I'm a bit confused. The official documentation (_URL_ says that ddx(input) is the partial derivative of the input with respect to the "screen-space x-coordinate."
My calculus is fine, but how can it tell what the input is coming from? If I passed it a function, fine, I can imagine what it would do, but the derivative of a number is always zero...?
Is it just a scaling? Like, this would get scaled to one tenth of its size at this distance, so it returns one tenth? But then it doesn't need an input...
Can someone give a quick explanation of what's actually happening?
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 \$\begingroup\$ ddx and ddy do magic that you cannot do yourself. They have access to additional information from the rasterization pipeline that you can't acquire from within a pixel shader. I'm unsure exactly which formula they use; I've been led to believe they use an estimation technique, but I don't know for sure. \$\endgroup\$ – Sean Middleditch Sep 24 '13 at 17:33
 - \$\begingroup\$ That's deeply weird, but still. What does ddx(5) actually represent? If it says.1, how should I interpret that? Or -6? \$\endgroup\$ – Richard Rast Sep 24 '13 at 17:35
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 \$\begingroup\$ ddx(5) is kind of pointless. Use it with an input value, and that will give you the derivative of that value with respect to neighboring pixels in a block. Again, I don't know how precisely it calculates values, but asking for the derivative of a non-input may well just be undefined behavior and produce garbage. See _URL_ for more information than I can provide. \$\endgroup\$ – Sean Middleditch Sep 24 '13 at 17:41
 - \$\begingroup\$ I am not sure but it might well be that the HLSL compiler is actually doing full symbolic differentiation of the expression that you pass to the ddx/ddy. blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2011/03/08/… _URL_… \$\endgroup\$ – Ziriax Feb 1 '15 at 21:11
 - \$\begingroup\$ What does it do? The ONLY slightly reasonable thing, obviously. \$\endgroup\$ – MickLH Jul 10 '16 at 20:54
Internally, GPUs never run one instance of a pixel shader at a time. At the finest level of granularity, they are always running 32-64 pixels at the same time using a SIMD architecture. Within this, the pixels are further organized into 2x2 quads, so each group of 4 consecutive pixels in the SIMD vector corresponds to a 2x2 block of pixels on screen.
Derivatives are calculated by taking differences between the pixels in a quad. For instance, ddx will subtract the values in the pixels on the left side of the quad from the values on the right side, and ddy will subtract the bottom pixels from the top ones. The differences can then be returned as the derivative to all four pixels in the quad.
Since the pixel shader is running in SIMD, it's guaranteed that the corresponding value is in the same register at the same time for all the pixels in the quad. So whatever expression or value you put into ddx or ddy, it will be evaluated in all four pixels of the quad, then the values from different pixels subtracted as described above.
So taking the derivative of a constant value will give zero (as you'd expect from calculus, right?) because it's the same constant value in all four pixels.
Also note that there are "coarse" and "fine" derivatives, ddx_coarse/ddy_coarse and ddx_fine/ddy_fine. An explanation of the distinction is given here. Just plain ddx/ddy are aliases for the coarse versions.
BTW, the reason this functionality exists is that GPUs internally have to take derivatives of texture coordinates in order to do mipmap selection and anisotropic filtering. Since the hardware needs the capability anyway (you can use any arbitrary expression for texture coordinates in a shader), it was easy enough to also expose it to shader programmers directly.
 - \$\begingroup\$ +1; I've found this useful when applying a perturbation effect to a texture; the perturbed texcoords gave some colour distortion, but using tex2Dgrad with derivatives from the original (unperturbed) texcoords gave an undistorted result. \$\endgroup\$ – Maximus Minimus Sep 24 '13 at 20:07
 - \$\begingroup\$ Alright, after some thought I think I figured out my confusion. In my mind, ddx works like every other function in a traditional programming language; you evaluate the input, turn it to a float or whatever, then do the outside function (ddx) to it. But this is differentit takes the input string, evaluates it in several places, calculates a derivative, and reports the result. Is that about right? \$\endgroup\$ – Richard Rast Sep 24 '13 at 22:59
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 \$\begingroup\$ _USER_ Right. You can think of ddx as operating on the expression you pass into it, rather than the value. \$\endgroup\$ – Nathan Reed Sep 24 '13 at 23:22
 - \$\begingroup\$ But see, that's weird enough that it should be in the documentation. I can think of no other time in my programming life where that has been the case. \$\endgroup\$ – Richard Rast Sep 24 '13 at 23:23
 - \$\begingroup\$ Nathan Reed mentioned that GPUs use these functions for mipmap selection. You can also use them to force the GPU to select a desired mipmap level or to prevent artifacts from incorrect mip-level selection. The process is described on pages 163 and 164 of Shader X3. \$\endgroup\$ – JamesHoux Dec 5 '13 at 17:44
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Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus, American, 1880s.
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Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus, made of nickel-plated steel with three steel and two vulcanite heads. During the 1880s, American George Fell devised an apparatus for forced artificial respiration through an opening cut in the trachea. Soon after 1887, Joseph O'Dwyer combined this with his own method of intubating the larynx. Air from a foot bellows was passed into the lungs via tubes whose graduated end pieces were introduced in the larynx. He developed this apparatus in order to prevent diptheria patients from suffocating due to the growth of a false membrane over the larynx which occurs in severe cases of the disease.
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Digital gaming may be more popular than ever. But if you want to protect your thinking skills as you get older, try taking up chess – or another type of non-digital game. That's the conclusion of University of Edinburgh psychologists, who found people who regularly played board games and cards in their 70s scored better in cognitive tests than those who didn't.
You don't have to be a board game enthusiast all your life to reap the rewards either. The study – published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences – found that people who played more during their 70s than when they were younger were more likely to maintain cognitive health as they became older.
The study followed more than a thousand people, testing them on their memory and problem solving skills as well as their thinking speed and general thinking ability. They were tested first at the age of 70, then again every three years until they were 79. The participants were all born in 1936 and are part of a study called the Lothian Birth Cohort. When they were 11 years old they also took part in the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947, which included an intelligence test. The researchers analysed the results of all the tests, including those taken in 1947, and took other relevant lifestyle factors into account. And they concluded people who played more non-digital games in later life had less of a decline in their thinking skills in their 70s, particularly memory function and thinking speed.
"These latest findings add to evidence that being more engaged in activities during the life course might be associated with better thinking skills in later life," says Dr Drew Altschul of the university's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. ""For those in their 70s or beyond, another message seems to be that playing non-digital games may be a positive behaviour in terms of reducing cognitive decline."
The Lothian Birth Cohort study has one of the longest follow-up times in the world, and researchers have been working with the data since 1999 to assess how thinking power changes over a human lifetime. This latest study was supported by Age UK as well as the Medical Research Council.
"Even though some people's thinking skills can decline as we get older, this research is further evidence that it doesn't have to be inevitable," says the charity's director, Caroline Abrahams.
"The connection between playing board games and other non-digital games later in life and sharper thinking and memory skills adds to what we know about steps we can take to protect our cognitive health, including not drinking excess alcohol, being active and eating a healthy diet."
Can't play chess and don't know how to start learning? Get to grips with the basics on lichess.org – but don't forget to progress to a real-life chess board when you're ready.


8 Ways Your Houston Tenants Can Baby Proof Your Rental
If you own single family residential rental properties, young families can be an excellent target market for tenants. They're often looking for a stable place to live and may stick around for a year or two. But with young families come young kids. And it's in your best interest to let your tenants baby proof the property while living there.
8 Ways to Let Tenants Baby Proof
Many landlords get uncomfortable when talking about the idea of baby proofing a rental unit, but this isn't something to push back on. Yes, it may put some additional wear and tear on your property, but it's better than the alternative. (If a young child were to be injured, or worse, on your property, you could face serious liability issues.)
Here are some ways you can let your tenants baby proof your property without causing permanent or unnecessary changes:
1. Baby Gates
Baby gates act as on-demand crowd control for a busy family with young children. As soon as children begin crawling, it's important to install gates to keep them confined and out of rooms where they could get into trouble.
Baby gates come in a variety of options, which means a renter can find options that are temporary and don't require installing hardware into door frames or walls.
2. Electrical Outlets
As you may know, babies are curious about everything. They're just becoming acquainted with the world around them and everything is new and exciting. This includes dangerous parts of the home that are situated at their eye level – like electrical outlets.
When kids first start crawling, they almost always gravitate toward electrical outlets. They want to play with them, which usually means sticking their fingers in and around the different slots and holes. Outlets can be protected by installing cheap plastic inserts. You can get dozens for just a few bucks.
3. Sharp Edges and Corners
You probably don't realize how many sharp edges are in a house, but examine it through the lens of a toddler and you'll get clear. From end tables and coffee tables to appliances and countertops, sharp edges are everywhere. To protect kids from being cut or scraped, bumper guards should be installed. Renters may also find it easier to remove certain pieces of furniture for the time-being.
4. Cabinet Locks
Once babies begin crawling, they'll move around faster than you can say, "Where'd he go?"
"As they begin to pull up they will try to climb on everything," one mom writes, "and curious toddlers and preschoolers can let themselves into rooms or other areas of the house like near the fireplace that are normally considered off-limits and search drawers for interesting and exciting treasures."
While there are plenty of cabinet locks that involve screws and hardware, you probably don't want your renters drilling holes into your cabinetry. Thankfully, there are a variety of no-drill options. This includes:
Magnetic door locks that stick onto cabinets with a peel-safe adhesive and latch with ease.
Adhesive cabinet locks that can be placed on the outside of cabinets and toilets to keep little people where they don't belong (without marring surfaces).
If cabinets have drawer knobs or bar pulls, sliding cabinet locks can be used to latch doors in place and prevent them from being opened.
Ultimately, your tenant will have to decide what they want to purchase and use. However, giving them a variety of no-drill options will allow them to make a smart decision that keeps their child safe.
5. Heavy Furniture
A few years ago, IKEA had to recall 29 million chest and drawer sets after they were discovered to be a tipping hazard. This was a wakeup call for many parents and began to expose the risk that heavy furniture can be for toddlers and young children.
When children pull on heavy furniture and/or attempt to climb on it, the uneven weight distribution can cause it to tip over on them. This may lead to serious injury or even death. Thankfully, there are straps and anchors your tenants can purchase to secure these pieces to the wall. You should definitely allow your tenants to install them, even if it means you have to go back and patch the walls later on.
6. Chemicals and Cleaning Supplies
Few things can be more dangerous to a child's health than hazardous chemicals and cleaning supplies. Whether kept on a shelf in the pantry, underneath the sink, or in the garage, these bottles can quickly become poisonous when they end up in the hands/mouth of a toddler.
Encourage your tenants to be mindful of where they keep supplies – ideally relocating them to upper shelves and/or behind locks.
7. Faucets and Appliances
Most child-related burns occur from hot water and ovens. You can do your part to prevent a tenant from being injured by taking precautionary steps.
To prevent water-related burns, dial the home's water heater back to a normal/safe level. You can also install anti-scald faucets to prevent children from accidentally burning themselves.
As for appliances, always purchase ovens that come with safety locks built in. This is a pretty standard feature these days, but it's still wise to research options. (Make sure your tenants know that the oven is equipped with a lock and show them how to use it.)
8. Lawn and Outdoor Areas
Baby proofing extends beyond the home's interior and includes outside areas – like the yard. Be mindful of the products you're using to treat the lawn. Fertilizer or weed-killing chemicals could prove to be toxic when they end up near a young child. Do your best to avoid using these sorts of treatments.
It's also important to address issues like steep stairs on the front porch or second-story screened porches that a toddler could fall through. Again, things that are normally not an issue for adults can be life-threatening to a curious toddler.
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What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
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The capital was located in Polonnaruwa for about three centuries until persistent South Indian invasions caused its displacement in the 13th century to Dambadenia about 110 km to the south-west of here and later to Panduvasnavara close by.
Colombo is the commercial capital.
The administrative, political and state capital is Sri Jayawardenepura.
The sacred ancient city Anuradhapura is the ancient capital.
Senkadagala (Kandy) was the capital when last ruled by the King of Sri Lanka.
Colombo ceased to be the capital of Sri Lanka in 1982 with the shifting of the national parliament to the adjoining town of Sri Jayawardenapura, Kotte which is now officially the capital city.
Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo has become one of the world's top slum cities overtaking Calcutta in India, Sri Lanka's Housing Minister Mangala Samaraweera said Wednesday. However, Colombo continued to be the commercial centre with diplomatic missions too having their embassies here rather than at Sri Jayawardenapura, Kotte.
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A study of Hyperbilirubinic and normal newborns showed that Hyperbilirubinemic newborns had decreased Medial Olivocochlear (MOC) reflex activity. This may be indicative of future problems in speech discrimination and effective hearing in noisy background. Additional long cohort studies are needed to evaluate the clinical importance of MOC reflex measurements in this group.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a respiratory syndrome that manifests during sleep. For the auditory system to be able to function normally, the inner ear and cochlear nerve require healthy oxygen support. The purpose of this study was to assess the hearing function of patients with OSAS and to reveal the relationship between polysomnographic parameters and hearing test results.


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Wondering why some of these books don't match your year-plan? They may be replacement titles. You can access information for using them at the Book Updates Chart on the Tapestry of Grace website.
With a timekeeper sailors would be able to know the time back at their home port and calculate the longitude. But no one knew how to design such a clock. John Harrison (_PHONE_), an Englishman without any scientific training, worked tirelessly for more than forty years to create a perfect clock. Together with beautifully detailed pictures by Erik Blegvad, Louise Borden's text takes the reader through the drama, disappointments, and successes that filled Harrison's quest to invent the perfect sea clock. 48 pages HB/DJ


text: ||Isolated hand sign language recognition from video is a challenging research area in computer vision. Some of the most important challenges in this area include dealing with hand occlusion, fast hand movement, illumination changes, or background complexity. While most of the state-of-the-art results in the field have been achieved using deep learning-based models, the previous challenges are not completely solved. In this paper, we propose a hand pose aware model for isolated hand sign language recognition using deep learning approaches from two input modalities, RGB and depth videos. Four spatial feature types: pixel-level, flow, deep hand, and hand pose features, fused from both visual modalities, are input to LSTM for temporal sign recognition. While we use Optical Flow (OF) for flow information in RGB video inputs, Scene Flow (SF) is used for depth video inputs. By including hand pose features, we show a consistent performance improvement of the sign language recognition model. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that this discriminant spatiotemporal features, benefiting from the hand pose estimation features and multi-modal inputs, are fused for isolated hand sign language recognition. We perform a step-by-step analysis of the impact in terms of recognition performance of the hand pose features, different combinations of the spatial features, and different recurrent models, especially LSTM and GRU. Results on four public datasets confirm that the proposed model outperforms the current state-of-the-art models on Montalbano II, MSR Daily Activity 3D, and CAD-60 datasets with a relative accuracy improvement of 1.64%, 6.5%, and 7.6%. Furthermore, our model obtains a competitive results on isoGD dataset with only 0.22% margin lower than the current state-of-the-art model.


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Top 3 Standards for Lithium Battery Safety Testing
For small lithium batteries, there are three standards that our Battery Lab tests to most often:
- UN/DOT 38.3 5th Edition, Amendment 1 – Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
- IEC 62133-2:2017 – Safety requirements for portable sealed secondary lithium cells, and for batteries made from them, for use in portable applications – Part 2: Lithium systems
- UL 2054 2nd Edition – Household and Commercial Batteries
Following is a quick overview of each one.
Want to ship a lithium battery almost anywhere in the world by air, vessel, rail, or truck? Unless you want to be extremely restricted in your options for transporting your batteries (ground transport as Class 9 Hazardous Goods), you will need to certify that your batteries have passed UN/DOT 38.3.
Found in many countries' shipment of dangerous goods regulations, this standard is relevant for the transportation safety of all lithium metal and lithium ion cells and batteries
UN/DOT 38.3 is a self-certify standard but because of potential liability issues, most companies choose to use a third party test lab like MET Labs.
UN 38.3 presents a combination of significant environmental, mechanical, and electrical stresses, in sequence (T1-T5):
- T1 – Altitude Simulation (Primary and Secondary Cells and Batteries)
- T2 – Thermal Test (Primary and Secondary Cells and Batteries)
- T3 – Vibration (Primary and Secondary Cells and Batteries)
- T4 – Shock (Primary and Secondary Cells and Batteries)
- T5 – External Short Circuit (Primary and Secondary Cells and Batteries)
- T6 – Impact (Primary and Secondary Cells)
- T7 – Overcharge (Secondary Batteries)
- T8 – Forced Discharge (Primary and Secondary Cells)
Some tests are easier to pass than others. The altitude test is the easiest. The vibration test, on the other hand, is intense and long-running: 3 hours in each of the three cardinal planes. And the T1-T5 sequence typically has a negative cumulative effect.
Mandated by many IEC end-device standards, IEC 62133 is the de facto standard for international compliance. UN 38.3 transportation testing (see previous section) is an integral requirement, but does not need to be repeated.
The standard includes four tests:
- 2.2 Molded Case Stress
- 3.2 External Short Circuit
- 3.3 Free Fall
- 3.6 Overcharging of Battery
Compared to the requirements of UN 38.3, these tests are relatively easy to pass.
Compliance with the requirements of UL 2054 is mandated by a number of U.S. end device standards. It is a challenging standard involving roughly double the number of tests found in the UN or IEC requirements:
- 7 electrical tests
- 4 mechanical tests
- 4 battery enclosure tests
- 1 fire exposure test
- 2 environmental tests
With the inclusion of single faults and worst-case operation, the electrical tests are the most challenging. The abusive overcharge test is the most difficult given the overvoltage conditions applied to the faulted pack. Abnormal charge, forced discharge, and two short circuit tests also involve significant risk of failure.
For lithium batteries, UL 2054 defers all component cell level testing to UL 1642. Warning: Not all labs will accept another NRTL's test results. For example, when testing a battery to UL 2054, MET Labs will accept another NRTL's cell level UL 1642 test data and apply it to the UL 2054 testing. This saves the client time and money. We recommend avoiding NRTLs that don't follow this client-friendly practice.
The future of UL 2054 is cloudy. UL has released the first edition of UL 62133, which is fully harmonized with IEC 62133, 2nd Edition. UL 2054 and UL 62133 essentially compete for the same test space although their requirements are quite different. The timing of UL 62133 adoption is still unfolding, but it is expected to have an impact on the future role of UL 2054 as an important U.S. compliance standard.
In addition to these three standards, MET is increasingly seeing a demand for testing to IEEE 1625 and 1725 for CTIA battery certification. MET is a CTIA Authorized Test Lab that offers full scope CTIA-accredited battery testing and certification services for these standards.
Not sure what standard applies to your batteries? Contact us for quick and easy answers.


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Why are salt crabs real primeval animals? How do tiny eggs become living crabs? Where do such primeval crustaceans actually live?
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The primeval animals move into the children's room! With this KOSMOS experiment set children can breed crabs from the time of the dinosaurs simply by themselves. Let's go! To bring the salt crabs to life, the breeding tank is prepared with water and salt and put in a warm place. From the egg, to the larva, to the funny scurrying primeval crabs - equipped with a magnifying glass, the children are present at every step and observe exciting changes every day.
So that everything is easy, the age-appropriately illustrated instructions explain how to raise and care for the little animals and provide interesting background information on the primeval creatures. An exciting introduction to the world of biology!
 - Cool! Now prehistoric crabs from the time of the dinosaurs are moving into the children's room.
 - The exciting cultivation set allows children to experience the development from the egg to the funny scurrying primeval crabs. A magnifying glass helps to ensure that nothing is missed.
 - With the utensils contained in the set, children can breed, feed and care for the little animals all by themselves.
 - The colourful instructions explain in simple steps how to raise and care for them and contain interesting additional information about the small primeval animals.
 - This KOSMOS experiment kit offers a first insight into the world of biology and is an exciting present for children from 8 years on.
Contents: Instructions, salt crab eggs, feed, sea salt, breeding station, measuring cup, observation bowl, spatula, pipette, magnifying glass
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Babycare During Covid – The Himalayan Task for Mothers!
Babycare During Covid - The Himalayan Task for Mothers!
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Babycare has always been a Himalayan task for parents. And, in the current covid conditions, it is going to be tougher, as it needs more effort. Working moms are the ones who might be getting affected more. Still, we can see mother's who are not taking this condition seriously. Babies need extra care these times.
In the case of working moms, as they have to go outside daily, they have to be more careful about themselves. They have to make sure that they are not becoming carriers. They must be extra vigilant in masking, sanitizing and distancing. Once they reach home, they must keep their belongings separately where the baby cannot reach or outside the house, head to the bathroom and take a shower, wash their clothes and only then go to their baby. They should also never kiss their babies. If possible, they must try to wear masks while coming in contact with their babies and always make sure their babies never come in contact with anything you take outside.
Wash your hands at regular intervals, even if you are not going outside, as your hands come in contact with a lot of things, which might have the virus. Always wash everything that comes to our house from outside, whatever it may be. Try to clean the areas where babies usually come in contact. In case they touch something from outside, wash their hands immediately.
Grandparents, siblings, everyone loves to play with babies. Allow that after making sure about their safety. Those who come in contact with babies must be clean and sanitized.
And the most important thing – Never allow any outsiders to come in contact with your baby. Practice saying No politely and explain the reason. They will surely understand as the whole world knows the reason behind it.
Babycare needs more effort these days. You need to be more vigilant and careful these days only for your baby. Others will understand. Through our safe, caring hands and lovely restrictions, our babies can get through this pandemic safely.


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Family Supplement, and Family Tax Benefit A for third and subsequent children would be approximately $1.4 billion plus $200 million plus $1.3 billion, ie nearly $3 billion.
While this saving would not all become available immediately, it is very significant and could greatly boost the levels of university and vocational education in Australia. It could be used to boost the number of places being offered by Universities so that eligible students do not miss out on a place, it could be used to boost funding for TAFE, and used to boost funding for apprenticeships.
The Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education said we could achieve a demand driven entitlement system for domestic higher education students, where public funding will be provided for each undergraduate student eligible for a university place, at a cost of $1,130 million over 4 years. The Budget Papers have allowed $491 million from 2009-10 to 2012-13 towards this objective. Finding the extra $639 million and funding the extra places would be money well spent.
In relation to the TAFE sector the Australian Education Union has called for increased funding to meet projected needs in vocational education and training of $1,125 million. Key areas for spending include:
- Projected growth in enrolments, the economy's anticipated need for higher level qualifications, investment in retraining the workforce and strategies to engage those in society who are under or un-employed.
- Workforce transition and renewal and professional development.
- Building and technology improvements.
- Student services and support programs.
I would also like to put money into reducing HECS debts, which I think are too high, and into increasing payments to apprentices and Youth Allowance, which I think are too low. I acknowledge, however, that these are expensive items, so improvements in these areas would be subject to getting in the full $3 billion in family payments savings, and therefore would be some time off. I think it needs to be, regrettably, a second order priority to creating the extra places for young people, and some not so young people, who are presently neither studying or working.
Temporary entry permits have skyrocketed in Australia. In 1995-96 they were 3.1 million. By 2007-08 they had reached 4.2 million.
This number is made up of:
- 110,570 subclass 457 visas;
- 278,180 student visas;
- 3,808,610 other visa classes.
There are no caps on student visas, 457 visas, or Working Holiday visas. Nor are there caps on numbers taking up bridging visas or 485 visas after completing courses here.
It is said that this doesn't matter because the temporary residents all return to their country of origin. This is not true. At least half of former overseas students are staying on either by gaining permanent residence visas or temporary bridging or 485 visas. Maybe around a third of 457 visa holders gain permanent residence, mainly via Employment Nomination visas. Furthermore, while they are here, they add to Australia's population pressures.
In 2008, on average nearly one million temporary residents, including tourists, were here at any one time.
Temporary entry work visas are a tool for undermining the wages and conditions of Australian workers, and a recipe for exploiting overseas ones.
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has uncovered dreadful examples of the use of sham contractors who are underpaid or not paid at all, and threatened with deportation if they complain or seek to enforce their rights. Subclass 457 work visas have no worthwhile role to play, except in very limited situations. They should be restricted to areas of clear need, that is to say the medical and health related and professional engineering occupations. If we really are short of workers, how come political and business leaders are forever promoting proposals with the catchcry, "jobs, jobs, jobs?"
Overseas students should be required to return to their country of origin once they have completed their course. They should be subject to a 2 year cooling off period before being eligible to apply for permanent residence in Australia. Since the Howard Government changed the rules in 2001 to allow students to apply for permanent residence, onshore, overseas student numbers have skyrocketed from 204,000 to over 467,000 in just seven years. Rorts and scams have crept into the program and damaged Australia's international education reputation. Decoupling the link with permanent residence will put the focus back on education where it belongs, restore Australia's international education reputation, and probably also reduce temporary entry numbers.
At present we also have uncapped migration from New Zealand. The number of New Zealand citizens stating that they are settling permanently in Australia has increased from 16,364 in 2002-03 to 34,491 in 2007-08 and 47,780 in 2008-09. About 7,000 of the 34,491 were third country migrants who have migrated to New Zealand, then got citizenship, then come to Australia. This open-ended, uncapped program makes it impossible for Australia or New Zealand to implement a population policy and it needs to be reformed.
The Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement with New Zealand would need to be re-negotiated to do away with the open door. The present arrangement has no formal legal status. In any event, we need to stabilise population globally. Hence getting other countries such as New Zealand to address their population capacity, rather than simply acting as an overflow for surplus population, is important.
What we should do is monitor annual departures, and renegotiate the Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement with New Zealand to close off automatic entry for New Zealanders, while allowing the places made available by annual departures from Australia above 25,000 to be filled by New Zealanders, splitting available places equally between skilled migrants and family reunion. Otherwise New Zealanders would be eligible to come to Australia under the normal programs, applying and being assessed in the same way as everyone else.
This would give Australia control over our net migration number which we presently don't have. We can set a target for permanent skilled migrants, family reunion, and refugees, but we have no idea how many people are going to come in from New Zealand, and no idea how many people are going to leave Australia. These numbers are too important to be left to chance, and we should set a net target figure. The approach I have adopted is based on a net overseas migration target figure of 70,000: 95,000 in from skilled, family reunion and refugee categories, expecting at least 25,000 to leave, and allowing New Zealanders to fill the places made available through this process. The number of departures in recent years has been far higher than 25,000, and even when permanent arrivals numbered around 90,000 it was still well above 25,000.
In combination these measures would do great things for Australia. First and foremost they would stop us wrecking our environment. Second they would get us to focus on higher education and training for young Australians. They would open up job opportunities for younger and older workers who are presently missing out. They would help us meet carbon reduction targets. They would make housing more affordable. They would put a halt to the creeping inflation and price rises for food, water, and energy. They would address the declining quality of life in our cities, the traffic congestion and the disappearing backyards and open spaces. They would enable us to be compassionate, decent international citizens, taking more refugees and lifting our overseas aid. Above all else they would discharge our obligation to pass on to our children and grandchildren a world, and an Australian way of life, in as good a condition as the one our parents and grandparents gave us.
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Hi there,
I heard Mr Thomson's comments via the ABC yesterday and would like to respond to them briefly.
I share his concerns about the accelerated environmental degradation that could occur were our population to reach 35 or 50 million. I have noted in the past the public comments of Prof Ian Lowe on this issue. I think however that it is critical that we find a way to properly manage growth in a way that has not occurred previously because I think it essential that we do grow. I am in my 30s and I may well live another 50 years. I can see a crowded world in 50 years that looks at a wealthy and essentially empty continent with hunger and in many cases, desperation.
Now I know that seeing Australia as empty would be wrong - given our climate and resulting geography. But I don't think that the truth of the matter will come into it in 50 years. Desperate people do desperate things - think drowning men and straw. I won't go into the forms I suspect that this desperation could take but they can be imagined.
I think that a perverse truth exists here - that the best way to preserve and rehabilitate our country in the long term will be to develop quite quickly but correctly. I think we must quarantine in the most strict of ways the majority of the country from development while developing larger, sustainable population centres interspersed among it and concurrently using some of the least important land and some of the surrounding ocean to both feed us and our neighbours and to actually begin to reverse climate change. I think we will unfortunately need a much larger population in order to do this and to ensure that we remain the masters of our destiny. Our current means of increasing population is clearly poor and I see no signs that it will improve. What I am talking about requires a major rethink.
While it is obviously important that groups such as this one champion population and ecological issues, I am sorry to say that I believe that to achieve the ultimate aim, a different means to the end must be pursued. When there are more than 10 billion people


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The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000
NBER Working Paper No. 14203
The wage differential between Francophone and Anglophone men from 1970 to 2000 fell by 25 percentage points within Quebec, but only by 10 points Canada-wide, largely because the wages of Quebec Anglophones fell by 15 points relative to other Canadian Anglophones. Accordingly, the Canadian measure of the Francophone wage gap better reflects the changing welfare of Francophones than the Quebec measure. Over half of the reduction in the Canadian Francophone wage gap is explained by rising Francophone education levels. In Quebec, the declining number and relative wages of Anglophone workers is best explained by a falling demand for English-speaking labour.
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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w14203
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The theory of dyadic intrastate conflict cause and resolution containing transnational ethnic kin is under development. One of the things current research share is the focus on the cases where conflict erupts, or where conflict resolution fails, and its causes. The aim of this study is to try to contribute and develop the generalizing theory. The focus on the study rests on the impact that state apparatus characteristic has on risk for conflict. The research builds on theoretical framework from the consociational theory. The subject is of relevance both for the field of peace and conflict research as theory development, and for policy makers. The study has resulted in two observations. First, it supports the claim of consociational theory that enhanced presence of its nine favorable factors diminishes the risk for intrastate tension and violence. Second, it proposes that a successful decentralization is the possible key explanatory characteristic of state apparatus that decreases risk for dyadic intrastate conflict. The causal mechanism here being heightened credibility and legitimacy of constitution because of increased trust and lowered fear of further ethnic discrimination. It is necessary to verify these results before further theory development can be done.


IELTS Writing Task 2 Sample 389 - Some countries have introduced a law to limit working hours for employees
IELTS Writing Task 2/ IELTS Essay:
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Some countries have introduced a law to limit working hours for employees. Why is this law introduced? Do you think it is a positive or a negative development?
You should write at least 250 words.
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There has been a drastic increase in working hours in some developing countries. Employees have been pushed to work harder and longer without any additional incentives than their wages. Therefore, many countries have passed new laws to control and legitimate duty hours. This will send a good message to workers and will lift their morale and dedication towards work.
There have been numerous examples, where companies are making their employees work longer than normal duty hours. The primary advantage of this is to increase their production by spending the same expenditure. However, this has led to severe problems. Employees are feeling immense pressure from their employers to meet targets and deadlines. This is one of the pivotal reasons that employees are more susceptible to illness. Therefore, some legislation required in working hours.
Newly introduces rules have substantial impacts on workers performance and health. They have become more responsible and productive. The quality of the work has also increased after applying these rules. In addition to this, people health conditions have significantly improved. Now they have more time to spend with their family that helped them tremendously mitigate their stress and tensions. Additional time also provides opportunities to make themselves social with their peer group.
To sum up, I would like to say that excessive works from workers have detrimental effects on their physical and psychological health. Limiting work hours will bring several changes in their lifestyle that would lead them towards better and successful life. However, in many countries employees are obliged to follow longer hours, as there is no law to protect them.
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How Long Does Salmon Last?
How Long Does Salmon Last?
Salmon Shelf Life
How long does salmon last? The shelf life of salmon depends on a variety of factors, such as the sell by date the preparation method and how the salmon was stored. Because of its abundance, mild flavor, appealing color, proven health benefits and concentration of protein, salmon is a great main dish choice. Salmon contains omega-3 fatty acids (also known as the good cholesterol) which are proven to lower the risk of heart disease and help with numerous other health problems. Salmon is the #3 best seller in the U.S. in the seafood category, topped only by shrimp (#1) and tuna (#2) for ten years running.
So, how long does salmon last? When properly stored, the shelf life of salmon past its sell by date is approximately …
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Past Printed Date Past Printed Date Past Printed Date
Fresh Salmon lasts for 1-2 Days 6-9 Months
Smoked Salmon lasts for 1-2 Weeks* 5-7 Days 6-9 Months
Canned Salmon lasts for 6-8 Months 6-8 Months 9-12 Months**
Cooked Salmon lasts for 5-6 Days 6-9 Months
Frozen Salmon lasts for 4-5 Days 6-9 Months
Of course, salmon lasts for a shorter period of time if it is not stored properly. But remember, salmon, like a lot of other proteins, usually has a sell by date and not a use by date or expiration date. Because of this distinction, you may safely use foods even after the sell by date has lapsed if they have been stored properly.
How to tell if salmon is bad, rotten or spoiled?
Practicing proper hygiene and food safety discipline will help prevent food borne illness. Although not a perfect test, your senses are usually the most reliable instruments to tell if your salmon has gone bad. Some common traits of bad salmon are a slimy, milky flesh (a thick, slippery coating) and a fishy smell. Although this is tricky because it is smelly and slimy by nature, these traits become more pronounced when salmon has gone bad and just opening the package of spoiled fish should alert your nose right away that something is wrong.
How to store salmon to extend its shelf life?
Proper food storage is the key to extending the expiration date of salmon. You can help salmon keep fresh longer by storing it in your refrigerator immediately after use. Once prepared, salmon should be stored in a tightly closed container to keep out moisture and other contaminants and returned to the fridge.
*Smoked salmon should only be kept in the pantry if it was purchased on the grocery shelf, if purchased in the refrigerator section it should be placed in the fridge at home. But once opened, both options must be placed in the fridge in a tightly sealed container.
**If freezing or refrigerating canned salmon, transfer the salmon to a freezer safe container first. Never freeze cans. They can be refrigerated only if they are unopened.
For a long-term option, you can freeze your salmon while preserving its taste if you use a freezer safe container. If you purchased your salmon frozen, be sure to keep it frozen until the day or day before you are going to use it.
Always defrost salmon in the refrigerator or still wrapped and submerged in a large bowl of cold water if you want to use it sooner.
How long is salmon good for when prepared in a dish?
How long does salmon last? That depends. How long does rice last? In general, foods lasts only as long as the quickest expiring ingredient in the dish. To find out how long those other ingredients are good for, please visit the Dairy, Drinks, Fruits, Grains, Proteins, Vegetables and Other sections of Eat By Date or search below!
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Our content for how long does salmon last incorporates research from multiple resources, including the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Food & Drug Administration. In addition, we scoured the web for informative articles and reports related to food safety, food storage and the shelf life of salmon.
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Research continues to confirm that students who become involved in experiences outside the classroom receive a deeper, richer, more satisfying, and more holistic learning experience than those students who are less involved.
Examples of such experiences include, but are not limited to, participation in: (a) living-learning communities, (b) student clubs and organizations, (c) volunteer work and service projects, and (d) workshops and training programs. Additionally, the transcript can be used to record formal student recognitions and awards, as well as other achievements.
IUP has created a co-curricular transcript, which allows individuals to track their experiences and accomplishments as a student. By comparison, an academic transcript is a very straightforward tabloid which contains the results of academic coursework. However, the co-curricular transcript is a tabloid of experiences and achievements that complements the academic record and helps capture a student's full IUP experience.
The co-curricular transcript application can be accessed using the following steps:
Once in the application, you have the ability to add a co-curricular activity, update/review/remove an activity, or generate an unofficial Co-Curricular Transcript. To add an item, enter the following:
The types (categories) of experiences and some examples are as follows: (Note that the examples indicated below are not an exhaustive list, but illustrate some of the types of experiences that can be included.)
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How to Throw A Safe And Healthy Super Bowl Party
The Super Bowl is right around the corner, and as parties are being planned, there are a few things to keep in mind to ensure that things stay safe, healthy and fun. Here you'll find some helpful tips to help you plan a great Super Bowl party for friends and family.
While Super Bowl parties and alcohol usually go hand in hand, it's important to remember that these events do not need to revolve around drinking. This is important for a number of reasons.
- First, the Super Bowl is held during the winter, a time of year when many people suffer from the winter blues. And even though parties are usually happy occasions, alcohol can cause a person's depression to become worse.
- Next, there are certain groups of people who shouldn't drink alcohol. Pregnant women, diabetics and those with liver, kidney or pancreas problems shouldn't drink at all.
- Last, drinking alcohol can lead to people engaging in unsafe behavior. The reason is because alcohol causes people to lower their inhibitions and do things they ordinarily wouldn't do, while impairing a person's judgment. Driving under the influence and teenage drinking are two of the dangers of having a Super Bowl party centered on alcohol.
Having alcohol at a Super Bowl party is fine, but there are some safety precautions that should be followed:
- Always use a designated driver. If no one is available to take intoxicated party guests home, then party hosts should have room available for party guests to stay for the night.
- Remember that the body can metabolize about one drink per hour, so as long as someone sticks to just one drink an hour, they can avoid the majority of the intoxicating affects. One drink is one beer, one glass of wine or one ounce of hard liquor.
- Party hosts should have non-alcoholic drinks available for those who choose not to drink and those who are drinking should alternate between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to avoid getting drunk.
Party hosts should make sure that whatever fare they serve is healthy. Many Super Bowl parties feature pizza and wings, but these party staples are loaded with fat, salt and have little nutritional benefit. Instead party hosts should be sure that the food they serve follows these healthy guidelines:
- Include fresh fruit and vegetables, such as carrot sticks, apple wedges, and broccoli florets. This will vary based upon what is in season and locally available.
- Offer low-fat or non-fat dressings and dips.
- Offer lean forms of protein and consider some vegetarian/vegan options.
- Make sure that food is low in calories, fat, sugar and sodium
- Be aware of any special dietary needs such as diabetes or those on restricted diets and be sure to have selections available that meet those needs.
- Always follow food safety guidelines, such as proper holding temperatures, avoiding cross contamination and hand washing.
Americans are notorious for their sedentary lifestyles, so during half time and commercial breaks, get moving. Physical activity doesn't have to be hard to be effective. Something as simple as throwing the pig skin in the yard during commercial breaks or dancing along with the half-time show will do the trick. It doesn't have to be difficult or complicated, just get moving.
Since the Super Bowl takes place during the winter, staying warm is essential, especially during outdoor tailgating parties, although it can also get cold inside as well. Hypothermia can occur extremely quickly and can be life threatening. There are a number of ways to stay warm during Super Bowl parties.
- Wear appropriate clothing. Loose layers with the outer layer being wind and waterproof will help keep party goers warm outdoors. Dressing warmly is also important if someone is going to be indoors, since people going in and out can cause the temperature in a room to drop, causing people to become chilled.
- Keep the amount of exposed skin to a minimum. Wear hats, mittens or gloves, and scarves to keep as much heat in as possible.
- Drink warm liquids and eat warm foods. Avoid alcohol and caffeine because these can cause the body to lose heat faster.
- Look for unique ways to get warm. Air activated warmers are extremely helpful in warming the body and are available in a variety of sizes and are inexpensive.
No matter if someone is tailgating at the big game or partying at home, following basic safety rules is important.
- Always have a fire extinguisher and first aid kit on hand. Injuries and fires occur when people least expect them.
- Avoid any clothing, no matter how festive, that blocks the ability to see or move freely.
- Never leave children or pets unattended and be sure that the excitement isn't too much for them. Often pets can be especially fearful in new situations that may startle them.
- Never use grills, generators or any other appliance that uses gasoline, propane or charcoal inside an enclosed area. This can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning as well as fires.
- Be sure that heaters are not near anything that will catch fire.
Super Bowl parties are great fun, but people should always party safe. By following these guidelines, Super Bowl party goers can cheer for their favorite team, while staying healthy and safe.


The Indigenous Worldview and Healing as a Process
jannworkboardThe traditional ancient teachings of Indigenous cultures are providing profound healing methods and perspectives to those on their healing journey. This workshop can be applied to the healing of many topics: sexual abuse, abandonment, grief and loss, violence, fostering and adoption, couple relationships, residential school trauma, emotions especially anger and depression. Details of the workshop will be finalized with those requesting it.


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What is rose leaf rolling sawfly?
Rose leaf-rolling sawfly is an insect pest of roses. Female sawflies insert eggs into rose leaflets, and while doing so, secrete chemicals that induces the leaf rolling. Caterpillar-like larvae emerge from the eggs and feed within the rolled leaflets.
Attacks are particularly severe if there is warm weather during the egg-laying period in late spring-early summer, as this increases the sawfly's activity.
Light infestations can usually be tolerated, but where a large proportion of foliage has been affected, the plant may suffer a loss of vigour.
Non chemical control
Pick off affected leaves and dispose of them before the larvae complete their feeding; this is only feasible when comparatively few leaves are affected. The removal of large numbers of leaves would be more harmful to the rose than the pest damage. Cultivation of the soil around roses during the winter may expose overwintering larvae, but may also damage the roots and encourage suckering.
It can be difficult to prevent the females laying eggs and initiating the damage. Pesticides often do not reach the larvae in the rolled leaves.
Deltamethrin (Bayer Sprayday Greenfly Killer) or lambda cyhalothrin (Westland Plant Rescue Fruit & Vegetable Bug Killer) will control the adult sawflies but as these are active over a six to eight week period in late spring-early summer, several applications would be necessary to prevent egg-laying.
The systemic insecticide thiacloprid (Provado Ultimate Bug Killer Ready To Use or Provado Ultimate Bug Killer Concentrate 2) may control the larvae feeding inside the rolled leaves.
Pesticides for gardeners (Adobe Acrobat pdf document outlining pesticides available to gardeners)
The adult sawfly is 3-4mm (about 1/8in) long, black in colour with two pairs of transparent wings. The females insert eggs into the leaflets during late April to early June and while doing so secrete chemicals that induce the leaf rolling.
The eggs hatch into pale green caterpillars, which grow up to 10mm (about 3/8in) long as they feed inside the rolled leaflets. During late June and July the larvae go down into the soil where they overwinter as non-feeding larvae before pupating in the spring. There is one generation per year.


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Q100175: Setting up Auto-Save functionality in MODO
This article explains how MODO's auto-save functionality works and how you can configure the behaviour. This is a useful feature to prevent you from losing too much work if MODO crashes before you save a project.
Auto-Saves are triggered at set time-intervals, but only if a change has been made in the scene. The file location, time-interval, and number of revisions are all configurable.
How to setup auto-save functionality
You can enable and change the settings of the auto-save within MODO's preferences:
 1. Launch MODO and then open the Preferences.
 - On OSX this can be found under the "modo" menu
 - On Windows and Linux the Preferences are under the System menu
 2. In the Preferences window, navigate to Defaults > Auto-Save
 3. Here you will find the following settings:
 - Enable - Turns auto-saving on
 - Time Interval (mins) - sets the time between auto-saves
 - Backup Directory - where the auto-save files are stored
 - Number of Revisions - how many different auto-save files MODO will make for each file
MODO will make auto-saves for each file you work on, meaning auto-saves from a different file won't override saves from another. If you haven't saved the file at all then the autosave will be called "Untitled.lxo"
 - If 'Number of Revisions' is set to 1 then autosave filename will match the original scene file
 where 'filename' is your scene name
 - If the revisions are set to more than 1, it will add a number to the start of the filename:
 NOTE: The most recent auto-save will have the highest number at the start of the file
How to load auto-saves after a crash
If MODO crashes, then the next time you launch MODO it will prompt you to ask if you wish to load the most recent save or auto-save (it will choose the most recent).
Alternatively, you can manually load an auto-save from the Backup Directory location.
If you encounter any issues performing the steps outlined in this article, then please open a Support ticket and let us know the issue you are encountering and the troubleshooting steps you have taken so far.
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CURRVAL. Typical usage:
 INSERT INTO table (k, v) VALUES (nextval('seq_name'),?);
To get the value just inserted, you can use the corresponding currval() SQL function in the same session, or
 SELECT last_value FROM seq_name
Automatic Row Numbering and Row Count Limiting
Postgresql does not support any way of automatically numbering returned rows.
Parameter Binding
The TYPE attribute of the bind_param() method may be used to influence how parameters are treated. These SQL types are bound as VARCHAR: SQL_NUMERIC, SQL_DECIMAL, SQL_INTEGER, SQL_SMALLINT, SQL_FLOAT, SQL_REAL, SQL_DOUBLE, SQL_VARCHAR.
The SQL_CHAR type is bound as a CHAR thus enabling fixed-width blank padded comparison semantics.
Unsupported values of the TYPE attribute generate a warning.
Stored Procedures
DBD::Pg does not support stored procedures.
Table Metadata
DBD::Pg supports the table_info() method.
The pg_attribute table contains detailed information about all columns of all the tables in the database, one row per table.
The pg_index table contains detailed information about all indexes in the database, one row per index.
Primary keys are implemented as unique indexes. See pg_index above.
Driver-specific Attributes and Methods
There are no significant DBD::Pg driver-specific database handle attributes.
DBD::Pg has the following driver-specific statement handle attributes:
Returns a reference to an array of integer values for each column. The integer shows the storage (not display) size of the column in bytes. Variable length columns are indicated by -1.
Returns a reference to an array of strings for each column. The string shows the name of the data type.
Returns the OID of the last INSERT command.
Returns the name of the last command type. Possible types are: INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, SELECT.
DBD::Pg has no private methods.
Positioned updates and deletes
Postgresql does not support positioned updates or deletes.
Differences from the DBI Specification
DBD::Pg has no significant differences in behavior from the current DBI specification.
Note that DBD::Pg does not fully parse the statement until it's executed. Thus attributes like $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS} are not available until after $sth->execute has been called. This is valid behaviour but is important to note when porting applications originally written for other drivers.
URLs to More Database/Driver Specific Information
Concurrent use of Multiple Handles
DBD::Pg supports an unlimited number of concurrent database connections to one or more databases.
It also supports the preparation and execution of a new statement handle while still fetching data from another statement handle, provided it is associated with the same database handle.
Other Significant Database or Driver Features
Postgres offers substantial additional power by incorporating the following four additional basic concepts in such a way that users can easily extend the system: classes, inheritance, types, and functions.
Other features provide additional power and flexibility: constraints, triggers, rules, transaction integrity, procedural languages, and large objects.
It's also free Open Source Software with an active community of developers.


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While planting apple seeds with kids is fun and will produce a tree, it's important to know that the tree may never bear fruit. Most apple trees that are grown for fruit are produced by a grafting method. Additionally, an apple tree grown from seed that does bear fruit can take up to eight years to get to that stage. Finally, it may produce apples that don't look or taste like the apple from which the original seed came! That said, planting apple seeds with kids is a great learning experience.
Allow the child to pick out and eat an apple, making sure to save the seeds from the core area. It's not a bad idea to eat several varieties, because some apple seeds germinate more quickly than others.
Remove as many seeds as you can from the core. Only use intact seeds, as broken ones will not grow. Clean the seeds carefully with warm water, making sure to remove any parts of the apple that cling to them.
Allow the seeds dry out for at least three days. It's best to put the seeds on a paper plate. Help keep track of what type of seeds you are handling by having the child write the name of the apple they came from on the plate. Make sure to put the seed plates in a protected and out-of-the-way place, so that no critters or children carry them off.
Dampen a paper towel and place the seeds on it. Fold the wet towel over several times so that the seeds are surrounded in moisture. Place the paper towel in a plastic sandwich bag and seal it; then place the entire bag in the refrigerator. Have the child check the seeds daily. They should sprout within one to two weeks. Make sure they are a good size and sturdy before moving to the planting stage.
Use a push pin to poke holes in the bottom of several paper cups. Fill each cup about 3/4 of the way with potting soil. Transfer the apple seeds to the cups, planting one seed per cup. Make sure the green sprouted part is above the soil. Water gently until the soil is very moist and place the cups in a sunny location.
Water the seedlings daily and make certain that they receive lots of sunlight. As they start to outgrow their containers, transfer them to larger clay pots and move them outside into a spot that receives lots of sun. Continue to water daily.
Transplant the trees into the ground when they are about 12 inches tall and have developed a sturdy root system. Have the child help you dig a hole in an area of the garden that receives at least six hours of sunlight each day. The planting hole should be twice the size of the tree's root ball and filled with planting soil and manure. Place pine straw around the base of the tree to help keep moisture in the soil. Continue to water it well, especially during the hot months, and enjoy it as it grows.


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text: Heart development requires precise coordination of morphogenetic movements with cell fate specification and differentiation. Beh and colleagues have been investigating how this is achieved in ascidian embryos and now report that the forkhead transcription factor FoxF is essential for FGF-induced migration of heart precursor cells in Ciona intestinalis (see p. 3297). In ascidian embryos, FGF signalling, transduced via the MAPK pathway, activates the transcription factor Ets1/2, which is needed for heart tissue specification and cell migration. Beh et al. show that FoxF is rapidly activated in heart precursors in response to FGF signalling, identify the FoxF minimal heart enhancer, and show that Ets1/2 interacts with this in vivo. Expression of a dominant-negative form of FoxF in heart precursor cells, they report, inhibits their migration but not differentiation and results in the formation of an ectopic beating heart in the tail of juveniles. Overall, these results indicate that FoxF is a direct target of FGF signalling and that it mainly regulates heart cell migration.


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I want to make a simple 2d terrain with just a few bumps and height changes:
terrain with le car
I thought about just using random numbers to describe the height of a certain vertex, but I don't see how I can make one mesh from this. I'm looking for a way to find the vertex and indices buffers for the terrain.
How do I do this?
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Create a triangle strip. You could have your random heights at intervals equal to t. So the triangle strip would then consist of you alternating between the height vertices (with y being random and x equal to t * iteration) and vertices that go along the bottom (with y being constant and x also equal to t * iteration).
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Naturaly, the distance between each vertex pair doesn't have to be constant, this is just an example of the implementation.
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Good answer!. – bobobobo May 3 '12 at 1:13
I thought about how to do this and this answer makes it pretty simple. This actually helps me out with making random asteroid objects. – Azaral May 3 '12 at 1:23
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In my previous post HERE I talked about breast engorgement and the various ways of relieving it such as expressing and use of cold cabbage leaves. This post is a continuation to that post and I decided to talk about how to use cabbage leaves to relieve engorgement. Cabbage basically is a common vegetable and it is easily accessible. Cabbage leaves can be used to help relieve swelling and relieve the pain and discomfort that comes with breast engorgement. There is really no known property within the cabbage itself that has shown to help relieve the swelling and pain or if the swelling goes down because the cabbage leaves are acting as a cold
compress. However, it has been shown to be highly effective in helping to reduce swelling and pain associated with engorgement.
HOW TO USE CABBAGE LEAVES FOR BREAST ENGORGEMENT
- In order to achieve your desired effect you need to ensure that the cabbage leaves are cold, so you place the cabbage in the refrigerator. The green cabbage is more peculiar to Nigeria so use the green cabbage, also the green cabbage is less likely to stain or cause discoloration to the nursing bra or breastfeeding clothing.
- Once the cabbage is chilled remove from the refrigerator, peel off the outer layer of leaves and throw away, I would personally advice to peel till you get to a very clean and fresh layer of cabbage like two to three layers of peeling would do(I peeled like three layers off). Then peel off two of the inner leaves to be used and place the remaining cabbage in the refrigerator to be ready for next use if you need it.
- Rinse the cabbage leaves you just removed with cold clean water to remove the dirt and residue and sometimes insect from the leaves.
- When cutting the leaves from the stem be careful so you can cut it off nicely, this would ensure the cabbage leaves fit nicely over your breast.
- Wrap the cabbage leaves around the breast and hold in place with a nursing bra.
- Leave the cabbage leaves for about 20 minutes or till when the cabbage leaves get warm.
- Repeat as necessary till you are relieved or swelling goes down.
WHEN TO STOP USING CABBAGE LEAVES IF YOU ARE STILL BREASTFEEDING OR PUMPING.
Apart from the soothing and relieving effects of cabbage leaves it also can reduce your breast milk supply. So if you are still breastfeeding and just want to relieve the pain and swelling stop the use of the cabbage leaves once you get relieved and the swelling has reduced, the cabbage leaves would decrease your milk supply greater than you expect.
Try this and share your experience with me.
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Darkness to Light empowers adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse through awareness, education, and stigma reduction. These free online trainings are designed for organizations that serve youth and individuals concerned about safety of children.
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NRL currently have an opportunity for a Senior Information Manager to join my client on a large nuclear framework. This is an initial 12 month contract position based in Warrington.
Under broad direction, applies detailed knowledge of IM and EPC project execution to lead, promote, and organize effective communication of project information comprising documentation and data using advanced engineering design tools, information systems and technology to support collaborative global working. Develops and documents IM specifications, strategy and plans for implementing and applying IM solutions. Leads the implementation of effective and efficient work processes for document/data and 3D model management. Manages the handover of electronic deliverables to appropriate customers (Construction, Commissioning, Operations etc.). Responsible for implementing procedures for assurance of the quality of project data, documents, and 3D models.
You will need:
What's in it for you?:
- Must be a good communicator, confident, assertive, self-motivated, goal orientated, innovative and proactive and forward looking.
- Must be able to accept responsibility and understanding accountability.
- Able to identify & facilitate the effective resolution of problems, making optimal use of available resources.
- Must be able to positively influence the culture of the Information Management Group.
- Must be able to interact at all levels of the organisation.
- Working knowledge of CFIHOS or other equivalent class libraries an advantage.
- Long term contract
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Eels from Murtosa
When we were young, every September our family ate fried eels that came from Murtosa, a small town in the estuary of the Vouga river. The eels were marinated in "escabeche," a sauce made with olive oil, white wine, onions, paprika, laurel, and vinegar. These ingredients were combined according to ancient rules of alchemy so that when the eels, the sauce and boiled potatoes were placed on the plate, they transformed into culinary gold.
Eels are mysterious creatures. They spend their early years in fresh river waters. After reaching maturity, they swim to the middle of the Atlantic ocean to lay their eggs in the Sargasso Sea. The baby eels swim back in search of fresh river water and the cycle of life restarts.
How do the infant eels know where to go? And why do the best tasting eels end up in Murtosa? These are inscrutable mysteries.
Before refrigeration was available, the Murtosa eels were a local delicacy. The fisherman ate them fried or in a "caldeirada" that combines the fish with potatoes, tomato, onion, garlic, olive oil, lard, herbs, and spices.
In the first half of the 20th century, some local cooks started marinating fried eels in escabeche sauce. First they packed them in wooden barrels and later in tin cans. These marinated eels gained great fame and popularity in the center of Portugal.
Over time, eels became scarce, the number of fisherman declined, canning factories closed, and it became hard to find marinated eels. So imagine our surprise when, strolling in downtown Lisbon, we found a store called 1942 that specializes in marinated eels from Murtosa! The cans come from a factory that has been processing eels since 1942.
We took this precious find home and opened the can slowly, preparing to be disappointed. But, when we placed the eels, the sauce and boiled potatoes on a plate, the old magic flavors came to life and we felt young again.
The 1942 store is located on the corner of Rua da Conceição and Rua da Prata in Lisbon (tel. 21-_PHONE_).
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REGINA -- Saskatchewan recorded 169 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, along with two deaths and 168 recoveries.
One person who died was in their 70s and from the Northeast zone. The second person was in their 50s and from the Southeast.
The new cases are in the Far Northwest (27), Far North East (15), Northwest (10), North Central (nine), Saskatoon (46), Central West (four), Central East (five), Regina (41), and Southwest (one), South Central (three), and Southeast (two) zones. Six cases are pending residence information.
There are 146 people in hospital, 20 people are in ICU.
As of Thursday, there are 1,422 active cases in the province. The seven-day average of daily new cases is 148.
Yesterday, health care workers administered 2,493 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
The shots were given in the following Far Northeast (11), Northeast (10), Northwest (six), North Central (12), Central East (174), Southeast (188) Saskatoon (951), and Regina (1,141) zones.
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More Consistent and Timely Tribal Recognition Process Needed
GAO-02-415T, Feb 7, 2002
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In 1978, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) established a regulatory process for recognizing tribes. The process requires tribes that are petitioning for recognition to submit evidence that they have continuously existed as an Indian tribe since historic times. Recognition establishes a formal government-to-government relationship between the United States and a tribe. The quasi-sovereign status created by this relationship exempts some tribal lands from most state and local laws and regulations, including those that regulate gambling. GAO found that the basis for BIA's tribal recognition decisions is not always clear. Although petitioning tribes must meet set criteria to be granted recognition, no guidance exists to clearly explain how to interpret key aspects of the criteria. This lack of guidance creates controversy and uncertainty for all parties about the basis for decisions. The recognition process is also hampered by limited resources; a lack of time; and ineffective procedures for providing information to interested third parties, such as local municipalities and other Indian tribes. As a result, the number of completed petitions waiting to be considered is growing. BIA estimates that it may take up to 15 years before all currently completed petitions are resolved; the process for evaluating a petition was supposed to take about two years. This testimony summarizes a November report (GAO-02-49).


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LPL Outline README
- Provides the necessary data for Visual Studio Code to fill in the Outline panel and breadcrumbs bar for *.busclass files
- Navigate the code using the outline tree or the breadcrumbs bar.
- Jump to the definition of actions, classes, relations, parameters, etc.
- See definitions of fields and paramters, etc., when hovering over them
- Get warnings about persistent fields missing from import classes
Tip: The breadcrumbs bar is particularly useful in tracking (displaying) your current location within the file too.
This extension relies on the Infor LPL Language Server extension already being installed because that declares the busclass file type.
deep: (default) Includes all implemented levels of detail
shallow: Excludes detail within individual Actions. This is useful in VS Code version 1.31 because the number of symbols in the tree is limited to 7500, and some large files exceed that.
- Code parsing is imperfect, so jump to definition and hover text is not always accurate or available
- The ability to see a list of all definitions of a parameter or field referenced in the various contexts of a rule block is not implemented (yet).
See change log for complete history.
0.1.8 - 2021-05-19
- Key fields are now reported as missing from import classes if they are not listed and _USER_=Exclude is not specified on the.keyfield line 1.
- Declarations of the form "Field is Alpha up to 20" are now parsed properly.
- Warning messages about missing import fields will exclude entire import business classes with _USER_=Exclude on line 1.
- Associating an Import class to the corresponding main business class will now also look for "include FillInFields" to identify an invoke referring to the main business class.
- Relative keys are now identified as fields and can report warnings if missing from imports and not marked with _USER_=Exclude.
The code for this extension is hosted at GitHub


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Buzzers / Chironomidae are midge pupa; they start life as a bloodworm living in the soft mud found in most still waters. Blood red worms get their colour from the oxygen and haemoglobin held within their bodies. When they are getting near to hatching they loose their blood red colour and take on a more sombre appearance. At this stage they then make their way from the lake bottom up through the water columns to the surface. They swim towards the surface in a wriggling action, stopping either to catch their breath or waiting for the right conditions to hatch. When they stop wriggling towards the surface they slowly sink back down before swimming upwards again. Eventually when they reach the surface, they hang from the surface film and hatch out in to adult buzzers or midge.
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Marcel-François Richard (_PHONE_)
Marcel-François Richard was born in Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick. He was ordained priest in 1870 and played a key role in the development of Acadian identity. Early in his career, he was concerned with educating young Acadians in French. Richard was also interested in the agricultural aspect of colonization for Acadians in New Brunswick and was active in the colonization of the parishes of Acadieville and Rogersville in southeastern New Brunswick. He is considered the founder of these two parishes, where he also participated in the construction of schools and churches. Marcel-François Richard is responsible for many decisions regarding the national symbols that were chosen during the Acadian National Conventions of 1881 and 1884. He is behind the references to the Catholic religion in the symbols, such as the star on the tricolour flag and the national holiday (the feast of Our Lady of the Assumption on August 15). He also promoted Acadian newspapers and fought for the appointment of an Acadian bishop in New Brunswick.


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This tag makes a calendar component a drop target and can be used to declaratively initialize the drop target.
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actions String no Drag and drop actions supported by this target. The actions must be an NMTOKENS from the set of "COPY, "MOVE", "LINK" in any particular order e.g. (actions="COPY LINK MOVE"). If no actions are specified, the default is "COPY".
dropListener javax.faces.el.MethodBinding Only EL A method reference to a callback with the signature method( dropEvent) called when a drop occurs on the component. This callback should check the DropEvent to determine whether it will accept the drop or not. If the callback accepts the drop, it should perform the drop and return the DnDAction it performed-- DnDAction.COPY, DnDAction.MOVE or DnDAction.LINK, otherwise it should return DnDAction.NONE to indicate that the drop was rejected. The target component is automatically redrawn in response to a successful drop.
If the calendarDropTarget is attached to the calendar component, an implicit support for moving of activities is added by the framework. The drop transferable will contain the object of the following flavor: The dropSite for the drop event will be an object of instance:
Please note that currently there is no CalendarDragSource tag and hence the drop target is responsible for moving the activities. Page authors are responsible for handling drop from external data sources in dropListener. This can be done by adding one or more af:dataFlovor tags to the af:calendarDropTarget tag.


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From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
about:config is a feature of Mozilla applications which lists application settings (known as preferences) that are read from the profile files prefs.js and user.js, and from application defaults. Many of these preferences are not present in the Options or Preferences dialog. Using about:config is one of several methods of modifying preferences and adding other "hidden" ones.
This article is a companion article for about:config entries where the most important about:config variables are described.
Warning: Modifying preferences can, in rare circumstances, break Firefox, Thunderbird or the Mozilla Suite, or can cause strange behavior. Only do so if you know what you are doing or are following trustworthy advice.
Adding modifying and resetting preferences
To add a new preference, context-click (right-click) anywhere in the list of preferences. In the context menu, select New then select the type of preference you are adding.
To modify an existing preference, context-click (right-click) on the preference, select Modify and type in the new value. In some cases, Toggle will be the selection offered for boolean (true-false) preferences.
To reset a preference to its default value or to remove an added preference, context-click (right-click) on the preference and select Reset. If you added the entry via about:config, the preference will no longer be listed after restarting the program. (For more information about resetting preferences, see this article).
You can use the "Search" bar at the top of the about:config page ("Filter" bar in older versions) to filter the preferences that you want to inspect. The search bar is case-insensitive, unlike the actual configuration variables.
Some examples to filter results:
Some examples of regular expressions (RegExp) to filter results


Whittlesey and District Neighbourhood Watch
Whittlesey and District Neighbourhood Watch
Creating safer, stronger and active communities
NHW Ethics and Standards Guidance
Neighbourhood Watch Network
Ethics Guidelines March 2018
The Neighbourhood Watch movement aims to build safer, stronger and more resilient communities.
To further these aims and to ensure public confidence in Neighbourhood Watch, it is appropriate that Neighbourhood Watch members adhere to these Ethics and Standards Guidelines, and Policies adopted by the Neighbourhood Watch Network.
1. Honesty and integrity
You are truthful and trustworthy. You always do the right thing. You will be honest and act with integrity at all times.
2. Fairness, Respect and Courtesy
You act with self-control and tolerance, treating everybody with respect and courtesy. You respect the rights of all individuals.
3. Leadership, Objectivity and Openness
You lead by good example. You make choices based on facts and your best judgement. You are open and transparent in your actions and decisions.
4. Selflessness
You act in the public interest.
5. Responsibilities and Accountability
You will be diligent in the exercise of your responsibilities. You are answerable for your decisions, actions and omissions.
6. Confidentiality
You will treat information with respect, and in accordance with the law.
7. Equality and diversity
You act with fairness and impartiality. You will not discriminate unlawfully or unfairly.
8. Conduct
You will behave in a manner which does not bring discredit upon Neighbourhood Watch or Neighbourhood Watch partners, or undermine public confidence.


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Call Process Review
Following a decision by the 2015 General Convention of Synod (Resolution 151209), the then General Church Council commissioned an investigation into the LCA call process in order to hear from congregations about their views and expectations of the process and to identify ways the system could be improved.
The review made a number of recommendations. Overall it found that the system itself does not require significant structural change. However, it did identify that there is frustration about the system and a process that can be disheartening for some calling bodies. As a result, the review also identified scope for improvement in the efficiency and transparency of the process.
The General Church Board has received the report, considered its recommendations and approved a series of actions to implement them. These actions were developed in consultation with the College of Bishops. Some of them are already under development; for example, Church Worker Support is working on a framework for annual vocational reviews of pastors. Others will be developed and rolled out through this synodical period and beyond.
The focus of the actions is to support both calling bodies and pastors to:
- improve trust in the call process
- increase the chances of a good calling body/pastor fit
- improve the understanding of how the call process works, and
- ensure greater professionalism, and overall efficiency and transparency in the system.
These actions can be implemented through policy, operational processes and provision of resources to support all participants in the call system.
Click on the button below to read General Church Board's response to the recommendations of the review report.


Larry Coryell, the "Godfather of Jazz Fusion", performing on the electric guitar
This Saturday, May 19th, jazz legend Larry Coryell is scheduled to appear at Chestnut Hill's Stagecrafters Theater for a highly anticipated performance. He will perform with blues and jazz musicians Victor Bailey and Jim Dragoni. Coryell has long been known for his jazz-fusion style, but in recent years, he has added another dimension to his music in exploring other genres. As a result, his own music remains rooted in jazz-fusion while incorporating the styles of other genres to create an unclassifiable sound that is truly unique.
Texas-born musician Larry Coryell has been honing his skills on the electric guitar since his childhood. Although he originally sought to become a journalist, he later realized that his true calling was to create and perform music. When his career as a professional musician began in the 1960s, Coryell began to release strings of albums with various groups. In 1973, he formed his own band, a widely praised jazz-fusion group called The Eleventh House. Ever since then, he has been writing, recording, and performing for a wide range of audiences on both electric and acoustic guitar, and he continues to tour regularly.
Today, Coryell's dynamic style has influenced musicians of many interests and genres. His multifaceted career has exposed him to diverse audiences and has contributed to the wide range of his interests in music. His participation in countless musical groups has helped him develop his eclectic style, which blends blues, jazz, rock, and world music, among many other genres. Fans of many types of music praise the unique sound of his songs, claiming that his solos, in particular, cannot be classified by any single genre.
The legend of Larry Coryell, known as the "Godfather of Jazz Fusion," has not gone unnoticed. Throughout his career, his frequent tours have taken him around the United States and Europe. In fact, just a week after his May 19th show, he is scheduled to appear at the Stadttheater in Hildesheim, Germany as evidence that his career is still on fire. His exciting life and career have sparked so much interest that in 2007, Coryell published an autobiography about his experiences, titled, Improvising: My Life in Music.
At his May 19th show, Coryell will perform as part of a trio, accompanied by bassist Victor Bailey and guitarist Jim Dragoni. Although Coryell is expected to be the star of the show, both Bailey and Dragoni are also renowned musicians with well-established careers. They both specialize in blues and jazz, but like Coryell, have dabbled in other genres throughout their careers. The potential of such a powerful and eclectic trio promises that their upcoming performance will be a musical experience unlike any other.
Stagecrafters Theater is at 8130 Germantown Avenue, and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at
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 Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist. He is a well known blues guitar player. His music include jazz, jazz fusion, jazz rock, post-bop, free jazz and so on…