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Opisthoteuthis meroSteve O'Shea, Richard E. Young, and Michael Vecchione
O. mero is known from over 100 specimens. It appears to be the most common species of the genus in New Zealand waters.
- Arms formula variable, arms IV usually shortest.
- Arms I in males without increased robustness.
- Suckers slightly larger in males (4.3-8.6% of ML) than in females (4.6-7.55% of ML).
- Males with only proximal field with greatly enlarged suckers.
- Suckers of proximal field slightly but abruptly enlarged; distal field virtually absent. Suckers 1-3 moderate in size, suckers 4 to 9-12 greatly enlarged, distally suckers decrease gradually but slightly to level of web, terminal 15-25 suckers decrease rapidly in size. [All arms apparently similar.]
- Up to 71 suckers on each arm.
- Web nodules not described.
- Cirrus length 4-10% of ML or 0.6-1.2 times maximum sucker diameter.
- First cirri between suckers 1 and 2.
Figure. Oral views of a female, 57 mm ML, and male, 54 mm ML O. mero. Drawings from O'Shea, 1999.
The above description is taken from O'Shea (1999). More details of the description of Opisthoteuthis mero can be found here.
O. persephone differs in almost always having 6 primary gill lamellae, and more suckers per arm (93). O. phillipi also has a high arm-sucker count. (Comparisons from O'Shea, 1999).
O. mero differs from all members of the genus (where males are known), except O. robsoni and O. depressa, in lacking distal fields or at least lacking an increase in sucker size in the distal fields. O. depressa differs from the other two in having more enlarged suckers on each arm of the proximal field (i.e., 16 vs 5-8). O. mero differs from O. robsoni in having a bilobular rather than a unilobular digestive gland.
The type locality: Off the northern end of New Zealand, 36°52'S, 176°19'E, 510 m. The species is known from waters virtually all around New Zealand in depths of about 400-900 m (O'Shea, 1999).
O'Shea, Steve. 1999. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 112: 280pp.
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The Elms moorings are based adjacent to The Elms Retirement Village for the over 50's which is owned and managed by the Kinch family of The John Kinch Group. The family moved to Torksey in the late 1970's. Over a period of years the family have developed The Elms into an award winning retirement park homes park.
Along with this came a major overhaul of the adjacent moorings. This involved replacement of the old scaffold and wooden deck moorings with high quality floating pontoon moorings from Walcon Marine. Electric hook ups were installed along with access to water. In 2016 this facility was extended with a further stretch of moorings reaching right up to Torksey Lock basin and then additional improvements were made in 2019 with the provision of a private toilet, shower and waste disposal block within a stones throw of the moorings.
History of the Fossdyke
The Fossdyke canal is about 11 miles long and connects the River Witham to the River Trent. Originally believed to have been built by the Romans in around 120 AD, the Fossdyke has a history longer than most other canals which includes cargo transportation for almost 2000 years. The stone used to build Lincoln Cathedral in the 11th century was alleged to have travelled this very route. After the departure of the Roman army the maintenance on the Fossdyke decayed until the channel was refurbished in 1121, in the reign of Henry I.
Further improvements were made in 1671 including the installation of a lock at Torksey which is now a grade II listed structure. During the next few centuries it silted up several times, becoming almost unusable until it was dredged again but it was not until 1744 that a reliable channel was created and maintained. The canal was leased to the Great Northern Railway in 1846. Competition led to commercial decline, but agricultural produce was still being routinely carried down the Fossdyke from the River Trent right up to the 1970s with the last commercial operation being in 1972. In the present day the Fossdyke is still used greatly by pleasure craft creating excellent links between the waterways.

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Researchers aim to uncover the secrets to happiness with new app
Anyone worldwide can now help Yale researchers uncover the secrets to happiness from their smartphones, without ever stepping foot into a lab.
The Happiness Project is a new mobile app developed by the lab of Robb Rutledge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, in which users can play games to test their decision making and learn about the science of happiness.
Happiness is not usually studied with mathematical equations, Rutledge said. The goal of The Happiness Project is to advance research to understand what determines how someone feels from minute to minute.
"We think that how people feel minute to minute is really important for understanding their mental health," Rutledge said. "Very little is known about what determines this and it's such an important part of our everyday experience. My lab is trying to figure out the mathematical equations for what determines happiness."
The app's development was made more complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lab members dispersed to locations all around the world, and the Rutledge Lab relocated from University College London to Yale over the summer.
The team designed the tasks themselves, paying extra attention to creating engaging games that people find fun and would want to play.
"We're taking a fairly dry lab experiment where we control everything and turning it into something a bit more fun," Rutledge said.
"At the same time, we're not trying to make a video game," Rutledge explained. "We don't want a game that a few people love and most people don't really want to play. What we really need is something that if you had 100 people, 99 of them would say, "I'll play these games for 10 minutes." We're trying to build something for everyone because that's what we need if we want to understand how happiness works."
When a user downloads the game, they'll learn about the team's mission to understand happiness and figure out the equations for happiness. Users are presented with a variety of game options to choose from. Users might be asked to make risky decisions or make some kind of effort to earn more points. As a user completes games, they unlock more games.
"Every time people play the games and answer the surveys, they're helping our research," Rutledge said.
"The games are looking at different aspects of human behavior and emotions. The data from their play is sent to our servers anonymously, and then we look at it to see what that person does and what makes them feel different things."
For Rutledge, the pandemic underlined the importance of better understanding mental health. And while it's been difficult for research in a more traditional laboratory setting to continue with physical distancing recommendations in place, The Happiness Project app allows people to participate in research from the safety and comfort of their own home, creating a large pool of diverse participants of all ages and backgrounds.
"We want to provide an option for people who want to contribute to mental health research. They can participate at home in just a few minutes, and ultimately it will help us understand happiness better," Rutledge said.


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As an experimental model for the different forms of muscle degeneration, injury caused by 2 hours' ischemia has been studied from 20 minutes to 16 hours after release of the tourniquet.
Discoid degeneration developed in stretched fibers by dissolution of the I bands (Z substances and actin). The discs represented the Q bands (A-H-A). In fibers which passively maintained contraction lengths during degeneration, the Z substances were dissolved, but the continuity of the fibrils was preserved, since the filaments are continuous over all sarcomeres under these conditions. Mitochondria and the tubules of the endoplasmic reticulum swelled, ruptured, and disintegrated. Granular degeneration developed in fibers where mitochondria were abundant. Unstretched degenerating fibers with few mitochondria gave a homogeneous or hyaline appearance. The different forms of degeneration therefore were dependent on the status of stretch and the fiber type. The extent of degeneration was not a function of time after ischemia, there being both nearly normal and severely damaged fibers at 20 minutes and 16 hours after the release of tourniquets. When degeneration occurred, however, the basic alterations were the same in all fibers; there was mitochondrial and reticular swelling, dissolution of the Z substances, and finally disintegration of the contractile material. Some damage developed in the sarcolemmas and capillaries.
The mitochondrial disintegration was not linked with inactivation of the succinic dehydrogenase system.


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An hermaphrodite, or hermie, is a plant of one sex that develops the sexual organs of the other sex. Most commonly, a flowering female plant will develop staminate flowers, though the reverse is also true. Primarily male hermaphrodites are not as well recognized only because few growers let their males reach a point of flowering where the pistillate would be expressed.
Hermaphrodites are generally viewed with disfavor. First, they will release pollen and ruin a sinsemelia crop, pollinating themselves and all of the other females in the room. Second, the resulting seeds are worthless, because hermaphrodite parents tend to pass on the tendency to their offspring.
Please note that occassionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism.
Here's an image of a hermaphrodite, specifically a female plant with staminate flowers.
Hermaphrodite photograph above by Ot1.
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Your feed room is a mess, but that's understandable. This area can quickly become a catchall for all sorts of items. But you can start reclaiming the space by throwing away these four things right now:
1. Expired medications. Drugs have an expiration date for a reason—they may become ineffective or even harmful with the passage of time. Check the dates on all medications and toss any that have passed. (But don't flush them down the toilet. Instead, put them in the trash or dispose of them as directed by your municipality.)
2. Old supplements. Like medications, supplements have a shelf life. Not all of them, however, will have a printed expiration date. If you can't determine when a supplement expires, but you also can't remember the last time you used it, play it safe and pitch it.
3. Empty feedbags. You might think that stack of folded feedbags will come in handy someday, but right now it's just nesting material for rodents. Take the empty sacks to the recycling bin, keeping only one or two for immediate use if you must.
4. Random hardware items. For some reason, old snaps, latches and screws always find their way into a coffee can in the feed room. As a general rule, if you don't know what something goes to, throw it out. If you're nervous about taking that final step, at least move it to a workshop outside of the barn where it's less likely to find its way into a feed bucket or under a hoof.


Repair DIY: How to Fix Your Windows & Door Screens
by Darren Gibson 07/26/2020
Photo by Chris Thornton from Pexels
Thanks to screens, we can enjoy being outdoors without all the dirt and insects. Open windows let the breeze in without letting in anything else, and we can picnic on our screened-in porches without the bug spray. Screens can generally take a lot of wear and tear, but when subjected to winds, weather, and contact with people and pets, they start to break down. Fortunately, they are often easy to repair without costly maintenance. In fact, window and door screen repairs can be straightforward DIY projects.
Screens usually come in either aluminum or fiberglass material. Either of these can be patched if the damage is minor, such as a rip or hole just a few inches in length. Hardware stores sell kits specific to the screen's make and material for patching small holes. Alternately if you have spare screen fabric on-hand you can construct and apply a patch yourself. Start by cutting an even shape around the rip, like a square or rectangle. Place a piece of waxed paper under the hole so the adhesive does not stick to your workspace. Dab a light layer of an adhesive like super glue or rubber-based glue along the edge of the hole--you could use a toothpick or small paintbrush for this step. Cut a patch out of your roll of spare screen that is about a half-inch larger than the hole. Center the patch over the hole and press it onto the cut edges of the hole, allow to dry completely.
If the damage is larger or if you would just prefer to replace the entire screen, this won't cost you much time or effort either.
 1. Locate a clear, flat workspace and lay the screen down flat. Use a flat instrument like a flathead screwdriver to remove the rubber screen retainer spline from the screen's frame so you can remove the old screen. Check to see if the spline is visibly cracked or weathered. If it is, replace it along with the screen material.
 2. Measure the screen then cut the replacement screen to size using tin cutters or heavy-duty scissors. Allow yourself a few extra inches on each side to make installation a little easier.
 3. Center the new screen on the frame and pull it tight over the frame edges. Secure it in place with strong tape.
 4. Using a screen spline roller tool, fit the screen firmly down into the indentation on the frame while pulling it taut, then use the tool to push the rubber spline back into the indentation over the new screen. Once the spline rests tightly down in the indentation, closely trim any excess screen around all the edges.
If you are constructing a porch or outdoor kitchen and planning for a large amount of screen, you may want to consider using thin posts or vertical slats between large screen 'windows' instead of expanses of uninterrupted screen. This lets you take down individual screens to repair or replace instead of more costly, larger-scale fixes.
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FAQ: "Our customer has an accessory to do measurements with transparent preforms. My question is how I must to measure dark transparent preforms? On clear preforms, measurement data looks good. However, we could use some advice on darker colors, particularly amber."
The images you sent show that the amber preform is held in our D01-1011-833 Adjustable Preform or Cylinder Holder accessory.
Measuring clear, lighter preforms is fine but amber preforms offer a special challenge as the intention of the amber colorant is to absorb all light in order to protect the blown bottle contents. The same statement can apply to very dark green and blue preforms.
While the pulsed xenon lamp in our HunterLab sphere instruments is very powerful and will blast through most materials, the amber preform sample is a challenge.
In general if you can hold a preform up to a light and see detail on the other side of the preform, HunterLab sphere instruments should be able to measure usable color signal from the whole transparent preform measured in the holder.
For amber preforms, here is how we approach measurement of amber preforms:
- You first mount the D02-1011-833 Adjustable Transmission Preform or Cylinder Holder in the transmission compartment in one of our HunterLab sphere sensors.
- You then standardize the instrument with the first step being to set 0% transmission as the bottom-of-scale using the Light Blocker.
- Then you set top-of-scale with the white tile used to fill in the reflectance port and Air as a reference for 100% transmission.
- If you insert a whole preform into the holder and take a reading, the Y D65/10 transmission value should be > 10% to have a useable color signal. A Y transmission value is equivalent to L* D65/10 value of approximately 40 (L* is calculated directly from Y). It's not that you can't measure less than this, but remembering that a blocked detector or perfect black is 0 if your whole preform is measuring below Y = 10/L* = 40, your signal is very low down in the dark and murky, and it is difficult to separate lot differences when you are measuring so low.
- If Y < 10/L* < 40, one alternative to raise the signal is to cut the preform in half resulting in a thinner sample path length. Just cut down the tube to above the threads and measure a single wall cut-out of the preform. See if the signal is high enough in this form.
- A further alternative is to blow the preform into a test bottle and measure through the bottle or make a single wall cut-out of the bottle and measure that. This form, will have high enough signal strength to differentiate lots. However, it requires more sample preparation time.


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The Bittenut Hickory, Carya cordiformis, is also known as the Yellow-bud Hickory tree. The yellow bud makes it difficult to mistake for another species and combined with the alternate compound leaves and relatively large nuts, it is very distinctive This deciduous tree is found on moist, fertile soils in the east and central U.S. and is intolerant of shade. The fall color is often green to chartruese, but sometimes is a brilliant golden-yellow in excellent seasons.
Scientific Name or Common Names: Carya cordiformis
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Architecture of MLRISC
The core components of MLRISC allow the client to quickly construct
an backend for various architectures. These components include:
- The MLTREE language,
which is a RTL-like intermediate language
that is used by the client
to communicate to the MLRISC system. A client is
responsible for writing the module that generates MLTREE from
the source program representation.
- Instruction selection modules,
which generates target machine
instructions from MLTREE.
- The Register Allocator,
which performs register allocation.
- Assemblers, which emits assembly code.
For systems that require direct machine code generation, the following
modules are included:
In addition, MLRISC has been enhanced to support various types of
machine level optimizations. These include:
- Core optimizations, which includes
various types of control flow transformation,
and architectural specific peephole optimizations.
- SSA based scalar optimizations
- ILP optimizations for superscalars
- ILP optimizations for VLIW/EPIC architectures
- GC safety analysis
Basic concepts in MLRISC are:
- Instructions --
the instruction set of the target architecture.
- Cells -- which describes registers,
memory and other mutable resources in the machine.
- Regions -- a client defined
abstract type used to represent aliasing information available from
- Constants -- a client defined
place holder used to represent constants whose values are unknown
in the front-end.
- Pseudo Ops -- a client defined
- Annotations -- this is
a generic mechinism for propagating information in the MLRISC sstem.
The client may attach arbitrary annotation of various granularity
to MLRISC's program representation,
which can then be propagated to later phases.
These can be information related to profiling frequency, dependence,
comments, and/or types.
The same mechanism is also used to propagate
analysis information one optimization phase to
- Instruction Streams -- an abstraction
for describing a stream of instructions. Instruction streams are
used to connect modules such as instruction selection, assembler,
machine code emitter, and
control flow graph builder.
- Regmap -- a mapping between registers
names. MLRISC register allocators represent the result of register
allocation as a regmap.
- Labels -- a type representing
- Label Expressions -- a type representing
involving symbolic labels.
How Things Are Fit Together
MLRISC uses two different program representations, clusters and MLRISC IR.
Conversion modules between the two representations are provided.
In general MLRISC optimization phases are transformations applied on one
of these representations. Optimizations may be chained together to form
a compiler backend. For example, a minimal backend consists of
- the instruction selection module, which translates
MLTree into target instructions,
- the flowgraph builder, which conversts a stream of target instructions
into a cluster,
- the register allocator, which performs register allocation, and
- the assembly code emitter, which generates assembly output
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Puzzle Directions: Click on a puzzle piece and drag it where you want it. When you connect two pieces correctly, they will join together. This is an extra hard double-sided puzzle. The same map is printed on both sides the pieces. Some of the pieces are turned over to the wrong side. To flip a piece over, hold down the "T" key and click on the puzzle piece. Mix up the pieces again. View finished map in pop-up window.
Description: This map of Florida outlines the county boundaries and railroads connecting the major cities, current in 1895. The upper most inset map illustrates the intersection of Lake, Orange and Volusia counties on an enlarged scale. This inset map also conveys the relative proximity of the large lakes in the region. The lower right inset map illustrates the southern portion of Florida, more specifically the Florida Keys, which are a part of Monroe County. Source: Rand, McNally & Co., The Encyclopedia Britannica Vol. IX (New York, NY: The Werner Company, 1903) 338 Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman.


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Methods for Change team profile: Laura PottingerBackResources
29th September 2020
In this second Methods for Change team profile, we meet Laura Pottinger who is one of the main researchers on the project team. The first piece introduced Amy Barron and the next will focus on Ulrike Ehgartner.
Laura explains her motivation for joining the Methods for Change project, the value of social science methodologies and how this project will seek to make a difference in terms of how these methodologies can add value to non-academic sectors.
Interview, Methods for Change, Project Output and The University of Manchester
What's your background and what was your motivation for getting involved in the Methods for Change project?
I'm a human geographer, interested in exploring everyday forms of social and environmental activism using ethnographic and participatory methodologies. Before undertaking my doctoral research, I worked with a youth leadership organisation in Manchester. This galvanised my interest in developing methods that could simultaneously be used to understand the role of young people and other stakeholders in instigating change in their own communities, and to support them in their aims. Some of the most interesting work I've been involved in occupies a space between academic research and the work of activist groups or charities aiming to transform society. There is great potential for social scientists to work towards shared goals in collaboration with organisations, and Methods for Change offers an exciting opportunity to explore these connections and relationships further.
What do you think social science methodologies can bring to non-academic sectors?
Social science methodologies are incredibly diverse and can be adapted to a vast array of different settings and research problems. They are particularly useful for understanding complex systems, and for uncovering what makes things meaningful to people. Social science methods can also provide the tools to look beyond linear, simplistic or surface explanations for problems and phenomena, to understand lived experience in rich detail. In my own work, I've seen how social science methods can be used as a vehicle for creating change throughout the entire process of research. Participatory methods, for example, can involve researchers working alongside participants to design methodologies, collect and analyse data, and share findings, providing opportunities for individual and collective transformation and growth at each stage of the research.
Why are they not currently having the impact that they should?
There is a need to raise awareness of the value of our methodologies and to communicate them more effectively and accessibly. To do this, we need to think creatively about developing opportunities for businesses, charities, or public sector organisations to find out about the range of approaches that exist, and to visualise how they can be applied in practice. As academics, there is more that we can do to actively understand the requirements of non-academic partners, and to think about how our methods can be adapted to ensure they are relevant and user-friendly.
We also need to make a case for social science methods – particularly those that are creative, innovative and experimental – as robust, effective ways for creating knowledge. They are equally valid tools for understanding complex topics as more tradition methods, such as surveys or interviews, and in many cases will yield much richer data. However, because social science research deals with complexity, it can be messy! One of our challenges as researchers on this project is how we communicate research methods and approaches that are difficult to delineate neatly.
How will the Methods for Change initiative make a difference in this area?
Our project is designed to address these issues by identifying, distilling, and showcasing innovative and cutting-edge methodologies. Working with over 30 social scientists from across the Aspect network and their non-academic partners, we are producing accessible 'how to' guides aimed at industry, business, charity and public sectors. These guides will outline the fundamentals of each method, with examples for their application in a range of different contexts. Some early method examples include photogo-alongs, creative and interactive interviewing, discourse analysis, object oriented participatory ethnography, and mobile methods, to name a few.
We are also experimenting with creative approaches for communicating these ideas. Contributors are collaborating with designers, artists, and filmmakers, to produce a series of creative works, including comics, posters, short films, animations and podcasts. Shared widely, these outputs will highlight the value of social science methods and the types of societal change they can leverage. In November, along with our academic contributors, the Methods for Change team will host a series of free online workshops as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020. Focusing on visual, participatory and policy-led methods, these sessions will explore how social science research methods can be used to transform institutions, communities and society, and we will share early outputs and findings from the project.
What types of research methods do you use in your own work?
In my own work, I've used what I have termed a 'gentle methodology', inspired by feminist, participatory and ethnographic approaches, to explore practices of consumption and cultivation, sharing economies, and young people's politics. Drawing together a suite of different methods, this approach recognises the research process as a reciprocal endeavour. It tends to be slowly paced, and is concerned with sensory, material and embodied ways of understanding the world. My PhD research looked at community seed saving in the UK, following seeds and plants as they were cultivated, swapped and shared amongst allotment holders and gardeners. Methodologically, this involved 'going along' with everyday gardening activities including walking, weeding, and eating together in gardens, taking part in organised seed swap events and networks, and saving seeds on my own allotment. Recent projects have involved experimental youth-led participatory workshops and writing sessions as methods for researching young people's involvement in political processes such as Manchester's devolution, resulting in a co-produced academic article and toolkit.
How will being part of the Aspect network support the work you're planning to undertake?
In my research, using 'gentle methods' helps shed light on the passions and motivations of participants, capturing a level of detail that other approaches may miss. This has also enabled me as a researcher to contribute, in modest yet meaningful ways, to the goals and priorities of the organisations that I work with. I am keen to explore how this type of approach could be applied more widely and to understand the challenges of adapting methods for different sectors, which ultimately could lead to more impactful research in the future. The connections that Methods for Change is already developing between like-minded academics across the Aspect network provides an excellent platform for this.
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Paper: Entrepreneurialism and Affectivity: Selling Poverty and Childhood in Cusco
Cusco, Peru is one of Latin Americaâ€™s leading tourist destinations. With Machu Picchu and other nearby Inca ruins as the main attractions, tourism has become the principal economic and development strategy for the city. This is apparent not just through numerous public and private investments in tourism infrastructure, and the popularity of guiding as a profession, but also because of the many families who participate in an informal street economy, vending souvenirs and artisanal products to tourists. Local children compose an active group of the most successful vendors, often because of the entrepreneurial strategies they have developed for engaging their clients. Child vendors creatively draw on their own discourses of poverty and childhood to encourage both cultural and economic exchanges, with the affectivity of children enabling them to earn as much asâ€"or more thanâ€"their parents. This dissertation project investigates the interactions between children and tourists in Cusco in a number of spaces, including the streets and in aid centers. Focusing on interactions in this first space, this paper will explore several of the strategies that children use, including their development, how they are passed on between vendors, and their success. The economic roles that children play within their families, and the motivations children offer as to why they sell, will also be discussed. This project contributes to anthropological and interdisciplinary studies of childhood, poverty, and tourism, by exploring the economic and cultural exchanges that occur between local children and foreign tourists. In focusing on the childrenâ€™s perspectives on their own labor and viewing their strategies as entrepreneurially supportive of their families, the project allows a nuanced understanding of child labor as both a global phenomenon and a real issue that many different actors are negotiating in Cusco.


constructive-algebra-0.1.4: A library of constructive algebra.
Representation of Bezout domains. That is non-Noetherian analogues of principal ideal domains. This means that all finitely generated ideals are principal.
class IntegralDomain a => BezoutDomain a whereSource
Bezout domains
Compute a principal ideal from another ideal. Also give witness that the principal ideal is equal to the first ideal.
toPrincipal = (,u_i,v_i) where
sum (u_i * a_i) = a
a_i = v_i * a
toPrincipal :: Ideal a -> (Ideal a, [a], [a])Source
propBezoutDomain :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Ideal a -> a -> a -> a -> PropertySource
dividesB :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => a -> a -> BoolSource
intersectionB :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Ideal a -> Ideal a -> Ideal aSource
Intersection without witness.
intersectionBWitness :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Ideal a -> Ideal a -> (Ideal a, [[a]], [[a]])Source
Intersection of ideals with witness.
If one of the ideals is the zero ideal then the intersection is the zero ideal.
solveB :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Vector a -> Matrix aSource
Coherence of Bezout domains.


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Soviet Cottage Uses Buses from Moscow by Sergei Kulikov
Soviet Cottage Uses Buses. The remains of the legendary era of the Soviet Union Ikarus 280 buses to Russia as listening architectural remains in Beryozka-6, a rural village a few miles from some tens of Moscow. The Hungarian Ikarus 280 buses built, making transport services in the Russian cities during the Soviet regime, become homes, bathrooms, kitchens and other colonies of house into the landscape. Beryozka-6 is now a very interesting place for nature lovers and the two history buffs, who can also enjoy the scenery blessed in the context of the holiday home with Ikarus 280 buildings.
Evolution of the cottage colony in Beryozka-6 was also historic. The agreement, originally called Avtobusniki, which means bus people "was created in 1989, the chaotic years of the history of Soviet domination. As you might guess, Regulation Avtobusniki house has been allocated to services workers Bus Ikarus 280. But as the Soviet regime fulfilled its historic decline in the same year, workers were given the two halves of Ikarus 280 effects of amortization of property.
Images of Soviet Cottage Uses Buses
In a sense, these Ikaruses echo the fate of the famous Soviet five-story residential buildings.
Over the years, the buses in the region have been used or recycled to the housing needs and related. Today, the house is a typical example of "stone age of high tech" with Ikarus buses turn to complete housing facilities. If you visit, you can see a variety of appliances and utilities made since the old bus. Even the parts and the windows of the old buses are used in gardens, greenhouses and similar creations.
As Sergei Kulikov, and an architectural historian, notes on Domus, the cottage Beryozka-6 regulation is an ideal identification for the use of technology in architectural prosthesis standardization of facilities and housing crafts architecture. Of course, with the remains of 280 Ikarus buses in a house rich solution, the country has shown a model for the world, hungry for a Green Revolution.
There is even a small church in the villa, built by Andrei Strebkov, a priest of Zainsk, recycling LIAZ bus model in 2011. Over the years, the lifestyle of the dachas, small towns that are provided to families under the Soviet regime, has undergone drastic changes. In fact, this is what ended up in the award of the colony house Beryozka-6 bus for employees in 1989. Under Stalin's dachas is granted only to scientists and cultural elites of society. However, Khrushchev dachas changes to everyone, including workers in factories and bus stops. Of course it is quite surprising that through years of the occupants of the house Beryozka-6 has also developed a green lifestyle.
Images Credit: Sergei Kulikov


Your question: Can cross stitch patterns be used for needlepoint?
Many cross stitch charts can be used as is; you decide if you want to use only the slanting stitches or a full cross stitch. … If converting a cross stitch pattern into a needlepoint design you'll need to decide if you are going to want to stitch the background. Any filling needlepoint stitch can be used.
Are cross stitch and needlepoint patterns the same?
Needlepoint refers to any design sewn onto canvas with a needle using repetitive stitches, while cross stitch is a singular type of needlepoint stitch.
Can you use a cross stitch pattern for embroidery?
Cross-stitch is a type of hand embroidery that uses x-shaped stitches and a tiled pattern to create an image, and for this reason often appears less fluid and boxier than regular embroidery. Because of its slightly angular quality, cross-stitch is often used to embroider words or mottos on items.
Can you use Aida cloth for needlepoint?
If you decide to do your needlepoint on an evenly woven fabric, pick one such as Aida with a more complex weave, rather than Hardanger or Linen, which are woven like mono canvas. And go ahead and use Half Cross Stitch; the fabric can take it.
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How do I transfer a design to needlepoint canvas?
How to Transfer
 2. Lay down the needlepoint canvas on top. …
 3. Secure the canvas on the table with tape.
 4. You are ready to transfer.
Is needlepoint harder than cross stitch?
Do you have to use a hoop when cross stitching?
Should you wash cross stitch before framing?
Is cross stitch easier than embroidery?
Is Cross Stitch Easier Than Embroidery? Cross stitch is much easier to get started with than other types of embroidery. Considering that cross stitch is a form of hand embroidery, it's a great entry point to embroidery in general.
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Is there a right or wrong side to Aida cloth?
Is Aida cloth the same as monks cloth?
Monk's Cloth is similar to Aida, as the count is based on blocks of threads, but is a larger-scale 8-count weave that is perfect for afghans and Swedish Weaving. The ends can be easily fringed. … Thread count for this cotton evenweave fabric is based on 22 pairs of threads per inch running in both directions.
Is cross stitch fabric the same as monks cloth?
The most common and affordable material to punch on is monk's cloth, a 100% cotton even-weave fabric. Cross stitch fabric or Aida cloth will not work as it doesn't maintain the tension needed for punch needle.
How can I turn a picture into a needlepoint pattern?
You can turn a photo or artwork into a needlepoint pattern…free! is a web-based conversion program that produces a PDF file, which includes the original image, a color template, a color legend, and a stitching chart. Read a review (including results of a first-hand test) at the Bargello Needlepoint blog.
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How do you transfer a pattern to cross stitch fabric?
How To Use Your Tracing Paper:
 1. Print out or draw your own pattern on drawing paper.
 2. Put the pattern on top of your tracing paper.
 3. Put your pattern and tracing paper (in that order) on top of your fabric, making sure the carbon side is facing down onto your fabric.
 4. Trace over the whole pattern using a pen or tracing stylus.


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Contains over 10 minutes of extensive video content and analysis.
You will learn:
- How to make the Lamp Lighting Gag work.
- Understanding the transition from having a light "on" to "off."
- How to shape light for added depth and dimension.
- The ratios for night interior lighting work.
- The art of minor changes and finessing lights.
- Considering your key source and how it's playing off of your room/subject.
- How to use room tone to fill in specific areas.
- Lighting in layers.
- Creating a 3-dimensional world for a 2-dimensional screen.
- The power of blocking and rehearsing with actors.
- How to think efficiently on set when lighting.
Lighting "Night Interiors" is about the finessing and minor adjustment of light to get it in the pocket. In our third and final installment, Shane Hurlbut, ASC and his gaffer, Eric Forand, dial in the final changes to pull off the shot. They take you through how minor lighting adjustments can help add depth, dimension, and texture to your images. By the end of this, you'll understand how to properly light for night interior scenarios and how to direct your crew to effectively execute the vision.
Shane's Inner Circle members through 2/22/18 received this content as part of their membership.


text: Model updating of dynamical systems has been attracting much attention because it has a very wide range of applications in aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering, etc. Many methods were developed and there has been substantial development in Bayesian methods for this purpose in the recent decade. This article introduces some state-of-the-art work. It consists of two main streams of model updating, namely model updating using response time history and model updating using modal measurements. The former one utilizes directly response time histories for the identification of uncertain parameters. In particular, the Bayesian time-domain approach, Bayesian spectral density approach and Bayesian fast Fourier transform approach will be introduced. The latter stream utilizes modal measurements of a dynamical system. The method introduced here does not require a mode matching process that is common in other existing methods. Afterwards, discussion will be given about the relationship among model complexity, data fitting capability and robustness. An application of a 22-story building will be presented. Its acceleration response time histories were recorded during a severe typhoon and they are utilized to identify the fundamental frequency of the building. Furthermore, three methods are used for analysis on this same set of measurements and comparison will be made.


How To Avoid Hitting Utility Lines During Excavation
How To Avoid Hitting Utility Lines During Excavation
Utility lines such as water and gas pipes, phone lines, and sewer lines are mostly found underground, which can sometimes be damaged if excavation work is done recklessly.
Ground excavation is done to install a new utility line or to repair a faulty one. Therefore, one should take specific measures and precautions before any excavation to ensure that previously installed utility lines are not hit or damaged in the process.
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Following are some simple ways to help paving contractors avoid damaging utility lines in the process of excavation.
1. Mark The Location
The best way to protect utility lines during an excavation project is by finding their locations as accurately as possible. Mapping out their exact location would help keep away heavy machinery and equipment from it.
2. Proceed With Caution
 Suppose due to any reason, it is not possible to notify the employers of the utility lines or to map the exact location. In that case, the contractors are advised to proceed with caution in the worksite and use the necessary equipment to detect utility lines.
3. Make Notes
 It is essential for the contractors at the job site to be continually taking notes before and after the excavation of the job site. This can help identify any significant changes in the utility lines before and after excavation.
4. Call The Authorities
 While you may be equipped with the right machinery and taking all the precautions, it is vital to have the authorities present at the job site to prevent any accident from happening.
5. Clear The Area
 The worksite area is equipped with heavy machinery, so it needs to be cleared of people living nearby to avoid accidents. Also, during excavation, the engineers should cover the open utility lines to prevent damage to them.
6. Communication Is Key
 It is the peak of construction season, which means there could be many underground repairs happening in one place altogether. Plus, since the utility lines are installed in a cramped up position, this could confuse different contractors for various repairs. Therefore, communication between them is necessary so that the work is done correctly with no accidents.
7. Notify The Owners
 It is best to notify the utility companies' owners 24 hours in advance to be present and guide accordingly.
8. Inspect The Ground
 Surveys suggest that excavation work kills 2-3 workers every month while damaging the utility lines, making it a severe threat. We can avoid this by checking the ground's texture and moisture before the start of the excavation process. A neutral atmosphere is also preferred for a smooth pit as the ground is sloppy and wet after rain.
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CRLs before they are needed for revocation checking allowing the client to check revocation against locally downloaded CRLs instead of having to download a CRL during the Certificate Validation and Certificate Revocation process.
A Certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities. Authorities in separate forests with two one-way trusts established.
Cross Certification
Cross certification enables entities in one public key infrastructure (PKI) to trust entities in another PKI and establish an agreement of responsibilities and liability of each party. This doesn't join separate PKI hierarchies however, entities in each PKI are subject to the policies specified in the certificates.
CSP - Crypto Service Provider
Crypto Service Providers are typically a.dll and signature file referenced in the registry and provide cryptography services used in data signing and hashing along with the generation, protection, and storage of key material.
CSR - Certificate Signing Request
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (PKCS#10) is a request file sent to a Certificate Authority (CA) to receive a certificate and contains information about the subject making the request, the subject's public key, a set of attributes, a set of X.509 extensions, and a signature. These can be generated on non-Windows devices and by using OpenSSL or a method using CMP (Certificate Management Protocol).
CTL - Certificate Trust List
A Certificate Trust List is a set of items signed by a trusted entity. A CTL is a list of hashes of certificates or a list of file names. All the items in the list are authenticated and approved by a trusted signing entity.
Delta CRL
A Delta CRL contains the list of revoked certificates since the last base CRL issuance to allow clients to maintain knowledge of revocation while using less bandwidth for that knowledge. Delta CRLs are useful if there's a lot of revocation happening that then means a large CRL to download, but less often. The disadvantages of using Delta CRLs include the time it takes for a client to read both the newest Delta CRL and the Base CRL to verify the freshest revocation list. For these reasons, we don't recommend employing Delta CRLs in most PKI implementations.
DER - Distinguished Encoding Rules
DER is a set of rules for encoding ASN.1 defined data as a stream of bits for external storage or transmission. DER-encoded certificate files are supported by almost all applications. OpenSSL and Keytool support DER-encoded certificate files.
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DES is a block cipher that encrypts data in 64-bit blocks. DES is a symmetric algorithm that uses the same algorithm and key for encryption and decryption.
Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement
The Diffie-Hellman algorithm is not based on encryption and decryption but instead relies on mathematical functions using an agreed-upon public key value and a large prime number that, when computed with their secret (private) keys, enable two parties to generate a shared secret key for exchanging information securely.
Digital Certificate
A digital certificate represents the identity of a user, computer, or program. It contains information about the issuer and the subject and also certificate-specific data such as the CA signature and its validity period. It is signed by a certification authority (CA) which vouches for the identity of the user, computer, or program based on the information in the certificate. A minimum of verified information includes Subject Name identity, the issuing authority, and validity period.
Digital Signature
A digital signature is a cryptographic technique that uses a mathematical algorithm that binds a sender's identity to a digital message or document based on a subscriber's private key. It secures the message or document and verifies the integrity of the signature allowing a Relying Party to be sure that the file or document has not been altered or interfered with.
DN - Distinguished Name
A DN is a unique name or character string that unambiguously identifies an entity according to the hierarchical naming conventions of X.500 directory service. Examples are:
 - CN - Common name, subject name (widgets.
 - O - Organization (
 - S - State (Illinois)
 - C - Country (US)
Document Signing
Document signing applies a digital signature to a document. The digital signature provides nonrepudiation where someone can't deny later that they ever signed it. Also, it denies the ability to fake a valid signature.
The digital signature:
 - Verifies the identity of the user that signed the document. Typically, this is either the last person to edit the document before distribution or the person that verifies that the content represents the views of the organization distributing the document.
 - Allows a recipient to verify that content of the document was not modified after the digital signature was applied to the document.
DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm
DSA is a public key algorithm specified by Digital Signature Standard (DSS). DSA is only used to generate digital signatures and cannot be used for data encryption. It does provide a standard used for authentication and integrity of a digital signature as well as non-repudiation where someone can't later deny having signed a document using a digital signature.
ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is an efficient approach to public key cryptography based on the properties of elliptic curves. The primary advantage of ECC is efficiency. For example, ECC keys between 163 bits and 512 bits are one-sixth to one-thirtieth the size of equivalent RSA keys. As key size increases the efficiency of ECC increases.
ECDH - Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
ECDH is based on the Diffie-Hellman algorithm using elliptic curve cryptography to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel or network.
ECDSA - Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
ECDSA is a Digital Signature Algorithm that uses keys derived from elliptic curve cryptography that efficiently provides equivalent security. It provides RSA-level security but with much smaller key sizes. For example, an ECDSA 256-bit key size secures better than the RSA 2048. The decreased bandwidth in key exchanges is an obvious advantage of ECDSA.
EFS - Encrypting File System
Encrypting File System is a feature in the Windows operating system that enables users to encrypt files and folders on an NTFS volume disk. A PKI can manage EFS with EFS certificate templates.
EKU - Enhanced Key Usage
Enhanced Key Usage is both a certificate extension and a certificate extended property value. After a computer's identity, for example, is verifiable by an issued certificate an EKU specifies the uses for which a certificate is valid.
Examples are:
 - Server Authentication =
 - Client Authentication =
 - Secure E-mail EKU=
 - Code Signing EKU=
 - Time stamping EKU=
 - Encrypting File System EKU=
 - Document Signing EKU=
A certificate issued to an entity that cannot itself issue certificates. Because the entity that requests such a certificate is sometimes referred to as the client, end-entity certificates are sometimes called client certificates.
EV – Extended Validation Certificate
An EV certificate used for HTTPS websites and software that proves the legal entity controlling the website or software package.
FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard
FIPS is a standard published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. FIPS 140-2 is the benchmark for validating the effectiveness of cryptographic hardware.
Hash or Message Digest
A fixed-size result obtained by applying a mathematical function (the hashing algorithm) to an arbitrary amount of data.
Hash Algorithm
An algorithm used to produce a fixed-length hash value of some piece of data, such as a message or session key. Typical hashing algorithms include CMAC, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-2.
HSM - Hardware Security Module
A hardware security module is a physical computing device that safeguards and manages digital keys for strong authentication and provides cryptographic operations processing. They are typically certified for physical security at various FIPS 140-2 security levels. HSMs are recommended in most PKI implementations since the CA private keys are not software-based and thus insecure, but instead are hardware-based and only available from within the HSM itself.
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
A communication protocol that uses the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and the SSL/TLS protocols to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a Web server.
Identity Assurance
There are three main methods to provide the assurance of the identity of an authorized user.
They are:
 - Something that the user knows (e.g. password),
 - Something that the user possesses (e.g. a token) or
 - Something that the individual "is" (e.g. biometrics such as a fingerprint reader.)
Intermediate CA
An intermediate CA is a CA that is subordinate to another CA and issues certificates to other CAs in the CA hierarchy. These can be Issuing CAs and Policy CAs depending on the PKI design.
Issuance is the act of an Issuing Authority in creating a certificate that is bound to a subscriber. The process requires authentication of the subscriber and/or subject.
Issuing Certification Authority
An Issuing CA is online and issues certificates to users, computers, services, and programs as well as regularly publishing a CRL. It also manages the design and publication of templates that enforce policies and procedures defined either at the Issuing CA (two-tier hierarchy) or from the Policy CA (three-tier hierarchy). An Issuing CA also services Certificate Authority Web Enrollment, NDES, CEP/CES, and others in the enrollment and distribution of certificates in a PKI or to another PKI using cross-certification, for example.
Kerberos is a protocol that defines how clients interact with a network authentication service and builds on symmetric key cryptography and optionally may use public-key cryptography during certain phases of authentication.


_USER_{NBERw6802, title = "The Case for a Populist Banker", author = "Andres Velasco and Vincenzo Guzzo", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "6802", year = "1998", month = "November", doi = {10.3386/w6802}, URL = "_URL_ abstract = {We present a general equilibrium optimizing model in which we study the joint effects of centralization of wage setting and central bank conservatism on economic performance. Several striking conclusions emerge. In relatively centralized labor markets employment and output are decreasing and inflation is initially increasing and then decreasing in the degree of central bank conservatism. A radical-populist central banker who cares not at all about inflation (alternatively, who is not conservative) maximizes social welfare. Economic performance is not U-shaped in the degree of centralization of the labor market, in contrast to conventional wisdom.}, }


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Native Americans used tea made from elderberry flowers to treat respiratory infections. They also used the leaves and flowers in poultices applied to wounds, and the bark, suitably aged, as a laxative. The berries are frequently made into beverages, pies, and preserves, but they have also been used to treat arthritis.
Elderberry-flower tea is made by steeping 3 to 5 g of dried flowers in 1 cup of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes. A typical dosage is 1 cup 3 times daily. Standardized extracts should be taken according to the directions on the product's label.
Elderberry flowers are generally regarded as safe. Side effects are rare and consist primarily of occasional mild gastrointestinal distress or allergic reactions. Nonetheless, safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or those with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established.
- Reviewer: EBSCO CAM Review Board
- Review Date: 07/2012 -
- Update Date: 07/25/2012 -


Auto tagging
Why auto tagging is usefull?
Tags are very usefull to categorize your pages. You can use them in the powerful ListPages module of wikidot. And you should use them since there are still some shortcomings in the listPages module (see below).
However in wikidot it is only possible to set tags when you, the author, see the page in 'view' mode, so not in 'edit' mode. This causes the annoying fact that you need to submit your valuable data (tags) in two steps.
I created some tools that can help you with this:
 1. A auto tagging script that creates a new page and adds in one go a tag "_x", where x would be the first character of your title. In this way you can make selections on the first character of your title.
 2. A small script that enables you to use all the words from a certain field from your data form and converts them to tag word in one go.
Here are a couple of reasons why you need tags in order to filter.
The Listpages module is a very powerfull tool for wikidot. However there are many things that can not be done using this module. For example:
 - You can not select a certain page. This could be very handy for example to include a certain piece of content from another page. If you are familiar with live _templates and content blocks then the next sniplet will illustrate my drift:
[[Module Listpage page="books:lord-of-the-rings"]]
 - You can not select pages of which the title starts with a certain character. The next sniplet will illustrate my drift:
[[Module Listpage category="books" title{1}="L"]]
 - You can not select on the content of data-field (yet). The next sniplet will illustrate my drift:
[[Module Listpage category="books" form_data{booktitle}="*Lord*"]]
So…use tags!
The ListPages module however does have the possibility to select on tags. The bad thing about this is that you need to set tags to your pages, which can be a drag. So inspired by the question posed on the forum I made the following:
A kind of new page module that can interpret your title and accordingly set some tags automatically. For example:
Title Autotag Module Atribute
Lord of the rings. "_L" first
Lord of the rings. "lord of rings the" all
Lord of the rings. "lord-of-the-rings" unix
To make this work I use the possibilities of the API and made some external PHP-scripts. So how will you get this to work on your page/site? Simple!
Insert the following code in your page. This creates a new-page-button.
The URL in this codeblock is split over several lines to make it readable, however make sure that there are no linebreaks when you use this code, look at collapsible text under block for original code.
frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="300px" height="40px"]]
Adjust the words in capitals to your own case :
YOUR_SiTE_NAME = your sitename (http:/ /
YOUR_CATEGORY = the category where the page should be created.
YOUR_PARENT_FULL_NAME = if you want a parent page.
BUTTON_TEXT = text you wish on your button.
METHODE = first/all/unix not implemented yet
You can also adjust width and height of the Iframe.
 - I need to have permission to write pages on your site.
 - You need to set API-access in your admin:manage to "enabled"
In action:
Here is a list of titles starting with "L".
Lost in space tags: _l
Lord of the rings tags: _l
Here is a list of all the pages.
Lunar Landing tags:
Ben Hur tags:
Test tags:
The war of the worlds tags: _t
The thing tags: _t
Lost in space tags: _l
Lord of the rings tags: _l


Sturgeon Caviar
Caviar is the roe from Sturgeon (Acipenseridae). The best types of caviar are Russian Ossetra (also spelled Osetra or Oscietra), Kaluga, and Beluga Hybrid. Sturgeon caviar is an expensive luxury, but if you have had the privilege of having it, you know its worth is proven. Less expensive ikura (or Salmon roe), Trout roe, Bowfin, and Hackleback are often called "caviar;" however, food aficionados will tell you they are simply known as "roe."


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GM Version: GameMaker:Studio 1.4 (concept should work in earlier versions)
Target Platform: ALL
Example Download: _URL_
How to make an object that handles multiple collision zones by using multiple sub-objects
I used this technique in my recent Ludum Dare game, Ancient Technologies. The project has a TON of extraneous code in it, some of which is pretty messy, so I'll replace the download link with a cleaner example project of just this technique in coming days.
If you look at the Atari 2600 console in this game, it is actually multiple objects, made to look like a single object. This enables each switch to have its own collision detection and mouse events.
I accomplished this with a few simple techniques that work really well:
The console itself is the main object. Then there are 6 objects for the 6 switches on the console.
I then took the image I wanted to use for the sprite, and cut out all the different clickable regions, putting each into its own subimage by itself. Then once all the subimages were created, I removed each subimage into its own sprite, and set the collision mask to cover just the pixels in the image
As you can see, this approach results in a lot of "wasted" space in the sprite sheet in the form of transparent pixels, but if you're concerned about this, you could always achieve the same effect by using sprite origin and sprite offset to position the images without all the whitespace in the sprite sheet. I skipped using sprite origin because I didn't feel like bothering with counting pixels and setting each sprite origin differently. That would have been tedious, and if I had ever needed to change the sprites, could have thrown everything off and required extensive rework to recalculate again. If your sprites are tiny, it probably doesn't matter too much, but if they're quite large, then you should probably use sprite origin/offset.
(Note: With the small pieces, you'd need to use origin numbers that are larger than the dimensions of the sprite itself, or possibly negative values for the origin. You'd also need to carefully calculate the distance to set the origin so that the images all line up precisely. The goal is to make all the images align when each instance's x and y are identical. This makes them easy to move around together as a group, without having to deal with offsets and so on. To make everything align easy, I created sprites that have the same height and width, so that getting them to align takes no extra effort or calculation at all.)
Next, use the "main" object to generate the collision zone objects, in the create event:
Note the example code below isn't exactly the code in my project, but is cleaned up a bit for easier comprehension.
///oConsole Create Event: power_switch = instance_create(x, y, oPowerSwitch); tv_type_switch = instance_create(x, y, oTVTypeSwitch); left_difficulty_switch = instance_create(x, y, oLeftDifficultySwitch); right_difficulty_switch = instance_create(x, y, oRightDifficultySwitch); select_switch = instance_create(x, y, oSelectSwitch); reset_switch = instance_create(x, y, oResetSwitch);
Since these objects all use sprites that are the same size, they all line up together when their x,y position is the same. Now you have an easy way to place just the main object and have it create all of its collision zone objects, perfectly aligned.
If the main object needs to be able to move, you just need to update the x,y of all the objects whenever you need to.
Another great thing is that each of these instances can have its own animation which is completely separate from the rest of the collection of objects. This means you can do really sophisticated animation rigging.
Also, you can access the instance variables of the collision instances by using the main instance, like so:
oConsole.power_switch.position = UP;
is (essentially) equivalent to:
oPowerSwitch.position = UP;
This allows you to use the collision zone instances' instance variables like you would use properties of a helper class in another language, which may make accessing these variables easier if you're used to other programming languages.
As well, if each of these switch instances were of the same object, using the
id returned by
instance_create() would allow you to differentiate between them. This could be useful for, say, a battleship with multiple turrets that are all of the same object type.
Finally, you'll want to be mindful that if you destroy the main object, you'll likely want to destroy all the sub-objects. Perhaps not — maybe you're doing a spaceship with an escape pod or a rocket with multiple stages that break away. But in that case you'll wan to be sure that once the main object is gone, you are handling whatever remains somehow.


- Michael Skalka
A Glitch in the Color Matrix
"How can you be in two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all." I encountered this phrase in high school when my classmates introduced me to the Firesign Theatre comedy recordings. I believe it is an appropriate thought to have when trying to map and understand the organization of pigments by color index number that belongs to the domain of the Society of Dyers and Colourists.
While some hues we see match the color index number across whatever brand of paint you might select, some colors defy this method of organization. I doubt you will not find a brand of oil paint called Ultramarine or French Ultramarine Blue that is not PB 29.
For the uninitiated, pigment manufacturers abide by chemical composition and use cases when registering pigments with the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC). This provides a standardization so that end product makers can be assured of some semblance of order in what would be a chaotic, self-determined method of naming pigment hues. The SDC has a "shorthand" method of expressing what pigment belongs in which hue category along with a rough idea of when the pigment was catalogued.
PY = Yellow, PO = Orange, PR = Red, PV = Violet, PB = Blue, PG = Green, PBr = Brown, PBk= Black, PW = White. As you can see Blue "won" the right to use the letter "B" since Brown and Black would also have required the same letter. The numbers next to the color hue record when the pigment was entered into the SDC catalog. When first organized, the ancient pigments received the lower numbers, followed by newer pigments as they appeared over time.
A major part of the SDC cataloging process is to place pigments into the hue group that share the same chemistry. The only problem is that the same chemicals, manipulated in different ways (basically a different "recipe" using the same ingredients) can make a pigment using the same color index number be in two different hue categories. So, using the color index number as the sole determining factor for organizing color groups will not work.
For this essay, I will only illustrate the color index confusion surrounding PB 28 – Oxides of Cobalt and Aluminum. Several paint makers have this color in their oil paint line appropriately called "Cobalt Teal" or "Teal Green."
However, for those familiar with color index numbers, you are saying, Wait a minute. You are mistaken. PB 28 is our old and reliable Cobalt Blue and you would be absolutely correct. Paint makers are correct in labeling both Cobalt Teal and Cobalt Blue using the same color index number.
What makes matters a bit more confusing is that PG 50 also has a similar hue appearance to Teal Green but it is made with Oxides of Nickel, Cobalt and Titanium, a different chemistry that yield a hue that looks much like Cobalt Teal or Teal Green.
For those interested in the chemical process, high heat is the energy used to combine the elements into a substance that once cooled can be ground into pigment. Cobalt Blue has a chemical formula: CoAl2O4. Adjust the ratio of cobalt and aluminum to some degree and the pigment color resembles a blue-green hue.
Inorganic pigments, like cobalt, have a fascinating history that we will explore sometime in the future. Perhaps the facts and fantasy surrounding kobold ore, German for "goblin ore," with a focus on the creatures that inhabited the mines will make for a good Halloween time period essay. As always, the "devil" is in the details.
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Silver City Elementary history teachers bring lesson alive
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Teacher transformations
Silver City Elementary School third grade teachers dressed up as the following American historical figures:
* Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
* Paul Revere
* Susan B. Anthony
* Lyndon B. Johnson
* Franklin Roosevelt
* Eleanor Roosevelt
* Frederick Douglas
* Caesar Chavez
* Theodore Roosevelt
NORTH FORSYTH -- Paul Revere galloped from class to class as Caesar Chavez talked about crops and a Silver City Elementary School student pushed Teddy Roosevelt down the hall.
Nine third-grade teachers dressed up as famous Americans from the history curriculum taught in Forsyth County Schools Wednesday to get their students excited and engaged about their lessons.
"We made timelines, just small snippets, and then they'll go back and do their research," said Gina Eigenauer, who was clad in an outfit to emulate Mary Jane McLeod Bethune.
An entire hall in the third-grade wing at the school on Dahlonega Highway (Hwy. 9) in north Forsyth had sheets of paper with timelines of American historical events centered around the figures.
Inside the classrooms, the teachers rotated to each group, some showing slideshows, others answering questions, all – female teachers – wearing suits, or wigs, or glasses, or long dresses.
John-Hartley Glude's favorite historical figure and lesson was Susan B. Anthony, he said, "because she got votes for woman, and I think that's fairer."
The third grader said seeing his teachers dress up was fun and he likes that they "do cool events for it and making little slides that we've learned."
Eigenauer said the teachers spent time Tuesday night setting up, which included hanging streamers and American flags in the hallways' openings and over doors.
"When they walked through the halls, their faces were like, 'What are we doing, what are we doing?'" she said. "Then they saw us all dressed up, they're trying to figure out who we were, and they're taking notes as we go along, so they're really excited."


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Sentences using the word beauties. Journalists, spelling bee organizers, and people who just like words might especially enjoy this webpage. The lines of text below use beauties in a sentence, and provide visitors a sentence for beauties.
- A third looked a sturdy soldier, squareset and hard of feature, for whom beauties of scenery had few awakening charms. (10)
- As they passed into other rooms these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen. (4)
- Collins attending them to point out its beauties, and Lady Catherine kindly informing them that it was much better worth looking at in the summer. (4)
- His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. (4)
- I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of that noble place. (4)
- It shall be admitted that you create the very beauties for a chaste people. (10)
- Its natural beauties, I am sure, are great. (4)
- One of the Beauties of Riversley we lost! (10)
- Young Tom was respectfully studying the aspects of the radiant beauties of the polite work. (10)
- Your father will praise Gippsland whenever my Martin asks him to admire the beauties of our neighbourhood. (10)
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When milliseconds are not enough - performance.now
So just to compare, here are the sorts of values you'd get back:
Date.now() // 1337376068250
performance.now() // 20303.427000007
You'll notice the two above values are many orders of magnitude different.
performance.now() is a measurement of floating point milliseconds since that particular page started to load (the
performance.timing.[navigationStart](_URL_ timeStamp to be specific). You could argue that it could have been the number of milliseconds since the unix epoch, but rarely does a web app need to know the distance between now and 1970. This number stays relative to the page because you'll be comparing two or more measurements against eachother.
Another added benefit here is that you can rely on the time being monotonic. Let's let WebKit engineer Tony Gentilcore explain this one:
Perhaps less often considered is that
Date, based on system time, isn't ideal for real user monitoring either. Most systems run a daemon which regularly synchronizes the time. It is common for the clock to be tweaked a few milliseconds every 15-20 minutes. At that rate about 1% of 10 second intervals measured would be inaccurate.
There are a few situations where you'd use this high resolution timer instead of grabbing a basic timestamp:
- game or animation runloop code
- calculating framerate with precision
- cueing actions or audio to occur at specific points in an animation or other time-based sequence
The high resolution timer is currently available in Chrome (Stable) as
window.performance.webkitNow(), and this value is generally equal to the new argument value passed into the requestAnimationFrame callback. Pretty soon, WebKit will drop its prefix and this will be available through
performance.now(). The WebPerfWG in particular, led by Jatinder Mann of Microsoft, has been very successful in unprefixing their features quite quickly.
- a double with microseconds in the fractional
- relative to the
navigationStartof the page rather than to the UNIX epoch
- not skewed when the system time changes
- available in Chrome stable, Firefox 15+, and IE10.


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A Classic Grounded Theory Study exploring the Perceptions of Stress for People who have experienced a Transient Ischaemic Attack
By Campbell Chalmers
Background: Stress is a known risk factor for stroke, but there is a lack of understanding of the role stress plays in transient ischaemic attack (TIA). TIA is a warning sign of stroke, but effective management of risk factors can reduce the threat for the individual. Research Aim and Questions: The aim was to explore the perceptions of stress for people who have experienced a TIA and address the following questions: 1. What is the patients' understanding of the relationship between perceived stress and TIA? 2. How has perceived stress affected the patients' physical and mental health and well-being? 3. What actions has the patient taken to influence perceived stress and have these actions made a difference? Methodology and Methods: The study was conducted following a classic grounded theory tradition. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were undertaken with people who had experienced a TIA. Participants were recruited from outpatient clinics located in three Scottish Health Boards. Findings: Perceived stress was commonly experienced by participants and it was a significant feature throughout their TIA journey. Although not universally acknowledged as a contributing cause of TIA, stress formed part of their lived experiences. The presence or absence of perceived stress was an influencing force in relation to their mental and physical health and well-being. Factors that influenced stress could stabilise or destabilise a sense of equilibrium. Equilibrium was the achievement of a balance between interdependent elements and formed the core category: the equilibrium of health and well-being for the individual. Conclusions: The study led to the discovery of the substantive theory: if perceived stress can be effectively self-managed after a TIA, a state of equilibrium can be achieved which supports health and well-being. This new knowledge raises the opportunity to improve health and well-being after TIA and potentially reduce the risk of stroke
Topics: Transient Ischaemic Attack, Perceptions of Stress, Classic Grounded Theory, TIA, Transient ischaemic attack, Cerebrovascular disease Patients., Stroke, Stress
Publisher: University of Stirling
Year: 2018
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Effect of attitudes toward women and other attitudinal variables on the formation of rape callousness and sexual misconduct among African, European, and Asian-American college students at a prestigious northeastern university: A longitudinal study
This study examined how college students' attitudes toward women were related to the formation of rape callousness for African, Asian and European-American men and women and how these attitudes related to men's self-reported sexual misconduct. The study also examined the effects of five additional variables: peer conformity, loyalty, cultural sophistication, kindness and just world beliefs, on the formation of rape callousness in men and women for each ethnic group as well as on men's sexual misconduct in each group. ^ This study was longitudinal in design. The entire entering class was surveyed in 1987. Five hundred and fifty-seven students responded to the study's initial questionnaire with useable sets of data. The same students were contacted four years later, during their senior year of study, to complete a second questionnaire; three hundred and three students responded with useable sets of data. The survey assessed general attitudes and values, as well as attitudes toward women and sexual attitudes and behaviors. ^ Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that male dominance and negative attitudes toward feminism were significantly and positively related to rape callous acceptance for European and Asian-American students. Rape callousness and male dominance had a significant positive relationship with sexual aggression for Asian and European-American men. Such relationships were not found for African-American students. Surprisingly, results revealed a significant negative relationship between peer conformity and rape callousness for European and African-American students, whereas group loyalty showed a significant positive relationship with rape callousness for European-American students. Two-way MANOVA showed demographic differences in terms of gender-role and rape callous attitudes. Repeated measures MANOVA revealed that all men evidenced a decline in rape callous attitudes over the four years of college; whereas all women evidenced a decline in both rape callous and male dominant attitudes during the same time. Implications for research and practice are discussed. ^
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural|Black Studies|Psychology, Social|Women's Studies|Sociology, Criminology and Penology|Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Carol Joyce Pamm,
"Effect of attitudes toward women and other attitudinal variables on the formation of rape callousness and sexual misconduct among African, European, and Asian-American college students at a prestigious northeastern university: A longitudinal study"
(January 1, 2001).
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Draw a skyline with roofs of Dutch canal houses on the white sheet. Cut it. Choose a colour to stencil with. Rub chalk on the stencil. Use a tissue or your finger to rub the chalk off the stencil on the black sheet, to create the soft looking skyline.
Turn the stencil and take another colour to repeat this process. Students may also exchange the roof with your neighbour, to get different skylines.
Draw a moon with chalk pastel. Draw windows in the houses and colour them with a yellow and/or white pencil.


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How long do leaves take to decompose?
It's autumn, which means that leaves are falling from the trees and covering the ground. If you're like most people, you probably just see them as a nuisance that you have to rake up. But have you ever stopped to think about how long it takes for leaves to decompose? It turns out that the answer is not as simple as you might think. The rate of decomposition depends on a number of factors, including the type of leaf, the moisture level, and the temperature. In this blog post, we will explore these factors in more detail and give you a better idea of how long it takes for leaves to decompose.
What is decomposition?
The process through which organic stuff decomposes into more basic organic or inorganic substances is called decomposition. The decomposition of leaves, for example, is caused by the action of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. These microorganisms break down the complex carbohydrates and other molecules in leaves into simpler compounds that can be used by plants and animals.
The rate at which leaves decompose depends on a number of factors, including the type of leaf, the climate, and the presence of other organisms. In general, however, it takes several months for leaves to fully decompose.
The decomposition process
When leaves decompose, they do so through a process of decay. This process is caused by the activity of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, which break down the organic matter in the leaves. The rate at which this happens depends on a number of factors, including the type of leaf, the temperature, and the amount of moisture present. In general, however, it takes leaves several weeks or even months to fully decompose.
Factors that affect the rate of decomposition
There are many factors that affect how quickly leaves decompose. Some of these include:
-The type of leaf: Some leaves decompose faster than others. For example, oak leaves take much longer to break down than maple leaves.
-The size of the leaf: Larger leaves will decompose more slowly than smaller ones.
-The temperature: Warmer temperatures will speed up the decomposition process.
-The moisture level: If the leaves are too dry, they will not decompose as quickly. If they are too wet, however, decomposition will also be slowed down.
-The presence of other organic matter: Leaves will decompose more quickly if there is other organic matter present to help break them down (such as worms or other insects).
How long does it take leaves to decompose?
When leaves fall from trees in autumn, they begin to decompose. The process of decomposition is slower in colder climates, but generally, it takes leaves a few weeks to several months to completely break down and become part of the soil.
Leaves are broken down by bacteria and fungi, which release enzymes that accelerate the decomposition process. Oxygen is also necessary for decomposition to occur, so leaves will decompose more quickly in moist conditions where there is plenty of oxygen available.
As leaves decompose, they release nutrients that are essential for plant growth back into the soil, making leaf litter an important part of the ecosystem.
It's clear that leaves decompose at different rates depending on the type of leaf and the conditions it's in. However, in general, it takes leaves a few weeks to several months to completely decompose. So if you're looking to add some extra nutrients to your garden, consider using fallen leaves as compost. With a little patience, you can turn those dead leaves into something alive and beautiful.


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Wood Ash Use and Benefits
Do you have a wood burning fireplace but don't know what to do with the messy ash? Don't throw it away! Wood ash has many practical uses around the home and even in the garden/yard. Here are some benefits of using wood ash outside of the fireplace.
White wood ash can be used to clean and maintain your home. Using ash is a good alternative to some cleaning products. Test a small area that is hidden before using on or near fabrics and furniture. If you want to get rid of dirt and grime on glass, stainless steel or frying pans, dry ash can help. You can clean the glass window of your oven or even the fireplace door by dipping a damp sponge in ash and scrub the glass gently. For a homemade silver polish that's nontoxic, make a paste of ash and water, then rub with a cloth.
Ash has the power of melting ice on driveways and front walkways. You can sprinkle ash on icy spots and the ice will melt within a day, without hurting the soil or concrete underneath. You can also combine white ash with water to form a paste, which can remove stains from driveways. Gently buff the paste into the surface and then wipe it off with a soft cloth. You can also use dry ash to remove wet paint on cement. Sprinkle ash directly on the wet paint splatters and it will be absorbed by the ash.
Other than sunlight and water, plants need elements that can be found in ash, such as phosphorus, potassium, calcium and boron. Ash is very alkaline and raises pH levels in garden soil, which is a great environment for seeds to grow. Ash also acts as a pest repellent. It gets rid of slugs and snails when spread evenly around garden beds.
Ash is a great odor remover. Place a small bowl of ash in the fridge and change it every two days until the bad smell is gone. For pet odors, you can sprinkle ash in cat litter boxes to neutralize the smell.
Beware, after using the ash, store it in a fireproof container with the lid shut to choke any embers.


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If desserts are not present in the meal, it seems incomplete. Desserts are the most important part of parties and gatherings. They are used after the meal, also known as sweet dish.
Carrot Halva is the most common example of halva dessert. It is made in every home of Pakistan and is cooked from carrots, milk, eggs and sugar. It is prepared in less than an hour and is tastiest of all the halva.
Ice creams can also be used as dessert in summers as it is cold and sweet. Every person likes an ice cream. There are home-made ice creams that can be easily prepared from fresh fruits and milk. The freezing takes a long time that is one day and one whole night.
Other dessert types are gulab jaman, mango sorbet, coconut burfi, custard, kheer and many more. Strawberry jelly delight is also one of the most common examples of common deserts in which fresh strawberries are used and so is a healthy dish.
The KhanaPakana.com site for Desserts and Baking section is the best place to find outstanding recipes and advice for the making and baking the traditional and non-traditional pakistan, indian and south asian desserts.


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Also see [DISCUSS] Realms.
The current implementation of delegated administration relies on Roles, where each Role associates a set of Entitlements (e.g. administrative actions) to a set of Realms (e.g. containers for Users / Groups / Any Objects).
This requires, however, that the set of Users / Groups / Any Objects to administer is somehow statically defined by containment: "administrators with role R can manage users under realms /a and /b" works as long as users to administer are fully contained by the Realms /a and /b; but what if the set of Users that R can administer needs to be dynamically defined, say by the value of a 'department' attribute?
Introduce new entity: Dynamic Realms and extend Roles to map a set of Entitlements to a set of Realms and / or Dynamic Realms.
A Dynamic Realm is defined by its unique name and FIQL conditions (similarly to Groups). Given that, it can work as dynamic container for Users, Groups and Any Objects.
Upon delegated administrator's authentication, the owned roles will be evaluated (as in the current implementation) and the set of effective Realms and Dynamic Realms for which entitlements are granted will be built.
- CREATE entitlement(s) cannot be granted via Dynamic Realms: as Dynamic Realms are not physical containers as Realms, allowing to create in a Dynamic Realm would mean granting CREATE in the root Realm
- UPDATE entitlement(s) can be granted via Dynamic Realms, with condition that any modification to matching Users / Groups / Any Objects does not alter the set of Dynamic Realms such entity is part of
- DELETE entitlement(s) cannot be granted via Dynamic Realms: as the same User / Group / Any Object can be shared by several Virtual Realms at once, deleting from a Virtual Realm might cause unwanted side effects in other Dynamic Realms
In other word: the only changes on a given entity, accepted by a delegated administrator through Dynamic Realms, are the ones that do not change any Dynamic Realm's matching condition for such entity.


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Located in downtown San Salvador, this architectural marvel from the nineteenth century has witnessed some of the most important events in the political history of El Salvador.
The first national palace was built from 1866 to 1870 but a fire wiped-out the structures on December 1889; years later the government of Pedro José Escalón (1903) conducted a public contest for the design and construction of the new palace. The winner of the contest was José Emilio Alcaine, engineer and master builder Pascasio González Erazo.
Considered the first building of the Republic, it was also called "The Coffee Palace ", because a legislative decree taxed coffee exports to pay for the construction. 1 Columbus per 1 Quintal (100 kilograms) was charged, in total 50 thousand Colones were collected.
The main portal is composed of six towering columns that are accompanied by the statues of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabel the Catholic, donated by King Alfonso XIII in 1924.
The Palace has an eclectic style, with Ionic, Corinthian and Roman columns and elements.
This beautiful building retains most of its original materials like glassware from Belgium, marble from Italy and wood from El Salvador. Over the years this building was abandoned, but in 1980 it was declared a National Monument, which prompted restoration work to rescue this historic treasure. The National Palace was opened to the public in 2008.
Nowadays you can visit 101 rooms (out of 105 rooms) that make-up this masterpiece and look at the colorful floors and walls made out of stamped sheets brought from Belgium.
- Red Room: This room served to hold social and political events. Here are you will see 14 medallions that represent the 14 departments that make up El Salvador. There are also portraits of presidents General Fernando Figueroa, Francisco Morazán, Francisco Menendez, Rafael Campos, Captain Gerardo Barrios and Manuel Enrique Araujo, who after his assassination in 1913,was mourned in this room.
- Pink Room: This is where the Supreme Court met until 1974 and guards the original Salvadoran coat of arms.
- Yellow Room: This room served as the president's office until 1930, important meetings and negotiations took place in this room.
- Blue Room: perhaps the most important of the rooms as it currently holds the original 28 desks and chairs where the congressmen sat to discuss El Salvador's legislative matters.
-The Jaguar Hall; has impressive murals depicting indigenous culture themes. Among the many corridors there is a permanent exhibition of photographs which displays the evolution of the building from 1889 onwards.
Inside the Palace there is a central patio with varied vegetation. There are 5 araucaria pine trees representing the five nations of Central America. As part of the restoration process, the original floor of the first building was recovered. There are also three canons used in the war led by Gerardo Barrios.
Currently the Palace is a tourist attraction and a place for special social gatherings. It is under the management of the Ministry of Culture of the Presidency and houses "El Archivo General de la Nación" (National Archives), in addition to carrying-out several exhibitions each year.
Visit this national treasure in the heart of San Salvador and discover a facet of El Salvador's impressive history.
How to get there:
This National Palace is located on Calle Rubén Darío, across from Plaza Gerardo Barrios, near the Metropolitan Cathedral and The National Library in downtown San Salvador.
If driving there is parking available in The National Library or in the parking lots nearby at US$ 0.50 per hour.
- Bus Routes available: Route A, R-1, 2, Route 6-A, Route 11, 11-B, 11-C, Route 22, Route 23 Route 26.
Ticket US$ 0.20, US$ 0.25, US$ 0.35
Other routes: 3, 9, 34, 38-And, 41-A, 42, 42-A, 42-B.
Ticket US$ 0.20, US$ 0.25, US$ 0.35
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission:
- Salvadoran or Central American US$ 1.00 USD
- Foreign US$ 3.00 USD
- School and university tudents and staff: FREE
- Phone (503) 2222-7674 (503) 2222-9415
Elevation 2203 feet
N 13 ° 41,862 '
In 89 ° 11,495 '
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text: Audio slideshows is the topic of Today. For journalist an audio slideshow can add depth to a story, it gives the consumer more visuals to pair to a story. This may make the story more real to the reader. The audio on a slideshow can give them a feel of being there in the story. This gives the journalist more dimensions to their story. The pictures in the slideshow are important because they in this case are the story, and the audio is telling the pictures story as well. This also shows that the journalist can tell a story in more than one way. This is very important for a journalist, it shows diversity in their work.


text: This statistic shows the growth of the real gross domestic product (GDP) in Spain from 2003 to 2013. GDP refers to the total market value of all goods and services that are produced within a country per year. It is an important indicator of the economic strength of a country. Real GDP is adjusted for price changes and is therefore regarded as a key indicator for economic growth. Spain's real GDP growth in 2011 was about 0.4 percent compared to the previous year.


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Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally dead's head) is the German word for the skull and crossbones and death's head symbols. The Totenkopf symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy.
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In the early days of the NSDAP, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache (Adolf Hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit's insignia. This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history. According to a writing by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler the Totenkopf had the following meaning:
The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community.
The Totenkopf was also used as the unit insignia of the Panzer forces of the German Heer (Army), and also by the Panzer units of the Luftwaffe, including those of the elite Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring.
Both the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS, and the World War II era Luftwaffe's 54th Bomber Wing Kampfgeschwader 54 were given the unit name "Totenkopf", and used a strikingly similar-looking graphic skull-crossbones insignia as the SS units of the same name. The 3rd SS Panzer Division also had skull patches on their uniform collars instead of the SS sieg rune.
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When you visit Myanmar, you will encounter ah-lhu one day or another. What is ah-lhu? It is in deed a religious donation ceremony. People usually do ah-lhu when they donate food and offerings to the monk or the monastry. It can be a sole even. Or it can be in celebration for the wedding, anniversary, or to mark the day a family member died. People usually do ah-lhu at home or at the monastery.
Usually, on the day of ah-lhu, monks are invited to the home. They are then offered food and offerings, after which monks recite Buddha's scriptures and give sermon. After the monks go back to the monastery, meal is served to the invited gusts. This is usually a Burmese formal lunch, although sometimes, it can be monhingha, a popular Burmese noodle soup.
Ah-lhu is an integral part of Myanmar Buddhist life, and most Myanmar people, if they could afford, will do ah-lhu quite frequently.
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CBRNE is an acronym which includes beside CBRN, explosive substances or events. [1]
National Definitions
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE): The expansion of the term CBRN to incorporate certain high-yield explosives (E) into the broader term CBRNE signifies the new reality of this threat due to the weaponization of hazardous and dangerous goods. [2]
Lyhenteet CBRNE ja CBRN tulevat englanninkielisistä sanoista chemical (kemiallinen), biological (biologinen), radiological (säteily), nuclear (ydin-) ja explosive (räjähtävä, räjähde). [3]
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A term used to describe Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive materials. CBRNE terrorism is the actual or threatened dispersal of CBRN material (either on their own or in combination with each other or with explosives), with deliberate criminal, malicious or murderous intent. [4]
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