Underground Pumping Potential Cause for Nebraska Drought Issue
Underground Pumping Potential Cause for Nebraska Drought Issue
As Nebraskan farmers continue to sue the state over water usage and laws, evidence shows underground pumping as culprit for extensive drought damage.
As a necessity of life, water courses through the land and nurtures, cleans, and grows. However, as a finite source, water is in the center of many lawsuits. For the second year in a row, Nebraskan farmers sue the state and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for not regulating groundwater pumping properly. The farmers come from four counties that include Furnas, Harlan, Red Willow, and Hitchcock. According to the suit, the state and DNR focused policies primarily on surface water irrigation, ignoring the damage underground pumping was causing.
Domina Law Group's David Domina, who represents the farmers, agrees that the state needs to address the groundwater pumping. He states,
There is no question that Nebraska has failed to manage water in the basin acceptably. Anyone can see that the management has been to use emergency methods and impose the burden on surface water irrigators, while ignoring the consequences of groundwater pumping.
Nebraskan farmers seek compensation for the potential loss of crops and profits because of the reduced water in the Republican River Basin. The Republican River Compact of 1943 allots water to Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas. However, Nebraskan farmers claim that because of unregulated groundwater pumping for irrigation, they could not use water that was rightfully theirs. They are asking the state to repay the damages and losses they suffered, though the plaintiffs do not question the state's authority to restrict water use.
In fact, many Nebraskans believe issues of water use and climate change need to be addressed. 61% of citizens agree that the state should come up with a plan to reduce the impact on climate change, while only 17% disagree. Some claim that the state and authority focus too much on short-term relief, when they should strive to protect water for long-term use. Attorney Domina believes the solution lies in politics and they will need to make solid policies to protect resources.


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Species: Queen of the Andes (Puya raimondii)
Status: Endangered (EN)
Interesting Fact: The Queen of the Andes may take as long as 80 to 150 years to flower and will only flower once before dying.
The Queen of the Andes is best known for its spectacular flower spike, which can reach up to 10 metres high. These spikes bear over 8,000 whitish-green blooms, which turn purple with age. The Queen of the Andes is a monocarpic species, meaning that it will die after flowering for the first time. These plants produce as many as 8 to 12 million seeds, but if conditions are not suitable few seeds will survive to germination. This means that a plant that is more than a century old may never actually reproduce successfully. The Queen of the Andes grows in the harsh, high-altitude environment of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. This highly adapted species produces an anti-freeze chemical in its sap to survive freezing temperatures.
Today, the Queen of the Andes has an extremely fragmented distribution. Vegetation destruction, grazing by livestock, fires, and the introduction of exotic species all threaten this species. The Andean region is regarded as a priority for plant conservation, meaning action is urgently required to preserve this unique ecosystem and its important vegetation.
Find out more about the Queen of the Andes on the IUCN Red List website.

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Focused ion beam, also known as FIB, is a technique used particularly in the semiconductor industry, materials science and increasingly in the biological field for site-specific analysis, deposition, and ablation of materials.
An FIB setup is a scientific instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope (SEM). However, while the SEM uses a focused beam of electrons to image the sample in the chamber, an FIB setup uses a focused beam of ions instead.
Research Poster PDFs
Focused Ion Beam (FIB)
Click below for a list of all LCN Researchers &d Research Highlights associated with:
FOCUSED ION BEAM (FIB)
Figure: Niobium SQUID fabricated using FIB. The device incorporates 150 nm wide nanobridges as the active Josephson elements. [courtesy Ed Romans]


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Before Access 2007, you could calculate totals on your data in query, report, or form view. Access 2007 lets you add a Total row field to your tables.
For example, say you want to find out the average number of hours your employees worked per week in June. Follow these steps to add a total row to the hours field column in your Employees database:
1. Open your Employees database.
2. In the Navigation pane, double-click the table that records the hours worked for the month of June.
3. Click the Hours field name in the open table.
4. Click the Home tab.
5. Click the Totals button.
6. Scroll to the end of the Hours column and click the Total row field's list arrow.
7. Select Average.
To find the maximum or minimum number of hours worked by any one employee, select Maximum or Minimum, respectively, in step 7. To obtain a total of all hours worked for the month, select Sum in step 7.
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Fishing for sustainability: Will your grandchildren have the option to eat seafood?
Book overview
Author statement:
By Tor Hundloe, Julian Morison, Kate Brooks and Andrew Sullivan
Once a week the average Australian family enjoys a seafood meal, whether it is take-away fish and chips, servings of prawn curry at a restaurant or a snapper barbecued at home. These meals are based on Australian-harvested seafood, fresh, clean and green - the latter because we are determined to keep our fishery harvest at a sustainable level. We face immense challenges. All our fisheries have reached their sustainable limit, yet our population continues to grow and consequently so does the demand for seafood. We can only meet existing demand by importing seafood and recently have had to import more than we catch. This book shows how Australian society can recognise the contribution commercial fishers make to our lifestyle. This will require us to embrace them as a vital part of our communities rather than blame them for declining catches and environmental damage. It also indicates what fishers need to do to gain community acceptance, so that everyone can understand the dilemma and act to ensure that future generations will have the option to eat seafood.


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Dual Bed Dryers
Dual Bed (also called Twin Tower) dryers used to be the most commonly purchased type of resin dryer. In fact, it is estimated that there are between 10 and 20,000 of these dryers still in use today despite their disadvantages.
Dual Bed dryers consist of two beds (or towers) of desiccant beads, process and regenerative blowers, process and regeneration heaters and valves to re-direct the airflow. While one bed of desiccant supplies dry process air to flow through the drying hopper, the other bed – with saturated desiccant – is regenerated, by forcing hot air through it. When the regeneration is complete, that bed becomes the one supplying the dry process air and the first bed goes into the regeneration mode.
Dual Bed dryers are commonly used because they attained a -40˚ dew point and generally do a good job of drying most resins.
They do have their disadvantages:
In recent years, there have been great advances made in drying technology and several types of dryers now overcome the disadvantages of Dual Bed dryers. These new dryer types include Desiccant Wheel, Membrane, Vacuum and Infrared versions.


Restrict Deployment Access to Specific Environments
Updated 9 months ago by Michael Cretzman
By default, all Harness User Group members have full permissions on all Applications.
Using Harness RBAC functionality, you can restrict the deployments a User Group may perform to specific Harness Applications and their subordinate Environments.
Restricting a User Group's deployments to specific Environments enables you to manage which target infrastructures are impacted by your different teams. For example, you can have Dev environments only impacted by Dev teams, and QA environments only impacted by QA teams.
In this topic:
Before You Begin
Ensure you are familiar with the following Harness features:
Visual Summary
In the following image, you can see that the Application Permissions for a Harness User Group are set for a specific Application and three of its Environments:
Members of this User Group will have permission to execute Workflow and Pipeline deployments for those target Environments only.
Step 1: Create or Edit a User Group
Harness User Groups are managed in Security > Access Management > User Groups.
Open a User Group. You will edit its Application Permissions to restrict its members deployment permissions to specific Application Environments.
For steps on setting up a User Group, see Managing Users and Groups (RBAC).
Step 2: Set Application Permissions
By default, all Harness User Groups members have full permissions on all Applications.
In Application Permissions, click the pencil icon to edit the default permissions.
The Application Permission settings appear. Configure the following settings:
 1. In Permission Type, enable Deployments and any other permissions other than All Permission Types.
 2. In Application, select the Application(s) you want to grant deployment permissions for. Use the search feature if needed.
 3. In Filter, select the Environments in the Applications you selected. These are the Environments that you want to allow the User Group members to deploy to. Use the search feature if needed.
 4. In Action, select Read, Execute Workflow, and Execute Pipeline.
When you're done, the Application Permission will look something like this:
Now this User Group's members can only deploy to the Environments you selected.
Add and remove members as needed.
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What's the difference between long and short grain rice? And what is medium rice?
Can you use the different types interchangeably? Does size even matter?
Rice can be confusing. Not only are there grain sizes to contend with, but there are colors, varieties, and types to sort through. According to the USA Rice Federation, there are more than 120,000 varieties of rice worldwide!
Here's a basic rice primer, so you can learn when to use a long grain, or when to stick to short.
Long grain rice tends to separate when cooked. That means your rice will fall apart, rather than stick together. Use long grain rice when you are making dishes that call for separate, loose grains, such as pilafs. It also has a firmer, dryer texture and feel in the mouth.
Chinese restaurants usually serve a side order of long grain rice with the food. So if you hate trying to pick up those grains individually with chopsticks, you might decide to use a shorter, stickier rice instead, to serve with your stir fry.
Medium grain rice is more likely to stick together. The grains are softer and moister than long grain rice when cooked. This type of rice is the preferred type in Hawaii, where the mix of cultures enjoys rice with every meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks!
Yes, we really do eat rice for snacks. One of the most popular local foods is musubi, a ball of cooked rice, wrapped in nori, or seaweed "paper." Often these will have a slice of fried Spam luncheon meat on top.
Calrose rice, a variety grown in California, is a medium grain rice. This is the type to get if you want a bland, clean taste.
Short grain rice is the most sticky and soft. The grains have a bit of chewiness to them. The extra starch in them gives them these properties.
Specialty rice types
One famous type of medium grain rice is Arborio, used to make Italian risotto. The starch thickens the liquid as it cooks, creating a creamy texture that gives the dish its signature style. You can substitute other short or medium grain rice, but never long grain rice, and get a similar finished product.
Sushi is made with short or medium grain rice. This is another of the exceptions to the substitution rule. You cannot substitute long grain rice when making sushi, or everything will just fall apart and not feel right in the mouth.
For the most part, if you are just making a pot of rice, or you run out of one kind of rice or another, you can relax. The different types can be substituted equally in most dishes, without ruining them. There are a few exceptions to the rule, however.
Use a short or medium grain for sushi, risotto, rice pudding, and molded rice dishes. Use medium grain for paella. Use long grain for pilafs.
Use glutinous or sticky rice to make rice cakes, or mochi. Use black glutinous rice to make Malaysian sticky black rice pudding. Use Thai sticky rice for sticky rice with coconut milk and mango, or to eat with Thai food, like those in the northern parts of Thailand, and Laos, do.
What rice to use for fried rice?
Any type can be used, but most commonly, white rice is used. It is usually kept in the refrigerator, or left out for a day, which dries the rice a bit. Otherwise, if you use fresh rice, you get a steamy, soggy mess.


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The human genome -- now on an iPad near you
This logo for the Genome Wowser application was designed by the Center for Biomedical Informatics at CHOP. Credit: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Navigating the human genome with software that you can view on an iPad sounds pretty impressive, until perhaps you reflect that nature has already encoded trillions of copies of this in your chromosomes. Then again, printing that data using ink and paper would produce a mind-staggering pile of pagesso viewing it on an iPad may be impressive after all.
Now the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has created Genome Wowser, an app for exploring genomic information that is convenient, intuitive and highly mobile. Anyone with an iPad can download the app for free from the iTunes App StoreSM on the internet. Using Genome Wowser, a researcher can traverse the human genome just like planning a travel route on Google Maps.
A common use for the tool is to enter the name of a gene in Wowser's search box. The app finds the gene on one of the 23 human chromosomes, displaying an interactive image of its precise location among the genome's 3 billion base pairs.
Also included are annotations contributed by researchersnotes about each gene's known or suspected biological functions, and about identified mutations and variants of the gene. Users can find information about neighboring genes or about epigeneticshow a gene's functions are modified when chemicals attach or separate from exposed sections of DNA. Touching the screen (pinching and spreading) allows a user to zoom in or out of the chromosome region.
Genome Wowser's name plays on the name of the data source that it emulatesthe venerable UCSC Genome Browser, a website established in 2000 at the University of California Santa Cruz that serves as a popular worldwide data repository and genome exploration tool for human genome data. This information is constantly being updated as scientists uncover new gene data.
"We feel that Genome Wowser provides immediacy to the human genome," said Peter White, Ph.D., director of CBMi. "With this app, researchers can now access genomic data from anywhere with minimal effort, and they can immediately explore the genome visually by using the intuitive screen touches and gestures that have made the iPad platform so powerful," he added.
Genome Wowser supports viewing and querying of multiple types of genomic data, so that users can select the types of information that interest them and view them concurrently in a stacked display for a selected region. In addition to text-based and graphical search options, the app provides zooming capabilities for its genome graphics, and drag-and-swipe navigation to move seamlessly across a chromosome.
Perhaps most importantly, Genome Wowser allows convenient portability of genomic data. "With this app, I can hear about an interesting disease gene at a seminar and see its genomic and functional contexts in a few screen touches, including epigenetic and variation profiles, neighboring genes, and other critical associations you can't determine from a simple web search," said White. "Then, I can walk over to a colleague and share it with them, all in a few seconds."
Upcoming versions of the app will provide access to genome sequences of over three dozen non-human species, including dogs, cats, mice, chimpanzees, elephants, and 11 species of fruit fly, plus further improvements in the touch interface.
More information: To download the Genome Wowser free of charge, visit the app's iTunes page at _URL_ _PHONE_?mt=8 or search for "Genome Wowser" in the iTunes store.
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Discuss this article or ask questions at the LDS.net Forums.
Category:Youth and Children
Following Christ's example, children are considered "an heritage of the Lord" (Psalms 127:3) in the Mormon Church. The Nursery and Primary programs are set up to help parents teach their young children gospel principles. Church leaders also takes a great interest in strengthening the youth of the Church and through programs like Young Womens, Scouting, and Seminary. Programs are designed to help build testimonies and character and teach responsibility.
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PyQt Tips and Tricks
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* maelophone
* maelophone
* healthcheck
* healthcheck
* qlister
* Gonvert (1.0+)
* Gonvert (1.0+)
* [ WifiEye]
* [ WifiEye]
Revision as of 15:17, 16 June 2010
With Meego there is a lot of interest in developing applications in Qt rather than GTK. This page spawned from a discussion thread.
Tips and Tricks
Identifying the Sender of a Signal
There are two main approaches for this. The first is to wrap the slot with a lambda to pass in any additional arguments
def notifyMe(foo)
 print foo
f = QPushButton("Click me!")
x = lambda: notifyMe("they call him tim")
self.connect(f, SIGNAL("clicked()"), x)
The second and more general solution is to use the QSignalMapper[2]
Learning to use Qt CSS
Much like web development, CSS is also available within Qt. There's a list of examples that can be tried out just using Qt Designer. If you're using custom CSS, using palette() in your CSS definitions will allow you to use colors that the theme already knows about. As an example, this is an easy way to get the default blue color on your buttons when you want that color.
Depending on your needs, there's a number of built-in icons that are available for use.[3]
Style sheets and the native QMaemo5Style do not mix very well, since Maemo 5 lays out and draws some widgets very differently (e.g. QRadioButton). We recommend using local style sheets on specific widgets only, instead of setting one via QApplication::setStyleSheet().[4]
QString and Python
I've had some unicode-relate issues when moving strings between python datatypes and Qt datatypes. Somehow, the unicode stuff would get lost. So, it's likely easiest (At least when you're new to python and Qt) to use QString and QStringList than their pure python counterparts.
If you're not bringing in data from anywhere else, this isn't that big of a deal, but if you're interacting with data from any other source, unicode is a pretty likely scenario these days.[5]
Just to note that, in my experience, locales fail to work with PyQt - QTextCodec.codecForLocale() does not return the correct codec, which also means QString's toLocal8Bit() and fromLocal8Bit() fail.
The python locale stuff works fine, but then you have the joy of converting between QString and python strings (which works perfectly when it does it implicitly, but an explicit conversion seems to go via ASCII unless you specifically tell it to use utf-8 instead). [6]
Qt and Threads
import threading
Spread the work across multiple callbacks to allow the UI to remain responsive. See multiple QTimer types
Stacked Windows
 class showWindowQtGui.QMainWindow):
 def __init__(self, parent=None):
 QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
 self.ui = Ui_main_window()
Example Applications
 - ncalc
 - nclock
 - maesynth
 - Uses QGraphicsView
 - maelophone
 - healthcheck
 - qlister
 - Gonvert (1.0+)
 - WifiEye
 - MaeGirls
 - pyPianobar
 - Threading and Qt
 - pyRadio
 - Threading and Qt
Web Resources


Augmented Faces
Augmented Faces allows your app to automatically identify different regions of a detected face, and use those regions to overlay assets such as textures and models in a way that properly matches the contours and regions of an individual face.
How does Augmented Faces work?
This example shows an app that overlays facial features of a fox onto a user's face using assets that include 3D models and an overlay texture.
The 3D model consists of two fox ears and a fox nose. Each is a separate bone that can be moved individually to follow the facial region they are attached to:
The texture consists of eye shadow, freckles, and other coloring:
When you run the sample app, it calls APIs to detect a face and overlays both the texture and the models onto the face.
Identifying an augmented face mesh
In order to properly overlay textures and 3D models on a detected face, ARCore provides detected regions and an augmented face mesh. This mesh is a virtual representation of the face, and consists of the vertices, facial regions, and the center of the user's head.
When a user's face is detected by the camera, ARCore performs these steps to generate the augmented face mesh, as well as center and region poses:
 1. It identifies the center pose and a face mesh.
 - The center pose, located behind the nose, is the physical center point of the user's head (in other words, inside the skull).
 - The face mesh consists of hundreds of vertices that make up the face, and is defined relative to the center pose.
 2. The AugmentedFace class uses the face mesh and center pose to identify face region poses on the user's face. These regions are:
 - Left forehead (LEFT_FOREHEAD)
 - Right forehead (RIGHT_FOREHEAD)
 - Tip of the nose (NOSE_TIP)
These elements -- the center pose, face mesh, and face region poses -- comprise the augmented face mesh and are used by AugmentedFace APIs as positioning points and regions to place the assets in your app.
Next steps
Start using Augmented Faces in your own apps. To learn more, see:


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Volume 2: No. 2, April 2005
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
The Asthma Consultative Process: A Collaborative Approach to Integrating Genomics
Into Public Health Practice
This flowchart illustrates how scientific findings are translated into
public health practice. The chart flows from left (starting with "Genetic
Contribution of Disease") to right (ending with "Improved Health Outcomes").
An arrow along the top of the chart indicates this left to right progression.
In addition, two arrows positioned head to tail in a circle along the bottom
of the chart indicate that the five major components of the pathway interact
with each other.
|Identification of Genetic Component
||Family history studies
|Characteristics of Risk
|Implementation & Assessment
|Public & Private Policy
||Assessment of health care delivery
||Evaluation of harms/benefits of genetic information
Figure 1. Translational pathway, which serves to
illustrate translation of scientific findings into public health practice.
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Langelier Saturation index(LSI) is an important term in water chemistry. LSI is a measure of a solution's ability to dissolve or deposit calcium carbonate, is often used as an indicator of the corrosivity of water. It is used for finding ability of water for corrosion or scaling in heat exchanger where water is used as heat transfer media in either side of heat exchanger. The scaling in pipe or heat exchnager tubes can cause insulation for heat transfer or metal loss in case of corrosion tendency of water. LSI is an equilibrium model derived from the theoretical concepts of saturation and helps in indicating the degree of saturation of water with respect to calcium carbonate.
Langelier derived an equation for the pH at which water is saturated with calcium carbonate (pHs). This equation is based on the equilibrium expressions of calcium carbonate solubility and bicarbonate dissociation. To approximate actual conditions more closely, pHs calculations were modified to include the effects of temperatureand ionic strength
The Langelier Index isdefined as the difference between actual pH (measured) and calculated pHs. Themagnitude and sign of the LSI value show water's tendency to form or dissolve scale,and thus to encourage corrosion. Although information obtained from the LI is not quantitative, it can be useful in estimating water treatment requirements for heat exchanges in process industry, low pressure boilers, cooling towers and its network, and water treatment plants, as well as a general indicator of the corrosivity of water.
The LSI is expressed as the difference between the actual system pH and the saturation pH:
LSI = pH (measured) − pHs
- For LSI > 0, water is super saturated and tends to precipitate ascale layer of CaCO3.
- For LSI = 0, water is saturated (in equilibrium) with CaCO3. A scale layer ofCaCO3 is neither precipitated nor dissolved.
- For LSI < 0, water is under saturated and tends to dissolve solid CaCO3.
The LSIis most widely used indicator of cooling water scale potential, It is also used to decide qty of water treatment chemicals in the cooling tower or any water system involved in heat transfer. With LSI we can only predict about the nature of water as scaling or corrosion but quantification cannot be derived.
For calculating LSI, it is necessary to know the
- alkalinity (mg/l as CaCO3),
- calcium hardness (mg/lCa2+ as CaCO3),
- the total dissolved solids (mg/l TDS),
- the actual pH,
- the temperature of the water (oC).
LSI = pH – pHs
pH is the measured water pH
pHs is the pH at saturation in calcite or calcium carbonate and is defined as:
pHs = (9.3 + A + B) – (C + D)
- A = (Log10 [TDS]
– 1) / 10
- B = -13.12 x Log10 (oC + 273) + 34.55
- C = Log10 [Ca2+ as CaCO3] – 0.4
- D = Log10 [alkalinity as CaCO3]
|LSI<0||Water is undersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate. Undersaturated water has a tendency to remove existing calcium carbonate protective coatings in pipelines and equipment.|
|LSI=0||Water is considered to be neutral. Neither scale-forming nor scale removing.|
|LSI>0||Water is supersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and scale forming may occur.|
|-0.5<0||Slightly corrosion but non-scale forming|
|LSI = 0,0||Balanced but pitting corrosion possible|
|0.0<0.5||Sligthly scale forming and corrosive|
|0.5<2||Scale forming but non corrosive|
For Langelier Saturation Index (LSI) calculator click here,
For cooling tower approach and its importance click here
For cross and counter flow cooling tower, click here


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I just found the solution to a question that I posed in 2011: Is there a web app that provides a terminal emulator / secure interface to the bash shell? in a Chrome web store app called "secure shell". It says that it uses
hterm, which is defined in the FAQ as:
It is intended to be fast enough and correct enough to compete with native terminals such as xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole and Terminal.app.
hterm is only a terminal emulator. It does not provide SSH access (or any other text-based command) on its own.
Then is the web app just a way to access a terminal emulator through my web browser? Does it provide a secure link between my browser and my server? I gather that the answer is yes, because the FAQ says:
Secure Shell can make a direct connection to a standard sshd server on any port of the destination machine.
but the language is both sufficiently 'technical' and sufficiently vague that confirmation or explanation would be appreciated.


Water Hemlock
Water Hemlock
Alternate names
Cowbane, Poison parsley, poison parsnip
Toxicity to pets
Water hemlock, which is also called Cowbane, poison parsnip, or poison parsley, is often referred to as the most violently toxic plant in the United States. Water hemlock is considered a natural wildflower and prefers wet areas, such as irrigation ditches, marshes, damp areas in pastures, and riverbanks. Water hemlock contains the toxins cicutoxin and cicutol, which affect the neurons in the brain and central nervous system. All parts of the plant are poisonous, with the roots containing the highest concentration of the toxin. It is highly poisonous to horses, and only takes about 0.2 to 2 lbs hemlock root per 1,000 lbs of a horse's body weight to cause death. Clinical signs include drooling, dilated pupils, weakness, agitation, nervousness, twitching, seizures, cardiac abnormalities, difficult breathing, and death from respiratory paralysis.
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I have a problem for driving a stepper motor out of python(blender). The stepper should make the same rotation as cube in Blender3D. I'm using Blender 2.63, Pyserial 2.6, Arduino Mega2560, a big easy driver and a 1A stepper motor with 200 steps.
Python code:
Code: [Select]
import bpy
import math
from math import degrees
import serial
ser = serial.Serial('COM5',115200,timeout=1)
def my_handler(scene):
 data = ''
 eulx = bpy.data.objects['Cube'].rotation_euler
 x = degrees(eulx.y)
 a = (x/360)*200
 data = bytes([int(a)])
Arduino code:
Code: [Select]
_TAG_
int motorSpeed = 115200;
int motorAccel = 8000;
int motorDirPin = 9;
int motorStepPin = 8;
AccelStepper stepper(1, motorStepPin, motorDirPin);
void setup(){
 pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(6, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(7, OUTPUT);
 digitalWrite(5, LOW);
 digitalWrite(6, LOW);
 digitalWrite(7, LOW);
int num;
void loop()
 if (stepper.distanceToGo() == 0)
 num = Serial.read();
When I try this, the shaft moves and immediately moves back to its origin position. When I replace the "num" in the arduino code for testing, everything works fine (the shaft moves half of a full rotation).
Has anybody an idea why this could happen?
Thank you very much!
What does the data you are writing out the serial port look like? Is it a byte or integer or string? Are you processing it correctly at the Arduino end? It sonds sort of like the motor is turning back to the ZERO position.
thank you for trying to help me. The output for the example above is:
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>>>data = ''
>>>x = 180
>>>a = (x/360)*200
>>>data = bytes([int(a)])
So b'd' is the data sent. This works perfectly for my servos....
Any idea why it won't work on the steppers?
Thank you
Hello! could well turn the engine?
I want to move a stepper motor from Blender and not how.
Never call Serial.read() unless you have first checked that there is a character available using
Serial.available() > 0....
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I think that the problem has to do with datatypes. Let's look at the Python code:
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x = 180
a = (x/360)*200
x is an integer with the value 180. In the next line you divide the integer 180 with the integer 360 which becomes the integer 0 as it's rounded down, multiplied with 200 is still 0.
Change the code to:
Code: [Select]
x = 180
a = (x/360.0)*200.0
and the computation will be a floating point computation. You could also make explicitly convert x to floating point like so:
Code: [Select]
x = 180
a = (float(x)/360)*200
and still get the expected result.
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Facial fractures are broken bones in the face.
- This kind of a fracture can involve bones of the upper jaw, lower jaw, cheeks, and nose or eye sockets.
- A closed fracture is one in which the skin is not broken.
- An open or compound fracture involves laceration of the skin.
- Most children's facial fractures heal rapidly with very few complications.
- The majority of all facial fractures involve the lower jaw.
- The nose and the cheekbones-because of their prominence-are also damaged frequently.
If you suspect that your child has a facial fracture, seek medical attention immediately.
Facial fractures can result breathing impairment, since the airway can be blocked by bone fragments, swollen tissue, blood clots, dislodged teeth or pieces of debris.
The surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital's General Surgery Program understand how traumatic a facial fracture can be. The good news is that most facial fractures in children heal relatively quickly and without complications. Our experienced staff is here to help heal your child and provide support in this upsetting time.


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Training Apparatus for Spiking and Blocking Skills in Volleyball
Ziyad Tarik Hatim/Ministry of education
Assist. Prof. Dr. Alaa Abdul Allah Falah/
College of physical education and sport science, University of Baghdad
Using up to date devices and apparatuses in developing the technical performance level of volleyball players is one of the most important fundamentals that have great and effective role in the development of the sport and rising achievement. Being a former player in Junior and Youth volleyball teams for Al-Quwwat Al-Jawwia -Air ForceClub and having the chance to follow up matches among volleyball teams, the researcher notices a weakness in the accuracy of spiking and blocking skills decreasing by that the chance of scoring. This weakness specifically appears among junior and youth players who are the main pillar of the development process. However, the lack of enough tools and apparatuses to fix this problem has inspired the researcher to design a proposed aiding apparatus to improve the accuracy of the skillful performance. The limited efficiency of the available apparatuses used in the development of this skill as they only allow vertical adjustment for the ball make them beneficial in the beginning of the learning process. Hence, the researcher gets the motivation to solve the problem and designing an aiding apparatus with game-like moving ball; to move vertically and horizontally or in an arch aiming at developing the accuracy of spiking and blocking skills in volleyball.


text: Teradata Intelligent Memory enables users to configure the exact amount of in-memory capability needed for critical workloads. It predictively places the most frequently used data into memory, then automatically updates and synchronizes it. Access to data in-memory eliminates disk I/O bottlenecks and query delays, and increases system throughput. It is three orders of magnitude faster than access to hard disk drives. Virtual storage provides an automated lifecycle management process where the least used data is migrated to less expensive drives.


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Effect of Online Social Networking on Student Academic Performance
Online social networks (OSNs) have permeated all generations of Internet users, becoming a prominent communications tool, particularly in the student community. Thus, academic institutions and faculty are increasingly using social networking sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, to connect with current and potential students and to deliver instructional content. This has led to a rise in questions about the impact of OSN on academic performance and the possibility of using it as an effective teaching tool. To learn more about the impact on academic performance, we conducted a survey of business students at a large state university. Survey results were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results revealed a statistically significant negative relationship between time spent by students on OSN and their academic performance. The time spent on OSN was found to be heavily influenced by the attention span of the students. Specifically, we determined that the higher the attention span, the lower is the time spent on OSN. Further, attention span was found to be highly correlated with characteristics that predict or influence student behavior, such as their perceptions about society's view of social networking, their likes and dislikes of OSN, ease of use of OSN, etc.
Paul, J., Baker, V., Cochran, J. (2012). Effect of Online Social Networking on Student Academic Performance. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(6), 2117-2127.


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Details of faults affecting the use of tap switch
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What are the faults that affect the use of the tap switch and what are the specific details? Let's give you a detailed introduction.
As a result, some oxidation corrosion reactions will be formed. Once the shrapnel is corroded, it will lead to poor contact of the switch or failure of the switch.
Fault 1
Secondly, during the use of the tap switch, please pay attention to the daily waterproof measures of the switch. Generally, if the switch is installed and used in some humid environment,
The interface of the switch can easily lead to the invasion of water gas. Once the line contacts with water gas, the current leakage will occur,
If the human body touches it carelessly, it will cause safety problems of the circuit.
Fault two
It is forbidden to touch the button of the switch frequently and excessively. In case the cover of the button of the switch falls off, some lines inside the switch will be exposed,
If it is accidentally touched, it may cause electric shock accidents on the spot. So we should pay attention to this,
At the same time, when the switch is unnecessary, try not to over press the key switch. Every time you press the key, the switch will be worn.
Fault three
As for the common failure of keys by touching the switch, it is generally possible that the switch has been used for a long time, and its internal shrapnel has been oxidized and corroded,
Only after that, it will cause poor contact, which will cause the failure of the switch key. Therefore, to deal with this failure, it is generally necessary to disassemble the switch,
Then the oxidized part of the shrapnel for checking its switch shall be scraped clean. If the shrapnel is seriously corroded, it is only recommended to replace the switch.
Fault four
For the light touch switch, there will be some delay of key sensing, which is also possible that there are too many dust and sundries adsorbed inside the switch,
So as to cover the conductive contact of the switch wiring, thus blocking the connection of the circuit, so the post will cause the problem of the inductive delay of the switch.
Therefore, after using the switch for a period of time, it is necessary to carry out the safety inspection of the switch. If it is found that there is too much dust and sundries adsorbed,
Be sure to deal with it in time to avoid affecting the performance of the switch. Thirty-eight point two zero
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The bean duel with two players uses the same rules as the variant for three players with the following changes:
- Remove the Garden Beans and the Cocoa Beans from the game.
- A player may only sell beans from his bean fields on his turn.
- The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted for the first time.
- On a player's turn, he does the following in the order indicated:
1. Plant or discard offered bean cards
The player may plant or discard the bean cards his opponent left as an offer in step 3 of his turn. This is omitted by the starting player on his first turn.
2. Plant bean cards & discard
After planting one or two cards in his bean fields (as in the normal game), the player may discard one card from anywhere in his hand face up on the discard pile.
3. Draw, plant, and offer beans
The active player draws the three topmost cards from the draw deck and puts them face up on the table so both players can see them. If the topmost card on the discard pile matches any of the cards just drawn, the player adds it to them.
He does the same with the new topmost card from the discard pile until the topmost card on the discard pile does not match any of the drawn cards.
Now the player may plant any of these drawn (from the draw deck or discard pile) cards he wants, selling such beans as he can and wants in the process. He leaves any drawn cards he does not want as an offer to his opponent.
He need not plant any of the drawn cards. The players can earn more gold coins through this extended draw.
4. Draw new bean cards
The active player draws two cards from the draw deck. He draws them one at a time, placing each in turn at the back of his hand.


text: Classification of neutrophils with differing nuclear lobes. Percentages in normal blood smear 1 lobe, 5%; 2 lobes, 35%; 3 lobes, 41%; 4 lobes, 17%; 5 lobes, 2%. ÒShift to leftÓ involves higher percentage of 1-lobed nuclei and usu. represents bacterial infection. ÒShift to rightÓ involves higher percentage of multilobed nuclear and indicates folic acid or vitamin B12 deficiency.


The dating game - Older stallions require thorough evaluations to gague potency
The dating game - Older stallions require thorough evaluations to gague potency
Nov 01, 2004
You have seen the signs little by little, and you are pretty sure that it is about time. The older stallion that you have been managing has had a poor season, and pregnancy rates are unacceptable. You are consulted as to whether or not he should be retired from the breeding shed. Sometimes the answer is easy if the stallion has no libido, very low sperm numbers or such an arthritis problem that mounting is becoming painful. Other times there are only slight problems and no readily apparent answers to explain the drop in conception. The decision to retire a stallion often becomes as much about economics and emotion as it is about science and statistics. Yet, for veterinarians, attention to good, complete semen analysis and the use of some newer tests will allow you to recommend either an early retirement for a particular stallion or a return engagement for next year's breeding season.
When evaluating the fertility of an older stallion, a complete analysis of the stallion, his book of mares and the entire breeding facility is warranted because there are so many places where the reproductive process can break down. Many older stallions slowly fall from the public eye and become less desirable breeders and are replaced by younger, more recognizable, trendier stallions. Additionally, there is the unfounded belief, especially among the racing community, that older stallions produce weaker, poorer-quality offspring. Consequently older stallions do not have their pick of the best broodmares and are often servicing older, poorer quality mares.
Dr. Ernest Baily of the Maxwell Gluck Research Center at the University of Kentucky refutes this belief.
"From an understanding of molecular genetics, there's no reason to expect age of the stallion to have any effect on the performance of the offspring," he says. "There is no basis to say that a horse's genetic contribution will improve or decline with age."
Still, this combination of older mare and older stallion combines for lower reproductive efficiency. One simple way to boost the production of an older stallion is to ensure mating to the best possible mares, preferably younger, proven producers. Older stallions also might become more particular in their preferences and habits. Some stallions will breed better at certain times of the day. Some older stallions prefer mares of a particular color or any number of other idiosyncrasies. Attention to these small details can help improve fertility in these stallions.
Fitness test
A complete physical examination of the older stallion should be the next step in this evaluation process. Medical problems unrelated to the reproductive system can have a significant effect on breeding ability. Dental care and nutritional status should be evaluated. Older horses need additional vitamins and minerals because their digestive systems are not as efficient as they once were. Stallions use tremendous energy and body reserves during the course of a breeding season, and older stallions are more affected by this daily strain. Older stallions should be neither too heavy nor too thin as both extremes will reduce fertility. Many supplements are available claiming to improve fertility, including vitamin E, chromatin and others. More research must be done before the exact relationship is confirmed between many of these products and the possibility of improved fertility. A good-quality diet with a balanced supplement is the best overall nutritional support for older stallions.
The musculoskeletal system of the older stallion also deserves special attention. Osteoarthritis and muscle, ligament and tendon problems all can affect a stallion's willingness and ability to tease and mount. A stallion that has strong libido, mounts (but cannot ejaculate) might be experiencing back pain or hock soreness or any number of other conditions that can manifest themselves as breeding difficulties. A thorough examination done before and after the breeding season will identify any potential problems. The use of glucosamine, chondroitin, various forms of hyaluronic acid and other products can make an older stallion much more comfortable, which translates into better performance in the shed.
The cardiovascular and respiratory system should also be examined. Many older stallions suffer from some form of decreased heart function, and the stress of breeding can be potentially deadly to these horses. Anemia, from many causes, can result in lowered libido and lack of interest in breeding as well.


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Species at Risk
What is the status of the Stinkpot turtle?
The stinkpot turtle was listed as "threatened" federally by the COSEWIC in May 2002. Is listed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act, which provides protection under federal law.
The stinkpot turtle is also listed as "threatened" provincially in Ontario by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources' Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario (COSSARO).
The stinkpot turtle is the smallest turtle in Canada, making it the most vulnerable to predation (from raptors etc.), even when mature.
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Why is the Stinkpot turtle in danger?
The major factor leading to the decline of Stinkpot turtles in Canada is shoreline development and the draining of wetlands.
Shoreline vegetation and adjacent aquatic plants provide the suitable that stinkpot turtles require to live. As aquatic vegetation is removed, so is the food source for stinkpot turtles. Rotten logs and abandoned muskrat houses along shorelines are required by stinkpot turtles, as they provide necessary nesting habitat. When the shoreline is altered there is less habitat to sustain stinkpot populations.
Wetland drainage has also been a major factor contributing to stinkpot turtle habitat decline. The turtles do not have the capability of traveling overland to another area when a wetland is drained. Being highly aquatic, they will dehydrate quickly and face mortality when there is insufficient water available.
Stinkpot turtles have been extirpated from particular areas due to habitat destruction, and it is estimated that there has been a 30%-50% decline in the overall population. Because of their secretive nature, stinkpot turtles can disappear from an area without anyone ever noticing.


found on Cerin Amroth in Lothlorien, alongside Frodo. The game's "Guardian" class ("Tank" in MMO terms) is based on Samwise due to the dedication he showed Frodo. This leads to an interesting occurrence: at some point each player gets to talk to a major character, who inspired his class. But while Legolas can teach a lot to a Hunter and Bilbo can show much to a Burglar, Sawmwise insists that he is no Guardian and not fit to be one - because his heroic deeds have not happened yet. The player has to double-check and discovers that whoever talked of Sam as a great Guardian, apparently had misheard the word "Gardener".
Sam Gamgee is by many regarded as the "true hero" of Tolkien's story. Tolkien himself expressed this view in one of his letters: Sam is referred to as the "chief hero", and special emphasis is placed on Sam's "rustic love" for Rosie.[5] The quest to destroy the Ring only succeeds because of Sam, who repeatedly saves Frodo from disaster (such as rescuing him at Cirith Ungol and carrying him up Mount Doom). He was one of three Ring-bearers strong enough to surrender the Ring voluntarily.
The relationship between Frodo and Sam is, in many respects, at the center of The Lord of the Rings. To the modern reader, it seems archaic, as it is extremely class-oriented. Sam's humbleness and "plain speaking" is frequently emphasised in contrast to Frodo's "gentility", and he often shows deference to Frodo, calling him "Mister Frodo" or "Master". At the same time, a strong bond of love and trust grows between them, portrayed most poignantly during the events of Cirith Ungol, where Sam vows to return to his (apparently) dead master, to be reunited with Frodo in death.
Tolkienists regard Sam as Frodo's batman. In the British Army, a batman was an orderly who acted as the personal servant of an officer. It was a role with which Tolkien (who served as an Army officer in the First World War) would have been extremely familiar. Sam undertakes all of the typical roles of a batman — he runs errands for Frodo, he cooks, he transports him (or at least carries him), and he carries his luggage. Tolkien confirmed this interpretation when he wrote in a private letter that:
"My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself"
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Compare to the relation between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and the gradual "Quixotization" of Sancho.
Samwise Gamgee
Gamgee Family
Born: 6 April T.A. 2980 Died: After Fo.A. 61
Preceded by:
Frodo Baggins
13-14 March, T.A. 3019
Followed by:
Frodo Baggins
Members of the Fellowship of the Ring
See also
 1. In the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Sam's year of birth was added to The Tale of Years; it was, however, T.A. 2983. This contradicts both the Longfather Tree of Master Samwise and a later entry in The Tale of Years. The incorrect date has been corrected in the 50th anniversary edition. See also The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 716.
 5. J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 131, (undated, written late 1951)


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There are several ways to specify options for MySQL programs:
List the options on the command line following the program name. This is common for options that apply to a specific invocation of the program.
List the options in an option file that the program reads when it starts. This is common for options that you want the program to use each time it runs.
List the options in environment variables (see Section 4.2.4, "Setting Environment Variables"). This method is useful for options that you want to apply each time the program runs. In practice, option files are used more commonly for this purpose, but Section 5.3.3, "Running Multiple MySQL Instances on Unix", discusses one situation in which environment variables can be very helpful. It describes a handy technique that uses such variables to specify the TCP/IP port number and Unix socket file for the server and for client programs.
Options are processed in order, so if an option is specified
multiple times, the last occurrence takes precedence. The
following command causes mysql to connect to
the server running on
mysql -h example.com -h localhost
If conflicting or related options are given, later options take precedence over earlier options. The following command runs mysql in "no column names" mode:
mysql --column-names --skip-column-names
MySQL programs determine which options are given first by examining environment variables, then by reading option files, and then by checking the command line. This means that environment variables have the lowest precedence and command-line options the highest.
You can take advantage of the way that MySQL programs process options by specifying default option values for a program in an option file. That enables you to avoid typing them each time you run the program while enabling you to override the defaults if necessary by using command-line options.
An option can be specified by writing it in full or as any
unambiguous prefix. For example, the
--compress option can be given
to mysqldump as
--comp because the latter is ambiguous:
mysqldump --compmysqldump: ambiguous option '--comp' (compatible, compress)
Be aware that the use of option prefixes can cause problems in the event that new options are implemented for a program. A prefix that is unambiguous now might become ambiguous in the future.


Quick Answer: How Much Is A Small Bale Of Hay?
How much does a 3x3x8 bale of hay weigh?
750 to 900 lbsThe 3x3x8 (sometimes a little shorter) work great.
They weight 750 to 900 lbs or so and flake off like small squares do.
Really like them because they handle easy and a smaller loader can pick them up and stack them, etc.
The 3x4x8 foot bales seem to weigh _PHONE_ lbs..
What is the going rate for baling hay?
HayingOperationMost Common 2016Baling – large round$12-15/bale$11-16/bale$10-13/bale$13/bale*39 more rows
How do I know if my hay is dry enough to bale?
Hay will not have completely cured in that time. He said many producers are using moisture probes to decide if hay is dry enough to bale, but probes measure the moisture only on the outside of the stem. Hay that measures 13 percent moisture can jump to 25 or 30 percent a few days after it's put up.
Can you bale hay at night?
How much does a round bale of hay cost 2020?
Large round bale straw averaged $58.00 per bale (a range of $40.00 – $85.00). In Nebraska, hay sold steady, demand is light in 2020. Some are having a hard time delivering hay because of muddy conditions. In Iowa, hay prices are lower compared to prices earlier in the fall.
How much does a rolled bale of hay weigh?
If you asked most people what the round bales they baled or bought weighed they would probably tell you a number between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds.
How many round bales of hay can you get from an acre?
How many square bales are in a 4×5 round bale?
For example, if the round bale weighs 1,000 pounds, then it equals 20 of your 50-pound small square bales. If the large round-bale weighs 1,200 pounds and the small square bales weigh 40 pounds, then one large round hay bale would be equal to 30 small square bales.
What size is a small bale of hay?
For farms and ranches feeding a small amount of livestock, small, squares bales are used because they can be easily carried by hand. The dimension of a small bale held together by three strings is approximately 16" high x 22" wide x 44" long (406.4 mm high x 558.8 mm wide x 1117.6 mm long) and usually weighs 100lbs.
How long after cutting hay can you bale it?
about three daysIt basically takes about three days of good weather to cure hay. This can be a challenge in late May or early June. A good strategy is to mow just before or right after a rain, because of the likelihood of good weather for the next few days.
How much is an acre of hay worth?
He says it costs about $297 per acre to seed and prepare hay ground. "You are going to get more than three years out of that, but if we use three years, that's about $100 per acre per year," Brown says. "If you are getting $125 per ton for quality hay, you are going to see a profit of $51 per ton, or $204 per acre.
How much is hay selling for?
Of course, this a supply/demand story right now for the hay market. Large round bales of hay are selling for $75 to $90 per ton higher than a year ago, McGill says. Specifically, alfalfa-grade hay bales are priced between $140 and $165 per ton, while grass, midquality hay bales are selling for $125 to $150 per ton.
How many times a year can you harvest hay?
Depending on the soil condition, hay type and when it is sowed and harvested, it may be possible to get two or even three cuttings of hay in one year. Once the hay is cut and dry, it is time for baling.
What are the different sizes of hay bales?
How Much Does a Bale of Hay Weigh?Small 2 string square bale 14"x18"x36" 40 to 60 lbs.Small 3 wire square bale 16"x22"x44" 100 to 120 lbs.Large square bale 3 ft. x 4 ft. x 8 ft. 1200 to 2,000 lbs.Round bale 48" wide x 60" dia. 600 to 1,200 lbs.
Is hay just long grass?
Hay is a grass or can be a form of grass. When referring to it as a form of grass, it is a cut grass that has been cut then dried for the purpose of becoming an animal feed or food. … Moreover, hay can also refer to a mixture of different species of grasses.
What size is a standard hay bale?
They come in different sizes ranging from 2-string (18 inches or 460mm), either by 14 or 16 inches (350mm to 400mm) high and 32 to 48 inches (0.8 to 1.2m) long, to 3-string that are 21 in wide, by 16 inches high, by 3 to 4 feet long. They are also called commercial bales.
How much does a small bale of hay weigh?
between 90 and 110 poundsDepending on the type of hay, our small bales typically average between 90 and 110 pounds. There is always variability and we cannot guarantee precise bale weights.
How much does a 4×6 bale of hay weigh?
TablesBale Size (ft)Est. Bale Weight 2 (lb)Bales Needed per Week for 25 Cows4x58006.64×61,1534.65×51,0005.35×61,4413.72 more rows
Is Hay a cash crop?
Over the last few years many hay acres have been planted to cash grain crops. … Combining fewer acres in hay production with decreased forage yields, the supply of hay is low. Consequently, hay prices are strong and in demand.
How many small bales of hay are in a ton?
A ton: 2000# pounds of hay to the ton. A retail three string bale weighs 100 # there are 20 bales in a ton. A "feed store ton" can be 16 bales. A semi holds 24 tons on a truck.


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Volunteers are central to RUMFS research, education, and outreach activities. The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR) provides the mechanism for these activities.
Volunteers can participate in a wide range of field, laboratory, and outreach activities. In the field, they may assist with sampling on boats or from the shore by trawling, seining, and trapping fishes and invertebrates. In the laboratory, they might perform faunal identification, dissection, or related analysis. Other activities include data entry, and library and office assistance. Others have provided logistical support for field activities and sample delivery.
If you are interested in volunteering with JCNERR and RUMFS, fill out a volunteer application today!
You can also visit the JCNERR Volunteer page for more information on past, present, and future volunteer opportunities.


How to Start in Leatherworking
Leatherworking can be intimidating at first. Seeing all the complicated leather works online might even discouraged you from starting out. What most don't know is that starting do leather working is easy. Here are the 5 steps to get you started.
1. Pick out a project
Obviously, you have to pick a leatherworking project or something that interests you to start. Keeping the project simple will help you stay motivated once you complete it. I do not advise you to do something complicated at the start. You will just get frustrated and quit midway. A wallet or a belt is a simple enough project to get your feet wet.
2. Learn the skills
There are a few basic skills that you need to get you started in leather working like saddle stitching, cutting, and edge finishing. Try to find projects that would only need these skills for you to practice. The more advanced skills like skiving, knife sharpening, and unique stitching patterns can be learned after you have mastered the basic skills.
3. Learn to use the tools
After you have learned the basic skills to start a project, you need to learn how to use the tools needed. The basic leatherworking tools needed for most projects is the needle, thread, stitching chisel and the leather itself.
4. Purchase the materials needed
Now it's time to start buying the materials needed for the project. There are a lot of options online on what brand or type of materials or tools that you can buy. It is best if you can buy the cheapest leather you can find to practice on and buy good quality tools so that they will last you a long time.
5. Start your first project
Finally, you can start on your first leather working project! Do not forget to have fun while doing your project. It is okay to fail so do not get frustrated if things do not go your way. I assure you that mistakes will be made on your journey. Just remember to keep practicing and you can even make your own leather armor someday.


text: The study of communication in a network setting has gained increasing popularity in recent years. While audience effects on aggressive interactions have been studied extensively, male–female interactions have often been overlooked. In addition, little is known about how reproductive status affects the nature of audience effects. Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens, are a popular subject for communication network studies, but male–female interactions have not been explored in this setting. In this study, pairs of male and female Betta were presented with a male, female or no audience to determine whether the presence of an audience alters the behaviour of the interactants. Within these three audience types, there were four reproductive status conditions with receptivity indicated by nest presence for males and reproductive barring for females. It was predicted that male–female interactions would be affected by the presence of an audience, especially when both interactants are receptive as has been found in male–male interactions in this species. The results suggest that presence of an audience and reproductive status act in combination to influence male–female interactions, but only in interactant-directed behaviours. Not all behaviours were equally affected by these factors. For example, while tail beats to the other interact were greatest when a female audience was present and both the interactants were receptive, this was not true for gill flaring. This study is among the first investigations into audience effects on male–female interactions including the first in Betta and suggests that courtship as well as aggression should be explored in a network setting.


Effects on VLSI Yield of Doubly-Stochastic Impurity Distributions
Paul R. Prucnal, Howard C. Card
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
2 Scopus citations
An expression is derived for the doublystochastic distribution of the number of impurities in the base region of a bipolar transistor; the distribution results from uncertainty in ion implantation parameters. Expressions are derived for device yield, and VLSI (very large scale integration) chip yield with an N-bit parity check. These derivations can be extended to other devices in a straightforward manner. As an example, calculations have been performed using specific parameters, which have led to the following observations: 1. The doubly stochastic effect is most sensitive to uncertainty in the straggle (standard deviation) of the emitter impurity distribution. 2. Uncertainty of the order of 5% in an implantation parameter causes substantial broadening of the distribution of impurities, for the case considered. 3. Device yield decreases rapidly for dimensions less than a welldefined threshold (≈ 0.75 μm for the case considered). 4. Chip yield, without a parity check, exhibits a threshold effect at device yield = 1-1/N chip. (N chip ≡number of devices per chip.) The device yield must exceed this threshold to produce large chip yields. 5. The use of a parity check reduces the device yield threshold to 1-10/N Chip. Use of fewer bits per parity check reduces the threshold further. 6. For the example considered, the minimum device dimensions for large chip yields is of the order of 1 to 1.5 μm, using a 16-bit parity check. The minimum device size for reliable system performance for other cases will depend upon specific device parameters. However, it is apparent that chip yield is extremely sensitive to individual device yield, and that it decreases with increasing uncertainty in device parameters, smaller device dimensions, greater number of devices per chip, larger number of bits per parity check, and with smaller allowed ranges of tolerable device behavior.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)185-190
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Reliability
Issue number2
StatePublished - Jun 1982
Externally publishedYes
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
 - Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 - Chip yield
 - Impurity distribution
 - VLSI
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Solutions for Common Sugar Cookie Icing Problems
As anyone who has ever tried to decorate sugar cookies for a special occasion will tell you, the hardest part is the icing. Most bakers like to use royal icing to create their edible masterpieces because it dries more quickly and is less prone to spreading than other icing types. Royal icing is finicky, though, occasionally making it a royal pain to work with.
Don't worry, though: there is hope. Here are 10 common sugar cookie icing problems and their solutions.
1. Crooked
Problem: Icing that streams out of the piping tip at weird angles can ruin an otherwise perfect string or outline.
Solution: Some tips have seams along the side that causes the icing to pipe out crookedly. Inspect your tips before using them to make sure they don't have the seams.
2. Air Bubbles
Problem: An air bubble in your piping bag or tip can pop up and create an icing break at the most inopportune moments--like when you're in the middle of some intricate string work. Your icing is likely too dry.
Solution: For starters, do not overmix your icing as that will pump more air into it and potentially cause bubbles. Rest the icing in a bowl with a damp cloth over it for 15 minutes before using. If you see air bubbles on your cookies already, pop the bubbles with a toothpick and re-spread the icing.
3. Lumps
Problem: Clumps of icing can clog your piping tips and cause the icing to spurt out unevenly, leaving a gloppy mess behind.
Solution: Make sure to thoroughly sift the confectioner's sugar for your icing. You can also try using a pair of (new) nylon pantyhose to strain your icing before adding it to the piping bag.
4. Stiff
Problem: Piping out your icing is an exercise in grip strength, making decorating nearly impossible--especially when the icing bursts out in a huge explosion.
Solution: Stir a tiny amount of room temperature water into the icing.
5. Dull
Problem: No, your cookies aren't boring--they're just not as shiny as they were when you had finished icing them.
Solution: Add a tiny amount of light corn syrup to your icing. Confectioner's glaze, also known as shellac, can also be sprayed onto your cookies once the icing has set.
6. Spotting
Problem: Discolored spots are typically caused by butter bleed. In warm temperatures, butter from the cookie melts slightly, seeping into the icing and making it look blotchy.
Solution: Working in a cool kitchen helps prevent butter bleed, as does using a de-humidifier. Tweaks to your icing--making it thicker--and/or your cookies--using extra flour or baking a bit longer--can help, too. If you've already applied your icing and developed stains, your options are pretty much limited to cover-ups.
7. Bleeding
Problem: Different colored sections run together after the icing is applied, especially when using dark colors like red or black.
Solution: Dry your cookies with a fan or ice your cookies with just the dark colored icing first, letting them set for about 24 hours before adding icings in lighter colors.
8. Cracking
Problem: If your icing cracks after it dries, it's likely not the heat--it's the humidity.
Solution: Let your iced cookies set in a cool, dry room, away from open windows.
9. Runny
Problem: Your icing fails to harden and is still tacky after a considerable amount of time has already passed.
Solution: Add more confectioner's sugar in small increments.
10. Hard
Problem: Your sugar cookie designs look terrific, but your icing is a bit too crunchy for your--or anyone's--taste.
Solution: There's too much meringue powder in your icing, or your icing is too thick. Try dragging a butter knife across the surface of your icing; if the streak takes longer than 10 seconds to disappear, your icing is too think. Add water.
Still having issues with your icing? Fear not--Cookies By Design can help with same-day hand-delivery of delicious, perfectly decorated cookies!


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This is a job market seminar organized for selected candidates from the European Job Market.
Despite massive migration flows in the past century, their long-term consequences for the communities of origin remain largely unexplored. This paper examines the impact of mass emigration on human capital accumulation over a century. The context is the Galician diaspora, one of the greatest emigration episodes of the twentieth century in Europe. I combine newly digitized data from multiple historical sources with contemporary administrative and survey data to build a unique database of all Galician municipalities from 1860 until today. I use data on absent men as a novel proxy for emigration that I instrument with two sources of plausibly exogenous variation: pioneer emigration caused by extreme rainfall and the economic cycle at migrants' destinations. I find that while emigration depressed literacy rates at origin in the short run, one decade later the impact became positive and led to persistent gains in human capital. I provide empirical evidence that these long-run effects are partly due to migrants' investments at origin and a cultural change. Migrants financed the construction of hundreds of schools in their hometowns that subsequently raised educational attainment. Similarly, emigrants realized that education was of major importance and transmitted these norms back home leading to a persistent change in beliefs about the value of education and effort.


sacrifice a humanoid ; sacrifice is a female elf
Sacrifice Female elf, bound to the altar Actually a dark elf spy the orcs caught; didn't reveal herself because while the orcs don't like elves, they really hate dark elves and there would be nothing to be gained.
Altar Stone altar, blood channels, well-used sacrificial stone Bloodstained, defaced, was originally an altar to It still is; the orcs are not worshipping the god they thought they were.
And so on, with the various elements of interest having such information provided for them.
Not all parts need to be present. If there is nothing hidden, that column could be dropped. An element may be present but hidden, in which case the Obvious and Inobvious columns might be empty.
Closing Comments
When exploring, there are several layers of discovery. By arranging the information gained into those groups, you gain several benefits.
First, you can set the scene for the players, focusing on what they will (likely) most care about before anything else. You can point primarily at the obvious that they are likely to interact with and provide hints at deeper things. The players can treat things superficially (kill the ogres and take their stuff) or possibly gain more by engaging.
Second, attentive characters can gain more from the events. By investigating the obvious (or getting lucky, true, but that tends to draw them in also), they can find insight into the inobvious, and possibly gain more. More treasure, more trouble, it's all the same to me :)
Third, tenaciousness can pay off, but not nearly as well as gaining knowledge first. You could pry up every flagstone in the dungeon and possibly find something (unless it's hidden behind a false stone in the wall…), but learning specifics before you go in pays off better.
Finally, multiple layers of knowledge to be gained while exploring often leads to the possibility of multiple visits to an area, making the work worthwhile. If it is possible, especially if it is easily possible, to learn everything in one pass, it becomes difficult to engage with a place. Exploration works best when it holds the attention of the explorers.
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 1. Actually, in retrospect I probably would drop the elf and orc stats here in order to focus on the narrative elements. I might keep treasure stats here generally because they tend to be pretty short, but monster stat blocks can be long enough I don't want to clutter what should be a summary table.
 Not that that changes a lot, since I'm revising the entire thing anyway to try to fit to a narrower text column.
 2. I have slightly different categories for hex contents: obvious, hidden, and landmarks. I don't really distinguish between inobvious (concealed?) and hidden, assuming that the difference will usually be clear in play.
 The presentation proposed here seems pretty heavy for what is otherwise a pretty simple room. If it were me, I would probably write it up like this:
 Sacrifice chamber. Altar. Female elf (actually drow spy, orcs don't know) about to be sacrificed by 12 orcs + 1 orc priest who worship Some God.
 There's not really anything here that requires being extra careful about clues (like a nasty trap), so I feel like the formal template is mostly getting in the way. That's a lot of text to parse. There's really no need to write details about the sounds; that should be clear from the contents.
 In general, I've become pretty suspicious of templates in RPG information presentation, as it seems they often encourage including unimportant information.
 - The presentation here is pretty heavy, I won't dispute that.
 I can do abstract things very well, and it's part of why I'm so good at my day job, but quickly generating detail consistently, without being repetitive[1], is harder work to me. I find that things work better when I have a little more prepared than you would use. I overlook too many pieces if I don't.
 [1] that is, quickly coming up with the sorts of things I want to come up with, at a consistent grade, without repeating myself a lot or forgetting things.
 - That makes sense.
 Maybe more of a focus on nouns with simple description, to support the desire for anchored details? And there is some redundancy that could be cut out (example: the word altar shows up five times; could probably be cut down to 1).
 - Possibly so, the text could be made quite a bit shorter. I like having lots of notes so I can focus on interaction rather than invention or remembering during play, because I can use the help. Depending on what I'm writing and the audience I can see sticking with presentation like this (especially for beginning DMs who could use the same help I do), including the copious whitespace that hopefully makes it easier to find things. I can also imagine greatly reducing the detail (and what would for this audience be wasted space) if this were, for example, an encounter reference to deliberately be expanded on, such as Matt Stater's hex crawl information in _NOD_. Summarizing an entire site with a paragraph or two is very concise, and useful for idea mining, but I would likely want to expand on anything like that that I use.
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WASHINGTON: Scientists have rediscovered what they claim is the eighth wonder of the world -- Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, which were buried in mud for a 100 years, losing some charm.
Until the late 19th century, the Pink and White Terraces along Lake Rotomahana on the North Island, attracted tourists from around the world, interested in seeing beautiful natural formations created by a large geothermal system.
But the eruption of Mt Tarawera on June 10, 1886, buried the terraces in sediment and caused the lake basin to enlarge, engulfing the land where the terraces stood. For more than a century, people have speculated whether any part of the Pink and White Terraces survived the eruption.
Now, an international team has located portions of the long-lost Pink and White Terraces, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to map the bottom of Lake Rotomahana.
Team leader Cornel de Ronde of GNS Science in New Zealand said the scientists were elated by the rediscovery.
"The first sidescan sonar image gave a hint of a terraced structure so we scanned the area twice more and we are now 95 per cent certain we are seeing the bottom two tiers of the Pink Terraces," de Ronde said.
Side-scan sonar and bathymetric data collected by two REMUS 100 AUVs clearly show crescent-shaped terraced structures in about 60 meters of water where the Pink Terraces were located prior to 1886; they are covered by a brownish lake sediment, say the scientists.
After detecting areas of interest with the AUV's sonar systems, the team used the underwater camera system to capture images of the lake floor where they were able to photograph some of the stepped terrace edges.


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Spanish Ebro Delta acts as testing lab to make rice cultivation resistant to soil salinisation
Friday, 8 November, 2019
The future of the rice in the Spanish Ebro Delta is threatened by soil salinisation, caused by rising sea levels and erosion of the Delta. Besides, the apple snail, a tropical pest introduced in the area, is ravaging rice crops by eating and uprooting young plants. A local Operational Group is testing how rice dry seeding can reduce the apple snail population and how this affects soil salinity.
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To determine the prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes among rural and urban Malaysians.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
This cross-sectional survey was conducted among 3,879 Malaysian adults (1,335 men and 2,544 women). All subjects underwent the 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).
The overall prevalence of prediabetes was 22.1% (30.2% in men and 69.8% in women). Isolated impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) were found in 3.4 and 16.1% of the study population, respectively, whereas 2.6% of the subjects had both IFG and IGT. Based on an OGTT, the prevalence of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes was 12.6% (31.0% in men and 69.0% in women). The prediabetic subjects also had an increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors.
The large proportion of undiagnosed cases of prediabetes and diabetes reflects the lack of public awareness of the disease.


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How to make the mouse left-handed in Mac OS X
This page explains step-by-step how to make the mouse left-handed in Mac OS X. Unless you have a single-button mouse, your mouse is set up for a right-handed person by default, with the primary button on the left. However, you can swap the function of the mouse buttons from the default left click, so that a right click is instead used for selection and dragging. You'll just need to remember to press the opposite button to what is called for when you are following instructions (for example, if you are requested to right-click on something).
Note: The following abbreviations for keys on the Mac are used: Ctrl is used for the Control key, Apple is used for the Command key, and Alt is used for the Option key. For keyboard access, make sure 'Full keyboard access' is turned on - you can turn it on or off by pressing Ctrl + F1 at any time.
Step 1: Open the 'Keyboard & Mouse' window
Make sure you are in 'Finder'. If necessary, press Apple + Tab to cycle through the open applications until you return to 'Finder'.
Click on the 'Apple' icon on the menu bar or press Ctrl + F2.
Click on 'System Preferences', as shown in Fig 1, or press the down arrow key to highlight it and then press Enter.
In the 'System Preferences' window (shown in Fig 2), click on the 'Keyboard & Mouse' icon, or press Tab repeatedly (you might need to press Ctrl + F7 first) to cycle through the icons until the 'Keyboard & Mouse' icon is highlighted and then press the Spacebar.
Step 2: Swap the primary and secondary mouse buttons
In the 'Keyboard & Mouse' window, make sure the 'Mouse' tab is selected. If it is not, click on it, or press Ctrl + F7 to highlight one of the tabs and then press the left or right arrow key to select it. Depending on the mouse you are using, you will see something like the window shown in Fig 3, which shows the default button settings for a right-handed person.
Click on the drop-down button to the right of the picture of the mouse and select 'Primary Button' from the list, or press Tab until the drop-down button is highlighted and then use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the options.
Click on the drop-down button to the left of the picture of the mouse and select 'Secondary Button' from the list, or press Tab until the drop-down button is highlighted and then use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the options.
(If you prefer to use your mouse as if it had a single button, select 'Primary Button' from the drop-down lists to both the right and the left of the picture of the mouse.)
You can also change the function of the side buttons and scroll ball (or scroll wheel), if your mouse has these.
When you are finished, click on the window's red close button or press Apple + W.


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The Grid environment facilitates collaborative work and allows many users to query and process data over geographically dispersed data repositories. Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in developing applications that interactively analyze datasets, potentially in a collaborative setting. We describe the Active Proxy-G service that is able to cache query results, use those results for answering new incoming queries, generate subqueries for the parts of a query that cannot be produced from the cache, and submit the subqueries for final processing at application servers that store the raw datasets. We present an experimental evaluation to illustrate the effects of various design tradeoffs. We also show the benefits that two real applications gain from using the middleware.


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, sugar, and coffee into which platform robot) is not visible from the timing diagram. It is only visible from the trace window or log file.
- Blue bubble 5. Task1_3 pours coffee into platform robot 1.
Comparing figures 4 and 6, route 1 is almost busy all the time. Therefore, the throughput of the coffee machine with two platform robots is increased.
But, if looking carefully, the machine with two platform robots can be even faster. The reason is that the coffee robot can serve another platform robot while milk and sugar robots are serving one platform robot, if the time of putting one cup on the platform is shorter than the time of pouring coffee by the coffee robot.
To increase the speed of the coffee machine, an engine design with different route configuration is used. Route 1 represents the actions of serving sugar, milk, and coffee to platform robot 1. Route 2 represents the actions of serving sugar, milk, and coffee to platform robot 2. The design of route 3 and 4 are the same as before. Figure 7 is the timing diagram of a new coffee machine.
Figure 7. New concurrency of higher system throughput for the coffee machine with 2 platform robots
The five blue bubbles in figure 7 are explained as follows:
- Blue bubble 1. Task4_1 puts cup onto platform robot 1.
- Blue bubble 2. Task1_1 and Task1_2 pour milk and sugar into empty cup at the same time to the cup platform robot 1. The cut robot starts to put a cup on platform 2 since it is free at this time.
- Blue bubble 3. Task2_2 starts to add sugar into cup 2 on platform robot 2. The reason that this action can happen is that the sugar robot just finishes adding sugar for cup 1 on platform robot 1. It is also clear that the milk robot is still busy pouring milk into cup 1. Therefore, cup 2 only has sugar for now.
- Blue bubble 4. Task2_1 starts to pour milk into cup 2 since it just finishes pouring milk for cup 1 on platform robot 1. Coffee robot begins to add coffee into cup 1 on platform robot 1.
- Blue bubble 5. Cup robot begins to serve cup 1 to customer since coffee is done for cup 1.
It is obvious that the choreography of this new coffee machine is different from that of the previous coffee machine. It appears to a user that its robots are smarter and works more intelligently since it starts to do the next job more promptly.
The above three samples demonstrate the following:
- It is easy to model and to analyze the concurrency of machine control with the JEK Platform.
- To adapt to a new hardware configuration, the JEK SDK helps achieve new system concurrency with minimum code changes.
- JEK Studio can visually identify system throughput potential quickly so that better throughput can be achieved.
- The samples demonstrated in these solutions have a pretty simple architecture (see downloaded code).
If not using the JEK Platform, can we solve the problem quickly? A few questions are raised here.
- If several teams, such as marketing, hardware, and software, are working on the product, they might stop when solution 2 is working. Do they know that solution 3 is the best solution? Can they figure it out quickly?
- Team members might be satisfied when they see that robots are working in parallel. If it is found that improvements can be made, how much code change is needed from solution 2 to solution 3 if implemented with synchronization objects in the Operating System?
- How much competitiveness a company would gain to have a more efficient and reliable machine?
How to Get the Two Samples
Please go to _URL_ to download the complete JEK Platform which includes the two samples.


the database, place it in session, and populate the chart data passed to Flash with some default data. On successive calls to updateChart with updated chartParams, ChartData returns different slices of the dataSet.
Some auxiliary functions filter the dataSet and create the topology that will allow the client to drill down and summarize. Among the class variables is the database connection information; you may have to change these to match your local environment. In a Nutshell
As external ActionScript 2.0 scripts, much like Java class files, may only implement classes and import other classes, a wrapper class defines the behaviors the movie should exhibit. From the perspective of code reuse and change control, this pattern is preferable to spreading little bits of code across a Flash movie.
One exception is animation effect-specific code; such code is usually brief and drives purely aesthetic functions of the movie. In our example, the movieClip "bar" has some attached ActionScript to produce the "growing bars" effect. The wrapper class in the example, chartExampleActions, has the following important points:
PHPObject.defaultGatewayKey = "secret";
PHPObject.defaultGatewayUrl = "http://localhost/oclflash/Gateway.php";
_root.chartData = new PHPObject("ChartData");
This sets the "secret key" and the location of the gateway and creates an instance of ChartData, making it available to the Flash movie. As soon as the constructor successfully completes in PHP, it will trigger the onInit method you define for your instance:
_root.chartData.onInit = function() {
 chart.throbber._visible = false;
 chart.chartTitle.text = this.valueColumn;
 for(var a in this.axes){
Similarly, on successive calls to updateChart, ChartData fires the onResult method:
_root.chartData.onResult = function() {
 _root.chart.throbber._visible = false;
The other important function, drawChart, does the work of actually building the chart, adding logic and interactivity. With the chart.fla file open in the Flash environment, choosing File->Publish... will create an updated version of the swf in in your application directory. This will be necessary if you wish to serve application from a different location than the sample code is expecting.
On a Need-to-Know Basis
As I mentioned previously, PHPObject passes a synchronized copy of an object between Flash and PHP. Since many queries can result in large datasets, it is not always desirable to make these available to Flash. As you are only showing a slice of the results at a time, you can store the rest of data in the PHP session after retrieving it from Oracle. It will be available when next the server processes the object, but won't be passed to the client. Make sure you either have session_autostart enabled on your server or specify session_register() within your classfile—a more precise method and the one used here.
Furthermore, you can hide class functions from Flash (they won't be callable by the client) by setting an explicit list of client-visible functions. In our example, you only want to expose updateChart:
public $classMethods = array("updateChart");
By the way, remember that any remoting solution introduces some security risk to an application. No exhaustive checking is performed of the serialized object returned to PHP by Flash, an advantage of AMFPHP. A PHPObject class, like any regular PHP script, should never implement a means of executing arbitrary SQL on your database.
Flash provides a compelling means of deploying interactive Web elements, and using PHP with PHPObject serves as an efficient means of integrating Oracle data into an interactive component. Before immediately jumping on another interactivity bandwagon, try this one; it offers a great balance of development ease and browser support. Nick Bollweg [] is a Senior Programmer at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
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You write the scale as "1:22,000.000" with a comma and a period. Do you mean "1:22,000,000" or "1:22,000"?
The scale in a map is 1:22,000.000. Two cities are distant from New York 4 and 6cm, respectively. If a road was built connecting the three cities, what would the minimum extention of this road?
In my opinion, the minimun extension would be 6cm x 22million, which out result in 132,000.000 centimeters or 1320 kilometers. But the book says the correct answer would be 220km. Could anyone explain to me what did I do wrong? Cheers
You seem to be right in saying that the shortest possible road to build between the cities, going from the information provided, is 1320 kilometres. I assume you're thinking along these lines:
The book authors seem to think that this is the shortest road to build, given the information:
If you haven't omitted any crucial information regarding the problem, I can only say that you're right and that the authors of the book are totally wrong. They have simply forgotten that city A can lie inbetween New York and city B. Also they seem to have problems converting between centimetres and kilometres.


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According to this page (from which the rough map location shown here is taken):
When Charnel chapel, St. Paul's, was taken down by the Protector Somerset, in 1549, more than 1,000 cart-loads of bones were removed to Finsbury Fields, where they formed a large mound, on which three windmills were erected. It was from these mills that the street obtained its name. (Leigh Hunt.)
The Wikipedia page on nearby Bunhill Fields also says:
…in about 1549, cart-loads of human bones were periodically brought here — some one thousand loads in total — to make space in St Paul's charnel house for new interments. The dried bones were simply deposited on the moor and capped with a thin layer of soil, leading to such topographical elevation of the otherwise damp, flat fens, that three windmills could safely be erected in a spot that came to be known as Windmill Hill.
Related, Wikipedia has a long list of all the historical locations of windmills in what is now Greater London.


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Research and Markets: Global Dengue Fever Pipeline Report 2014-2017
Research and Markets (_URL_ has announced the addition of the "Dengue Fever Pipeline Highlights - 2014 Update" report to their offering.
The latest report Dengue Fever Pipeline Highlights - 2014 Update, provides most up-to-date information on key pipeline molecules in the global Dengue Fever market. It covers emerging therapies for Dengue Fever in active clinical development stages including early and late stage clinical trials. The pipeline data presented in this report helps executives for tracking competition, identifying partners, evaluating opportunities, formulating business development strategies, and executing in-licensing and out-licensing deals.
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- The report provides Dengue Fever pipeline molecules by clinical trial stages including both early and late stage development - phase 3 clinical trials, phase 2 clinical trials, phase 1 clinical trials, preclinical research, and discovery stage.
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- The report provides Dengue Fever pipeline molecules by their dominant mechanism of action. This helps executives categorize molecules based on their drug class and also assess the strengths and weaknesses of compounds.
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- Find out which Dengue Fever pipeline products will be launched in the US and Ex-US till 2017.
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