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etec probes. The reason for this is due to the variations in probe diameters. Probes with large sizes are used for flat surfaces while small size probes can be used for testing on curved surfaces such as thin pipes whether convex or concave in shape.
- Application. Material integrity inspections, weld inspections, wall thickness and corrosion mapping on components. All these are applications in which Zetec probes are utilized across different industries.
- Temperature. In general, Zetec probes are used on materials with maximum temperatures of approximately 50 degrees Celsius. Working on hotter surfaces will require use of additional accessories on the probes.
For the Phoenix ISL transducers
- Type of Material. The different types of Phoenix probes are used for scanning of composite and non composite kinds of metals including stainless steel.
- Thickness Range. They can be used for both thin and thick material measurements due to the wide frequency ranges of between 1 to 20MHz.
- Geometry. The varying crystal diameters of phoenix probes (3mm-20mm) enable scanning of different curvatures on test surfaces. Large crystal diameters are used for scanning flat surfaces while small diameter crystals are used for curved surfaces in either convex or concave shapes.
- Application. The many different types of transducers means that they are used for thickness measurement and defect measurement in various applications such as oil and gas, power generation, nuclear power generation, oil refinery among others.
- Temperature. high temperature transducers can be used in temperature ranges of between 80 to 200 degrees Celsius
Whereas both ultrasonic probe models have good specifications for accurate testing of various components, Phoenix ISL probes have proven to have more superior qualities than Zetec probes. The most notable advantage that Phoenix has over Zetec is their high temperature transducer range. They allow for rapid testing in extremely hot surfaces, up to 200°C without destroying the test surface or the probe.
IV. Comparison with Other Brands of Ultrasonic Probes: Zetec vs Phoenix ISL vs NDT-KITS
The third probe manufacturer for your comparison is NDT-KITS company. They have specialized in production of nondestructive testing instruments and probes that are affordable, offer high accuracy and are made from quality material. NDT-KITS manufactures both standard and customized probes, having produced more than 400+ probes so far. Our probes range includes TOFD transducers, dual element, angle beam, phased array, normal beam, and immersion ultrasonic transducers.
A comparison of some aspects of NDT-KITS probes with Phoenix and Zetec probes is as stated below:
1. Type of materials
NDT-KITS probes have higher penetration power making it possible to test reinforced composite materials, coarse grained metals and glass fiber.
2. Thickness range
The probes can measure both thin and thick components. High frequency transducers are good for thin materials while low frequency transducers are used for thick walled components.
The different probe diameters make the probes good for use in different types of curved surfaces. Coupling between probes and test surfaces is dependent on the probe size and surface curvature.
Probes are used in different applications across industries for wall thickness measurements, material flaw detection on flat and curved surfaces, flaw sizing and corrosion surveys on materials.
Most probes work at a maximum of 55°C. Working on surfaces with higher temperatures will require use of add-ons and accessories.
V. Your Perfect Pick: NDT-KITS
NDT-KITS has several types of transducers that are made for specific applications. With over 400 types of transducers to choose from, you will never go wrong in choosing an NDT-KITS probe that is a perfect pick for you.
Some advantages that NDT-KITS probes have over other models are;
More penetrating power due to the piezoelectric technology used in their manufacture. This enables testing in both metals and non-metal components of different thicknesses.
The other advantage is the ability to customize probes according to the client's specifications. Probes can be customized with up to 1024 elements.
In conclusion, the choice of probe for ultrasonic testing is important as the probe is what determines the accuracy of the UT process. Different kinds of probes have specifications for different kinds of testing, this means, you have to be aware of what exactly you do in your business and the kind of data you require from ultrasonic testing.
Comparing several different models from various manufacturers is the right way to go about choosing a perfect UT probe for your applications. We hope that by following the information in this article, the process of choosing an ultrasonic probe for your business will not be too complicated for you.


Gather Streams
Optimizing SQL Database Performance
Optimizing Database Performance
Gather Streams
The Gather Streams logical operator is only used in parallel query plans. The Gather Streams operator consumes several input streams and produces a single output stream of records by combining the input streams. The record contents and format are not changed. If this operator is order-preserving, then all input streams must be ordered.
If the output is ordered, then the Argument column contains an ORDER BY:() predicate and the names of columns being ordered.
See Also
Distribute Streams
Parallel Query Processing
Repartition Streams


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One of the most popular board/tabletop games you can buy is Carcassonne. In Carcassonne the player places down tiles to create cities, roads and farmland; then places one of their own pieces/meeples to score points. It's a pretty simple idea which in turn creates some tactical gameplay methods as the player's try to score the most points. I like Carcassonne, but not as much as I love Taluva.
Taluva is very similar to Carcassonne in that it involves tile and piece placement, but it is different in several key aspects. In Taluva the player is not building castles, roads, or farmland; but is instead building an island. The pieces called volcano tiles are three-pointed star shapes, each one having three types of land on it. Some have more than one of the same kind, others have three different land types. The only thing that is common about the tiles (other than their shapes) is that each one has a volcano on them. These volcano places cannot have pieces placed on them, but do cause volcanic eruptions which means that the tiles can be placed on top of each other, turning the land from 2D into 3D, thus creating hills which can then turn into mountains.
Upon placing tiles, players can then place their pieces onto their tiles. Players have 3 different types of pieces:
To begin with, players can only build huts. These can be placed onto a tile they have just placed, or alternatively, players can expand their already built settlements by adding more huts. The benefit of this is so that they can build Temples which require a settlement branching across three areas of land. At the end of the game, whoever has built the most temples wins. There is though another side to this, as to build more temples, the player will need to create separate settlements, as there can only be one temple in each settlement. One benefit to building the temple though is that it can prevent volcanic eruptions.
When a volcanic eruption is caused by a player, they can use it as a way of destroying another players settlement. So when they place a tile, it can wipe out huts. Volcanic eruptions though do have rules to follow:
- They can't wipe out an entire settlement. If placing a tile would cause this; the player wouldn't be allowed to do that move. At least one space of a settlement must survive.
- Eruptions cannot destroy Temples or Towers.
Placing Temples or Towers can therefore be a great way of preventing large-scale damage to player's settlements as it would prevent other players from using volcanic eruptions. Therefore, opposing players would need to consider using eruptions in locations where players may be on the verge of placing a Temple or Tower.
For a player to place a Tower, they need to place it next to a settlement of any size, doesn't need to follow the same rules as Temples. Towers though do need to be placed on a level 3 tile; so it can take time to build them as the land may need plenty of eruptions to allow a third level of tile placement. Once this is done however, a Tower can then be placed next to a settlement, even if there is a mega cliff from the tower down to the next hut.
Once all the tiles have been placed, it comes down to the player who has placed the most Temples. Whoever has achieved this is the winner; if there is a tie however, it comes down to who has placed the most Towers. If there is still a tie for first after that, then the player who has placed the most huts wins. There is though another way to win; because if one player has placed all of two of their pieces:
- All Huts and all Temples
- All Temples and all Towers
- All Towers and all Huts
Then that player wins the game automatically; even if there are still tiles to be placed.
Taluva is a very easy game just to pick up and play, and is not all that long either. It can be tactical, be played both offensively and defensively and it can be fun just to destroy another players civilization with the simple act of causing a volcanic eruption. It's beautifully designed and crafted, and it's fun just to watch how the land starts off flat before becoming very hilly and mountainous. Altogether; Taluva is a very fun game and also one of my favourite Board Games.

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How autism-friendly are you?
Assess your meeting place, then plan to make it even better.
Plan a session with this activity
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 - Pens or pencils
 - A4 paper
 - Big 5 things poster
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 1. The person leading the activity should show everyone the 'Big 5 things' poster. They should explain that it has five things autistic people and their families want everyone to understand about autism.
 2. The person leading the activity should go through each of the big five things. They should make sure everyone understands each thing, including sensory differences.
 1. Everyone should split into small groups.
 1. The person leading the activity should give each group one or two areas to think about, for example, sights, smells, noises, touch and textures, or information. It's OK if more than one group has an area.
 2. Each group should talk about the areas they've been given and their meetings and meeting place. Are there any things that aren't autism-friendly? They should write down anything they think of.
 1. Everyone should gather together and take it in turns to share the things they identified.
 2. Everyone should talk about things they could do to make their meeting place more autism-friendly. They should work together to make a short-term plan of things that can be changed quickly without much money (or needing other people to be involved). They should also think about things that are likely to cost more money or need other people's permissions. Could they make a long-term plan too?
This activity needed everyone to problem solve. Once people had the information about autism, they needed to use their skills to apply it to their meeting place and spot the issues. How did people think of solutions to the things on their lists? Some solutions are simple and can be done quickly, while others will take longer, and that's OK. Were there any things it was really difficult to find a solution for?
This activity also helped everyone to care. Disabled people often struggle to access spaces and things that others take for granted. What would it feel like if someone was left out all the time because people hadn't thought about their needs? The good news is that everyone can play their part in making spaces more accessible. What's the best way to know what someone needs to access a space? The best thing to do is to ask them in advance, so you have time to find solutions.


What the extra time and money bought, besides headaches and heartaches for the project's sponsors and the thousands of patrons who line up for discount theater tickets every day, is nothing less than a new way of seeing the Times Square "bowtie," that dazzling intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. That is because the TKTS booth proper is topped by a sweeping cascade of 27 ruby-red structural glass steps, rising to a height of 16 feet 1 inch above the 47th Street sidewalk, where hundreds of people (as many as 1,500 if they squeeze in tight) will be welcome to congregate every day until 1 a.m.
It means the booth specifically, without any extra bits. By way of example: "Times Square" might often be used to refer to the area around Times Square, but may include things which are not actually part of the Square. To narrow such a usage, one might say "I mean only the actual Times Square" or "I mean Times Square proper."
 - Extra bits of what? the TKTS booth? This sounds like an unnecessary overspecification. What justifies it in this context? – István Zachar Aug 4 '16 at 6:01
It's definition 6 from Merriam-Webster:
So it means on the TKTS booth itself, and not on the pavement or anywhere else.
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 I agree this is the meaning the author was intending, I'm just not sure that they're using it appropriately. The booth is a discrete object, not likely something someone would confuse with the surrounding area. – Sam Oct 26 '11 at 19:17
 - I have the same proble, as _USER_. Wouldn't "TKTS booth" specify the "TKTS booth" exactly, in the narrow sense, and nothing else? What is the possible extended meaning of "TKTS booth" that requires the "proper" indicator? It is like "the Earth proper" as if there were other planets called Earth or some broad extensions of Earth that would render the location "on the Earth" somewhat fuzzy within the Universe. – István Zachar Aug 4 '16 at 5:58
Proper is used as adjective here, meaning "belonging or relating exclusively to."
You can read "the TKTS booth proper" as "the TKTS booth, strictly speaking" or "the TKTS booth itself".
We sometimes position an adjective after the noun it modifies. In that sentence, proper is an adjective modifying booth, and means "strictly speaking". Other examples: "proof positive" and "knight errant".
See the Wikipedia article "Post-positive adjective".
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trait data for a given taxonomic group. These continua quantify and summarize life-history variation at the inter-specific level in multi-specific assemblages. Here we examine whether trait continua can provide a useful framework to link life-history variation with demographic and evolutionary processes in species richness gradients. Taking an altitudinal species richness gradient for Mediterranean butterflies as a study case, we examined a suite of traits (larval diet breadth, adult phenology, dispersal capacity and wing length) and species-specific habitat measures (temperature and aridity breadth). We tested whether traits and species-specific habitat measures tend to co-vary, whether they are phylogenetically conserved, and whether they are able to explain species distributions and spatial genetic variation in a large number of butterfly assemblages. Location Catalonia, Spain. Methods We formulated predictions associated with species richness gradients and adaptive trait continua. We applied principal components analyses (PCAs), structural equation modelling and phylogenetic generalized least squares models. Results We found that traits and species-specific habitat measures covaried along a main PCA axis, ranging from multivoltine trophic generalists with high dispersal capacity to univoltine (i.e. one generation per year), trophic specialist species with low dispersal capacity. This trait continuum was closely associated with the observed distributions along the altitudinal gradient and predicted inter-specific differences in patterns of spatial genetic variability (FST and genetic distances), population responses to the impacts of global change and local turnover dynamics. Main conclusions The adaptive trait continuum of Mediterranean butterflies provides an integrative and mechanistic framework to: (1) analyse geographical gradients in species richness, (2) explain inter-specific differences in population abundances, spatial distributions and demographic trends, (3) explain inter-specific differences in patterns of genetic variation (FST and genetic distances), and (4) study specialist-generalist life-history transitions frequently involved in butterfly diversification processes. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Catalan J., Bartrons M., Camarero L., Grimalt J.O. (2013) Mountain waters as witnesses of global pollution. Living with Water: Targeting Quality in a Dynamic World. : 31-67.EnllaçDoi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3752-9_2
Mountains lakes, streams, and rivers, collectively known as headwaters, are popularly seen as waters of the highest quality. However, human-related pollution has reached remote areas of the planet everywhere through atmospheric transportation. Mountain freshwater ecosystems are extreme environments for life and thus are particularly sensitive to some new stressors. This chapter begins by summarizing the main features of mountain freshwater ecosystems and then comments on the effects they have historically suffered. It focuses particularly on two environmental problems: (1) acidification and (2) contamination with persistent organic pollutants. These problems are at different stages of development and knowledge. Acidification mechanisms are well understood, and mitigation actions have been applied successfully. The pace of recovery and interaction with climate change are now focusing research interests. In contrast, the environmental problem of persistent organic pollutants in mountain waters has been unveiled only recently. Some initially unexpected findings, such as the increasing concentration of some pollutants with altitude, have stirred further investigations on bioaccumulation processes, which are summarized here. Actions against contamination of sites far from the pollution sources, such as mountains, require the development of international protocols. The fight against acidification constitutes a successful example of such actions, and efforts against other atmospheric pollutants are following suit. These large-scale actions require adequate long-term monitoring networks, models for interpretating the results, and sound understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the observed patterns. Research may focus on: (1) increasing understanding of biotransformation of organic pollutants in natural conditions; (2) better evaluation of toxicological effects on both organisms and ecosystems as a whole; and (3) the ways that climate change influences the transport, accumulation, and toxicity of pollutants, a subject that cuts across all freshwater quality issues. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York. All rights are reserved.
Catalan J., Pla-Rabes S., Wolfe A.P., Smol J.P., Ruhland K.M., Anderson N.J., Kopacek J., Stuchlik E., Schmidt R., Koinig K.A., Camarero L., Flower R.J., Heiri O., Kamenik C., Korhola A., Leavitt P.R., Psenner R., Renberg I. (2013) Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes: A review. Journal of Paleolimnology. 49: 513-535.EnllaçDoi: 10.1007/s10933-_PHONE_-2
Over recent decades, palaeolimnological records from remote sites have provided convincing evidence for the onset and development of several facets of global environmental change. Remote lakes, defined here as those occurring in high latitude or high altitude regions, have the advantage of not being overprinted by local anthropogenic processes. As such, many of these sites record broad-scale environmental changes, frequently driven by regime shifts in the Earth system. Here, we review a selection of studies from North America and Europe and discuss their broader implications. The history of investigation has evolved synchronously with the scope and awareness of environmental problems. An initial focus on acid deposition switched to metal and other types of pollutants, then climate change and eventually to atmospheric deposition-fertilising effects. However, none of these topics is independent of the other, and all of them affect ecosystem function and biodiversity in profound ways. Currently, remote lake palaeolimnology is developing unique datasets for each region investigated that benchmark current trends with respect to past, purely natural variability in lake systems. Fostering conceptual and methodological bridges with other environmental disciplines will upturn contribution of remote lake palaeolimnology in solving existing and emerging questions in global change science and planetary stewardship. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Cernicharo J., Verger A., Camacho F. (2013) Empirical and physical estimation of Canopy Water Content: From CHRIS/PROBA Data. Remote Sensing. 5: 5265-5284.EnllaçDoi: 10.3390/rs5105265
Efficient monitoring of Canopy Water Content (CWC) is a central feature invegetation studies. The potential of hyperspectral high spatial resolution CHRIS/PROBAsatellite data for the retrieval of CWC was here investigated using empirical and physical based approaches. Special attention was paid to the spectral band selection, inversion technique and training process. Performances were evaluated with ground measurements from the SEN3EXP field campaign over a range of crops. Results showed that the optimal band selection includes four spectral bands: one centered about 970 nm absorption feature which is sensible to Cw, and three bands in green, red and near infrared to estimate LAI and compensate from leafand canopy-level effects. A simple neural network with a single hidden layer of five tangent sigmoid transfer functions trained over PROSAIL radiative transfer simulations showed benefits in the retrieval performances compared with a look up table inversion approach (root mean square error of 0.16 kg/m2 vs. 0.22 kg/m2). The neural network inversion approach showed a good agreement and performances similar to an empirical up-scaling approach based on a multivariate iteratively re-weighted least squares algorithm, demonstrating the applicability of radiative transfer model inversion methods to CHRIS/PROBA for high spatial resolution monitoring of CWC. © 2013 by the authors.
Chelinho S., Domene X., Andres P., Natal-da-Luz T., Norte C., Rufino C., Lopes I., Cachada A., Espindola E., Ribeiro R., Duarte A.C., Sousa J.P. (2013) Soil microarthropod community testing: A new approach to increase the ecological relevance of effect data for pesticide risk assessment. Applied Soil Ecology. : 0-0.EnllaçDoi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.06.009
In the present study, a new complementary approach combining the use of the natural soil microarthropod community and conventional test methods was used. The effects of soil contamination with the insecticide carbofuran on two geographically distinct microarthropod communities (Mediterranean and Tropical) were evaluated in their soils of origin under controlled laboratory conditions. After contamination of two agricultural soils from Portugal and Brazil, a gradient of concentrations was prepared. Soil cores were taken from the respective uncontaminated surrounding areas and the mesofauna of three cores was extracted directly to the test soil. After extracting the microarthropod communities to the test soil, these were incubated under laboratory conditions for 4 weeks, after which the mesofauna was extracted again. The organisms were assorted into higher taxonomic groups and Acari and Collembola were respectively assorted into order/sub-order/cohort and family. Collembolans were still classified according to morphological traits and used as a case-study of trait based risk assessment (TERA; Baird et al., 2008) of pesticides. The exposure to insecticide contamination caused the impoverishment of the taxonomic diversity in both communities. Significant shifts in the microarthropod community structure in the different carbofuran treatments were found for both soils, although effects were more pronounced in the assay performed with the soil from Brazil. Collembolans were the most affected group with a strong decline in their abundance. A dose-response relationship was observed, showing a consistent decline on


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"native" po angielsku z przykładami - Słownik kolokacji angielskich
- One may be sure of that by the native name they have given him.
- "For the first time, we could call each other by our native Jewish names."
- Not once would you refer to those places by their native names.
- I replied, playing on his native name, and proceeded to set out the whole case to him.
- The priest knew little about the terrain so he asked a native the name of the place.
- Some codes are chosen based on the native names of the countries.
- He named off a string of native names, then added, 'Fine time.
- The native name for the ball court and game was batey.
- They learn that the native name for the island is Caspak.
- A Spanish soldier was said to have asked a native the name of the place, indicating the area.
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Koko Crater Trail – Honolulu, Hawaii - Atlas Obscura
Koko Crater Trail
Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O'ahu.
Hawaiʻi isn't short on spectacular views. But for a prime perspective of this patch of paradise, you'll have to put in a bit of effort.
This trail—dubbed "Nature's StairMaster" and the "Stairs of Doom"—is actually an old railroad. During World War II, the United States military built lookout pillbox bunkers on Koko Crater. They constructed a railway tram to shuttle supplies and people up and down the steep terrain. After the war, the site was converted into an Air Force station, which was deactivated in 1966.
The abandoned railroad was later converted into a walking trail. But this is no place for a leisurely stroll. The rickety 1,048 stairs gain a walloping 1,100 feet in elevation in under a mile. The stairs start out at a moderately steep slope, though the incline increases the farther you hike, eventually soaring upward, the way a roller coaster track rolls toward the sky. Locals and tourists alike huff and puff their way to the top, where they're rewarded with breathtaking (literally) vistas of Hanauma Bay. From the summit, you'll have unparalleled views of the verdant land fringed by frothy waves and azure water.
Time hasn't been particularly kind to the trail. Natural decay, coupled with decades worth of tramping trail-goers, has left parts of the track in rough shape. A group called the Kokonut Koalition formed to both preserve and advocate for the steps.
Know Before You Go
Access to the trail is free and there are no legal restrictions to hiking it. You can go any time—be sure to bring a flashlight or headlamp if you're planning a sunrise or sunset hike. Parts of the trail are in states of disrepair, so take caution while walking.


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Template:Manner of articulation A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a ranking of speech sounds (or phones) by how much'sound' they produce. For example, if you say the vowel [a], you will produce much more sound than if you say the plosive [t]. Sonority hierarchies are especially important when analyzing syllable structure; rules about what segments may appear in onsets or codas together, such as SSP, are formulated in terms of the difference of their sonority values. Some languages also have assimilation rules based on sonority hierarchy, for example, the Finnish potential mood (e.g. -tne- → -nne-).
Sonority hierarchies vary somewhat in which sounds are grouped together. The one below is fairly typical (1 indicates lowest sonority):
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Yes. VWO Surveys allows a user to trigger a survey if a visitor scrolls a certain amount on a page. A user can define the number of pixels or percentage of page height a visitor needs to scroll either from the top or bottom of the page to trigger a survey. Percentage of page height is useful for webpages with fixed height. For infinitely scrolling pages such as search results on an e-commerce webpage, actual pixels scrolled is a more reliable way.
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- Can I schedule a survey to start or end at a specified time?
- Is the Thank you screen always displayed?
- If a visitor closes the survey, does it appear again?
- How can I reorder the sequence of questions?
- How many questions can I add in a survey?
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MIAMI (CBS4) — Florida's gopher tortoise population deserves to be added to the nation's list of endangered and threatened species but funding shortages could delay the listing for years, federal wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
There is sufficient scientific data to list the gopher tortoise as threatened in parts of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, said Cindy Dohner, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's regional director for the Southeast.
"But we do not have the resources to pursue the listing process at this time," she told reporters during a conference call, noting the process can cost $300,000 or more.
The gopher tortoise, which is sandy brown in color and can grow to up to 15 pounds, will instead join a list of 251 other species designated as candidates for federal protection, meaning wildlife managers acknowledge their survival is in danger but they don't have the money to do anything about it.
It's unclear how long it will take to draw up a full recovery plan, which includes mapping out critical habitat, much of which is in Florida, particularly Central and North Florida. State wildlife managers designated the turtle as a "threatened" species in 2007 and, after public outcry, banned a cold-hearted practice that had allowed developers to bury more than 70,000 of them alive.
The tortoise is threatened by habitat loss, herbicides used in forestry and other factors, federal officials said.
Scientists consider the turtle, which can live a half century, a "keystone species" because its deep network of burrows help support some 360 other species, including snakes, rodents, skunks and rabbits. But some landowners consider it a nuisance because they see it as a potentially expensive hurdle to development plans.
Under a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission plan adopted in 2008, builders must obtain a permit to build in gopher tortoise habitat and agree to relocate any found. As an incentive, the state will reduce permit costs if developers place them in high-quality habitat or set aside other areas for turtle use. It's illegal to kill or move the tortoises or eggs without a state permit.
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Customer Value, Satisfaction and Loyalty at Uber
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Executive Summary
The purpose of this assignment is to explain the relevance of customer value, satisfaction and loyalty and how those concepts jointly contribute to achieve the company's goals in order to place them in a privilege place of the market and let them be successful. Additionally, it will be explain how a company manage its relationship with customers for which will be chosen Uber Company as leader in digital transport industry. It will be outlined how Uber has change its marketing strategy over the time due to changeable economic world in which is playing an important role. There will be some examples of different companies around the world to support the academics concepts covered in class and finally it will be possible suggest some ideas that Uber may implement to enhance its relationship with customer because it is a reasonable requirement of all companies to be successful.
Table of Contents
 1. What represent Customer value, Satisfaction and Loyalty in Marketing Management?
 2. What is the importance of customer value, satisfaction and loyalty in the success of a company?
 3. Customer Relationship Management in Uber
 4. Conclusions and Recommendations
 5. References
1. What represents Customer Value, Satisfaction and Loyalty in Marketing Management?
The relationship among those three concepts is close associated with customers' perceptions about what they are expecting of a determined product or service and the monetary cost paid for it. Based on this fact, companies' marketing departments build their strategic plan to enhance and strengthen customer value, satisfaction and loyalty. "Customer value is the difference between the prospective customer's evaluation of all the benefits and cost of an offering and the perceived alternatives" (Kotler & Keller, 2016), on the other hand it is satisfaction, which simply is how a buyer if a feels after a purchase was done, if the action meet the person's expectations, the level of satisfaction is good, otherwise it will be low level, however due to there are people involve in this concept, all the results are relative because human perceptions about satisfaction is always unpredictable, that is the reason marketing studies about fragmentation is vital in a successful strategy. In addition to efficaciously achieve the companies' goals, is quite important as well, work on strongly retain customers, make them feel satisfied with the brand, let them have perfectly clear that their investment is placed in the most suitable way, this is called loyalty, and in order to match those three factors, companies develop different methods of building value, satisfaction and loyalty.
Nevertheless these concepts as variables play a critical role into the marketing game, each one has different relevance into the business but all jointly aim to attain customer loyalty. In the marketing flow, customer satisfaction and customer perceived value are the drivers of customer loyalty, in simples words the existence of an effective relationship between these two variables or factors and even the organizational performance constitute a key motivators for consumers to become loyal to an specific product or service. After all, customer loyalty will always be a driver to increase profit levels and enhance the financial company performance.
The best sample of this assumption is Apple, this company has created a solid monopoly due to the quality of its products, technical support and even fashion, but whatever Apple has built this strong connection with consumers, the customer loyalty developed has been extremely successful. As a result of this action, Apple has currently valued for approximately one trillion of US dollars and its net revenue for the past quarter was $9.55 billion (Salinas, 2018), these numbers simply represent the influenced and power of loyalty, let see, if a customer believes the product (in this case Apple) that is buying is high quality, its feeling about the investment is safe and automatically its perceptions about the purchase will be positive. As a general conclusion, loyalty represents the result of a well developed marketing strategy in which customer value is prioritized over many economics factors and the customers' satisfaction importance is constantly evaluated by the company in order to improve the strategic plan and achieve the expected profits levels.
2. What is the Importance of Customer Value, Satisfaction and Loyalty in the Success of a Company?
The challenging journey of a company after the launching has good and bad moments, which normally are known as successes and failure, it is vital to any company aims to be successful but in fact this is not always attainable and neither sustainable, though the real true is that the journey is unpredictable because everything is continuously changing and a large numbers of variables are constantly influencing on the business as well. Nevertheless, the success in a company occurs basically when a they achieve its strategic objectives and it is close linked with their profitability, after all the gold rule of any business is to generate revenue by being as productive and effectiveness as possible but also by diminishing expenses in order to gain more revenue and be much more profitable. Yet, this point of view is net financial because as it was previously mentioned the journey toward to success is constantly changing, then it could affirm that nowadays a company is successful if it is well known brand or if its popularity in social networks is high, but it comes back again to the point the financial issue, without profit there is no success.
As a matter of fact, the Forbes magazine described 6 ways to measure success in a business based on the following priority order: financial statements, customer satisfaction, quantity of new clients added, conduct performance review, staying current on the market and finally the shareholders' perception about achieving for proposed expectations (Kappel, 2017). According to above sample of successful view, the relationship among Customer Value, Satisfaction and Loyalty, is fairly important in order to achieve the companies' objectives, all these could be financial, operatives, socials and even politics, but truly those have to work jointly. This works as a balance in where one side is fit by economics and financials issues and on the other side there are plenty of customer needs but the complement to maintain success in the market is undoubtedly to having competitive and sustainable advantage and this is only possible when clients' loyalty is strong enough to face rival threats and the constantly world change market by technology (Armstrong, Adam, Denize, & Kotler, 2012).
3. Customer Relationship Management in Uber
The term marketing relationship refers to "long-term, mutually beneficial arrangements in which both the buyer and the seller focus on value enhancements through the creation of more satisfying exchanges" (Pride & Ferrel, 2013, p. 15). This is exactly the most important objective of marketing; the more reliable information about buyer perceptions the more successful is the marketing strategy. Normally all the companies has two types of strategies, intended and realized, the first one is developed during the strategic plan building and the other one is the adaptation of the initial one due to the changeable social environment (Pride & Ferrel, 2013, p. 43) one suitable example of this discernable change in the strategic plan has been Uber, the company which was born just to meet the transportation needs of the citizens in California, US in 2008 but nowadays presents a generous offers of services around the almost 45% of the world and it is valued in more than 62 us billions ( Uber Technologies Inc., 2018).
By increasing customer value over time, Uber tries to retain and increase long-term profitability through customer loyalty by different ways. For instance, if a customer (rider) invites new riders by using a specific code, they get $5,000 off each of next 2 rides when they start riding. Complementary, into the others services offered by Uber, is Uber eats which is growing pretty fast in New Zealand market specially for the high demand and the low levels of competition. The system simply consists to connect one person who needs a delivery with other one who is willing to take it, whole this process is manage through a digital application controlled by Uber. In the same way as Uber, Uber Eats enable user to connect each them, buyers pay a fee to Uber for the delivery and Uber pays another fee to drivers for the service. For this case, Uber eats offers another "promotion" in order to retain new clients which is quite similar to the mentioned one previously. Uber Eats provides a code for each user and if the users share this code with different friends, when they use Uber Eats for the first time, they will get NZ$10 off their order and the initial user will get NZ$5 off. The intended marketing strategy of Uber was completely different to the currently one, its easy life philosophy as to connect users around a need marked a significant difference. However when Uber first introduced in the transport market, they only focused in cars to move different people, but due to the fast raise of digital technology market, Uber innovated with new services and they realized the demand was as large that they would not need to retain their customers, this was almost a monopoly with the power of a wonderful innovator idea in a world eager of technology.
Over the time, other competitors got into the business and additionally there were a large numbers of problems with other transport sectors such as taxi companies and even private companies because this was an unfair competition, therefore Uber had to change its marketing strategy and enhance its CRM. Obviously due to those serious problems, Uber has lost economic force in the market and the most curious fact; Uber has just implemented several promotions to strengthen customer satisfactions and loyalty. The visible face of the company to show good quality, great customer service, and place the brand on top, is the drivers because indeed customers are how respond positively if they are well treated and consequently the company will be good rated. Similarly how the company treats drivers, customer satisfaction indicator will be fairly rated. This fact is consequently important to achieve the company financial goals but in this case,


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I am searching this out as a possible connection. Not certain however of much of anything other than this guys name.
Ignatz Johann Von Neuhaus was born in early 1800s in Prussia (Westfalia?)
He came to the United States in the mid-1800s and taught German in New York City for a bit. Rumored to be skipping out on a military draft
in Prussia.
The reason I am wondering about a possible Jewish connection-- my great aunt has had people ask her if she is Jewish when they heard her
maiden name (Neuhaus).
Another possible clue is that Ignatius John Neuhaus (Americanized version of the above name) is rumored to have been born out of wedlock
but yet is educated enough to be a teacher.
It's pretty difficult to discern a family history, especially when the child is born out of wedlock. (Just wasn't discussed you know.) I am
looking for any information of families around then as well as patterns in naming children born out of wedlock, etc.
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To do this I need to find the spread (standard deviation?) of the vectors which build up the centroid, then see if the distance from my input vector to the centre is less than the spread. If it's more than the spread than I should be able to say that I have no clusters to fit it (given that the best doesn't fit the input vector well).
I'm not sure how to find the spread per cluster. I have all the centre vectors, and all the training vectors are labelled with their closest cluster, I just can't quite fathom exactly what I need to do to get the spread.
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Use the distance function and calculate the distance from your center point to each labeled point, then figure out the mean of those distances. That should give you the standard deviation.
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Author Orson Scott Card
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Published 1987 (Tor Books)
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 263 pp
ISBN 0-7653-0560-7
OCLC 51022586
Wyrms (1987) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. The story examines desire, wisdom, and human will. Card describes a version of the tri-partite soul, similar to that articulated by Plato in The Republic.
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The primary protagonist in the story is Patience, a fifteen-year-old girl who is the only daughter of the rightful king (the Heptarch). Her father, Peace, willingly lives as a slave to the usurper King Oruc, serving him as a faithful diplomat and assassin. Despite his genuine belief that King Oruc is "the best Heptarch the world could hope for at this time",[1] Peace ensures that Patience learns the skills she will need as future Heptarch through the stern lessons of her tutor Angel. From an early age, Patience is fluent in dozens of languages, trained in diplomatic protocols and assassination techniques, and taught to be guarded and watchful at all times.
When she is thirteen, Patience learns of an ancient prophecy that - as the seventh seventh seventh daughter of the Starship Captain, the first human to set foot on their planet of Imakulata - she is destined to give birth to Kristos, who will bring either eternal salvation or eternal destruction to the world. An entire religion has been constructed around the legends of the Starship Captain and his descendants. Thousands of people, called Vigilants, stand ready to aid Patience in reclaiming the Heptarchy and fulfilling the prophecy at the center of their religion.
Plot summary[edit]
King Oruc, fearing Patience or Peace could be a danger to his reign, keeps them under control by allowing only one of them to leave the castle at a time. However, this delicate hostage situation falls apart when Peace becomes ill. Before he dies, Peace cuts into his shoulder to retrieve a crystal globe hidden under his skin. "The scepter of the Heptarchs," he says. "Never let a gebling know you have it."[2]
Only moments after Peace dies, King Oruc sends an assassin after Patience. She easily dispatches him and leaves the castle, stopping to visit her father's preserved head in Slaves' Hall, where the heads of the wisest people are kept alive by headworms. Since the heads are coerced to speak only the truth, Patience forces her father to divulge his darkest secrets. Peace reveals that since Patience's birth, he had been fighting a powerful compulsion to bring her to Cranning, home of the geblings. The "Cranning Call," as it was known, drew the world's greatest thinkers and achievers to make a pilgrimage to Cranning, never to be seen or heard from again. Peace says the source of the Call is the Unwyrm, attempting to summon Patience to his lair.
Outside the castle, Patience feels the Cranning Call and decides she will go to Cranning to challenge the Unwyrm. Even as the Cranning Call becomes stronger and more urgent, she chooses her own routes towards the city in defiance of the Unwyrm's power. Patience, joined by Angel and a massive river woman named Sken, eventually meets Ruin and Reck, twin brother and sister geblings who are together the king of the geblings. All their lives, Ruin and Reck had been repelled from Cranning by the Unwyrm, but the Cranning Call surrounding Patience cancels the repulsion and allows them to travel with her. Will, the silent but strong human who had lived as Reck's slave, joins their party.
They stop by a house advertising simply ANSWERS. The owner, a dwelf named Heffiji, gives them a crash course in the strange genetics of Imakulata, in which every native plant or animal derives from a single originating species: a black segmented insect, or wyrm. Heffiji also explains that the scepter Patience had retrieved from her father's shoulder was the mindstone of the gebling king, stolen 300 generations ago by the Heptarch. Surgically implanted in the brain, it transfers the memories of the previous owners to the current host while absorbing new memories. Ruin - a skilled surgeon - agrees to insert the crystal into Patience's brain.
Patience spends the next 40 days half-crazy, processing the memories of previous Heptarchs and the alien minds of gebling kings. She relives the moment when the Starship Captain, lured through lust to the surface, mates with the Wyrm in its lair beneath a glacier that would later become Cranwater. The Wyrm gave birth to the geblings, dwelfs and gaunts - and then finally to a giant wyrm-like child called Unwyrm. Finally, Patience understands the Cranning Call is summoning her to mate with the Unwyrm, so that he can impregnate her with Kristos, spawning a superior human race. This improved species would outcompete humans as well as the dwelf, gebling, and gaunt variants produced by the first-generation mating between the Wyrm and the Starship Captain, eventually becoming the dominant form of life on Imakulata.
Even as her lust for Unwyrm grows, Patience knows she must kill him or the world will be doomed. She explains it all to the rest of her companions, and they continue their journey to meet and hopefully kill Unwyrm before he is able to bring his dark plans to fruition. When it is all over Patience hopes to take her place as Heptarch and unite all of the planet's species together in peace.
The fictional world of Wyrms[edit]
Wyrms is set on Imakulata, a far-future planet that was colonized by humans thousands of years before the book begins. Ore for producing hard metal is extremely rare on Imakulata, most of the deposits having been destroyed by the Starship Captain - the first human to set foot on the new world - while his ship was still in orbit.
The genetic code of species on Imakulata is malleable, displaying dramatic evolutionary changes in only a few generations. As one character notes, "every creature's genetic molecule, which is the mirror of the will, obeys the slighest command to change."[3]
Called "goblins" by humans, the geblings are an intelligent species who have the ability to communicate with each other telepathically and near-perfect powers of recollection. Physically, they resemble furry, stunted humans with long, forked, mobile tongues. They are always born as twins.[citation needed] Geblings' brains contain a crystal globe called the mindstone, which stores important memories and thoughts. Children eat their dead parent's mindstones, so that they can absorb their ancestors' most cherished memories.
Smaller than the geblings, with half-size heads and tiny brains, dwelfs have an extremely poor short-term memory and the mental capacity of a child.
Gaunts resemble lithe, beautiful humans. They have no will of their own. They respond telepathically to the desires of those around them and attempt to satisfy whatever desire is strongest. For that reason they are often employed as prostitutes.
As one gaunt explains it, "[Our will] drys up like old cake and crumbles away whenever a human or a gebling or even, disgusting as it is, a dwelf desires something of us."[4]
Comparison to other works[edit]
Like many of Card's works, this story is a metaphor. It looks at, among other things, the desires of the flesh, and how succumbing to them is dangerous.
The story bears some similarities to other books by Orson Scott Card. A Planet Called Treason also took place on a planet without ore. Patience is a child turned savior, similar to other protagonists in Card's works like Ender Wiggin, Alvin Maker and Lanik Mueller. The semi-conscious self-modifying organism native to Imakulata (which becomes, eventually, Unwyrm) resembles the Descolada from Speaker for the Dead.
 1. ^ Card, Wyrms (1987):8
 2. ^ Card, Wyrms (1987):53
 3. ^ Card, Wyrms (1987):27
 4. ^ Card, Wyrms (1987):286
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Film Title/Year and Description
Charlotte's Web (1973)
Spider Charlotte (voice of Debbie Reynolds) sadly died on a wooden beam while singing the last lines of "Mother Earth and Father Time."
She had sacrificed herself for ill-fated friend Wilbur the pig (voice of Henry Gibson) and produced her magnum opus (an egg sac).
Wilbur gave a despairing cry of "CHARLOTTE!" when he realized she was gone.
Don't Look Now (1973)
Director Nicolas Roeg's supernatural thriller opened with the scary drowning death of red-raincoated, young blonde daughter Christine (Sharon Williams) in a fishpond in England. Her red/white beach ball had fallen in the water and she tried to retrieve it. Her father John Baxter (Donald Sutherland), an architectural restoration expert, sensed her impending death and raced out of the country estate to the pond. The anguished, grief-stricken father dragged her lifeless body to the muddy bank and delivered CPR, but he was too late and couldn't save her. He spent most of the rest of the film haunted by her death.
There were many visual foreshadowing clues given in the opening scene that were later elliptically inter-woven into the film, ominously portending further death:
 - Psychically connected, John felt the moment his young son Johnny's (Nicholas Salter) bicycle ran over a piece of glass and punctured the tire, near the pond
 - The art slide John was viewing of a cathedral's stained-glass window (which he would later visit for restoration) included a red-figured dwarf sitting in a pew
 - John noted meaningfully: "Nothing is what it seems"
 - When he spilled a glass of water in his study, Christine's red/white ball splashed into the pond
 - A drop of liquid from the glass hit the slide (directly onto the dwarf figure), causing a swirling globule of film acetate to slowly 'bleed' red across the entire picture (ruining it)
 - His red-raincoated daughter drowned
 - His wife Laura (Julie Christie) was reading the book: "Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Space" - the 'fragile geometry' of the family was forever changed
When the grieving couple traveled to Italy shortly later, they befriended two elderly sisters, blind psychic Heather (Hilary Mason) and Wendy (Clelia Matania). It was stated by Heather that Christine could be seen among them, and John was warned that he was in grave danger. He conducted a long search for her in the city of Venice, where he faced his final moment of life after a number of false leads.
He sighted an elusive small figure in a bright red hooded coat in a dark Venice alleyway - thinking it was his daughter being pursued by a serial killer, he pursued what turned out to be his nemesis. He ascended a swirling staircase, assuredly telling the figure with its back to him: "I'm coming. It's okay. It's okay. I'm a friend. I won't hurt you. Come on." It wasn't his daughter - but a murderous dwarf (Adelina Poerio) - the one pictured sitting in the pew in the slide - who turned around, withdrew a long sharp knife from her right coat pocket, and deftly sliced his throat with one quick swing. He fell onto the stone floor and bled to death - punctuated by the peals of bells, swirling camera angles and quick images from earlier in the film. [The slide was fully covered with a swirl of red and destroyed.] John's funeral at a Venetian canal-side church ended the film.
The Murderous, Red-Coated Dwarf in Venice
The Exorcist (1973)
# 41
In a supremely self-sacrificial act during the cathartic finale of the horror film, the formerly-rebellious priest Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) taunted the demon inside the possessed devil-girl Regan (Linda Blair) as he wrestled against her. He provoked and welcomed the demon to leave her body and come into his own so that he could destroy the Evil:
Take me. Come into me. God-damn you. Take me. Take me.
She grabbed and ripped the amulet medal from his neck - symbolically removing his protection from evil (foreshadowed previously in Damien's surreal dream). At the moment of his own demonic possession, he suddenly pulled back, his body trembled and his eyes rolled up (and turned green), and his face momentarily took on the appearance of Regan's demon.
He growled and tumbled backwards. On the floor, Regan had regained her former self, and her stifled cries were made in her own voice, but she was terrorized by the demon within Karras. Now that he was filled with the beast-monster, he stood and staggered toward her with his arms outstretched to strangle her - but with all his own fortitude and strength, he screamed: "No!" as he battled the demon's attempt to kill her.
He hurled himself toward the bedroom window - his body was thrown through the glass and he fell to his death on the steep concrete steps below. Karras [with a symbolic first name - Damien/Demon] gave his own life to save Regan's spirit and life, with the promise of being reborn.
From the bedroom window, Lt. Kinderman (Lee J. Cobb) viewed Karras' bloodied body ["FIGHT PIGS," a slogan typical of early 70's rebellion, appropriately adorned one of the adjoining walls of the steps, in red] at the foot of the Prospect Street steps. Regan cried hysterically, but she was cured. With police cars and bystanders crowding around, Father Dyer (William O'Malley) broke through and grabbed Karras' hand, beseeching him: "Do you want to make a confession? Are you sorry for having offended God and for all the sins of your past life?" Signaling his assent, Karras unclenched and gripped Dyer's hand. Dyer absolved him of his sins during the administration of last rites. The price or cost of Regan's recovery to sanity and wholeness was that both priests die during the exorcism.
Live and Let Die (1973)
# 15
In the climax of this eighth Bond film, 007 agent James Bond (Roger Moore) was in mortal combat against criminal heroin drug dealer and statesman Dr. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) within his subterranean lair on the Caribbean island of San Monique.
Bond and "lover" Solitaire (Jane Seymour) were tied together, and Bond's forearm was sliced to draw blood and lure "diners" (sharks). The two were to be lowered into Kananga's pool and served up as bait for his pet sharks.
007 employed the magnet gadget on his Rolex watch to snag a CO2 shark bullet (he hid it in his mouth), and then used the buzz-saw gadget to cut himself free.
In a final combative showdown, Bond and Kananga both fell into the shark pool, where Bond forced a large compressed-air shark bullet (or pellet) into Kananga's mouth and made him bite into it and swallow it. He pushed him below the water's surface, and then when the bullet discharged, his body began inflating, in a clearly-disgusting and gory death scene.
He was propelled out of the water into the air like a rising helium balloon. When his floating-upward, engorged body struck an upper structure, his elasticized, swelled-up body of skin popped or exploded. When Solitaire was released and asked: "Where's Kananga?", Bond quipped: "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself."
Sisters (1973)
"Colored" TV game-show player Philip Woode (Lisle Wilson) was brutally and viciously stabbed (with multiple stab wounds in the mouth, leg, and back by a huge carving knife) after he had had brought an inscribed birthday cake to aspiring French-Canadian model Danielle Breton (Margot Kidder) in her Staten Island apartment after a one-night stand.
He was murdered by her once-conjoined and insane Siamese twin sister Dominique Blanchion (also Margot Kidder in a dual role).
The bloody and gruesome slaying was witnessed, with director Brian De Palma's split-screen technique, from an apartment across the way by aspiring journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) as he scrawled with his blood to write the word HELP on a window.
Later in the film, Dominique also slashed her strange ex-husband/doctor Emil Breton (William Finley) with a scalpel across his groin and caused him to bleed to death on top of her.
Sleeper (1973)
As part of their rebellion against the totalitarian government in the year 2173 in Woody Allen's science-fiction comedy satire, futuristic rebels Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) and not-very-bright socialite Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) successfully kidnapped and killed the never-seen Leader.
The Leader (a wheel-chair bound dictator with a white dog) was ultimately reduced to a benign, disembodied nose after a bombing - and then 'killed' when they threw his nose under a steam-roller.
Soylent Green (1973)
In a moving death scene, Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson in his final film role) experienced


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To prepare this activity, just print and laminate each page. The pages are in black and white so you could print these on colored paper or cardstock. There is a hole in the upper left corner of each page. You can punch a hole and put them on a metal ring for easy use and storage.
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Students will identify the uppercase and lowercase letters on the pizza. They will cover the matching uppercase and lowercase letters. You can have students use a different color to cover each uppercase and lowercase pair. They will use a dry erase marker to write the letter matches on the right side of the mat.
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What happens when a raindrop, travelling at terminal velocity, hits a butterfly.....?
I've never seen an insect actually hit by a raindrop but I did once read an eyewitness account (of dubious reliability) of such a collision with a bumblebee in flight, which supposedly killed the bee. It came to mind yesterday as a dark rain cloud slid over the sun while I was photographing this newly-minted female orange tip butterfly visiting bluebells.
Almost immediately the butterfly folded its wings as completely as possible, assumed a vertical position on a bluebell infloresence and even aligned its antennae tightly in line with its body axis - all of which presented the smallest possible target for a falling raindrop. I wonder if this instinctive behaviour is triggered by the sudden drop in light level and temperature that's characteristic of an approaching shower on a spring day? Many insects crawl away under leaves during rain showers but orange tips always seem to roost in the open. I've often found dew-covered specimens early in the morning.
As soon as the sudden and very heavy shower had passed I went out to take a look and found the butterfly unharmed..... hard to believe that it hadn't been knocked off its perch by the downpour!


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April 19, 2006 - Refuge fire crew assists Stillwater NWR with emergency prescribed burn
Heavy rains and increasing snow melt resulted in pressure for quick measures to move large quantities of water through Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge has a series of canals designed to facilitate just such an effort, however a major section was thickly overgrown with tule reeds and posed a risk of clogging and potential flooding. A crew from Klamath Basin traveled to Fallon, NV, and burned nearly 10 miles of canals, significantly reducing the thick vegetation and increasing flow ability. Weather and holding conditions permitted the crew only two days of burning before new rains inundated roads and limited access. Refuge managers report the burns increased their ability to safely deliver water through the refuge.
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Why was the sky hazy on Thursday and Friday?
Satellite view of wildfire smoke over the Upper Midwest. Via GOES East (GOES-16)
There have been large forest fires in northern Alberta, Canada, and the smoke has drifted over the Midwest, including Wisconsin.
Smoke can cause the sky to appear hazy, even if the smoke is high above the ground. The smoke scatters sunlight to make the sunlight diffuse and grayish. When the smoke is thick, it can cause brilliant red sunsets and sunrises, as it did on Thursday. When light beams interact with particles suspended in air, the light can be scattered or absorbed.
The amount of light that is being scattered is a function of the number of particles and the size of the particle relative to the wavelength of the light falling on the particle. Small particles, like those of which smoke is composed, scatter violet and blue light more effectively than other colors.
So, as the sun sets and its rays pass through the smoke plume, all the blue light is scattered out of the path between the setting sun and your eyes, leaving just the red and orange colors. This results in the sun having a bright red color when it is low on the horizon. Recently, the smoke above us has been thick enough that the red sun disappeared from view before it set below the horizon.
Winds will sometimes transport the smoke down to the ground, resulting in a reduction in the quality of the air we breath. The small particles that make up the smoke can cause respiratory problems, particularly for children, the elderly and people with asthma.
Smoke doesn't have much of an effect on our temperature or precipitation. However, official weather reports include observations on sky conditions and visibility.
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Once thought to be the most reliable measure of patient care and satisfaction, nurse-patient ratios have been joined by a number of other statistics that correlate with positive outcomes. Evidence suggests nurse work environments play an important role in quality patient outcomes, along with nurses' perception of the type of facility they work in. For example, hospitals that have earned a "Magnet" designation are recognized for valuing nurses' contributions, formalizing career development and training, and keeping lines of communication open. It is widely believed that workplace satisfaction is higher at these facilities than at non-Magnet hospitals. The ANCC (The American Nurses Credentialing Center) administers and awards the Magnet designation.
Although some healthcare experts may question the procedures for awarding and maintaining the Magnet designation, a Gallup survey indicated that nurses who work in Magnet facilities perceive the level of care they provide to patients as being higher than nurses who don't.
These exclusive hospitals tend to promote a high level of communication between nurses and doctors, deploy advanced medical technologies and are receptive to nurse input. Magnet facilities keep a close eye on nurse staffing burnout and typically offer health and wellness programs to enhance career satisfaction.
Nurse workplace quality is reflected in patient outcomes
The nurse workplace is under scrutiny, with hospitals, academics and institutions all looking at ways to improve patient care levels by enhancing working conditions. One case study, from McKinsey and Company, reported that improved levels of job satisfaction for nurses led to improved quality of care, reduced absentee rates, and cost savings. Although Magnet designation can require substantial investment, the hope is that it will not only enhance patient care, it will eventually earn back its investment.
50 States is a travel nursing agency that focuses on placing RNs in travel nursing jobs, in particular at Magnet facilities.
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A review of various criteria that have been proposed to identify collapsible soils and test techniques, which are used to quantify the amount of collapse, is presented. The results of a series of laboratory single and double oedometer collapse tests conducted on three metastable loess soils are presented to illustrate problems associated with investigating collapse behavior of soils. Guidelines are proposed for developing a standard test procedure.
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Anchoring: How do I anchor my Raspberry Shake to the floor?
Question: The Shake box seems to come with some nice trim screws to set it level. How though is the unit meant to be coupled to the ground/concrete/slab/table…? The last few earthquakes I've experienced here in New Zealand would of sent the Raspberry Shake bouncing off the table or sliding over floor which means it will not actually be recording what it is meant to? How is it proposed to couple it to the horizontal surface?
Answer: Shake does not need to be "anchored".
Raspberry Shake is a weak motion device, like most seismometers are. It is designed to measure sub-micron movements. It probably completely clips between 0.1 and 0.2 g.
If during an earthquake objects are in the air then surely 1 g has been exceeded. Just yesterday I was watching youTube videos of the last New Zealand earthquake and yes things were moving. Shake and any other seismometer would be totally saturated and the data would be useless even if they were anchored.
Seismologists use accelerometers which have a range above 1 g commonly set to 2 g and can be set to 4 g. These devices are anchored. In a Class A seismic installation you would have a seismometer, and accelerometer that goes to DC and a GPS. This would allow for the huge dynamic range that you will get in a large earthquake. The accelerometer to DC and the GPS would allow you to see the displacements that a velocity sensor like the Shake will not show.
How precisely does Raspberry Shake need to be leveled?
Answer: This is a good question and one that is tossed around here at Raspberry Shake. Geophones are made by lots of companies and in lots of natural frequencies and cases and coil types. We think that the geophone used in Raspberry shake will have over 95% of it output out to about three degrees. A quick and dirty test of the undamped output of the Raspberry Shake's 4.5 Hz geophone was performed. We did the test at 10 Hz to get away from the amplification of the resonant frequency. We moved the geophone 1 mm. 1mm at 10Hz is strong shaking. From 0 to 3 degrees of tilt we could not see any significant difference in the output. It was not until 6 degrees that we could see a change and not until 15 degrees that the output was meaningless.
We can definitely say that if the leveling bubble is mostly within the little circle on the level built into the acrylic box, that things are ok. From the test we have done, I think that the leveling bubble we provide will achieve the +/-.5 Degrees as long as the leveling bubble is centered in the circle.
Later, one of our backers, Brett, responded: "I did a quick test to check the leveling bubble sensitivity. It took about one turn of the leg screw located on the center line to move the leveling bubble from centered to be solidly touching the black ring. That's 0.8mm over 123.5mm, the perpendicular distance from that screw to a line between the other two legs. That ratio is 0.00648 and taking the ArcSin = 0.37 deg. of tilt, which is slightly better than you suggest. Probably the biggest factor will be how well the geophone guts are aligned with the leveling bubble. Super leveling is not going to be an issue.
Why does my Raspberry Shake change IP?
IP addresses can either be "DHCP", that is "D"ynamically assigned, or "Static". Most routers today dynamically assign IP addresses. That means that every time a computer like the Raspberry Pi is connected it is given an IP address. It can be the same IP address as previously assigned or a new one. The connection is time limited. Some routers set it to a day or so, some months and still others many years. So, depending on the router settings, the connection will be released and reconnected after a certain time window. On some routers it is possible to change length of the time, on others not. For example at a university where many people come and go, the time window is set to shorter time so that the IP address can be recycled. At home where you have fewer computers, you would obviously prefer a longer time window. The solution around this problem is to set a Static IP address. See here for instructions: Static IP
Why does my Raspberry Shake change its DNS name?
Question: When I start Shake #1, it takes the DNS name rs.local. Then, when I start Shake #2, it takes over the DNS name rs.local and kicks Shake #1 to rs-2.local. What is happening and how can I stop it?
Answer: This is a complex one and can only happen on certain networks (generally, those that use small or medium business hardware). Let's start by leaning about the two protocols that smart switches usually have. Then we can take a look at "what's happening," then finally how you can fix it.
Protocol 1: RSTP
RSTP makes sure there are no loops or ambiguities on the network. The switch will not forward any packet from a port that just came up until its tests are done. Here's a good link that explains RSTP in full.
Protocol 2: Avahi/Bonjour
This protocol is responsible for searching for, assigning, and keeping track of DNS names on many modern networks.
Connection type 1: IPv4
The IPv4 link needs to negotiate with a DHCP server in order to get an address. This takes a short but significant amount of time.
Connection type 2: IPv6
The IPv6 link does not need negotiation of local-link addresses like IPv4 does. It just picks one of many millions of addresses and then can send packets right away.
What's happening
Shake 1 is already booted and it has the hostname rs.local.
When the first link on Shake 2 becomes ready, Avahi immediately sends a broadcast packet that says "hello! does anyone own rs.local?" with any connection available. Since IPv6 is generally the first connection to become available, the Avahi request is sent via this connection. IPv4 is not ready at this point, since it is still negotiating its address with the DHCP server.
At this moment the switch (with RSTP turned on) is not forwarding packets to Shake 2 yet. It "checks" that everything is ok with network and that there are no ambiguities. The result is that nobody sees the "hello" packets sent by Shake 2. So Shake 2 decides there is no rs.local on the network and announces its name (rs.local) to the network. At that moment, the IPv4 link becomes ready (i.e. the switch now forwards packets from Shake 2). Shake 1 sees someone took its name and automatically assigns itself a new name rs-2.local.
How to fix it:
There are a few ways to potentially fix this issue:
 1. By disabling IPv6. You can do this by editing the file /etc/sysctl.conf:
 sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
add the following lines to the end of the file:
Then restart the Shake. The DNS name should now "stick" once assigned.
 1. Manually change the DNS name. You can do this by editing the file /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf:
 sudo nano /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
Modify the following line and replace rs with the DNS name of your choice. It should have no spaces or special characters except minus (-):
Then restart the Shake. Your shake should now be visible at nameyouchose.local. If you lose track of what you've named your Shake, you can Find your Raspberry Shake's IP with Fing.
 1. Disable RSTP on your switch. Since this is device-specific, we can't help you. However, a google search for "Disable RSTP on [your device's make and model]" may help.
Is the schematic for the Raspberry Shake available?
The schematic for Shake is not available. Much of the software is open. Our reason for not making the schematic available is that if we made the hardware open and the firmware that went with it, we would see Raspberry Shake on Alibaba before the Kickstarter campaign was even over.
We align ourselves in many ways with the folks at Pololu when they make this statement about open hardware: See article here. Pololu put a huge amount of work in writing that piece, long but worth the read.
What is the difference between the RS1D, RS3D and RS4D models?
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sps = samples per second on all channels
The RS1D, RS3D, RS4D and RS&BOOM have the same capabilities for detecting Earth motion in the vertical dimension. The RS3D replicates these abilities in the horizontal dimensions, providing the user with a fuller view of Earth motion in all 3 dimensions. The difference between the RS1D and the RS4D is that the RS4D has a 3 dimensional accelerometer built into the board. This is interesting for people who live in earthquake zones where the strong motion might be enough to saturate the vertical sensor. With the accelerometer, the Earth motion would remain on scale with the added benefit of being able to detect lateral motion as well.
Why can't I mount/ stack multiple Rasberry Shake boards on the same Raspberry Pi computer?
This is because the RPi computer only


How to keep your fiddle-leaf fig alive and happy
There's no denying fiddle-leaf figs were the indoor "it plant" of 2017 and they're still a favourite today.
Known mainly for it's shady dark green leaves, veiny leaftlets and hefty price tag, this fashionable foliage has proved to be quite the challenge for some. To make sure you're giving your fiddle-leaf all the TLC it needs, Yates horticulturalist Angie Thomas shares tips on how to look after your very own.
Why choose a fiddle-leaf?
"Fiddle leaf figs (Ficus lyrata) are fantastic, large leafed figs that make a wonderfully bold statement when grown as in indoor plant."
How to nail the positioning
"They love a spot indoors that's well lit but protected from direct sunlight. It's a good idea to rotate the pot around, by half a turn, every fortnight so that each side of the plant receives some light. This will help reduce the chance of lop sided growth."
The fiddle-leaf fig is a plant that makes a big statement. (Leon&George)
What not to do
"Fiddle-leaf figs don't like drafts from windows or air conditioners. They're native to humid tropical rainforests, so they love a protected humid environment."
How often should you water a fiddle-leaf fig?
"Over watering your fiddle-leaf fig is courting disaster! Only re-water when the top few centimetres of potting mix feels dry. I highly recommend feeding your fiddle leaf fig during the warmer months of the year with a liquid fertilizer."
Uh-oh! So it's started to "sulk" - how to salvage your fiddle-leaf:
"Figs can be temperamental if they're moved. 'Weeping' figs are notorious for dropping their leaves when they're moved and fiddle-leaf figs can also sulk and lose some of their leaves if you move them.
"If your fiddle leaf fig is not liking its current spot and is not looking happy, then move it to a better location (such as with brighter light or away from a draft). Otherwise, try to avoid moving your fig or if you do have to move it, do it gradually and hope it doesn't notice!"


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Gertrude Berg debuts in "The Goldbergs"
November 20, 1929
Gertrude Berg's popular radio program, The Goldbergs, about an upwardly mobile American Jewish family debuted on NBC radio on November 20, 1929. Berg developed the kernel of the show as a series of live sketches to entertain guests at her family's Catskills hotel. It was produced in recurrent runs as a daily 15-minute program on NBC and other networks for nearly two decades before shifting to television in January, 1949. On both radio and TV, Berg served as the sole writer, producer, and star of one the nation's most popular programs.
Throughout its 30 years on radio and television, as well as in presentations on Broadway and on film, The Goldbergs dealt explicitly with Jewish life in the United States, joking about the cultural differences between "old world" immigrants and their American-born offspring. Berg's Molly became a cultural touchstone, a figure combining old world wisdom, new world common sense, and a mother's humanity in confronting the perplexities of American life. Over the show's three decades, the Goldberg family moved from a New York City tenement to the Bronx and later to suburban Connecticut, mirroring the upward progression of many Jews into the American mainstream.
Although Berg continued to produce The Goldbergs into the 1950s, the show's popularity declined. The demise of The Goldbergs reflects the homogenizing trend in postwar American society. As millions of ethnic Americans fled their traditional urban enclaves in search of an un-hyphenated, simply "American" identity in the suburbs, programming explicitly grounded in ethnic cultures gave way to more all-American shows like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best. The Goldbergs went off the air in 1955.
To learn more about Gertrude Berg, visit Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.
See also: This Week in History for October 18, 1948: Molly Goldberg makes her television debut and January 10, 1949: Gertrude Berg's "The Goldbergs" premieres on television; Television in the United States.
Sources:_URL_ _URL_ _URL_ You Never Call, You Never Write: A History of the Jewish Mother (Antler, 2007).


The most complete online resource about slow tourism and Italian villages
The mysterious galleries and the treasures of the village of Certaldo
Sunday 03 december 2017
A series of tunnels under the medieval village, a possible inestimable treasure and a hill that could be a pyramid
The mysterious galleries and the treasures of the village of Certaldo
A legend handed down by the elderly of the Tuscan village of Certaldo tells that in the subsoil of Certaldo Alto, one of the two nuclei that make up the village, there are a series of tunnels and galleries that would cover the entire perimeter of the village and arrive up to a mysterious hill nearby called the "Poggio del Boccaccio".
These tunnels, which seem to have been dug by hand, would date back to the year 1000 but we do not know for what purpose or by whom. Within these galleries, legend says, there would be many objects both of common use and of inestimable value. It is said that they also have some personal items belonging to the poet Boccaccio.
The entrances of these galleries should be varied and disseminated along the territory of the village. There are those who say that can be accessed from some wells in some private homes, who claims that can be entered through hidden hatches in the basements and who claims that there is a secret access from the Palazzo Pretorio.
Some seniors say they entered one of these galleries in their youth but had to leave after a few meters because of the lack of air due to secular closure.
The legend goes on saying that the galleries would lead up to the "Poggio del Boccaccio", a particular hill near the village with a perfectly pyramidal shape. In fact, looking at the hill you immediately notice the strange shape, almost unnatural and geometric. The hill rises from each side with the same inclination, rests on a flat base and even the top is perfectly flat. It would seem that underneath there is an ancient pyramid which was then covered and hidden by nature.
It seems that the mysterious subsoil of the village is full of ancient and priceless treasures.
what else do you want
to discover?


Haskell and Maple FFI
Rafael Martinez Torres rmartine at fdi.ucm.es
Mon Sep 20 10:46:45 EDT 2004
> Making it possible to call Maple would be very cool. Can you give more detail
> about Open Maple?
 OpenMaple is a suite of functions that allows you to access Maple
algorithms and data structures in your compiled C program. This is the
reverse of ExternalCalling, which allows access to C data structures from Maple.
> If I was doing this, I'd start by writing some C code that interfaces to
> use the FFI to invoke the Maple FFI functions for pushing arguments, popping
> results, etc. and use the the FFI libraries which have lots of useful
> functions for marshaling arguments from Haskell to other formats.
> prototype in C, translate to Haskell. At this point, don't worry too much
> about the fact that the simplest function call seems to require 10-20 lines
> [The Open Maple manual probably has a list of examples used to illustrate the
> it just won't work, step back and write a prototype in C.
Examples ( taken from Open Maple. kv stands for a handle for the Maple
 _TAG_ "maplec.h"
 ALGEB M_DECL MyStats( MKernelVector kv, ALGEB *args )
 ALGEB mean, sd, f;
 if( 1!= MapleNumArgs(kv,(ALGEB)args) ) {
 MapleRaiseError(kv,"one argument expected");
 return( NULL );
 if(!IsMapleList(kv,args[1]) ) {
 MapleRaiseError(kv,"list expected");
 return( NULL );
 /* get the name of the function to call, and compute the mean */
 f = EvalMapleStatement(kv,"stats[describe,mean]:");
 mean = EvalMapleProc(kv,f,1,args[1]);
 /* compute the standard deviation using a different method -- build
 up the function object and call MapleEval on it
 f = EvalMapleStatement(kv,"stats[describe,standarddeviation]:");
 f = ToMapleFunction(kv,f,1,args[1]);
 sd = MapleEval(kv,f);
 /* return the pair */
 return( ToMapleExpressionSequence(kv,2,mean,sd) );
Is it what do you mean?
Then, I could use the maple kernel under a "ccall" convention, I mean:
foreign export ccall "MyStats" MyStats :: MKenelVector -> [Args]...
> Ask us as you run into problems.
Rather what I would like is to write code in a file foo.maple and then,
when invoking the function, to invoke the key funcion in C:
sd = MapleEval(kv,f)
IDEA : the RTS in the startup function should initialize
and instance of the Maple kernel (kv) given a (*.maple) file (exactly as a
JVM loads the.class file), once detected a maple call at compiling time. The (*.maple)
should be provided by the end user, as when a dynamic library is provided.
OpenMaple allows the C-programmer to initialize the Maple Interpreter;
Further calls to Maple-wrapper functions will act only as calls the
"MapleEval" function, provided parameters... Once you have setup the
Maple handle, it seems like to deal with a C library like HOPenGL
Rigth?
I don't know on Marshalling/UnMarshalling...
> Once you can do all that, there's a bunch of tricks you can play with
> typeclasses to reduce the number of lines of code you have to write from
> --
> Alastair Reid
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Objectives Accurate and stable extrinsic parameter calibrations are the basis of fusing perception and positioning of cameras and light detection and ranging (LiDAR). To address the problems of the Dhall calibration method in constraint accuracy, stability, and convergence, this paper proposed a LiDAR and camera calibration method with joint point-line-plane constraints.
Methods First, line-line and plane-plane constraints were added, and the Kabsch method was used to obtain a closed-form solution, which reduced the influence of noise in the single corner constraint and improved the accuracy and stability of the calibration results. Then, multi-frame point clouds were superimposed to fit lines, and the fitting corners were averaged, which further reduced the influence of the point cloud noise, thus improving the convergence speed and stability of the calibration method.
Results Experimental results show that the proposed method can converge within 20 frames, and the reprojection error of the corner points was less than 2 cm.
Conclusions The proposed method has faster convergence speed and higher accuracy than the original method.


Top 5 Expenses When Building a House
To build the house of your dreams, it helps to understand the cost breakdown and some of the most expensive parts of building a home. The key to staying within your budget (while still having everything you want) lies in making wise decisions. Keep in mind these top five expenses when it comes to the cost of building a house.
 - Size. The bigger the house, the more expensive it will be to frame.
 - Type. Stick framing is the most common and least expensive (approximately $100 to $200 per square foot). Timber framing is a special type of framing that uses carpentry techniques rather than nails to hold the frame in place. It costs approximately $100 to $200 a square foot.
 - Materials and labors. The price of lumber plays a big role in the total cost. The cost of labor plays less of one, but it still needs to be taken into account.
The foundation
There are two key determinants for foundation price:
 - The location of the home. Local material costs influence the foundation price, as does the skills of local laborers. In some locations, contractors stick to building one type of foundation—becoming highly skilled and competent in the foundation they build, but not with others. Homebuilders may see a price increase when they choose a foundation that their local contractor doesn't typically build.
 - The type of foundation. A slab foundation is the simplest and cheapest type of foundation. Perimeter foundations and full basement foundations require more materials and labor and are more expensive.
One of the more complex jobs when building a house is installing the plumbing. Because plumbing installation requires a specific skill set and knowledge, the job is oftentimes bid out, which can raise costs. Other important factors that influence total plumbing cost include the following:
 - The number of stories. Two-story houses cost more.
 - Excavation work. Heavy machinery and special skills are needed for excavation work. Plumbing installation that requires lots of tough excavating can be expensive.
 - Materials. The size and type of pipes and fittings can vary.
The size of the roof and the type of material used determine roofing cost. Many different types of shingles (each varying in cost) can be used to roof a home. The most common type of shingles is asphalt. Because they are light and easy to install, they are also the cheapest. More expensive shingle options include:
 - Wood shake
 - Tile
 - Slate
 - Metal
The size of the house and type of material plays a significant role in flooring costs. The most common types of flooring include the following:
 - Carpeting
 - Hardwood
 - Tile
 - Bamboo
 - Laminate
 - Vinyl and linoleum
This information can help guide you as you make important building decisions. Remember to stay patient and always use recommended professionals you trust. Their expert skills and knowledge help build dream homes with ease.
When you buy a pre-owned home, the price is pretty upfront. You give them this much money, and they give you a completed house. But, when planning to build a new home, costs have a way of expanding while your home is under construction if you are not paying attention. Knowing how to manage these potential budget busters can help keep your costs low and the entire project well within your budget.
The Bottom Line on Controlling Costs
In the long run, you want your home to last, serve your needs, and not break the bank. And, it is possible to have all three of those. Frugal and cheap are not the same thing, and you can save money on your new home construction without being a penny-pinching Scrooge. Professional and reputable architects and contractors can build the house you want that also allows you to live within your budget, so be sure you choose yours wisely.