Fiction Addiction: Q&A with Paula Morris
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Paula Morris looked closer to home for the subject matter of her new novel, Rangatira. Photo / Supplied
Expat New Zealand writer Paula Morris has travelled the word in her novels, from the cemeteries of New Orleans to the haunted city of York and the New York PR scene (as well as the streets of Auckland), but the inspiration from her latest release, Rangatira, came from closer to home. It was in her blood.
Rangatira fictionalises a 19th century journey taken by Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu, Morris's great-great-great uncle (if I'm deciphering her family tree correctly).
The novel opens with Paratene posing for the artist Gottfried Lindauer in Auckland in 1886, and thinking back to an extraordinary voyage he made 20 years earlier, to Victorian England. (The painting is now in storage at Auckland Art Gallery but, as you'll see below, Morris took novelist's liberties with the story of its creation.)
We asked Morris about where the facts peter off and the imagination begins, the pressure to do justice to Paratene's story and what's at the top of her Christmas book wishlist.
Q: When did you first become aware of the story of Paratene Te Manu, and why did you decide to write about it?
A: When I was researching my second novel, Hibiscus Coast, back in 2002, I came across James Cowan's book Pictures of Old New Zealand. I saw the Lindauer portrait of Paratene for the first time and read the transcript of Paratene's own account of his life, where he talks about his various taua (war parties) and battles as a young man, and about the trip to England in 1863. I also discovered that he was one of the last owners/inhabitants of Little Barrier, along with my great-great grandparents, Rahui Te Kiri and Tenetahi. There was so much dramatic possibility in this story: I knew it wouldn't leave me alone.
Q: Tell us about the process of researching and writing Rangatira - how long did it take and where did it lead you?
A: I wrote a short story first, in 2003 when I was a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and didn't do much research for this. (I am much lazier than people realise!) But after the story was published in a few different places the following year, I was nudged into re-thinking it as a novel. Everything blurs for me because I also seem to be working on 10 things at once, and moving to different places, and scrambling to earn a living. But I think research for the novel began in earnest in 2005. I spent a lot of time over five years in libraries and archives in New Zealand and the UK, and I also visited a lot of the places Paratene would have seen or known - Marlborough House in London, Birmingham Town Hall, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, the sandspit at Ngunguru. Many people helped along the way.
Q: What effect has this journey of discovery had on you, as a relative of Paratene?
A: It's always interesting, trying to look at things from someone else's point of view, to make the imaginative leap. With a relative, perhaps you think more about resonances with your own life and character. When I think about the restlessness of Paratene's life, which was not untypical of Maori of his era, especially coastal iwi -all the moving from place to place at different times of year, or for protection, or warfare, or adventure, or commerce - I guess there are parallels of sorts in my own life. Paratene thought of several different places as home, and moved constantly between them. His decision to go to England was incredibly rash and eleventh-hour.
Q: Did your personal connection to the story make it easier to write, or harder? Did you feel an extra responsibility to do Paratene's story justice?
A: I'm not sure. For a long time the book was hard to write, but that was because I was unsure about the scope. Deciding to focus everything around the trip to England was key. It also meant I didn't have to research the entire nineteenth century!
The issue of responsibility is an interesting one. With any'real-life' story there are issues of representation to consider, and I didn't want to invent a Paratene Te Manu who bore little resemblance to the historical record. I read whatever I could of his voice - the oral history, some letters, newspaper reports, court testimony - over and over, obsessively, to build a fictional character from the pieces of the real man that remain, and to try to understand what was important to him, what he cared about.
But the responsibilities of a family member, a biographer, and a novelist are not the same. A novelist's chief responsibility is to the reader, I think. We're not restricted to (or by) facts, and our way of honouring an ancestor is unlikely to be a straightahead eulogy. We're looking for complexity, conflict, story. This is one of the reasons I decided to focus on the English trip, where there is a lot of source material, including an amazing detailed account by Paratene of the voyage over. There was plenty of story there, plus a lot of historical record - and photographs.
Q: What were your starting points for creating the character of Paratene, and at what point did artistic licence kick in?
A: Reading letters by him (and by others that mention him) was very useful, but it's like finding 50 pieces of a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. You have a start, but there's a lot to make up! Artistic licence began the moment I read the oral history in 2002. I started imagining the possibilities, the omissions, the bigger picture, the reasons. Researching a novel based in family history is detective work for a case that can never be solved. You have to imagine a lot of the twists and turns.
Q: What are the main departures from fact in the book, and why did you decide to write them in this way?
A: The book imagines a meeting between Lindauer and Paratene, with them spending long hours together in a temporary studio in Auckland in 1886. Their conversations punctuate Paratene's story of the English trip, so I needed them to have substantial amounts of time together. It's unlikely that they ever met in real life; Lindauer probably painted from a photograph. But I liked the idea of them talking about England, because Lindauer went there himself in 1886. And they had in common the experience of being in a foreign country, unable to speak the language - Paratene in England, and Lindauer when he first arrived in New Zealand.
In the novel, Paratene and Horomona Te Atua have two invented excursions together that I couldn't resist: one to the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square, Victorian London's most notorious music hall, and one to the London studio of the painter James Smetham. The story demanded these scenes, just as it demanded that the two actual appearances in Birmingham Town Hall be conflated into one, for example.
Q: Describe the experience of seeing the Lindauer portrait of Paratene up close for the first time.
A: Brilliant. Very moving and exciting. I would love to see it again, hanging on the wall of the Auckland Art Gallery. I would fly home just to see it. I would visit it every single day.
Q: Favourite book, ever?
A: This is the hardest question of all. The first title to enter my head is Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, so I'll go with that.
Q: What book is at the top of your Christmas wish-list?
A: Don De Lillo's story collection, The Angel Esmeralda.
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Iron Metabolism and Chelation Program
Lab head: Des Richardson
Location: D06 - Blackburn Building
Lab members: Head: D Richardson; RFellows: D Kalinowski, D Lovejoy, Y Suryo Rahmanto, D Zhang, D Zhang; PFellows: C Austin, K Dixon, P Jansson, Z Kovacevic, D Lane, K Loh, M Lok, P Quach, V Richardson, Y Yu; RAssistant: S Bal, S Chikhani, M Huang, E Lim, P Obeidy, N Pantarat, F Saletta, D Sharp.
Transport of nitric oxide in cells and its interaction with iron containing proteins in tumour cells
Primary supervisor: Des Richardson
This project will use a combination of techniques that are used in biochemistry, physiology, cell biology, molecular biology and pharmacology. Your project will be multi-faceted and will involve growing human tumour cells in tissue culture and assessing the effects of nitric oxide on the iron transport. This will be done using a wide variety of techniques including Western analysis, RT-PCR and microarray analysis. The lab has considerable experience in these cutting-edge techniques and you will be taught the intricacies of their use.
Feel free to contact Prof. Des Richardson ( to have a chat about whether the project matches your interests.
Discipline: Pathology
Keywords: Iron Metabolism, Cancer, Nitric Oxide


Is Being A Chemist Dangerous?
Is being a chemist dangerous?
Although chemists are trained in proper precautions, the chemicals they handle can still be hazardous to their health.
"Nature" magazine reported in 2006 that explosions and accidental poisonings in chemistry labs have resulted in serious injuries such as blindness and even in death..
Is being a chemist worth it?
You can make a reasonably good living being a chemist. I found, as do many professionals, that a degree proves to management that you are intelligent enough to train. … If you have the intelligence to get a degree in chemistry, then you have the basis, the foundation, for an interesting career.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of being endothermic?
Being endothermic allows us to live in cooler areas and regulate our body temperatures to fight off infection (think of the fever you get fighting off the flu). The downside, though, is that regulating body temperature is energetically costly, and warm-blooded animals need more food than cold-blooded ones.
What are the top 5 Chemistry careers?
What is chemistry in your own words?
Chemistry is the study of matter, its properties, how and why substances combine or separate to form other substances, and how substances interact with energy. … Chemistry is one of the physical sciences that help us to describe and explain our world.
Do chemists make good money?
What are the disadvantages of chemistry?
List of Disadvantages of Chemical EnergyIt can be harmful to the environment. … It comes with a high cost. … It can produce radioactive waste. … It is non-renewable. … It is not good for human health.
What are the benefits of being a chemist?
Chemists usually receive benefits that include paid holidays and vacations, health insurance, and retirement plans.
Is there a demand for chemists?
Prospects. The number of people working as Chemists (in their main job) fell over 5 years: … Industries: Most work in Manufacturing; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; and Retail Trade. Full-time: Most work full-time (83%, much higher than the average of 66%).


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AUSTRALIA - 2010
Bacteria Consumes Refining Impurity in Alcoa-Developed Process
An Alcoa-developed process that uses naturally occurring bacteria to consume an impurity in the alumina refining process is reducing carbon dioxide emissions and energy use and saving millions of dollars compared to conventional destruction technologies.
Oxalate is a natural product found in soil and some plants. When decaying plant matter is carried underground via water, some of it sticks to bauxite ore and enters the alumina refining process, where it degrades into oxalate. Considered an impurity, oxalate must be removed for the process to work efficiently and for the alumina to meet specification.
Alcoa's conventional method for destroying oxalate removed from the alumina refining process has been to burn it in a kiln. This method results in the generation of carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and odors. It also requires expensive and energy-consuming emissions control equipment to meet Alcoa's standards.
In 1999, scientists at Alcoa's Technology Delivery Group in Australia began researching the use of naturally occurring bacteria in the refining process. The focus turned to oxalate, and over the next decade the group continued developing a process and identified naturally occurring bacteria to efficiently consume the impurity.
Known as continuous biological oxalate destruction, the process uses a series of tanks containing warm liquid and bacteria growing on strands of beads. Oxygen and nutrients are added, and oxalate is introduced as a feed source. The bacteria consume the oxalate, reducing carbon dioxide emissions to less than half that of a kiln and emitting minimal VOCs and odor.
Alcoa's Kwinana refinery in Western Australia was the first to implement the process in mid-2009. The system destroys all oxalate produced at the refinery, which averages around 40 metric tons per day, and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by more than 8,000 metric tons annually. Kwinana also avoided approximately US$16 million in capital expenditures, and the refinery is saving approximately US$1.6 million in energy costs each year compared to conventional technology.
"Alcoa is always looking at opportunities to minimize its various wastes and emissions," said Peter McKenzie, manager of environmental health services for the town of Kwinana. "Although members of the community have had some concerns with the Kwinana refinery's operations, I believe they would look upon this oxalate process as good for the environment. Alcoa is certainly on the leading edge in waste avoidance and reuse."
Alcoa plans to next introduce the bio-oxalate process at its Pinjarra and Wagerup refineries in Australia and Pt. Comfort refinery in the United States. Long-term, the process has the potential to consume all of the nearly 200 metric tons of oxalate removed each day by Alcoa's nine refineries around the world, while reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage.
In 2010, the technology earned the Western Australia Engineering Excellence Award (Environment category) and the Australian Government Engineering Innovation Award at the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards. It was also recognized with the inaugural AIRG Medal from the Australasian Industrial Research Group in 2011.

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Configuring IP parameters with Linux and Unix
This tip explains how Linux and Unix configure IP parameters.
This tip is excerpted from TCP/IP Network Administration, Help for Unix System Administrators, by Craig Hunt, from...
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NT Network administrators who are investigating using Linux or Unix servers as Web servers, for example, may not be familiar with the way that Linux and Unix configure IP parameters. Since IP is independent of the network it runs on, all its parameters have to be set in software. The ifconfig (interface configure) command sets these parameters.
Of particular note is setting the broadcast address for the network systems. RFC 919, Broadcasting Internet Datagrams, clearly defines the format of a broadcast address as an address with all host bits set to 1. Since the broadcast address is so precisely defined, ifconfig should be able to compute it automatically, and you should always be able to use the default. Unfortunately, this is not the case. TCP/IP was included in BSD 4.2 before RFC 919 was an adopted standard. BSD 4/2 used a broadcast address with all host bits set to 0, and did not allow the broadcast address to be modified during configuration. Because of this history, some releases of Unix default to a "0-style" broadcast address for compatibility with older systems, while other releases default to the standard "1-style" broadcast address.
Avoid this confusion by defining a broadcast address for the entire network and ensuring that every device on the network explicitly sets it during configuration. Set the broadcast in the ifconfig command using the keyword broadcast followed by the correct broadcast address. For example, the ifconfig command to set the broadcast address for a particular workstation's le0 interface is:
# ifconfig le0 netmask broadcast
The broadcast address is relative to the local subnet. Note that the host bits are all 1 (255).
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It is important that as many individuals as possible understand what Community Policing is and how it can benefit the citizens of Frederick County and the members of the Frederick County Sheriff's Office.
Community Policing requires a law enforcement agency-wide philosophical commitment to involve citizens as partners in the process of reducing and controlling the problems of crime and fear of crime, drugs and neighborhood decay. Community Policing, when properly implemented, results in the improvement of the overall quality of life in the community.
What Is Community Policing?
Community Policing is a philosophy. It is a partnership between law enforcement and the community working together to identify crime related problems, determining their root causes and then applying solutions which will permanently reduce or eliminate these problems.
When members of a community and law enforcement work together to improve the quality of life in that community, the benefits of Community Policing are realized. Law Enforcement benefits by ending a recurring problem. The citizens benefit from the improvement in their quality of life. Those police officers and community members who participated in the solution receive the self-satisfaction which results from having addressed a problem and then arriving at a workable solution.
10 Principles of Community Policing
1. Community Policing is a community-based philosophy. The direction for law enforcement efforts comes more from listening to the citizens of the community about what concerns them than from law enforcement assumptions about what the community wants.
2. Community Policing focuses on creative problem-solving. All persons involved are encouraged to look at the bigger picture to solve pattern or chronic problems.
3. Community Policing promotes the development of trust. It emphasizes a direct working relationship between citizens and the police to develop the ownership of problems.
4. Community Policing establishes a broader role for each law enforcement member. Each member serves as a liaison with the community and assists its citizens in solving community problems.
5. Community Policing stresses community involvement and emphasizes citizen participation in the problem-solving process. This means that the community must accept its responsibility to actively participate in problem-solving. Community Policing acknowledges that the police cannot be successful without citizen assistance.
6. Community Policing is proactive, not reactive. Community Policing anticipates problems and prevents them from occurring or continuing.
7. Community Policing emphasizes providing help where it is needed most. Community Policing especially provides for closer contact with juveniles and the elderly as a means of better understanding their needs.
8. Community Policing enhances traditional policing through interaction with the community. Law enforcement will continue to respond to emergencies and perform in traditional capacities. They will also explore a wide range of responses to community problems and ask for citizen assistance as part of the problem-solving process.
9. Community Policing involves everyone within a law enforcement agency. Successful Community Policing is not limited to the patrol section; it is a change in the policing philosophy of the entire agency.
10. Community Policing personalizes law enforcement service. Law enforcement members work directly with the citizens they serve to identify and prioritize problems, and to devise and implement problem-solving strategies.
What does Community Policing Mean to Me?
Since 1978, serious questions have been raised about whether conventional law enforcement strategies provide effective protection. Traditionally, the assumption has been that criminal, as well as disorderly activity, would be deterred if law enforcement were visible presence on the streets and promptly arrested people who broke the law. Community Policing doesn't question the goal of policing - just the means.
Consider that the type of crime that terrifies Americans most (muggings, rape, robbery, burglary and homicide) is rarely encountered by law enforcement on patrol. Crimes are seldom solved through criminal investigations alone. Crimes are usually solved because the perpetrator is immediately known or because a suspect is identified through information (description, tag number, etc.) provided by the citizens.
How do I become involved?
Citizen Involvement is a must if Community Policing is to be successful
To become involved with improving the quality of life in your neighborhood, contact the Frederick County Sheriff's Office or your local police. In an emergency, call 911 for law enforcement. To report suspicious activity in your community, or any other non-emergency situation, dial _PHONE_. For more information about how Community Policing can make a difference in your community, call the Frederick County Sheriff's Office at _PHONE_ and ask to speak with the Community Policing supervisor. Working together, we CAN and WILL improve the quality of life in Frederick County.
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How do you play the game washers?
When playing a game of washer toss players, stand directly next to the box. Your foot should be in line with the cup inside the box. To determine who will "pitch" first, both players will line up and pitch a washer at the opposite box. Whoever gets closer to the box will be the first to toss; this is called the diddle.
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Simply so, what are the rules for the game of washers?
The game field consists of two washer pits, each containing one recessed cup of 4 inches in diameter. The distance from the cup centers is 25 feet. Each player throws three washers toward the opposite cup. Players are not allowed to step in front of the box.
Furthermore, how do you score in washer toss? TOSSING TALLIES Points are scored based on how close to the cup or hole the washers are thrown. Once all eight washers are tossed, the points from the round are added together. However, only one team will finish with points in each round because of cancellation scoring.
Also to know, how many washers do you throw?
What is a washers tournament?
Washers is a game of skill, similar to Horseshoes, in which individuals or teams compete against one another in an effort to be the first to reach a winning score of 11, 17 or 21 points. The game consists of two washer pits located opposite one another, each with a recessed cup.
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J3/02-232r1 To: J3/INTERP Subject: Interpretation request on STAT= variable requirements in ALLOCATE From: Malcolm Cohen. Date: 2002-08-13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NUMBER: 000099 TITLE: STAT= variable requirements in ALLOCATE KEYWORDS: ALLOCATE, STAT= DEFECT TYPE: STATUS: J3 consideration in progress QUESTION: [79:40-41] says "The shall not appear in a bound in the same ALLOCATE statement." This requirement appears, on the face of it, to apply to the syntax, not to whichever actual variable is identified by the syntax. Question 1: Given INTEGER :: A(10) = (/ (i,i=1,10) /) POINTER P(:) READ *,I,J ALLOCATE(P(A(I)),STAT=A(J)) Is the ALLOCATE standard-conforming, or does it depend on the relative values of I and J? From the quoted text, it would appear that it is always conforming, even when I==J. Question 2: Similarly, given: EQUIVALENCE(I,J) POINTER P(:) I = 5 ALLOCATE(P(I),STAT=J) is the ALLOCATE conforming? Question 3: Similarly, given: POINTER P(:) INTRINSIC DIGITS I = 5 ALLOCATE(P(DIGITS(I)),STAT=I) is the ALLOCATE conforming? From the quoted text, it would appear not to be conforming, despite the non-dependence of the array bound on the value of the STAT= variable. ANSWER: The intent was that the restriction should apply to the actual variable being used for the STAT= variable, not to the syntax. Thus, (1) The ALLOCATE statement is only standard-conforming if I and J are not equal. (2) The ALLOCATE statement is not standard-conforming. (3) The ALLOCATE statement is standard-conforming. Edits to the standard are supplied to clarify this. EDITS: [79:40-41] Delete "The... statement." [80:6] Append to paragraph "No array bound in an ALLOCATE statement shall depend on the value of the." SUBMITTED BY: Malcolm Cohen. HISTORY: 02-232 m162 Submitted 02-232r1 m162 Revised, passed by J3 meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------


text: Analysing Vietnam's rice export policy and recent export ban in the context of rising food prices, this study combines insights from a regionally-disaggregated or 'bottom-up' CGE model and a micro-simulation using household data. Three main conclusions are drawn. First, although there is little impact on GDP, there are substantial distributional impacts across regions and households from different export policies and market conditions. Second, both rural and urban households, including poor households, benefit from free trade, even though domestic rice prices are higher. Finally, under free trade, relatively large gains accrue to rural households, where poverty is most pervasive in Vietnam.


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Pivoting is a way to change direction from one stance to another without taking a step by rotating body's center of mass around its axis. For example, one can pivot from a left lead horse stance to a right lead horse stance by pivoting the upper body. The stance may change during a pivot, such as from a left lead horse to a right lead back stance.
The pivot serves several purposes:
- Assists directional change
- Provides angular acceleration to drive strikes and throws by rotating body mass into the technique
- Assists stance/position change in that may gain distance when needed in defending or close the distance when attacking without having to take steps
- Rotates body in a way that protects vulnerable targets and draws attacker into counters
- Deflects impacts away from vulnerable internal organs as they bounce off the rotating body mass
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How to Make Sugardine Antiseptic
How to Make Sugardine Antiseptic
sugardineSugardine antiseptic is well known to many who deal with horses, however, it is rarely discussed for use in people. Now, read my disclaimer and realize I am not a doctor, so do your own research.
Basically sugardine is an antiseptic that uses the antibacterial properties of both pure sugar and iodine to prevent and kill infections. It is primarily used to treat abscesses and thrush on the hooves of horses, but it can be used in many other ways. As a side benefit to the prepper, it is cheap and easy to make as well as being effective if used properly.
While it is true that a dilute sugar solution will feed bacteria and mold – its how we get all sorts of good alcoholic drinks, when sugar is highly concentrated it sucks the moisture right out of bacteria so that it cannot live. Have you ever had white table sugar grow any bacteria or fungus while it's just sitting out on your counter?
When you add the iodine to make a paste, the iodine provides not only a second line of defense, but holds the sugar together so you can pack it around the wound. Otherwise, just sprinkling sugar on the wound would not hold enough sugar to keep the blood and other fluids from diluting enough so that it would feed the infection instead of killing it.
Basically, if you have a soft tissue would like a cut, abscess, or burn, you would put the sugardine on the wound and cover with a bandage. If the wound is leaking, you want to replace the sugar on a regular basis as if you let it get waterlogged; it will do more harm than good.
When making the sugardine, its best to start with the an amount of sugar close to the amount of finished product you want and slowly add the betadine or Povidone until you get the thick peanut butter texture. Otherwise, you will most likely use too much liquid and have to add sugar repeatedly until you end up with way more sugardine that you intended.
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 1. mix one part 10% povidone iodine to two parts white sugar.
 Add more or less sugar to reach desired consistency.
 It should be like thick honey or peanut butter when all mixed together.
 2. Put the sugardine in a container with a lid.
The mixture will need stirring now and then but it will never go bad.
For more information and as a means to find more resources, please look at the attached article from the American Farriers Journal.
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text: ARID1A is a recently identified tumor suppressor that functions in chromatin remodeling. Inactivating mutations of ARID1A and loss of its expression most frequently occur in ovarian clear cell carcinoma, ovarian endometrioid carcinoma, and uterine endometrioid carcinoma. In this study, we performed a detailed immunostaining analysis of ARID1A in 246 cases including benign endometrium and endometrioid carcinoma at different stages of progression. Special attention was paid to recording intratumoral heterogeneity of clonal loss of ARID1A immunoreactivity. All normal endometria (n=51) and endometrial polyps (n=14) retained ARID1A expression. Among complex atypical hyperplasias (n=38), 16% exhibited clonal loss of ARID1A, but none showed complete loss. Among low-grade endometrioid carcinomas (n=88), 25% exhibited complete loss and 24% exhibited clonal loss. In contrast, 44% of high-grade endometrioid carcinomas (n=55) showed complete loss of ARID1A, and 9% exhibited clonal loss. We found that 19 high-grade carcinomas also contained concurrent low-grade carcinomas. In the high-grade areas, 63% exhibited complete loss and 11% exhibited clonal loss, whereas in the low-grade areas, 37% exhibited complete loss and 42% clonal loss. In 5 of these 19 cases, progressive loss of ARID1A from retention or clonal loss to complete loss was observed between the low-grade and high-grade areas. Overall, the percentage of complete ARID1A loss increased from 0% in complex atypical hyperplasia, to 25% in low-grade endometrioid carcinoma, to 44% in high-grade endometrioid carcinoma. These findings suggest that loss of ARID1A expression, presumably due to mutation, plays an important role in tumor progression of uterine endometrioid carcinoma.


text: To assess the effect of pedogenesis on the soil moisture dynamics influencing the character and quality of ecological habitat, we conducted infiltration and redistribution experiments on three alluvial deposits in the Mojave National Preserve: (i) recently deposited active wash sediments, (ii) a soil of early Holocene age, and (iii) a highly developed soil of late Pleistocene age. At each, we ponded water in a 1-m-diameter infiltration ring for 2.3 h and monitored soil water content and matric pressure during and after infiltration, using probes and electrical resistivity imaging (ERI). Infiltration and downward flow rates were greater in younger material, favoring deep-rooted species. Deep-rooted species tend to colonize the margins of washes, where they are unaffected by sediment transport that inhibits colonization. The ERI results support important generalizations, for example that shallower than 0.5 m, infiltrated water persists longer in highly developed soil, favoring shallow-rooted species. Soil moisture data for the two youngest soils suggested that saturation overshoot, which may have significant but unexplored hydroecologic and pedogenic effects, occurred at the horizontally advancing wetting front. Spatial heterogeneity of soil properties generally increased with pedogenic development. Evidence suggested that some early-stage developmental processes may promote uniformity; the intermediate-age soil appeared to have the least heterogeneity in terms of textural variation with depth, and also the least anisotropy. Lateral heterogeneity was pronounced in older soil, having a multitude of effects on the distribution and retention of soil water, and may facilitate certain water-conserving strategies of plants over what would be possible in a laterally homogeneous soil.


text: Abstract: Web scraping is a foundational task in journalism and tends to be performed using custom, one-off tools. Traditional methods involve constructing HTTP requests and extracting data using XPath. As web sites become more interactive, these methods require an increasing amount of manual effort to develop and maintain. This paper builds on previous work in text-based extraction techniques, adapts them to navigating a real browser, and proposes using Hext, a novel domain-specific language for extracting structured data from HTML. We introduce AutoScrape, an investigative-focused web scraping tool which implements this framework. AutoScrape can simplify many common journalistic data gathering tasks and reduce maintenance costs. In partnership with several non-profit media organizations, this paper will also present case studies describing common investigative tasks and illustrate the use of this framework to successfully solve each problem.


Ordering of Steps
In the recipes package, there are no constraints on the order in which steps are added to the recipe; you as a user are free to apply steps in the order appropriate to your data preprocessing needs. However, the order of steps matters and there are some general suggestions that you should consider.
Transforming a variable
Handling levels in categorical data
The order of steps for handling categorical levels is important, because each step sets levels for the next step to use as input. These steps create factor output, even if the input is of character type.
Dummy variables
Recipes do not automatically create dummy variables (unlike most formula methods).
Recommended preprocessing outline
While every individual project's needs are different, here is a suggested order of potential steps that should work for most problems:
 1. Impute
 2. Handle factor levels
 3. Individual transformations for skewness and other issues
 4. Discretize (if needed and if you have no other choice)
 5. Create dummy variables
 6. Create interactions
 7. Normalization steps (center, scale, range, etc)
 8. Multivariate transformation (e.g. PCA, spatial sign, etc)
Again, your mileage may vary for your particular problem.
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Faculty of Economics
Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have been honoured with the Nobel prize for economics for their work on auction theory.
Professor Paul Milgrom
Professor Milgrom visited the University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics to give the Marshall Lecture in 2019, when he explained how the tools of game theory were applied to auctions.
Dr Matthew Elliott from the Faculty of Economics adds "they made foundation contributions to game theory, and our understanding of how markets can be made to work well. Professor Milgrom's Marshall Lecture at the faculty drilled down into how ideas from computer science and economics can be brought together to design better auctions."
Milgrom and Wilson made pivotal advances in auction theory, moving the theory closer to many more actual settings. For example, understanding how auctions perform when the value of the object being auctioned to different bidders has a common value component as well as a private value one. If you bid at an auction for a painting, only you know the 'value' you place on hanging it on your wall, but you will also consider how much it is worth to others because that affects its resale value.
Dr Elliott explains further "Milgrom and Wilson helped develop new auction formats for real world settings where there are many items, and their value is interrelated. They have been instrumental in getting governments to use auctions instead of procurement, and those auctions have enabled governments to raise huge amounts of revenue around the world."
Milgrom and Wilson went on to develop the 1994 'Simultaneous Multiple Round Auction' for radio spectrum, which is now the defacto standard for mobile phone frequency auctions worldwide. "The vast revenues that governments have raised by auctioning off 5G spectrum can be directly related back to their work", says Dr Elliott.
He adds that the Marshall Lecture gave valuable insights. "Auctions are used every day for everything from gilts to minerals, fish to the adverts seen on the webpages of search engines. We were honoured to have him visit Cambridge and explain his research. As a graduate student I took classes taught by both. I'm delighted that they have won this year's Nobel prize."
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Water Treatment Plant Tours
Take a tour of the Nunes Water Treatment Plant and learn about your community's drinking water system. During the tour, you will observe the treatment process and learn how raw water is treated to meet drinking water standards.
Tours are scheduled between 9:00am and 2:00pm on weekdays. The minimum age of tour participants is 7 years old. Chaperones are required for participants under the age of 18. To schedule a tour, call _PHONE_ and speak with James Derbin, Superintendent. All tour participants are required to sign a waiver of release and liability form. To view the waiver of release and liability form, please click here.
Grade-schoolers learn about drinking water in this fun, colorful booklet that tells the fascinating story of water: The Story of Drinking Water. A Teacher's Guide is available to accompany the student's booklet. These materials are available free of charge to schools in the District's service area.
- Water treatment in ancient Egypt
- Our water planet
- Water science-molecular structure, three forms of water, hydrologic cycle
- Water sources - surface water and groundwater
- How water utilities make water safe to drink
- Distribution to consumers
- Water pollution
- Water costs
- Water conservation
California Water Story (Grades 4 - 6)
These lessons integrate many subject areas (geography, history, science, math and art) and are designed to help students develop specific skills
These lessons can be directly correlated to the California State Department of Education curriculum standards.
California Water Facts
The 12-page, full-color brochure contains eye-catching charts and photos explaining California's surface and groundwater use and delivery system, the state, federal and local water projects, and environmental protection issues.
Alternative water sources such as water recycling, desalination and groundwater recharge are described.
A "Water Trivia" section includes figures on indoor and outdoor household water use, and how much water is used to produce certain foods such as tomatoes, oranges and pasta.
A section on water efficiency in the home and issues such as climate change and water quality are also included.


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See Urban Emo
. Defined as an individual who posesses all of the positive qualities of an emo with urban flair. Emobans are different from emos in several ways:
1. Emobans are well educated, with a fluent intellect, an appreciaition of various music styles, and a propensity for various mediums of art and art appreciation.
2. Emobans are generally more palatable to society's accursed members. They dress fashionably (or set trends), tell devilish morbid jokes, and are the definition of social chameloen, having connections to every thread of the socio-economic spider web.
3. Emobans are very sarcastic, and many times emotionally expressive.
4. Emobans don't nessicarily dye their hair black. Some emobans, in fact, are black. Many emobans, however, do cut their hair eccentricly, often with a razor (a dabbling in razory, as opposed to an obsession), and often covering at least one eye.
5. Emobans are both independent and conscencious individuals, not bound by "groups" or "cliques".
6. Emobans are mostly pessimistic about the fall and/or decay (decay, being perhaps the most intrinsic word to an emoban's dictionary) of (classical) civilization.
7. Emobans aren't obliterate imbeciles.
The "Age of Emoban", if you will, began slightly prior to the 1920s, with the flapper/post-flapper period. It has been mantained throughout the years, and revitilized recently with the introduction/recognition of the emo
and the resurfacing of flapper age style.
Influences of both swing era and emo kid
are apparent. Unlike most "Jenny From the Block" urbies, emobans often wear a considerable amount of makeup (if they are women) and accessorize with ingenius articles, such felt hats and interesting earrings. Much gothic
influence is also demonstrated, through use of Victorian accessries: cameos,lockets, crosses, lace, berets, and black are used often in an emoban female's dress. Men, however, tend to wear considerably less "ice" than their ghetto/pimp male counterparts. In fact, the approach that is often taken is "minimal", consisting of only perhaps an expensive watch and a ring. Shoes are probably the most important accessory, as other apparel may vary in degrees of formality/eccentricity on a given day. Felt hats, belts, argyle socks, and sunglasses are other accessories that may be displayed, though, as previously stated, this deepends on the day the Emoban is currently expressing.


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iDoceo combines a gradebook, planner, diary, and resource manager, with features for tracking student performance, organizing lessons, managing resources, creating seating plans, and integrating with Moodle, Google Classroom, and MS Teams.
What iDoceo does
iDoceo is a comprehensive digital tool for teachers that combines a gradebook, planner, diary, and resource manager into a single platform. It allows teachers to track student grades, attendance, and performance, organize their lessons and schedules, and manage various resources. The app also includes a seating plan feature and integrates with Moodle, Google Classroom, and MS Teams. All data is stored locally on the user's device, ensuring privacy and confidentiality.
Key features for teachers
- Gradebook: Allows teachers to manage icons, text, numbers, annotations, and rubrics. Supports custom calculations and can be linked to Google Classroom.
- Lesson Planner: Provides a space for teachers to organize their lessons and schedules. Supports both simple week schedules and complex rotating cycles.
- Diary: Helps teachers keep track of classroom activities and events.
- Resource Manager: Helps teachers manage various resources, including PDFs, audio files, links, images, and more.
- Seating Plans: Allows teachers to create up to ten seating plans per classroom with five different modes and backgrounds.
- Integration with Moodle, Google Classroom, and MS Teams: Allows teachers to link their current classes or import them from these platforms directly into iDoceo.
- iDoceo Connect: An online platform that allows teachers to post exams and rubrics for students to fill out.
iDoceo is available as a one-time purchase of $11.99 on the App Store, with no additional subscriptions or in-app purchases required.


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||The NPS completed an environmental assessment (EA) that provides an analysis of the environmental consequences of the alternatives considered for the rehabilitation of Arlington House, Outbuildings, and Grounds. The NPS has selected Alternative B for implementation and Finding of No Significant Impact has been signed.
At Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, the National Park Service (NPS) will rehabilitate Arlington House (Mansion), Outbuildings (North and South Slave Quarters), and the historic Grounds (Kitchen Garden and Work Yard) in a manner that protects and maintains the cultural resources and values for which the Robert E. Lee Memorial was established. Furthermore, this will benefit the visiting public by providing a safe environment where NPS can interpret the history and significance of the site through a more accurate representation of circa 1861 historic conditions.
This action is needed because: previous reconstructions of the North and South Slave Quarters are now known to be inaccurate; there is no fire suppression system to safeguard historic buildings and the museum collections housed within those structures; the current mechanical system is not capable of maintaining a suitable climate to preserve the historic buildings and collections; the 1921 Comfort Station is a non-contributing structure in the historic Kitchen Garden; the 1861 Work Yard and Kitchen Garden were previously interpreted and recreated inappropriately; and the foundations of Arlington House have deteriorated due to drainage and humidity problems.


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What is segregation of waste?
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Segregation of waste is carried out to reduce the load of deposition of unwanted things in the environment.
Deposition of non-biodegradable things leads to pollution.
Waste can be segregated in two ways:
A. Biodegradable Watse and Non-biodegradable waste
Biodegradable Waste
Non-biodegradable Waste
Organic waste such as kitchen waste, remain of vegetables, dried flowers, leaves, papers which can be used to make manure.
Wastes such as recyclable waste such as metals, glass, plastic
Toix waste: medicines, material used in hospitals.
B. Dry Garbage and Wet Garbage
On domestic level, in our houses we can segregate dry and wet garbage. Wet garbage can be disposed off more frequently as it decomposes fast and may spread bad odour and can be the site for the growth of certain microorganisms.
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Pedal Box - Whats this then?
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 Diesel Tuning UK would like to introduce the Pedal Box to the UK market from DTE of Germany. A simple yet effective throttle response modification designed to improve your driving experience. Fitting between the accelerator pedal and the ECU (the cars brain), on modern Ã¢â¬Ëdrive-by-wireÃ¢â¬â¢ vehicles, the Pedal Box maximises the signal to give the smoothest and most effective response. Suited to both diesel and petrol vehicles the Pedal Box makes the vehicle more driveable in many ways...
 When in an overtaking situation it is essential to access all the engines power as efficiently as possible. An enhanced throttle response improves that efficiency and therefore the speed and safety of an overtaking manoeuvre.
 Driving Pleasure
 A better throttle response plays a major part in the overall driving experience as it gives the driver superior control over the acceleration of the vehicle.
 Coming Out of a Corner
 Prior to entering a corner, the vehicles brakes are applied or power is reduced. When the accelerator is applied through or after the corner, the vehicle needs to respond smoothly and quickly in order to maintain the correct road speed. A better throttle response improves the power delivery and helps the car accelerate from the corner more effectively.
 Changing Gear
 After changing gear there can be a slight delay in the response of the throttle, this delay is often only one or two seconds but can have a negative impact on the driveability of the vehicle. An improved throttle response will vastly shorten or remove this delay altogether transforming the driving experience.
 Traditionally a vehicles accelerator pedal would be connected to the engine by a cable, so that when the pedal was pressed the cable would be pulled and the throttle would open. Most modern vehicles utilise a fly-by-wire control system for the accelerator. This means that when the pedal is pressed a sensor measures how far the pedal has been pressed, sends a signal to a control module, which in turn sends a signal to the engine to open the throttle the corresponding amount.
 The Pedal Box sits between the sensor and the control module, intercepting that signal and altering it in order to shorten and improve the response time. This works in the same manner as many manufacturer fitted Ã¢â¬ËSportÃ¢â¬â¢ buttons, reducing the amount of pedal travel required to achieve Ã¢â¬ËThrottle Wide OpenÃ¢â¬â¢, allowing you to access the engines full potential.
 The Pedal Box comes programmed with four adjustable maps, specific to your vehicle model, that each alters the throttle signal to a different level. The driver can select and adjust the different maps to find the setting that best suits their driving style and individual vehicle.
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Abstract: We study the contribution of multiple covers of an irreducible rational curve C in a Calabi-Yau threefold Y to the genus 0 Gromov-Witten invariants in the following cases. (1) If the curve C has one node and satisfies a certain genericity condition, we prove that the contribution of multiple covers of degree d is given by the sum of all 1/n^3 where n divides d. (2) For a smoothly embedded contractable curve C in Y we define schemes C_i for i=1,...,l where C_i is supported on C and has multiplicity i, the integer l (0l). In the latter case we also get a formula for arbitrary genus. These results show that the curve C contributes an integer amount to the so-called instanton numbers that are defined recursively in terms of the Gromov-Witten invariants and are conjectured to be integers.


How to Create the Ultimate Exercise Playlist
Studies show that the rhythmic speed of your music influences your athletic performance. Here's how to use that information to create the ultimate playlist for your workout.
Original photo by Laisie Tu
The Science
How to Create the Ultimate Exercise Playlist
While it's no surprise that fast-paced music is a good and popular exercise companion, a study published last year discovered a direct correlation between fast-paced music and athletic performance. Volunteers in the study were given popular music to listen to while riding a stationary bicycle. For the first ride, the music was played as-is. In subsequent rides, some volunteers received music slowed down by 10% and others received music sped up by 10%. The riders were not informed of the change, yet their performance changed nonetheless:
When the tempo slowed, so did their pedaling and their entire affect. Their heart rates fell. Their mileage dropped. They reported that they didn't like the music much. On the other hand, when the tempo of the songs was upped 10 percent, the men covered more miles in the same period of time, produced more power with each pedal stroke and increased their pedal cadences. Their heart rates rose. They reported enjoying the music - the same music - about 36 percent more than when it was slowed. But, paradoxically, they did not find the workout easier. Their sense of how hard they were working rose 2.4 percent. The up-tempo music didn't mask the discomfort of the exercise. But it seemed to motivate them to push themselves. As the researchers wrote, when "the music was played faster, the participants chose to accept, and even prefer, a greater degree of effort."
Choosing the Music
You want fast-paced music on your playlist, but some songs may be deceptive. As we've previously discovered, the best exercise music should be between 120-140 (beats per minute). The question is, how do you calculate the BPM of a song? Well, there's always the old fashioned way: counting.
How to Create the Ultimate Exercise Playlist
Alternatively there is software to help you out. Both BPM Calculator (Windows) and BPM Assistant (Mac OS X) let you tap along with the song to calculate its BPM.
Once you've calculated the BPM of a song, you can generally store it in the ID3 tag of the music file. For example, getting info on a song in iTunes will let you enter the BPM. Using iTunes as an example, you can then sort your music by BPM and choose the songs you want that fall into the 120-140 BPM range.
Getting the Tracks in Order
How to Create the Ultimate Exercise Playlist
When thinking about the order of the tracks in my exercise playlist, I'm reminded of Nike+. On the iPod, it lets you assign a high-tempo "power song" to your run and start it when you're coming close to the finish. The idea is that it'll help motivate you to push through the remainder of your run and eke out a little extra speed.
This is the concept to think about when you plan your playlist. If you're running steady on a treadmill, building your songs by BPM is an easy option. That way you'll end up on the fastest song and, in theory, pace yourself to gain speed as you gain distance. If you're dealing with varied incline and might want that additional motivation when you're hitting a hill (or greater resistance on the treadmill/stationary bike/elliptical/etc.) you may want to time the high BPM songs for those moments instead. Think about your run and when you need those "power songs" so you can build a playlist that fits your workout best.
Got any tips for building the perfect workout playlist? Let's hear 'em in the comments!


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Identify Exhaustive Events
In this worksheet, students will practise identifying exhaustive events and look at the probability of an event not happening.
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In other activities, we have looked at finding a single probability. This time, we're going to look at exhaustive events.
What are exhaustive events?
Exhaustive events are two events that describe everything that could happen.
For example, if I throw a coin, getting a head and getting a tail are the only two things that could happen, so they are exhaustive.
If a roll a dice, getting a 2 and getting a 3 are not exhaustive as they don't describe everything that could happen.
If I roll a dice, getting a 2 and not getting a 2 are exhaustive as they describe everything that could happen.
Probabilities adding to 1
We know that if something is certain, it has a probability of 1.
We can use this fact to find the probability of something not happening.
Find the probability of rolling a dice and not getting a 2.
Let's look at the example from above with the dice.
The probability that I get a 2 and the probability that I don't get a 2 are exhaustive, this means that one of them is certain to happen. This means we can say that:
P(getting a 2) + P(not getting a 2) = 1
If we rearrange this...
P(not getting a 2) = 1 - P(getting a 2).
This means that if we know the probability of something happening, we can find the probability of it not happening.
P(not getting a 2) = 1 - 1/6 = 5/6
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2 conducting wires of the same materialand of equal lengths and equal diameters are first connected in series and then parallel in a circuit across the same potential difference. the ratio of heat produced in series and parallel combinations shall be?
Asked by LakshmiSriram | 29th Sep, 2013, 12:38: AM
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The wires are of same material, equal lengths and diameters. Hence, the resistance of both wires is same, say R.
When they are connected in series:
The voltage across each is V/2 and current is I.
Thus, total heat produced is;
When they are connected in parallel:
The voltage across them is V and current is I/2
Thus, the heat produced is;
Thus, the ratio of heat in series and parallel is;
Hs/Hp = 1
Answered by Romal Bhansali | 29th Sep, 2013, 10:20: AM


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Email Address Harvesting Software
To collect Email Ids from website, use this Mass Email extractor or Email harvesting software.
This is mainly used by marketting people to communicate a product advertisement to a large group of people (or personalized Email to list of addresses). We seek the help of email marketing products to extract electronic mail addresses from any of these sources – emails address list, text files, web pages or Url etc.,).
Use our product for free and buy it from our products page, once you are satisfied. Also you can learn how to build yourself a email extractor from URL. Read to know more.
Website Email Extractor – Input Format
Before proceeding with extracting Email addresses, let's understand the basics about Email Addresses.
Every Email address corresponds to an electronic mail Box & has a Local Part and a Domain part separated by symbol "@". (_EMAIL_)
Related Topic: How to Fetch Email Ids from Outlook Email?
There are some restrictions on what are the allowed characters (Alphabets, Special characters, Numbers etc.,) in these sections. To know more details about limitations of these 2 sections refer to the guidelines of RFC 6531 or Wiki reference at end of this article.
Limitations of Email Extractor: At this point, we are going to assume the below points for our VBA code to work.
- Local & Domain part does not have SPACES, Double Quotes and any of these special characters "(),:;<>@[\]".
- Excel Cell has limitation for number of characters. If the text content has very huge content, modify the code to read the content from a text file and parse the email Ids.
How to Extract Email address from Website or URL?
The Excel Macro VBA code in this page scans the text content, character by character and extract email Ids from website (local & domain parts) in that page.
- If the content is in text file, copy paste the text file to Excel sheet 1, cell A2 and execute this code.
- If the content is in webpage, get the HTML source of the webpage and paste in the Excel in same location as above.
Once, the content is copied to Excel sheet (Excel macro for beginners), press Alt+F11 to go to VB Editor. Then cope paste the below code and Execute the code by pressing F5.
Note: By Combining this code and the code from this page, you can make code to extract emails from websites all by yourself.
Private Sub Email_Extractor_From_Website() Dim oWebData As Object, sPageHTML As String, sWebURL As String 'Change the URL before executing the code sWebURL = "_URL_" 'Extract data from website to Excel using VBA Set oWebData = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") oWebData.Open "GET", sWebURL, False oWebData.send sPageHTML = oWebData.responseText 'Get webpage data into Excel Extract_Email_Address_From_Text sPageHTML End Sub '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Visit our website for more Tips and Tricks'---- Officetricks.com ----''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Private Sub Extract_Email_Address_From_Text(Optional Text_Content As String) Dlim_List = " ""(),:;<>@[\]" 'Get Text Content and assign to a Variable If Text_Content = "" Then Text_Content = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(2, 1) End If Web_Page_Text1 = Text_Content If Web_Page_Text1 = "" Then MsgBox "Error: No Input Provided - Provide Input" Exit Sub End If 'Scan each word in Text and Extract Email Addresses ORow = 2 While (Web_Page_Text1 <> "") 'Locate position of symbol "@" First_@ = VBA.InStr(1, Web_Page_Text1, "@", vbTextCompare) 'If there is no occurance of "@" then terminate process If First_@ = 0 Then GoTo End_sub: 'Seperate Web_Page_Text2 = VBA.Mid(Web_Page_Text1, 1, First_@ - 1) Web_Page_Text3 = VBA.Mid(Web_Page_Text1, First_@ + 1) Dlim_Pos_Max = 99999 Dlim_Pos_Min = 0 For i = 1 To VBA.Len(Dlim_List) Dlim_2_Compare = VBA.Mid(Dlim_List, i, 1) Dlim_Pos = VBA.InStrRev(Web_Page_Text2, Dlim_2_Compare, -1, vbTextCompare) If (Dlim_Pos > Dlim_Pos_Min) And (Dlim_Pos > 0) Then Dlim_Pos_Min = Dlim_Pos Dlim_Pos = VBA.InStr(1, Web_Page_Text3, Dlim_2_Compare, vbTextCompare) If (Dlim_Pos < Dlim_Pos_Max) And (Dlim_Pos > 0) Then Dlim_Pos_Max = Dlim_Pos Next i If Dlim_Pos_Max = 0 Then GoTo End_sub: 'get Email list to Text Variable Email_Domain_Part = VBA.Mid(Web_Page_Text3, 1, Dlim_Pos_Max - 1) Email_Local_Part = VBA.Mid(Web_Page_Text2, Dlim_Pos_Min + 1, VBA.Len(Web_Page_Text2) - Dlim_Pos_Min) Mail_Address = Email_Local_Part & "@" & Email_Domain_Part 'Scan through remaining content ORow = ORow + 1 ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(ORow, 2).Select ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(ORow, 2) = Mail_Address Web_Page_Text1 = VBA.Mid(Web_Page_Text1, Dlim_Pos_Max + First_@ + 1) Wend End_sub: MsgBox " Process Completed" End Sub
Email Extractor Software Download
In recent Google and Web technology we use these fancy words like Spider, Crawler often. Such software sweep through complete code or content and extract the information that they are meant to harvest.
Thus this Excel VBA Code is an Email Spider which provides email marketing help. Huge number of Emails can be extracted with this automation process in just one click, which will save lot of manual effort.
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Note: Refer to the limitations explained in Format of Email Address & Wiki reference, before using this template. If the code is not working at some point, it might be due to the limitation explained in these sections.
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Ice hockey work out
Are ice hockey players fit?
Dr. Renda Hawwa points out in a feature on ice hockey that the sport "requires a combination of aerobic and anaerobic fitness," and players can burn anywhere from 400 to 800 calories in an hour. Ice hockey players like to think that their sport is the most demanding on the planet, providing undisputed hockey fitness.
How much do hockey players train?
Two hours of training, or possibly two and a half hours, typically start around 10 a.m., usually five days a week.
What kind of workouts do hockey players do?
1. Hockey Strength Training Arm swings and circles. Trunk rotations, twists and stretches. Walking lunges, prisoner squats and leg swings. Burpees and stride jumps. Medicine ball tosses and cross crawls.
Does hockey build muscle?
The intensity and volume of hockey is often adequate for breaking down the muscle fibers and thus causing an increase in leg and hip muscle size in novice and average players.
Do hockey players lift weights?
Most professional sports players utilize weights in their training, and each phase of that training has different objectives. To reach peak fitness and performance, follow this ice hockey weight training program, which also explains the need for cardio workouts.
What is the hardest sport in the world?
Degree of Difficulty: Sport Rankings
Boxing 8.63 1
Ice Hockey 7.25 2
Football 5.38 3
Why is hockey the hardest sport?
Hockey players need to have skill and agility. They need to have all the moves and skills of basketball, soccer and other sports, but do it all on skates, often backwards. Ice hockey players are the toughest athletes on the planet and have to endure the harshest physical beating to win the Stanley Cup.
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Who are the toughest athletes?
The Toughest Athletes Who Ever Lived The Toughest Athletes Who Ever Lived. One of the most admirable traits of any athlete is toughness. Jim Abbott, Baseball. It's tough enough to be a professional athlete. Wayne Shelford, Rugby. Kurt Angle, Wrestling. Serena Williams, Tennis. Gordie Howe, Hockey. Alexis Arguello, Boxing. Chuck Bednarik, Football.
How many days off do NHL players get?
four days
How much weight do NHL players lose in a game?
5 to 8 pounds
Is running good for hockey players?
Yes and no. Hockey is an anaerobic sport and long distance running is purely aerobic which gives it very little crossover into the game of hockey once you train it beyond a certain threshold. This is why you see players all the time doing "cardio" and yet still becoming totally exhausted on the ice.
Are squats good for hockey?
Hockey players usually have tight hips from skating, squatting can help increase hip mobility by going to full-depth. Full-depth squats will help you do both of these better by facilitating more muscle fibers being worked, like stated above.
What do hockey players do during intermission?
Every player uses the intermission as an opportunity to rehydrate, either with water or a sports drink. That way, they'll feel refreshed and reenergized for the rest of the game and can continue giving their all out on the ice. Some players will also eat something during their break to help refuel.
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Artifact Registry is the recommended service for managing container images. Container Registry is still supported but will only receive critical security fixes. Learn about transitioning to Artifact Registry.
Enabling and disabling the service
This page describes the steps to enable and disable Container Registry.
See Pricing for information about charges for Container Registry.
See the Container Analysis documentation for information about enabling Container Analysis APIs and pricing for vulnerability scanning.
Enabling service
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 4. Install and initialize Cloud SDK if it is not already installed. To update an existing installation, run the command gcloud components update.
 5. Enable the API from Cloud Console or with the following gcloud command:
 gcloud services enable
Disabling service
To disable the API from the Cloud Console:
 1. Go to the API Overview page for Container Registry.
 2. Select the project where the API is enabled.
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Run the following command to disable the API for your current project:
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Famous People We Wish Were Still Alive
Noble people have always strived towards improving the lives of others. Many achieve their goal of changing the world for the better, so much so that we end up missing them after their death. It is often the thought that the world could have utilized such individuals' wisdom that makes us wish they were still alive. Here is a list of such personalities whom we miss dearly.
Also Known As: Michael King Jr.
Birthday: 15 January 1929
Born In: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died On: 04 April 1968
Famous As: Civil Rights Activist
Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the civil rights movement in the USA. He employed Christian believes and non-violence methods like civil disobedience and paved the way for dignified and respected life for African-Americans.
Birthday: 14 March 1879
Born In: Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died On: 18 April 1955
Famous As: Physicist
The Nobel laureate, Albert Einstein, was one of the greatest theoretical physicists who immensely contributed to the growth of modern physics and quantum mechanics. He is considered one of the most intelligent persons in history. Though not tested, his estimated intelligence quotient is regarded as a benchmark.
Also Known As: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Birthday: 15 April 1452
Born In: Anchiano, Italy
Died On: 02 May 1519
Famous As: Polymath
Most of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, including the world-renowned 'Mona Lisa,' are being studied and scrutinized by scholars, historians, and scientists among men from other professional fields in order to decipher the hidden messages. Perhaps, Leonardo could have helped decipher his works if he were still alive today.
Also Known As: Frederick Freddie Mercury, Farrokh Bulsara
Birthday: 05 September 1946
Born In: Stone Town, Tanzania
Died On: 24 November 1991
Famous As: Singer-songwriter, Record Producer
Known for his four-octave vocal range, Freddie Mercury is often considered one of the greatest lead singers in rock music history. His life was cut short by AIDS at the age of 45. In 2001, he was inducted posthumously into the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.'
Also Known As: Robin McLaurin Williams
Birthday: 21 July 1951
Born In: Chicago
Died On: 11 August 2014
Famous As: American stand-up comedian
Regarded as one of the funniest comedians of all time, Robin Williams went on to achieve huge popularity as a film actor. If not for Lewy body dementia, which forced him to commit suicide by hanging, Robin would've continued making people laugh for many more years.


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Donald Cockcroft, a Professor in the Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the College of Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Cockcroft has made several significant contributions to asthma research and helped develop one of the earliest sets of asthma guidelines. He developed a method for methacholine challenge that is widely used around the world to assess airway responsiveness and diagnose asthma. His research was also important in the recognition of asthma as an inflammatory disease. His work with the AllerGen Network of Centres of Excellence Clinical Investigator Collaborative has leveraged industry funding for clinical research, standardized testing protocols for potential asthma drugs, and helped identify potentially effective treatments at an early stage of development. Dr. Cockcroft is a former president of the Saskatchewan Thoracic Society and the Canadian Thoracic Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. In 2006, he was awarded a Career Achievement Award in Clinical Health Research from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.
Dr. Donald Cockcroft is a renowned and highly cited expert in asthma who has made significant contributions to respiratory medicine. His pioneering achievements have played a key role in our understanding of asthma and have impacted asthma diagnosis and management. He has been heavily involved in developing asthma guidelines with organizations such as the Canadian Thoracic Society. He is one of the founders of the AllerGen Network of Centres of Excellence Clinical Investigator Collaborative, a world-leading initiative to identify and accelerate development of potential new asthma medications. He also developed the widely used Cockcroft-Gault formula for predicting creatinine clearance.


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Wood plastic composite material
In this study some of the important properties of experimentally manufactured wood– plastic composites (WPC) were determined. Specimen having 60% and 80% particle and fibre of radiata pine (Pinus radiata ) were mixed with polypropylene (plastic) and four different additives, namely Struktol TR 016 which is coupling agent, CIBA antimicrobial agent (IRGAGUARD F3510) as fungicide, CIBA UV filter coating (TINUVIN 123S), CIBA blue pigment (IRGALITE), and their combinations.
Based on the initial finding of this work static bending properties of the samples enhanced as above chemicals were added into both particle and fibre-based specimens. Thickness swelling of the samples were also improved with having additives in the panels. Micrographs taken on scanning electron microscope (SEM) revealed that coupling agent and pigment resulted in more homogeneous mixture of wood and plastic together. Two surface roughness parameters average roughness (Ra) and maximum roughness (Rmax) used to evaluate surface characteristics of the samples showed that particle based samples had rougher surface characteristics than those of fibre based ones. No significant influence of chemicals added in the samples was found on surface roughness values of the samples manufactured from particle and fibre of radiata pine.
Wood-plastic composites (WPC) are widely used in USA, the most common type of such panels are produced by mixing wood flour and plastics to produce a material that can be processed similar to 100% plastic based products (Ballerini 2004, Charrier 1999, Groom, Shaler and Mott.1996, Simonsen 1995). Some of the major advantages of WPC include their resistance against biological deterioration for outdoor applications where untreated timber products are not suitable. The sustainability of this technology becomes more attractive when the low cost and high availability of fine particles of wood waste is considered.
These composites are transformed by extrusion processes to obtain applications including profiles, sheathings, decking, roof tiles, and window trims, with improved thermal and creep performance compared with unfilled plastics (English and Falk 1995, Tangram Technology 2002, Verhey Steven and Laks 2002). However, it is necessary to improve their physical and mechanical properties as well as appearance of such products to have a strong market share in wood composite panel industry. There are several ways to improve overall properties of WPC panels, namely using right size of raw material, optimum mixture and preparation of the elements in the product, and adding small amounts of additives such as coupling agents, pigments, antimicrobials or light stabilizers during their production (Nielsen and Landen 1994, Plueddemann 1982).
Most of the physical and mechanical properties WPC depends mainly on the interaction developed between wood and the thermoplastic material. One way to improve this interaction is incorporating a coupling agent as additive. In general, the additives help the compatibility between hydrophilic wood and hydrophobic plastic allowing the formation of single-phase composite. WPC also have problems when they are exposed to UV rays, their natural wood or pigmented colour may tend to fade away. Therefore, depending on the final application, UV filters have to be added to stabilize their colours for a longer time. When designing a commercial composite, the effect of particle size is one of the most important parameters affecting overall products properties. The use of optimum large particles might improve the mechanical properties of a composite, but the incorporation of a preservative should also be considered if it will be used for an application where biological resistance of this product is important (Verhey, Lacks, Richter, Larkin 2002).
Radiata pine is one of the main species having with an annual production of 27 million of cubic meters in Chile. It's an excellent prime source for pulp and paper manufacture in Chile and many other countries. Additional products from radiata pine include interiors and exteriors panels, furniture manufacture, trimming, and structural lumber. Although research and technological development in the area of WPC in Chile has been increasing. But no comprehensive work has been done in this area (Ballerini 2004). Therefore the main objective of this work is to investigate some of the properties of WCP panels manufactured from radiata pine furnish and plastic, which is virgin polypropylene, with addition of various chemicals to provide an initial data in this area.
Wood plastic composite Materials and methods
Commercially produced polypropylene in the form of pellets and wood material of radiate pine (Pinus radiata) were used to manufacture experimental panels. Wood particles were manually screened on a sieve and classified into two portions, 10 mesh particles and 50 mesh fibres. Four different types of chemicals Struktol TR 016 which is coupling agent, CIBA anti-microbial agent (IRGAGUARD F3510) as fungicide, CIBA UV coating (TINUVIN 123S) and CIBA blue pigment (Irgalite) were added into the samples. Table 1 shows the list of the chemicals and their percentages used for panel production. Wood particles and fibres were dried in an oven before they were mixed with polypropylene. First plastic material was put into mixer rotating at 75 rpm having a temperature of 165°C for 2 minutes followed by adding the chemicals for each type of mat. In the next step particles or fibre were added into the mixture and rotated for another 3 minutes completing a total mixing time to 5 minutes. Figure 1 illustrates the mixer used for panel manufacture. Mixed samples then were pressed in a hot press with a 20 cm by 20 cm platen capacity. Each batch of sample was pressed using a temperature of 165° and a pressure of 40 bar for 5 minutes. The press was cooled off while the samples were still under compression before they were removed and conditioned in a climate chamber with a temperature of 20°C and a relative humidity of 55%. Average target thickness of the panel was 2.5 mm. Modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR) of the samples were determined on a Comten Testing Unite equipped with a load cell with a capacity of 2,000 kg Figures 2A, 2B, and 3 show some of fibre and particle based samples and bending test set-up, respectively.
Four samples with a size of 5 cm by 5 cm were used to determined thickness swelling (TS) of the panels. The thickness of each sample was measured at four points. Then samples were submerged in distilled water for 2 hours and 22 hours before thickness measurements were taken from the same location to calculate swelling values. Surface roughness of the samples was also determined using a stylus type profilometer. A portable stylus equipment consisted of a main unit and pick-up which had a skid-type diamond stylus with 5μm tip radius and 90° tip angle (Figure 4). The vertical displacement of the stylus is converted into electrical signal and digital information. Different roughness parameters such as average roughness and maximum roughness can be calculated from that digital information and profile of the surface can be developed as shown in Figure 5. Description of these parameters is discussed in previous studies [5,6]. Six random measurements were taken from the surface of tested bending samples to evaluate surface characteristics of the panels. Micrographs were also taken from the cross section of the samples with 3 mm by 3 mm face surface area to evaluate effect of wood plastic interaction on both particle and fibre based samples. Figures 9A through 9D show typical micrographs taken from the samples.


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The potential impact of an implemented income redistribution package on obesity prevalence in New Zealand.
Last updated on 18-12-2020 by Stefanie Vandevijvere
Peer reviewed scientific article
AIM: This study quantified associations between (absolute and relative) individual income and obesity prevalence. These associations were then used to model the potential effect of a New Zealand (NZ) Government's income redistributive policy (the Families Package) on adult obesity prevalence. METHODS: Logistic regressions were used to investigate associations between absolute individual income and adult obesity prevalence in NZ. Linear regressions were used to assess associations between relative income (income inequality measured by Gini) and obesity prevalence (from the NCD-RisC) for O…
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Acquisition order helps bootstrapping category structure
The more typical instances of a concept are acquired earlier by children and adults, remembered best, retrieved faster etc. (Mervis & Rosch 1981). These effects are robust, but scholars hardly agree about the mental models underlying them, and their relation to predicate meaning. The need for an account is strengthened by accumulating evidence for typicality effects in the categories of grammar (Langacker 1987, Lakoff 1987).
Rosch states that evidence about a prototype (an optimal instance or feature set) poses constraints, but does not in itself constitute a mental model (ibid).
Formal accounts based on membership degrees have been proven highly problematic: Fuzzy Logic (Zadeh 1965) predicts that no entity is more typical of a brown apple than of an apple. However, typical brown-apples are counter-examples (atypical apples). Partee & Kamp's 1995 solution to this problem fails to account for cases with no syntactic modification: They predict that no entity is more typical of an ostrich than of a bird. However, typical ostriches are counter-examples (atypical birds); Worse yet, a prototype cannot be associated with tall, because there is no maximum tallness (ibid), so the intuition that there are typical tall people remains unaccounted for. Similarly for composed concepts: For ex. what is the prototype of non-bird: a dog, day, number?
I propose different conditions for a feature / entity to be considered typical.
(i) Features like nesting are typical of a bird if they correlate with ordering (not membership!) in bird. The correlation is ceteris paribus:
Any entity more typical in nesting than other entities (equally typical in other features) is more typical of a bird.
(ii) This typicality ordering (scale) is no more than a side effect of the order in which we learn that entities fall under bird, which remains encoded in memory. While disambiguating predicate meaning within a particular context, the status of entities deviating from given examples (given birds) is uncertain. Thus:
d1 is more typical of P than d2 in a context iff: Either the P-hood of d1 is established earlier than the P-hood of d2 Or the non-P-hood of d2 is established earlier than the non-P-hood of d1.
This correctly predicts that: The earlier we learn that d is a bird the more typical we consider d to be; Atypical birds (lately acquired birds) may be typical ostriches (even the earliest ostriches known!) Similarly, even the latest apples acquired might be the earliest brown apples acquired; The scale of non-bird is, by this definition, inverse to the scale of bird in each context (see evidence in Smith et al 1988); Context independent prototypes (maximal tallness) are not needed: In each context some entities are the best: the earliest given (among the available entities); Finally, concepts like tall have fixed ordering features, but typical associates with them more contextual features. Thus, the NP typical tall person, like typical bird, associates with a more context dependent scale.
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Recovery from disasters is a key capability for federal, state, and local governments. To support this capability, practitioners at all levels need useful and validated metrics to measure and monitor how well a community is recovering from a disaster over time.
This briefing paper outlines practitioners' need for these metrics. The hazards research community over the last decade has made the case for more systematic ways of measuring the disaster recovery process across events and over time to improve planning for and recovery from disasters. A high-quality recovery process informed by data can provide an opportunity to build future resilience by taking advantage of the increased interest and present resources.


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Narrator: This is Science Today. The ORTEC Fission Meter is the first portable neutron detector that can distinguish between fissile and non-fissile neutron sources in real time. The suitcase-sized detector uses technology developed by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Staff physicist Phil Kerr describes how it can be used.
Kerr: There typically is a program called reach back, where first responders might have a smaller detector that maybe detects neutrons and/or gamma rays. They can report some suspicious event or some suspicious package or maybe a facility that has elevated count rate. They can then send that application to the reach back, which are groups of people that are generally located within the national laboratory system. If that information indicates that there may be something there that is of interest, such as a neutron source or a gamma ray source that really shouldn't be there, a team would go out and they would carry a number of pieces of equipment - the fission meter could be one of those.
Narrator: For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin.


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Fabrication of coral like carbon black/MnO2 nano composites from commercial carbon black and their application in supercapacitors
A carbon black/MnO2 nano-composite (CB/MnO2) of coral-like architecture was synthesized from a commercially available conductive carbon black (CB) using an in situ method. The morphology and structural analysis of the synthesized CB/MnO2 revealed 10 nm thick MnO2 nano-sheets grown on the CB. The MnO2 nano-sheets of poorly crystalline δ-MnO2 birnessite structure assembled into a coral-like architecture. Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) microanalysis showed high Mn content in the composite. Electrochemical tests using the synthesized CB/MnO2 showed a specific capacitance of 946 F g−1 at a current density of 0.3 A g−1, which was much higher than that of the composites reported in the literature. Under a current density of 30 A g−1, the CB/MnO2 electrode was shown to retain a high specific capacitance after 5000 charge/discharge cycles. The results from this study demonstrate that the CB/MnO2 nano composite materials of coral-like architecture fabricated with commercially available CB and MnO2 achieved a good electrochemical performance, exhibiting promising application prospects.


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A practical guide to semiconductor manufacturing from process control to yield modeling and experimental design
Fundamentals of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process Control covers all issues involved in manufacturing microelectronic devices and circuits, including fabrication sequences, process control, experimental design, process modeling, yield modeling, and CIM/CAM systems. Readers are introduced to both the theory and practice of all basic manufacturing concepts.
Following an overview of manufacturing and technology, the text explores process monitoring methods, including those that focus on product wafers and those that focus on the equipment used to produce wafers. Next, the text sets forth some fundamentals of statistics and yield modeling, which set the foundation for a detailed discussion of how statistical process control is used to analyze quality and improve yields.
The discussion of statistical experimental design offers readers a powerful approach for systematically varying controllable process conditions and determining their impact on output parameters that measure quality. The authors introduce process modeling concepts, including several advanced process control topics such as run-by-run, supervisory control, and process and equipment diagnosis.
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Graduate-level students and industrial practitioners will benefit from the detailed exami nation of how electronic materials and supplies are converted into finished integrated circuits and electronic products in a high-volume manufacturing environment.


Yes, artal is a Scrabble word!
Artal is a valid Scrabble word.
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1. The child appears to cry out in pain as teacher Yan Yanhong 20 lifts him into the air by his ears.
2. A small boy is seen with his mouth taped shut ("It was well deserved", Yan Yanhong noted)
3. Yan Yanhong-Wenling, a city in China's eastern Zhejiang province, punishing kindergarden kids
4. Teacher Yan Yanhong put a young girl and boy in a lip-lock. The day after the photo surfaced, Yan was dismissed from her job and arrested by the local authorities.
5. Mistreatment Other pictures of Ms Yanhong's classroom show primary school pupil is made to kowtow for forgiveness in one of the 702 photos
The teacher Yanhong Yan (颜艳红) enjoyed taking this kind of pictures. Many children in her class had to be her stage properties.
A local paper reported: "The kindergarten has been instructed to dismiss
the teacher, Yan, and report the matter to local public security."
Officials investigating the case found that Yanhong was not qualified for her
job – but had been hired anyway due to a teaching shortage.
Yan Yanhong was fired by the kindergarten and arrested by the local police on charges of "making a public disturbance"on the same day.
6. Horrific scene The student is seen lying on the ground as the teacher stands above them.
7. A teacher of a private school in Imphal was beaten up after he allegedly caned a student
8. Kneeling on frozen peas punishment by a teacher to a student
9. Eight-year-old Shiva died after he was allegedly beaten by his school principal in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki.
10. Public humiliation The students were made to hold hands for over an hour in front of their school-mates as punishment for getting into a fight
11. In This Funny Picture Female Teacher Punished A Male And A Female Student In Classroom. She Punished Them To Hold Each Other Ear.


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Using your hat:
- To remove the bobble, grasp the hat as close to the magnet as possible with one hand and the bobble with the other and snap (as if you were breaking a KitKat). This way you avoid pulling on the hat and the seams.
- To store the hat and its three bobbles in the box, remove the bobble from the hat, put the bobbles in the hat, roll it widthways and put it in the box.
- Some hats (meads) have a "loose" effect - they are designed to fall backwards so feel free to pull them back a little to put them on.
- Our materials are tested for pilling, however, like with any fabric it happens after a while. To delay this, avoid carrying your hat in the bottom of a bag or in a place where it could rub and turn it over if it does.
Caring for your hat:
- Wash at 30 °C or 40 °C without the bobbles! It's more environmentally friendly and it works very well. The bobbles don't go through the wash because there is a small spot of glue to hold the threads together.
- Air-dry flat, avoid tumble drying clothes, it's not very environmentally friendly and it will damage your super hat.
- Clean the bobbles with a damp cloth, do not machine wash.


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The Library of Congress has recently digitalized a collection of over 10,000 photographs, taken by the "American Colony" in Jerusalem, a group of Christian utopians who lived in Jerusalem between 1881 and the 1940s. The photographers returned to the US, and bequeathed their massive collection to the Library of Congress in 1978. The collection includes Winston Churchill's visit to Jerusalem, Jewish expulsions from the Old City during riots, and the
building of Tel Aviv.
By some accounts, the Valero family arrived in Jerusalem in the 18th or 19th centuries from Turkey. Researchers have even suggested that the family were once Conversos - secret Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in Spain. They later traveled to Turkey and returned to their Jewish faith.
In Jerusalem, the family took up residence in the Old City of Jerusalem. According to a monograph by Hebrew University's Prof. Ruth Kark and Joseph Glass, Ya'akov Valero arrived in Jerusalem in 1835 from Istanbul. Originally a ritual slaughterer, Valero opened a private bank - the first in Palestine - in 1848, located inside Jaffa Gate in the Old City. When Ya'akov died in 1874, the banking and real estate enterprise was eventually taken over by his son Chaim Aharon.
Among the Valeros' land holdings were tracts outside of the Old City on Jaffa Road, the area that eventually became the Mahane Yehuda market, the grounds of the Bikur Holim hospital, and several acres around Damascus Gate, a hub of commerce in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Prior to World War I Chaim Aharon built and leased stores at the entrance of Damascus Gate, seen in the pictures above.
In the 1930s, the British authorities ruled that the area should be zoned for use as "open spaces" and they demolished the shops in 1937. The Valeros were not compensated.
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