Why are religious Jews scared of dogs? Whenever I walk mine past an observant family, all the kids hide behind their mother's skirt in terror. Is there some curse on dogs?
I know exactly how your dog feels. I often get a similar reaction from Jews. While many observant Jews are scared of dogs, many unobservant Jews are terrified of rabbis. There's something in common between dogs and rabbis that make us both objects of trepidation. And it's not the facial hair.
People fear the unfamiliar.
Most religious homes do not have pets. Perhaps because families with many kids are less likely to seek non-human companionship, perhaps because it can be tricky to care for animals on Shabbat, or perhaps it's just a cultural thing, but other than the odd goldfish, pets are rare in observant communities.
So those who are unaccustomed to canine company are often scared of dogs. People are scared of rabbis for the same reason. Both dogs and rabbis are loved by those who know them, and instill fear into those who don't.
But that's where the similarity ends. The underlying causes of these two fears are very different, almost opposite. The fear of dogs (cynophobia) comes from the fear of being bitten. Fear of rabbis (rabbinophobia) comes from the fear of being inspired.
What many Jews fear the most is that if they learn a little bit about Judaism they might like it. And if they like it they might want more. And if they want more they may have to live more Jewishly. This means change - and change, even for the better, is scary.
The cure for cynophobia is to play with a few dogs and see that there is no basis for your fear. But the cure for rabbinophobia is to look into Judaism and to actually let your greatest fear come true - you will like it, and you'll want more.


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Variations of hemoglobin (Hb) oxygenation in tissue provide important indications concerning the physiological conditions of tissue, and the data related to these variations are of intense interest in medical research as well as in clinical care. In this study, we derived a new algorithm to estimate Hb oxygenation from diffuse reflectance spectra. The algorithm was developed based on the unique spectral profile differences between the extinction coefficient spectra of oxy-Hb and deoxy-Hb within the visible wavelength region. Using differential wavelet transformation, these differences were quantified using the locations of certain spectral features, and, then, they were related to the oxygenation saturation level of Hb. The applicability of the algorithm was evaluated using a set of diffuse reflectance spectra produced by a Monte Carlo simulation model of photon migration and by tissue phantoms experimentally. The algorithm was further applied to the diffuse reflectance spectra acquired from in vivo experiments to demonstrate its clinical utility. The validation and evaluation results concluded that the algorithm is applicable to various tissue types (i.e., scattering properties) and can be easily used in conjunction with a diverse range of probe geometries for real-time monitoring of Hb oxygenation.
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Event ID 1022 is an Exchange database error. The error normally occurs as a result of hardware errors, especially those of a disk sub system such as device driver, bad hard disk drive or even a faulty disk controller. There are ways that you can deal with this error, and, in fact, help to ensure that you don't get them at all.
The 1022 error results in the database engine requesting a page from disk, but receiving an error from the I/O subsystem instead. When this error occurs the best way to start troubleshooting is by examining the System Log. Start the Event Viewer and click on System Log in the left-hand pane. Of course, you can also run disk diagnostics, such as ScanDisk, available through the Management Console, to determine if the disk has a problem.
A good proactive approach you can apply to detect physical corruptions is to perform regular online backups. Online backup is one of the best ways to determine whether there is a corruption in a database file, because it uses a process that systematically checks every single page in the database. Also setting up redundant disk arrays for the Exchange databases can rule out the possibility of a disk going bad, which can result in corrupted Exchange databases.
System logs can also provide early warning detection of any problems occurring.
Of course periodic visits to the System logs can also provide early warning detection of any problems occurring.
Adesh Rampat has 10 years
experience with network and IT administration. He is a member of the Association Of Internet Professionals, the Institute For Network Professionals, and the International Webmasters Association. He has also lectured extensively on a variety of topics.
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Tromping up a mountain to learn about backcountry ski mountaineering racing, host Dr. North gets a real workout. Having just flown in from Hong Kong, Dr. North has no winter gear, so borrows Strafe's Highlands Jacket. The waterproof jacket proves to keep the good doctor warm in 30 degree weather, and as he starts to work up a sweat, he discovers just how important breathability is in a jacket.
The key to staying comfortable is staying dry. While waterproof materials keep water from getting into a jacket, breathable materials allow water to escape from the inside of the jacket. Ideally you want both, and this is what Polartec's Neoshell does. During rigorous activity a person will start sweating to cool themselves, this sweat turns into water vapor inside the jacket. To allow the water vapor to escape, Neoshell has microscopic pores big enough to allow the water vapor to escape, and small enough to keep water out. By allowing the water vapor to escape, Dr. North remains dry inside the jacket, allowing him to stay warm and feeling good!


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Area motorist may be seeing a different type of tillage being performed on farm fields in the county. Albert Maag, Putnam County SWCD technician, recently acquired a USDA-NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to investigate using a strip-tiller to incorporate fall fertilizer. Five demonstration sites consisting of 40 acres each were completed last week. The demonstrations are located around Ottawa (2), Glandorf, Kalida, and Pandora. Blanchard Valley Coop is assisting with the equipment for the demonstrations. The goal of the demonstration plots is to see if strip tillage with fall fertilizer application is a feasible method of producing no-till corn while reducing nutrient runoff, especially phosphorus movement to surface water.
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Creating wait for approval tasks#
A Wait for approval task pauses a deployment until a designated user provides approval. Email notifications are sent to users when the task starts.
Before using email tasks in your deployments, setup an email server.
To create a wait for approval task, complete the following steps:
 1. On the Deployment plan detail page, click Create Task.
 If you want to insert a task at a specific position in the plan, select a task before using the Create Task. The new task is inserted above the selected task.
 2. On the Create Task dialog box, in the Type list, select Wait for approval.
 3. In the Name field, enter a name for the task.
 4. In the Approval prompt field, enter the text that you want to include in the email message.
 The text is displayed in the Task Details section of the email.
 5. In the Approvers list, select the users or groups designated to approve the task.
 Team members and groups are available to choose.
 6. In the Required approverarea, specify whether all the approvers must approve the task, or a single approver is sufficient.
 7. Click Save.
 The task is inserted into the deployment plan.
When the task runs, email notifications are sent to the selected approvers. The deployment plan cannot progress until the task is approved or skipped. Approval is granted by completing the task in the deployment plan.
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Sweet lemon, also known as mosambi in India, is a term is often used to refer to a certain type of sweetish lemon, which is a subspecies of the citrus genus and is often referred to by its botanical name citrus limetta. This fruit is edible either in raw or cooked form and is often used in sweet lemon recipes such as fruit salads.
Origins of Sweet Lemon
Sweet lemon origins are unclear, but it was spread from one continent to another by humans. Highly popular in North America this fruit is widely cultivated in California. In the Mediterranean region it is grown in Italy and can even be found in several other tropical countries such as India, where it cultivated in a number of states. In countries such as India this fruit is known as mosambi and is used in various sweet lemon recipes.
Culinary Uses of Sweet Lemon
Sweet lemon look very much like oranges, however they can often be differentiated from oranges by their taste which is either acidic or slightly sweet. Also as this fruit is closely related to limes, they are very often mistaken to be large limes. The taste of this fruit mostly depends on whether it is ripe or unripe. Some sweet lemon recipes such as fruit salads require raw ripe fruit while others specifically require unripe fruit.
Popular Sweet Lemon Recipes
Sweet lemon is often used in various sweet lemon recipes as the central ingredient or as a marinade. The scraped zest of unripe or ripe fruit is often used as a dressing in desserts and can add a fresh summery flavor. Mosambi in India is also used in the creation of squashes and juice. Mosambi juice is an all time summer favorite as it can be prepared easily, and is good for diabetics as it needs only a little sweetening to become palatable.
The juice of the sweet lemon is often used as a marinade for chicken and can be used as a good substitute for sweet vinegar. In addition to chicken various other meats also combine well with this fruit.
Unripe sweet lemon or mosambi is often used in Indian cooking, especially in the making of pickles. In such sweet lemon recipes lime is substituted with sweet lemon giving such pickles a unique flavor.
Cuisines Using Sweet Lemon
Sweet lemon as it is widely available has slowly started making its presence felt in international cuisine. Ripe fruit can often be eaten as it is without added sweetening and many cultures believe that the fruit and especially its white pith aids digestion. In India mosambi based recipes are valued for their cooling effect.
Nutritive Value of Sweet Lemon
Sweet lemon, like its cousin the lime, has high amounts of vitamin C otherwise known as ascorbic acid. This high concentration gives it a distinct tangy bite. The juice of the fruit is considered to be a good weight loss aid as it is low in calories, and can often be consumed without any artificial sweeteners such as sugar.
Buying and Storing Sweet Lemon
Sweet lemon are available throughout the year in tropical countries like India and often do not need to be stored. When unripe fruit is bought, it can be kept wrapped in a room to help it ripen. When buying it is essential to look for fruit that is slightly yellow, heavy and unblemished.


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Hybrid Metaheuristics and Linear Programming for Finite Capacity MRP in Multi-Stage Flexible Flow Shop with Permutation and Non-permutation Scheduling Options
This paper presents a new algorithm for Finite Capacity MRP (FCMRP) in a multi-stage flexible flow shop. The proposed algorithm consists of four conventional metaheuristics namely, Genetic Algorithm (GA), Tabu Search (TS), Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), and Simulated Annealing (SA) hybridized with Linear Programming (LP). The objective is to minimize the total cost, which is the sum of tardiness, earliness, and flow-time costs. There are two main steps of the proposed algorithm. Firstly, an efficient sequence of orders is generated by the proposed metaheuristics in a way that reduce the total cost. In this step, the required operations of the orders are scheduled based on two scheduling options called permutation and non-permutation. Secondly, the total cost is minimized by the LP model. The required parameters of the metaheuristics are tuned by using real data from automotive companies. The result shows that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the existing algorithm, and GA obtains the best total cost.
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This article is about the Semitic letter. For the band, see Qoph (band).
Phonemic representation kˤ, q, g
Position in alphabet 19
Numerical value 100
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Qōp Phoenician qoph.svg, Hebrew Qof ק, Aramaic Qop Qoph.svg, Syriac Qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic Qāf ق (in abjadi order). Its sound value is an emphatic [] or [q]. In Hebrew gematria, it has the numerical value of 100.
The origin of qoph is uncertain. It is usually suggested to have originally depicted either a sewing needle, specifically the eye of a needle (the Hebrew קוף means "hole"), or the back of a head and neck (qāf in Arabic meant "nape").[1] According to an older suggestion, it may also have been a picture of a monkey and its tail.[2]
Hebrew Qof[edit]
The Oxford Hebrew-English Dictionary gives the letter Qoph a transliteration value of q or k; and, when word-final, it may be transliterated as ck. The normal English spellings of Biblical names containing this letter may represent it as C or K, e.g. Cain for Hebrew Qayin, or Kenan for Qenan (Genesis 4:1, 5:9).
Orthographic variants
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ק ק ק Hebrew letter Kuf handwriting.svg Hebrew letter Kuf Rashi.png
Hebrew spelling: קוֹף
In modern Israeli Hebrew the letter is also called kuf. The letter represents /k/; i.e., no distinction is made between Qof and Kaph. However, many historical groups have made that distinction, with Qof being pronounced [q] by Iraqi Jews and other Mizrahim, or even as [ɡ] by Yemenite Jews under the influence of Yemeni Arabic.
Significance of Qof[edit]
Qof in gematria represents the number 100. Sarah is described in Genesis Rabba as בת ק' כבת כ' שנה לחטא, literally "At Qof years of age, she was like Kaph years of age in sin", meaning that when she was 100 years old, she was as sinless as when she was 20.
After a child says something false, one might retort: "B'Shin Qoph, Resh" (with Shin, Qoph, Resh). These letters spell sheqer, which is the Hebrew word for a lie. It would be akin to an English speaker saying "That's an L-I-E."
Arabic qāf[edit]
The letter ق is named قاف qāf and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form: ق ـق ـقـ قـ
It is usually transliterated into Latin script as q, though some scholarly works use.[3]
According to Sibawayh, author of the first book on Arabic grammar, the letter is pronounced as a voiced phoneme.[4] As noted above, Modern Standard Arabic has the voiceless uvular plosive /q/ as its standard pronunciation of the letter, but dialectical pronunciations vary as follows:
This variance has led to the confusion over the spelling of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's name in Latin letters. In Western Arabic dialects the sound [q] is more preserved but can also be sometimes pronounced [ɡ] or as a simple [k] under Berber and French influence.
The Maghribi text renders qāf and fā' differently than elsewhere would:
منكم فقد ضل سواء السبيل فبما نقضهم ميثـٰـقهم لعنـٰـهم وجعلنا قلوبهم قـٰـسية يحرفون الكلم عن مواضعه ونسوا حظاً مما ذكروا به ولا تزال تطلع
Maghrebi variant[edit]
The Maghrebi style of writing qāf is different: having only a single point (dot) above; when the letter is isolated or word-final, it may sometimes become unpointed.[5]
The Maghrebi qāf
Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Form of letter: ٯ ـٯ ـڧـ ڧـ
The earliest Arabic manuscripts show qāf in several variants: pointed (above or below) or unpointed.[6] Then the prevalent convention was having a point above for fā' and a point below for qāf; this practice is now only preserved in manuscripts from the Maghribi,[7] with the exception of Libya and Algeria, where the Mashriqi form (two dots above: ق) prevails.
Within Maghribi texts, there is no possibility of confusing it with the letter fā', as it is instead written with a dot underneath (ڢ) in the Maghribi script.[8]
In Persian, the letter is pronounced [ɣ]~[ɢ].
Character encodings[edit]
Character ק ق ܩ
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1511 U+05E7 1602 U+0642 1833 U+0729 2066 U+0812
UTF-8 215 167 D7 A7 217 130 D9 82 220 169 DC A9 224 160 146 E0 A0 92
Numeric character reference ק ק ق ق ܩ ܩ ࠒ ࠒ
Character 𐎖 𐡒 𐤒
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 66454 U+10396 67666 U+10852 67858 U+10912
UTF-8 240 144 142 150 F0 90 8E 96 240 144 161 146 F0 90 A1 92 240 144 164 146 F0 90 A4 92
UTF-16 55296 57238 D800 DF96 55298 56402 D802 DC52 55298 56594 D802 DD12
Numeric character reference 𐎖 𐎖 𐡒 𐡒 𐤒 𐤒
 1. ^ Travers Wood, Henry Craven Ord Lanchester, A Hebrew Grammar, 1913, p. 7. A. B. Davidson, Hebrew Primer and Grammar, 2000, p. 4. The meaning is doubtful. "Eye of a needle" has been suggested, and also "knot" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology vol. 45.
 2. ^ Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: "The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,'... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot'.
 3. ^ e.g., The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
 4. ^ Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Language, pg. 131. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. Paperback edition. ISBN 9780748614363
 5. ^ van den Boogert, N. (1989). "Some notes on Maghrebi script" (PDF). Manuscript of the Middle East 4. p. 38 shows qāf with a superscript point in all four positions.
 6. ^ Gacek, Adam (2008). The Arabic Manuscript Tradition. Brill. p. 61. ISBN 90-04-16540-1.
 7. ^ Gacek, Adam (2009). Arabic Manuscripts: A Vademecum for Readers. Brill. p. 145. ISBN 90-04-17036-7.
 8. ^ Muhammad Ghoniem, M S M Saifullah, cAbd ar-Rahmân Robert Squires & cAbdus Samad, Are There Scribal Errors In The Qur'ân?, see qif on a traffic sign written ڧڢ which is written elsewhere as قف, Retrieved 2011-August-27
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The Piskies of Cornwall
There are a number of creatures particular to Cornish folklore, although their cousins can be found elsewhere in Britain under a different name and guise. One of these strains is the Piskie also known as a Pixie in other West Country counties.
The Piskie is a general name for a fairy race or tribe in Cornwall. In appearance they look like old men with wrinkled faces, and are small in stature with red hair. They dress in the colours of the earth especially green, using natural materials such as moss, grass and lichen.
Cornish Piskie: by Daniel ParkinsonCornish Piskie: by Daniel ParkinsonGenerally the piskies are seen as cheerful creatures with a prankish nature. They are said to be helpful but also mischievous, helping the elderly and infirm whilst sometimes leading the more able bodied traveller astray on the lonely moors. Many stories relate to travellers being led into the wild moorland to become hopelessly lost because of the Piskies.
In many ways the Piskies are similar to the Brownies being helpful but also mischievous in nature.
Often places of ancient worship such as stone circles and barrows were avoided as piskie haunts.
There are many legends attached to the origin of the piskies (and other fairies). Some people saw them as the souls of pagans who could not transcend to heaven, and they were also seen as the remnants of pagan gods, banished with the coming of Christianity. In tradition they are doomed to shrink in size until they disappear.
Another theory suggested they were the souls of babies who had not been Christened, a story championed by early clergymen, and one which has often been used to explain fairy origins.
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Tombs of the sacrificers?
A few tombs share the characteristic of containing a few very specific objects
: full warrior equipment including a sword in its sheath, spear, shield and also a knife or cleaver (butcher's blade) and an axe with an eye handle, together with one or more small buckets, a bronze pan, a toolbox, and fragments of amphorae. One or other of these objects may be missing, depending on the chronology, but the assembly is still remarkable
. The trilogy of weapon(s)-small bucket(s)-axe/cleaver is always found and the general destruction of the weapons is reminiscent of the Gauls' sacred sites.
One of the axes fits perfectly into the wound in the skull of the murdered man discovered at the settlement and this similarity, together with the specific sets of metal objects, could indicate the tombs of sacrificers
. The replacement of the axe with the butcher's cleaver, at a time when hundreds of ewes were ritually slaughtered at the settlement, is another argument for viewing these remains as those of men of religion.


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"The Significance of Myth in Ceremony"
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The Significance of Myth in Ceremony
Many people in our culture misunderstand the function of myth. We typically assume that there are two kinds of narrative, completely distinct from one another: a journalistic compilation of facts, all literally true and verifiable, or stories spun by a fiction writer for the purpose of entertainment only. Myth, we assume, falls resoundingly into the latter group. While primitive and superstitious people may have once believed that the sun was pulled across the sky by a chariot, we in our infinite scientific wisdom know that is not the reason that the sun appears to move in the sky when viewed from earth. Therefore, the myth is written off purely as a work of fiction and fantasy.
Indigenous peoples throughout the world, however, look at their myths and folktales in quite another way. They recognize in them an explanation, not for the way physical science works or history occurred, but for the way their culture feels about itself.
Myths explain by analogy concepts that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to explain literally. They do so in a way that bypasses the conscious, analytical mind and heads straight for the heart (technically, the unconscious). The stories are thus both emotionally and psychologically satisfying, and can have a very therapeutic effect when an individual's spirit is sick. When he feels, in other words, out of sync with the group that gives him his ultimate identity.
This is the situation in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. The protagonist, Tayo, has suffered what we would consider a nervous breakdown as a result of traumas suffered in the war. The trauma actually occurred because he was ordered to shoot enemy soldiers, who seemed to him to bear the faces of his ancestors. He is first sent to...


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Distance of closest approach of two ships problem
Two ships are 10 km apart on a line running south to north. The one farther north is steaming west at 20 km/h. The other is steaming north at 20 km/h. What is their distance of closest approach? How long do they take to reach it?
Solution and Answer:
The main hindrance to solving problem is that students fail to visualize the situation.
Let's represent the condition using a diagram.
Let the first ship steaming north be named A and the other B. The relative velocity of A with respect to B is 20 √2 south west. If we extend the line along the 45° south west from the initial position of A, the distance of closest approach is the perpendicular drawn from B to this line.
So, the distance of closest appraoch = 10 sin 45° = 10/√2 = 7.07 m
Time taken to reach the distance of closest approach = distance of closest approach / relative speed
= (10/√2)/(20 √2)
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6 cups fresh blackberries
3 cups sugar
1 1 3/4 oz. package of dry pectin
- Add the blackberries to a large pot or Dutch oven.
- Using a potato masher, crush the blackberries. Do not use a food processor to do this step.
- Add the pectin powder to the blackberries and stir.
- Heat the blackberries over medium-high heat until they begin to boil.
- Add the sugar to the mixture and stir.
- When the blackberries begin to boil again, remove them from the heat and ladle the mixture into clean, hot mason jars. Leave 1/4 inch space at the top.
- Wipe the rim clean using a cloth. Then place canning lids and rings on top of each jar so that they are on tight.
- Place the jars in a canner that is filled with hot water to a depth of 1 inch above the tops of the lids of the jars.
- Bring the water in the canner to a boil for 10 minutes, then remove the jars from the canner using tongs.
- Let the jam cool for 12 hours. During this time, the jam inside will contract forming an air-tight seal.


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What Is a Cantor?
Jeremiah Lockwood tells (and demonstrates) the duty and power of a cantor during the synagogue service.
What is a cantor? The Jewish prayer leader, also known as a hazzan or chazan, isn't just a singer--the hazzan is the central figure who conducts weekday, Shabbat, and holiday services in a synagogue. Jeremiah Lockwood of the band The Sway Machinery explains.


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Delphi's typeless var params have been mentioned a few times recently as one of the (many) new black magic bits of Delphi for.NET. Here's how we got typeless params to work in strongly typed.NET managed code.
First, let's make sure we're all talking about the same thing. This is a typeless var param in use:
procedure foo(var x); // typeless var param. "out" also supported typeless
var local: sometype;
 local := sometype(x);
 use local;
 x := new value;
var outer: TMyClass;
 outer := TMyClass.Create;
There are a few tricky parts with typeless var params: sending arbitrary data into the param, using that param within the procedure, and then sending data back out again to a variable whose type is not known to the proc.
Sending arbitrary data into the param is fairly simple in.NET, thanks to boxing. The actual type of the 'x' param in the IL metadata is System.Object& (& for pass by reference). Integers or other non-object data can be boxed and sent in.
Using the param inside the routine isn't all that bad as long as you don't use Lcasts – typecasts on the left side of the assignment operator. RCasts (on the right side) can transform the data into temp variables, but LCasts have to modify the variable itself, which.NET generally doesn't like. So, the technique is to declare a local var and assign the typeless param to the local, then operate on the local. That saves a lot of ugly casting in the source code. When you're done, assign the final value back to the typeless param.
The coolest part is in sending the data back out to the variable that was passed into the typeless var param. In a sense, you're pushing data "uphill", from a less specific type (TObject) to a more specific type (the type of the variable). That isn't an issue in Win32 because the Intel x86 chip doesn't know anything about types (other than int,float, and pointer). But in.NET, pushing data uphill requires an explicit cast.
The trick in Delphi is that the compiler doesn't pass a reference to the given variable itself, but instead creates a temp variable of type System.Object and passes that by reference to the routine. Upon returning from the call, the compiler casts the temp variable to the type of the original variable, then assigns the result of the cast back to the original variable.
If the routine assigned something to the typeless var which is incompatible with the type of the variable you passed in, you will get a cast exception at the source line that made the call. The cast is actually executed after the function call returned, but it's still considered part of the instruction stream associated with that line of source.
Language Features vs Language Interop
Typeless var parms are a Delphi language feature that will not be fully understood by other.NET languages. C# code can certainly see and call this foo() routine, and C# code can pass data in by reference as System.Object instances, but C# doesn't understand the symantics around the call that the Delphi compiler has set up. C# and other.NET languages won't know that they should generate a cast at the call site after the call returns. You'll have to create the local temp and make the cast yourself in C# code.
Artifacts / Side effects
There is a small risk of seeing artifacts using this technique. Specifically, the routine that is operating on the typeless var param is not operating on the address of the actual variable passed to the routine, it's operating on a copy of that reference. The artifact is known as parameter aliasing. If you pass a global variable to the typeless var of the routine, and the routine modifies the parameter and then compares the parameter to the global variable, the change will not yet appear in the global variable. The change will not be seen in the global variable by any code until execution returns from the call to the routine and the compiler generated code can cast and assign from the temp to the original (global) var.
We decided this parameter aliasing artifact introduced by this implementation technique was an acceptable risk to enable typeless vars. Parameter aliasing artifacts are nothing new and can be created in Win32 code through a number of questionable coding habits. The general rule for typeless var params is: be very careful of comparing or using global vars inside routines that take typeless var params. 99% of the time, this isn't an issue because the routine with the typeless var param is an isolated leaf node that has no knowledge of any global variables.
Delphi 8 for.NET uses typeless var params to implement FreeAndNil() and the Supports() family of functions.


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What Did Ancient Egyptians Really Eat?
(ISNS) — Did the ancient Egyptians eat like us? If you're a vegetarian, tucking in along the Nile thousands of years ago would have felt just like home.
In fact, eating lots of meat is a recent phenomenon. In ancient cultures vegetarianism was much more common, except in nomadic populations. Most sedentary populations ate fruit and vegetables.
Although previous sources found the ancient Egyptians to be pretty much vegetarians, until this new research it wasn't possible to find out the relative amounts of the different foods they ate. Was their daily bread really daily? Did they binge on eggplants and garlic? Why didn't someone spear a fish?
A French research team figured out that by looking at the carbon atoms in mummies that had lived in Egypt between 3500 B.C. and 600 A.D. you could find out what they ate.
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Many objects that survived the fire lost their identity. Not only were hundreds of objects and specimens burnt beyond recognition, but the museum also lost many of its archives. The records of how objects arrived at the museum, who they were owned by and why they were considered important enough to collect were also lost that night.
This 2,000 year old coin barely survived the flames. Not only is it charred, but it had begun to melt from the intense heat of the fire. Although the coin was rescued from the museum its records were lost. Without them it is impossible to say who donated it to the museum and why.


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The function of loading dye in electrophoresis is to allow the DNA sample to sink into the wells of the gel and to allow scientists to visually track the DNA sample as it runs through the gel. Gel electrophoresis is a method used by scientists to separate DNA into various size strands. The loading dye causes the DNA sample to be denser than the running buffer.
The difference in density forces the DNA sample to sink into the bottom of the well and prevents the sample from diffusing into the buffer. Loading dyes consist of tracking dyes that migrate with the DNA samples. Glycerol and bromophenol blue is a common mixture used to create a loading buffer. The glycerol binds to the DNA and makes it heavier, while bromophenol blue stains the DNA. An ethidium bromide solution is generally used when running a gel electrophoresis. Ethidium bromide is a chemical that can be seen under ultraviolet lighting. Ethidium bromide and other fluorescent dyes bind to DNA samples and glow when placed in a transilluminator. The amount of dye used is crucial when running a gel electrophoresis. Specific dyes correlate to certain band sizes in DNA samples. Too much or too little dye can obscure the expected DNA sample size.


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(Note that this functionality is NOT supported by Internet Explorer, but it is possible in Firefox, Opera and Safari.)
External smilText format
The format of an external fragment is shown below:
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A smilText object placed in an external file should have its path placed in the HTML source text as follows:
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External smilText samples
Ten very techie pages illustrate a host of browser-embedded smilText examples. Note that some pages have many simultaneous smilText fragments active at once. Consider them eye tests for your mind. The samples are:
- A set of simple external smilText file examples, including links to the sources.
- A set of structured external smilText file examples, including links to the sources.
- A set of motion-based embedded smilText file examples, including links to the sources.
- A set of browser-specific tests for Firefox, IE-7, Opera and Safari, all including links to the sources.
- This demonstrator shows how smilText JS can caption a YouTube video (NOT supported by Safari).
- This example shows how event listeners can be associated to the presentation of a smilText document.
- This example shows how to create smilText documents on the fly.
For more information on composing a timed text file using smilText, see the chapter on smilText, taken from the book SMIL 3.0: Interactive Multimedia for the Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books.


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What's New in IBM Cognos Analytics
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 This What's New in IBM Cognos Analytics training class introduces new features in Cognos Analytics.It includes new products like dashboards and data modules and new techniques with IBM Cognos® Analytics Reporting. Topics include portal navigation, searching, creating dashboards and data modules, and examining new reporting options.The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops.
 This course is intended for Report Authors, Developers and consumers, who will transition from Cognos 10 to Cognos Analytics or who are new to IBM Cognos Analytics to create, maintain, and run reports and dashboards.
 Course Outline
 1. Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
 1. Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
 2. Overview of Data Modules, Dashboards and Reporting
 2. Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics Portal
 1. IBM Cognos Analytics Interface
 2. Navigating the Portal
 3. Running and Saving Reports
 4. Creating Folders
 5. Setting Preferences
 6. Subscriptions
 7. Searching
 3. New Reporting Features
 1. Examine the new Reporting Interface
 2. Use Layouts and Templates
 3. Create Reports with Multiple Packages
 4. Introduction to Data Modules
 1. Overview of Data Modules
 2. Upload Files
 3. Create Data Modules from Uploaded Files, Data Servers and Packages
 4. Add a Navigation Path to a Data Module
 5. Add relative time to a data module
 5. Introduction to Dashboards and Stories
 1. Compare Dashboards and Stories
 2. Examine the Dashboard Interface
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 1. Maps
 2. KPI
 3. Forecasting
 4. Add Filters (Top, Bottom, etc.)
 5. Examine the Story Interface
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Taken Question from March 26, 2002 Daily Press Briefing
Afghanistan: Funding for an Afghan Army
Question: Secretary Rumsfeld mentioned that the State Department would play an important role in coaxing countries to contribute to training the Afghan national army. What are the needs and how are they being met?
Answer: The State Department manages U.S. security assistance programs overseas and will play an important role in marshalling the resources necessary to train and equip an Afghan army and police force. The Department will also lead the diplomatic effort to encourage other countries to contribute resources.
The Administration submitted a request for a supplemental appropriation to the Congress last week that includes $250 million for Afghanistan. Fifty $50 million of that request is for Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and $20 million is for Peacekeeping Operations (PKO), funds which, if appropriated, can be used to help train and equip the Afghan National Army. $20 million is for Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) funds with which we plan to help meet budget shortfalls for Afghan military salaries.
We are meeting next week in Geneva with other potential donors specifically to address the breadth of Afghanistan's security needs, including demobilization and a trained national army and police force. That will be an opportunity to better define the scope of the challenge, to present our plans to address Afghanistan's security needs, to hear the plans of others, and to seek to combine our efforts so that the burden of training and funding for that training is appropriately shared.


text: ColerainTownship (ImagesofAmerica) (Frank Scholle) ColerainTownship, the largest township in the state of Ohio, was founded in 1794. The first settlement in the township was in 1790, where John Dunlap and a small band of settlers built a little fort on the Great Miami River and named it Fort Coleraine. Later the settlement became known as Dunlap's Station. The township was primarily a rural farming area until the 1950s, when builders began to develop subdivisions. Businesses sprang up and shopping areas followed. From 1950 to 1960, the population almost quadrupled. Today Colerain is a bustling community with several shopping centers, major businesses, and around 63,000 residents.


strong, weak, unowned - Reference Counting in Swift
This article explains Apple's memory management in Swift. Even if it gets handled mostly automatic there are still some pitfalls. Choosing the correct reference type to describe the relationship between objects help you to avoid memory leaks.
Automatic Reference Counting
Apple's implementation for automatic tracking and managing of memory usage is called. It automatically frees up the memory when objects aren't referenced anymore. To know which objects are still in use it tracks the relationship between objects by increasing and decreasing a reference count. Objects can only be deallocated when the reference count is zero. ARC only applies to instances of Classes. Structs, Enums and Value-Types are not passed by reference. This is a another great reason to use Structs instead of Classes whenever possible.
You'll find strong references almost everywhere in Swift because it's the default declaration of a property. This doesn't lead to a problem when you have a linear reference flow. When you deallocate the parent and decrease the retain count, all child get decreased as well. Here is an example of a strong reference:
The initialisation of the car object is wrapped in a do block. This creates a scope around it. At the end of the scope the object gets deallocated and everything is fine:
However it's possible to write code with a strong reference cycles between class instances. This modified version of the previous example shows a reference cycle:
The car object now also has an optional reference to an Owner and the Owner has an optional reference to a Car. The output is:
The strong reference cycle prevents the retain count to reach zero to get deallocated and free up the memory. To solve this issue we need weak references.
Unlike strong references weak don't increase the retain count by one. So they don't protect the object from being deallocated by the ARC. On deallocation the weak reference will be automatically set to nil. This is the reason why all weak references are mutating optional variables. Defining a constant as weak is not possible.
Let's take a look at the previous example. Using a weak reference between the car and owner helps to fix the deallocation:
Now ARC correctly deallocates all objects:
Unowned references behave similar to weak ones. They don't increase the retain count by one as well. Unlike weak references unowned don't have to be an Optional because they aren't automatically set to nil on deallocation. It's important that you only use unowned references when you really know that the object will never be nil once it has been set.
According to Apple it's best to use when your reference and the referenced code will be deallocated at the same time.
weak vs. unowned - an advice from Apple
Apple's automatic memory management doesn't prevent you from producing memory leaks. Non-linear strong references and reference cycles can prevent the retain count from reaching zero. The use of weak and unowned references help you to avoid this and keep your app memory in balance.
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Noun: tranquility trang'kwi-lu-tee
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Windows server by default has many restrictions, and security options enabled. One such feature may cause some downloaded files to be locked.
For example, if you download an installation file from some unknown source and try to execute it, it just won't start, and it would look like nothing is happening - this most likely means a file is locked by the system. You can resolve this by following these steps:
- Press the right mouse button on the file that isn't opening;
- Select "Properties" from the list;
- Select tab "General";
- At the bottom of it you will see the following:
- To unlock the file, simply check the "Unblock" checkbox and then apply the changes.
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Definitions for hunchhʌntʃ
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word hunch
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
 1. (v.t.)to thrust out or up in a hump; arch:
 to hunch one's back.
 2. to shove, push, or jostle.
 3. (v.i.)to thrust oneself forward jerkily; lunge forward.
 4. to stand, sit, or walk in a bent posture.
 5. (n.)a premonition or suspicion; guess; theory.
 6. a hump.
 7. a push or shove.
 8. a lump or thick piece.
Origin of hunch:
1590–1600; appar. var. of obs. hinch to push, shove, kick, of obscure orig.
Princeton's WordNet
 1. intuition, hunch, suspicion(noun)
 an impression that something might be the case
 "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"
 2. hunch(verb)
 the act of bending yourself into a humped position
 3. hunch, hump, hunch forward, hunch over(verb)
 round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
 1. hunch(noun)ˈʌnʧ
 a feeling, not based on evidence, that sth is true
 I had a hunch that I'd find you here.
 2. hunch(verb)ˈʌnʧ
 to sit or stand with your shoulders curved tightly inward
 people at the bus stop hunched against the cold wind; He sat hunched over a book.
 1. hunch(Noun)
 A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
 The old man walked with a hunch.
 2. hunch(Noun)
 A theory, idea, or guess.
 I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.
 3. hunch(Noun)
 A hunk (piece of something)
 4. hunch(Verb)
 To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.
 Do not hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.
 5. hunch(Verb)
 To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
Webster Dictionary
 1. Hunch(noun)
 a hump; a protuberance
 2. Hunch(noun)
 a lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread
 3. Hunch(noun)
 a push or thrust, as with the elbow
 4. Hunch(verb)
 to push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly
 5. Hunch(verb)
 to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back
 1. Hunch
 Hunch is a consumer web application that is building the "taste graph" of the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity on the internet and their affinity for that entity. An entity could be a web site, a cookbook, a hotel room, a celebrity, a restaurant, etc.Hunch creates a taste profile by asking them a series of questions which range from serious to profound and subsequently can make recommendations personalized to that user, which live in "topics".Topics vary widely, from entertaining subjects like 'Which superhero would you be' to more conventional questions like 'Should I Switch to A Mac?' The system then uses the answers to these questions to offer the user a suggested solution, a "hunch" of what the user would like.
Translations for hunch
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an idea or belief based on one's feelings or suspicions rather than on clear evidence
I have a hunch he'll be late.
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Argentine ants strongly affect some but not all common insects on Baccharis halimifolia. Environmental Entomology 35: 31-36.
Associated species in the region include yaupon (Ilex vomitoria Ait.), American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana L.), gum bumelia (Bumelia lanuginosa Michx.) and eastern baccharis (Baccharis halimifolia L.).
(29) Gene-expression study of extracts obtained from several plants for inflammatory markers revealed Baccharis halimifolia (Groundsel Bush), Croton capitatus (Goat Weed), Saururus cernuus (Lizard's Tail), and Persea borbonia (Red Bay) to have strong anti-inflammatory activity.
1), a 224.6-ha salty prairie marsh, dominated by Gulf cordgrass (Spartina spartinae), saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina patens), and eastern baccharis (Baccharis halimifolia).
Four woody species (Pinus taeda, Baccharis halimifolia, Iva frutescens and Morella spp.) were identified within 10 m of seed traps located along the woody transect on Metompkin Island (Table 1, Table 2).
Esto puede deberse a que las plantas aloctonas que los ocupan estan todas bien adaptadas a sus particulares condiciones ecologicas (salinidad, inundacion mareal, viento, etc.) ya que proceden de habitats similares en su lugar de origen (Baccharis halimifolia, Paspalum vaginatum, Stenotaphrum secundatum y Spartina patens).
In 1999, germination trials were conducted at the greenhouse on five rare native species for Luscar Ltd., including purple coneflower (Echinacea), bird's foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), milkwort (Polygala verticillata), salt bush (Baccharis halimifolia) and whorled milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).
The highest banks are often covered with halophytic shrubby species, such as Baccharis halimifolia L.
Mark's National Wildlife Refuge, Lycium carolinense; Exema neglecta: Fla., Tampa, Baccharis halimifolia.


text: Permanent magnet (PM) machines are often preferred in recent technology since their efficiency and power/volume ratio are higher than those of conventional wound-rotor type machines. NdFeB magnets, which are predominantly used in the design of PM machines, are very expensive and make the design costly. Alnico magnets have the potential to be used instead, since they are very cheap and their residual fluxes are as high as those of NdFeB magnets. The major problem is that Alnico magnets have very low resistance to magnetic field reversal, which means they are easily demagnetized. This paper focuses on using Alnico magnets in a PM reluctance generator (PMRG) without encountering demagnetization or performance degradation. The converter accompanying the PMRG allows avoidance of the demagnetization of Alnico magnets by making the currents through the windings unidirectional. Thus, Alnico magnets can be directly used instead of NdFeB magnets without making any modifications on the magnet size or location. The converter also provides independent phase current control to suppress mechanical vibrations due to large torque ripples. The analysis results verify that Alnico magnets can be used in the generator design without losing much generator performance. Therefore, the Alnico-magnet-based PMRG is a promising candidate for designing low-cost generators and is also expected to affect the design trends on wind energy conversion systems (WECSs). (c) 2018 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


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Regardless the generation, the teenage years are times of transition. Adolescents strive for independence and try to figure out who they are in relation to their goals -- and interests. Yet, teens of 2018 face different challenges compared to their older siblings and parents.
"Things Your Teen Won't Tell You" is a NewsCenter 16 Original Series featuring local teens who discuss why it is difficult to talk to their parents. The goal is to bridge the gap of understanding between the generations.
"With our parents, they are adults, and they have been through, like, so many more really hard things in their life, and they sometimes forget that, like, we haven't been through that yet, so when we're, like, experiencing a crisis or something, like, it's probably the worst thing we've been through this far," says a South Bend teen.
The dozen high school students also will discuss the pressures of social media, drugs, alcohol, gun access, bullying, and mental health.
The five-part series, "Things Your Teen Won't Tell You" begins Monday, February 5 on NewsCenter 16 at 6.


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Smart Solar Lighting PayGo System is a system that designed for users to pay for the prepayment or installment of this solar DC system.
There are two forms of payment system, which can be full payment and pre-existing payment.
Prepayment payment system is Increased user's purchasing power and enthusiasm for using the product.
1. DC input and DC output
2. 2.5W*5pcs LED light
3. 2 USB output port
4. Inbuilt Battery 7.2Ah/11.1v
5. Solar Panel :10W/18V
6. Display with system info
PayGo System Manuel
1. Often press the key, the display lights up for boot
2. Repeatedly press the black button on the right side of the first row on the panel of the enclosure to display a series of digital codes.
3.open the file in the PC SOFTWARE page (Figure 1), click Recharge, Figure 2 page
4. Enter the numeric password shown on the display into the first line of Figure 2, and then select the number of days in the second line. After clicking OK, a string of digits will appear on the third line.
5. Enter the numeric code appearing in the third line of Figure 2 into the chassis display and press the Enter key (the rightmost key in the last line of the black key)
6. connect the LED can be used normally
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Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to 40 Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study. Each scholarship is held for two years. As future leaders, with a lasting understanding of British society, Marshall Scholars will strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American peoples, their governments and their institutions. Marshall Scholars are talented, independent and wide-ranging, and their time as Scholars will enhance their intellectual and personal growth. Their direct engagement with Britain through its best academic programs will contribute to their ultimate personal success. The objectives of the Marshall scholarships are:
 - To motivate Scholars to act as ambassadors from America to the UK and vice versa throughout their lives thus strengthening British American understanding.
 - To promote the personal and academic fulfillment of each Scholar.
The total value of a Marshall Scholarship varies a little according to the circumstances (subject area, place of residence, marital status, etc.) of each Fellow but the figure tends to average to be about £23,000 a year. Please see the Web site for complete details.
 - Applicants must be citizens of the United States of America (at the time they apply for a scholarship).
 - By the time they take up their scholarship (i.e. September), applicants must hold their first undergraduate degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the United States.
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1878 - Born on the 2nd of January in Prague.
- After starting with architecture, Frankl studied art history in Munich.
1910 - He earned his Ph.D.
1921 - Became professor for art history in Halle.
1933 - His Jewish origin he was put on leave after the rise to power of Nazism.
1940 - He emigrated to the United States where he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
- His most famous works are books on the architecture of Renaissance and Gothic.
1962 - Died on the 22nd of April in Princeton, New Jersey.
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In this guide we explain how your smartphone's AssistiveTouch, Assistant Menu and Accessibility Menu can help you use your phone without the need for physical buttons or complicated hand gestures. We also touch on how virtual assistants like Google Assistant and Siri can help in this area.
What is AssistiveTouch, Assistant Menu and Accessibility Menu?
AssistiveTouch, Assistant Menu, and Accessibility Menu may sound similar to virtual assistants like Siri and Google Assistant, but they provide a different yet no less useful service.
These tools offer alternatives to having to press physical buttons and perform certain finger gestures. This comes in the form of a menu, which offers single tap or single finger options for many of your phone's functions.
A single tap or finger alternative may include, accessing the power off menu, increasing/decreasing brightness, taking a screenshot, and rotating the screen.
Who is AssistiveTouch, Assistant Menu and Accessibility Menu for?
AssistiveTouch, Assistant menu, and Accessibility Menu are designed to help people who struggle to trigger settings and functions with the pre-set finger gestures or physical buttons. Once enabled you gain access to a straightforward menu, which provides one tap or one finger alternatives.
If you use an iPhone then AssistiveTouch is waiting for you. If an Android phone is more your cup of tea, then Accessibility Menu is for you.
If you own a Samsung phone, you are in luck. This is because the Korean tech company includes its own software called the Assistant Menu.
This does the same job as the stock Google counterpart, but with a few more tricks up its sleeve.
How to set up AssistiveTouch on iPhone
 1. Choose the settings app which should be located on the first home screen.
 2. Scroll down and Choose Accessibility.
 3. Scroll down to Physical and Motor then choose Touch.
 4. Select AssistiveTouch, which you can find at the top of the page.
 5. Finally, toggle AssistiveTouch on.
Alternatively, you can just say "Hey Siri turn on AssistiveTouch".
How to set up Accessibility Menu on Android
 1. Pull down the notifications bar and select the settings icon.
 2. Scroll down the settings menu and choose Accessibility.
 3. If you do not see Accessibility listed on your phone's settings menu then it may be found within Additional Services
 4. Next look for a heading or option resembling Interaction and dexterity. This may not match your device exactly, but keep an eye out for words along these lines. Better yet, keep your eyes peeled for Accessibility Menu itself, as features aren't always placed where you would logically expect them to be.
 5. You should now see the Accessibility Menu. Tap it.
 6. Toggle the shortcut on.
Accessibility Menu and Assistants for Android: the basics
Once triggered, the Accessibility Menu offers choices such as activating the power off screen, turning the volume up or down, showing recent tabs and taking screenshots.
How the Accessibility Menu is triggered depends on how you have set up your phone.
If you are using gesture controls, then swipe up from the bottom of the screen with two fingers. Alternatively, if you are using the three button controls, then tap the extra button that appears at the bottom of the screen.
Once you have opened Accessibility Menu, you will see that it offers a straightforward menu interface.
Simply scroll through the pages, via the arrows at the bottom of the menu, until you see the option that you need. Tap the option you want, and the phone will oblige.
If you would like to increase the Accessibility Menu's buttons size, then you can turn the large size on in the feature's settings.
Accessibility Menu is simple and easy to use. If for some reason your phone does not have it installed, then it can be downloaded from the Google Play store. Look for Android Accessibility Suite.
If you don't see the feature in the appropriate Accessibility section after installation, then make sure to check Installed Services. You should see this within Accessibility.
Assistant Menu
It should be noted that Samsung has its own version of Accessibility Menu, called Assistant Menu. This performs the same role as the other helper, but with a more flexible interface and a few more useful tools.
Assistant Menu appears as a circle which can be dragged around the screen. Changing positions can be done by holding your finger down on the circle and moving it where you wish. To open the options, just tap the circle.
As well as performing the features mentioned above, the Assistant menu allows you to use Screen control, Pinch zoom and use a Cursor.
The Cursor has several tricks up its sleeve.
Much like the Screen control, you can use a single tap to swipe left or right, up, or down. Just tap the arrows on screen.
The Cursor lives up to its name, by introducing a mouse to your phone's screen.
You can use the cursor interface as you would a touchpad on a laptop. If this isn't to your preference, then having the cursor activated doesn't prevent you from tapping apps and options as you normally would.
Also included within the Cursor setting is a Magnifier Window tool. Once you have enabled Cursor in the Assistant menu, you should see the magnifier symbol above the virtual mouse pad.
Once the symbol has been tapped, a window appears which can be controlled by the virtual pad. Anything in the window will be magnified for you.
When you have finished with the window, tap the X above the virtual pad.
You can also simulate a Pinch zoom motion. This might come in handy while surfing the web.
To Pinch zoom, choose the option from the Assistant menu and then look for a small blue circle on your screen. Move this circle to the section of the page you want to get a better look at. After the target is in position, you can use the on-screen slider to zoom in and out.
The Assistant menu can also offer contextual options based on the app you're currently in. For example, when in the Samsung web browser, the menu provides options like opening a new tab or showing existing tabs.
Contextual options appear to be limited to certain Samsung apps such as, camera, contacts, email, messages, and phone.
To make sure contextual options are available to you, choose "Select apps to show contextual menus with", from the Assistant Menu page. We recommend you toggle on the all apps option.
Google Assistant, meanwhile, is the main virtual assistant on most Android phones. You can ask it to, dial people from your contact list, send texts, play music, and tweak settings like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The Assistant can usually be called upon by either saying the activation phrase 'okay Google' or long pressing the home button on your phone's screen.
Sadly, while the mobile assistant will open key menus like Accessibility or the general menu, it can't manage every aspect of your phone. The assistant is a particularly useful tool though, and it's worth spending some time with it to discover the extent of its uses.
Make sure your data or Wi-Fi is switched on otherwise it won't work.
Bixby is a Samsung exclusive feature which does a similar job to Google Assistant. You may find that it can manage certain options or menus that Google Assistant cannot. For example, when we tried to turn on dark mode with Google Assistant on an S20, it couldn't manage it. Bixby meanwhile, did it with one simple request.
Like Google, Bixby can't handle every settings request, but as a system built for the device it should be able to handle more phone specific requests for Samsung devices.
According to Samsung's website Bixby can be found on the Samsung S8 + and upwards. Some devices have a designated Bixby button, while others use the power on button to call the assistant.
Bixby also requires Wi-Fi or mobile data to work.
IPhone AssistiveTouch and Siri: the basics
Once enabled, the AssistiveTouch interface will appear as a small circle on the screen. You might have to look carefully as it fades into the background.
You may move it anywhere on the screen you'd like, just by placing your finger upon it and dragging it in the direction you would like to go.
To make use of the AssistiveTouch just tap the circle. This will bring up a host of options. By default, these are divided into six choices.
The options: are, Notification Centre, Custom, Siri, Home, Control Centre and Device.
When you press Notifications Centre, the iPhone will pull down Notifications without you having to perform the traditional gesture.
This is also the case for the Control Centre. From the control centre you can turn certain settings on or off, like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
The Custom option of AssistiveTouch allows you to mimic certain touch gestures, such as a Double Tap, Pinch and Rotate, Long Press and Hold and Drag.
As an example, if you select Pinch and Rotate, a bar with two circles on the end appears on your screen, in place of where your fingers would normally go.
If you are on a webpage you can use this tool to zoom in or out. Place your finger on one of the circles, and move your finger up or down, depending on whether you want to zoom in or out.
Certain one-finger gestures will take some getting used to, but they do allow you to accomplish tasks like selecting text. If you get stuck at any point, just tap the AssistiveTouch button which cancels the original tool you selected.
Meanwhile, Assistive Touch's device sub menu offers a myriad of options related


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How to update the current (failing) noise risk management process to make it much more effective – and self-financing Noise Induced Hearing Loss claims of £400,000,000 per annum show that thousands of people are suffering hearing damage, most of which could be avoided by changing the way risk management is is carried out. A simple, innovative approach that dramatically improves the effectiveness of noise risk management was described at the BOHS
Vibration measurement, recording and analysis systems
As an extremely well equipped engineering consultancy, we use a very wide range of both proprietary and bespoke instrumentation across a very wide range of applications on a daily basis. Couple this with a background in automotive engineering and data analysis and you can see why we have acquired a reputation for developing innovative and practical analysis techniques and systems that have wide industrial and environmental application.
Consequently, we provide analysis, technical support and training services for a host of consultancies, Local Authorities, Councils and industrial concerns. Plus we have also developed a range of bespoke software and hardware for both general and specific project vibration measurement, storage, analysis and processing. These include:-
- FrequencyMaster – narrow band frequency recording and analysis software / hardware system. Low cost and easy to use – ideal for product testing and development.
- Protest – automated production line vibration testing system for product fault and quality control.
- Gear Test – specifically designed to detect gear tooth faults using vibration.
- HAV-Test – automated quality and refurbishment / overhaul / vibrating tool maintenance checking to ensure that the tool has been returned to "as new" condition. Reduces maintenance costs (fewer tools will need to be overhauled) and the risks associated with HAVS.


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December 7, 2022
SC LAMP is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus
Diana Pinto – Executive Director, South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project (SC LAMP)
Did you know that children of color living in low-income households are less likely to be diagnosed with developmental delays at an early age? Why is this important? Studies show that the sooner a child gets an assessment, the more likely s/he will be able to succeed in life. Early intervention services can have an enormous impact on a young child's ability to learn and grow.
This reality is why South Central LAMP's two-generation approach is huge for families in our community. Each child in our program receives an assessment completed by his/her teacher, allowing on-site professionals to observe if the child is developing within a "normal" range and reaching their developmental milestones. When we see a child not falling within the "normal" range, we can provide referrals and resources to specialized agencies for added support to the family.
Because we approach this matter holistically, our parenting classes include workshops on what "normal" development looks like. The class provides parents with a safe space to reflect on their children, ask questions, and better understand their children's developmental stages. Often these classes are where moms start to seek support or learn to be more open to referrals because the discussions allow them to see other moms dealing with challenges as well.
South Central LAMP families have a "village" to help them navigate the complexities of developmental diagnoses. The support we provide has empowered many parents to make better medical decisions for their children and learn how to best support them.


text: ELA lab courses are designed with the focus of assisting students in developing ELA skills to support their English class development. Each lab course is aligned with the PA assessment anchors, and utilizes technology and online resources to enhance student learning. Study Island plays an integral part in lab class. Lab class is differentiated and has parts to help students who are deficient in skills catch up and learn the necessary skills for them to succeed. Enrichment opportunities are also available for students in this class. Differentiated instruction plays a large part of instruction.


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Why Use A Bowling Wrist Support
If you are wondering why use a bowling wrist support, there are a few factors keys to consider. The goal for all bowlers is to deliver the bowling ball consistently and accuracy. To best answer to why use a bowling wrist support is to understand a few key points regarding wrist devices.
1. A wrist support will help regulate the "moment of release" of your bowling ball.
3. Limited wrist movement during your swing and delivery serves to regulate the relationship of your thumb exiting the bowling ball with respect to your bowling fingers.
4. It is important to understand your thumb should exit the ball slightly before your bowling fingers.
5. Longer support structure behind the bowling hand found on some models of wrist supports limit unneeded movement of your bowling fingers while swinging and delivering the bowling ball.
6. Getting the thumb out of the ball cleanly and quickly at the same place relative to your sliding bowling shoe (by the shoelaces of your sliding shoe) will lead to consistent deliveries.
7. Wrist Support devices are available in adjustable and non-adjustable models to pinpoint the precise amount of wrist tilt you choose prior to delivering your bowling ball.
Experimentation will be necessary before finding the best device for your needs. Generally, the longer support structure behind the hand encourages a decisive delivery action.
It is recommended you purchase a wrist liner to wear under the wrist support device if you perspire greatly and have skin which is prone to irritation or chaffing. Wrist Liners are very comfortable to wear and protect your skin when wearing a wrist support device.


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B.S. in Human Biology Admission Requirements
Human biology applicants must meet all Kettering College admission criteria.
Profile of a Successful Human Biology Major
A student prepared for success in the human biology major has:
- A high school GPA of 3.00 or greater
- One year each of high school biology, chemistry, and physics
- At least two years of high school college-preparatory mathematics
In order to follow the suggested course of study, students must score at least 70 percent on the math placement test or provide transfer credit equivalent to MATH 105.
Requirements for Graduation
A grade of C- or above must be achieved in all required major courses, major elective courses, and required cognate courses, and the student must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 (C) in order to graduate with a major in human biology.


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The founder of the program had discovered many troubled kids come from homes where the parents lack empathy and set out to increase that empathy for both parents and children.
Bornstein reports: "Ervin Staub, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, has studied altruism in children and found that the best way to create a caring climate is to engage children collectively in an activity that benefits another human being. In Roots, children are enlisted in each class to do something to care for the baby, whether it is to sing a song, speak in a gentle voice, or make a 'wishing tree.'"
So far the program has seen an 88-percent decrease in aggressive behavior among bullies. If that wasn't enough, program also saw a decrease in such things as gossiping and backstabbing.
No surprise, I guess, that the more we focus on the needs of others, the less we obsess about our own.


Lunar Impact Flashes - MyMoon
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Have you ever wondered if you could see the flash from a meteor impact on the Moon? How big would the impactor have to be? How fast would it have to be traveling? A MyMoon community member recently asked us this question. We asked Bill Cooke at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center this question. Bill is an expert on lunar impact flashes and here is what he had to say:
"A barely detectable impact flash (say, 0.1 seconds long), would be visible (from Earth) if a 5.5 inch meteoroid hit the Moon at 56,000 mph."
So there you have it. Want more info? Check out a webpage created by Bill and his colleagues about monitoring lunar impacts.
Do you have a question of your own for a lunar scientist? Submit your question at
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text: The experimental free ion 4f² energy level data sets comprising 12 or 13 J-multiplets of La⁺, Ce²⁺, Pr³⁺ and Nd⁴⁺ have been fitted by a semiempirical atomic Hamiltonian comprising 8, 10, or 12 freely-varying parameters. The root mean square errors were 16.1, 1.3, 0.3 and 0.3 cm⁻¹, respectively for fits with 10 parameters. The fitted inter-electronic repulsion and magnetic parameters vary linearly with ionic charge, i, but better linear fits are obtained with (4−i)², although the reason is unclear at present. The two-body configuration interaction parameters α and β exhibit a linear relation with [ΔE(bc)]⁻¹, where ΔE(bc) is the energy difference between the 4f² barycentre and that of the interacting configuration, namely 4f6p for La⁺, Ce²⁺, and Pr³⁺, and 5p⁵4f³ for Nd⁴⁺. The linear fit provides the rationale for the negative value of α for the case of La⁺, where the interacting configuration is located below 4f². Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin has almost 50,000 Hmong residents, the third-largest population in the country behind Minnesota and California. That's according to a review of 2010 Census figures by the Hmong Studies Journal of Saint Paul.
Wisconsin was among the first places where refugees started settling in the late 1970's, after many served side-by-side with U-S forces in Vietnam. Today the Wisconsin Hmong has its greatest numbers in Wausau, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Appleton, Green Bay, Sheboygan, Madison, and Milwaukee.
Nationally, there were over 260,000 Hmong-Americans in 2010 – and over half are now American-born. Mark Pfeifer, the editor of the Hmong Studies Journal, says Hmong residents have made considerable advancements over the last 30 years in their educational, social, and economic plight. But they still face unique challenges which include poverty. The national Hmong poverty rate in 2010 was 25-percent, compared to 11-percent for Americans as a whole.


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Block matching based motion estimation employs conventionally pixel-based sum of absolute differences (SAD) metric for distortion measure. Many fast matching mechanisms have been developed to lower the computational load for block matching, such as those exploiting block feature based or attribute-based SAD calculations. By examining a subblock-sum-based SAD measure, where the subblock-sums can be considered to be intra-subblock features, we propose both intraand inter-subblock features based SAD measure for more effective block matching in terms of achieving better coding efficiency. Interestingly, the proposed feature based SAD measure can be interpreted as subblock-based sum of absolute Hadamard transformed differences (SATD). The new features can be constructed in a multilevel structure, which may provide a flexible and scalable means for a tradeoff between computation load and coding efficiency. Encoding results are shown to compare the proposed scheme against other relevant feature based SAD measures.


Why do some people think french people are cold?
Are French people cold? Why Are French People so Rude? Why are French people often described as arrogant?
 1. 1 They're hostile
 A recent international survey showed that the french capital was one of the most hostile touristic destination in the world.
 2. 2 They're rude to tourists
 French people are not open to speaking to strangers, they also don't speak very good English that's why tourists get the wrong idea that they're being rude.
 3. 3 They lack sense of humor
 At early times, the word humor was not allowed in the french language. Not until 1932 did the french academy allow the word l'humor in their language.
 4. 4 They're arrogant
 French people are arrogant and they're used to criticizing a lot.Which give the wrong idea that they're rude, however some other people think that it's just something that they're used to.
 5. 5 They don't smile a lot
 French people don't smile a lot and they tend to be more hostile than friendly. They don't usually smile or to talk to strangers in the street. (See Why some people never smile?)
 6. 6 They avoid speaking English
 The french government put a rule that 50% of the music played on radios should be in french, almost every document, every business communication, everything is in french, this rule limited their access to English knowledge.
 7. 7 They're shy
 French people are not used to showing off their feelings exaggeratedly to strangers. This usually seems rude or cold behavior to some people, when it's actually shyness.
 8. 8 They're not random
 Some Americans tend to believe that french people are cold because they don't make random comments like they do, however other people think that french people are just used to keeping their mouth sealed if they don't have something important to say.
 9. 9 They're formal
 In France, formality and etiquette are rules to people. They dont usually aquentance with someone unless they were introduced to them. For instance, if someone goes up to a french guy and say' hi, I'm Jaques' the french guy would find it unacceptable. (See How to be assertive without being rude?)
 10. 10 They complain a lot
 French people are usually honest, they like to say what ever they want and always complain about whatever bugs them.
 11. 11 They like people to say "Bonjour" first
 Shop sellers usually tend to be rude if you don't say "bonjour" before you ask for what you want.
 12. 12 The have a lot of misconceptions
 Many french people have a lot of misconceptions about foreigners. For instance if you're a Romanian they'll immediately think that you're a thief.
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Learning diffeomorphism models of robotic sensorimotor cascades
Andrea Censi and Richard M. Murray
Submitted, 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Automation
The problem of bootstrapping consists in designing agents that can learn from scratch the model of their sensorimotor cascade (the series of robot actuators, the external world, and the robot sensors) and use it to achieve useful tasks. In principle, we would want to design agents that can work for any robot dynamics and any robot sensor(s). One of the difficulties of this problem is the fact that the observations are very high dimensional, the dynamics is nonlinear, and there is a wide range of "representation nuisances" to which we would want the agent to be robust. In this paper, we model the dynamics of sensorimotor cascades using diffeomorphisms of the sensel space. We show that this model captures the dynamics of camera and range-finder data, that it can be used for long-term predictions, and that it can capture nonlinear phenomena such as a limited field of view. Moreover, by analyzing the learned diffeomorphisms it is possible to recover the "linear structure" of the dynamics in a manner which is independent of the commands representation.
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A team of researchers compare 15 king penguins and find out that penguins from areas of high human disturbance are less stressed by noise and approaching humans.
King penguins tolerate some, but not all, human interference. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, BMC Ecology, investigated the adjustment of a king penguin colony on the protected Possession Island in the subantarctic Crozet Archipelago to over 50 years of constant human disturbance, reported sciencedaily.com.
A team of researchers from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Lausanne compared 15 king penguins breeding in areas disturbed daily by humans and 18 penguins breeding in undisturbed areas. All penguins selected were brooding a chick aged from two days to one month.
Using heart rate to indicate the stress level of each penguin, they compared the stress response of penguins from the different areas to three stressors. Two low intensity stressors, a human approach to 10 meters and a loud noise, mimicked the actions of tourists, researchers and noises from machines when operating on the outskirts of the colony. One high intensity stressor, a capture, simulated researchers taking measurements.
Compared with penguins from undisturbed areas, penguins from areas of high human disturbance were less stressed by noise and approaching humans, but following capture, their maximum relative heart rate increased 42 percent although they then recovered faster.


Impact of the Segregation wall on five Palestinian villages in Qalqilya district
Impact of the Segregation wall on five Palestinian villages in Qalqilya district
Background to the villages
The Palestinian neighboring villages of Ras at Tira (400 citizens) and Ad Dab'a (300 citizens) are located 5 km to the east of Qalqilya city. Nearby, three other small villages are located: Wadi ar Rasha (150 citizens), Arab Abu Farda (100 citizens) and Arab ar Ramadin (100 citizens). The three aforementioned residential areas are situated 4 km to the south east of Qalqiliya. The overall number of population in the villages is more than 1000 people. The land area of Ras at Tira is 2000 dunums, Ad Daba' 3000 dunums and Wadi ar Rasha 1000 dunums.
The villages and the segregation wall
The five villages are blockaded now between the newly established Segregation Wall and the post 1948 borderline. The wall travels about 2 km in the land of Ras at Tira, 1 km in the land of Ad Dab'a and 1 km in the land of Wadi ar Rasha. The total area of land destroyed by the Wall in the five villages is 400 dunums, while the total number of uprooted fruitful trees is 1600.
The Wall has divided the land of those villages into three parts:
 1. The destroyed land where the wall was actually built – 400 dunums;
 2. The land located to the east of the Wall – 1500 dunums;
 3. The land segregated along with those five villages to the west of the Wall – 4100 dunums.
Problems and complexities created by the Wall construction
The Wall has led to boycotting relations between the citizens of those besieged villages and the citizens of the neighboring villages of Kufr Thuluth, Ras Atiya and Habla who descend from the same extended families. Consequently, people on both sides of the Wall are deprived form family visits and from other forms of family interaction. The five besieged villages provide only 1 % of their living needs. The rest should come from neighboring villages on the eastern side of the Wall. For drinking water, the five villages totally depend on purchasing water by transported tanks from nearby areas. With the erection of the Wall, the movement of water tanks in and out of those villages has become very difficult if not impossible. For electricity, the five villages use generators working on fuel, which needs constant provision of this material. For education, the five villages have only one basic school in Ad Dab'a, the students have to go to neighboring villages located east of the Wall to pursue studies and they should pass daily through ''security gates'' for their exit or entry. The health situation is no exception since the five villages have no health centers and they are completely dependent on the villages on the other side of the wall. See Map
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Weekly Fun Facts: 5 things you should know about Sakura
March is here which means, it's time for the much awaited cherry blossom season a.k.a the Sakura season! You must have seen breathtaking pictures of this season before, so here are some additional things you should know about Sakura!
1. Sakura belongs to a big family!
Sakura has over 600 species in Japan. There are endemic and hybrid species. Sakura goes through constant transformation in petals, size, color or fruit. This transformation is the reason behind hybrid species.
"Sakura petals falling from the trees, creating a "flower petal carpet" that makes the entire garden look white"
2. Take good care of it or it will rot.
Sakura rots very easily. If there are cuts on bark or roots, this beauty starts to decay. Once the decaying starts, its spreads to the whole tree and it dies. Special attention is needed while covering the tree during Hanami. If you want to keep them, look for those freshly-fallen petals. Plucking from the tree itself is not recommended, as it might destroy the tree
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"Sakura is very fragile. Its petals fall off the tree easily. All it takes is rain or gentle wind, and it will fall"
3. Grandpa Sakura tree is 2000 years old.
Jindai Zakura (神代桜) is the oldest Sakura tree which is 2000 years old. Its root circumference is 13.5m. It can be viewed from the Jissou Temple (実相寺) in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Sakura in march
"Some walkways are romantically lined with Sakura trees. Take a stroll and enjoy the beauty of impermanence"
4. Number of petals decide the flowers name.
Flowers are given name on the basis of how many petals it has. Flowers with 5 petals are called Hiteo. Flower which has petals ranging between 5-10 are called Hanyae. More than 10 petal flowers are known as Yae.
Facts about Sakura
"The Yaezakura is another species of Sakura that looks different from the famous 5-petal Someiyoshino species. Look out for the interesting colors. Some trees may house different-colored flowers on one branch just like this!"
5. Who wants to taste Sakura? Well you can eat it as well!!
Yes!! Sakura is edible once it goes through a process called Shiozuke. In Shiozuke, leaves are soaked in salt, resulting in Sakurazuke. It has a very distinctive and unique smell.
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Source: blog.wagashi-net
"It is normal for Japan to have season-inspired products. You may find pink-colored Sakura-inspired Japanese sweets (Wagashi), Sakura-flavored Latte, Ice Cream, snacks and even Sakura-designed plates from the local 100-yen stores"