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If your office caught on fire right now, how would you get out? We laugh at the prospect, but many of us don't even move at the first fire alarm. But if you were caught in a fire, would you trust a robot to lead you to safety?
New research out of Georgia Tech suggests that in emergency situations, people will not only put their lives into artificially intelligent hands, but they will continue to trust so-called "Emergency Guide Robots" even when they have been proven wrong, or deemed disabled.
This wasn't the case in every scenario. Under normal conditions, some of Georgia Tech's volunteers didn't trust the already unreliable robots. However, in a time sensitive, emergency situation, the robots became an authority figure of sorts, and most volunteers followed their directives.
The researchers did have most subjects convinced that the walls around them were burning to the ground, but it's disturbing to think that each person defaulted to the robot's bright, flashing arms even if it had, moments before, lead them to several dead ends or been deemed disabled.
The research is part of a long-term study that looks at how humans trust robots, which is particularly important as robots play a larger role in society.
At first, the study just wanted to see if these robots would be useful in emergency situations. These new findings have researchers reconsidering their scope; and questioning how we can prevent humans from trusting robots too much.


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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
A hippie who wore flowers as symbols of peace and love.'former flower children who try to relive their '60s drug-induced fantasies'
- 'Many of these young adults are the sons and daughters of the hippies, children of the flower children.'
- 'The field was filled with every race of persons found on the planet, flower children, hippies, and people there just there for the music.'
- 'Think back to the late 1960s to early 1970s era of flower children or hippies.'
- 'Hippies and flower children were reluctantly approaching middle age, and the whole hippie culture was fading into history.'
- 'It gave flower children and hippies the courage to live differently.'
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We Meet a Naples Woman Who Has Spent Decades Raising Awareness About the Holocaust
It's been 76 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland by Soviet soldiers. It's estimated that between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, died in the camp. In the decades since there have been ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the atrocities committed by Germany during the war, including the creation of memorials and museums around the United States.
On today's show we're marking Holocaust Awareness Week by meeting a Naples woman who has spent more than four decades as an advocate for awareness and education. Both of Felicia Anchor's parents were holocaust survivors, and she was born shortly after the war, one of 2,000 babies born from the end of the war until the displaced persons camp her parents were living in closed.
She and her husband Kenneth are chairing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2021 'What You Do Matters' Southeast Virtual Event on February 11, which seeks to inspire people to remember the lessons of the Holocaust and to help combat modern-day antisemitism and hatred. Mrs. Anchor played a key role in financially supporting the Naples Holocaust Museum, working with a community of survivors and docents to expand the initial exhibit into a museum that now serves six counties.


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Why Seek Initiation
In answer to the question, "Please could you talk to us about why a person should seek Initiation and follow a Spiritual Path, and how does it help a person on death?" When someone gets Initiated, immediately it sets up a potential link with the Higher Planes. How much a person works with the Energies of Light and Sound, will… Read more →
Light and Sound Meditation
Light and sound energies are mentioned in countless numbers of books and spoken about by many meditation groups. However, there are many different types of these energies which fall into 3 main categories: physical, imagined and Spiritual. We want to make it absolutely clear that the Energies we speak of have nothing to do with the lower levels which are… Read more →


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- Suitable for children aged 4 - 12 years old.
- Lets sound in but keeps water out.
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50 degrees south and discover
its hidden secrets
The story of Campbell Island is also the story of the Island's human history from historical accounts and historic sites. We aim to search for evidence of pre-European contact; review existing sources of Campbell Island history, search for new historic sites and assess their status and future management requirements; document the history, scale, and impact of historic sealing and whaling.
No one is sure when the outlying islands of the New Zealand region were first occupied by people. Research has found up to 650 year old settlement sites of Maori origin on some other Subantarctic Island. Was Campbell Island also discovered much earlier than 1810? Archaeological investigation of coastal locations and rock shelters suited to human habitation may provide the answer and shed light on the limits of Polynesian voyaging.
The stories of sealers, whalers and farmers tell us of a turbulent and hard life that was carved out on the stormy shores of Campbell Island. For the first time ever in the history of Campbell Island this expedition will provide a qualified assessment of historic site importance – an urgent task now that scrub regrowth is overwhelming many sites.
A search for the location and remains of sealing camps can tell the history of sealing on this island and bring to life the sense of hardship and remoteness that will have been the lot for sealers in this wild and windy place.
Whaling stations at North West Bay and North East Harbour were the last shore whaling operations in New Zealand waters. The field archaeology of these stations will be examined to describe the period of change between historical 19th century technology and 20th
Century factory operations, and also unique whaling methods that were used at this unusually remote and southerly location.


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The University of California at San Diego Energy Dashboard allows users to see up-to-the-second information on a structure-by-structure basis for 60 of the largest buildings on the La Jolla, California, campus. The data is provided by UC San Diego Physical Plant Services from over 200 energy meters providing energy usage at the building level. The portal also features information coming from roughly 40 individual power meters that measure energy consumption in the office, e.g., a computer and monitor drawing power from a single socket. A denser deployment of meters, which would measure and display individuals' energy use, is currently under planning and development.
The Energy Dashboard grew out of a simple premise. "If you cannot measure energy use, you will not be able to make much headway in reducing your energy footprint," said Yuvraj Agarwal, a Research Scientist in the Jacobs School of Engineering's Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department.
"Energy models of buildings are decades old, and nobody was looking to see if those were still valid," added Agarwal, principal architect of the dashboard. "People tend to think that by shutting off the lights in an office, they've done their part for the environment. In fact, our measurements indicate that personal computers can account for almost 25 percent of energy consumption of a building, and most of the time, these PCs are turned on but are not actually in use. If you also include servers and data centers, the contribution of so-called IT equipment can be a staggering 50 percent of total baseline energy use, because a lot of the energy is used during nights and weekends when utilization for these PCs and servers tends to be very low."
The tools available on the Energy Dashboard include real-time power measurement of the entire UCSD campus; energy consumption for each building; and power usage of individual devices such as PCs and servers that are plugged into electrical sockets in some CSE offices. The campus meters are all viewable by the public, but access to the individual meters is currently restricted to the owner of that meter (for privacy reasons).
The Web portal provides statistics updated at least once every minute on total power consumption, power generation, imports from San Diego Gas & Electric, and a comparison between power usage and production. (UC San Diego produces about 82 percent of its annual energy load using 1.2 megawatts of electricity from photovoltaic panels and a 30-megawatt natural gas-fired co-generation plant.) To locate energy-use data on each building, visitors to the Energy Dashboard can select the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, or any of the university's six undergraduate colleges.
The new portal grew out of research that took advantage of the CSE building's green features, including four building sub-meters and 16 individual circuit meters installed over the last year. Working with his Ph.D. advisor at that time, Jacobs School of Engineering computer science and engineering professor Rajesh Gupta, Agarwal sifted through the data from the mixed-use CSE building and three others that are typically found on a research university campus: a residence hall, a data center, and a research building with energy-intensive clean rooms for nanofabrication—the Atkinson Hall headquarters of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
The researchers were able to identify where peaks in energy consumption came from and the primary components of baseline energy use " including IT's large energy drain even when computers were not in use (e.g., at night or on weekends when the computers are often left on, just in case the user ever wants to connect in remotely or they are running a background application that requires the machine to be powered on).
"Buildings with a large IT footprint can therefore reduce consumption significantly by decreasing their base energy load," concluded Agarwal. "Our ability to look at energy use in fine detail gave us greater insight about how to reduce power consumption significantly in these campus buildings. To do that, you have to create effectively duty-cycled buildings."
Duty-cycling refers to the fraction of time that a computer or telecommunications system is in an "active" state as compared to a low-power "sleep" or an "off" state. The challenge with duty-cycling is lack of availability. To achieve availability even when the system is sleeping, Agarwal effectively created a hybrid active-passive state for power-managed systems. In the case of a building, says Agarwal, computing systems that are not in use could revert to a hybrid active-passive state,' using only one to two percent of their normal power usage, while' still allowing these computer to perform very basic functions and know how to seamlessly wake up whenever needed.
"You want machines that can effectively talk in their sleep and thus stay connected," said Agarwal, only half-jokingly. "If every PC and server could revert to a'sleep-talking' state, the IT equipment would also generate much less heat, and that would translate into further savings on air conditioning and climate-control systems. We estimate that the CSE building energy use could be cut in half."
With support from the campus, CSE and Calit2, Agarwal and his colleagues in the Microelectronic Embedded Systems Laboratory are working to prove that estimate by enabling this "hybrid sleep" option for desktop PCs and servers across the CSE department as a pilot deployment. To enable this functionality, a few participants in the study are using Somniloquy, a dedicated USB hardware dongle that was previously developed by Agarwal and his colleagues. Furthermore, a significant number of users are now employing "SleepServer," a software-only version of the energy-saving architecture developed recently by Agarwal, who is scheduled to present a paper on the technology in Boston at the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in June.
To improve the value of data in the UC San Diego Energy Dashboard, they are also working with a private company on a less expensive plug-level meter. Today individual meters that can monitor energy use remotely cost approximately $200 each; Agarwal thinks that if they can get that price down to the $30 to $50 range, individuals wanting to track their own carbon footprint will be happy to invest in a meter that would transmit its real-time data to the Energy Dashboard, where the user would be able to use the portal's tools to track their own usage " and even compare it to the energy profile of a colleague in the next office. "Working with a set of very creative and intelligent students, and leveraging their talent to address some of the energy issues of today, is also immensely satisfying since it feels like you are solving a real-world problem in the end," said Agarwal. Among the graduate students working on the Energy Dashboard project is Ph.D. student Thomas Weng, a coauthor on the November 2009 First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings paper The Energy Dashboard: Improving the Visibility of Energy Consumption at a Campus-Wide Scale with Agarwal and Gupta.
According to Agarwal, his group is now working on an Energy Dashboard API that will make it possible for anyone at UC San Diego to integrate their own power meter into the dashboard and take advantage of its visualization and comparison features. In the longer term, the researchers are looking into ways to release the API to the larger community, outside of UC San Diego, such that anyone with the appropriate energy meters can post, visualize, and compare their energy use data on an externally available Energy Dashboard.


Rmxprt to Maxwell creation
Whenever I convert Generator (Rmxprt Design ) to Generator (Maxwell-2D) it shows give me the different result of power and torque calculation of permanent magnet synchronous generator. can anyone help how these results are different in Rmxprt and Maxwell-2D? and one more thing how the Moving torque calculated in Simulation.
Rajesh Sirvi
IIT Kanpur
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 RMxprt result depends on the load type selected during the solution setup.
 For example, if you selected a constant power operation and defined the rated output power and rated speed. Rmxprt will output the proportional torque that will satisfy this condition, provided if it is achievable as per your configuration.
 So, the power output will be the rated output power you defined in the solution setup and torque will be such that it satisfies the power and speed condition.
 Coming to maxwell, It will calculate the max power that can be developed at the specified motion setup(angular velocity). thus the torque and output power may be different.
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There's a Gender Extension for PHP
By Bruno Skvorc
Unlike in our "mainstream" paid course about exploring PHP, I like to explore the weird and forgotten areas of the language.
Recently, I ventured into a section of the PHP manual which lists extensions that are used to help with Human Language and Character Encoding. I had never looked at them as a whole – while dealing with gettext, for example, I always kind of landed directly on it and ignored the rest. Well, of those others, there's one that caught my eye – especially in this day and age given the various controversies – the Gender extension.
Pink and green elephant symbolizing gender roles
This extension, in short, tries to guess the gender of first names. As its introduction says:
This is interesting beyond the fact that the author is kinda called George Michael. In fact, there are many aspects of this extension that are quite baffling.
While its last stable release was in 2015, the extension uses namespaces which clearly indicates that it's not some kind of long lost remnant of the past – a relatively recent effort was made to make it conform to modern coding standards. Even the example code uses namespaces:
namespace Gender;
$gender = new Gender;
$name = "Milene";
$country = Gender::FRANCE;
$result = $gender->get($name, $country);
$data = $gender->country($country);
switch($result) {
 case Gender::IS_FEMALE:
 printf("The name %s is female in %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::IS_MOSTLY_FEMALE:
 printf("The name %s is mostly female in %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::IS_MALE:
 printf("The name %s is male in %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::IS_MOSTLY_MALE:
 printf("The name %s is mostly male in %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::IS_UNISEX_NAME:
 printf("The name %s is unisex in %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::IS_A_COUPLE:
 printf("The name %s is both male and female in %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::NAME_NOT_FOUND:
 printf("The name %s was not found for %s\n", $name, $data['country']);
 case Gender::ERROR_IN_NAME:
 echo "There is an error in the given name!\n";
 echo "An error occurred!\n";
While we have this code here, let's take a look at it.
Some really confusing constant names in there – how does a name contain an error? What's the difference between unisex and couple names? Digging deeper, we see some more curious constants.
For example, the class has short names of countries as constants (e.g. BRITAIN) which reference an array containing both an international code for the country (UK) and the full country name (GREAT BRITAIN).
$gender = new Gender\Gender;
array(2) {
 'country_short' =>
 string(2) "UK"
 'country' =>
 string(13) "Great Britain"
Only, UK isn't the international code one would expect here – it's GB. Why they chose this route rather than rely on an existing package of geonames or even just an accurate list of constants is anyone's guess.
Once in use, the class uses the get method to return the gender of a name, provided we've given it the name and the country (optional – searches across all countries if omitted). But the country has to be the constant of the class (so you need to know it by heart or use their values when adding it to the UI because it won't match any standard country code list) and it also returns an integer – another constant defined in the class, like so:
const integer IS_FEMALE = 70 ;
const integer IS_MOSTLY_FEMALE = 102 ;
const integer IS_MALE = 77 ;
const integer IS_MOSTLY_MALE = 109 ;
const integer IS_UNISEX_NAME = 63 ;
const integer IS_A_COUPLE = 67 ;
const integer NAME_NOT_FOUND = 32 ;
const integer ERROR_IN_NAME = 69 ;
There's just no rhyme or reason to any of these values.
Another method, isNick, checks if a name is a nickname or alias for another name. This makes sense in cases like Bob vs Robert or Dick vs Richard, but can it really scale past these predictable English values? The method is doubly confusing because it says it returns an array in the signature, whereas the description says it's a boolean.
Wrong description of method return type
Finally, the similarNames method will return an array of names similar to the one provided, given the name and a country (if country is omitted, then it compares names across all countries). Does this include aliases? What's the basis for similarity? Are Mario and Maria similar despite being opposite genders? Or is Mario just similar to Marek? Is Mario similar to Marek at all? There's no information.
I just had to find out for myself, so I installed it and tested the thing.
I tested this on an isolated environment via Homestead Improved with PECL pre-installed.
sudo pecl install gender
sudo phpenmod gender
pear run-scripts pecl/gender
The last command will ask where to put a dictionary. I assume this is there for the purposes of extending it. I selected., as in "current folder". Let's try it out by making a simple index.php file with the example content from above and testing that first.
Milene is female in France
Sure enough, it works. Okay, let's change the country to $country = Gender::CROATIA;.
Milene is female in Croatia
Okay, sure, it's not a common name, and not in that format, but it's most similar to Milena, which is a female name in Croatia. Let's see what's similar to Milena via similar.php:
namespace Gender;
$gender = new Gender;
$similar = $gender->similarNames("Milena", Gender::CROATIA);
Milena has no similar names?
Not what I expected. Let's see the original, Milene.
Milene has odd similarities
So Milena is listed as a name similar to Milene, but Milene isn't similar to Milena? Additionally, there seem to be some encoding issues on two of them? And the Croatian alphabet doesn't even have the letter "y", we definitely have neither of those similar names, regardless of what's hiding under the question mark.
Okay, let's try something else. Let's see if Bob is an alias of Robert in alias.php:
namespace Gender;
$gender = new Gender;
var_dump($gender->isNick('Bob', 'Robert', Gender::USA));
Bob is an alias of Robert
Indeed, that does seem to be true. Low hanging fruit, though. Let's see a local one.
var_dump($gender->isNick('Tea', 'Dorotea', Gender::CROATIA));
Tea is not an alias of Dorotea
Oh come on.
What about the Mario / Maria / Marek issue from the beginning? Let's see similarities for them in order.
Mario is similar to himself and a misencoded version of himself
Maria is similar to herself and a misencoded version of herself
Marek is similar only to himself
Not good.
A couple more tries. To make testing easier, let's change the $name and $country lines in index.php to:
$name = $argv[1];
$country = constant(Gender::class.'::'.strtoupper($argv[2]));
Now we can test from the CLI without editing the file.
Final few tries. I have a female friend from Tunisia called Manel. I would assume her name would go for male in most of the world because it ends with a consonant. Let's test hers and some other names.
Cannot find Tunisia
No Tunisia? Maybe it isn't documented in the manual, let's output all the defined constants and check.
// constants.php
$oClass = new ReflectionClass(Gender\Gender::class);
Missing countries in list
No, looks like those docs are spot on. At this point, I stop my playing around with this tool.
The whole situation is made even more interesting by the fact that this is a simple class, and definitely doesn't need to be an extension. No one will call this often enough to care about the performance boost of an extension vs. a package, and a package can be installed by non-sudo users, and people can contribute to it more easily.
How this extension, which is both inaccurate and incomplete, and could be a simple class, ended up in the PHP manual is unclear, but it goes to show that there's a lot of cleaning up to be done yet in the PHP core (I include the manual as the "core") before we get PHP's reputation up. In the 9 years (nine!) since development on this port started, not even all countries have been added to the internal list and yet someone decided this extension should be in the manual.
Do you have more information about this extension? Do you see a point to it? Which other oddball extensions or built-in features did you find in the manual or in PHP in general?
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Common Colors: Opalescent, milky whites with variants of pink, green, gray, or blue
This extremely pretty stone looks soft and milky, representing the divine feminine. The moonstone is known for balancing not only hormonal and reproductive issues but emotions as well. It's an amazing gem for intuition, balance, and good wishes.
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Rainbow moonstones are considered holy gemstone that offers psychic safeguarding to defend individuals from pessimistic feelings. This gemstone provides a feeling of tranquility, mental lucidity, and emotional stability.
Rainbow Moonstone can help you reflect on your thoughts and make better choices.
Keeping or wearing a rainbow moonstone is believed to stimulate the crown chakra, which facilitates spiritual growth, while also purifying the third eye chakra, thereby enhancing clarity and awareness.
Moonstone is widely recognized as a symbol of the goddess and is linked with the moon, femininity, and the subconscious. This gemstone is known to align the lunar energy with a woman's natural rhythm, including her body's critical cycles.
Moonstone holds a special place in Indian culture as it is considered a sacred stone that is adorned on the forehead of Lord Ganesh, who is associated with the Moon. It is believed that gifting Moonstone can bring good luck and prosperity.
Moonstone has been linked to the power of the moon since ancient times. It has served various purposes, such as safeguarding travelers, kindling passion between lovers, facilitating prophecy, and providing a route to wisdom.
The stone in question holds a significant place in Indian culture, particularly among couples. It is considered sacred and has been a customary wedding present for a long time.
Moonstone is known as the Traveler's Stone for the protection it affords, especially at night, and because of its uplifting quality of hope, has long been worn as a talisman to enhance the personality. [Ahsian, 267][Mella, 91]
To enhance the power of your Moonstone, leave it on a windowsill or outside during a full moon overnight. It's possible that you'll notice the stone becoming more potent as the moon approaches its peak.
Rainbow Moonstone is an essential addition to your personal collection, sacred workspace, or healing practice.
This stone is highly effective in aiding individuals during the process of overcoming addictive habits, regardless of whether they are physical or mental in nature.
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- The serene energy of the moonstone also invites creativity, healing, and motherly protection.
- It also acts as a mirror to enable us to clearly see our reflection, exactly as we are, both in and out.
- Aids in distinguishing between the needs and wants of one's life.
- Moonstone simultaneously relieves stress and releases positivity through love of all kinds.
- This stone helps to open up the heart chakra, thereby allowing the person to be more receptive to inner feelings.
- The Moonstone crystal reminds one to not stop and to go with the flow in life.
- As the moon cycles connect the wearer to nature, the moonstone continues to remind you that our lives also keep on flowing. This helps in cultivating compassion and empathy
- Rainbow Moonstone crystal of new beginnings, happiness, gentle change, inner growth, and strength.
- Rainbow Moonstone is a very effective transformational stone.
- Rainbow Moonstone brings good luck and a happy house, office, and shop.
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- It can help you to find new ways to express yourself.
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Sekhmet: The Scarlet Lady
Sekhmet's appearance in Egyptian mythology is that of a lioness, similar to that of Bast, who first appeared as a lion goddess, and whose appearance diminished to the domesticated cat, after Sekhmet's cult grew. The difference in the two was the ferocity of Sekhmet, called as in the title, The Scarlet Lady or Avenger of…Continue readingSekhmet: The Scarlet Lady


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lavados is the plural of lavado
About Plural and Feminine
la·va·do Masculine - Noun - Singular
Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world. In the English language, singular and plural are the only grammatical numbers.
Examples of plural forms: car - cars, boat - boats, house - houses, friend - friends.
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Diminutives: lavadillo, lavadillos, lavadito, lavaditos
Aumentatives: lavadón, lavadones, lavadote, lavadotes
- Translate "lavado" to English: washing, wash, cleansing
Spanish Synonyms of "lavado": baño, fregado, lavada, limpia, ablución, colada
Define meaning of "lavado": Hecho de lavar(se), limpiar(se) algo con agua y, a veces, detergente o jabón. ; Aseo, acción de lavar(se), limpiar(se) algo con agua y, a veces, detergente o jabón.
- Translate "lavado" to English: enema, washout, lavage, rectal
Spanish Synonyms of "lavado": enema, lavado rectal, lavativa, purga, clistel, irrigación colónica, lavado del intestino grueso
Define meaning of "lavado": Enema, inyección terapéutica por el ano de un líquido para provocar la defecación.
- Translate "lavado" to English: leachate
- Translate "lavado" to English: ablution, lavage
Define meaning of "lavado": Hecho de lavar(se), limpiar(se) algo con agua y, a veces, detergente o jabón.
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A lot of solubility theories are built around the idea of a "lattice" of molecules. The idea that solvent molecules are arranged in a neat pseudo-crystalline order is clearly nonsense, but it turns out that this approach yields maximum insight for minimum effort and in fact the perfect lattice is more a "guide for the eye" than an intrinsic part of the theory.
The core idea in lattice theory is that if one molecule at a lattice position is replaced with another, three things happen to affect the Gibbs Free Energy ΔG = ΔH - TΔS.
- Entropy increases (more disorder), so -TΔS is negative
- Enthalpy increases (worse), so ΔH is positive
- The free energy, ΔG is a balance of the two, with a negative value being good for mixing
Why does the enthalpy increase? Interactions of like molecule with like are generally stronger than like with unlike. The number of like/unlike interactions depends, of course, on the % mix of the two molecules. Both the entropy and enthalpy terms are a maximum at 50%.
If we assign a "solubility parameter" δ1 and δ2 to the self-interactions of molecules 1 and 2 then, via some elementary algebra and the "mean field theory" which assumes no self-organisation within the fluid, and if we assume, for simplicity, that volume fraction is the same as number fraction, n, then we can compute each term in the ΔG balance, ΔG=ΔH-TΔS, setting T=8 in this simple demo, for reasons discussed shortly:
ΔS = n1.log(n1)+n2.log(n2)
ΔH = -n1.n2.z(δ1δ2-0.5(δ1²+δ2²))
We see that the δ values capture the balance of self-liking 0.5(δ1²+δ2²) and the weaker unlike interaction (δ1*δ2). The self-like term is the mean, the unlike term is the geometric mean. To put it into more familiar terms, it is 0.5(δ1-δ2)², the classic solubility parameter "Distance". The factor z is simply the number of near-neighbours in whatever lattice is being used, in this app n=4. The value T=8 for ΔS in the calculation here is simply to give a balance of ΔS and ΔH resulting in a reasonable correlation of mutual (in)solubility with the distance.
By playing with the % Solvent 2 and the different δ values, and by looking at lattice itself, you get a good feeling for what basic lattice theory is all about. If the view is confusing, just rotate it with your mouse or touchscreen.
The numbers themselves are neither important nor realistic. They simply convey the trends, emphasising that for good solubility, δ values have to be comparatively close. Of course, as discussed on this site, the single (Hildebrand) solubility parameter is positively wrong and the full 3-parameter HSP should be used. But, again, the point of this app is to demonstrate the broad principles.
When, for demo purposes only, ΔG>5 then it is assumed that the solvents cannot mix so they separate into individual phases.


Ramakrishna Mission, Vacoas, Mauritius
The centre was started in 1941. Swami Krishnarupananda is its swami-in-charge.
 1. A library (with 3675 books) and a book showroom.
 2. Daily worship, occasional discourses, and fortnightly Ramnam Sankirtan in the temple.
 3. Yoga classes, retreats and weekly religious classes at the centre, and occasional lectures at different places in the island.
 4. Weekly religious and cultural classes for children and annual competitions for students.
 5. Yearly book exhibition and competitions (Recitation, Essay and Elocution) for School & College students at the centre.
 6. Celebration of the birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and some other religious luminaries, as also festivals like Durga Puja, Kali Puja, etc.
Activities of the sub-centre at St. Julien D'Hotman:
 1. An English-medium pre-primary school with 17 children.
 2. Hindi classes for children.
 3. Weekly religious discourses.
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What Is The Goal Of Politics?
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What is the goal of politics and politicians?
The goal of politics is to exercise, achieve and apply power and authority.
Politics can be used by many entities such as government, individuals and organizations.
The goals of politics can be numerous and often diffuse:
 - Lower-level management can use politics to get higher incentives and wages for themselves.
 - Supervisors can exercise their power and authority to get the required results from their immediate subordinates and lower-level employees.
 - Some people use politics negatively to obtain a certain social position, status, wealth and success.
 - Others can obtain authority and power as a part of their position in society such as mayors, presidents, supervisors or bosses etc.
Therefore, we could say that the goal of politics is always about achieving or using power for an individual's or a group's advantage.
However, the goals of politics and politicians are not always as cynical as they sometimes seem. Politics can also be used to achieve positive outcomes - such as increasing the productivity of a nation, increasing team-work, and the implementation of projects and tasks.
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What is the source and goal of politics?
 - Politics: Applied authority in order to influence a chosen support group in order to push an agenda.
 - From high school to adulthood, we function in a society with competing agendas and there is only so much room at the top.
 - In order to achieve the top positions, politics come into play. Just think about who gets selected for promotion? They are not always the best candidate, but the person whom the boss thinks is the best.
Why did the boss choose person A over person B? The answer is because the selected person is the best political fit in order to keep the current culture going. That is politics.
The person at the top chooses, the staff supports, and in order to get into that political culture you have to play the boss's game and make him/her happy. This is true of almost every aspect of life, unfortunately.
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Project Sprout is a unique strategy for urban revitalization based on the premise that failure reveals opportunity. Shifts in New Orleans' demographics and economic prospects, coupled with catastrophic flooding from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, left many of the city's neighborhoods devastated by blight and environmental contamination. Through a productive stabilization strategy that unlocks the potential of blighted land, Sprout will transform marginal properties from public health threats into nodes of community redevelopment.
Through the planting of bio-energy gardens that include plants like sunflowers, Project Sprout will:
1. Remediate soil
2. Yield a crop for bio-fuel production
3. Provide green-collar job training
4. Create hope in communities that suffer from the companion problems of blight and illegal dumping.
As a deliberately transitional strategy, Sprout helps to reposition underutilized land for redevelopment, urban farming, or community recreation space. A phased pilot project will roll out beginning in Spring 2009.
New Orleans Food and Farm Network
New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
Limitless Vistas Inc.
Early Stage Funders
Tulane City Center
Green Coast Enterprises


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|Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Environmental Health Management in Refugee Areas (WHO - OMS, 1994, 212 p.)|
|Section Three: Country Reports|
It should be stressed that, in Yemen, there is little experience of refugee and refugee-related situations. With regard to the definition of refugees, they are considered to be those persons who have crossed international frontiers in search of refuge as a result of war or natural disaster in their homeland. The only examples of this in Yemen are Palestinians. They live in the country, enjoying the same rights as Yemeni nationals; that is, they are treated as Yemeni citizens rather than as refugees.
2. Refugees and environmental health
Regarding the subject of refugees and environmental health, in Yemen it is understood that refugee problems exist not only in the strictly speaking environmental sense; they also concern safety, peace of mind and other psychological factors. In ensuring their protection and standard of living, certain basic needs and priorities must be attended to, as follows:
(1) They must be provided with suitable shelter; very often this consists of tents, issued at the rate of one per family. They also usually need blankets and clothing as protection against harsh weather conditions.
(2) They must be provided with easily accessible, safe water.
(3) Proper disposal of wastewater must be ensured.
(4) An adequate system of waste disposal must be arranged. This includes human excreta (with provision of latrines) and garbage (with provision of suitable containers). Measures must be taken against multiplication of microorganisms caused by improperly dealt with waste.
(5) Insect and rodent infestation must be combated by proper use of appropriate pesticides.
(6) Precautions must be installed against accidents including fire.
(7) Overcrowdedness must be avoided, to combat spread of communicable diseases.
(8) Refugees must receive health education, especially about personal hygiene and food preparation.
(9) Periodic health checks are necessary, with both preventive and curative care provided.
(10) If refugees stay in settlements is prolonged, (a) education for children and possible literacy classes for adults must be given; and (b) skills and abilities of refugees should be developed to enable them to engage in income-generating activities.
(a) National capacity to react promptly and correctly to refugee and refugee-like situations must be built up.
(b) Refugees must be educated, starting as soon as possible after their arrival, and through all available media, about environmental health.


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Simple tube tester
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- Published: Tuesday, 09 January 2018 09:43
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A simple solution, made according to the diagram shown in the picture below, allows to check whether the filament fiber in the tube is not discontinuoused and to detect specific defects of the tube (eg increasing the resistance of the filament fiber due to defective soldering to the pins of the socket; shorting the fiber inside the bulb or in the socket, e.t.c.).
The device includes:
- power (mains) transformer
(primary winding 110/220V~, secondary - 1,25V~),
- nakelite plate with various sockets mounted on it (2 sockets for a given type of tube),
- current meter (milliammeter),
- rectifier (Pr),
- two wire resistors (5 ohms each),
- two 2-volt indicator buklbs (Lv, Lp).
The operation of the tester is based on the well known bridge principle. After connecting the transformer to the electrical network, and the tubes to the sockets (reference tube V and tube under test P) - if the filament fiber resistance of both tubes are the same - the measuring instrument will not indicate any current flow, and both incandescent bilbs will glow with the same brightness. If, however, the fiber of the tested tube has a higher resistance than the fiber of the reference tube, then the measuring instrument will show the current flow correspondingly smaller, and the bulb in its circuit will shine brighter. This means a defect in the fiber of the tested tube.


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Unlabelled singleand double-stranded DNA (ssDNA and dsDNA, respectively) has been detected at concentrations =10-9?M by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Under appropriate conditions the sequences spontaneously adsorbed to the surface of both Ag and Au colloids through their nucleobases; this allowed highly reproducible spectra with good signal-to-noise ratios to be recorded on completely unmodified samples. This eliminated the need to promote absorption by introducing external linkers, such as thiols. The spectra of model ssDNA sequences contained bands of all the bases present and showed systematic changes when the overall base composition was altered. Initial tests also showed that small but reproducible changes could be detected between oligonucleotides with the same bases arranged in a different order. The spectra of five ssDNA sequences that correspond to different strains of the Escherichia coli bacterium were found to be sufficiently composition-dependent so that they could be differentiated without the need for any advanced multivariate data analysis techniques.
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We combined 3 ideas we brainstormed to create an idea we all be interested in. The ideas were gaming, clarefai, and twilio. We wanted to use those ideas and tools in order to create, hence iScavengerHunt was formed.
What it does
You can create scavenger hunts. Monitor scavenger hunts. Participate in scavengers hunts. Using clarefai api to see if you got the right answer. Most of all, have fun.
How we built it
We built it with Android Studio.
Challenges we ran into
Incoprating clarefai and twilio into Android Studio. Debugging and timing. Learning the apis. Working on multiple projects.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Working on project we actually like to do and building it even if it's a prototype. Having fun and learning new technologies.
What we learned
We learned how to use various APIs.
What's next for iScavengerHunt
Putting it all together. Test run and optimize the algorithm.
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Unit Basics
A units guideline based on working in 0.125 steps, a magic number like π in the world of CSS.
Nested HTML elements with relative units are going to lead to odd PX values.
A simplified management for spaces and dimensions of HTML elements.
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How to create a reference to a specific position in the same or in another Mumie document
Say you want to create a link from a certain position in document A (origin) to a certain position in the same or an other document, called document B (target).
First, mark the position in the target document B by
Next, open the document A (origin) in the MIAU-editor.
At the bottom of the editor window, you see several tabs. Select the tab "Meta information".
Go to the section "Links" and click "Add..."
A dialog window pops up showing the checkin tree. Navigate to document B (i.e., the document where the link should point to. This can be the same document or a different one). Select B.
Optionally, change the field for the LID or "local id" into "point_of_origin".
Click "Ok". A new entry appears in the section "Links".
Return to the TeX source by clicking the tab "Content Block" at the bottom of the editor window.
Go the point of origin i.e. the position where you whant to place the reference to appear and insert
\ref[point_of_origin][see position at target_position in document B]{target_position}
The command creates a hyperlink originating at "point_of_origin" and pointing to the positon marked by "target_position" in the target document B. The link text is the second optional argument, thus, "see position at label_B in document B". If this argument is omitted, the link text defaults to the LID.
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An example of thorough is the inspection that your mechanic does on your car.
Origin of thoroughMiddle English thoruh, thuruh, an emphatic variant, variety of through, through
- passing through: now chiefly in comb.: thoroughfare
- done or proceeding through to the end; omitting nothing; complete: a thorough checkup
- that is completely (the thing specified); out-and-out; absolute: a thorough rascal
- very exact, accurate, or painstaking, esp. with regard to details: a thorough researcher
- Exhaustively complete: a thorough search.
- Painstakingly accurate or careful: thorough research.
- Absolute; utter: a thorough pleasure.
Origin of thoroughMiddle English thorow through, thorough from Old English thuruh from end to end, through ; see terə-2 in Indo-European roots.
(comparative more thorough, superlative most thorough)
- painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail
- The Prime Minister announced a thorough investigation into the death of a father of two in police custody.
- He is the most thorough worker I have ever seen.
- The infested house needs a thorough cleansing before it will be inhabitable.
- utter; complete; absolute
- It is a thorough pleasure to see him beg for mercy.
Old English Ã¾uruh.
- (obsolete) Through. [9th-19th c.]
A disyllabic form of Old English Ã¾urh ("through").


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A new study on the differential earning power of male and female movie stars beings with a quote from Jennifer Jason Leigh:
It's the nature of the business. People equate success with youth (source).
She's half right. Irene Pater and her co-authors looked at the pay of 265 actors and actresses who appeared in Hollywood films from 1968 to 2008. They found that the average earnings of actors rises until the age of 51 and remains stable after that. The average earnings of actresses, in contrast, peaks at 34 and decreases "rapidly thereafter."
Sarah Jessica Parker, then, was more on the mark:
There is still a discrepancy in earning power between men and women in Hollywood. And it becomes doubly unfair when you think of our earning potential in terms of years. Actresses are like football players. They have a small window of prime earning ability (source).
So, is this sexism or just "market forces"? That is, is female acting work devalued compared to men's because people in positions of power don't value women? Or is it because casting women over 34 decreases box office returns, whereas casting older men does not? Pater and her colleagues suggest that it's sexism. One study, they explain,
…actually examined the combined effect of gender and age on box office performance [and] revealed that casting a female lead older than 32 years of age does not influence a movie's box office performance, whereas casting a male lead older than 42 decreases box office revenues by almost 17% (source).
So the presence of male actors in their forties and over decreases box office revenue, but they still get paid more than women of the same age. In contrast, casting women in their mid-thirties and over doesn't bring down profits, but she's still less valuable in the eyes of producers. Sexism sounds like a plausible explanation to me.Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.


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Visual representation of information highlights the power of compression. That is the reason why the National Curriculum Framework says "Mathematics is amazingly compressible: one may struggle a lot, work out something, perhaps by trying many methods. But once it is understood it creates one of the great joys of mathematics. A major goal of the upper primary stage is to introduce the student to this particular pleasure. Data handling, representation and visualization are important mathematical skills which can be taught at this stage. They can be of great use as "life skills".
This is an activity for Mathematics class (grade level 6-8). This activity aims at visual representation and its interpretation of data collected from the classroom itself.
Activity byRajkishore Patnaik, Azim Premji Foundation


DITA Implementation
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DITA is not just about tools.
Like the best-in-the-world cooking equipment on its own does not automatically make you a chef, implementing DITA requires more than installing the right editor. DITA implementation is a multi-step process that usually involves the following stages:
1. Content Strategy Development
No new solution can be successfully implemented without a roadmap that defines a variety of aspects, including:
 - How monolithic documents are split into individual topics
 - How content variations are handled
 - How to adjust your writing style to DITA
 - How existing content is to be restructured or rewritten
 - Whether and how to customize DITA
2. DITA Specialization
DITA provides a flexible mechanism known as specialization that enables adjusting DITA content model to the structure of your content.
3. Stylesheet Development
With DITA, writers are not responsible for formatting. Authors focus on content while look-and-feel, which is defined in separate stylesheets, is applied automatically. Based on the results of content analysis, you need to decide which stylesheet must be built.
4. Legacy Content Migration
There is always an amount of documentation to be converted to DITA. Because any conversion is style-based, success of your conversion depends on whether you use styles consistently, avoid ad hoc formatting, and do not practice manual formatting.
5. Training
The biggest issue in implementing DITA is getting people to understand how to write in a structured fashion. For some writers the move to the guided authoring environment may be difficult. Proper training can make this move smooth and help writers use DITA concepts in the most effective way.
Implementing DITA takes time and patience. However, a properly implemented DITA solution helps you do more within the same time and, thus, justify all your efforts.
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Winter Trout Spawn
The scene is a trout angler's dream come true. Or nightmare of the highest order. All around this corner of the Manchester trout hatchery, 2-pound, 3-pound…7 and 8-pound rainbow trout splash in holding tanks. Glistening, colorful…but with no room to flip a fly or redworm.
"We're spawning rainbow trout today," explains Randy Mack, DNR hatchery technician, as he and two co-workers wrestle 40 female trout (the big ones) and a similar number of smaller males inside the Manchester hatchery.
Longtime hatchery technician Kenny Linderwell 'trays' the fertilized eggs and sets them into place along the wall. A constant flow of 52 degree water washes over them for about 30 days. The water quantity and quality here have meant a trout hatchery has been on the premises for more than a century.
"We normally spawn enough to produce about 250,000 catchable-sized rainbow trout," explains Mack. "In the wild, rainbow trout in Iowa reproduce very poorly. We spawn them here and raise them for a year and a half, until they are ready to stock."
At some point in 2014, these now fertilized eggs will be half-pound rainbow trout, released into about 50 northeast Iowa streams or – increasingly - into urban lakes around Iowa.
Selective breeding over the years has produced a trout timetable. In October, brook trout are ready to give up their eggs. Iowa's only native trout, they are spawned streamside on South Pine Creek in Winneshiek County. Eggs are brought back to the hatchery to hatch and grow. As they are stocked, they do better in certain streams and overall, are harder to catch than the angler friendly Shasta strain rainbow trout. About 50,000 brookies are stocked each year.
By November, brown trout are spawned. Brood trout are brought from French Creek to the hatchery. They will be raised until fingerling sized, then released to grow wild in several dozen stretches of streams throughout northeast Iowa, supplementing earlier generations of brown trout.
Through December and January, rainbow trout—the backbone of Iowa's program—are ready to spawn. Once a week, crews check outdoor raceways for ripe female brood stock. Back inside, they firmly massage slimy trout bellies to produce a steady stream of golden eggs, to be fertilized, trayed and hatched.
The eggs hatch into sac fry and are switched to indoor raceways in the hatchery. As they consume their yolks, they swim up and learn to feed on commercial pellets; until loaded for the truck ride to a nearby stream. From there, they fend for themselves…or go home in the coolers of 40,000 plus trout anglers.
That number has grown over the years. First sold in 1962, fewer than 22,000 trout stamps were out there in 1970. The number rose slowly and, in 2010, first topped 40,000. Over 43,000 were sold in 2011; boosted in large part by late fall to early spring urban trout stockings.
That cold weather stocking program, rose from just three urban ponds 25 years ago to 16 quarries, ponds and small lakes this winter, brings trout to city anglers. They can fish locally, and if the urge strikes….use that good-for-the-year trout fee to head to northeast Iowa in the spring, summer or fall. In the meantime, several thousand people who might never have fished for—or tasted—trout are hooked.


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Sports play an important formative role in the lives of many middle and high school students. Science Behind Sports from Lucent Books explores the science behind key contemporary sports. Volumes present in a clear and engaging manner the scientific principles and concepts involved, the biomechanics and physiology of playing, and related health issues and medical concerns related to the sport.
"By combining science and sports, the publisher has figured out a way to engage teenagers in learning about the physical and psychological needs of each sport, about the physical science concepts involved in playing each sport and about the treatment of sports-related injuries. Recommendations: All middle school and high school libraries need this series. The science teacher could organize the science curriculum around it or use it as a resource when teaching a particular lesson."
--Tri State Young Adult Book Review Committee, September 2011


Toilet Roll Puzzle
Fun to make and fun to use, these paper roll puzzlers provide little ones with lots of mix 'em up, match 'em up fun.
Toilet Roll Puzzle
What you need
Cardboard rolls from paper towels or bathroom tissue
White paper
Glue stick
Head-to-toe pictures of people cut from magazines
 1. To make each paper roll puzzler, first cover cardboard rolls with white paper. Secure with glue.
 2. Then cut each roll into 2-inch sections.
 3. Find pictures of people in magazines and carefully cut them out. (Head-to-toe pictures work best.)
 4. Measure from the top of each picture, to the bottom and mark at two-inch intervals.
 5. Then cut the pictures into these two-inch sections.
 6. The size of your picture will determine how many paper roll sections you will need. Some puzzles will have two or three sections while others may have four.
 7. Glue each two-inch picture section to a paper roll section. Now you've created the puzzle pieces.
 8. Next stack them up to recreate the original picture or mix and match them to create wacky variations.
 9. You can also glue a second picture to the backside of each roll section, to double your puzzle fun!
All done!
Toilet Roll Puzzle
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Developing IBM Lotus Domino 7 Applications: Intermediate Skills Course, Class Outline(3 days)
This course builds on the skills of Lotus Education's Developing IBM® Lotus® Domino® 7 Applications: Foundation Skills (N7D510) course. Through instructor lecture and student-centered activities and exercises, students learn to use IBM Lotus Domino Designer 7 to develop multi-database applications.
The course explores advanced formula techniques including looping, and user interaction with the application. The course explains different methods for accessing data sources outside the current Domino database including other Domino databases and relational databases. Other topics include adding workflow functionality to route documents and notify users that a document requires their attention, and security issues such as encrypting data. This course also examines navigation elements such as links, outlines, and framesets that bind the components of the application together and allow users to locate information quickly and easily.
You will use IBM® Lotus® Domino Designer® 7 to develop multi-database applications.
The target audience for this course is application developers who have experience creating or modifying single database applications with Lotus Domino Designer 6 or Domino Designer 7.
Students taking this course should have experience using the IBM® Lotus Notes® client to access applications and possess the equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience developing Lotus Domino 6 or Lotus Domino 7 applications. Students should have completed the Fundamentals of Lotus Domino 7 Application Development or Developing Lotus Domino 6/6.5 Applications: Foundation Skills course.
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
use formula language to inspect and manipulate text and lists values. You will also use iterative statement functions.
implement functions that interact with users through different types of dialog boxes using the _USER_ and _USER_ functions.
implement advanced view design features to enhance how Lotus Notes displays documents.
examine and use several IBM® Lotus® Domino® design elements as navigation structures, including links and imagemaps.
create and embed an outline.
add a frameset to an application, add content to a frame, launch an application frameset, include elements in a frameset, add new frames, and specify a target frame for individual elements.
use _USER_ to access view column and document values in an IBM® Lotus® Domino® database; use _USER_ to allow a user to choose column values from a view; and use profile documents to store global data for an application.
use the formula language to access data sources using the Microsoft® Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface.
examine Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) and implement real-time data mapping between an IBM® Lotus® Domino® application and a relational database.
define workflow, notify users when they need to become aware of an action in the workflow, create a mail-in database document, route documents to application databases, and track documents through the workflow process.
control who can edit sections of a document, attach a signature to an access-controlled section, and encrypt data and mail messages.
Lesson 1: Working with Strings, Lists, and Loops
Topic 1A: Writing Formulas to Manipulate Text Values
Topic 1B: Working with Lists
Topic 1C: Creating Iterative Formulas
Lesson 2: Writing Formulas to Interact with the User
Topic 2A: Using the _USER_ Function
Topic 2B: Working with the _USER_ Function
Topic 2C: Using Layout Regions
Lesson 3: Advanced View Design
Topic 3A: Using a Background Image in a View
Topic 3B: Using a Formula to Hide a Column
Topic 3C: Using Color in Views
Topic 3D: Working with Embedded Elements
Lesson 4: Creating and Using Links
Topic 4A: IBM® Lotus® Domino® Links
Topic 4B: Hotspot Links
Topic 4C: Named Element Links
Topic 4D: URL Links
Topic 4E: Creating Imagemaps
Lesson 5: Working with Outlines
Topic 5A: Creating an Outline
Topic 5B: Adding Outline Entries
Topic 5C: Modifying Outline Entries
Topic 5D: Embedding an Outline
Lesson 6: Creating a Frameset
Topic 6A: Adding a Frameset to an Application
Topic 6B: Adding Content to a Frame
Topic 6C: Launching an Application Frameset
Topic 6D: Adjusting Framesets
Lesson 7: Accessing Data in IBM® Lotus® Domino® Databases
Topic 7A: Accessing Data from a View
Topic 7B: Using _USER_
Topic 7C: Working with Profile Documents
Lesson 8: Accessing Non-Domino Data with ODBC
Topic 8A: Introducing ODBC
Topic 8B: Using _USER_ Functions to Access an ODBC Data Source
Lesson 9: Using DECS and DCRs to Map Data Between IBM® Lotus® Domino® and Relational Databases
Topic 9A: Introducing IBM® Lotus® Domino® Enterprise Connection Services (DECS)
Topic 9B: Working with DECS
Topic 9C: Using Data Connection Resources (DCRs)
Lesson 10: Adding Workflow to IBM® Lotus® Domino® Applications
Topic 10A: Defining Workflow
Topic 10B: Routing Workflow Objects in IBM® Lotus® Domino®
Topic 10C: Designing Workflow
Topic 10D: Notifying Users
Topic 10E: Routing Entire Documents
Topic 10F: Sending the Current Document
Topic 10G: Tracking Documents
Lesson 11: Securing IBM® Lotus® Domino® Application Data
Topic 11A: Limiting Who Can Read and Edit Sections
Topic 11B: Signing Documents and Mail
Topic 11C: Encrypting Domino Data
Topic 11D: Creating and Distributing Secret Keys
Topic 11E: Encrypting Fields
Appendix A: Activity Solutions
Supplemental Topic About This Appendix
Appendix B: Create an ODBC Data Source Resource
Appendix C: Course Scenario
Appendix D: Certification and Exam Competencies
Appendix E: Instructor Preparation
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If travel is inconvenient you may be able to participate from your office or home. If you have high-speed internet you can likely take this class from your office or home.
We can deliver this class for a private group either at your location or ours. Click the link to request more information.


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Learn the advantages and drawbacks of picking tile floors over carpet floors.
tile, carpet, flooring, cleanliness
Keeping a home clean can at times be a major challenge. There is the dust to clean, furniture to clean, and the floor to vacuum. All of this can add up to hours of wasted time. But what if you could trim the time you spent cleaning your home by up to half? Think that notion is a bit farfetched? With tile flooring, its not. Many homeowners are quickly discovering that tile flooring is the ideal alternative to carpet floors. Tile, unlike carpet, doesnt cling to hair, dirt, and other deposits left by family members or guests. This can make maintenance a breeze and provide you with plenty piece of mind, considering that you wont have to worry about people coming in and out with shoes in your home. Below we will be exploring some of the additional perks tile flooring has to offer over carpet flooring.
Allergies can be a troublesome problem when one has a carpeted home. Pollutants including pollen and dust make home in carpet fibers, where they can begin to wreak havoc on your allergies. Tile doesnt bond to pollutants like carpet does. This, in return can keep your allergies from acting up.
By going the tile route, homeowners can save a significant amount of money. Although tile might initially cost more, it will save you a significant amount of money in the long run. Tile, unlike carpeting, doesnt require constant vacuuming or steam cleaning. On a further note, tile doesnt need to be replaced every several years. It can last forever given that its properly maintained.
Although tile does have a large number of perks, it does have its disadvantages. For one, family members might be uncomfortable walking barefoot over the cold surface. This can be remedied by having a tile heating system installed. Tile also has a tendency to make stains more apparent. Thus, whenever you encounter a fresh stain, be sure to quickly clean it.
Tile is a very ideal alternative to carpet flooring. In terms of maintenance, health, and finances, tile couldnt make any more sense.


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Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Visit producers in Uda: Indigo Japan blue and Medicinal Plant Expedition
After visiting a traditional indigo dyeing atelier, which inherits 150 years old indigo vase, we explored edible forests. Uda city is a historical land, where wild medicinal plant has been conducted, since ancient Yamato dynasty in 7th century.
Wild medicinal plants master taught us how to distinguish porcelain berry (or wild grape, scientific name: Ampelopsis glandulosa) and ornamental grape vine (scientific name: Vitis coignetiae), how to make yakushu, alcoholic beverage for medicinal purposes by using natural resources such as Linden arrowwood (gamazumi in Japanese, scientific name: Viburnum dilatatum), silver vine, cat powder, matatabi in Japanese (Scientific name: Actinidia polygama), deodeok or lance asiabell (Tsuruninjin in Japanese, Scientific name: Codonopsis lanceolata), and so on.
Pick and eat, eat and learn, by using five senses, we learnt traditional knowledge of ancient people on living in co-existent with nature.
only use mountain water for 150 years in kasama indigo atelier
"When father-in-low went hospital, I thought someone has to learn how to take care of 150 years indigo vase. My husband is a business person, and only I could do that for the time being. This is how I started to learn, and got deep into this world."
Said the 4th generation of Kasama indigo dyeing atelier, Ms Kayo.
In the village of Kasama, there are households earning their livelihoods by dyeing, blacksmith, farming... Nowadays, this knowledge is gradually disappearing. Dyeing workshop and black smith are also last one craftsman.
Ms. Kayo, still has hope to keep the lifestyle living with indigo as it is.
Aizome experience 1,500yen (reservation required)
walk and eat: medicinal plant hunting in the forest.
After lunch, expedition for edible forests.
Walking and picking wild plants.
Gamazumi (Linden arrowwood), good for making yakushu, medicinal liquor.
 silver vine, matatabi, is also good for medicinal liquor
What is the taste like?
It is very spicy!! Can you believe?
In Korea, it seems deodeok or lance asiabell is edible in raw, just dipped into honey.
It smells like soil, but the taste is mild, not bitter, not spicy. It is okay to eat as salad by raw.
flower of deodeok
Japanese snake gourd (Karasuuri in Japanese, Scientific name: Trichosanthes cucumeroides). The seeds can be used as a talisman for good fortune, and also edible after baking. It could be indeed good luck in case of emergency, when kept into wallet.
Wild kiwi, or baby kiwi (sarunashi in Japanese, scientific name: Actinidia arguta) is indeed little kiwi, when tasted. It is also good for making liquor.
 Wild grape.
This is similar, but not edible, just beautiful.
You can go for medicinal plant hunting most of the season. Next workshop will be making kudzu powder form arrow roots, tuber crop.
We also plan to go for foraging and cook medicinal plants in spring.


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Distributing farm fresh produce presents a set of challenges that producers of less perishable items, such as electronics, do not face. Fruits and vegetables not only have limited shelf lives, but they take up an appreciable amount of space relative to the money they yield and they must be handled properly or their shelf lives will be compromised even further. Wholesale direct farm marketing involves a grower delivering product directly to retailers such as restaurants. Wholesale distribution involves going through a middleman who in turn sells the produce to retailers.
Wholesale Direct Advantages
When a farmer sells produce wholesale direct she has the opportunity to learn the specific preferences of individual customers who care more about quality than quantity. Farmers develop advantageous working relationships with restaurateurs based on a shared passion for superior seeds, superior soil and superior produce, and sometimes even start growing particular varieties because of demand from a particular chef. Farmers selling wholesale direct can also keep the entire purchase price that a customer pays because there is no middleman to add a markup.
Wholesale Direct Disadvantages
Wholesale direct farm to retailer distribution can be challenging because farmers never know precisely how the weather is going to behave and which crops they may lose to predators and blights. If a restaurateur plans his menu around having a particular item from a particular farm and that item doesn't grow as planned, then the restaurant may have to make last minute changes. Some chefs avoid wholesale direct sales because of this unpredictability. In addition, wholesale direct sales can involve considerable stretches of delivery time.
Wholesale Distribution Advantages
Wholesale distribution involves turning over individual wholesale deliveries to a distributor who in turn brings fresh produce to retailers. In addition to saving delivery time, wholesale distribution makes it possible for a farmer to sell considerably more product because the distributor carrying the produce will have a considerably wider reach. In addition, because wholesalers tend to buy produce from multiple farmer suppliers, there is less pressure on any individual farmer to always have to have particular crops available.
Wholesale Distribution Disadvantages
A farmer who sells produce through a distributer must charge a lower price to the wholesaler than he would if he were selling directly because the distributor makes his livelihood by marking up supplier prices. These price cuts are not always justified by the added convenience of not having to make individual deliveries. In addition, farmers who do not deal directly with their customers do not have the opportunity to hear firsthand feedback or personally communicate the value of their offerings.
Devra Gartenstein is an omnivore who has published several vegan cookbooks. She has owned and run small food businesses for 30 years.


Definitions for diaryˈdaɪ ə ri
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Princeton's WordNet
 1. diary, journal(noun)
 a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
 2. diary(noun)
 a personal journal (as a physical object)
 1. diary(Noun)
 A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
 2. diary(Noun)
 The method or media used to keep such experiences.
 They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
 3. diary(Noun)
 A calendar or appointment book.
 4. diary(Adjective)
 Lasting for one day.
Webster Dictionary
 1. Diary(noun)
 a register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary
 2. Diary(adj)
 lasting for one day; as, a diary fever
 3. Origin: [L. diarium, fr. dies day. See Deity.]
 1. Diary
 "Diary" is a song by American recording artist Alicia Keys from her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys. Written by Keys and Kerry Brothers, Jr., the song features the American group Tony! Toni! Toné!, and was released on June 29, 2004 as the album's third single. It was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 2005 Grammy Awards. At one time, "Diary" had been released as a double A-side with "If I Ain't Got You". The song's Hani remixes gave Keys her first—and so far only—chart-topper on the Hot Dance Club Play in late 2004. It also peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Keys and Tony! Toni! Toné!, never sang the song live together, to date.
The Roycroft Dictionary
 1. diary
 1. To see one's self as no one else cares to see us. 2. A book that describes the birth, effulgence and disappearance of pimples. 3. The lavatory of literature.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
 1. DIARY
 An honest autobiography. A good keepsake, but a bad give-away.
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Nation Centered vs. State Centered Federalism
For example, if a state wants its legal drinking age to be 18 instead of the federal government age of 21, the federal government can threaten to withhold funds for that state's highway fund.
The benefits and disadvantages of federalism are closely related to its strengths and weaknesses.
1. Federalism manages social and political conflict by dispersing political power within and among governments. This is accomplished with geographic diversity, ethnicity, language, religious preferences and other differences that are represented in state and local government groups.
2. Administrative efficiency in the form of fiscal incentives:
a. Categorical grants - money is provided for specific state projects, with federal agencies overseeing exactly what to fund.
b. Block grants for general purposes such as education or welfare.
c. Revenue sharing -funds were provided to states based on a specific formula such as population, tax effect and income levels.
3. Innovation. States and local governments customize policies to accommodate demands a
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Some ideas for the future
- From: Jean Bréfort
- To: Gnumeric list
- Subject: Some ideas for the future
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:50:35 +0200
Some things I would like to see in gnumeric:
* new sheet types (graphs, macros, objects). IMHO, we should be able to
have a sheet with anything we can have at the moment as a sheet object.
* objects in cells. I'd like to extend the cells so that a cell can
contain an object.
* support for components. It would be nice to insert components (as
supported in goffice) as a sheet, as a sheet object and as a cell
content (this idea was suggested by another chemist who would like to
embed a molecule formula inside a cell). It would be possible also to
use the components in formulas, if we add an appropriate interface to
the component API. I'll give a new chemical example: suppose I have a
chemical formula in A1, in B1, I'd like to type
=object_property(A1,"mass") and get the molar mass of the molecule.
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The quality of data on health at the population level varies widely across the world. In areas which lack general routine data (and which are often also impoverished in other respects), much can be learnt from detailed studies of populations in specific local areas. One such population in South Africa, the Agincourt Centre, occupies a world-leading position in this respect, having followed a defined population since 1992 and accumulated around one million person-years of data. As such it serves as a methodological incubator from which new techniques for measuring population health can be disseminated throughout Africa and Asia. The purpose of this research exchange programme is to permit researchers from the Agincourt Centre to work collaboratively with researchers in leading European centres, who in turn will also spend time engaging with field-based implementations and evaluations in South Africa. The exchange programme is built on a solid foundation of less-intensive collaboration during the past decade, the primary aim now being to consolidate and accelerate the partners' joint programmes of work. The outputs will include a substantial number of scientific papers, completed PhD training for two staff from Agincourt (implemented on a "sandwich" basis as an integral part of the exchange programme), and methodological developments which can be put into practice across Africa and Asia.
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AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT : A Conceptual Framework
Dr. Engelbart 1962
The Conceptual Framework
Detailed Discussion of the H-LAM/T System
This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being.
A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems.
One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promise is the computer, when it can be harnessed for direct on-line assistance, integrated with new concepts and methods.
NOTE: This paper by Douglas Engelbart lays out the theoretical foundations to his subsequent work and our subsequent information enviornments. It has been split into four separate sections and a lot of dated information has been removed. The full version all on one page is available here. Printer friendly PDF version available here. Digest edit and contents frame system design & implementation by Frode Hegland, London 2001 _EMAIL_ _URL_


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It's All Politics
Tue October 23, 2012
Why Are Elections On Tuesdays?
Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 12:43 pm
It's Tuesday — exactly two weeks out from Nov. 6, Election Day. Why is voting day for American federal elections always a Tuesday? The answer is a bit obscure and has to do with buggies.
Let me explain.
The story starts all the way back with the Founding Fathers. "The Constitutional Convention just met for a very brief time during the summer of 1787," Senate Historian Don Ritchie says. "By the time they got finished they were exhausted and they hadn't made up their minds on a lot of things."
They were pooped. So they left the question of when federal elections should be held undecided. Without that laid out, states were left to set their own voting dates, which meant several decades of electoral chaos. Ritchie describes it as a "crazy quilt of elections" held at all different times, all over the country.
Finally, in 1845, Congress decided to get things under control. Ritchie says lawmakers reasoned that Monday was out because (this is where the buggies come in) people would have to travel to the polls in their buggies on Sunday, the Sabbath. And in a mostly farming society, Wednesday wouldn't work because that was often market day.
So, Tuesday was the day, and that seemed to work great for 19th century voters. "In the 1840s, elections were a big to-do — there was a lot of hoopla, there were parades," Ritchie says. "Whole families would come on wagons from the farms; people would get dressed up for the occasion."
Though the America of buggies and markets has long since given way to minivans and supermarkets, Tuesday remains the day we vote.
"That may have made sense in 1845, but the world has moved on," Rep. Steve Israel, a New York Democrat, says. "Democracies have moved on, and so Congress should also move on and make it easier for people to vote."
There are, of course, other options for a lot of folks, like absentee and early voting. Still, there are voters who can't cast ballots unless they can find a way to get to the polls on Tuesday. "In 15 states you do not have an opportunity to vote early or by an absentee ballot or by mail, which means you have to vote on Tuesday," says Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday, who also is a host and producer for HuffPost Live. "It's just ridiculous; it's absurd. There is absolutely no good reason whatsoever to vote on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November."
Soboroff and Israel say Tuesday voting bars access to democracy and keeps America's voter turnout chronically low. They point to census survey data showing that 1 in 4 people says he's too busy or his schedule doesn't allow him to get to the polls.
Their solution? Move Election Day to the weekend. Israel has been introducing and reintroducing a bill to move voting to the weekend.
But moving poll day turns out to be no easy task. The weekend voting bill keeps dying in committee. And earlier this year, when the Government Accountability Office talked to elections officials about how weekend voting would work, they came up with a list of logistical difficulties, from keeping equipment safe overnight to recruiting poll workers to work the weekend. There's also, of course, no guarantee that moving Election Day would change voter turnout.
Then there's the simple fact that Americans have gotten used to voting on Tuesday. "We're a very traditional county, and that became a tradition in a lot of ways," says Ritchie. "That's the way people were accustomed to doing it, people could count on it, you could set your calendars on it."
For this election, the date is set. So — as in every presidential election since the 1840s — Tuesday is the day to vote.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
This morning after the debate is a Tuesday. And in exactly two weeks, many voters will head to the polls and cast their ballots.
NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin wondered: Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays?
SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN, BYLINE: The answer, turns out, is a little obscure. Senate Historian Don Ritchie had to dig through some historical documents so he could explain.
DON RITCHIE: In the early 19th century, basically, it was a crazy quilt of elections.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: He says, the Constitutional Convention didn't get to some key details, leaving states to set their own voting dates, which meant several decades of electoral chaos.
RITCHIE: So finally in 1845, Congress passed law...
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: If it were Monday, they reasoned, people would have to travel in their buggies on Sunday, the Sabbath. And in a mostly farming society, Wednesday was out because that was often market day. Tuesday was the day and that seemed to work great.
RITCHIE: In the 1840s, elections were a big to-do. There was a lot of hoopla, there were parades. Whole families would come on wagons from the farms, people would get dressed up for the occasion.
REPRESENTATIVE STEVE ISRAEL: Well, that may have made sense in 1845 but the world has moved on, democracies have moved on. And so, Congress should move on and make it easier for people to vote.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Now that there are no buggies or market days, Democratic Congressman Steve Israel, of New York, says Tuesday no longer works.
It isn't exactly a convenient day for a lot of folks. When the Census has surveyed people about why they don't vote, one-in-four says they're too busy, or their schedules don't allow them to get to the polls.
Now many states have other options like early voting. But not all, says Jacob Soboroff with advocacy group Why Tuesday.
JACOB SOBOROFF: In 15 states, you do not have an opportunity to vote early or with an absentee ballot or by mail, which means you have to vote on Tuesday.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Soboroff and congressman Israel say this bars access to democracy. They say it keeps America's voter turnout chronically low. But moving Election Day from Tuesday turns out to be no easy task.
RITCHIE: We're a very traditional country and that became a tradition in a lot of ways.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Historian Don Ritchie says people can set their calendars to it, they can count on it, they're used to it. And though congressman Israel has been introducing and reintroducing a bill to move voting to the weekend, it keeps dying in committee.
ISRAEL: I'm not giving up. I think it's just that important.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: It's not exactly a very sexy issue. It's a little bit technical.
ISRAEL: You know, some people would say a rather arcane issue. But I think it's a rather profound issue. I can't think of anything more important than making sure that people will have an opportunity to cast their votes.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: For this election, the date is set. So, as in every presidential election since the 1840s, Tuesday is the day to vote.
Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
GREENE: You're spending your Tuesday listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


text: To improve the knowledge in chronophysiology we investigated the causal link between the most important physiological variable studied until now; ten Sarda ewes and ten Sarda goats, pluriparus not pregnant and no lactating, were used. Animals were housed under natural environmental conditions in a common stall, alfalfa hay and water were available ad libitum. Each animal was equipped with an Actiwatch-Mini® for recording total activity. Blood samples were collected every 4 h over a 48 h period for the assessment of melatonin concentration. Rectal temperature was recorded with a digital thermometer immediately before the blood sampling at each data point. Single cosinor method showed a daily rhythm of studied variables. Higher MESOR and amplitude values of melatonin and rectal temperature were observed in sheep than in goats. The diurnal acrophase of locomotor activity was statistically different from the nocturnal acrophase of melatonin and rectal temperature, with no differences between the two species. Robustness was statistically lower in total locomotor activity in comparison with the others two variables, with a differences due to species in melatonin daily rhythm. In conclusion, in small ruminants, melatonin and rectal temperature daily rhythms are strictly correlated, and are not associated with the locomotor activity rhythm.


text: The Laboratory of Electrical Machines of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) has developed a software (TLSim) for the simulation of electrical urban transportation systems. This program can simulate the behaviour of the power supply network (current and voltage level at any point of the topology) comprising uniand bidirectionnal sub-stations. In the network the vehicules (trolleybus) may run along any defined path through different electrical supply sectors. Several models of trolleybus are available, one of these allowing for the injection of current back in the supply network. The operating schedule of the buses as well as the geographical data of the network are provided by the user. This program is a perfect tool for system planning as ascertained by its use by a Swiss transportation operator. A comparison of simulation and measurements on a real network has been performed with satisfactory results. This software evolved from a specific study to a flexible program still being extended with new developments. The latest of such developments being the study of the influence of capacitors in helping the system to keep voltages over a specified level mainly by supplying the surge current during the acceleration of the trolleybuses.


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Muscle-powered sound synthesis (Workshop)
In this workshop, we convert hand-crank flashlights to off-grid sound machines.
Electric energy served via the power grid is almost exclusively generated through large rotating magnets for immediate consumption. The seclusion of those colossal generators from us, their energy consumers, creates a deceptive gap in our perception. Their absence in the lived-in world counteracts an intuitive understanding of the scale of physical work needed to power a city. A felt awareness of what is necessary to heat an oven compared to energizing a lamp or powering a sound system is lost to the perceived infinite supply of energy through the fantastic power socket.
We can regain a felt awareness of the scales of electric power systems through the physical experience of rotating a generator using our musculature pushing trillions of electrons. The beads of sweat on our foreheads dancing to the generated sounds will reflect the results of our endeavor with immediacy.
Using second-hand electric torches and scrapped electronics we will build a hurdy-gurdy synthesizer. Unlike with most electronic devices, the electric energy consumed by our synthesizer will be handmade. The movement of our body directly translates to the voltage the synthesizer receives, enabling the musician to explore soundscapes at the fringe of a working circuit. The built objects will be sonic memorials to the infrastructures of electric power.
Open for any level of experience in soldering, electronics, and synthesizers.
Partcipants are invited to take part to the collaborative performance during the
AMRO Nightly Builds in Raumschiff.
Material cost: 10€