IHSS Provider Wait and Travel Times
IHSS Provider Wait and Travel Times
IHSS gives services to help you stay at home if you cannot take care of yourself because of your disability. This pub tells you about getting IHSS hours for help getting to the doctor. It also tells you if you can get IHSS hours for doctor trips for a child.
1. Can I receive IHSS hours for my provider to take me to doctors' appointments?
Yes, this is called "accompaniment to medical appointments." Medical accompaniment to "health care appointments" (e.g. medical appointment at a doctor's office, dentist and to other health practitioners) is an IHSS service certain IHSS recipients can receive. Medical accompaniment can be authorized when a recipient needs another IHSS service in order to get to and from a medical appointment or alternative resource, and/or at their destination.1 For example, if a recipient has been authorized for accompaniment to medical appointments, the provider can also be paid to help the IHSS recipient travel to and from medical appointments.
Examples of help with travel includes things like helping a recipient get in and out of a vehicle, getting properly seated, and using seat belts. To get authorized for medical accompaniment, you should tell your IHSS social worker that you have a medical appointment and that you need your IHSS provider's assistance to get to the medical appointment. The IHSS social worker will then assess your need for assistance in getting to and from medical appointments.2 IHSS care providers are not required to use their own vehicle to transport recipients to and from a medical appointment. However, an IHSS recipient can pay their care provider for the use of their vehicle to transport the recipient to and from the recipient's medical appointments.
2. Can an IHSS provider get paid for time spent waiting at an IHSS recipient's doctor's appointment?
Yes. As of February 1, 2016, providers can receive payment for time spent waiting at medical appointments. In order to be paid for waiting at a medical appointment, the provider has to show that while they are at a recipient's medical appointment, they cannot leave because they cannot predict how long the recipient's appointment will take. An example would be when a provider takes a recipient to a medical appointment and the provider has to wait at the medical office because, at any moment, they may have to take the recipient home. This means the provider is "engaged to wait" or "Wait Time —On Duty."
When a recipient is authorized for medical accompaniment, if all the following conditions are met, then the provider will be considered "Wait Time —Off Duty" (which means they will not be paid for any time spent waiting for the recipient):
 1. The amount of time the appointment will take is known in advance which would allow the provider plenty of notice that they will not be needed to provide services during that time and which can then be used for their own purposes;
 2. The appointment is scheduled to last enough time for the provider to conduct personal business; and
 3. The provider is not required to perform any other authorized service, e.g., food shopping, other shopping/errands, during the appointment time.
If all the above conditions are met, then the recipient must tell the provider that they do not have to work until a specified time when they must return to accompany the recipient home. The provider will not be paid for this time. If all the above conditions are NOT met, the provider is considered to have "Wait Time —On Duty," and they must be paid for the time they spend waiting for the recipient.
You can find more information on wait times in All County Letter No. 16-01. 3
3. What if I need my provider to take me to an alternative resource? Can they still get paid to wait for me?
Individuals can receive transportation to a site where alternative resources provide in-home supportive services to the recipient in lieu of IHSS. 4 In general, for individuals who receive time for medical accompaniment to an alternative resource, the time an IHSS provider is waiting would not to be compensable because recipients are usually dropped off and picked up at a certain time. Normally, a provider cannot be paid for the wait time associated with accompaniment to alternative resource sites because the provider can effectively use that time for their own purposes and it is considered Wait Time Off-Duty. 5 However, in order to determine whether wait time is paid, the social worker must determine whether or not a provider is using "Wait Time-On Duty" or if the provider is using "Wait Time-Off Duty." 6
4. Can a minor receive IHSS hours for accompaniment to doctors' appointments?
There are special requirements to get medical accompaniment authorized for minor recipients. Medical accompaniment for minors can only be authorized if the minor recipient has an "assessed extraordinary need," the appointment is for a specialist, and the minor recipient has a need for an authorized IHSS task to be performed during travel to or from the appointment.
To get medical accompaniment and associated wait times authorized for a minor recipient, each of the three following conditions must be met:
 1. The minor recipient must have an assessed extraordinary need. An extraordinary need is a need that is based on the functional impairment due to the minor's disability and the need is beyond what would normally be expected for a minor of the same age without the functional impairment.
 2. The appointment(s) must be with a physician or other licensed health care professional in a specialty care discipline and the appointment must be related to the minor's disability or functional impairment. Medical Accompaniment may not be authorized for routine appointments with the minor recipient's pediatrician or primary care physician, such as well-baby/child visits, annual check-ups, immunizations, visits related to common childhood illnesses/injuries, etc.
 3. The minor recipient must have a need for an authorized IHSS task(s) during travel to and/or from the appointment, or at the appointment.
The guidelines for authorizing wait time for adult recipients are not applied in minor recipient cases. This is because a parent is typically expected to be present during a child's medical appointment so that they can participate in a discussion with the medical professional about the child's health and make decisions about treatment and care. The social worker should include the wait time in the authorization of hours. You can find more information and examples in All County Letter No. 17-42.
5. Can an IHSS provider get paid for travel time between recipients?
Yes. IHSS providers can be paid for travel time. Travel time is the time it takes a provider to travel directly from the location where they care for a recipient to another location to provide services for a different recipient on the same day. However, a provider cannot get paid for the travel time to and from his or her home to any IHSS recipient's location. In addition, providers can only be reimbursed for 7 hours of travel time per week. 7
Providers who have multiple recipients should contact the county in order to complete form SOC 2255 and submit it to the IHSS office. This form must be completed in order for the provider to be compensated for their travel time.
1 See Welfare and Institutions Code § 12300(b), and Manual of Policies and Procedures (MPP) Section 30-780.1(b)(5)(A)-(B)).- (Return to Main Document)
2 See MPP Section 30-757.15.- (Return to Main Document)
3 All County Letter No. 16-01, dated January 7, 2016, is available online at this link for the PDF.- (Return to Main Document)
4 MPP Section 30-757.154.- (Return to Main Document)
5 See All County Letter No. 17-42, dated June 23, 2017, available online at this link; see also All County Letter No. 14-82, dated November 25, 2017, available online at this link for the PDF.- (Return to Main Document)
6 For more information, see ACL No. 17-42, available online at this link, and ACL No. 14-82, available online at this link for the PDF. - (Return to Main Document)
7 Information on travel time is here: link to the PDF on Travel Time for In-Home Supportive Services providers from the CA Department of Social Services website. - (Return to Main Document)
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The SQL parsing can be quite particular - sometimes the SQL can be parsed by the DBMS but not by DBStag. The error messages are not always helpful. There are probably a few cases the SQL SELECT parsing grammar cannot deal with. If you want to select from views, you need to hack DBIx::DBSchema (as of v0.21) TODO Use SQL::Translator to make SQL DDL generation less Pg-specific; also for deducing foreign keys (right now foreign keys are guessed by the name of the column, eg table_id) Can we cache the grammar so that startup is not so slow? Improve algorithm so that events are fired rather than building up entire structure in-memory Tie in all DBI attributes accessible by hash, i.e.: $dbh->{...} Error handling WEBSITE AUTHOR Chris Mungall COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2004 Chris Mungall This module is free software. You may distribute this module under the same terms as perl itself


L}{4 \hbar E} = \frac{{\rm GeV}\, {\rm fm}}{4 \hbar c} \times \frac{\Delta m^2}{{\rm eV}^2} \frac{L}{\rm km} \frac{\rm GeV}{E} \approx 1.267 \times \frac{\Delta m^2}{{\rm eV}^2} \frac{L}{\rm km} \frac{\rm GeV}{E},
where 1.267 is unitless. In this form, it is convenient to plug in the oscillation parameters since:
The mass differences, Δm2, are known to be on the order of 1x10-4 eV2
Oscillation distances, L, in modern experiments are on the order of kilometers
Neutrino energies, E, in modern experiments are typically on order of MeV or GeV.
If there is no CP-violation (δ is zero), then the second sum is zero.
Two neutrino case
The above formula is correct for any number of neutrino generations. Writing it explicitly in terms of mixing angles is extremely cumbersome if there are more than two neutrinos that participate in mixing. Fortunately, there are several cases in which only two neutrinos participate significantly. In this case, it is sufficient to consider the mixing matrix
Then the probability of a neutrino changing its flavor is
P_{\alpha\rightarrow\beta, \alpha\neq\beta} = \sin^{2}(2\theta)\, \sin^{2} \left(\frac{\Delta m^2 L}{4E}\right)\, \mathrm{(natural\,units)}
Or, using SI units and the convention introduced above
P_{\alpha\rightarrow\beta, \alpha\neq\beta} = \sin^{2}(2\theta) \, \sin^{2}\left( 1.267 \frac{\Delta m^2 L}{E} \frac{\rm GeV}{\rm eV^{2}\,\rm km}\right)
This formula is often appropriate for discussing the transition νμ ↔ ντ in atmospheric mixing, since the electron neutrino plays almost no role in this case. It is also appropriate for the solar case of νe ↔ νx, where νx is a superposition of νμ and ντ. These approximations are possible because the mixing angle θ13 is very small and because two of the mass states are very close in mass compared to the third.
Theory, graphically
Two neutrino probabilities in vacuum
In the approximation where only two neutrinos participate in the oscillation, the probability of oscillation follows a simple pattern:
Two neutrino oscillation probabilities.png
The blue curve shows the probability of the original neutrino retaining its identity. The red curve shows the probability of conversion to the other neutrino. The maximum probability of conversion is equal to sin22θ. The frequency of the oscillation is controlled by Δm2.
Three neutrino probabilities
If three neutrinos are considered, the probability for each neutrino to appear is somewhat complex. Here are shown the probabilities for each initial flavor, with one plot showing a long range to display the slow "solar" oscillation and the other zoomed in to display the fast "atmospheric" oscillation. The oscillation parameters used here are consistent with current measurements, but since some parameters are still quite uncertain, these graphs are only qualitatively correct in some aspects. These values were used:
sin22θ23 = 0.95. (It may turn out to be exactly one.)
sin22θ12 = 0.86.
\Delta m^2_{12} = 8 \times 10^{-5} {\rm eV}^2.
\Delta m^2_{23} \approx \Delta m^2_{13} = 2.4 \times 10^{-3} {\rm eV}^2.
Electron neutrino oscillations, long range. Here and in the following diagrams black means electron neutrino, blue means muon neutrino and red means tau neutrino.
Electron neutrino oscillations, short range
Muon neutrino oscillations, long range
Muon neutrino oscillations, short range
Tau neutrino oscillations, long range
Tau neutrino oscillations, short range
Observed values of oscillation parameters
\sin^2(\theta_{13}) < 0.032^{}_{} at 95% confidence level (\theta_{13} < 10.3^\circ) [5]
\tan^2(\theta_{12}) = 0.45^{+0.09}_{-0.07}. This corresponds to \theta_{12} \equiv \theta_{\rm sol}={33.9^\circ}^{+2.4^\circ}_{-2.2^\circ} ("sol" stands for solar) [7]
\sin^2(2\theta_{23}) = 1^{+0}_{-0.1}, corresponding to \theta_{23} \equiv \theta_{\rm atm}=45\pm 7^\circ ("atm" for atmospheric)[8]
\Delta m^2_{21} \equiv \Delta m^2_{\rm sol}= 8.0^{+0.6}_{-0.4}\cdot 10^{-5} {\rm eV}^2 [7]
| \Delta m^2_{31}| \approx |\Delta m^2_{32}| \equiv \Delta m^2_{\rm atm}= 2.43^{+0.13}_{-0.13}\cdot 10^{-3} {\rm eV}^2[9]
δ, α1, α2, and the sign of \Delta m^2_{32} are currently unknown
Solar neutrino experiments combined with KamLAND have measured the so-called solar parameters \Delta m^2_{\rm sol} and sin2θsol. Atmospheric neutrino experiments such as Super-Kamiokande together with the K2K and MINOS long baseline accelerator neutrino experiment have determined the so-called atmospheric parameters \Delta m^2_{\rm atm} and sin22θatm.
For atmospheric neutrinos (where the relevant difference of masses is about \Delta m^2 =2.4\times 10^{-3}\mbox{ eV}^2 and the typical energies are ~1 GeV), oscillations become visible for neutrinos travelling several hundred km, which means neutrinos that reach the detector from below the horizon.
From atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillation experiments, it is known that two mixing angles of the MNS matrix are large and the third is smaller. This is in sharp contrast to the CKM matrix in which all three angles are small and hierarchically decreasing. Nothing is known about the CP-violating phase of the MNS matrix.
If the neutrino mass proves to be of Majorana type (making the neutrino its own antiparticle), it is possible that the MNS matrix has more than one phase.
Since experiments observing the neutrino oscillations measure the squared mass difference and not absolute mass, one can claim that the lightest neutrino mass is exactly zero, without contradicting observations. This is however regarded as unlikely by theorists.
Origins of neutrino mass
The question of how neutrino masses arise has not been answered conclusively. In the Standard Model of particle physics, fermions only have mass because of interactions with the Higgs field (see Higgs boson). These interactions involve both leftand right-handed versions of the fermion (see chirality). However, only left-handed neutrinos have been observed so far.
Neutrinos may have another source of mass through the Majorana mass term. This type of mass applies for electrically-neutral particles since otherwise it would allow particles to turn into anti-particles, which would violate conservation of electric charge.
The smallest modification to the Standard Model, which only has left-handed neutrinos, is to allow these left-handed neutrinos to have Majorana masses. The problem with this is that the neutrino masses are implausibly smaller than the rest of the known particles (at least 500,000 times smaller than the mass of an electron), which, while it does not invalidate the theory, is not very satisfactory.
The next simplest addition would be to add right-handed neutrinos into the Standard Model, which interact with the left-handed neutrinos and the Higgs field in an analogous way to the rest of the fermions. These new neutrinos would interact with the other fermions solely in this way, so are not phenomenologically excluded. The problem of the disparity of the mass scales remains.
Seesaw mechanism
Main article: Seesaw mechanism
The most popular conjectured solution currently is the seesaw mechanism, where right-handed neutrinos with very large Majorana masses are added. If the right-handed neutrinos are very heavy, they induce a very small mass for the left-handed neutrinos, which is proportional to the inverse of the heavy mass.
If it is assumed that the neutrinos interact with the Higgs field with approximately the same strengths as the charged fermions do, the heavy mass should be close to the GUT scale. Note that, in the Standard Model there is just one fundamental mass scale (which can be taken as the scale of SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y breaking) and all masses (such as the electron or the mass of the Z boson) have to originate from this one.
There are other varieties of seesaw and currently it is not


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Introduction: To determine the relationship between housing instability, economic standing, and access to health care and use of acute care services.
Methods: We performed a meta-regression using four nationally representative surveys. The independent variable was an ordered measure of economic and housing instability: 1) the general population, 2) low-income population, 3) never homeless users-of-subsistence-services, 4) unstably housed, 5) formerly homeless, and 6) the actively homeless. Dependent variables were four measures of health care access and three measures of acute health care utilization.
Results: Worsening housing instability and economic standing was associated with poorer access: being uninsured (5.4% per unit increase, 95% CI 1.7-9.2%, p=.011), postponing needed care (3.3%, 95% CI 1.9-4.7%, p=.001), postponing medications (6.1%, 95% CI 1.5-10.6%, p=.035), and with one measure of acute health care utilization: higher hospitalization rates (2.9%, 95% CI 1.2-4.6%, p=.008).
Discussion: Economic and housing instability should be considered a graded risk factor for poor access to health care.

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Crabs sound out their ideal reef home
Coastal acoustics Sounds given off by coastal reefs help crab larvae to settle into their ideal coastal home, say New Zealand researchers.
Marine scientist Dr Jenni Stanley and colleagues from the University of Auckland report their findings today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"The reef is a very very noisy place," says Stanley, who says there is a range of noises produced by reef-dwelling animals.
These include low-frequency grunts and howls from fighting and mating fish, the click of crustacean claws and the chorus of sea urchin teeth grazing on algae, she says.
"The noisiest organism is the snapping shrimp that produce a pop and crackle that sounds like something frying in a fry pan."
Stanley says previous studies have found such sounds, which can reach up to 130 decibels, help guide marine larvae towards the coast where they mature and reproduce.
She and colleagues studied the role of sound in the helping five species of marine crabs to settle on coastal reefs.
The crab larvae swim sometimes tens of kilometres from offshore to the coast. When they find a suitable home, they mature by metamorphosing into an adult crab form that is more suitable for crawling than swimming.
Stanley and colleagues have found that as well as telling the crab larvae which way the coast is, reef sounds also help them to settle and mature in the right place.
Stanley recorded the sound made by a coastal reef, a harbour and a sandy beach all on the same part of the coast and played these different sounds back to different groups of crab larvae in the lab.
She then measured how long it took the different groups to mature into adult crabs.
Stanley found the time to metamorphosis was shortened by 33 to 47 per cent when the crabs heard the sound of their ideal coastal reef, compared to the sound of a sandy beach.
"The time to metamorphosis was a lot shorter when they were played the sound of an ideal habitat," she says.
Field-based experiments found the time to metamorphosis was shortened by about 21 to 34 per cent.
The relative delay in metamorphosis that occurs when larvae hear their non-ideal environment gives them time to keep looking for the right home.
"If they go to an unideal habitat, sink down to the bottom, have a look around and realise this isn't actually where they want to be, they can rise back up into the water column and do another search pattern for a more appropriate habitat," says Stanley.

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James Hoban: Architect of the White House and Presidential Letters and Signatures
Discover the man behind the White House and read the letters of the men who lived there through two exhibits:
James Hoban: Architect of the White House, an exhibit from the White House Historical Association and Presidential Letters and Signatures from the collection of Sheldon C. and Rosalind Kurland.
James Hoban, an eighteenth century Irish architect, was commissioned by President George Washington to design and build the White House. This nine-panel exhibition from the White House Historical Association looks at the many facets of Hoban's life and work.
Presidential Letters and Signatures features personal letters, documents or signatures of almost all of the presidents of the United States. Included in the exhibit are letters from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. This is a rare opportunity to see these unique and historical documents!


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In Education edit
Evaluation in education is the word used to discuss how the effectiveness of the learning environment is assessed.
Shared resources for evaluating wikiversity resources or courses run on wikiversity are being developed (see, e.g., Valuation).
In Research edit
Evaluation in research is a formal procedure to quantify the level of actual or anticipated parameter under investigation. This evaluation may be theoretical, experimental or hybrid (see, e.g., Seismic performance evaluation).


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ReichenauArticle Free Pass
Reichenau, island in the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. Belonging to the city of Konstanz, it is 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and is connected to the mainland by a causeway 1.25 miles (2 km) long. Reichenau (meaning "Rich Pasture") is a lake resort where flowers, fruit, and grapes are still cultivated. The island is known for the richly endowed Benedictine monastery founded there in 724 and secularized in 1803; it was the artistic and literary centre of southwestern Germany during the 9th–11th centuries, known for its excellent book illustration and a college that produced many archbishops and bishops of the period. The abbey church at Mittelzell (10th–11th century, with a late Gothic choir) contains the tomb of Charles III (the Fat), who retired to Reichenau after being dethroned. In 2000 the island was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its monastic architecture and for its significance to the history of European art.
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Finding that equilibrium in family and society
Finding that equilibrium in family and society
water finding equilibrium
Water flow disrupted
finding its alternatives
equalizing equilibrium
to level the playing ground
typography luck technology blur
when 'Yang' forces are too strong
the 'Yin' comes to rescue
in family, work-life, or societies
aligning that 'Yin-Yang' harmony!
no matter how hopelessly life seem
in love, family, or work, remember
the universe is listeningan equipoise
like the sun sets, the sun will still rise tomorrow.
group of people sitting indoors
one man's loss is another man's gain
respecting work-force; one's employees
that's how profound human beings are
in finding that balance; that equilibrium.
judgement scale and gavel in judge office
in mandating more equity with inequity
assigning financial, economy, and market shares
altering political systems affecting families and society
the effectiveness outcome, too, depicts a need for stability; an equilibrium.
 2. Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. – Jean Piage
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A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on the subject of Slitscanning, a photographic effect that creates distortions and occasionally insightful images based on time.
The slitscan effect has, of-late, had something of a renaissance over the past year thanks to digital technology. Once a time consuming and expensive technique, coders have created their own solutions (either personally or commercially in the mobile app market). For the uninitiated, it has been defined by Golan Levin thus:
Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image.
Below are some examples of creative coding with the slitscan technique:
Volumetric Slitscan Experiments by Memo Akten
The slitscan technique is a well-explored method in photography and video, but this is the first time I have seen it using a Kinect camera feed, where depth plays an additional factor. Two short videos are embedded above, and they are made more fun by the music (dancing to Nina Simone's "My Baby Just Cares For Me").
Work-in-progress prototype for an upcoming project involving volumetric slitscanning using kinect (should it be called surface-scanning?). Similar to traditional slitscanning... but instead of working with 2D images + time, this technique uses spatial + temporal data stored in a 4D Space-Time Continuum, and 3 dimensional temporal gradients (i.e. not just slitscanning on the depth/rgb images, but surface-scanning on the animated 3D point cloud).
Slitscan 3D Test by Ryan Suits
A slitscan experiment in anaglyph vision, worth digging out those red/blue 3D glasses!
Bookmarklet can turn HTML5 videos on Youtube and Vimeo into slitscan-like images:
… Just hit the bookmarklet on any YouTube or Vimeo video page with an HTML5 player, and it will start drawing onto a canvas in the browser. You can modify the speed with the slider (the default value draws the entire video to the width of the browser). You can also download the code and modify it as you wish.
2001 A Space Odyssey: Unwrapping The Slitscan Sequence
A visual investigation using code to 'unroll' the famous psychedelic sequence from the film, itself a slitscan:
While watching Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", I thought it would be fun to write some software to unravel the slit scan artwork in the psychedelic sequences of 2001, to see what they were. The results of this experiment are below..
The technique used to unravel the sequences involved using an SGI's real time video hardware, with a hacked version of 'videoin.c' (from the SGI example programs) to accumulate scanlines from the DVD and concatenate them back into the original artwork. So as the film played, the program ran, unrolling the scanlines in realtime; it was really fun to see the first results..!
You can see more here.
An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research: An extensive collection of examples of slitscan works.
Vimeo'slitscan 3d' search: Plenty of examples of contemporary experimentation.


Developer Services portal requirements
Developer Services Portal v. 4.16.05
Following are the hardware and software requirements for installation.
Operating system
These installation instructions and the supplied installation files have been tested on the operating systems listed here:
1 GB
Hard disk
10 GB
Network interface
Active internet connection required.
As part of the installation process, the installer downloads resources from the web. If your environment is set up to proxy outgoing HTTP and HTTPS requests, then your proxy must be configured to correctly handle redirected requests that might occur during a download.
For example, a request to returns an HTTP 301 status code and redirects to
Your proxy should be configured to return an HTTP 200 status code with the requested content from the redirect.
For SAP installations, if your environment is set up to proxy outgoing HTTPS requests, then your proxy must support TLSv1.0. OpenSSL 0.9.8 does not support TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2, only TLSv1.0.
MySQL Database Requirements
If you choose to install the MySQL Server on the same machine as the Developer Channel Services, the single-machine topology, the Developer Channel Services installer prompts you to enter the database name and database user, and then installs MySQL Server and creates the database schema for you. The version installed is the latest version available for your OS.
If you want the MySQL Server installed on a separate system, you must have already installed MySQL Server on that system before starting the Developer Channel Services installer. You must have installed MySQL 5.0.15 or later.
The Developer Channel Services installer requires that MySQL Server contains a database with an empty database schema. The Developer Channel Services installer prompts you for the database hostname, database name, and database user. The installer then connects to the database to create the default database tables and data.
The database user is used by Developer Channel Services to connect to the database, and must have the following privileges: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES.
For example, to create a database named devportal, and a user named devportal:
 1. Install MySQL Server on the system.
 2. Log into MySQL as root user by using the command:
 > mysql -u root -p
 3. Enter the root password when prompted.
 4. At the mysql> prompt, enter the following to create the devportal user:
 mysql>create user 'devportal'@'localhost' identified by 'devportal';
 mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'devportal'@'localhost';
 mysql> flush privileges;
 mysql> quit
 5. At the system prompt, create the devportal database:
 > mysqladmin -u devportal -p create devportal
 Enter the devportal password.
 6. Log in to MySQL and grant access to devportal from the IP of the portal server:
 mysql> GRANT ALL ON devportal.* TO devportal@'portalIP' IDENTIFIED BY 'devportalPW';
 where portalIP is the IP address of the portal server, and devportalPW is the password of the devportal user.
 7. Edit /etc/my.cnf to set bind-address to the IP address of the MySQL server.
 8. Restart MySQL:
 > /etc/init.d/mysqld restart
 9. Make sure port 3306 is open on the MySQL server. This procedure is based on your operating system. For example, for Linux, use the command:
When you install Developer Channel Services, specify not to install MySQL Server locally. You will then be prompted to enter the IP address, username, and database name of the remote database.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Requirements
RHEL has extra requirements due to a subscription needed to access software downloads from Red Hat. The server must be able to connect to the Internet to download RPMs via yum. If using RHEL, the server must be registered on the Red Hat Network (RHN) and registered to the server optional channel.
The Red Hat requirements are checked during the install and the portal installer prompts you if RHEL is not already registered. If you already have Red Hat login credentials, you can use the following command to register RHEL before beginning the installation process:
> subscription-manager register --username=my_username --password=my_password --auto-attach
Replace my_username and my_password with your Red Hat credentials.
If you have a trial version of RHEL, you can obtain a 30-day trial license. See for more information.
SMTP requirements
By default, the portal sends mail by using the PHP mail() function. PHP tries to send email using sendmail on the local system, which can be configured in PHP's php.ini file.
In a production environment, Apigee requires that you configure an SMTP server to send email messages from the portal. Therefore, you must ensure that the Drupal can access the necessary port on the SMTP server. For non-TLS SMTP, the port number is typically 25. For TLS-enabled SMTP, it is often 465, but check with your SMTP provider.
Additional Requirements
In order to perform the installation, the user installing the software must have root access.
Deployment Architecture Requirements
Developer Channel Services has a single interface with the Apigee Management Server via a REST API in order to store and retrieve information about a user's applications. Developer Channel Services will need to be able to connect to the Management Server via HTTP or HTTPS, depending on your installation.
Information Required Before You Start the Install
Before starting the install, you must have the following information available:
 1. Which platform are you configuring: Red Hat or CentOS? If this is a Red Hat install, the machine must be registered on the Red Hat Network to download RPMs.
 2. Do you plan on installing MySQL on the local machine? Some HA installations require MySQL to be on a different machine than the one serving the portal web pages. If this is the case, do not install MySQL locally. If you want a simple install with everything on the same machine, then install MySQL locally.
 3. If you intend to access a remote MySQL server, the hostname, port, database name, username, and password of the remote MySQL server. The remote MySQL server should already be configured before you start the installation.
 4. What is the fully-qualified domain name of the web server? (This information will be added to /etc/hosts.) This should be an IP address or hostname, such as The default value is localhost.
 5. Do you want to use Apigee's default configuration for Apache's virtual host? One virtual host is created with the hostname you've specified above in Step 7.
 6. There are three pieces of information that allow your portal to communicate with the Apigee Edge management server. This information is as follows:
 1. URL of the Apigee Management API Endpoint: This will be either a hostname or an IP address. This is the REST endpoint to which all calls are made to create apps and register developers for app keys. The default endpoint is
 For an Edge for Private Cloud installation, the URL is in the form:
 Where EdgeIp is the IP address of the Edge management server and SSLport is the SSL port for the Edge management API. For example, 8443.
 2. Apigee Organization name: There is a relationship between portals and Apigee Edge organizations. You will set up the default organization when you set up the Management API Endpoint. The default value is my-org.
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 This username/password is for an administrator on your organization and should be used only for connecting to Edge from the portal. For example, if you specify the credentials of a user, and that user is ever deleted on Edge, then the portal will no longer be able to connect to Edge. Therefore, create an administrator on your organization just for this connection.
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emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul in Christian baptism.
Origin: From the πάλιν.
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Palingenesis is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. Its meaning stems from Greek palin, meaning again, and genesis, meaning birth. In biology, it is another word for recapitulation - the phase in the development of an organism in which its form and structure pass through the changes undergone in the evolution of the species. In theology, the word can be used to refer to reincarnation and Christian spiritual rebirth symbolized by baptism.
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If you hear a flight attendant give a little sigh when you order a Diet Coke, you're about to learn why. According to a flight attendant on the flight blog These Golden Wings, Diet Coke takes the longest amount of time to pour. The author explains that high altitude makes carbonated drinks foam up more, and Diet Coke is the worst. The blog entry reads, "Pouring Diet Coke is one the biggest slow-downs in bar service and on shorter flights those precious seconds count!" A study by Illinois State University confirms that Diet Coke has higher levels of carbon dioxide than regular Coke, making it more fizzy, even on the ground.
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By Jocelyn Turner
Amherst Daily News
AMHERST – Red, white and blue with a bright yellow star will be donned today in honour of Acadian Day.
The Cumberland County Museum will be holding different exhibits in honour of Acadian history in Nova Scotia. One of the exhibits featured at the museum is about the dykes built by Acadians all around Cumberland County and Nova Scotia, some of the artifacts having been lent to the museum by Acadian history enthusiast Dana Rushton.
"There's a lot of French history here in Nova Scotia," said Rushton. "What the Acadians did in claiming the marsh land here was a new technology (here) that was used in Europe since the time of the Romans. How they applied it here, however, was unique with no government money to influence them. It was a community effort."
The dykes were built to keep the fields full of nutrients in order for them to farm. Rushton said taking the time to remember the role they played in building communities in the area is important.
"The face of the landscape today is, strictly in its essence, was originated from what the Acadians did when they dyked the land. Things have changed and the dykes today aren't the same dykes the Acadians made but the influence that they had. The system they created is still used today."
Diana Shaw said there will be other displays about Acadian history at the museum to coincide with the dyke exhibit.
"Because of the significance of Beaubassin in our area, that (dykes built by Acadians) should be something that we would recognize," she said. "We have this primary exhibit here for the dykes, but in our exhibit area we will have more information (about the Acadians) and we have pulled all of our early Acadian information to have it available for people who may want to come and do genealogy."
The Acadian exhibit will run for the rest of the month of August.


down on space usage, and allows you to essentially forget about the storage mechanism as you can simply request the content from the data store by UUID.
Epitome is currently experimental, but something to watch for the future.
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Generally you want to avoid having directories with a large number of files/directories in it. Primary reason is that wildcard expansion on the command line, will result in "Too many arguments" errors resulting in much pain when trying to work with these directories.
Go for a solution that makes a deeper but narrower tree, e.g. by creating subfolders like others have described.
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We had a similar problem, the solution - as mentioned previously - is to create a hierarchy of directories.
Of course if you have a complex application which relies on a flat directory structure, you'll probably need a lot of patching. So it's good to know that there is a workaround, use symlinks which doesn't have the mentioned 32k limit. Then you have plenty of time to fix the app...
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Why not use a timestamp approach, and then have an overflow option.
For Example
So lets say your timestamp is: _PHONE_
Omit the last 2 digits (or else it just gets slightly ridiculous). Separate the stamp into sets of 4 (the directory count shouldn't reach more than 9999 - if you want to you could separate it differently).
This should leave you with something like this:
Then also check the amount within the dir before uploading, if it's getting a large number of uploads (i.e. 32000 + per 100 secs), then iterate the directory by the second or a letter, for example:
Then log the timestamp + letter or the full path code into a db along with the user and you should be set.
pathstamp: _PHONE_ or 13665876a (if your using letters).
This does end up with a large number of directories, but it can be really useful for handling file revisions. For example, if a user wants to use a new profile picture, you still have the old timestamped version of the older one in-case they wish to undo the changes (its not just over-written).
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This is a hybrid cactus developed by Luther Burbank. It produces edible pads (nopales) and fruits (tunas). We send you a pad (cutting) from a mother cactus that will need to be rooted (or you can eat it). Place the bottom of the pad into a gallon-size pot of potting soil, moisten the soil lightly and don't water again until new growth is observed. Grows in USDA zones 8-10 and can eventually grow to 8-10 feet tall. Also is a suitable forage crop for livestock.
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thr_suspend(3T) immediately suspends the execution of the thread specified by target_thread. On successful return from thr_suspend(), the suspended thread is no longer executing.
Once a thread is suspended, subsequent calls to thr_suspend() have no effect. Signals cannot awaken the suspended thread; they remain pending until the thread resumes execution.
_TAG_ int thr_suspend(thread_t tid);
In the following synopsis,
pthread_t tid as defined in pthreads is the same as
thread_t tid in Solaris threads. tid values can be used interchangeably either by assignment or through the use of casts.
thread_t tid; /* tid from thr_create() */ /* pthreads equivalent of Solaris tid from thread created */ /* with pthread_create() */ pthread_t ptid; int ret; ret = thr_suspend(tid); /* using pthreads ID variable with a cast */ ret = thr_suspend((thread_t) ptid);
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In electric power system, disturbance detection has become an important part of grid operation and refers to the detection of a voltage and current excursion caused by the wide variety of electromagnetic phenomena. This paper proposes a computationally efficient and robust algorithm for synchronized measurement technology (SMT) supported online disturbance detection, suitable for AC and HVDC grids. The proposed algorithm is based on the robust median absolute deviation sample dispersion measure to locate dataset outliers. The algorithm is capable of identifying the disturbance occurrence and clearance measurement sample based on the dynamic criteria, driven by present power system conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by real-time simulations using a cyber-physical simulation platform, as a co-simulation between the SMT supported electric power system model and underlying ICT infrastructure. The presented results demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, making it suitable for an AC and HVDC online disturbance detection application or as a pre-step of backup protection schemes.
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Environment Variables
The behavior of the hwloc library and tools may be tuned thanks to the following environment variables.
enforces the discovery from the given XML file as if hwloc_topology_set_xml() had been called. This file may have been generated earlier with lstopo file.xml. For convenience, this backend provides empty binding hooks which just return success. To have hwloc still actually call OS-specific hooks, HWLOC_THISSYSTEM should be set 1 in the environment too, to assert that the loaded file is really the underlying system. See also Importing and exporting topologies from/to XML files.
enable verbose messages in the XML or synthetic topology backends. hwloc XML backends (see Importing and exporting topologies from/to XML files) can emit some error messages to the error output stream. Enabling these verbose messages within hwloc can be useful for understanding failures to parse input XML topologies. Similarly, enabling verbose messages in the synthetic topology backend can help understand why the description string is invalid.
switches to reading the topology from the specified Linux filesystem root instead of the main file-system root, as if hwloc_topology_set_fsroot() had been called. Not using the main file-system root causes hwloc_topology_is_thissystem() to return 0. For convenience, this backend provides empty binding hooks which just return success. To have hwloc still actually call OS-specific hooks, HWLOC_THISSYSTEM should be set 1 in the environment too, to assert that the loaded file is really the underlying system.
enforces the return value of hwloc_topology_is_thissystem(). It means that it makes hwloc assume that the selected backend provides the topology for the system on which we are running, even if it is not the OS-specific backend but the XML backend for instance. This means making the binding functions actually call the OS-specific system calls and really do binding, while the XML backend would otherwise provide empty hooks just returning success. This can be used for efficiency reasons to first detect the topology once, save it to an XML file, and quickly reload it later through the XML backend, but still having binding functions actually do bind.
enables or disables verbose reporting of errors. The hwloc library may issue warnings to the standard error stream when it detects a problem during topology discovery, for instance if the operating system (or user) gives contradictory topology information. Setting this environment variable to 1 removes the actual displaying of these error messages.
enables or disables objects grouping based on distances. By default, hwloc uses distance matrices between objects (either read from the OS or given by the user) to find groups of close objects. These groups are described by adding intermediate Group objects in the topology. Setting this environment variable to 0 will disable this grouping. This variable supersedes the obsolete HWLOC_IGNORE_DISTANCES variable.
relaxes distance comparison during grouping. By default, objects may be grouped if their distances form a minimal distance graph. When setting this variable to 0.02, these distances do not have to be strictly equal anymore, they may just be equal with a 2% error. If set to try instead of a numerical value, hwloc will try to group with perfect accuracy (0, the default), then with 0.01, 0.02, 0.05 and finally 0.1.
enables or disables some verbose messages during grouping. If this variable is set to 1, some debug messages will be displayed during distance-based grouping of objects even if debug was not specific at configure time. This is useful when trying to find an interesting distance grouping accuracy.
sets a distance matrix for objects of the given type and physical indexes. The type should be given as its case-sensitive stringified value (e.g. NUMANode, Socket, Cache, Core, PU). If another distance matrix already exists for the given type, either because the user specified it or because the OS offers it, it will be replaced by the given one.
If the variable value is none, the existing distance matrix for the given type is removed. Otherwise, the variable value first consists in a list of physical indexes that may be specified as a comma-separated list (e.g. 0,2,4,1,3,5) or as a range of consecutive indexes (0-5). It is followed by a colon and the corresponding distances:
 - If X*Y is given, X groups of Y close objects are specified.
 - If X*Y*Z is given, X groups of Y groups of Z close objects are specified.
 - Otherwise, the comma-separated list of distances should be given. If N objects are considered, the i*N+j-th value gives the distance from the i-th object to the j-th object.
Note that distances are ignored in multi-node topologies.
changes the locality of I/O devices behind the specified PCI hostbridge. If no I/O locality information is available or if the BIOS reports incorrect information, it is possible to move a I/O device tree (the entire set of objects behind a host bridge) near a custom set of processors. domain and bus are the PCI domain and primary bus of the corresponding host bridge.


I was reading about circuits on this link, where they use a tollbooth analogy to explain electricity. Now either this is a bad analogy or I am missing something, but let's consider a circuit that consist of one resistor in series, followed by 2 resistors in parallel. By adding resistor to the parallel part of the circuit, the overall current increases. Let's say the first resistor is a tollbooth, that passes through 1 car per second. Isn't that what determines the current in the whole circuit? The current is 1. Why does adding more tollbooths in parallel speed up the cars? I understand they could go faster, once they pass the first resistor. But why are they able to pass it faster?
To ask it another way, if you are able to eat 2 cookies per second, but I am only giving you one cookie, you can't eat 2 of them each second. Now it doesn't matter if suddenly you can eat 3 cookies per second, if I am able only to give you one.
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You are only considering a perfect current source. If the battery has internal resistance, you would not be able to have a higher current when putting resistors in parallel.
Now instead of looking it as a toll booth, look at resistors like a toll that lets only some percentage of cars through, while vaporising the rest. If you connect those tolls in series, each toll limits further the amounts of cars. If you connect them in parallel, they will let more cars through.
Eg. First booth lets 5 cars pass after reaching a queue of 10 cars. Second booth lets 1 car pass after reaching a queue of 10 cars.
The total throughput would be 1 car per 20 cars.
Now if you add a booth in parallel of the second booth, and it also lets 1 car pass after reaching a queue of 10 cars, and since the queues are shared between both booths, you will get 2 cars per 20 cars as throughput.
So step by step:
 - 10 cars come to the first booth.
 5 cars go through, they queue behind the two parallel booths. the 5 other are vaporised
 - 10 other cars come to the first booth.
 again, 5 cars go through.
 - Now each parallel booth lets one cars go through, and vaporises the 8 others.
 2 cars come out.
You have a throughput of 2 cars per 20 car.
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New Project Proposals
Twice each year the Committee on Scope and Program of the Uniform Law Commission ("ULC") solicits proposals for new study and drafting projects. While many of our project proposals come from uniform law commissioners, we also encourage outside groups and individuals to submit proposals. The following guidelines are derived from the ULC's "Statement of Policy Establishing Criteria and Procedures for Designation and Consideration of Uniform and Model Acts" and are intended to assist those submitting proposals to better anticipate the kinds of questions that typically arise when the Committee on Scope and Program is considering a proposed new project. To the extent possible, in addition to submitting a description of the proposed project, address the following questions:
Is uniformity of state law for the proposed subject matter desirable and realistic?
While not every ULC act is uniformly adopted verbatim by all states of the United States (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands), we do focus on acts that (directly or indirectly) will promote uniformity among the states in their respective subject matter areas. The ULC generally avoids subjects that are of purely local concern or which are unlikely to be widely enacted because of political differences among the states.
Please address whether widespread enactment of the proposal would produce significant benefits to the public. Acts that reduce uncertainty or compliance costs because the law is made uniform among the states or which respond to a need common to a number of states generally produce such results. Legislation drafted by the ULC avoids the need for each state to develop its own solution. Consider whether the proposed project will:
(a) Facilitate the flow of commercial and other transactions across state lines?
(b) Reduce or eliminate conflicts of law arising when the law of more than one state might apply?
(c) Fill an emergent need, modernize an antiquated concept, or codify the common law?
What have the states already done with regard to this subject?
Information about existing state statutes and ongoing trends is very helpful. Conversely, the ULC tends to avoid subjects that are entirely novel in character.
Does the proposed project require changes in federal laws or regulations?
This is an important question because the ULC works exclusively in subject matter areas that are appropriate for state legislation.
What organizations or interest groups are likely to have an interest in the subject matter of the proposed project and are they likely to support or oppose a uniform or model act in this area?
The ULC strives to produce balanced, enactable legislation. Therefore, it is important to identify the appropriate stakeholders and assess whether they are willing to participate in the development of a proposed project.
Are there resources available to support the development of the proposed project?
The development of a uniform or model act generally requires a minimum of one year of study and two years of drafting meetings. The identification of an existing source of expertise with regard to a particular subject and/or the availability of outcome-neutral financial support (from a government or foundation source) is helpful information.
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The Surface Inspector and the Texture Browser are the tools you will be using when texuring your maps. To use the Texture Browser, simply press T. To bring up the Surface Inspector for a surface, select a brush or surface and press S.
With the controls above you can either Fit a texture to fit on a brush, or use Axial to apply it 1:1.
The buttons on top row are used for brushes, the ones on the bottom row for patches. Use the CAP button for endcaps.
Here you can change how the texture is aligned on the brush or surface selected. You can shift (scroll) the texture, stretch (zoom) it, or simply rotate it. The value in the Step boxes control how much each value is incremented as the little arrow buttons are pressed.
This is the Folder List. Here you see all found texture folders listed, double-click a folder name and you will be able to see the contents of the folder to the right.
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After reviewing my last posting, I realized that although I covered the specifics of style definitions and nVision, I missed a critical set of information. You see, there are limitations in Excel as well as nVision that can easily be worked around if you understand the following:
The posting and formatting process nVision follows
Because nVision uses excel for storing results and for formatting, a basic understanding of the steps that are followed, and excel behavior will give you some insight as to the hooks available for formatting outside of the nVision stylesheet functionality discussed in the previous posting.
So, in a nutshell, here are the steps followed in nVision in running a report once it has retrieved the data to be included:
Step 1: Insert rows or columns in the worksheet
It inserts the appropriate number of rows or columns for the results of the nPlosion. When it does this, it calls the excel function to do this. This is important to know, because the standard excel behavior for an insert occurs. You may be thinking "yea… so…?"
So… This means you can leverage some of the cool things that excel does on an insert with respect to data ranges and formatting:
- If you insert a row or column in the middle of a range (either a named range, or a range that is used in a formula, chart, etc), the references in the range are automatically updated. This means that you can bind a chart to nPloded data without having to write a macro!
- If you insert a row or column in the middle of two cells that have the same formatting, the new cell in the new row or column is given the formatting as those around it. This means that if you apply conditional formatting to a cell in the row or column with the nPlosion specified as well as the one above it, all nPloded rows or columns will also have the conditional formatting applied (even though styles in Excel don't support conditional formatting).
In other words, by paying attention to where nVision inserts rows or columns, you have additional control over the behavior of the results.
Step 2: Paste the data into the worksheet
This is done using some bulk APIs available in excel. Because it only pastes the values (and formulas for formula nPlosion), it does not override the formatting.
Step 3: Apply the styles
I'm not sure whether this is done prior to pasting the data, but it actually doesn't matter because the paste data step doesn't affect the formatting of it. The important point is that the default behavior of excel for inserting a row is applied prior to the step of applying the appropriate nVision styles.
One additional point is that excel styles are not all or nothing from a formatting perspective. In other words, you can define a style to only include the cell color and nothing else. This gives you a lot of flexibility, and also allows you to retain formatting in the original layout as needed. Because of this, you can think of the formatting as being applied in layers (where you can override part of what comes from a lower layter).
Putting this into practice
Although there are a couple of examples above as to how to put it into practice, I believe the following example does a pretty good job of putting it all together.
Imagine that you have a report that shows payroll costs, FTEs, and Percent over/under budget as three different colums. It nPlodes the total amount for a general manager into the department detail. Notice that the number formatting for each column should be different: currency for column 1, a number with no decimals for column 2, and percentage for column 3.
Because the nVision stylesheets do not support multiple amount styles for row nPlosion, the number formatting needs to come from the report layout, where the columns are created. Therefore, the report developer would need to do the following:
- Apply the number formatting for the different columns as needed in the nVision layout(one for dollars, one for percentage, etc.)
- Modify the amount styles (the ones that end in "A") to exclude number formatting. You may want to save off a new stylesheet workbook for use in this type of report in the future.
- When you run the reports, the number formatting won't be applied from the styles, while the other formatting, such as font size, border, and pattern will be applied.
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Climate Lit is a hub for building young people's climate literacy with literature, film, and stories in other media. The website offers a literature database, curricula, and a climate glossary all of which are focusing on increasing students' climate literacy.
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Latinized name of Gabriello Fallopio (_PHONE_) was an Italian anatomist who discovered the Fallopian tubes, which in mammals carry eggs from the ovary to the uterus.
He studied the anatomy of the brain, eyes, and reproductive organs, and gave the first accurate description of the inner ear.
Fallopius studied at Padua under Andreas Vesalius, and later taught there and at Ferrara and Pisa.
Why is Gabriele Falloppio famous?
Gabriele Falloppio was one of the most famous anatomists of the 16th century.
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Uplifting music 'boosts alertness': study
- From: AAP
- March 19, 2013
UPLIFTING music can boost mental alertness and concentration, according to British researchers who studied the effect of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
A group of 14 young volunteers listened to the concertos while performing a challenging mental task.
At the same time, scientists measured the electrical activity of their brains.
Results showed that participants carried out the task faster and more accurately while listening to the uplifting strains of the Spring concerto.
They slowed down during the more sombre Autumn passage.
"The Spring movement enhanced overall activity within the brain but had an exaggerated effect on the area of the brain that's important for emotional processing," said psychologist Dr Leigh Riby, from the University of Northumbria.
"It seemed to give rise to particular imagery in the brain and evoke positive, contented feelings which translated into higher levels of cognitive functioning."
The task involved pressing the space bar on a computer keyboard whenever a green square appeared on the screen. Different coloured circles and squares that appeared intermittently had to be ignored.
When tested in silence, the volunteers' average response time was 408.1 milliseconds.
This fell to 393.8 milliseconds during the Spring concerto, compared with 413.3 milliseconds during the Autumn concerto.
The findings are published in the journal Experimental Psychology.
Riby pointed out that the Spring movement had been successfully used in marketing to alter mood and influence behaviour.
"The current study provides evidence that there is an indirect effect of music on cognition that is created by mood, alertness and emotion," Riby said.
"This experiment shows that cognitive capacity is enhanced when pleasant and arousing stimuli are introduced."
Both pieces were written in major keys, suggesting that major or minor key type makes no difference to the impact of music on mental performance.
Music based on a minor key is often associated with sadness, yet the more downbeat Autumn concerto in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is written in a major key.


The Narcissist's Flying Monkeys
Traits and Characteristics of Flying Monkeys
FLYING MONKEYS ARE ENABLERS who act on behalf of narcissists. They are usually friends and relatives who serve as surrogates, emissaries, fixers and drones in the narcissist's network. Moreover, they make it possible for narcissists to carry out their campaigns of abuse by proxy.
A person may rationalize playing the flying monkey role for a variety of reasons. Here are some examples:
 - Necessity – They may feel beholden to the narcissist because they are a relative or friend.
 - Acceptance – They may long for attention and validation from the narcissist.
 - Avarice – They may benefit from enabling the narcissist.
 - Schadenfreude – Some people genuinely enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on others.
 - Manipulation – They may be empathic people with poor boundaries who buy into the narcissist's schemes and mischief-making.
Flying monkeys and the cycle of narcissistic abuse
Flying monkeys are usually active in every stage of the cycle of narcissistic abuse:
 1. Idealization
 2. Devaluation
 3. Discard
 4. Hoover
The Cycle of Narcissistic Abuse
In the idealization or love bombing phase, flying monkeys may be used to provide social proof for the narcissist. At this stage, it's their job to convince the target that the narcissist's false self is real.
Flying monkeys help the narcissist accomplish this by vouching for them and helping them appear to be believable, trustworthy and stable. Flying monkeys also provide false verification for the scapegoat stories/smear campaigns the narcissist has crafted to discredit their previous victims.
During the devaluation phase of narcissistic abuse, the behavior of flying monkeys is similar to canned laughter on a sit-com. In other words, the flying monkeys encourage and echo the abuser's negative sentiments about the person the narcissist is denigrating.
They also cover for the narcissist while they are grooming a new source of attention and adulation i.e. narcissistic supply.
In the discard phase flying monkeys enable the narcissist to control the narrative and escape accountability. Once again, this is done by providing the narcissist with social proof of their scapegoat story/smear campaign which is now directed at their current target.
Flying monkeys provide a narcissist with an alibi for whatever narrative they invent about themselves or the people they target.
They enable the narcissist to use a gaslighting tactics like DARVO against the target. DARVO is an acronym for:
 - Deny the abuse took place.
 - Attack the individual confronting the abuse.
 - Reverse the roles of
 - Victim and
 - Offender
The final stage of the cycle of narcissistic abuse is the hoover maneuver. In this stage the flying monkeys enable the narcissist to hook the target and reel them back into the relationship so the cycle of narcissistic abuse can begin again.
This may be done by carrying messages from the narcissist to the target. For example, flying monkeys often surface when the recipient of abuse has ended contact with the narcissist. The flying monkey may befriend the target to extract information about them for the narcissist.
Alternatively, malevolent flying monkeys may slander, harass, stalk and assassinate the character of the target to such an extent that the recipient of the abuse may feel that the only way to put an end to their torment is to resume contact with the narcissist and plead with them to make it stop.
Types of flying monkeys
Narcissists assign different kinds of flying monkey roles to people depending on the individual's motives.
There are two main subgroups of flying monkeys: benevolent and malevolent.
Benevolent Flying Monkeys
Benevolent Flying Monkeys have four main characteristics.
 - The harm they inflict is largely unintentional.
 - They are susceptible to manipulation.
 - They have poor boundaries.
 - They are people pleasers.
Benevolent Flying Monkeys | Narcissistic Abuse
As people pleasers, it is easy for narcissists and psychopaths to manipulate benevolent flying monkeys into doing their bidding. All they have to do is appeal to their empathy and/or fear.
The benevolent flying monkey turns a blind eye to the narcissist's history of odious behavior. They justify this action with self-deception and put their trust in platitudes like everyone makes mistakeseveryone deserves a second chancethey'll grow out of it someday, and love conquers all.
Benevolent flying monkeys are likely to be triangulated because have a desire to be seen as heroic. They are blind to the true nature of their role as flying monkey. Instead, they view themselves as the peacemaker, the rescuer or savior.
The Meddler | Benevolent Flying Monkey | Narcissistic Abuse Rehab
The Meddler is usually someone seeking the thrill of the rescuer role. They are usually reacting to the theatrics of a narcissist. To cast someone in the role of Meddler, a narcissist may go to them and claim that their target has abused them. Because Meddlers lack boundaries, narcissists can easily overwhelm them by pouring out a never-ending litany of woe peppered with threats of self-destruction.
Meddlers are often in awe of narcissists and find their endless drama titillating. However sometimes exhausted Meddlers interfere in an attempt to stop the narcissist's whinging.
The Empath | Flying Monkeys | Narcissistic Abuse
The Empath can also be triangulated by a narcissist. An unseasoned empath is easily be seduced by the narcissist's manipulation tactics, especially pity plays and love bombing
Highly empathic people often have a blind spot for the scheming nature of a narcissist as they are unable to conceive that anyone would deliberately conjure up the mischief and mayhem that narcissists revel in.
Narcissists corrupt empathic people by mirroring their good-natured persona back at them. Thus, empathic people identify and bond with narcissist's false persona. Seeing their reflection in the narcissist, the unseasoned empath extends trust but fails to verify the facts. In other words, they do not do their due diligence and dismiss the other person's side of the story.
When a narcissist is mirroring an empathic person, their empathy can be weaponized. The Empath believes, "this person is similar to me, therefore I will treat them the way I would like to be treated, I will give them the kind of support I would like to have if I were in their shoes."
To live a life free from manipulation and enabling toxic people, Dr. Paul Bloom's proposes rational compassion as opposed to unbridled empathy.
Empathy is a disaster in this complicated and interesting world. It has several problems. It is biased. We feel more empathy toward people who look like us, who share our skin color or our ethnicity; who are attractive rather than ugly; who are close rather than far. It's innumerate. We feel empathy for the one but not for the hundred. Thirdly it can be weaponized.
Paul Bloom, Yale University.
Dr. Bloom points out that empathy can be biased whereas compassion is just.
Coward | Flying Monkey | What is an enabler of narcissistic abuse?
The Coward is recruited to do the narcissists bidding because they feel intimidated and afraid of the narcissist. The Coward may feel that they stand to lose some advantage by failing to keep the narcissist happy. Their self-interest readily overrides their conscience.
In many instances, the coward relies on the narcissist in some way i.e. they may be employed by the narcissist or they may wish to access privilege through their connection to the narcissist.
Malevolent flying monkeys
Malevolent flying monkeys share several common characteristics, as well.
 - The harm they inflict is intentional.
 - They take genuine pleasure in destroying other people.
 - They have are amoral.
 - They are highly anti-social.
Malevolent Flying Monkeys | Narcissistic Abuse Rehab
Malevolent flying monkeys are divided into three common classes: the Scandalmonger (Sadist), the Narcissist, and the Psychopath.
How do flying monkeys enable narcissists?
The Scandalmonger is always up for the sadistic power trip of destroying another person. They are recruited into the narcissist's triangulation efforts because they relish the thrill and brutality of scapegoating.
Scandalmongering is antisocial behavior and it is done without conscience. This type is callously treacherous. Often they make a pretense of sympathy and solidarity with the target in the aftermath of the devaluation or discard stage of narcissistic abuse.
Their aim is to weaponize the trust of the target. Anything the target confides in them will immediately be conveyed to the narcissist and used to inflict greater harm to the target.
If the scandalmonger believes that the narcissist has a high enough status, they don't bother pretenses and go straight for the target's jugular by gleefully participating in the narcissist's smear campaign and assassinating the target's character.
In both instances, scandalmongers are uninterested in the target's point of view because their goal is to silence them. Scandalmongers don't care about what is right or what is fair. They are happy to shoot first and ask questions later – if at all.
Scandalmongers experience a profound Schadenfreude at being able to participate in the destruction of another person.
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text: The production potential of three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), AM-1004 (Glomus intraradices), AM-1209 (mixed indigenous AMF) and AM-1207 (Mycorise, commercial inocula), were examined separately in three fractions/forms (root-based, soil-based and mixture of roots + soil) at 40, 60, 80 and 105 days in raised beds. The beds were amended with organic matter to develop regression equations for predicting optimal AM production vis-à-vis time required for particular inocula using infectious propagules (IP) as the independent variable. The IP production observed in the system was found to vary among the different inocula used. AM-1004 and AM-1207 produced significantly higher propagule counts in root or soil-based samples and a mixture of both at 105 days as compared to AM-1209. Based on two-way ANOVA, irrespective of time, AM-1004 (root/soil-based) produced a significantly larger number of propagules, whereas propagules in the crude inoculum (roots + soil) of all three inocula were not significantly different. On the other hand, irrespective of AMF, significantly more propagules (in all forms) were observed at 105 days. Similarly, irrespective of time, AM-1004 produced significantly higher root colonization (MCP, mycorrhizal colonization percentage) in all three forms (roots: 65.95%; soil: 24.32; soil + roots: 58.03%). The MCP in roots was increased significantly with time of multiplication. However, there was not much improvement in the MCP of soil or in soil + roots fractions beyond 80 days. Further, prediction of the number of IP for the three AM inocula was mathematically derived separately from the Mitscherlish-Bray equation (Y = a – b*exp (–cD). Based on the maximum yield of propagules of the three inocula observed and fitted into equations, root-based AM-1004 and AM-1209 inocula were found to be more efficient in producing propagules in 65 days as compared to AM-1207, which produced propagules in 76 days. While comparing the overall combinations, AM-1004 and AM-1209 inocula used either as roots, soil or a mixture of both and have greater potential in producing more propagules in the shortest span of time. While taking into account the predicted values of AM-1209 crude inoculum, about 12 IP g−1 substrate can be achieved in 72 days. Therefore, if a farmer uses crude inocula (having zero time IP of about 0.8/g substrate) of AM 1209, a total production of about 12.12 million IP/m3 can be achieved in 72 days. These can be used for on-farm production.


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A MISSING piece will be added to Museum Victoria's extensive collection of more than 35,000 specimens when the first full humpback whale skeleton arrives in Carlton on Thursday.
The 13-metre skeleton, weighing a hefty 3.5 tonnes, has spent the past year buried in sand on a section of Gippsland's Ninety Mile Beach Beach between Woodside and Seaspray.
The adolescent male, which would have weighed about 30 tonnes, washed up last September and died soon after beaching itself.
While humpback whales are not a rare species, they have remained a missing piece of the museum's collection because undamaged specimens can be hard to reach.
''For a whale of this size to wash up on a beach with such good access is a real bonus,'' said Museum Victoria manager of preparations Peter Swinkels.
It took two days last year to strip the carcass back to a skeleton and break it up into manageable sections. Museum staff were able to remove 90 per cent of the meat and blubber. Internal organs were also removed and tissue and barnacle samples taken for the museum's molecular laboratory.
But there's only so much that can be removed manually. The rest was left to nature, with researchers burying the bones in sand so bacteria and other sea life could get to work.
The unusual cargo will arrive in Melbourne by truck. Before joining the collection it must be soaked in hot water, air dried and frozen to kill any bugs before being reassembled and going on display by mid-next year.
''The marine mammal collection has 1500 specimens, which makes it one of the largest in the southern hemisphere if not the world,'' said senior curator of mammals Kevin Rowe.
Whaling ceased on Australia's east coast in the 1960s, by which time the number of humpback whales had fallen to about 100. The population revived and there are now more than 8000 passing through Australian waters to breed.


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Faspex supports the use of alternate addresses to its web interface, such as when you need one address for your network's internal users and another address for external users. Public URLs allow users without a Faspex account to submit to a Faspex dropbox or send a Faspex user a package.
When you have multiple addresses configured, you may find that public URLs are using the wrong address, such as the internal address instead of the external address.
This is not a bug because the way public URLs are displayed on the Faspex interface depends on which server address you are currently using. If you are logged onto Faspex's internal address, your public URLs will use the internal address. If you are logged onto Faspex's external address, your public URLs will use the external address. Both addresses work in the public URLs.
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faspex.myCompany.com and your internal address is 10.0.45.103, you can simply replace the internal address with the external address in the public URL.
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April 26, 2006
Police break up anti-nuclear Red Square protest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police on Wednesday dragged away
activists protesting on Red Square against atomic power on the
20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Thirteen young protesters from Greenpeace chained
themselves to railings around St Basil's Cathedral, a central
Moscow landmark famous for its multicoloured onion domes,
before plain clothes agents told them to move on.
Unsanctioned protests are forbidden on Red Square, which
was a favorite gathering place for Soviet dissidents. The
leather-jacketed agents and uniformed Kremlin guards used bolt
cutters to unchain the activists, whom they dragged away.
The 13 activists were wearing yellow t-shirts with
individual letters that, when taken together, spelled out "No
to Chernobyls" in a reflection of green groups' opposition to
world plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors.
Russia is planning 40 more reactors, and is still using 11
reactors of the type used at Chernobyl, which was the world's
worst civilian nuclear disaster, spewing radiation across
The agents also led away photographers and cameramen
filming the protest. "They said they were not detaining us,
just taking us away for a conversation," one photographer said.
The main events marking the anniversary of the disaster are
taking place in Ukraine -- home to the remains of the power
station's fourth reactor which contaminated swathes of
territory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Concerns over soaring global energy needs and security of
fossil fuel supply have put nuclear power back at the heart of
the global energy debate despite the risk of Chernobyl-like
disasters and the nuclear waste that humanity will bequeath to
future generations.
Both Russia and the United States have called on fellow
industrialized powers to embrace nuclear energy to guarantee
stable supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions.


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I'm working on a website that uses two columns inside a container. The container has a white background that should stretch to the bottom of whichever column is highest, so I'm using the holy grail method for that.
However, both columns should positioned so that a part of it exceeds the white background (this example uses a fixed height, which should be fluid). As far as I know, this can only be done by setting the overflow to visible but this break the equal height of the columns.
How do I fix this with as little additional elements as possible?


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It took just 2 hours for this giant dust storm to cover the city of Phoenix, Arizona, last Tuesday. The huge wall of dust affected the entire metropolitan area - home to more than 4 million people - depositing thick layers of dust and reducing visibility to zero in many areas.
Photographer Mike Olbinski captured the once-in-a-lifetime storm's progress in this time-lapse film. "I've lived in Phoenix for 35 years and seen tons of dust storms. This was something else entirely," he says.
Local meteorologists agree. While dust storms are common in the Sonoran Desert, where Phoenix is situated, this one reached extraordinary proportions. According to Phoenix's National Weather Forecast Office, the cloud reached a maximum height of 1500 to 1800 metres, with its leading edge spanning 160 kilometres and spilling forwards at 64 kilometres per hour.
The dust cloud was triggered by thunderstorms on nearby high ground, which blew fast-travelling gusts of wind towards Phoenix. These gusts, aided further by gravity, accumulated dust from the desert and arid farmland on their way to the city. The effect is thought to have been especially severe because of prolonged drought: the area has had less than half the expected amount of rain since the end of last summer.


by Emily Dickson Collaborator
What's My Horse's Age in Human Years?
What's My Horse's Age in Human Years?
*Hint: It's more than a horse teeth age chart*
There's a lot of information out there about your dog's age in human years. Science has determined that it's a little more complicated than the common knowledge of multiplying by 7
Turns out, it's a little more complicated when it comes to calculating your horse's "human age" too.
Obviously, horses and humans mature at different rates. For example, a newborn foal should stand up and walk within 3 hours of being born, in comparison to human babies, which only begin walking at about 1 year of age!
How do you calculate a horse's age in human years?
There's not just one chart or age calculator to answer this question, as each horse is an individual, so it's important to not take this too seriously!
Even so, one estimate that equine veterinarians have come up with for determining a horse's age in human years is this (1):
 - 6.5 human years for each horse year from birth to age 4
 - 2.5 human years for each horse year starting at age 4
Let's say your horse is 15 years old.
6.5 x 3 years = 19.5 human years
2.5 x 12 years = 30 human years
Your 15-year-old horse is 49.5 in human years! Time to start planning that big milestone birthday party...
Average Age of a Horse
The average lifespan of a domestic horse is between 25 and 33 years. Different factors play into this, including nutrition, management, breed, size, etc.
Smaller horse breeds (like ponies) typically mature faster and have a reputation for living longer, sometimes into their 40s (in horse years!), while larger breeds (like Warmbloods) typically require more time for maturation and development.
At what age is a horse considered a senior?
Some experts make the cut-off at 20 years old, however, many equine nutritionists consider older horses "senior" when they have trouble maintaining body condition on their normal diet of hay and grain. This usually happens due to dental issues (horses having a hard time chewing hay as they age).
Senior horse feeds are typically complete feeds, meaning that they contain forage, and are designed to be fed as a stand-alone diet, without hay.
If your horse is still able to chew well, eat hay, and maintain their body condition, don't worry about the "cut-off" age. Your horse's age is just a number after all. Keeping the horse on a diet that is closest to nature for as long as possible is the best way to maintain quality of life.
Healthy as a Horse: Extending the Number of Horse Years
It's not just about calculating horse age in human years or the lifespan of a horse; it's about extending the life in your horse's years! So how can you promote healthy horse aging?
 1. Feed your horse at an optimal rate at every stage, according to their exercise level, phase of development, and weight. Overfeeding can lead to developmental diseases in young horses that affect the horse's performance for their entire lives and can have negative consequences such as laminitis, insulin resistance, and potentially colic, as the horse ages.
 1. Regular equine management practices. Prioritize annual preventive measures, including vaccinations, dental care, and regular deworming, which all play a major role in your horse's longevity. And don't forget that keeping your horse on a consistent farrier schedule is critical for hoof and joint health.
 1. Protect the gut microbiome. Many horses' lives are cut short due to digestive problems, which can happen at any age. We've all heard the horror stories. One of the best preventive care measures you can take as a loving horse owner is to feed your horse a high quality equine probiotic supplement.
Your horse's age in human years is less important than their quality of life. Before you pull out the teeth aging chart or horse age calculator, follow these steps and they'll be aging backwards in human years before you know it!
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Monkey dish is a small shallow kind of dish which can be used to serve cole slaw or applesauce. The main aim of this dish is to separate the cold or watery dishes from the main course. The dish is quite big and is around 4 1/8 inches in diameter and has the capacity to hold 3.5ounces.
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in what paragraph does Irving specify the time period in which the action of "Rip Van Winkle" is set? How does he link the time setting to the major theme of the story "petticoat government"?
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Page 34, 1st Paragraph
This portion of the book finds the characters living after the Revolutionary Warthis links the two time periods of the story by 1) referring to the fight and break between America and the yolk of England, and 2) the yolk of petticoats which Van Winkle sees as the yolk of matrimony.