This text was published during King Louis XVIII's reign from 1814 to 1824; a regime that was not favorable toward Napoleon's supporters. However, the author takes a controversial stance and claims that Napoleon did not die of cancer on May 5, 1821, as was his officially stated cause of death, but was poisoned. The author goes into great detail of the anatomical evidence, which according to him supports his theory that Napoleon was in fact poisoned. While a modern reader might find the text to be filled with propaganda and perhaps even exaggerations, it is possible that at the time this would have been seen as medically true and reliable. We hope that the text is read within the context of its era, rather than anachronistically, and have attempted to maintain the author's original meanings in our translation.
Bear, Stacey and Doyle, Kelly, "Bonaparte Did Not Die of Cancer" (2011). Napoleon Translations. 7.


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Vatalia Anikina, Valery Golender, Svetlana Kozhakhina, Leonid Vainer, and Bernara Zagatsky
This paper presents REASON, an NLP system designed for knowledge-based information search in large digital libraries and the WWW. Unlike conventional information retrieval methods, our approach is based on using the content of natural language texts. We have elaborated a searching strategy consisting of three steps: (1) analysis natural language documents and queries resulting in adequate understanding of their content; (2) loading the extracted information into the knowledge base and in this way forming its semantic representation; (3) query matching proper consisting in matching the content of the query against the content of the input documents with the aim of finding relevant documents. The advanced searching capabilities of REASON are provided by its main constituents: the Language Model, the Knowledge Base, the Dictionary and the Software specially developed for content understanding and content-based information search. We characterize the particularities of the System and describe the basic components of the formal linguistic model, the architecture of the knowledge base, the set-up of the Dictionary, and the main modules of the System - the module of analysis and the logical inference module. REASON is an important contribution to the development of efficient tools for information search.


Formatting a value as a string
A common question I get asked when people are merging values from a Google spreadsheet into a GDoc and/or PDF is how to format the values. So I have written this formatString() function.
For example if you wanted to use it in the createPdf() function the main for-loop would be replaced with:
for (;columnIndex < headerRow[0].length; columnIndex++) {
 var nextValue = formatString(activeRow[0][columnIndex])
 var header = headerRow[0][columnIndex]
 copyBody.replaceText('%' + header + '%', nextValue)


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Kew Field - the start of Kew Gardens
Kew Field - the origins of the estate at Kew - was once a single
large strip-farmed field that began to change gradually, from around
1600 into the more regular enclosed fields shown on the 1730s map
of the St André estate. Prior to this, between 1500 and 1550,
the house of Kew Park had been built into Kew Field's northeast
corner and its estate extended from there.
The Kew Park estate changed hands several times through the 16th
century, settling with Sir Richard Bennett in the first half of
the 17th century. His daughter, Dorothy Bennett, inherited the estate.
She married Sir Henry Capel, and it was the Capel family who developed
the first famous gardens in Kew Park.
The Capels lived at Kew Park (later calling it the White House)
during the latter half of the 17th century. The 1730 map shows the
house and gardens occupying a small area south of the Dutch House.
The design was of small walled gardens and formal courtyards flanking
the house, with the land outside used for agriculture. The map also
shows that the Capel estate (by now named St André due to
Elizabeth Capel's remarriage) extended south for about two
thirds of the length of today's gardens.
Records of the time declare that Sir Henry Capel and "the
whole Capel family were famously devoted to gardening... it was
close to an obsession". The gardens were widely admired,
especially for their greenhouses, trees and exotic plants.
The diarist and author John Evelyn (_PHONE_) was also a keen
botanist and landscape designer. A regular visitor to Kew Park,
he noted in 1678, "Hence I went to my worthy friend Sir
Henry Capel... his garden certainly has the choicest fruit of any
plantation in England, as he is the most industrious and understanding
in it". In 1683 he commented on the "cupola
made with pole work between two elms at the end of a walk, which
being covered by plashing the trees to them... very pretty".
In 1688 Evelyn recorded that Capel's "orangerie
and myretum are most beautiful and perfectly well kept. He is contriving
very high palisadoes of reedes to shade his oranges during the summer
and painting those reedes in oil".
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adverb, conjunction, pronoun everywhere pronunciation in American English /ˈevriˌwer/
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Everywhere can be used in the following ways:
as an adverb: We searched everywhere for them.
as a pronoun: Everywhere was very quiet.
as a conjunction (connecting two clauses): Everywhere I looked, there was death and destruction.
 1. 1
 used for talking about a very large area such as a region, a country, or the whole world
 I'd like to thank all my fans everywhere for their support.
 You can use your credit card virtually everywhere in Europe.
 2. 2
 all the places that someone visits or goes to
 Everywhere we go, people seem to recognize us.
 Rosie travels everywhere with me.
 3. 3
 used for talking about all of a small area
 When we got to Newport, we found everywhere was closed (=all the stores, bars, etc.).
 everywhere else:
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From 1 July 2023 the Victorian Government will implement a Windfall Gains Tax (WGT) on the uplift in value that occurs as a result of rezoning land.
'Rezoning' means an amendment of a planning scheme that causes land to be in a different zone from the zone it was in immediately before the amendment. 'Uplift in value' is the difference between the capital improved value of the land before and after the rezoning. The uplift in value must be more than $100,000 for WGT to apply.
Essentially this means that if you own land that is rezoned, and as a result of the rezoning, the value of the land increases by more than $100,000, WGT may apply.
The rationale is that owners are benefiting from the increase in land value as a result of the actions of government in rezoning and therefore some of that benefit should go back to the community via tax.
What is the rate of Windfall Gains Tax?
For an increase in the value of the land of more than $100,000 but less than $500,000 the rate is 62.5% of the value that exceeds $100,000.
For an increase in the value of the land of more than $500,000, the rate is 50% of the total increase.
When does Windfall Gains Tax have to be paid?
Owners of land subject to WGT will be issued with an assessment and given a due date for payment.
There is the option of deferring all or part of WGT until the next dutiable transaction occurs (e.g. you sell your property), or 30 years after the rezoning event, whichever occurs first. However, interest is payable on any deferred payments. Once the deferral ceases, payment of the WGT and interest must be paid within 30 days.
Are there any exemptions?
There are a number of exemptions from WGT including:
- Residential land or farmland which contains a residence (or a residence is being constructed, or a building permit has been issued to construct a residence) of up to 2 hectares, provided that the land is the only land of the owner which has been rezoned. If the land is more than 2 hectares, the first 2 hectares are exempt from WGT.
- Rezoning between schedules in the same zone.
- Pre-existing contracts of sale and options entered into before 15 May 2021.
- Rezonings underway before 15 May 2021.
- Land rezoned to correct errors.
- Land rezoned to a Rural Zone, Farming Zone or Green Wedge Zone.
- Land rezoned to or from the Urban Growth Zone within the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution Area.
For charitable land, the WGT and interest will be waived if the land remains as charitable land for 15 years after the rezoning.
What does this mean? An example
John owns industrial land on the outskirts of a regional town. Overtime the town's population increases and in October 2024 the land is rezoned to Neighbourhood Residential in anticipation of future residential developments. Before the rezoning, the property was valued at $400,000. After the rezoning the property is valued at $800,000 resulting in a value uplift of $400,000. WGT at the rate of 62.5% is payable on the value that exceeds $100,000. Therefore, the WGT liability on $300,000 is $187,500. John can choose to pay the WGT when assessed or defer the liability, accruing interest, until the next dutiable transaction, or October 2054 (whichever occurs first).
If you have any questions regarding WGT or believe it may soon be applicable to your property, please contact us for further advice.


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Advertising of Therapeutic Goods in Australia
A comprehensive system of controls operates federally across Australia to regulate the advertising of therapeutic goods. This system comprises three integrated levels of regulation - government regulation, co-regulation and self regulation. These complex controls are in place because therapeutic goods are not ordinary items of commerce and it is particularly important that any marketing of them is socially responsible, encourages only appropriate use of products and does not mislead or deceive.
The key components of the advertising controls are:
- advertising codes
- advertising approval requirements
- complaint mechanisms
- self-monitoring activities
Therapeutic goods include medical devices and all medicines, be they over-the-counter medicines or complementary medicines. Only medicines that are unscheduled, schedule 2, or schedule 3 and in Appendix H of the Poisons Standard, may be advertised to consumers. It is illegal to refer to prescription products/substances in advertisements for therapeutic goods directed to consumers.


August 23, 2012 in Biology / Plants & Animals
Have you ever heard an opera singing ape? Researchers in Japan have discovered that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as professional soprano singers. The study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, explains how recording gibbons singing under the influence of helium gas reveals a physiological similarity to human voices.
The research was led by Dr Takeshi Nishimura from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan. His team studied the singing of a white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) at Fukuchiyama City Zoo, in northern Kyoto.
A gibbon's song is acoustically unique among primates, with a loud melody which can be heard over two miles away. In the wild use their songs to communicate with neighboring pairs, strangers and potential mates through impenetrable jungle where visibility is poor.
"The complexity of human speech is unique among primates as it requires varied soft sounds made by the rapid movements of vocal tracts," said Dr Nishimura. "Our speech was thought to have evolved through specific modifications in our vocal anatomy. However, we've shown how the gibbons' distinctive song uses the same vocal mechanics as soprano singers, revealing a fundamental similarity with humans."
To explore these similarities the team conducted the first acoustic investigation on non-human primates using. The gas is famous for making human voices appear high pitched by shifting the resonance frequencies of the upwards. The gas is useful for studying animal vocal mechanisms as it increases sound velocity and resonance frequencies.
The team recorded 20 gibbon calls in normal air atmosphere, before recording 37 calls in a helium-enriched atmosphere. The resulting sounds, which are available as audio files, reveal how gibbons can consciously manipulate their vocal cords and tract to make their distinctive sound.
"The lowest frequency of harmonics is amplified in a gibbon's song when performed in normal air," said Nishimura. "However, in a helium-enriched atmosphere the tuning of the vocal cord vibration and the resonance of the vocal tract are altered as the gas causes an upward shift of the."
This supports the theory that, as with humans, there is independence between the origin of the sound and the vocal tools used to manipulate it.
This shows that gibbons use the same process for producing speech as humans, whereby acoustic sound originates from the larynx and is controlled by a filter, determined by the shape of the supralaryngeal vocal tract. This manipulation forms speech and is known as the'source-filter' process of speech production.
Singing gibbons always, and with minimal effort, adopt the complex vocal techniques which are only mastered in humans by professional soprano singers. This discovery suggests the development of complex vocal abilities in humans was not due to unique evolutionary modifications. Instead it shows that humans share the biological fundamentals of vocalisation with other primates, but in speech have simply acquired another of its most sophisticated forms.
"This is the first evidence that gibbons always sing using soprano techniques, a difficult vocalisation ability for humans which is only mastered by professional opera singers," concluded Nishimura. "This gives us a new appreciation of the evolution of speech in gibbons while revealing that the physiological foundation in human is not so unique."
More information: Hiroki Koda, Takeshi Nishimura, Isao T. Tokuda, Chisako Oyakawa, Toshikuni Nihonmatsu, Nobuo Masataka, 'Soprano singing in gibbons', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Wiley, July 2012, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22124
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Category:Implicit Functions
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This category contains results about Implicit Functions.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Implicit Functions.
Consider a (real) function of two independent variables $z = \map f {x, y}$.
Let a relation between $x$ and $y$ be expressed in the form $\map f {x, y} = 0$ defined on some interval $\mathbb I$.
If there exists a function:
$y = \map g x$
defined on $\mathbb I$ such that:
$\forall x \in \mathbb I: \map f {x, \map g x} = 0$
then the relation $\map f {x, y} = 0$ defines $y$ as an implicit function of $x$.


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From Africa to Brazil
- Publication date:September 2010
- 10 b/w illus. 4 maps 12 tables
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.4kg
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From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. This study makes several broad contributions. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures.


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The most important thing to remember when working with open pipes (what is here referred to as a pipe is any cylindrical solid, i.e. a tube, and "open" is defined as having no obstruction at either end) is that at the two ends are anti-nodes. Thus, unlike a closed pipe, the fundamental frequency and the subsequent overtones increase by one-half of a wavelength. This concept is very hard to understand without looking at the image below.
The most simple possibility is the "fundamental frequency" where there is one node in the center of the pipe. The wavelength is 1/2 lambda (λ). The next possibility is the "first overtone". Here, there are two nodes (therefore n=2) and the wavelength is 2/2, or 1λ. Then comes the second overtone, with three nodes, which is 3/2λ.
The equation for finding the length of an open pipe is
l=length of pipe n=nodes
This equation can easily be rearranged to solve for wavelength:
Let's use this equation with a practice problem: Find the fundamental frequency of an open pipe that is.5m long.
To solve this, we need to use two equations. First, solve for lambda:
= 2(.5m)/1 = 1m
Then, use substitute the 1m for lambda in the equation
= (330m/s)/1m = 330Hz, our final answer. Great job!


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Does the North Pole belong to Greenland and by extension to Denmark, to which it is politically linked? That's the question Danish geologists heading for the Arctic this week will be trying to answer.
They hope the seismic data they collect between now and mid-September will support the claim of Denmark and Greenland to 150,000 square kilometres of extra territory extending north from Greenland into the oil and gas-rich Arctic sea floor.
Their claim rests on whether an underwater formation extending north of Greenland called the Lomonosov Ridge qualifies as an extension of Greenland's land mass. If it does, Greenland can bid to extend its undersea territory.
Jens Jørgen Møller, head of the department organising the expedition at the Geological Society of Denmark and Greenland, says the key data will come from an echo sounding device mapping the profile of the seabed along the ridge, and from seismic measurements of sediment thickness.
Any claim that the Lomonosov Ridge belongs to Denmark and Greenland would meet resistance from Russia: in 2007 it claimed that the opposite end of the ridge is an extension of Siberia.
Other nations laying claims to chunks of the Arctic are Canada, Norway and possibly the US. Geological data is a prerequisite to winning an officially recognised claim to territory, according to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, says Møller.
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Dartmouth researchers studying Vt. stream recovery
Research follows Tropical Storm Irene
Dartmouth College scientists studying the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene in Vermont hope their work will help communities both predict and plan for future hazards.
Immediately after the 2011 storm, professors Frank Magilligan and Carl Renshaw used a National Science Foundation grant to conduct a rapid damage assessment. They are now a few months into a three-year, $345,000 grant to study the storm's longer-term effects, particularly in areas where overflowing streams washed away roads and houses.
The researchers are combining field analysis with aerial photography and other data to develop faster and more accurate assessment techniques that can be used to pinpoint potential trouble spots along streams. The goal is to give communities tools they can use to make scientifically informed planning decisions, rather than tell them what to do.
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What are the requirements for access by military recruiters to high school students?
Local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) are generally required to give military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as they provide to postsecondary institutions or to prospective employers. LEAs are also generally required to provide students' names, addresses, and telephone listings to military recruiters, when requested.
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NDCG (normalized discounted cumulative gain) metric.
Inherits From: Metric
Calculates NDCG@k for a given set of top_k values calculated from a list of gains (relevance scores) that are sorted based on the associated predictions. The top_k_list can be passed as part of the NDCG metric config or using tfma.MetricsSpec.binarize.top_k_list if configuring multiple top_k metrics. The gain (relevance score) is determined from the value stored in the 'gain_key' feature. The value of NDCG@k returned is a weighted average of NDCG@k over the set of queries using the example weights.
NDCG@k = (DCG@k for the given rank)/(DCG@k DCG@k = sum_{i=1}^k gain_i/log_2(i+1), where gain_i is the gain (relevance score) of the i^th ranked response, indexed from 1.
This is a query/ranking based metric so a query_key must also be provided in the associated tfma.MetricsSpec.
gain_key Key of feature in features dictionary that holds gain values.
top_k_list Values for top k. This can also be set using the tfma.MetricsSpec.binarize.top_k_list associated with the metric.
name Metric name.
compute_confidence_interval Whether to compute confidence intervals for this metric.
Note that this may not completely remove the computational overhead involved in computing a given metric. This is only respected by the jackknife confidence interval method.
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Bime'S (Bimes) means as "building integration and management system framework"
It is gathering the data from building's functional system like SI, FMS, BEMS, BAS and Digital Twin to provide the developmental environment with easier control, processing, dispersion and integration. Bime'S is providing the framework which is mixture of connections among building control, facility management, energy control, and making twin digital, in order to provide a big data for the integration, dispersion and transplantation of data. Also Bime'S provides an environment that minimizes the change and downtime of existing systems when changing the scope of expending buildings as well as new ones.
1. BIS (Building Integrated System)
2. BAS (Building Automation System)
3. BMSFM (Building Management System for Facilites)
4. BMSEM (Building Management System for Energy)
5. 4D Digital Twin


Home • Cephaloascus fragrans 12-1022 v1.0
Saccharomycotina ML phylogeny
Saccharomycotina ML phylogeny. Cephaloascus fragrans corresponds to Cepfr1_1. Outgroup: Aspergillus nidulans (Aspnid1)
Cephaloascus fragrans is a member of the Cephaloascaceae and was sequenced for comparative purposes as part of the 1000 fungal genomes project. Both phylogenetic clustering and the Cephaloascaceae CUG-tRNA structure suggest that these display altered CUG codon usage, and therefore amino acid sequences were translated using the yeast alternative nuclear translation table (translation table 12)


If popularity is such a subjective thing and not "all that it's cracked up to be", why do so many spend time pursuing it?
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 - Its part of nature.
 For centuries, pretty much every living animal and every person has belonged to a group. Its part of survival and thriving in an environment, as we are more productive and protected in numbers. As a result of this, its part of our human nature in our genes to belong to a group. Pursuing popularity is part of thriving in a group, and feels right and instinctive.
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Visitors to Ohio Memory and the Ohio History Center alike have probably heard that 2012 is a big year for Columbus–it's our 200th birthday! The Columbus bicentennial is a major milestone for Ohio's capital city, marking two centuries of growth since its founding in 1812. Over the coming weeks, the Ohio Memory news feed will be taking a look back at some Columbus landmarks as they were at different points in our history–and what better place to start than with the Ohio Historical Society's own illustrious past?
Those of you familiar with the Ohio State University campus might recognize the adjacent photograph (taken in 1931) as Sullivant Hall, located at 1813 North High Street. But what you might not know is that this building was the original home to the Ohio Historical Society, then known as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. Completed in December of 1913, the building served as the museum and library for the OAHS starting just three months later, before all of its collections were even in place!
The building was officially dedicated on Memorial Day of 1914, and housed OHS until the society relocated to its current site near the fairgrounds in 1970. The building features a limestone exterior, Ionic columns, Tiffany bronze doors, and a beautiful domed vestibule with marble stairways. Now part of the Ohio State University campus, it is currently undergoing updates to become LEED certified and ADA compliant, and upon reopening, will house the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library, the Departments of Dance and Art Education, and increased classroom space.
The current Ohio History Center location that we all know and love, seen in the adjacent photograph under construction in 1969, opened to the public on August 23, 1970. That means our building has been a part of Columbus' landscape for almost a quarter of the city's history! Built in the Brutalist style, this architectural landmark is one of the most recognizable sights in Columbus. Brutalism refers to a rational, structuralist and monumental building style that was exported by British and French architects in the early 1950s. Thanks to its use of this unique architectural style, the Center was described by the American Institute of Architects upon its construction as a "bold, imaginative, almost startling structure"–we certainly like to think so!
Stay tuned for more posts on Columbus landmarks throughout the city's past. To see more images like these, visit OhioMemory.org and as always, we invite you to stop by the Ohio History Center to see what's new and to explore Ohio history for yourself!


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1) ability to undergo hardships, fortitude, tolerance of hardship / suffering, asceticism, austerity, ascetic practice, penance. 2) to bear what is difficult. 3) an ascetic, hermit. 4) the first month of the Tibetan calendar [RY]
practicing asceticism [RY]
asceticism, penance, an ascetic, name for first month of Tibetan calendar, white species of plant calotropis gigantea, austerity, ascetic practices, ascetic discipline [JV]
ascetic practice / life [RY]
spiritual challengs; ascetic practice [RB]
1) exertion; 2) ability to undergo hardships, asceticism, austere ascetic practice, fortitude, tolerance of hardship, enduring suffering, bear what is difficult, penance, ascetic, hermit; 3) 1st month [IW]


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A term used to describe a headache that is typified by constant, unilateral pain around the eye, with onset usually within 2-3 hours of falling asleep. Can be accompanied by a blocked nasal passage, runny nose, and-or tearing. One may also notice facial flushing, ptosis (dropping eyelid), facial swelling and constriction of the pupils.
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Consistency of 3D femoral torsion measurement from MRI compared to CT gold standard
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 28.08.2021
Häller Thomas Vincent, Schenk Pascal, Jud Lukas, Hoch Armando, Götschi Tobias, Zingg Patrick Oliver
Several hip and knee pathologies are associated with aberrant femoral torsion. Diagnostic workup includes computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For three-dimensional (3D) analysis of complex deformities it would be desirable to measure femoral torsion from MRI data to avoid ionizing radiation of CT in a young patient population. 3D measurement of femoral torsion from MRI has not yet been compared to measurements from CT images. We hypothesize that agreement will exist between MRI and CT 3D measurements of femoral torsion.
CT and MRI data from 29 hips of 15 patients with routine diagnostic workup for suspected femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) were used to generate 3D bone models. 3D measurement of femoral torsion was performed by two independent readers using the method of Kim et al. which is validated for CT. Inter-modalitiy and inter-reader intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were calculated.
Between MRI and CT 3D measurements an ICC of 0.950 (0.898; 0.976) (reader 1) respectively 0.950 (0.897; 0.976) (Reader 2) was found. The ICC (95% CI) expressing the inter-reader reliability for both modalities was 0.945 (0.886; 0.973) for MRI and 0.957 (0.910; 0.979) for CT, respectively. Mean difference between CT and MRI measurement was 0.42° (MRI - CT, SD: 2.77°, p = 0.253).
There was consistency between 3D measurements of femoral torsion between computer rendered MRI images compared to measurements with the "gold standard" of CT images. ICC for inter-modality and inter-reader consistency indicate excellent reliability. Accurate, reliable and reproducible 3D measurement of femoral torsion is possible from MRI images.


UART-based connections
Renode allows connecting boards into a network using UART devices that exchange data.
Creating a hub
UART devices can be connected together using UART hubs.
To create a hub named uartHub, execute:
(monitor) emulation CreateUARTHub "uartHub"
Connecting UART devices
In order for UART devices to be able to communicate, they must be connected to a common UART hub.
Exactly as in the case of the wired network, use connector to connect them together:
(monitor) mach set 0
(machine-0) connector Connect sysbus.uart uartHub
(machine-1) mach set 1
(machine-1) connector Connect sysbus.uart uartHub
Disconnecting UART devices
You can also disonnect a device from a hub with:
(machine-1) connector Disconnect sysbus.uart uartHub
Running the simulation
The UART hub is created in a paused state, which means it won't transfer any data between devices. To enable the communication it must be started first. It happens automatically when starting the whole simulation, with:
(monitor) start
or can be triggered manually, with:
(monitor) uartHub Start
From this moment on data sent to sysbus.uart on machine-0 will be received by sysbus.uart on machine-1 and vice versa.
You can also stop a hub at any moment, with:
(monitor) uartHub Pause
In order to ensure the determinism of the simulation, bytes sent over an uartHub are buffered and delivered to the receiver at predefined times. Please, note that this might lead to slight delays in the communication. The maximum delay is controllable by the quantum parameter. For details on how the synchronization works and how to configure it, refer to the synchronization section of the documentation.


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Mental Mondays: Adjust For The Wind
The general rule for dealing with breezes is to add or subtract one club for each 10 mph of wind. The trick is knowing just how fast the wind is blowing.
The Beaufort Wind speed scale can give you an idea of wind speed:
Wind Speed: Indicators
4 - 7 mph :Win felt on exposed skin. Leaves rustle, vanes begin to move.
8 - 12 mph :Leaves and small twigs constantly moving, light flags extended.
13 - 17 mph :Dust and loose paper raised. Small branches begin to move.
18 - 24 mph: Branches of a moderate size move. Small trees in leaf begin to sway.
25 - 30 mph: Large branches in motion. Whistling heard in overhead wires. Umbrella use becomes difficult. Empty plastic garbage cans tip over
31 - 38 mph: Whole trees in motion. Effort needed to walk against the wind.
Anything Faster: You shouldn't be on the course.
So, with twigs and small branches moving, add one club. If larger branches are swaying add two.
It's important to notice not only how things are on the ground, but also what's happening up in the air. On tree lined fairways, there are dead zones where the wind is screened. High flying golf shots, however, still can be caught up in the breezes. While assessing the situation, notice how the wind is affecting the upper branches of the trees.
Hitting the ball harder into the wind isn't a solution. A harder shot will increase the spin and exaggerate the wind conditions. Take more club.
Estimating what to do in a crosswind is a lot more tricky. In a crosswind, your ball will not only lose distance (though likely not as much as directly into the wind), but also drift in the direction it's blowing.
If you've got the game, you can try to spin the ball into the wind to hold the line. For most of us, though, the solution is to try to compensate for the drift by aiming more left or right. A rule of thumb is to aim five yards left or right for every 10 mph of wind speed.
Crosswinds will exaggerate your ball's natural flight. If you're a slicer, a wind blowing to the right will carry your ball right off the course. Remember to compensate for that, also.
This all creates some very interesting calculus as you're not only trying to figure how much club, but also how far left and right.
A final solution—again, if you've got the game—is to hit a punch shot, keeping the ball on a boring trajectory under the wind.
This tip is an excerpt from The Five Inch Course: Thinking Your Way To Better Golf. The complete book is available in Kindle format at Amazon.com.
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Banks, mortgage lenders, potential landlords and government agencies routinely verify income before making finance-based decisions. As an employer, either you or a representative from human resources or payroll writes the letter on an employee's behalf. However, if you're self-employed or are writing a letter to verify additional income, you'll need to write the letter yourself. Regardless, understanding the essentials can ensure the letter contains only relevant information.
A Letter Written on an Employee's Behalf
A proof of income letter written on an employee's behalf should be on company letterhead. Although it's not always necessary, a letter for a bank or mortgage lender may also require a company seal or a notary public stamp. The only information it should contain is the person's name, employment status -- full-time or part-time -- current job title, base annual salary and a statement as to whether the person is a permanent or temporary employee. The letter should end with the date, title and signature of the company representative issuing the letter.
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A Self-Written Letter
Except for a few modifications, a self-written proof of income letter has the same requirements as a letter written by an employer. As a self-employed person, use letterhead and include a statement as to how long you've been in business. A personal letter written to verify supplemental income should identify your income sources and attach any required verification documents such as tax returns, bank statements, or a Social Security, child support or worker's compensation award letter. Depending on the requestor's requirements, you may also need to specify how long you expect the income to continue and have the letter notarized.


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Power flushing is a technique used to clear sludge from central heating system pipes, radiators, coils and heat exchangers. These are areas where scale and corrosion can collect, the symptoms are usually:
- Cold spots on radiators, even after bleeding
- Takes a long time for radiators to warm up
- Noisy boiler
- Radiators needing regular bleeding
- Inefficient central heating system
Once a power flush is complete, you can expect the following benefits:
- Pipes and radiators will get hotter quicker
- More cost efficient system
- Less stress on the boiler
- Increased life of the boiler
- Heat will be distributed more evenly throughout the home
Central heating boilers can fail early if there is excessive sludge in the system, modern condensing boilers are much more sensitive so it's recommended to have a full system flush before installing a new boiler. There is no point in paying for an expensive piece of kit that may fail early because of excessive sludge build up in the system!
You should also check the guarantee on any new boiler as most manufacturers will not accept a claim if the system hasn't been recently power flushed.


Wind Roche-lobe overflow and the origin of carbon in metal-poor halo stars (New paper accepted)
20 Feb
What fraction of the slow dusty wind of an AGB star can be captured by a binary companion? According to smooth particle hydro simulations by Mohammed, quite a bit more than is typically accounted for in binary evolutionary models. Especially if the companion is located closer than the location where dust is formed and the wind is accelerated. In this paper, lead by Abate, explores the consequences for the population of metal poor halo stars. The number of stars that accreted carbon from the wind of their companion is found to be a factor 1.2-1.8 higher than in simulations that do not account for this effect.
This paper "Wind Roche-lobe overflow: Application to carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars" by Abate, Pols, Izzard, Mohammed & de Mink has just been accepted for publication in A&A. A preprint can be found here:


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TEACHING VALUES AN OLYMPIC EDUCATION TOOLKIT SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION TO OLYMPIC VALUES EDUCATION TEACHINGVALUES11 Stimulating the imagination of learners is another educational method used in Teaching Values. All athletes know the power of the imagination in helping them to accomplish a result or goal. Positive and creative use of the imagination can also help young people to develop new attitudes, new ways of thinking about themselves and others, and then to explore different ways of behaving. DEFINING TERMINOLOGY In this Toolkit, a number of words recur which are worth defining for the purposes of educators and their learners. 1 Value– A value is what is considered important in life; what makes life worth living. A value is also something that helps people decide what is right or wrong in moral terms. Heritage– Heritage is a form of legacy. " IT IS IMAGINATION THAT OPENS OUR EYES TO WORLDS BEYOND OUR EXPERIENCE – ENABLING US TO CREATE, CARE FOR OTHERS, AND ENVISION SOCIAL CHANGE." 2 ( MAXINE GREENE, EDUCATOR AND CURRICULUM SPECIALIST) AboveLondon 2005: London 2012 Chairman and former Olympian Lord Sebastian Coe ( GBR) talks to children at an East London primary school about the Olympic Games. 1 Definitions from Educational Services of the Olympic Museum, Lausanne. 2 Greene, M. ( 1995). Releasing the imagination: Essays on education, the arts, and social change. San Francisco: JosseyBass Inc. ( book jacket). There are tangible heritages such as buildings, monuments, historical sites, works of art, objects, books, etc. There are also intangible heritages such as languages, films, music, scientific knowledge, customs, arts and crafts. Rituals, sport movements and techniques are part of the intangible heritage. Sport– Sport is understood to mean all forms of physical activity that contribute to physical fitness, mental wellbeing and social interaction. These activities include play; recreational, casual, organised or competitive sport; and indigenous sport or games ( UNESCO 2004). Culture– Culture is everything that allows people to situate themselves in relation to the world, society and also the heritage which is passed on to them ( values, behaviour, arts, artifacts, knowledge, belief systems, stories and myths, etc.).
12TEACHING VALUES SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION TO OLYMPIC VALUES EDUCATION FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THEOLYMPIC MOVEMENT THE " FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES" APPEAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE OLYMPIC CHARTER. # 1 Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. # 2The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity. # 3The Olympic Movement is the concerted, organised, universal and permanent action, carried out under the supreme authority of the IOC, of all individuals and entities who are inspired by the values of Olympism. It covers the five continents. It reaches its peak with the bringing together of the world's athletes at the great sports festival, the Olympic Games. Its symbol is five interlaced rings. # 4The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practising sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play. The organisation, administration and management of sport must be controlled by independent sports organisations. # 5Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement. # 6Belonging to the Olympic Movement requires compliance with the Olympic Charter and recognition by the IOC. See Learning Activity, Section 4, Fundamental Principles – Interpretation, p. 68. Left Atlanta 1996: The Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, celebrates the ancient origins of the Games. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES


Antique Traps: Newhouse Bear Traps
By Tom Parr
North American Trapper & Hunter Trader trapper
Sewell Newhouse was born in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1806. His family moved to Oneida County, New York, when he was 14 years old. As a young man, he spent most of his time in the woods becoming well-acquainted with the local Native tribes. Under their guidance, he became a well-rounded woodsman, especially knowledgeable about the pursuit and capture of wild animals.
Newhouse made his first steel trap when he was 17, crudely fashioned from scrap metal found in his father's blacksmith shop. He learned how to temper steel from a family friend, and over the next 20 years, usually with a partner or a hired hand, he made many more traps and a few rifles, mostly selling to other local trappers.
In 1849, Newhouse was approached by John Humphrey Noyes, who had just launched a communal living venture on the banks of Oneida Creek, a few miles from Kenwood, New York. The commune was a religious idea, intended to save mankind. It was based on the idea that a perfect life could only be lived if people sacrificed everything to the community's interest.
Newhouse joined Noyes' Oneida Community, and there he continued to make steel traps in the old way, by hand.
Newhouse Bear Trap Swivel
By 1855, the demand for Newhouse steel traps had grown to such an extent that the Oneida Community leaders decided to begin manufacturing on a much larger scale, and it became a major part of the business dealings of the Community.
In the 1850s, Oneida Community produced a No. 5 and a larger No. 6 bear trap called "The Great Bear Tamer." It weighed 50 pounds. In 1864, the Oneida Community reported a yearly sale of 30 bear traps; that same year, they sold 7,250 beaver traps. While Newhouse bear traps were well-known, they never were produced in great number.
The earliest model, called a slick pan, had no lettering on the pan. This trap was built in both the No. 5 and No. 6 size from 1850 to 1855. Next came the No. 5 & 6, with a lettered pan that read S. Newhouse Community N.Y. It was made from 1865 to 1888. Newhouse passed away in 1888, but the trap making continued, as has his legacy as America's master trap maker.
The pan on No. 5 traps made from 1895 to 1905 reads S. Newhouse Kenwood N.Y. At the same time, Oneida also made the No. 15, which is the same as a No. 5 but with offset jaws exposing the teeth between the jaws; two smaller bear traps, the No. 50 and 150, also went into production. During the Kenwood era, for a very short span, Oneida Community built a No. 25 and a No. 35, called the Newhouse Self Setting Bear Trap. It was not well received by trappers and was only on the market for a short time; these are very rare and prized by today's trap collectors.
From around 1895 to 1911, Newhouse bear traps had S. Newhouse Oneida Community N.Y in raised letters on the pan; they were built in sizes No. 6, No. 5, No. 15, No. 50 and No. 150. From 1911 through 1925, S. Newhouse Oneida Community N.Y PAT. Sept 26-1911 appeared in raised letters on the pans, and collectors refer to these as the patent date model; they were made in all of the same sizes.
In 1925, Oneida sold the trap-making division to Animal Trap Company of America, Lititz, PA, where the Newhouse bear traps were continued in limited production through 1976. The raised letter pan now read Oneida Newhouse Reg.U.S. Pat. Off. Made in U.S.A., Animal Trap Co. Lititz, PA; they were made in sizes No. 6, No. 5, No.15, No. 50 and No. 150.
The value of Newhouse bear traps varies greatly, but all are collectible. Condition and knowing that the parts are original is of most importance when buying these traps. A good No. 6 Slick Pan could bring $8,000 while a No. 5 or No. 15 might fetch up to $800.
Much more information on Newhouse bear traps, accessories, and other bear traps can be found in a book Blaise Andreski and I wrote titled The Collectors Guide - Bear Traps - Model Recognition & Prices; it can be purchased from Sterling Fur Co., phone: _PHONE_.
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collectible antique traps, contact:
Tom Parr, the North American Trap
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This tutorial was written in PSPX but will work in all versions. First, if you are planning on a collaboration and want to make items matching the same color scheme for all designers, then as a team you will decide on the colors to use.
But I also like to use swatches to help me keep things consistent with designs. For example, any color swatch on my site has 5 coordinating colors. You would use it the same way you would a collaboration swatch.
Once the color swatch has been created you need to save the swatch to your computer and pull it up with PSP.
Step 1 – Open your PSP and then go to File/Open and select the color swatch. For this tutorial I am opening the color swatch for the Candy Wrapper Blog Train (coming soon).
Step 2 – Select the foreground color swatch on your materials pallet
Step 3 – When the options box pops up, click on the color tab.
Step 4 – Place your mouse on the color in your swatch that you want to use. As you hover over the color you will notice that the RGB values will be displayed.
Step 5 – When you get to the color you want, left click it and the color will be loaded as your current color. Notice how the red is set as the current color in the materials pallet above but it has now changed to blue in the image below.
Now you can use the color you selected from the color swatch to make your elements, papers, patterns, wrappers or whatever. So, if, say for example, you want your paper (background) to be blue, you would select the blue color as shown above. Then when you get ready to add your textbox but want it to be say the maroon color in the swatch, you would select the maroon the same way.
I hope this has been helpful!


When you send a Direct Message, WriteUpp will send a SMS as well as an email to the recipient. The SMS is sent when the access link in the email is clicked, and will contain an access code which is used to open the message. This provides an extra layer of authentication to anything you send via direct message, just like two-factor authentication.
If you try to send a Direct Message and you don't have any text credits, you'll see this message:
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Red Claw Crab (Perisesarma bidens)
From The Aquarium Wiki
You can contribute to the Aquarium Wiki by expanding this article. Dont be shy!.
Red Claw Crab
1.001 - 1.025
7.5 - 8.5
This animal is available captive bred
- Red Claw Crab, Red Crab, Thai Crab
- Sesarma bidens
- Males are more brightly coloured than females. Females also have a different shaped abdomen, only visible on the underside.
- Really best kept in species tanks and can live with other crabs but may fight with other crabs if not enough space to set up territories, but if kept with fish they must not be kept with long-finned fish, bottom dwellers or small fish species. Top dwelling and fast-swimming fish that prefer brackish conditions only.
- An omnivorous crab which will take most foods including blanched vegetables, flakes and pellets, brine shrimp, bloodworm and fish.
- Feed once or twice a day.
- Must have access to an area above the water line, and prefers brackish conditions, an SG of 1.005 is sufficient. A secure fitting lid is essential as these are excellent escape artists. Red crabs are particularly sensitive to copper, which is an ingredient in many fish-disease treatments and snail-eradication chemicals, avoid at all costs.
- Red Claw Crabs are very good escape artists, and will take advantage of any opportunity to escape from the aquarium they are kept in. They can easily climb up airline tubing and filter tubes, so a tight fitting lid is essential. They can be kept with fish, but it is not a good idea to do this. They will catch and eat small fish if given the opportunity. Avoid keeping them with bottom dwellers or long finned fish at all costs.
- In a planted tank they will snip pieces off the plants and eat them. Adding a weighted piece of lettuce will allow them to drag it off and graze in private.
- Flattened deep red/brown shell with protruding eye stalks and 2 equal-sized orange to bright red claws.


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Biological organisms have a nifty trick, where they can grow uniform materials into three dimensional shapes by limiting growth in certain areas. As some cells expand, others don't, causing the object to warp in three dimensions. Now researchers have applied that same theory to gel sheets, and developed a way of transforming them between flat planes and 3D shapes.
The technique has been dubbed halftone gel lithography — the scientists used an ultraviolet sensitive thin polymer sheet, and exposed it to differing levels of light. The areas exposed would become crosslinked, and not able to expand when placed in water. Thus, areas that were illuminated would stay stationary, and the ones less so would shift and expand when soaked.
By mimicking printmaking, the researchers used halftone patterns, exposing the gel to dots of light of varying size and shapes. By strictly controlling these, a number of shapes were able to be developed, including spheres, saddles and cones. Simply soak it, and it achieves the shape, and then dry it and it'll return to flat. The researchers hope this technique could help with creating a new type of tissue engineering, or an alternative form of 3D printing.
Image: A halftone printing method is used to program the growth of a flat sheet into a sphere through a pattern based on the Peirce quincuncial map projection (shown in the background). Gel images: J. Kim, J.A. Hanna, M. Byun, C.D. Santangelo, R.C. Heyward; Background Map: NOAA's Office of Coast Survey Historical Map & Chart Collection.


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I am currently trying to retrieve a unique device identifier. Here is my code:
var token = Windows.System.Profile.HardwareIdentification.getPackageSpecificToken(null);
var reader = Windows.Storage.Streams.DataReader.fromBuffer(;
reader.unicodeEncoding = true;
var identifier = reader.readString(reader.unconsumedBufferLength);
But it raises following error:
The operation attempted to access data outside the valid range.
How can I retrieve the size of my string? I also tried to use, but result is the same.
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Depending on what you are using it for, you should be aware that the id will change, possibly frequently on some devices. You should probably use a subset of the constituent components in the id if you need to (more) reliably identify the device again later. Docs here: – Endophage Nov 9 '12 at 21:14
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I can't try to replicate what you're doing at the moment, but you might try reading it as bytes into array like this:
var array = new Array(;
And then convert the array to a string for the identifier.
See these posts for examples:
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Your solution works perfectly. Thanks for your help, even if I still can't get the reason why they return a IBuffer object instead of a simple string. But sure they got one. ;) – Jonathan Petitcolas Aug 22 '12 at 8:36
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The importance for children's wellbeing, long-term adjustment and maintenance of loving and supportive relationships with both parents after divorce is well documented. However, questions remain about links between parenting arrangements and relationship outcomes, specifically in terms of the ways that shared overnight care after separation may interact with complex developmental or family circumstances to influence children's outcomes. This article summarises two recent Australian studies of post-separation shared parenting arrangements, with a focus on developmental outcomes for children in two risk groups: children living with ongoing parental conflict after separation, and infants and pre-schoolers. Both studies help to illuminate the socio-economic, relationship and developmental "equipment" required for translating a shared time arrangement post separation into a developmentally supportive experience for the children concerned.
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Manual browser: random(6)
NAMErandom — random lines from a file or random numbers
DESCRIPTIONrandom reads lines from the standard input and copies them to the standard output with a probability of 1/denominator. The default value for denominator is 2.
The options are as follows:
- If the -e option is specified, random does not read or write anything, and simply exits with a random exit value of 0 to denominator-1, inclusive.
- The -r option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
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