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Year 9 Geography Field Trip to Manama Souq
Faye Weaver, 9D, reports that during the first half term, our class, 9D, went on a trip to the Bab Al Bahrain Souq in Manama in order to collect information so that we can produce a project on the following question 'Should the rest of Manama Souq be pedestrianised?' We undertook various investigations, such as an 'Environmental Quality Survey', which we conducted in various places around the Souq, in order to observe our surroundings. We also asked shoppers and shop keepers to complete questionnaires to research not only our own but other people's opinions on the Souq. By taking photographs and making sketches we could further analyse the Souq at home and at school. This enables us to produce a Land Use Map, which is used to observe what different kinds of shops are in the Souq and the advantages and disadvantages of them and why they are located there. By using all of these techniques to gather information, our groups can each contribute our research to a final project which will be our major assessment this term for our interim grades.Year 9 Field Trip


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Two species of the fungus-like (Oomycete) organism Phytophthora (P. cactorum and P. plurivora) have long been known to cause cankers (bark infections) in horse chestnut, though cases were relatively uncommon and confined mainly to southern England. But in recent years there has been a dramatic upsurge in cases of bleeding canker, in many parts of the UK, from which Phytophthora could not be detected. Work in the UK and the Netherlands has established that the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi is the cause of these new cases.
The bleeding fluid is produced by the tree in response to the infection, which kills the inner bark, cambium and outer layers of wood, causing disruption to water and nutrient transport. If the canker girdles the stem, the stem dies.
Research on the bacterium is still in progress. It may require wounds to infect (which may include naturally occurring lenticels, or pores, in the bark) or might exist on plant surfaces and be spread by wind-blown rain. Phytophthora spreads in a similar way and also forms resting spores which can remain for long periods in the soil.

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Couplings - Used in manufacturing, print, food processing, and packaging applications - Candy Controls
What are couplings?
In the simplest of terms, couplings are mechanical devices used to connect two rotating shafts in order to transmit torque and position. Couplings generally fall under one of two basic categories, 1) Power Transmission couplings for connecting shafts in machines such as generators, compressors, motors, and pumps, and 2) Motion Control couplings used to connect servo motors, step motors and encoders in machines that typically demand higher speed, performance and accuracy. Most couplings, regardless of category, improve machine reliability by accommodating misalignment(s). If selected and installed properly, couplings will help protect machine components from premature failure, increasing productivity.
Why are couplings necessary?
Misalignments are inevitable within machines and are caused by a number of factors including tolerance errors, installation errors, machine age and run-time. These misalignments can affect productivity, and the bottom line, by increasing wear and tear and causing pre-mature failure and possible damage to other machine parts. Downtime and damaged parts lead to higher and higher maintenance costs and lower productivity, a bad combination for business. Flexible shaft couplings can help absorb these unavoidable misalignments, saving time and money for both end users and machine builders. This is especially true of Motion Control couplings that are often required to accelerate, decelerate, stop, start and reverse while transmitting torque and position.
Types of misalignment
Misalignments can fall into three categories. Angular misalignment is caused by bending. Axial misalignment is a compression or expansion of the coupling, typically caused by variations and temperature (Thermal expansion), inside the machine. Parallel misalignment is the result of the two shafts being coupled experiencing shear displacement. Many applications include more than one type of misalignment, the right coupling can help protect a machine from a combination of these misalignments.
Types of coupling alignment - diagram Candy Controls
What kinds of Motion Control couplings are there?
Using the right kind of coupling can spell the difference between a machine running smoothly and one that requires constant maintenance. Motion Control couplings can be broken down into the following categories, all precision, zero-backlash couplings:
Beam Coupling - Candy Controls 1. Beam——A Beam coupling is more or less a large mechanical spring. It is made from a single piece of aluminum or stainless steel with spiral or parallel cuts to handle angular and parallel misalignments while transmitting torque in a low cost, low inertia design.
Bellows Coupling - Candy Controls 2. BellowsBellows couplings are comprised of multiple convolutions of metal that provide the benefit of high torsional stiffness, ideal for positioning applications, while still accommodating angular misalignment in a low inertia design.
Jaw Coupling - Candy Controls 3. JawJaw couplings can either be straight or curved and consist of interlaced metal jaws that mate around an elastomer insert or "spider." The spider can dampen vibration, provide electrical isolation while also accommodating angular misalignment. Jaw couplings are an economical solution for handling a variety of motion applications that are continuous with light to moderate cycle duty.
Disc Coupling - Candy Controls 4. DiscDisc couplings are designed with two aluminum or steel hubs and stainless steel plate springs or disc packs that transmit torque while accommodating angular misalignment. Disc couplings are commonly used in servo applications that require low inertia, high torsional stiffness, and repeatable bi-directional characteristics.
Encoder Coupling - Candy Controls 5. EncoderEncoder couplings protect feedback devices and encoders from misalignment while also providing electrical isolation. They are not designed for torque transmission.
Oldham Coupling - Candy Controls 6. OldhamOldham couplings are perfect for accommodating high amounts of parallel misalignment and axial misalignment. Consisting of two, toothed hubs, that mate with an elastomer insert, if the insert fails there is no contact between hubs so the Oldham coupling is like a mechanical fuse. Oldham couplings are excellent for systems that face large thermal expansions and contractions throughout the day
Rigid Coupling - Candy Controls 7. RigidRigid couplings are one-piece aluminum or stainless steel couplings that feature a low cost, low inertia design for high-response motion applications. They can transfer torque with a high level of accuracy, but their rigidity makes them almost incapable of absorbing any type of misalignment.
*All couplings described above are zero-backlash Motion couplings designed to transmit torque while providing positional accuracy.
Couplings can greatly reduce machine wear and tear and keep maintenance costs down. Knowing which type of coupling design and performance characteristics can handle which type of misalignment, and other application requirements, can save time and money in the long run. If a coupling saves time and money, it is impacting productivity and improving your bottom line.
Making the right coupling connection for your needs has never been easier. Candy Controls is here to help with our innovative line of high performance, zero-backlash Motion Control couplings. Call or email today to discuss your next coupling application.


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Schwarzschild singularities are described by the Kantowski-Sachs metric with a contracting S2. Of course, T-duality doesn't apply to S2. But what about a Kasner-type singularity with two contracting spatial dimensions compactified over a torus T2, and an expanding spatial dimension? The T-dual of the torus gives rise to a geometry which is expanding in all spatial directions.
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The Kasner solutions were the starting point of the paper that studied whether S,T,U-dualities are enough to de-singularize every possible scaling limit of tori:
Dualities vs singularities
The answer is that if there are at least 2+1 large dimensions, it's always possible to find a duality that makes all the dimensions larger than the fundamental (Planck/string) scale and that makes the coupling smaller than one, in the case of string theory descriptions.
The moduli space of M-theory on tori is completely covered by regions where M-theoretical, type IIA, or type IIB description is weakly coupled in this sense. One gets pretty beautiful tilings of the moduli space in this way - see the blog post with a Mathematica-generated one. The picture refers to the case of 1 large dimension where the moduli space has a Lorentzian-metric and only the future light-cone may be dualized to well-understood vacua.
A section of the parameter space of rectilinear tori. The three dark colors indicate M, IIA, IIB - the description that becomes weakly coupled.
It just happens that I co-authored the paper above which is most relevant for your question but statistics happens. ;-) We also wrote a heterotic followup. The moduli space is more complicated over there and many more descriptions have to be included. There's no "canonical" subspace of the moduli space, analogous to the rectangular tori above, so the work remained incomplete over there.
The dualities were performed in the way that would apply to static configurations in general relativity. The time-dependence itself may change many things. For spacelike singularities, the time dependence becomes huge and essential which is why the fate of spacelike singularities remains poorly understood in string theory - very different from the time-like singularities whose physics has been largely cracked.
If the compact dimensions are spheres - which have no non-contractible loops - the required winding states etc. don't exist and you can't de-singularize the spacetime if it is singular "almost everywhere". However, you may de-singularize spacetimes where spheres etc. shrink locally - that's what mirror symmetry (a fiber-wise T-duality) often does.
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Excellent, including the part about not being able to use T-duality for circle that are rapidly time varying. – user566 Mar 19 '11 at 17:04
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The Study of Urban Form in Canada
This paper examines contributions to the study of urban form in Canada by French and English researchers working in a variety of disciplines, especially architecture, planning, geography, and history. Instead of discussing contributions purely along traditional linguistic or disciplinary lines, the authors use a novel classification scheme to identify and categorize significant works according to their particular epistemological perspective, before describing noteworthy contributions of various academic disciplines by key authors and research themes. The most significant contributions to the study of urban form in Canada have come from two largely isolated camps: first, architects/planners, mostly from Québec, who examine form as a relatively independent system and work in the tradition of the so-called 'Italian school' of process typology; and secondly, predominantly anglophone urban and historical geographers who deal with built forms and urban morphogenesis as a product of external forces. Recent work suggests that the 'two solitudes' may be coming together.


VLOOKUP Tutorial: Updating prices in a master price list
MVP Bill Jelen has created this VLOOKUP tutorial for those of you who have a basic working knowledge of Excel but want to improve your skills. This tutorial assumes you've heard about the VLOOKUP function and its benefits, but that you don't really know how or when you might use it. Bill uses the example of updating prices in a product list to introduce the value of this time-saving function.
The Problem: It's taking way too long to find and update prices in a master price list
The Solution: Speed up the process with VLOOKUP
Suppose that you maintain an Excel workbook with over 10,000 prices for products that your company sells. Parts are arranged in sections by category. You have part numbers in column A, prices in column B, and other information in column C. Now, imagine that your manager just gave you a worksheet with updates for 475 of the items in your list.
Attempt 1: Use CTRL + F to update the list
 You decide to copy the price update to a blank section of your master price list.
From this point, you start trying to find each item from the new list in the old list. Since the items in the old list are not sorted and cannot easily be sorted across the various sections of the price list, you decide to use the Find command to make the process easier.
Here is your first attempt:
 1. Select the first part number from the new list in cell G3
 2. Press Ctrl+C to copy this item to the clipboard
 3. Select all of column A by clicking on the A heading
 4. Press Ctrl+F to open the Find dialog
 5. Press Ctrl+V to paste the part number into the Find dialog
 6. Click the Find button
You are now at row 2063 and fairly proud that you didn't have to click PgDn one hundred times to get here. Unfortunately, you've forgotten the new price so you have to start over.
Watch me try using CTRL + F to update the list:
Attempt 2: Use Find All to update the list
You try jotting the new price on a sheet of scrap paper, but then you think there might be a faster way. After some experimenting, you end up with this awesome set of steps:
 1. Select the next part number from the new list (you are down to G9) by now.
 2. Press Ctrl+C to copy that cell to the clipboard
 3. Press Ctrl+A twice to select all cells in the worksheet
 4. Press Ctrl+F to open the Find dialog
 5. Press Ctrl+V to paste the part number in the Find dialog
 6. Press Alt+A to Find All! This brings up a list of both the item in the original list and the item in the new list
 7. Switch between the two cells using the up and down arrow keys.
 8. At this point, it is probably easier to switch to the mouse. Click on the new price. Right-click and choose Copy. Click on the old price. Right-click and choose paste.
 9. You can return to the right section of the new price list using the hyperlinks in the still-open Find dialog.
Watch me using Find All to update the list:
Even with this improved set of steps, it is taking almost 1 minute per item. You do some quick math and realize that 450 items are going to require 8 mind-numbing hours. Your first thought might be, "There has to be a better way, but what is it?"
The Solution: Speed up the process with VLOOKUP
I began working as a financial analyst in 1989. I've learned that data is rarely perfect.
This price list workbook is a case in point. It has been handed down in your department for the last dozen years. It was set up by some guy named Bob who no longer works here. In the workbook, there are lots of things that would have made life easier.
For example, it would have been nice if:
 - The category information was in another column, so you could easily sort the list by part number and then back by category.
 - The list of new prices included all the items where the price did not change, and if it was in the exact same order as your list, so you could copy and paste huge ranges of prices.
 - Your manager would have just done this himself.
But, in real life, data is not perfect. When data is not perfect, knowing an Excel function called VLOOKUP can save the day.
VLOOKUP explained
VLOOKUP stands for "Vertical Lookup." The vertical means that your list of new prices is going down the spreadsheet instead of across. (If you are wondering, there is an HLOOKUP for when your lookup table is going across.)
The tooltip for VLOOKUP says you need:
 - Lookup_value is the part number that you are looking up. To find a new price for the part number in A2, you are looking for A2. =VLOOKUP(A2,
 - Table_array is the lookup table. The data that you are looking to match must be in the first column of the lookup table. That works in this case, because part number is in column G and new price is in column H. If those had been reversed, you would copy the prices so they are to the right of the part numbers. When you type the address of the table, make sure to use dollar signs so that the table reference doesn't change as you copy the formula down your worksheet. Instead of G3:H477, use $G$3:$H$477. Those dollar signs tell Excel to not lower the range as the formula gets copied down. =VLOOKUP(A2,$G$3:$H$477,
 - Col_index_number tells Excel which column you want to return from the lookup table. In this case, you only have two columns. Part number is in the first column of the lookup table. New Price is in the second column of the lookup table. Since you want to return New Price, use 2 for the column. =VLOOKUP(A2,$G$3:$H$477,2
 - Range_lookup – the square brackets in the tooltip say that this argument is optional, but in real life it is not optional! You should always put False as the fourth argument. If you leave the argument off, you are allowing Excel to find close matches. Close matches are never appropriate when you are doing the type of lookup described in this situation. =VLOOKUP(A2,$G$3:$H$477,2,False)
Add a new column to your price list called New Price. Enter =VLOOKUP(A2,$G$3:$H$477,2,False) in cell C5. You get the new price. This looks promising!
The new price appears in C5
Your first VLOOKUP returns the new price
Select the formula in C5 and double-click the fill handle to copy the formula down. (The fill handle is the square dot in the bottom right corner of the selected cell.) Because of the blank cells between categories, the fill handle will only copy the formula down to the end of the first category. Already, you can see that something seems to be wrong.
A bunch of _TAG_/A errors in column C
Uh-oh! _TAG_/A errors are usually bad, but maybe not in this case
Techniques for dealing with inevitable _TAG_/A errors
A few of the VLOOKUP formulas are returning numbers. Many more are returning the _TAG_/A error. When you do a VLOOKUP, the _TAG_/A error means that the value you are looking up is not found in the lookup table. In this case, this is to be expected, since only 475 of the 10,000 prices are being updated.
Since you are expecting the _TAG_/A errors, you can use the IFERROR function (available in Excel 2007 or later) to replace the _TAG_/A with something else. You might put a space. You might put a zero. Or…in this case, if you don't have a new price, then the old price is still valid, so you could put the old price!
Edit the original formula in C5. Here are the three formulas you could use:
 - To show a blank, use =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A5,$G$3:$H$477,2,FALSE),"")
 - To show a zero, use =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A5,$G$3:$H$477,2,FALSE),0)
 - To use the old price, use =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A5,$G$3:$H$477,2,FALSE),B5)
Choose a formula and copy it down. Your new column shows the new price if there is one, and the old price if there isn't one.
The IFERROR function replaces the _TAG_/A error with something more useful
 =IFERROR() to the rescue
In this video, see how I define VLOOKUP and explain the VLOOKUP formula, and get rid of _TAG_/A:
Use conditional formatting to highlight new prices
When I look at the two columns of data, it is hard to see which prices changed and which did not. You can use conditional formatting to highlight which items changed.
 1. Select C5:C18. Although


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Humanosphere Podcast Examines Different Ways To Approach Aid, Development
Humanosphere features a podcast on aid theory with Owen Barder of the Center for Global Development. "Much of aid and development today is done more like an engineer building a bridge — with a precise blueprint, clear end goal done according to quantifiable steps. Barder, who is a big fan of metrics and quantification, nevertheless thinks we need to approach the fight against poverty more like [a] biologist, letting the process of change unfold, adapting and learning along the way. It's a discussion that also reveals why the semantics of aid and development are part of the problem," journalist Ansel Herz writes (1/24).


punto a groppo
punto a groppo, (Italian: "knotted lace"), ancestor of bobbin lace. It was worked in 16th-century Italy by knotting, twisting, and tying fringes, all without weights, or bobbins. Patterns were geometric, sometimes interspersed with schematic human figures. It is thought that bobbin, or pillow, lace developed when the threads came to be attached with lead weights and the design anchored on a pad, or pillow. Macramé work is a modern form of punto a groppo.


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About 2 years ago, I stumbled on a StackOverflow post that really summed up much of the experience we're having with GeoQuery. After 2 years and 4 months (as of this post) – no accepted answer has been posted.
I am trying to do a seemingly simple task — extract mean pixel values from a raster based on a polygon overlay in PostGIS…
Based on help files and the aforementioned posts/questions, I arrived at the following PostGIS query:
SELECT id, (SUM((ST_SummaryStats(a.rast, 1, true)).sum)/SUM((ST_SummaryStats(a.rast, 1, true)).count)) as mean
FROM imagery.l8_2015_09_12 AS a, analysis_results.zonal_stats_test as b
GROUP BY id;
The results are:
However, when I test the results against ArcGIS's "zonal statistics to table" tool, I get the following results:
Close, but not identical.
So, to summarize: User wants the mean value of a raster, summarized to arbitrary boundaries. They use two common tools – PostGIS and ArcGIS – to do so. And, they get two (in my opinion, very) different answers.
This type of question is a common one, so how is it possible that powerhouse groups like ESRI and PostGIS disagree on the fundamental solution? After all, there is a right answer: their is only one true mean value for (for example) nighttime lights within a given boundary for a given time point; there is only one true sum.
The Technical Answer
The process of aggregating raster data to vector boundaries is at the core of GeoQuery, and is commonly called "zonal statistics". Nearly every software platform you can imagine – QGis, ESRI products, PostGIS, and more – have mechanisms built in to conduct zonal stats. With that power comes two enormous limitations, however:
(1) Zonal stats is computationally (and memory) expensive, increasingly so as the resolution of your source data gets higher.
(2) Zonal stats requires either the programmer or user to be exceptionally knowledgeable about a lot of esoteric details when it comes to spatial data (projections in particular).
We have an entire blog post on #2, but the short of it is that even knowledge GIS practitioners have to make choices regarding accuracy when they reproject data; if you're reading this and you know what "reprojection" is, this comes down to the deep, dark interpolation mechanics behind reprojection – stretching and warping a raster always involves some form of assumption, even if it's not explicit. This can result in slightly different answers to zonal statistics questions, and thus lead to confusion such as that in the stack overflow post.
On number 1, the memory and computation challenges come down to two fundamental steps required in zonal statistics: (a) creating a matrix of every cell that belongs in a given polygon, and (b) calculating the weight each one of those cells should have for a summation or mean calculation. Both of these steps can be hugely challenging. Imagine this scenario: You have an excel spreadsheet with 4 billion cells. Separately from that, you have a second excel sheet with 140 cells identified with a "1". How do you identify the 140 cells in the first spreadsheet you should be using? Then, once you've done that, how do you handle cells that only partially should be counted (i.e., a boundary where half of a cell falls inside of the city, but half of the excel cell falls outside of the city)? While simple concepts, calculating these two things at scale becomes costly for most generic algorithms, which will hold the entirety of spreadsheet #1 in memory to perform manipulations on it. The ways algorithms handle these (sometimes, just crashing!) can change the output of a zonal statistics approach in many ways, and are generally predicated on many assumptions. Behind the scenes, we have GeoQuery do all sorts of things to mitigate this (I won't go into detail here, but rest assured it's very painful); so, while we can provide accurate solutions that lack the limitations of some generic desktop environments, the approaches we use are simply not suitable for most non-HPC environments.
The Organizational Answer
GIS is a scattered discipline – innovation in GIS comes from a huge range of actors. Computer Scientists, GIScientists, Computational Geographers (like me!), and even economist, archaeologists, hydrologists, city planners, and a huge variety of others all contribute to GIScience. Different groups have very different approaches to dealing with "fuzzy" data measurement issues like those noted above. Computer Scientists may be more concerned about the runtimes of code; memory management and efficiency, and be willing to trade off precision for those things (frequently behind the scenes, or buried in help documents). City planners may be more concerned about getting exceptionally accurate line or polygon data, so questions about how to appropriately summarize a raster to a polygon simply don't get as much attention. Economists broadly look at country-level summaries of data (though subnational is becoming more common), so these types of errors amount to very little for them.
All of these differing views of and needs for GIS means that it sometime takes a while – sometime a very long while – for "seemingly simple tasks" to become.. well, simple. We'll be the first to say that, today, this task still isn't simple – memory management, physical disk space required, hugely variable spatial datatypes, and many more issues still make Cliff's question a hard one to answer and implement a solution for.


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1964 Guerrero earthquake
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The 1964 Guerrero earthquake occurred on July 6, 1964 at 07:22 UTC (01:22 local time). The earthquake was located in Guerrero, Mexico. The magnitude of this earthquake was given as Ms 7.4, or ML 7.2.
The earthquake affected the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. 40 deaths were reported. The most affected places included Ciudad Altamirano, Cutzamala, Coyuca de Catalán, Tanganhuato, and Huertamo. The earthquake was also felt strongly and caused panic in Mexico City.
Coyuca de Catalán was seriously damaged. The city hall was destroyed. The majority of the houses there were seriously damaged and became uninhabitable. There were great cracks on the ground.

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Puerto Rico is widely known as the "La Isla del Encanto," which translated means "The Island of Enchantment." And while its beaches, tropical rain forest, and biolumescent bays are wonders of nature, the island is not without its problems. From energy needs to economics, Puerto Rico shares many issues facing the rest of the world.
In this MicrobeWorld Video episode we talk with Nadathur S. Govind, Ph.D., Professor, Marine Sciences Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and William Rosado, Marine Sciences Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, about the sustainable biofuel program they are launching in southwestern Puerto Rico.
According to Govind, the island's successful sugarcane industry died in the 1990's. In fact, local rum manufacturers now import their molasses from as far away as Malaysia. As a result, approximately 70 percent of the population in southwestern Puerto Rico is on welfare.
Govind believes he can rebuild the local economy by harnessing bacterial enzymes extracted from the guts of termites and shipworms (mollusks) found in the mangroves off the coast to break down the lignocellulose in sugarcane and hibiscus. The idea is that if he can bring agricultural production back to his community, he can use the crop waste to produce ethanol to supplement Puerto Rico's demand for fuel. And since the byproduct of ethanol is carbon dioxide, he also plans to use algae to capture the gas and produce biodiesel. The waste that he has left over can then be returned to the soil as fertilizer or given to livestock as feed, completing the cycle.
For more information about Govind's program please read the article, "Combining Agriculture with Microbial Genomics to Make Fuels," found in the American Society for Microbiology's Microbe magazine.
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Question: What Does Apathetic Mean?
What do you call a person who hides their feelings?
Stoic is a term for someone who can handle pain and hardship without showing one's feelings or complaining..
Does apathy go away?
Apathy treatments depend upon the underlying cause. Medications and psychotherapy can help restore your interest in life. You may also show chronic apathy symptoms if you have a progressive disorder such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. Treating the underlying condition can help improve apathy.
What is the feeling of indifference?
Apathy is characterized by feelings of indifference and lack of emotion. 1 The term is often used to describe a lack of caring or concern, but in mental health contexts, this loss of interest in different aspects of life events is often a sign of a condition.
What do you call someone who hides their pain behind a smile?
Someone who hides their pain behind a smile.
Why do men hide their feelings?
Why Do Men Hide Their Emotions? There's no argument that women are more likely to show their emotions than men. From an early age, men are conditioned to believe that expressing their feelings is out of character with the male identity. Doing so can ruin their image of being strong and stoic.
Is apathy a bad thing?
And while it can be harmless and normal to experience, it can also be harmful. The indifference, unresponsiveness, detachment, and passivity can leave apathetic individuals feeling exhausted and also lead to their making of bad decisions—because they just don't care.
What is an example of apathy?
The definition of apathy is a lack of emotion or interest. A student who does not care one way or the other if he passes a class is an example of a student who has apathy towards the class.
What disorder causes lack of emotions?
As a condition marked by lack of feelings, it can be difficult to recognize the symptoms of alexithymia. Since this condition is associated with an inability to express feelings, an affected person might come across as being out of touch or apathetic.
What does lack of empathy look like?
If a person who lacks empathy criticizes you, has an emotional outburst over a perceived slight or otherwise behaves insensitively, remember that it's not about you. It's about them. You've probably seen them behave this way around other people, too.
What is a narcissistic alexithymia?
Alexithymia is when you have trouble identifying and describing your feelings as well as others, and struggle with empathy and NPD (Narcissistic personality disorder) is an overinflation of self importance.
What causes apathy in relationships?
Some common causes include: Negative feelings and thoughts about yourself: when you feel worthless, useless, incompetent, and generally pessimistic about your life and abilities for a while, it is likely that you might move on to apathy and detachment.
Is apathy a symptom of schizophrenia?
Causes of Apathy A person living with schizophrenia can still experience depression even when they are in recovery—the person will show signs of apathy, which can be attributed to the depression. Excessive doses of antipsychotics can contribute to apathy.
What does it mean for someone to be apathetic?
Is apathetic an emotion?
Apathy is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion.
What are signs of emotional detachment?
Symptoms of emotional detachmentdifficulty creating or maintaining personal relationships.a lack of attention, or appearing preoccupied when around others.difficulty being loving or affectionate with a family member.avoiding people, activities, or places because they're associated with a past trauma or event.More items…•Sep 3, 2019
How do you use apathy?
There is nothing worse than apathy. His apathy just made her even more frustrated. Once defeated, he sank into apathy. His apathy necessitates stimulation. The campaign failed because of public apathy. Voter apathy is especially high among young people.More items…•Aug 30, 2016
Is it good to hold in your emotions?
"Suppressing your emotions, whether it's anger, sadness, grief or frustration, can lead to physical stress on your body. … And avoiding emotions can also "lead to problems with memory, aggression, anxiety and depression".
What is the opposite of apathetic?
apathetic, indifferent(adj) marked by a lack of interest. "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent" Antonyms: spirited, interested.
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"Garshana" – Ayurvedic Dry Brushing: How to Do It? Benefits And Reasons
Dry brushing, also called Garshana, is a staple of traditional wellness and a part of Ayurveda.
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First, we need to back up to understand Ayurveda, where dry brushing comes from. Ayurveda is the ancient life of science that believes that prevention of disease is as important as curing it. Ayurveda is a holistic science of life that works on the principles of balancing the Vata, Pitta and Kapha Doshas that governs our body. It has gained popularity in the west due to its therapeutic efficacy and its ability to cure lifestyle disorders. It has also earned fame in the area of cosmetology and rejuvenation.
What Is Dry Brushing?
Dry Brushing is one of the Ayurvedic detoxification techniques that has been used by people since time immemorial. Ayurveda has described various types of massages and rejuvenation techniques that can be even used today for the treatment of various ailments. "Garshana" (pronounced gar-shun-uh) is a term used in the Ayurveda texts for dry brushing which means "friction by rubbing". Vasant Ritu (Spring season) is the best time for the detoxification of the body and thus Garshana can show its highest efficacy in this season.
Dry brush is known to have numerous health benefits. It is done by rubbing a brush with coarse bristles usually made up of natural-fibres. The rubbing is done in a particular pattern and it works on the principle that rubbing will peel off the dead skin cells and will help in draining the toxins through the pores. It also stimulates the lymphatic system and aids in internal detoxification.
Why To Do Dry Brush?
Dry brushing is a revitalizing treatment. It is mainly used for the pacification of Kapha Dosha. People having Kapha Dosha predominance and aggravated Kapha Dosha must do it. Also, it is said to expel the toxins out of the body through sweat. It is a wonderful exfoliating and skin rejuvenating technique which can open up the clogged pores. Furthermore, the key benefits of dry brushing are briefly discussed below that will provide you with more reasons to do Garashana.
Key Benefits Of Dry Brushing
This ancient practice has a plethora of health benefits. It also adds more beauty to your skin by peeling off the dead skin cells, opening the pores and increasing blood circulation. The key benefits of dry brushing are briefly described below.
1. Kapha Dosha Shaman
Kapha is the Dosha having qualities such as oilyness, sliminess, etc. Feeling of heaviness, lazy, sleepy, etc can be the premonitory symptoms of Kapha Dosha aggravation. Such aggravation can lead to more complex diseases such as high cholesterol, obesity, obstruction in capillaries that can lead to a drug-dependent life.
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"Garshana" can help you to pacify the aggravated Kapha Dosha as it encourages opposite properties to that of Kapha. Dry brushing increases the qualities such as dryness and roughness that nullifies the effects of aggravated Kapha Dosha.
2. Detoxification
The lymphatic system is a network of tissues and organs that helps in the elimination of unnecessary toxins, waste products and transport of the white blood cells throughout the body. Dry brushing stimulates the lymphatic system and helps in draining the lymph from the lymph capillaries towards the lymph nodes. Thus, "Garshana" enables us to expel out the "Ama" i.e. cellular toxins internally as well.
3. Rejuvenates Skin
It is a known fact that our skin sheds its outer layer every 2-4 weeks. Dry brushing our skin sheds the outer layer of our skin cells which mostly contains damaged and dead skin cells. It helps in the growth of fresh skin cells. Garshana also exfoliates the skin cells by opening the pores clogged by dead skin cells, dirt, etc. Massaging the skin with a brush or gloves also increases the blood flow to that certain region, thereby providing you with fresh glowing skin and enhancing the skin tone.
4. Combats Cellulite
Cellulite is an interesting looking dimple-like dent formed on the skin. Typically, you can find it over the hip and thigh regions. It develops when the fat tissue pushes out the covering connective tissue. Often, you will find it more in women than in men, and it is a symptom of increased Meda Dhatu.
Happily, dry brushing or Garshanawill help you to combat the cellulite by dissolving the excess fat tissue in that region and by increasing blood flow. It can also aid in lymphatic drainage which helps in further prevention of cellulite in the prone areas.
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How to Dry Brush?
Dry brushing should be done vigorously over the skin by using a brush having natural-fibers bristles. Alternatively, Garashana gloves are available in the market that can be used for it.
Dry Brushing Patterns
Before performing the dry brushing, know the types of brushing patterns used in it. It includes two types of patterns:
 1. Circular Motion:
 Dry brushing should be performed circularly over the joint areas such as Neck, Elbow, Knee, Wrist, etcetera. The brushing should follow only a unidirectional pattern either clockwise or anticlockwise for better results.
 1. Long Strokes:
 Over the areas of long bones, the dry brushing should be done with long strokes directed towards the heart. It is necessary to perform the brushing towards the direction of the heart to drain the excess lymph.
The dry brushing should be performed in the morning before bath. The skin should be dry and free from any kind of oils or lotions. It is also advised not to perform it in case of any kind of skin disease or pregnancy. Expert advice is highly recommended in such cases.
Dry Brushing in Simple Steps
 1. Start the dry brushing by vigorously massaging your wrists and the tip of your elbows circularly. Then, massage your hands from the base of your fingers towards the upper side in the direction of the armpit.
 1. Do the same on the other hand too. You can take the help of an assistant too if you are not comfortable doing that with your off-hand.
 1. Now, massage your abdomen and buttocks with the brush or gloves in a circular manner. Avoid brushing over the heart and chest area.
 1. Proceed towards your ankles and feet circularly and complete the procedure by massaging the thigh and calves region in long strokes directing towards the heart.
 1. After dry brushing your whole body, take a shower and feel your rejuvenating skin.
Other Notes
You can also perform Garshana on the face. However, it is not recommended as it may also cause serious problems if done incorrectly.
In addition, it should be performed on regular intervals as per one Doshic constitution (Prakriti), Season and Age.
Finally, it is mainly preferred in the Spring season as the all the body is all set for detoxification in this season. However, the person with the vitiation of Vata Dosha (Vata Prakop) should strongly avoid it.
Conclusions on Dry Brushing
Using this ancient cleaning practice to bolster your health and beauty routines can add vitality to both your body and your mind. We recommend starting in the spring, or at any time you need to detox and refresh. Enjoy!
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Tall al-Fāriʿah, ancient site in northern Palestine, located near the head of the Wādī al-Fāriʿah northeast of Nābulus in Israeli-occupied Jordan. Excavations at the site, spon sored since 1946 by the Dominican École Biblique de St. Étienne in Jerusalem, have revealed that occupation began during the Chalcolithic Age (c. 4000–c. 3000 bc), although no actual structures have been found antedating the beginning of the Early Bronze Age (c. 3200–c. 2300). Though the site was massively fortified, it appears to have been deserted from about 2950 to about 1900. Thereafter, it gradually regained its importance, and the succeeding building stages seem to confirm the identification of the site with Tirzah, one of the capitals of northern Israel during the 9th century. The site was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 and was finally abandoned about 600 bc.
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Parallelizing Computation of Expected Values in Recombinant Binomial Trees
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Citation of Original PublicationSai K. Popuri, Andrew M. Raim, Nagaraj K. Neerchal & Matthias K. Gobbert (2018) Parallelizing computation of expected values in recombinant binomial trees, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 88:4, 657-674, DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2017._PHONE_
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Monte Carlo estimation
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Recombinant binomial trees are binary trees where each non-leaf node has two child nodes, but adjacent parents share a common child node. Such trees arise in option pricing in finance. For example, an option can be valued by evaluating the expected payoffs with respect to random paths in the tree. The cost to exactly compute expected values over random paths grows exponentially in the depth of the tree, rendering a serial computation of one branch at a time impractical. We propose a parallelization method that transforms the calculation of the expected value into an embarrassingly parallel problem by mapping the branches of the binomial tree to the processes in a multiprocessor computing environment. We also discuss a parallel Monte Carlo method and verify the convergence and the variance reduction behavior by simulation study. Performance results from R and Julia implementations are compared on a distributed computing cluster.
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Francisa Chapman and Aida Sanchez are offering free Spanish classes to 20 people with the funniest translation stories. (Contributed)
Vernonites asked to share funniest Spanish translation stories
Mexicans living in town holding a contest to offer free Spanish classes
Anyone who has tried their tongue at a foreign language likely has a funny story about getting lost in translation.
Now, a group living in the Okanagan want to hear about it.
Mexicanos en el Okanagan is looking for 20 enthusiastic neighbours living in Vernon and Coldstream, who would like to learn essential Spanish travel phrases for free.
Potential students would have to share their funniest story related to a language barrier when they visited a Spanish-speaking country. They will have a week to post their story at the Facebook group IloveSpanish Vernon: and the teachers will select the funniest story.
There will be two 20-minute classes per week, for a total of eight classes, starting the second week of July until the end of July. The students who attend all of their classes will receive a symbolic graduation certificate which will be given during a graduation event where they will practice speaking Spanish with Spanish speaking members of our community, enjoy delicious Mexican tacos, pastries and live Mexican music.
Aida Sanchez and Fanny Chapman, administrators of Mexicanos en el Okanagan Facebook page, say it is important is to practice and learn Spanish for our neighbours who own property and/or travel a lot to Spanish-speaking countries.
"It is a cheerful way to getting calmly back to normal gathering with our neighbours, as well as, promoting diversity and inclusion in our neighbourhoods. It is a lovely combo!"
It is also a chance to make those Mexicans living or working in the Okanagan feel welcome, and at home.
"The City of Vernon is receiving more Spanish speakers every year and there are more coming because they are attracted to the beauty and warm weather of the Okanagan, Okanagan College and the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot," Chapman said. "Let's make them feel welcome and share their language with our neighbours."
One neighbour says "hi" or "hola" every time she meets an agricultural worker because she understands the struggle to be in a different country with a different language. The agricultural workers, even if they are here temporarily, like it when local people greet them. They want to feel part of our community too.
The IloveSpanish Vernon project wants to address the language barriers and be the bridge between two different worlds which can help each other as neighbours and find more things in common.
The IloveSpanish Vernon project is in thanks to the Neighbourhood Small Grants Program, funded by the Community Foundation North Okanagan and the Vancouver Foundation. Special thanks to the regional advisory committee and Kim English, regional coordinator, for their support.
Mexicanos en el Okanagan is the Mexican community and the first media in Spanish in the Okanagan. It is a Facebook group which has almost 2,000 followers from the Okanagan, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and Mexico. The purpose of the group is to create a virtual safe space where people can feel confident because they can read news, get the essential and trustful information that they need in their own language, provided by people who understand their needs and have the same cultural background.
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State lawmakers expected to apologize to those placed in Japanese internment camps
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FRESNO, California — State lawmakers are expected to apologize to the families of more than 100,000 people placed in Japanese internment camps during World War II.
The California State Assembly is expected to approve a resolution Thursday.
Back in 1988, Congress gave survivors each $20,000 in reparations, but now after nearly 80 years the issue has surfaced once again.
The Assemblyman who proposed the resolution said he wants the california legislature to officially acknowledge and apologize while camp survivors are still alive.
One survivor is Les Ouchida.
He was just 5 years old, living in Fresno with his family when internment began for them.
They like many, were forced to abandon jobs, businesses and homes.
Les cites the findings of a presidential commission on why it happened.
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So there was a lot of people not just politicians that didn't speak up." said Les Ouchida.
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 - While proteases, phospholipase A 2 and nucleotidases are responsible for the haemorrhagic lesions induced by Bothrops jararaca venom, most crotalid myotoxins are phospholipases and some exhibit proteolytic activities [ 12 ]. Crotalid snakes have a wide geographical distribution, this may contribute to differences in their venom composition [ 8 ]. Differences in venom composition may play a role in the effectiveness of the medicinal plants used for snakebites.
 - The in vitro myotoxicity of the crotalid venoms venoms ( Bothrops jararaca, Bothrops jararacussu and Lachesis muta ) and myotoxins (bothropstoxin, bothropasin and crotoxin) was neutralised by simultaneous exposure of isolated skeletal muscles to an aqueous extract of Eclipta prostrata or to wedelolactone, stigmaterol and sitosterol.
 - Ethanolic extracts of the aerial parts of Eclipta prostrata (Asteraceae) neutralised the lethal activity of the venom of South American rattlesnake ( Crotalus durissus terrificus ), as well as the myotoxic and haemorrhagic effects of B. jararaca, B. jararacussu and Lachesis muta snake venoms when mixed in vitro before i.p.
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Plaiting and braiding have a long history. They encompass decorating hair, weaving and basket-making as well as making knots. So it is surprising that John Gorham seems to have been the first person to have looked at the subject systematically. The main part of this book is a reprint of his 1888 work on plaiting crystal models has been an inspiration to many others working in this field, notably Robert Pargeter and Jean Pedersen. Along with Robert Pargeter and James Brunton's articles in the Mathematical Gazette Gorham's work is here reproduced. The ideas were extensively covered in Mathematical Models by Cundy and Rollett, also reprinted by Tarquin. It is through this book and Pargeter's article that Gorham's techniques have been kept alive. The book itself has been rare and most references to it are only as a result of Pargeter having quoted it as his source. Through this reprint the work can be more widely read and admired by mathematicians, plaiters and crystallographers, as well as historians of science and mathematics.
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Abstract: Thermal properties of Ca3xDyxCo3.95Ga0.05O9+d were quantified, as were the thermoelectric properties. X-ray diffraction was used to determine the phase of the samples. The thermopower of all samples was determined to be positive. The figure of merit and the power factor increased for the samples after doping had occurred.
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My honey, in buckets, is crystalizing sooner than in years past. I thought maybe it wasn't heated as much as in the past during the extracting process. Now I am wondering about the conditions underwhich the honey was produced by the bees. Droughty conditions.
Theory: Honey produced under drought conditions will crystalize sooner after extraction than honey produced under normal climate conditions.
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Font attributes are properties of a font, which can be combined to uniquely specify a font on a given platform. There are some portable attributes which can be used on all platforms; other attributes are platform specific and will be ignored or signal errors when used on the wrong platform.
Font descriptions are externalizable objects which contain a set of font attributes. When using a font description in a font lookup operation, missing attributes are treated as wildcards (as are those with value
) and invalid attributes signal errors. The result of a font lookup contains all the attributes needed to uniquely specify a font on that platform.
font attribute is special: it can be used to reliably look up a system font on all platforms.
Font descriptions can be manipulated using the functions
These are the current set of portable font attributes and their portable types:


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- THE MAGAZINE
What can be said about a glaze? Plenty! We have all been in the position of trying to describe our favorite glaze to another potter or to ourselves. If the actual glaze is not present, the verbal account can leave a lot to the imagination, which can produce an inaccurate image. The glaze description language is an agreed-upon meaning to the many characteristics found in glazes. It uses several key words and phrases to define a glaze. The idea, as with all languages, is that everyone understands what is meant by the standardized terms that classify a glaze. The glaze description language allows the listener or reader to formulate an accurate mental image of how the fired glaze looks and functions.
One area of potential error occurs when writing or describing glazes. Many potters still refer to a glaze formula by its popular name. For example, we have all called glazes Randy's Red or Bob's Blue. While there is a certain personal and informal quality in referring to glazes in such a manner, it can lead to numerous inaccuracies in exchanging or understanding glaze formulas. Just referring to a glaze by its common name does not tell us enough about its characteristics, such as color, texture or light transmission. As an added potential for error, the actual glaze formula for Randy's Red could have changed many times since Randy developed the glaze. Identifying glazes only by their names is an inaccurate attempt to transfer information and can indicate a potter's lack of knowledge about glaze formulas.
Even potters who know better are still drawn into the easy habit of referring to a glaze only by its name. However, there is another method that can transfer information with greater accuracy. Once the vocabulary is known, it makes the task of explaining how a glaze looks much easier, faster and more accurate. We're not talking about deciphering Sanskrit or Egyptian hieroglyphics; just a few simple categories can add to the enjoyment of making and describing ceramic glazes.
Keep in mind there are no set rules about the number of terms to use in describing a glaze. However, it is critical that any terms used have some universal understanding among potters. In addition, too many descriptive terms can be overly cumbersome to use in actual practice. Many potters choose only those descriptions that accurately focus on their particular glaze. Listed are several characteristics that will define a glaze in specific terms.
Firing Temperature: c/06, c/6, c/9
The firing temperature or pyrometric cone rating is critical in the description of any glaze. The three most common temperature ranges used today in ceramics are c/06 (1830°F), c/6 (2232°F) and c/9 (2336°F). Most clay body and glaze formulas have been developed around these temperature ranges. Published glaze and clay body formulas also fall within these widely used pyrometer cone and temperatures.
Preparation: Frit or Raw Oxides
Frits are manufactured from specific raw oxides, which are calcined or fired in a molten mass, cooled and then ground into a fine powder. Frits are frequently used in low-, mediumand some high-temperature glazes, acting as a major flux or glass former. A raw glaze is composed of non-fritted ceramic materials such as feldspars, clays, dolomite, whiting, zinc, talc, magnesium carbonate, and other naturally occurring raw materials.
Composition: Lead, Alkaline and Alkaline Earth
The composition of any glaze can determine its surface texture, light transmission, viscosity when molten, and color development when used with stains or metallic coloring oxides. The major (but not only) ingredients in glazes fall within three broad categories: lead-based glazes containing lead; alkaline-based glazes containing feldspars and/or frits; and alkaline earth-based glazes containing calcium, magnesium, barium, strontium and beryllium.
Texture: Gloss, Satin Matt, Dry Matt
The fired glaze can develop gloss, satin matt or a dry surface texture. A gloss surface is shiny and smooth to the touch. A satin matt surface is similar to a satin ribbon, with a semi-smooth surface texture, while a dry matt glaze can have a gritty surface. The surface texture of the glaze is not to be confused with its light transmission qualities.
Light Transmission: Transparent, Semi-Opaque, Opaque
The ability of light to penetrate the glaze layer determines whether the glaze is transparent, semi-opaque or opaque.
Color: Green, Yellow, Red, Blue, etc.
Glazes can be formulated in any color using stains or metallic coloring oxides. Color is often one of the major defining characteristics in describing any glaze.
Special Effects: Wood, Soda, Salt, Raku, Luster
Glazes can be developed for wood, soda, salt, luster, Raku or any number of applications or firing techniques.
Application: Sprayed, Dipped, Brushed
A glaze can be sprayed, dipped or brushed on the ware. The application method can also play a part in the total fired glaze effect.
Atmosphere: Oxidation, Neutral, Reduction
A glaze can be fired in an oxidation atmosphere (more air than fuel present in combustion), a neutral atmosphere (equal amounts of air and fuel), or a reduction atmosphere (more fuel than air present in combustion). The kiln atmosphere can alter any of the above glaze characteristics depending on the particular glaze formula and kiln firing cycle.
Glaze Hardness: Soft, Hard
While not typically a glaze characteristic that is noted, some fired glazes can be described as either hard or soft in their resistance to abrasion or solubility.
While it is not necessary (or, in many instances, required) to use every glaze description characteristic, an example would be: I am currently firing a c/9, fritted, alkaline, gloss, transparent, blue, soda-fired, sprayed glaze in a reduction atmosphere, and it has a hard-fired surface. More frequently, a description of this same glaze would be stated as: I am currently firing c/9/reduction, gloss, transparent blue, soda-fired glaze.
Standardization in describing glazes leads to accuracy in talking and writing about glazes, all of which can create a greater understanding of ceramic materials. Disseminating accurate glaze information to other potters will also prevent many glaze defects that are caused by the misidentification of glaze characteristics.


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Prep 15 mins
Cook 120 hrs
A fermented vegetable courtesy of Phickle.com. If you enjoy a more acidic pickle, feel free to let it ferment longer.
- 2 lbs rutabagas, preferably unwaxed (if you cannot find an unwaxed one, peel the rutabaga)
- 1⁄2 inch fresh ginger, unpeeled
- 1 teaspoon salt, dissolved into
- 1 cup water (room temperature)
- Remove any roots or ugly spots from your rutabaga/swede; scrub well.
- Grate rutabaga and thoroughly washed ginger; mix well.
- Pack the vegetable mixture into a 1 quart jar as you would sauerkraut, very tightly.
- Very slowly pour your brine over your rutabaga.
- Let the liquid seep in, then crush your rutabaga mixture back in tightly. Continue this process until you have a centimeter of brine on top of your rutabaga.
- Weigh the vegetables down with a weight of some sort (a baggie or smaller jar filled with water) and let ferment at room temperature, removing any bloom/scum as it forms.
- Your vegetables should be complete in about five days.


Dress For Success
The year is 2015. Location is a public high school. In this public high school, there is such thing called a dress code.
The dress code is enforced to protect the students and the teachers at the school as well as to support the idea of dressing for success. Administrators and teachers are suppose to set the example of dressing for success, but how are they suppose to do so if some of them look unpolished themselves? It doesn't seem to make sense to me, but I thought I could get a better understanding of it, so I decided to ask someone who seems to know a little about being a teacher as well as fashion, Mr. Johnson. When asked about his opinion on how the teachers dressed now-a-days, he gave a great amount of answers. He made it known that he thinks most teachers dress for comfort rather than success.
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I too noticed this. While interviewing him, we both discussed the fact that teachers also have dress codes to follow. Mr. Johnson also brought up the idea that some teachers do dress for success, but in a way that depicts their job. Examples of this is biology teachers dressing in a way that a doctor, journalism teachers dressing in a way that a news anchor might, and coaches dressing as coaches. Mr.
Johnson also feel that the women teachers have leadway in dress the part of being a teacher. This is something I too agree with and can understand, but the male teachers still shouldn't slack. Now that you have heard some ideas from a fellow teacher of ours, you can make your own decision. Do these teacher dress for success? You be the judge.


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The definition of fiscal is something related to finances or public revenue.(adjective)
Fiscal is defined as an official person in some countries.(noun)
An example of a fiscal is the Crown Office and Procurator Service in Scotland.
See fiscal in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: Fr < LL fiscalis < L fiscus, basket of rushes, public chest < IE *bhidh-, pot (> ON bitha, milk jug) < base *bheidh-, to weave, tie
See fiscal in American Heritage Dictionary 4
Origin:, from Latin fiscālis
Origin:, from fiscus, money basket, treasury.
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Operating mission critical facilities involves more than just monitoring building functions and equipment rooms on a BMS or DCIM platform. It is also important for engineering staff to be in front of equipment on a regular basis. Placing knowledgeable personnel in front of equipment will allow them to detect anomalies that may be missed by automated sensors and meters. SmartWALK simplifies these day to day operational tasks by providing a user friendly platform for collecting benchmark data. Access to this detailed information about your facility's complex power distribution can prove to be an invaluable asset.
SmartWALK improves reliability and resiliency by standardizing practices that mitigate failures and expedite recovery.
- Intelligent Rounds & Readings with visual feedback
- Mobile Access to Facility Documentation
- Email Notifications of completed Rounds & Readings
- Multiple device synchronization
- Photo enhanced comments
Rounds & Readings
The user is guided through the rounds, via a simple user interface. Numerical data is compared to preset thresholds as it is input, and SmartWALK will immediately alert the user of a problem if it exceeds the threshold. Upon completion of the rounds, out of tolerance fields are compiled into a Rounds Report and emailed to all registered SmartWALK users.
Supported Data Field Types:
- Integer: Numeric field which supports whole numbers only. Can set units, nominal value, and upper and lower tolerance.
- Decimal: Numeric field which supports decimal points. Can set units, nominal value, and upper and lower tolerance.
- Options: Drop down menu of choices. The user must select one of the choices when completing Rounds & Readings. Option choices can be one of four distinct notice types:
- None: Acceptable option. No feedback is provided to the user.
- Standard: Acceptable option. A feedback message is provided to the user.
- Alert: Unacceptable option. A feedback message is provided to the user.
- Alarm: Unacceptable option. A feedback message is provided to the user and the user is also forced to write a comment with additional information about the response.
SmartWALK provides the user with immediate access to important facility documentation including drawings, operating procedures, equipment manuals, etc. Documents are cached to the device for "Always On" access, even in the event that communication with the SmartWALK server is severed.


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Diesel Engine Noise Control Web Seminar RePlay
What Will You Learn
- Identify and analyze commonly occurring diesel engine noise sources
- Understand how analytical and experimental techniques can be used to solve diesel noise issues
- Prescribe appropriate noise control analysis and solutions for specific diesel engine NVH issues
Is This Course For You
This course is ideal for those want to understand the root causes of many diesel engine noise issues, and how to use this understanding to better diagnose and control diesel engine-related noises.
Those intending to take this web seminar should have at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent, and be familiar with basic engineering mechanics and vibrations.
This course satisfies a requirement in the Diesel Technology Certificate Program.
Have colleagues who need this course? See Special Offers to the right.
Click on the Requirements tab to make sure you are properly equipped to interact with this course.
- 90 days of online single-user access (from date of purchase) to the two session,
approximately four hour, recorded presentation
- Course workbook (downloadable,.pdf's)
- Online learning assessment
- Instructor follow up to your content questions
-.4 CEUs*/Certificate of Achievement (upon completion of all course content and a score of 70% or higher on the learning assessment)
*SAE International is authorized by IACET to offer CEUs for this course.
- Windows 7, 8, 10 (other operating systems and mobile platforms are not supported but may work)
- Internet Explorer 11, Mozilla Firefox 37, Google Chrome 42 (other browsers are not supported)
- Broadband-1Mbps minimum
- The Basics of Diesel Engine Noise
- Combustion Noise Forcing Functions
- Combustion Mode Switching
- Mechanical Forcing Functions in Diesels
- Separating Combustion and Mechanical Noise Sources
- Strategies for Reducing Forcing Functions
- Surface Radiated Noise
- Exterior Covers: Radiated Sound and Simulation Modeling
- Gear Train Noise Issues and Countermeasures
- Drive-By Noise Contribution
- Diesel Engine Design Considerations for Low Noise
- Application Noise Issues


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For developers like Divyesh, one of the most popular features of PHP is real-time image generation. That is, we can create a new image canvas, "paint" it, and either save it to a file, or send it directly to the browser. In this article, Divyesh will show you how to create an image in real-time with PHP.
Generating Images on the Fly With PHP - Changing the font of our random number (Page 6 of 7 )
To control the look and style attributes of our random number, we can replace the imagestring function with the imagettftext function, which lets us control some of the aspects of the font used to render the text.
The imagettftext function takes eight arguments, as described below:
array Imagettftext (int im, int size, int angle, int x, int y, int col, string fontfile, string text)
im: A reference to an image canvas created using the imagecreate function
size: The height of the font, in pixels
angle: The rotation of the font. Use 0 for standard horizontal display
x: The starting x co-ordinate of where the text will be drawn
y: The starting y co-ordinate of where the text will be drawn
col: A reference to a color created using the imagecolorallocate function
fontfile: The path and filename to the font that the text will be rendered in (more on this in a minute)
text: The actual string of text to be drawn
So, for our example, we would used the imagettftext function instead of the imagestring function, like this:
Notice the seventh argument? Itís the location of the true-type font file that will be used to render our text onto the image. In our example, the file trebuchet.ttf is in the same directory as our script. Trebuchet.ttf is contained in the support material at the end of this article.
The Imagettftext file uses the FreeType font support, which is built-in to all of the latest releases of the GD image library. You can read more about the FreeType project at _URL_
Once you have saved the random_number.php file with the new Imagettftext function instead of the imagestriing function, reload the page in your browser. You should see something like this:


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There are various types of traditional bonsai styles, such as formal upright, informal upright, cascade, and semi-cascade. You can find these eye catching bonsai here on Send Plants under "Plants by type".
The formal upright style represents the idealized image of a full-sized tree growing in nature. It features a straight, upright trunk with branches that gradually decrease in size as they ascend the tree. The composition of the bonsai is symmetrical and balanced, reflecting stability, strength, and a formal aesthetic.
The informal upright style aims to capture the natural, organic growth patterns of trees found in nature. The trunk exhibits gentle curves and slight bends, giving the tree a more relaxed and informal appearance. The branches are arranged asymmetrically, reflecting the irregularities of nature.
The cascade style is visually striking, representing a tree growing on the edge of a cliff or steep slope. The trunk cascades downward below the container's rim, sometimes even reaching the ground. The branches typically extend in a downward direction, often featuring elegant curves and dramatic foliage. This style evokes a sense of drama, movement, and the resilience of trees growing in challenging conditions.
Semi-Cascade (Han-Kengai): The semi-cascade trunk may have a gentle slant or curve, extending beyond the rim of the pot but not reaching the ground. The branches can be arranged in a balanced or asymmetrical manner, giving the tree a sense of dynamism and vitality. This style represents adaptability and the ability to withstand environmental challenges while maintaining a sense of balance.


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|Better Farming Series 32. Biogas 2: Building a Better Biogas Unit (FAO Better Farming Series, 1986)|
110. Sometimes a hard layer of scum may form on top of the waste mixture in your biogas unit. If this happens, less gas will be made and gas will not collect in the inner tube.
111. If the waste is well mixed before it is put into unit, there will be less chance for scum to form and your biogas unit will make gas well.
112. Scum is more likely to form if you use plant materials than if you use only animal waste.
113. To keep scum from forming, shake your biogas unit from time to time. The drawing below shows you how.


text: Acryfab was approached by the artist to make this sculpture on his behalf. The original idea was for the sculpture to be made from "Lego" blocks that had been scaled up by a factor of 30. Acryfab initially made several blocks, as pictured here, to see if the idea was possible. During this stage the artist was told that his sculpture was to be located on a hill side and had to be self supporting. This required a radical rethink of the design. The sculpture was designed around an aluminium frame. The aluminium frame gave the sculpture strength and allowed for it to be fixed into the ground. The frame was constructed from aluminium pipes that finished at the bottom of each foot. A sheet of acrylic was bolted onto both sides of the frame. This then meant that the sides could be glued directly to the acrylic. The ends of the sculpture were glued in place as blocks, lastly the circles were glued on top.


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Protect your plant's root system from high or fluctuating temperatures with AutoPot WhitePots. The WhitePot reflects extremes of heat away from the root system. By shielding the roots in this way WhitePots help prevent the adverse effects of hot or varying temperatures on a plants growth management.
Growing in WhitePots is a simple and effective way to maintain constant temperatures for your roots allowing your plants to steadily thrive.
Reflects light and heat
Specially designed for use in hot environments
Can help reduce substrate temperatures by 5-10%


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Diamond reinforced composite (DRC) coatings for Diamond polishing wheel without using Ni and Co as binders.
Development of Silt Erosion Resistant Material for Turbines of Hydrogenerators:
Mitigation of Erosion-Oxidation damage on different boiler grade steels
Wear and oxidation resistant diboride reinforced dense coatings by in-situ SHS dynamic compaction process
Wear resistant Al-alloys with high strength
We have developed or are in the process of developing the following:
Developed diamond reinforced composite (DRC) coated Diamond polishing wheel
Developed Silt Erosion Resistant steel for Turbines of Hydrogenerators: The developed material has improved wear and erosion resistance compared to standard 13Cr-4Ni stainless steel.
Developed mathematical model and application software for erosion-oxidation of boiler steels i
Wear and oxidation resistant diboride reinforced dense composites by SHS dynamic compaction
Air jet erosion tester, 3-body wear test system, Thermogravimetric analyzer for high temperature oxidation study, Pin/ball–on-disc wear tester (load range: 10 g to 10 kg), Fretting wear monitor, Cavitation erosion monitor and Nano-Tribometer
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Rethinking Transit Migration: Precarity, Mobility, and Self-Making in Mexico
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the authors analyze mobility and immobility among Central American migrants within the transnational space comprised of Central American countries, Mexico, and the US. They examine how mobility and immobility are shaped by the experiences of precarity in specific places, such as international borders, vertical borders, and humanitarian places. The book vividly illustrates various techniques migrants employ to counteract the paralyzing effects of precarity on mobility, while situating the analysis of migrants' precarity within the context of the US biopolitics of citizenship and the corresponding migration control policies and practices in the US and Mexico. At the same time, it scrutinizes the impact on migrants' precarity and mobility of three types of actors within the migration industry: those who facilitate the movement, those who prey on migrants, and those who assist them. Based on migrants' narratives, collected in five different locations in Mexico, the volume provides an insightful, analytically rigorous and moving depiction of migrants' tangled, dangerous, and uncertain journeys.


TY - JOUR T1 - A Study of RMBS Litigation Cases of Six Major U.S. Banks JF - The Journal of Structured Finance SP - 91 LP - 99 DO - 10.3905/jsf.2017.23.3.091 VL - 23 IS - 3 AU - Ruddy, John A. AU - Rajan, Murli AU - Petsas, Iordanis Y1 - 2017/10/31 UR - _URL_ N2 - Prior to the financial crisis of 2008–2009, banks engaged in activities related to mortgages and mortgage-backed securities that caused financial losses to investors. This resulted in a wave of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) litigation. Investors and U.S. government entities filed hundreds of lawsuits in federal court in the years during and after the credit crisis. In this research, the authors consider 43 settlements of RMBS litigation pertaining to major U.S. banks. First, they provide a chronology of major events in the history of RMBS litigation. Second, using a unique dataset, they quantify the impact and involvement of such litigation on major U.S. banks, U.S. government agencies, and other entities. There are two important findings: U.S. banks were not equally impacted, and RMBS settlements were not equally distributed among the various plaintiffs. Third, the authors provide a breakdown of the litigation by year of settlement. They show that litigation settlement activity increased in 2013 and 2014 but declined during the period 2014–2016.TOPICS: MBS and residential mortgage loans, financial crises and financial market history ER -


5 Asteroids Named After Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
5 Asteroids Named After Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
This year's Mabo Day, June 3, was a special day for Indigenous astronomy. That was when the International Astronomical Union officially accepted five new asteroid names that honour a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, elders and academics whose work has been particularly influential.
The move follows similar commemorations in 2019, the International Year of Indigenous Languages, when a plethora of stars, exoplanets, planetary features and asteroids were given Indigenous names. They included six stars that received names from the Wardaman (NT), Booring (Vic) and Kamilaroi/Euahlayi (NSW) communities, as well as a star and planet named Bubup ("child") and Yanyan ("boy") – names derived from the Boon Wurrung language of Melbourne.
IAU Name ExoWorlds: Australia.
Asteroids (sometimes also called minor planets are large rocks in the Solar system, ranging from 10 metres to more than 100 kilometres in diameter. Most are found in a region called the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and are only visible with a powerful telescope.
Here are the five asteroids that have been newly named in recognition of influential Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
7546 Meriam
Formally known as 1979 MB4, this is a 2km-wide asteroid of the Flora family in the asteroid belt's inner region. It is 2.3 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, and takes 3.5 years to complete one orbit.
Maier Dance
Meriam dancers performing the Maier (Shooting Star) Dance for the Werner Herzog film Fireball.
Duane Hamacher
The Meriam are an Indigenous Australian group of people in the islands of the eastern Torres Strait, who are united by a common culture and language: Meriam Mir, Australia's only Papuan language.
Meriam people developed and maintain complex systems of astronomical knowledge centred around Tagai, a great warrior who is central to their Creation and identity. Meriam star knowledge has featured in academic papers, educational curricula, planetarium displays, a forthcoming commemorative coin, and the upcoming Werner Herzog film Fireball.
7733 Segarpassi
Formally known as 1979 MH4, this is a 1.9km-wide asteroid in the main asteroid belt. It is 2.4 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, and its orbit takes 3.7 years.
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A new type of array allows you to specify and store only the independent components.
For matrices, the only nontrivial symmetries are symmetry and antisymmetry, but for higher-rank arrays there are many more possibilities. The following figure illustrates some of them for a rank-4 array. Warm-colored squares represent independent components, with like-colored squares equal. Cold-colored squares are the negatives of the independent components, and white squares are forced to be zero by the symmetry.
Storing only the independent components can produce enormous space savings.
This allows exterior algebra computations in large dimensions—in this case a 4-form and 20-form in 25 dimensions.


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A Performance Study of General-Purpose Applications on Graphics Processors Using CUDA
Source: University of Virginia
Graphics Processors Unit (GPUs) provide a vast number of simple, data-parallel, deeply multithreaded cores and high memory bandwidths. GPU architectures are becoming increasingly programmable, offering the potential for dramatic speedups for a variety of general purpose applications compared to contemporary general-purpose processors (CPUs). This paper uses NVIDIA's C-like CUDA language and an engineering sample of their recently introduced GTX 260 GPU to explore the effectiveness of GPUs for a variety of application types, and describes some specific coding idioms that improve their performance on the GPU. GPU performance is compared to both single-core and multicore CPU performance, with multicore CPU implementations written using OpenMP.


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Northallerton lecture by descendant of key figure in US history
12:11pm Sunday 30th December 2012 in News
A DESCENDANT of a man who helped shape America's history, is set to give a talk.
Jeremiah Dixon was responsible for helping create America's Mason-Dixon line, which divided the slave-owning Southern states from abolitionist Northern states during the civil war.
Jeremiah Dixon, from Cockfield, County Durham, was commissioned 250 years ago by King George III to help resolve a dispute over boundary lines between the English colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in the US.
Maryland had been founded in 1632 by the Calvert family from Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire, as a refuge for English Catholics. About 50 years later, neighbouring Pennsylvania was created by the Quaker William Penn and inhabited by the more aggressive Puritans.
Although surveying was in its infancy, accurate boundary measurements were required to prevent continuing argument, so the royal astronomer at the Greenwich Observatory recommended his assistant Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, from Cockfield to undertake a boundary survey.
It took five years and proved one of the great technological feats of the century.
The boundary became the Mason-Dixon, which defined the boundary of freedom for escaping black slaves and the dividing line between Southern and Northern states in the civil war.
Now one of his direct descendants, John Dixon, is to host a talk entitled Jeremiah Dixon; Revered in America, Forgotten at Home, for Northallerton and District Local History Society.
It will take place at the Sacred Heart Church Hall on Thirsk Road, Northallerton at 7pm on Tuesday, January 8. Non-members are welcome at a nominal admission charge of £2.50, while students under 18 will be admitted free.
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Question: How do I create a direct link to an image, or file on my website?
It may seem like a simple thing, but it's not entirely obvious how to get the exact link for an image or file on your WordPress website.
Here's how to do it.
1. Go to Media, Add New in your WordPress backend
2. Upload an image, PDF, or other file
3. Click Edit when the file is done uploading
4. Look on the right, where it says File URL, that is the direct link to the file for sharing
This is the direct URL you can give to people to download or go directly to that file, and will be accessible from anywhere on the web.