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How to Check Amount of Available Server Memory
In the sections below you will learn how to identify the amount of memory that is installed on your server, check how much of the RAM is being used, and see a list of the applications using the most memory. Other than physical memory that is installed on your server, servers may also have burst memory, VSwap, and Swap memory.
Before the main tutorial, some basic knowledge about the types of memory may come in handy. First we have physical memory which is the memory that is physically installed onto the motherboard. Swap memory is used when the physical memory has approached its limit; your operating system will start storing memory onto your hard drive, also known as Swap memory. VSwap is similar to Swap memory, but VSwap is used for VPS servers that use OpenVZ. VSwap allocates unused physical memory from the server and provides it as Swap Memory, but it does artificially slow down the reading and writing to the memory. Finally burst memory is something that mostly belongs in the past. Providers would provide additional memory to your VPS when you were starting to run low on memory if any additional memory on the server was available.
Check Amount of Memory
Checking the amount of physical memory on your Linux server is very simple. You want to use the command free to display the amount of memory that is currently used, free, and available. By default, the free command will use kilobytes for each column. I prefer using the option for free --human to display the values in a unit that better represents the value.
The command returns multiple columns: total, used, free, shared, buffers, cache, buff/cache, and available. The column "total" displays the total installed memory. Next the "used" columns displays the amount of memory that is currently being used. The column "free" displays the amount of memory that is unused. Shared shows the memory used by tmpfs. Buffers displays the memory used by kernel buffers. Cache shows the memory used by the page cache and slabs. Buff/cache shows the sum of the "buffers" and "cache" columns. Finally the "available" columns is an estimate on how much memory is available for starting new applications without swapping.
$ free --human
 total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.3G 837M 5.0G 219M 1.5G 6.0G
Swap: 7.4G 0B 7.4G
Looking at the results above, the device has a total of 7.3 gigabytes of physical memory with 837 megabytes currently being used. The device also has 7.4 gigabytes of Swap memory with zero bytes being used.
Check Amount of Used Memory
Checking the amount of used memory is identical to checking the amount of available memory that we described above. You will use the command free and look under the column "used" to view how much memory is currently allocated. Below is an example of how to check how much memory is currently free in kilobytes.
$ free
 total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: _PHONE_ 973068 _PHONE_ 224184 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
Swap: _PHONE_ 0 _PHONE_
As you can see, under the "used" column in align with the "Mem" row, we are using 973068 kilobytes of memory out of the available _PHONE_ kilobytes that is available. As for "Swap," we are using zero kilobytes of Swap memory. It's possible that the amount of used memory will not align with the amount of memory being used by active processes on your system. If a process doesn't properly free the allocated memory by the time it exits, the memory is still used even though it won't appear in process lists.
List Programs using the Most Memory
Depending on your preferences, there are multiple programs that can list the active processes on your system along with the system resources each process is using. This tutorial will using the command ps to list processes and order the list by the memory usage. We are sorting by "RSS" (Resident Set Size) instead of "VSZ" (Virtual Memory Size) to get the amount of memory that is actually being stored in physical memory and isn't swapped out. The "RSS" column will also include the amount of memory shared resources have allocated. For additional information on RSS and VSZ, read this StackOverflow answer explaining the difference between VSZ and RSS.
$ ps aux --sort -rss
root 5793 1.6 38.8 199492 195976 tty1 S+ 02:39 0:00./memory_hog
root 699 0.0 1.3 97360 6996? Ss 02:28 0:00 sshd: user [priv]
root 1 0.2 1.3 56964 6752? Ss 02:27 0:01 /sbin/init
user 701 0.0 1.2 64868 6352? Ss 02:29 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
root 733 0.0 1.1 56420 5936? Ss 02:29 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
root 351 0.0 1.1 69940 5604? Ss 02:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
root 736 0.0 1.0 21112 5116 tty1 S 02:29 0:00 -bash
As you can see from the snippet above from the ps command, the program memory_hog is using 195976 kilobytes of memory and is the process that is currently using the most physical memory on the system. Sorting by RSS can give you a false view of what processes are using the majority of memory though. If an application allocates a small amount of memory but is using a shared library, the application may appear higher in the list even though it's not using any additional memory as long as more than one application is using the shared library.
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The list of matched tunes has a column of input boxes on the left (marked'sel' at the top). If you enter numbers in these and then use the format-selection buttons at the top and bottom (ABC, TXT,...), you will get back all of the selected tunes. The numbers you enter determine the order of the tunes in the output.
One limitation: To my knowledge, with the GIF and PNG formats, there is no way to see more than one printable "page" of output. So if the tunes produce more than one page (in the PS or PDF output), GIF and PNG will only show the first page. If anyone knows a solution to this, let me know.
You can actually enter just about any text in the sel input boxes. Non-numeric strings will simply be sorted alphabetically, after any numbers. But numbers are probably more useful.
To Do: The output tunes should be renumbered to match the numbers that you typed.

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Traveling LFP plume trajectories. LFP plume mean location was determined in 1-ms time steps (see Experimental Procedures and Figure 2G). (A) LFP plumes can originate in different locations and travel along variable trajectories. Two examples from the same recording are given for each of the two orthogonal recording planes in the hyperpallium: horizontal (red) and sagittal (yellow; multi-electrode orientations are the same as in Figure 1A). (B) The net plume propagation along the two orthogonal axes of the multi-electrode array was calculated for every LFP plume in a recording; shown are two recordings from different birds. Every gray dot corresponds to one plume. Plume propagation is variable, but not completely random. The mean net LFP plume movement is indicated as a black arrow. (C) Mean net LFP peak movement vectors in the hyperpallium (one recording per bird; n = 11) illustrating the non-random nature of slow-wave propagation: plumes tend to propagate toward the surface of the brain.
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Outlook Web App Light > Calendar
The Calendar lets you create and track appointments. You can also organize and schedule meetings with other people, and then update or modify the information (time, location, or attendees) as needed. When you use the Calendar to keep track of your meetings and appointments, anyone in the global address list can check your availability for their own scheduling purposes.
You can set any appointments or meetings to be repeating. This means they occur more than one time and on a regular basis. For example, you can schedule a repeating project status meeting that occurs every Wednesday at 2:00 P.M.
To open your calendar, click Calendar in the Getting Started > Navigation Pane.
How do I view my schedule?
The calendar displays your appointments and meetings for the current day.
 1. In the navigation pane, click Calendar.
 2. To view a different day, select a date from the month view that's next to your schedule.
 3. To view the details of an item or to change it, click the item.
 If you edit a repeating item, such as a weekly meeting, you'll be prompted to change either that one occurrence or all occurrences of the meeting.
How do I work with meetings?
A meeting is an appointment you share with another person. When you request a meeting, in addition to setting a time and subject, you'll add a list of attendees to invite. You can also add resources, such as a conference room or projector. If the recipients are in the shared address book, you can see their free/busy time. Most recipients can respond to the meeting request by accepting, tentatively accepting, or declining your invitation. Like appointments, meeting requests can be for a single meeting or scheduled as repeating meetings.
For information about how to work with meetings, see:
How do I work with repeating items?
Many meetings, appointments, and events occur regularly over a period of time. Instead of creating new calendar items for each occurrence, you can set the item as repeating.
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A name that was Recalled by Hanno during his duel with the Black Knight.
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A powerful named meant to be unbeatable on top of a horse. When in a jousting battle or when given enough time to build up speed the name cannot be halted. The Name is especially powerful when leading a vanguard of soldiers in a charge, effectively changing the tide of a battle by massing into a spear of death shredding enemies wherever they go. This makes the weakness of this name apparent, without weapon or a horse the name is crippled.
The name was gained when the Duke rode in a charge that was all but doomed most likely a few riders being lead against a larger force. The individual acts as a beacon of hope for soldiers acting as vanguard.
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The knight has a spear that has been augmented the name also wreath both the rider and the mount with light protecting them as well as increasing offensive power.


Electric vehicle in Farming
In India, more than 60% of the total land is used for farming and nearly 70% of the household in rural areas are dependent primarily on income generated by farming. But the use of heavy machinery in India is quite limited to tractors and harvesters. This is a good place to explore the opportunity for Electric Vehicles in Farming. There is a huge market for Electric Powered Machinery in a Farming sector.
a mini electric tractor for plowing and harvesting crops with several attachments.
Organic farming has been rising steadily and its economic status is increasing day by day. In the last decade use of harmful Chemicals pesticides and fertilizers are being banned and heavily criticized in the food industry. while this is a good step but the same farming culture has seen Rise in the use of heavy machinery for farming. this machinery is so big that they require diesel engines for their operation. this diesel engine using fossil fuels for their operation thus creating pollution. the organic food Industries means for the healthy food we are supporting the dirty fossil fuel industry.
Robotic Lawnmower backwards bras and musics the cut glass as a fuel The Robot is guided by Google map and uses electric brakes to cut the grass and then search the grass from the ground and dries then making dry pallets which are used to generate power by burning them which technology can be used for harvesting and separation of crops autonomously this will reduce time in human effort required for the food processing industries are electric forward in can work without in human interface we can load and unload at the predicted time and location
Solar powered High ground clearance Vehicle (Modular Construction)
The concept of organic food is very good and we can use the solar power harvesting methods. Developing a solar-powered vehicle with a very low footprint the vehicle which can be used for various purposes in the agricultural sector. These electric vehicles are capable of carrying more than one ton of a load and can be organized and design for autonomous operation in near future. They would be relying on the sun on their powers source and will be using it for powering the hub electric motors.
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Yabba Dabba Don't: California Owner Of The "Flintstone House" Charged With Public Nuisance
A San Francisco Bay Area town is suing the owner of the so called "Flintstone House", alleging that it is a public nuisance after she added dinosaurs in her backyard to go with the iconic structure designed by architect William Nicholson in 1976. Nicholson built the 2700 square foot living space with new materials in a structure promptly declared the Flintstone House by supporters and detractors alike. The action raises troubling questions in the use of a claim of aesthetic nuisance.
The town of Hillsborough filed a complaint and declared the house a "highly visible eyesore" and "out of keeping with community standards." Hillsborough is specifically demanding the removal of the dinosaurs.
As we have previously discussed, such charges are usually rejected. The Vermont Supreme Court put it well in a recent opinion (citing California cases):
An unattractive sight—without more—is not a substantial interference as a matter of law because the mere appearance of the property of another does not affect a citizen's ability to use and enjoy his or her neighboring land.... A substantial interference requires some showing that a plaintiff has suffered harm to "the actual present use of land" or to "interests in having the present use of the land unimpaired by changes in its physical condition." Restatement (Second) Torts § 821D cmt. b (emphasis added). A landowner's interest "in freedom from annoyance and discomfort in the use of land is to be distinguished from the interest in freedom from emotional distress. The latter is purely an interest of personality and receives limited legal protection," since emotional distress is not an interference with the use or enjoyment of land. Id.For example, there is a difference between, on the one hand, a complaint that solar panels are casting reflections and thereby interfering with a neighbor's ability to sleep or watch television and, on the other hand, the landowners' complaint in this case—that the solar panels are unattractive. The former involves a potential interference with the use or enjoyment of property, while the latter involves emotional distress.
Additionally, a complaint based solely on aesthetic disapproval cannot be measured using the unreasonableness standard that underpins nuisance law. This is because unlike traditional bases for nuisance claims—noise, light, vibration, odor—which can be quantified, the propriety of one neighbor's aesthetic preferences cannot be quantified because those preferences are inherently subjective. Cf. Naegele Outdoor Ad. Co. of Minn.. v. Vill. of Minnetonka, 162 N.W.2d 206, 212 (Minn. 1968)(observing "primary objection" to aesthetic-based regulation is "its subjective nature, for what may be attractive to one man may be an abomination to another"). The appellants [**7] find the solar panels unsightly, but other equally reasonable people may find them attractive. And while the landowners may be frustrated by the appearance of solar arrays adjacent to their property, "they surely can see the converse mischief (and infringement) on a homeowner's property rights if homeowners could prevent their neighbors from construction deemed unattractive." Oliver, 76 Cal. App. 4th at 536; see also Rankin v. FPL Energy, LLC, 266 S.W.3d 506, 512 (Tex. App. 2008) (observing that recognizing aesthetic nuisance would give neighbors "in effect, the right to zone the surrounding property").
Likewise, recognizing aesthetic nuisance would transform nuisance law "into a license to the courts to set neighborhood aesthetic standards." Oliver, 76 Cal. App. 4th at 525. "In our populous society, the courts cannot be available to enjoin an activity solely because it causes some aesthetic discomfort or annoyance. Given our myriad and disparate tastes, life styles, mores, and attitudes, the availability of a judicial remedy for such complaints would cause inexorable confusion." Green v. Castle Concrete Co., 509 P.2d 588, 591 (Colo. 1973) (en banc). The judicial branch is ill-suited to be an arbiter of style or taste, and given the subjectivity of aesthetic preferences, they must remain the province of legislative decision-making in the form of zoning laws and, in specific instances, restrictive covenants that the courts are competent to interpret and apply.
=What is interesting is that the actual Hillsborough code expressly cites "aesthetic nuisances" as actionable:
Nuisance conditions means any nuisance as defined by law; or any attractive nuisance which may be detrimental to the health or safety of children whether in a building, on the premises of a building, or upon an unoccupied lot." This includes "physical conditions."
You can make your own judgment on whether these dinosaurs are an eyesore but the nuisance question goes to free speech and the right of property owners to decorate their property as they see fit. This strikes me as outside of recognized parameters for nuisance actions.
17 thoughts on "Yabba Dabba Don't: California Owner Of The "Flintstone House" Charged With Public Nuisance"
 1. "Aesthetic nuisance" is too subjective. It could be used, for example, to preferentially target conservatives with political yard signs, or Christians.
 If you live in a community with CC&Rs, they are usually explicit as to what is allowed, sometimes right down to the exact paint colors with which you may repaint your house.
 If the neighborhood does not come with explicit CC&Rs, then I am inclined to believe that people should be free on their property. I acknowledge that there are sometimes eye sores, like cars parked on grass, that bring down neighboring property values. I can understand why some are opposed to such a unique property. But does that give them the right to dictate what someone does with the land they bought?
 The Flintstone House is not to my personal taste. However, it is definitely interesting and quirky. The owner seems nice in the video. She would make a killing renting it out as an Air BnB or a Bed and Breakfast, or even giving tours. There are many such eccentric properties throughout the united states. The Winchester House is one of them. It can be argued that they should be preserved, as a piece of history or art.
 Mind you, the very people in the Bay Area up in arms about the Flintstone House might also support wildly inappropriate art installations like "My Bed", or the cross in urine.
 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
 Perhaps San Francisco should turn its considerable money towards more pressing problems, such as the infectious human waste littering the streets due to their enabling the homeless to live in Medieval squalor. Or perhaps they could loosen up their draconian restrictions on new building.
 2. a look at inside and outside the house ( it's a little bit more than metal dinosaurs). A fantastical place conjured up by an interesting lady:
 1. Thanks for the video. There is a lot to love about this house, inside and out! And it still has a lot of green shielding it from stuffy, aesthetically neutered neighbors.
 3. One of our neighbors had a photo of Hillary posted on a front fence. It was ugly. Some kids in the neighborhood put a photo of a donkey next to it. That eased the pain.
 4. In years past there was a similar dinosaur structure complete with hatchlings from eggs at south end of Merritt Island, FL.
 5. Since the house existed in its particular artistic style since the 1970s, it would seem compliant with that style in adding the dinosaurs.
 6. The house has been there almost 50 years. It's a historical building encapsulating the
 non-conformity of the early '70s. I love what they've done with their back yard. The Town of Hillsborough needs to take a chill pill.
 7. This is part of what is wrong with our country today. Many people choose to be adversarial when something is not to their beliefs, upbringing, or in this case, taste. Can't we all just get along?
 1. Yes and the neighbors don't see the house. If it was painted green it would disappear. Well maybe not the new additions;-)
 8. I think it's cool. The house itself is odd, and she paid $2.8 million for it. The town had no objection to the odd house, presumably because it benefits from the considerable property taxes, but then wants to micro-manage her yard art. I hope she doesn't back down and mounts a galactic court fight. I'm sure the local kids love it, and the people whizzing by on Highway 280 couldn't care less. Unless they're stuck in traffic, in which case they likely find it a stress-reducer.
 9. This seems really weird to me. The house is so incredibly strange, but the complaints are about the dinosaur sculptures in the back yard? If the house itself isn't considered an eyesore then there is no such thing as an eyesore.
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Maintenance, the device and car repairs Ford Focus - 3.3. A control lamp of emergency pressure of oil//Ford Focus - mybestwatch.ru
Ford Focus>> System of greasing of the engine>> Control lamp of emergency pressure of oil
The control lamp lights up at pressure in the greasing system, equal 30 — 50 kPas which cannot provide existence of a necessary oil film in rubbing places of the engine. The lamp can light up also when the car goes on a bend with a minimum level of oil: as centrifugal forces arising thus move oil in a case towards turn and the oil pump cannot take away necessary amount of oil. After fast driving on автобану or at movement on lifting the lamp idling starts to blink, it is a sign of that it is not enough pressure of oil. As soon as the lamp by the first pressing a gas pedal dies away again, it should not cause in you concern, however let's burn with it long, cool the engine better.
If the control lamp burns constantly, act as follows:
- immediately stop and muffle the engine;
- check level of oil and if necessary add it. Otherwise go carefully before the following filling and add oil there. Check after that, whether the lamp dies away at the working engine;
- if the lamp does not die away, tow off the car in the next workshop and find out the reason by means of the expert.


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Monitoring Amazon Connect
To monitor Amazon Connect service integrations, you need to add the AWS Connect DataSource to your LM portal account and add AWS Connect instances.
Add the AWS Connect DataSource
The AWS Connect DS gathers metrics reported by AWS CloudWatch for each monitored AWS Connect instance.
To add the AWS Connect DataSource to your LM account:
1. Navigate to Settings | LogicModules | DataSources.
2. Click Add and select "From LogicMonitor Repository".
Add DataSource from LogicMonitor Repository
3. In the "Import from LogicMonitor Repository" dialog, enter the Server name and your credentials to access the repository. Then click OK.
4. From the list of LogicModules, select "AWS_Connect".
Select AWS_Connect from Repository list
Add Amazon Connect Instances
Because Amazon Connect does not provide Auto Discovery, you will need to manually add each Amazon Connect instance.
To add an Amazon Connect instance:
1. Navigate to your AWS Account instance under Resources. This will be labeled: " Account".
2. In your account page, click the arrow next to Manage to select "Add Monitored Instance".
Add Monitored Instance dialog
3. Under DataSource, search for "AWS Connect".
4. Under Wildcard value, enter the GUID part of the AWS ARN related to your Amazon Connect instance.
Amazon Connect ARN
5. Save your settings.
You will start to see data from the monitored instance.
6. On the Info tab of your instance, add the AWS region of your Connect Instance as a property named aws.region to ensure the correct region is used to pull information for your Connect instance.
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BEIA participated on the 30th of April at ELSE2020 called "eLearning and software for education", with the paper "An Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing in the Military Network". ELSE2020 is an international scientific conference that facilitates corporate and research entities to advance the potential of the technologically augmented learning environments, by offering a symposium for exchange of research outcomes, various ideas, technical achievements and business cases. Hence, the SealedGRID's results and future scientific goals through the paper were communicated to the audience.
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Video: See Stephen Hawking Perform With Orbital at Paralympics Opener
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Stephen Hawking appeared onstage with Orbital for a moving rendition of "Where Is It Going?" during the Paralympic Games opening ceremony Wednesday night in London.
"The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the largest, most complex machine in the world, possibly the universe," Hawking says, as the British electronica duo's lush and poignant synthesized sounds soar behind him. "By smashing particles together at enormous energies, it re-creates conditions of the Big Bang. The recent discovery of what looks like the Higgs particle is a triumph of human endeavor and international collaboration. It will change our perception of the world, and has the potential to offer insights into a complete theory of everything."
The Olympic Stadium stage then transformed into a colorful vision of the Large Hadron Collider, with rows of people dressed as red particles rushing out of the center of the stage. (See the performance in the video above.)
Suddenly, the graceful, expansive "Where Is It Going?" morphed into the aggressive stomper "Spasticus Autisticus" by Ian Dury. The late singer, who became crippled after contracting polio at a young age, wrote the song in the early 1980s to protest what he perceived as patronizing treatment of the disabled; the song was subsequently banned by the BBC.
During the Paralympics opener Wednesday, the song came alive once again onstage. The live broadcast drew 11.2 million viewers, according to the BBC.
If the video of the performance doesn't make you shed a tear about the wonders of science and the triumphs of humankind, then, well, nothing will.


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sixtieth anniversary of the victory over fascism, a public action called the St. George Ribbon was held. It was initiated by the RIA Novosti news agency and the Student Community ROOSPM.
From this time on, the Guards Ribbon was again called the St. George, and the actions dedicated to it became annual.Thousands of activists hand out ribbons to those who wish in this way to express their gratitude to our veterans. Black and gold ribbons, symbolizing the courage and heroism of Russian soldiers, are attached to the clothes, bags and antennas of cars. The action is held under the motto "I remember, I am proud." Thus, the story of the St. George Ribbon, briefly outlined in this article, has been continued.


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Millions of machines are now running on Windows 10 operating system. Microsoft has added many new features including its digital voice assistant Cortana in Windows 10. Known for its robustness among the operating systems, but we cannot predict ¬†when our hard disk might crash or OS might get corrupted. It's always a better option to have a backup of the currently working copy, as we don't need to go through the entire OS installation.
Most of the Windows 10 users might not have an idea about how to create a backup of the system image. Let's learn in this tutorial how to create system image backup and restore it. Before starting, make sure you have enough space in the hard disk or you have an external drive with enough space.
How to create system image backup
Follow the below steps to create system image backup in Windows 10.
- Click on Windows start button in the bottom left corner of the screen. Then select Settings from the list.
- The settings window will appear on the screen with various tiles. Click on Update & security option. Then update & security window will open within the Settings window.
- Click on the Backup tab on the left side of the window. You can see options appearing on the right side of the window. Now click on Go to Backup and Restore(Windows 7).
- Backup and Restore window will appear on the screen. Click on Create a system image option on the left side of the window.
- In Create a system image window, select On a hard disk and choose drive where you want to save the backup image. Click on Next button.
- Now select other drives which you want to include along with system backup.
- Click on Start Backup button to start the backup process once you confirm the backup settings.
- Take rest for some time as the backup process will last for some minutes. Once the backup image is created, you will see a success message on the screen.
How to restore¬†system image backup
Once you have system backup image, you can restore it by performing the below steps.
- Connect the drive containing system backup image to your PC and reboot your computer with Windows installation media.
- In Windows setup, click on Next button and then click on Repair your computer option on the bottom the left corner of the screen.
- Click on Troubleshoot, then click on Advanced options and select System image recovery option.
- Now select the backup image which you want to recover and then click on Next button.
That's it. You have successfully completed backup and restoring of system backup image.
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Mooreville High School - Water Quality Sampling and Testing
November 5, 2012
Traveling all the way from north Mississippi, Adelia Wright brought her students on a two-night stay with us here at GCRL. Unfortunately, bad weather made it imposible for the group to show off their stewardship on a marine debris removal trip. However, they became experts at water quality testing. They produced extensive data by collecting samples at several locations along the coast and performing water quality tests. They also learned about mapping, GPS usage, and watersheds.
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Print out this pretty Year of the Pig jigsaw for the kids to enjoy! All you have to do is slice along the vertical lines. Then the kids can use the numbers to help them put it back together.
Year Of The Pig Counting Jigsaw
Learn ordinal numbers with the help of this lovely Year of the Pig jigsaw. Choose from colour or black and white. If choosing the black and white version, ask the kids to colour it in first. Now slice up the jigsaw, including the numbers.
Here's a fun activity to keep the kids busy and test counting skills. Print out the colour version of our pig counting jigsaw onto some card, or colour-in our black and white version. Cut into strips and ask the children to complete the jigsaw using the numbers 1-10 along the bottom.


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About 2-coloured 6-graphs.
Let each of the 15 edges of the complete 6-graph be either red or blue. Three of the 6 nodes are said to form a "homogeneous triangle" if the three edges connecting them are of the same colour. Prove the existence of at least two homogeneous triangles.
We call two edges that meet at a node and are of different colour a "mixed pair" meeting at that node. Because at any node 5 edges meet, at most 2 * 3 = 6 mixed pairs meet at that node. Because we have 6 nodes, there are at most 6 * 6 = 36 mixed pairs. Because each mixed pair occurs in one inhomogeneous triangle and each inhomogeneous triangle contains two mixed pairs, we have at most 36 / 2 = 18 inhomogeneous triangles. The total number of distinct triangles being (6*5*4)/(3*2*1) = 20, we have at least 20 - 18 = 2 homogeneous triangles.
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Definition of Homozygote
Homozygote: A person who has two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent.
For example, a girl who is a homozygote for cystic fibrosis (CF) received the cystic fibrosis gene from both of her parents and therefore has cystic fibrosis.
The opposite of a homozygote is a heterozygote, a person who has two different forms of a particular gene. For example, the father and mother of a cystic fibrosis child are heterozygotes for cystic fibrosis (CF). Each carries one normal gene and one cystic fibrosis gene but has no signs or symptoms of the disease.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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< Parks & Lakes
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One of the hallmarks of the Minneapolis Park System is its lakes, ponds, wetlands and creeks. From the famous Lake Harriet to the little-known Black Ash Seep in Minnehaha Park, our water resources are a precious resource.
For over 125 years the MPRB has maintained the area's scenic and recreational bodies of water, which has earned it the national reputation for sound conservation and ecological practice that leads the way to a healthy environment.
The MPRB system includes 16 lakes, which are defined as water bodies whose maximum depth at low water exceeds 6.6 feet (2m) depth and develops layers of different temperature for at least part of the open-water season.
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The MPRB system contains many wetlands, which are defined as a permanently saturated or flooded basin shallower than 6.6 feet (2m) depth at low water and that have historic or hydrologic significance to the MPRB.
High Profile Wetlands:
Other Wetland areas:
- Diamond Lake
- Webber Pond, Webber Park
- Wirth Park wetlands
- Wetland complex from the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden to Glenwood Ave.
- Wetland complex north side of Highway 55/Wirth Lake
- Quaking Bog, Wirth Park
- Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden wetland
- Black Ash Seep, Minnehaha Park
- Roberts Bird Sanctuary wetland
- Shingle Creek Area
- East of creek, west of Humboldt, north of 49th Ave. N
- Both sides of Shingle Creek, just south of 49th Ave. N
- Wirth Park Area
- North of Golden Valley Road, north of Theodore Wirth Park, west of the intersection of Golden Valley Road and Theodore Wirth Parkway.
- Small wetland ponds and wetlands inside and at the east edge of Wirth Park, just west/northwest of Anwatin School.
- Wirth Golf Course ponds and wetlands.
- Ponds on Columbia Golf Course
- Between 58th St. E and 60th St. E, and north of Highway
- Wetland complex towards the Hwy. 62 side
- Bassett's Creek - From Theodore Wirth Parkway to Morgan Ave. N.
- Minnehaha Creek – Across South Minneapolis from Lake Minnetonka/Gray's Bay in Minnetonka to Minnehaha Park where it empties into the Mississippi River (22 miles)
- Shingle Creek – North Minneapolis from Shingle Creek in Brooklyn Park to the Mississippi River (12 miles)


Dan wrote:
> I have a question regarding notation. In the equation below, is it fair to say that the sign "\\(+\\)" has two meanings?
> \[ (2 [\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{yolk}]) + (3 [\textrm{egg}] + 3 [\textrm{pie crust}]) = 5[\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{yolk}] + 3 [\textrm{pie crust}] \]
You can say yes, or you can say no: I believe both viewpoints can be developed in a consistent way. If you treat them as different you may need to distinguish between
\[ ([\textrm{egg}]) + ([\textrm{yolk}]) \]
\[ ([\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{yolk}]).\]
Here's how I actually think: \\(\mathbb{N}[S]\\) is the **free commutative monoid** on the set \\(S\\). There are many ways to construct this thing, but they're all canonically isomorphic so it doesn't matter which one we use.
(Sorry, that's how category theorists actually think: we are very flexible while being very precise about the ways in which we're being flexible: the words _canonically isomorphic_ summarize a lot of detail that I'm reluctant to explain right now.)
Here's one way to construct \\(\mathbb{N}[S]\\). We take elements of \\(S\\), create all possible finite sums of these elements, which are purely formal expressions of this sort:
\[ s_1 + \cdots + s_n \]
where \\(s_1, \dots, s_n \in S\\), and then we mod out by an equivalence relation which imposes the commutative monoid rules. For example, we decree that
\[ s_1 + s_2 + s_3 = s_2 + s_1 + s_3.\]
This gives a commutative monoid \\(\mathbb{N}[S]\\). Then, we allow ourselves to abbreviate an \\(n\\)-fold sum of copies of \\(s \in S\\) as \\(n s\\), e.g.
\[ [\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{egg}] = 3[\textrm{egg}]. \]
If you don't like this, here's another equivalent to way to think about it if \\(S\\) has some finite number of elements, say \\(n\\). In this case, after we choose an ordering for \\(S\\), we can think of \\(\mathbb{N}[S]\\) as the set of \\(n\\)-tuples of natural numbers. So, for example, if
\[ S = \\{ [\textrm{egg}], [\textrm{yolk}] \\} \]
we write elements of \\(\mathbb{N}[S]\\) as pairs of natural numbers. The element \\( (2,3) \\) in here corresponds to the element
\[ 2 [\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{yolk}] \]
in my previous, isomorphic, description of \\(\mathbb{N}[S]\\). Similarly, the equation
\[ (2,3) + (1,1) = (3,4) \]
corresponds to the equation
\[ (2 [\textrm{egg}] + 3[\textrm{yolk}] ) + ([\textrm{egg}] + [\textrm{yolk}]) =
3 [\textrm{egg}] + 4[\textrm{yolk}].\]


EOL CD Review
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Hungary and Romania: Descendants of the Itinerant Gypsies: Melodies of Sorrow and Joy
Produced by Yuji Ichihashi, Aki Soto, and Stephen McArthur. Recorded by Kazuyuki Tanimoto and Norio Inagaki. Multicultural Media: Music of the Earth MCM3009. 1997. Compact Disc. Liner notes by Kazuyuki Tanimoto and Norio Inagaki.
Melodies of Sorrow and Joy is a re-release of field recordings of songs and instrumental pieces performed by Gypsy (Rom) musicians from Hungary and Romania and originally released in Japan. The disc is divided into two halves, each recorded by a different researcher, with the pieces in each half grouped together on the recording by geographical region. As a result, the CD and its accompanying notes seem like two separate projects, which they originally were.
AU sound iconAudio 1: "Khelimaski dyili," opening (152 KB.au)
RealAudio iconAudio 1: "Khelimaski dyili," opening
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AU sound iconAudio 2: "Meselaki dyili," opening (381 KB.au)
RealAudio iconAudio 2: "Meselaki dyili," opening
The first half of the disc, recorded in Hungary, consists of sixteen tracks of vocal music. All of the songs are examples of either thekhelimaski dyili, a rhythmic, sung dance, (Audio 1) or the meselaki dyli, a slow song with free rhythm (Audio 2). Brief, paraphrased translations are provided for each of the slow songs, while no translations are provided for the dance songs.
The generous number of examples of both song types provides a good introduction to these genres, and a welcome opportunity for comparison of styles between various singers and different villages. The meselaki dyli selections recorded in Gyngys Village, for example, are sung in heterophonic style by a group of men's and women's voices, and provide an important contrast to the meselaki dyli examples of Piricise Village, which are performed by solo voices.
AU audio iconAudio 3: Men's Dance, opening (188 KB.au)
RealAudio iconAudio 3: Men's Dance, opening
AU audio iconAudio 4: Wedding March, opening (141 KB.au)
RealAudio iconAudio 4: Wedding March, opening
The second half of the disc provides a more diverse sampling of instrumental styles from the Carpathian Mountain region, including a Csardas, a funeral piece, several varieties of men's dances, (Audio 3) a wedding march, (Audio 4) and couples' dances. With the exception of one piece played by a violin/gardon (cello-like stringed instrument) duo, the instruments playing on each track are not listed.
Multicultural Media is to be commended for releasing these valuable recordings and for translating the original notes. The notes however, and the format in which they are presented, are confusing and perhaps require more editorial comment than the brief disclaimer at the back of the booklet which describes both the difficulties of transliteration as well as the diverse professional backgrounds of the researchers. Several problems are apparent. Some tracks include no annotation other than the name of the genre. None of the songs or instrumental pieces are given a title, and none of the performers appearing in the recording or the accompanying photographs are identified or credited.
The editors state that they wanted to preserve the tone of the original Japanese notes, but the original commentary seems to need some additional context and frame, particularly for the notes which accompany the first half of the disc. While the romantic travelogue-type narration employed here can perhaps be forgiven for its exuberant enthusiasm, at other times the notes are dangerously misleading as when, for example, the first annotator proclaims that in general, Gypsy dancing has no fixed gestures or organized movements.
Although these recordings were originally released in 1992, with the songs from the first half recorded in the 1980s, the photographs in the accompanying booklet are from 1963, leaving some question as to when the rest of the field recordings were made. Again, some historical context for the recordings and the notes would be a welcome addition.
Difficulties in presentation aside, the recordings and the notes too, contain much that should delight and interest many listeners, especially newcomers to Rom music of this region. The song selections are compelling performances representing a variety of individual and regional styles, and the instrumental tracks provide documentation of some fine examples of solo violin and ensemble playing from the Carpathian Mountains. Although the annotations to the individual selections are somewhat incomplete, the notes provide a fine history of Gypsy instrumental music in Hungary, and good, informative general descriptions of the song genres.
Suzanne Camino
Suzanne Camino is a doctoral candidate in the ethnomusicology program at the University of Michigan. She is currently researching songs of emigration and exile among Albanian communities in the United States. Her past research has focused on Albanian polyphonic singing and Bektashi Sufi chanting.
Thanks to Aaron A. Fox for web design assistance


text: As a typical multilinear dimensionality reduction (DR) method, tensor locality preserving projection (TLPP) has been successfully applied in many practical problems. However, TLPP depends mainly on preserving its local neighbor graph which often suffers from the following issues: (1) the neighbor graph is constructed with the Euclidean distance which fails to consider the relationships among different coordinates for tensor data; (2) the affinity matrix only focuses on the local structure information of samples while ignoring the existing label information; (3) the projection matrices are nonorthogonal, thus it is difficult to preserve the local manifold structure. To address these problems, a multilinear DR algorithm called optimal neighbor graph-based orthogonal tensor locality preserving projection (OG-OTLPP) is proposed. In OG-OTLPP, an optimal neighbor graph is first built according to tensor distance. Then the affinity matrix of data is defined by utilizing both the label information and the intrinsic local geometric properties of the data. Finally, in order to improve the manifold preserving ability, an efficient and stable scheme is designed to iteratively learn the orthogonal projections. We evaluate the proposed algorithm by applying it to image recognition. The experimental results on five public image databases demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.


Definitions for stoopstup
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word stoop
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
 2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward.
 3. to descend from one's level of dignity; condescend; deign.
 4. to swoop down, as a hawk at prey.
 5. to submit; yield.
 6. (v.t.)to bend (oneself, one's head, etc.) forward and downward.
 7. Archaic. to abase, humble, or subdue.
 8. (n.)an act or instance of stooping.
 9. a stooping position or carriage of the body.
 10. a descent from dignity or superiority.
 11. a downward swoop, as of a hawk.
Origin of stoop:
bef. 900; ME stoupen (v.), OE stūpian, c. MD stūpen to bend, bow; akin to steep1
 1. a raised platform or porch, esp. a small porch with steps, at the entrance of a house.
 Category: Building Trades
Origin of stoop:
1745–55, Amer.; < D stoep
 1. Ref: stoup
Princeton's WordNet
 1. stoop(noun)
 an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
 2. stoup, stoop(noun)
 basin for holy water
 3. stoop, stoep(verb)
 4. crouch, stoop, bend, bow(verb)
 bend one's back forward from the waist on down
 5. condescend, stoop, lower oneself(verb)
 "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
 6. stoop(verb)
 descend swiftly, as if on prey
 "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
 7. stoop(verb)
 sag, bend, bend over or down
 "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
 8. stoop(verb)
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
 1. stoop(verb)stup
 to bend slightly forward
 He stooped to avoid the low doorway.
Webster Dictionary
 1. Stoop(noun)
 2. Stoop(noun)
 a vessel of liquor; a flagon
 3. Stoop(noun)
 a post fixed in the earth
 4. Stoop(verb)
 5. Stoop(verb)
 6. Stoop(verb)
 to descend from rank or dignity; to condescend
 7. Stoop(verb)
 8. Stoop(verb)
 to sink when on the wing; to alight
 9. Stoop(verb)
 to bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body
 10. Stoop(verb)
 to cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor
 11. Stoop(verb)
 to cause to submit; to prostrate
 12. Stoop(verb)
 to degrade
 13. Stoop(noun)
 14. Stoop(noun)
 descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation
 15. Stoop(noun)
 the fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop
Translations for stoop
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
to bend the body forward and downward
The doorway was so low that he had to stoop (his head) to go through it; She stooped down to talk to the child.
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Visible to the public CPS Foundations in Computation and Communication
Modern processor architectures sacrifice timing predictability for increased average computational throughput. Branch prediction, multi-level memory hierarchies, out-of-order execution, and data forwarding all make accurate execution time predictions impossible. As accurate timing predictions are required for task scheduling, our goal is the development of a Precision Timed (PRET) processor, along with the inter-process communication methods and operating system services, which remove many of the sources of timing indeterminacy.
Our PRET architecture retains the deep pipelines of existing architectures, but the data hazards resulting from these pipelines are removed by interleaving instructions from multiple threads. This approach has been implemented in a variant of the OpenFire soft processor, itself an open source clone of the MicroBlaze architecture popular in programmable logic devices. Implementation of the architecture indicates that the PRET modifications increase overall throughput by 70% with only a 35% increase in area. This architecture permits up to 16 threads to time share the processor with scheduling possible on a cycle-by-cycle basis. Scheduling is handled within hardware to dynamically react to changing conditions within a single cycle. Being released open source, it is envisioned that once completed the processor and associated tools will be used by the CPS community in a variant of manners.
CPS applications will require a network consisting of multiple computational-sensing nodes scattered throughout an area of interest. We proposed a secure, power efficient, and latency-limited communication scheme for CPS networks. This communication scheme consists of 1) a multipath multicast algorithm that efficiently relays information to a group of CPS nodes and 2) a data acquisition technique that performs in-network processing to reduce large streams of raw data into useful aggregated information. Our proposed algorithm was designed with simplicity, energy efficiency, and reliability in mind. The proposed multipath multicast algorithm combines the best of multicasting, which we have based on multipath MAODV, with the best of distributed source coding (DSC) which incorporates and uses ideas from rateless coding. By adding DSC using rateless codes on top of multi-path MAODV, the transmission load is distributed more evenly among the CPS nodes and the communication is more robust against link losses.
For data aggregation, we have developed a distributed compression technique that has low decoding and encoding computational complexity. The proposed scheme exploits both temporal and spatial correlations between nodes in distributed sensor networks. For spatial correlation, we propose a compressive sensing (CS) technique that uses rateless coding and random walk. The rateless coding generates a random measuring matrix that is independent of routing algorithms and is incoherent with any sparsity matrix with high probability. Equipping the CS-based algorithm with random walk helps collecting sufficient number of sensor readings while combining them together without significantly increasing the inter-communication cost.
In case of events occurring, the values of both spatial and temporal might change and the compression technique needs to adjust its rate to the changes automatically. Our proposed algorithm reactively changes its compression rate to adapt to the variations in the correlations. The number of measurements is adjusted based on the temporal correlations among sensors. When sensor readings are changing slowly, the compression rate is improved by reducing the number of measurements. In case of any event that significantly changes the signal readings, the algorithm generates more measurements to guarantee recovery of signal at the base station. The experimental results done over data gathered by 64 temperature sensors and also Matlab simulation results reveal that our algorithm is flexible to adapt the variations in the sensor readings, while it keeps the compression rate the minimum. The focus of our work other than exploiting the spatial and temporal correlations is to achieve a high compression rate while keeping the decoding computational complexity. In addition to the above findings, we have also investigated the application of our proposed CS scheme in the following fields: Image processing, Smart healthcare (monitoring well-being of post-stroke patients), and Cognitive radio.
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|An Interview with:|
David F. Dinges, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
NSBRI Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Factors Team
Courtesy of EarthSky Communications
David Dinges, a scientist working with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, is developing a test to help astronauts in space gauge their own stress and fatigue.
David Dinges: It's remarkably simple. You would pull up on the computer the test, and up would come a series of questions, very short ones, asking you basically what are the conditions of today. Did you sleep last night? Have you had any space motion sickness? How tired are you now?
The test would measure how quickly astronauts push a button in response to a light flashing on a computer screen.
David Dinges: You just do that test for three minutes then you get a final score that says, here's your percentage score on where you are compared to alert, capable astronauts.
This simple test could help astronauts gauge their fitness for performing critical tasks – like docking their ship to a space station or taking a spacewalk. Dinges said the test could also help people on Earth.
David Dinges: Whether you're trying to understand whether people are safe operating transportation vehicles, long-haul aircraft, trucks, etc., this test has potential value to a large number of contexts where you'd like to know who is fit and ready to perform and who isn't.


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ABSTRACT: It is well known that to improve the feeding of the students it would improve its health and wellbeing, contributing to the reduction of the risk of chronic diseases in adults. In Spain, this is especially important considering the data of prevalence of infantile obesity.
To know the number of users of school cafeterias in Spain as well as different considerations on its management, nutritional supervision and the number of special diets served to students with specific requirements due to pathologies or other causes.
The II national Survey has been realized on school cafeterias: 7,710 used daily by 678,587 users. They provide near the 2.8% of special diets (allergies 38.9%, other pathologies 23.2%, religious causes 26.7% causes and celiac disease 11.1%).
The numbers of prevalence of obesity and infantile overweight indicate that it is necessary to improve the diet of the students.
Nutricion hospitalaria: organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Nutricion Parenteral y Enteral 02/2012; 27(1):252-5. · 1.12 Impact Factor


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International research commissioned by P2i, the world leader in liquid repellent nano-coating technology, reveals demand for mobile devices to be water-repellent as standard. The results come as more and more consumers put their phones at risk of moisture and corrosion damage as they go about their day-to-day activities.
The research found that many people keep their mobile phones with them for the majority of their average day, whatever they intend to do. The Spanish and British are more likely to take their mobile phones to a pub or café (88 percent and 85 percent respectively) than the French (67 percent), Germans (60 percent) or Americans (56 percent) – although it was Americans (12 percent) who were most likely to spill alcohol on their phones.
Water came top on the spillage stakes with an average 30 per cent of respondents having spilt it on their mobile phone, followed by coffee (13 percent) and tea (8 percent) in second and third places. Surprisingly, men were more likely to have spilled coffee on their phone than women (16 percent and 11 percent respectively).
Commenting on the survey results, Dr. Stephen Coulson, CTO, P2i says: "Mobile phones are not just susceptible to accidental spillages in pubs or cafes. Reflecting the increasing role that they play in our lives, this survey also found that on average phones are taken out in the rain (64 percent); in the snow (59 percent) and even into the shower (8 percent) and sauna (3 percent) – all posing a risk of the phone being exposed to moisture which can cause long term damage.
There is a very real demand for these devices to be able to keep up with thriving lifestyles. Phones are no longer left on the desk in the office but now accompany us everywhere we go." When it comes to exposing a mobile device to the outdoor elements such as sand and sea, the Spanish (77 percent) and the French (72 percent) are the most likely to take their phones to the beach. Only 47 percent of respondents from the USA take their phones with them to sit beside the sea.
Dr. Coulson adds, "It's no surprise that on average over half of all of those questioned (51 percent) expect water protection to be included as standard when buying a mobile phone. Without it, users not only need to avoid liquid coming into contact with their phones but have to consider the 'hidden' risk of moisture that can cause corrosion, damaging the phone, its components and, often more importantly, the content and data stored on it."
When asked what applications they would miss the most if their phone stopped working, the UK is clearly a nation of text fanatics, with 63 per cent of respondents citing text messaging over any other function. The findings from the other nations showed that the ability to phone people would be missed the most.
On Booth 2E58, in Hall 2, at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, P2i will be demonstrating its Aridion technology which dramatically increases the reliability of electronic devices by protecting them from water and corrosion damage. Over nine million electronic devices are now protected by Aridion including smartphones, tablets, and hearing aids.


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Purpose. The calculation of the angular fields of view (FOVs) of Galilean telescopes generally necessitates the calculation of the pupils and ports. This, in turn, requires knowledge of the optical design of the telescope, in particular, the focal lengths or powers of the objective and ocular lenses. Equations for finding the FOV that obviate the need to calculate pupils and ports, or even to know the lens powers of the telescope, are presented in this article. The equations can be used to find the FOVs in image space of real Galilean telescopes of known magnification, merely by measuring the distance between the objective and ocular lenses and the diameter of the objective lens. The equations include the effects of eye pupil diameter and eye relief. Linear FOVs (LFOVs) of Galilean telemicroscopes are similarly determined.
Methods. Two image space angular FOV equations were derived: (1) an equation to determine the angular FOVs of a telescope with various amounts of vignetting and eye relief; and (2) an equivalent equation for the LFOVs of telescopes fitted with lens caps for near vision.
Results. The FOV increases linearly with increasing vignetting. Increasing the eye relief results in a nonlinear decrease in the FOV, shown as a fraction of the normalized value for zero eye relief. Decrements in the FOVs with increasing eye relief as a fraction of the normalized field angle when the eye relief = 0 are shown to be constant regardless of the vignetting level. A transition of the objective lens from field stop to aperture stop occurs when the eye pupil diameter exceeds the diameter of the objective lens divided by the magnification.
Conclusions. Equations have been derived for Galilean telescopes and telemicroscopes that make it unnecessary to find pupils and ports, or to know the powers of the lenses. They provide a direct and simple evaluation of angular and LFOVs as functions of magnification, objective lens diameter, eye pupil diameter, eye relief, and vignetting, and enable comparisons of actual telescopes.


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 5. [Grammar] Suffix: -dir
[Grammar] Suffix: -dir
After countless questions about the usage of "-dir", I thought we should have a small guide on the topic.
How many of you guys have started hating this annoying suffix?
This suffix has a number of uses, but I'll just talk about 3 of them here and see how it goes:
I. When writing a sentence, "writing" being the keyword here, if you're stating important facts, "important" being the keyword here, then you should use "-dir".
For example, you want to write: "Phobos is a satellite of Mars"? Yes, that's a fact. And it's pretty important! (Mind you, soon we're going to Mars). Had it been a satellite of Uranus, you wouldn't need it, because we're not going there anytime soon!................ (Just kidding. You would use it there too. It's all encyclopaedical information. You need the "-dir" with such statements.)
But this is when writing. When speaking, it's up to you really. I never use it when I speak, for instance.
Also remember my remark about using the "-dir" in important facts. So please don't walk around saying "-dir" with sentences like "This chicken smells fishy", "The weather is nice today," "My father is in the kitchen," or "My car is a BMW," because everyone knows a Mercedes is better……… And also because none of these are encyclopaedical pieces of information. TL;DR : No one cares about your car. (I love BMWs btw. Contact me and we can exchange photos).
If it seems hard to decide when to use it, just never use it. It's much worse (for the listeners) when you use it in the wrong place than when you simply discard it where it's expected. You'll learn it in time. No rush.
II. Here comes the weird part: the "-dir" is also used when you're not too sure of something. After reading the first rule about encyclopaedical usage of "-dir" which you state established facts with, this might seem like a paradox. But this is usually a spoken language thing, although it's fine to use it in writing too. For example, you're about to rob a bank with some friends. (With friends like that…) And one of them asks: "So where do you think they're keeping all the money?" (He's asking in Turkish, btw. So feel free to ask him to take his sock-mask off so you can hear him clearly; Turkish is hard to understand as it is!) And so you turn to him with rolling eyes: "Probably in the vault?" You could say: "Muhtemelen kasada," but wait! Don't kill the moment! Remember this guide and use the "-dir"! "Muhtemelen kasadadır." That's not necessarily a fact. With the "-dir", you mean: "I mean I haven't seen it, but that's probably the case."
Another example: "You give a bacon to the cat, but it won't eat it." (Dogs > cats. _TAG_ popcorn#) So you go to your friend and say: "The cat's not eating the bacon." Your friend might say: "Aç değil." He's not hungry, hinting he had fed him earlier. But, he could also say: "Aç değildir," which would mean: "He's probably not hungry".
III. You would use "-dir" also to indicate the duration of something. English uses "for" for this. "5 saattir buradayım." → I've been here for 5 hours, or: "Sen o şehre taşındığında 10 yıldır orada yaşıyordum." (When you moved to that city, I'd been living there for 10 years). But remember, you can only use it when in English you would use a perfect tense. Otherwise you can't. For example a sentence like "I'll be in London for 5 days," would not allow "-dir". No perfect tense is used. So: "Dört gün Londra'da olacağım." You could use "boyunca" in this case if you really want to use something: "Dört gün boyunca Londra'da olacağım."
I hope this sheds some light on the matter!
May 16, 2015
Your posts are amazing. I thought Turkish was going to be very difficult to learn; however, the course is constructed so well with clear and comprehensive tips and notes, relevant sentences in exercises (you guys went to the extent of adding different words which sound or appear similar to the same "logical" sentence so that we know the difference!), logical progression of skills and most importantly brilliant moderators, who are very active in the discussion rooms and explain every issue with such clarity. My mind is blown away, not only am I finding the Turkish course the easiest to learn (I tried different apps before and was fed up with how difficult the language seemed to be!), this course is actually helping me improve my English grammar! Çok acayıp, çok şaşırtıcı! In short, I want to declare to the universe that I love the Turkish course moderators, the course and language itself, Doulingo and Turkey!! Çok teşekkür ederim :-)
Very good explanation, indeed! For the first one I would like add some points that I consider important. I think -dir is used mostly in written and formal language. I recently realized that I have seen it quite often in warning and information texts in public places such as subways, buses, concerts, restaurants, shopping malls... Let me give a couple examples
İki bira alana bir tane ücretsizdir. - One beer is free when you buy two beers. (Written on a menu or on a signboard on the table.)
Sistem geçici süreyle servis dışıdır. - The system is temporarily unavailable. (Written on a screen at subway)
Film gösterimi üst kattadır. - The movie screening is at the top floor. (Written on a signboard)
However advertisements don't like it very much. They usually use -dir when giving necessary information in small fonts such as 'KDV dahildir'. (Vat is included). But if this is part of advertising/campaign they don't use it and say KDV Dahil! (Vat is included!) in big fonts. Because it's less formal, so more attractive.
So when you want to go formal, official or public (all in all, BORING) you can prefer to use -dir. It's usually used in written language (especially public or formal) and public speechs. In daily speaking some people may also use it in order to sound very assuring and confident especially when they try to prove their points or teach something. It can make a statement sound something very true and need to be accepted/learned. I personally find it a bit bumptious, smarty or distant in a one to one conversation.
Yes in one word it can be explained as boring.
Funny and informative! Thanks! They made a good choice, adding you to Team Turkish.
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 I laughed like an idiot ahahah I love the way you explained the whole topic, gg wp
 Hilarious and helpful. (Everyone knows Turkish cats are Muslim and don't eat bacon. Look it up on the encyclopedia.)
 However, it's very peculiar and subtle. İt'll take years to master, no doubt. (That's a "-dir")
 Very useful and funny, I will never forget the puzzled robber :) Thanks and have a lingot!
 Have writtin more articals? If yes please give me the links, because you are hilarious! I really did enjoy the reading :D
 I loved everything about this post as a Turkish person! :) Great job. If anyone needs help i would be more than happy to participate :3
 Simply Amazing. You explained it so well and in such a witty way, that it really becomes very interesting to read it again and again. And after reading this, I am reading all your comments you have ever posted. I have to search "Ektoraskan" in order to read your posts. Is there any other way to find all your/his posts?
 Thanks again
 Your posts are blowing my mind. Thanks! :)
 for the first one, in order to use -dir, the verb must be ''to be''
 Very well written!
 teşekkür ederim, çok faydalı.....
 hahaha, so funny! sağ ol!
 I wish I had read this earlier, would've saved me a lot of time and head-scratching! I remember reading that -dir is sometimes used when the word on its own sounds vague(probably in longer sentences)? If that is indeed true, I would like some examples, please! :D
 P.S. Cats > Dogs :p
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 nice explanation sir.
 1. Loved the explanation! 2. Does this work for past as well? E.g If I want to say "It was the correct file" (really stressing the fact that it was (:) Thanks!
 very useful :):)
 you are a good teacher, although I didn't grab the entire subject but I'm happy that it's something that we can skip in speaking.
 Frankly speaking all the suffixes are


Navigating complexity
Husband has always been a pretty deep thinker, and lately has been talking to me quite about about how he strives to teach his clients to navigate complexity in effective and healthy ways. He defines this as paying loving attention and using carefuly planned, organized strategies to solve problems.
Husband says that to do therapy well is to navigate complexity with loving attention. He says that we do this while cooking. He says that this also draws us to musical performance. Other would do the same by canoeing the Boundary Waters, flying an airplane, and leading a rock climbing expedition. The ways we have to navigate complexity in our every day lives are more subtle but equally as important.
What complex situations have you had to navigate? What have you seen others navigate? What are your hopes for how we and others shall navigate complexity in the future? How good are you at asking for directions?
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 1. First of all, you have to recognize the complexity to navigate it. In too many instances, I think, there are people who confront complex, multi-layered and provisional propositions as if they were black or white, either-or choices.
 The best and most abstract example I can recall of navigating complexity was when I was producing books for several clients. These were instructive how-to books with many photos, illustrations, charts and tables, some of them as long as 256 pages. The client would have a subject in mind and a schedule for completion but often little else. The schedule required I get started right away but I didn't have any content yet. From a design perspective, these were very complex projects where ultimately all the pieces would have to fit together but at the outset all I had were 256 blank pages. How to begin?
 Some of my clients were experienced publishers but some were not. The inexperienced ones were often frozen at that blank page point. I would advise them that we had to work from the very general to the specific and that their first task should be to devise a rough table of contents with an estimate of how much space should be allocated for each section. Meanwhile I set about designing the look of the pages—the fonts we would use, the page margins, the column widths and so forth.
 Once the client had determined the content of the book, the writers and photographers could start their work and I could section the 256 pages into preliminary chapters. All of this would be subject to revision of course but at that point at least we had something concrete to respond to. Then as I began to get text and photos I could start to insert and adjust the real content. Because I had the whole book roughly allocated, It didn't matter whether the content I received was contiguous with previous material. I had a place for it.
 The point of all this was that here was a project that was too big and complex to envision what it would become at the end. In many endeavors it helps to keep in mind that if you begin with the general outline, the specifics will come clear along the way. But you have to begin…
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 1. I suppose that also holds true for people who have a house built for them: what they envision may not be possible from a building contractor 's reality.
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 1. Building a house is a really good example that I can easily relate to. I know what I'd like, and I know what my resources are, so my dream home, tucked into a beautiful hillside with an ocean view, isn't going to happen anytime soon.
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 2. I should have described my example as "concrete". It was hardly abstract.
 Paraphrasing (from a distance of at least 40 years) Maxwell Maltz in his book Psycho Cybernetics, many problems present a daunting array of possibilities. It is only when we stop contemplating and take an action that the possibilities begin to narrow and we can see our way through. Or, to borrow a quote often ascribed to Goethe:
 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
 Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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 3. Exactly. For me, that means I have to begin by writing something crappy, something wordy or pretentious or obscure... something that is wrong in the many ways writing can be wrong. And then you edit. And edit. And edit. "The specifics will come clear along the way."
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 2. It is also a trick to deal in therapy with a child whose parents are divorced and are still fighting with one another. You just can't take sides, and that can be really complicated.
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 1. Hell, parents don't have to be divorced to be fighting over how their children should be raised. I can only imagine how difficult your daily work is.
 Just the other day when husband and I were having yet another of our discussions about something we don't agree on, the realization struck me: thank god we don't have kids. We'd make a mess of it.
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 2. I had the friendliest divorce I've ever seen, but even it offered temptations to somehow use our kid to score points on the person divorcing me. Your forbearance ("you can't take sides") must be difficult at times and is unquestionably commendable.
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 3. I've written several books. Some had obvious logical structure, so writing them was simply a matter of doing the work. Some did not. For me, the most complicated project was the history I wrote about my parents. The first challenge was to assemble and verify the most interesting stories arising from their lives. The second–and much harder–challenge was to decide which stories to include and which to leave on the cutting room floor.
 The only guidance I had was an interview I'd done years ago with Warren Nelson and his wife, Betty Ferris. They created the Big Top Chautauqua in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Their first shows were about local history. Writing those shows was difficult in exactly the same way it was difficult to write about my parents. Specifically, the problem was having too many good stories to tell, not knowing which were important to keep.
 Essentially, that is the challenge for any artist who tries to create something of value. You are always tempted to add another brush stroke to the painting, or throw in another song, or add another photo of someone whose story would add to the whole.
 Betty said, "You come to feel the people whose story you are telling are the best friends you have. They inspire you. And yet you know there are limits to the length of the show. So you struggle. And then, one day you know how it has to be. Something inside tells you what must stay and what must be let go."
 I've never encountered a better description of the artistic process. At some point, you just know.
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 4. Husband is our friend W's power of attorney, and has also been named his Fiduciary for the Veterans Administration. There are innumerable tasks associated with both of these the past few years around taxes and money management. I am so glad he's on board to do all this.
 My complicated tasks are more in the realm of relationships with family or friends, and I notice that at times I'll spend a surprising amount of my waking thoughts on how to navigate difficult situations with people.
 I am great at asking for directions.
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 5. I'll ask directions, but only after I've tried several other roads and looked it up on Google Maps.
 Kelly and I have different views on that. I'm a visual person; I want to see the map; I want to know *why* we're turning left here when it seems like we should just go straight? Sometimes the left is just to avoid a town and we're going to pick up the same road further down. I hate backtracking.
 Kelly just follows the directions and sometimes I have to promise her that I will not question her; I will promise to just drive where she tells me.
 The reference about building a house is much like putting on a show; The directors or designers come in with big plans and the Technical director (or producer or whoever is in charge of this thing) has to say 'We can't afford that (or can't build that) but we could do this version of that.'
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 6. If possible, break down complex matters into smaller pieces.
 Puzzles. We all know the routine.
 Border first. Most easily identifiable center pcs. next.
 When the going gets tough, walk away for a bit but don't give up.
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 7. Complexity reminds me of Ellen Goodman, a journalist and columnist who was active in the 1980s. She ultimately got tired of appearing on TV panels where she would get to speak about two sentences on a complicated topic. But she didn't want to turn down offers to appear, so she found a way to get the show producers to leave her alone. When she got a new offer to be on a panel, Ellen would say, "Oh, gee, that's a great topic. And so COMPLICATED! I'd love to be included." The word "complicated" was all the producers needed to hear to know she wasn't going to fit in


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When the teacher becomes a student: an honest guide to becoming a developer
Some developers always had the ambition to work in tech, others take the more scenic route. Changing or starting a new career can be a hard time. I did this transition over four years while being a secondary school teacher. As a teacher you gain a strong insight into how a diverse group of people learn. When applying these skills to my own career change I picked up lots of tips and tricks for anyone looking to change career or improve their learning. Having a strong knowledge of how to code is not the only thing that gets you and keeps you in a job as a coder but it's pretty important.
Being a student on evenings and weekends, and a teacher as the day job was a very stressful but rewarding time. While it was a lot of (mostly) enjoyable work, having strong foundations in picking up new knowledge was extremely helpful and in an ever changing and evolving profession such as tech this is an invaluable skill. This became even more apparent once I started my role as a junior software engineer in a programming language unknown to me!
The more people that are able to learn effectively the better for everyone. How else are we all meant to keep up with that new JavaScript framework?
Ed is currently a Junior Software Developer at Bluefruit Software, his first tech job. He's been there for half a year and before that spent four years teaching music at a secondary school in London while learning to code in his spare time.
In the journey to becoming a developer Ed also started a podcast, A Question of Code, with the aim of answering some of the more common questions that people ask when learning to code.
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In EYFS we use an exciting way to record, track and share your child's learning during their time in nursery and reception. This system, called 'Tapestry', is an 'online learning journal' and enables staff to take photographs, videos and make written observations of some of the 'wow' activities your child does at school. Once set up, you can access this information through the Tapestry app or website (using your email address and a secure password to log in) so that you can celebrate their learning at home too. You can also add your own photos and comments to the journal, send us messages or ask any questions that you may have about your child in school. We set up a parents' noticeboard for each class where general information and letters are posted, and find that this is a very effective way of keeping in touch and communicating with you as parents.
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Jenga is a Swahili word which means 'to build'. Jenga Africa aims to build African young people through suicide prevention programmes, harnessing the power of youth, building safe spaces for difficult and critical dialogues especially in schools; help young people to create a vision for their future so they can achieve their goals and aspirations in life.
Jenga Africa is a safe place for critical dialogues and critical thinking, above all, it is a place where we help young people to create a vision for their future, teaching them ways of dealing with difficult situations, and inspiring them through mentorship programmes.
Depression and suicide rates are rising astronomically in young people, and this matter calls for urgent attention and action. Therefore, governments, schools, families and the community at large need to investigate and address the driving force behind this epidemic.
Innovative strategies and solutions are needed to save our future generation and to ensure a healthy human capital. It's for this reason that Jenga Africa (JA) was formed to contribute to solving this epidemic. Here at JA we focus on 3 pillars that guide our programmes and structures.
1) Mental wellbeing
2) Sports for development [with a focus on mental well-being]
3) Spiritual development [with a focus on mental well-being]
In this year of 2021, Jenga Africa is hosting a wellness bootcamp aimed at raising awareness on issues around depression and suicide ideation amongst young people. For more information on this event and to partner with us, email us at _EMAIL_


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The next time you're unfortunate enough to make your way to a hospital, emergency room, or urgent care clinic, you'll be asked to attach a small pulse monitor to your finger. The device the nurses clip on to one of your remaining digits is called a photoplethysmographic sensor, and basically it is able to read your pulse through reflected light. In the search to find out how these devices actually work, [Raj] sent in a great tutorial covering the theory behind photoplethysmographicy, and also built a simple device to detect a pulse without using a microcontroller.
These photoplethysmographic sensors operate by shining light into someone's flesh – usually a finger or ear lobe – and recording the light reflected back to the source. The volume of blood in the finger will have an effect on the amount of light reflected back, and makes for a perfect way to automatically measure someone's heart rate.
To build his device, [Raj] used a TCRT1000 reflective optical sensor. Inside this sensor is an infrared LED and a phototransistor. Of course with a finger over the sensor there is a ton of noise both from ambient light and the base rate of reflected light from a piece of flesh. [Raj] filtered this out, leaving only the small variations in the amount of reflected light, thus creating a very simple – and very inexpensive – electronic pulse meter.


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Opo. Sensing face to face interactions.
Face to face interactions and the distances they occur at are thought to be important in a number of fields, such as epidemiology, psychology, and robot usability. However, past smartphone and smart badge technologies are unable to provide the right combination of high resolution data and usability.
Smart badges have offered the highest quality data so far. However, the difficulty in synchronizing unpredictable mobile node has resulted in either bulky, high powered nodes or infrastructure heavy systems. To overcome this challenge, Opo uses a novel ultra low power ultrasonic wake up circuit to synchronize nodes, bypassing the time synchronization / scheduling challenges faced by traditional RF synchronization.
Opo is able to provide 2 s time resolution and 5 cm spatial resolution, while running for 4 days on a battery the size of a dime. Opo tags are around 3 cm in diameter and weigh 8 grams, making them easily wearable using a lanyard, lapel pin, or magnetic clips.
The cornerstone of Opo is an ultrasonic wakeup circuit that draws 19 μA when no neighbors are present, enabling us to solve the mobile node coordination problem via broadcast synchronization. Broadcast synchronization allows nodes to remain asleep most of the time and be asynchronously awoken when a neighbor appears. This allows Opo to run without any infrastructure nodes or high powered RF neighbor discovery protocols.


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The most common type of chloride present in a dog's system is sodium chloride. But this mineral performs a lot of functions, and it can also be reformed into hydrochloric acid, which can be found in your pet's stomach. This substance is essential for the digestion of any type of food.
In today's article, we are looking at high or low chloride in dogs' blood, its causes, its diagnosis, and its treatment, and we're also discussing supplements that contain this mineral and what they can be used for.
Why Should Chloride Exist in Your Dog's Blood?
Both potassium and sodium chloride have to be present in your dog's blood flow as they can regulate the transmission of substances from one cell to another. Chloride ions are also essential when it comes to composing the electrolytes that can be found in your pet's system.
On top of that, chloride ions are in charge of keeping your pet's blood volume within stable limits. This means that your dog shouldn't have high or low blood pressure if the amount of chloride ions they have in their blood is normal.
The kidneys are in charge of managing the quantities of sodium and potassium chloride present in your dog's body. Therefore, pets that have renal pathologies are likely to have issues with their chloride levels.
Natural Sources of Chloride
Since the most common kind of chloride is actually sodium chloride, this means that the most common source is table salt. However, dogs and cats should not have high amounts of salt as it can wreak havoc on their bodies.
Chloride can also be found in unprocessed meat and fish, as well as several types of fruit, but the quantities in these sources are relatively low, so they are actually safer compared to supplements. Even eggs contain 4 to 7% of sodium chloride.
Hyperchloremia – Too Much Chloride in Your Pet's Blood
Hyperchloremia can have several different causes, and that's because it depends on the type of chloride whose level increases in your dog's blood. For example, if your dog has had too much salt, they might experience some of the following symptoms:
- A lack of appetite for water
Some dogs can experience somewhat similar symptoms when their potassium chloride levels are increased. This usually happens when pets receive IV fluids, and they don't have enough time to absorb the electrolytes properly.
The two most common symptoms seen in dogs with increased levels of potassium chloride are hyperventilation and kidney health issues, so changes in the dog's urinary habits, as well as diarrhea.
High blood chloride can also be caused by other factors, such as those listed below:
- Cushing's disease
- NSAIDs (meloxicam or carprofen)
Hypochloremia – Low Levels of Chloride in Your Dog's Blood
Low blood chloride is somewhat less common than high blood chloride, especially in healthy adult dogs. Most pets get the nutrients they need from the commercial diets they have.
Even though some pet owners might be adamant about not giving their dogs salt in any situation whatsoever, those animals are still not going to end up developing hypochloremia.
However, this health problem can be caused by dehydration, a secondary symptom of infectious and non-infectious gastrointestinal disease, where the dog vomits and has diarrhea, therefore losing precious electrolytes.
Other causes of hypochloremia are Addison's disease, the use of laxatives and diuretics, as well as chronic heart disease. Bicarbonate (which is toxic to dogs and should never be given to them for an upset tummy) can also cause hypochloremia, and its IV use should also be carefully analyzed.
How Are Chloride Variations Diagnosed and Treated?
Simple blood tests can reveal any changes in your dog's blood chloride levels, but the issue is that this type of test is not exactly commonly used. What we mean by this is that the vet specifically has to suspect a condition that correlates with chloride changes.
Standard blood tests might not be enough. A blood biochemistry panel for sodium and potassium can be revealing in this sense.
As for the treatment, it depends on your dog's health status. Generally, chloride blood level changes can be treated with IV fluids as they are the best when it comes to balancing the electrolyte blood levels that your dog has.
The pet might also have to receive symptomatic therapy for the clinical signs that they are showing, so as to stop dehydration, for example – anti-nausea medication or specific medication for diarrhea.
Although sodium or potassium chloride can be ingredients of various vitamin and mineral complex supplements, there are specific products made for dogs that have had hyperor hypochloremia in the past or those that have urinary health problems.
For example, ammonium chloride is a urine acidifier that can be used for urinary stones or for treating poisoning or metabolic alkalosis. It's less commonly utilized in pets; however, it is more common in large animal veterinary medicine. Pets usually receive potassium chloride supplements, such as those specifically designed for renal health.
In any case, adding supplements to your dog's diet should only be done under the guidance of a veterinarian, so make sure you talk to your vet beforehand. They know best what conditions your dog might have and if one supplement or another might be dangerous for their health.


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Steam, Boil, Fry: The Many Ways to Cook a Dumpling, Explained
Pick your mood—chewy, crispy, soupy, fancy—then pick your method.
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."Of all the cooking methods, boiling applies the most pressure to the dumpling, which can cause them to burst and disintegrate in the water. I have personally experienced much dumpling loss. Most store-bought dumpling wrappersshouldhold up to boiling but they are delicate, so tread carefully. The key is to expel as much air as possible—after spooning the filling onto the wrapper and folding it over to seal, press out any extra air around the filling.
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Reducing the cooking temperature slightly can help too—the dumplings should be gently boiled rather than tossed around aggressively.If you are making homemade wrappers for boiled dumplings, use cold water (water straight from the tap is fine) as this will give you a thicker skin that's more suitable for the pressures of boiling.
Frozen dumplings can usually be boiled, but check packet instructions to make sure they are robust enough for this cooking method.Steam-frying (potsticker method)Steam-frying, or the potsticker method, is employed for dumplings like gyoza and gow gee (also known as jiaozi or guo tie). The dumplings are seared on their base to create a golden, crispy bottom, and then water is added, and they are covered to steam through. When the water evaporates, lift the lid and let them cook a moment longer. This method of double-frying is what gives potstickers their signature crispy crust.
Most recipeswill ask you to use a nonstick pan for steam-frying, as the dumplings have a tendency to stick. When you are starting out, this is definitely a good idea, but I most often use my well-seasoned cast-iron pan or my stainless steel skillet. The key is to heat your pan, especially if it's stainless steel or cast iron, until it's smoking (like, you can literally see the smoke coming off it) before adding the oil.
To steam-fry, heat a large frying pan over medium-high and, when hot, drizzle with vegetable oil. Working in batches, add the dumplings, flat-side down, and cook until the bottoms of the dumplings are lightly browned—this should take 1–2 minutes (if there is too much heat, reduce to medium). Take care with this next step, as the water will bubble and splutter vigorously. It's best to have your lid ready: Immediately add about 3 tablespoons of water to the pan, just enough to cover the base of the dumplings, then cover and cook for 3–4 minutes, or until the water has evaporated. Lift the lid and allow the dumpling to cook for another 30 seconds, to allow the bottoms to get extra crispy.
Frozen dumplings are perfect for potstickers.Feeling fancy? Add a lacy skirtTo add a touch of fancy to your dumplings, add a crispy, lacy skirt. This is a simple process where the water that is normally added to steam potstickers is replaced by a cornstarch slurry. A nonstick pan is best for this cooking method.
The most stylish skirt of the season!Photo and Food Styling by Sohla El-WayllyThis slurry recipe makes enough for one skillet of dumplings, usually 10–12. In a measuring jug (a liquid measurer will provide you with the most control when pouring the slurry into the pan), add the ¼ cup water, 1 tsp. cornstarch, 1 tsp. flour, ¼ tsp. white or apple cider vinegar, a small pinch of salt, and whisk to combine.
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Heat a 10–12 inch nonstick skillet on medium-high. Get a lid ready. When hot, add 2 Tbsp. neutral oil and place your dumplings into the skillet, lining them up in a circular pattern around the pan, making sure they are not touching one another. Whisk the batter again and pour straight into the skillet, making sure to distribute the slurry evenly to fill all the gaps between the dumplings. Cover with a lid, reduce heat to medium, and cook 4–5 minutes to allow slurry to evaporate. Remove lid—there will likely be parts of the slurry that haven't cooked yet and still look pale so move the pan around over the heat to cook until the entire base is golden. Turn off heat. Carefully place a plate over the frypan and flip the dumplings onto the plate. Lift the pan and the dumplings should release easily.
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(C) Fiscal Services Function
Shown here is a sample of Fiscal Services and associated sub-functions. Typically, human services agencies have fairly complex fiscal systems. This particularly relates to revenues that often come from multiple government and private funders and through numerous insurance and other payers reimbursing services related costs. Additionally, these multiple funding sources frequently require separate reporting processes and audit procedures.
· Oversee budgeting and fiscal planning, including developing and monitoring SSIs budget, planning for future agency requirements, and projecting future resources and expenses. Additionally, separate funders normally require budgets and financial projections related to their particular funds or grants. Beyond these needs, budgeting and fiscal planning activities are reflected in annual reports, promotional materials, development materials, and numerous other SSI documents and processes.
· Oversee and manage receivable and payable activities, including accessing and tracking grant and other external funding streams, billing appropriate payers for agency services, paying agency expenses, managing payroll and taxes, tracking use of credit cards and other staff generated expenses, and managing audits and required documentation and reporting for all fiscal activities.
· Develop processes for and manage cost accounting including development and management of strategies and processes to track and measure the cost of providing services. SSI tracks and accounts for all of its resources on a complete, detailed, and continuous basis, including knowing the cost of each aspect of its operation.
As is the case with Administrative Services, Fiscal Services are transparent to SSI clients and visitors, and generally transparent to SSI staff. Like any other well-managed secondary function, Fiscal Services support and sustain the primary Service Function without interference or calling attention to itself. The internal SSI eco system functions smoothly and quietly. Anything less than efficient, effective Fiscal Services represents noise or static disrupting the quiet functioning of the SSI eco system. It would be but another example of the negative energy discussed in Chapter Four. As noted there, the agency eco system is relatively fragile and its tolerance for static and negative energy is quite low.
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