I'm not talking about a metaphorical bag here. You are going to need a real honest to goodness bag that you truly love. It should be as large as you can handle, maybe a large postman style, back pack, or beach bag. Splurge on this. It will be your companion throughout your journey. It should be washable, at least wipe-down-able, as it will be entering into all kinds of compromising situations—everything from car floors to public restrooms. Be sure it has at least two separate compartments and a zippered pouch for smaller valuables.
The first and most important item is a journal. Your journal will be used at doctor's visits, during hospital stays, chemotherapy and or radiation sessions, and in all manner of waiting rooms, not to mention while reclining at home on your most attractive and comfortable piece of furniture.
Freewrite about your symptoms, reactions, and all the fears and feelings, good and bad, that you experience.
List your intentions, hopes, and everything you are grateful for. And yes, there is always something to be grateful for. Add to this list often!
You can used them to highlight things you don't want to forget to address. This may become increasingly necessary if you fall into the chemo fog that afflicts many patients: forgetfulness, confusion, sleepiness, and staring off into space for long segments of time, thinking about—absolutely nothing! Don't let this scare you. I think of this chemo fog, or chemo brain, as a sort of cushion for your mind, a valuable stress reliever.
The nicest lotion you can afford. This goes for men, too! Perhaps several different types, for example, rosemary or lavender stress balm to rub on your temples, hands, and feet. Maybe some peppermint, or eucalyptus.
Check into essential oils and their uses. They can be added to any plain "base" lotion.
Small comb or brush. This is for the days you actually have hair. Keep in mind that not all treatments cause hair loss, but if yours does you can use the space for something more appropriate, such as a jaunty hat.
You might think about getting a super short haircut before beginning treatment. I did this rather late, but it gave me a real boost at the time and my new hair came in thicker and in lovely shades of caramel and silver. I've never gone back to coloring it.
Reading Materials. Your attention span, ability to focus, and mood, will probably fluctuate quite a bit. I found keeping a wide variety to most helpful.
Inspirational/Self Help/Health: When I found myself wondering if I was going to die, I read some lovely books on the afterlife. I even found myself at one point almost looking forward to the moment when I could put all earthly cares aside and walk into the light. While this was a joy and relief to me, it may not have the same effect on you.
Choose your literature wisely. Avoid anything you might construe as negative or depressing (unless that's what you're looking for, of course!).
It's your mind and your spirit; you must decide what is right for you.
Cancer-related literature. This is deeply personal. Some of us want to read everything we can get our hands on about our illness, others avoid it.
My favorite book on cancer during my illness was (not surprisingly) The Journey Through Cancer by Jeremy Geffen, MD. It really spoke to me in a loving, affirmative, and informative way.
Cure magazine is filled with good articles and is free of charge to every cancer patient.
For a funny/touching coming of age novel involving cancer patients, I adored John Green's The Fault in Our Stars.
Caring Bridge.org is a private and free site for anyone going through any health crisis. They provide an area to share your story, an online journal, a visitor's tab where your loved ones can say hello and leave personal messages, a link page for resources you can customize, a photo gallery, and more. I depended on my Caring Bridge journal to serve as a safe and supportive way to inform my loved ones and organize and understand my own journey, and it made it tremendously easier for my caregivers.
Specific online support groups for your diagnosis can be wonderful.
Water Bottle. I couldn't bear anything chilled during chemo. I drank room temperature water (sometimes the flavored kind).
A Prayer Shawl. Many faiths organize prayer shawl groups to knit or crochet shawls for those who are ill or in any situation where comfort needs are paramount. I was lucky to receive two of these as gifts during my treatment. Just knowing they were made by hand with love and prayers in every stitch made me feel safe and loved. I often slept in them, and always wore them during treatments. Your caregivers can find these online for you if you aren't given one by a local organization.
Electric Heating Blanket (or any cozy blanket). Cozy for the car, bus, airplane, or whatever doctor's office you find yourself waiting in. It may surprise you; it did me, but you may find yourself wanting to drop off to sleep in places you wouldn't have imagined possible.
The first time I saw the recliners lined up inches apart in the brightly sunshine-filled room where I was to receive chemotherapy, and saw the veteran patients snoozing with tubes in their arms, hands, or chest ports, and all of the other paraphernalia attached to that, I thought, "I could never sleep in here." I found out quickly they put relaxing drugs in those tubes along with the other drugs, and by the second treatment, with my heating blanket plugged in along with everything else, I was nodding off with the best of them.
Hat, scarf, mittens. Head gear is essential. A scarf to wrap around your face on a cold or windy day will be a great relief if you're on a medication that makes you hypersensitive to the cold as I was. One brisk wind can steal your breath if you're not covered.
Thank you cards. These help you maintain that all important attitude of gratitude. Dole them out liberally. Use your colored pens! You will find that people near and far, known forever and just met, will show you many kindnesses. Each card you write will bring you a bit of happiness!
Food. This can be tricky. What I could choke down one week, would be torture the next. My dear husband made a mad dash to the store any time I showed interest in any type of food, and was disappointed constantly by my inability to eat the same thing the next day. My friend Sandy actually flew across the country with a potato ricer to make me her grandmother's famouslatkes. Nothing worked. At every weigh-in I had lost another three pounds. Everything tasted like charcoal.
I didn't worry about not eating, but it was hard on my caregivers, so I tried.
Fruit was the least offensive food. And water that tasted like fruit.
Health bars, Jell-O bowls, cashews…sometimes.
I ate oatmeal occasionally at home.
If something sounds good, toss it in the bag! Just don't forget to refresh your supply. If something seems tasteless and nasty fresh, you don't even want to think about how the sight of it will affect you after it's been stuck in the bottom of your bag for a couple of weeks.
A sense of humor. This is every bit as important as the blanket and the attitude of gratitude. Without a grin, or a chuckle, or a crazy moment when you laugh at the predicament you're in, your situation could close in on you. Do not let this happen! Your life is impossibly, unrelentingly important, and filled with opportunity for humor. Sometimes you have to look had to see it, but it's there.One day your therapy will be over. Please pass along the secrets of your journey to someone new, someone who was like you before you learned everything that you know now. Make a difference and pass on your travel tips. You may never know what your grace provides, but pass your hard found comfort forward.Mahalo. Carry On!


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An Updated Edition with More Barbecue Recipes from Asheville, NC
Author: Bryan King
Author: Angela King
Author: Shane Heavner
Author: Mackensy Lunsford
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Enjoy all the sought-after recipes from12 Bones Smokehousein Asheville, North Carolina, including their famous ribs, pulled pork, turkey, and chicken, plus iconic barbecue sauces like blueberry chipotle.
When 12 Bones Smokehouse opened in Asheville, North Carolina, many doubted that it would succeed. From a squat building in a flood plain, the owners were serving up creative barbecue that wasn't 100 percent true to any single region. Yet more than a decade later, 12 Bones is a local institution that rivals the Biltmore Estate in popularity.
In this newly updated edition of 12 Bones Smokehouse, you'll find recipes that draw inspiration from all over the South (and sometimes the North), from old family favorites to new recipes invented on a whim. You'll enjoy page after page of the classics as well as 12 Bones' most popular specials and desserts, including:
12 Bones' namesake ribs, pulled pork, smoked chicken, and other meaty goodness;
more sides than you could possibly finish
pies, cookies, and even a cake or two to satisfy any sweet tooth
and—in this new edition—dozens of new recipes, including our best rib rubs and seasonal sauces!
Spark the smoker and light up the grill; it's time to make the most flavorful meals you've ever had.
Bryan King is co-owner of 12 Bones Smokehouse with his wife Angela, and where Shane Heavner is the head chef. Over the past decade, 12 Bones has quickly grown into an Asheville institution known best for its rule-breaking take on barbecue classics, such as their Blueberry Chipotle Baby Back Ribs. The restaurant has been featured in a variety of national media, from magazines like Southern Living and Garden & Gun to television networks like ABC, NBC, and the Travel Channel.
Angela King is the co-owner of Asheville, North Carolina's 12 Bones Smokehouse with her husband, David. 12 Bones has spent the last decade growing into a local institution by breaking the rules of barbecue. The restaurant has been featured in a variety of national media, from magazines like Southern Living and Garden & Gun to television networks like ABC, NBC, and the Travel Channel.
Shane Heavner is the head chef of 12 Bones Smokehouse. Of the eatery, Bon Appétit wrote, "Everything here is amazing, from the ribs to the corn pudding, but the BLT is ridiculous: house-cured brown-sugar bacon, fried green tomatoes, and pesto mayonnaise on thick slices of wheat bread." Southern Living said, "Blueberry-chipotle ribs—blasphemy or bliss? It's hard to imagine the traditional Southern favorite tweaked to such fruity/spicy terms, yet the taste is terrific."
Mackensy Lunsford is a food writer, journalist, and a former chef and restaurant owner. She has covered southern restaurants for a variety of independently-owned media and more recently for Gannett newspapers. She has won numerous journalism awards from The North Carolina Press Association and is a first place national award winner for food writing from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Lunsford also writes and develops recipes for The Coca-Cola Company.
Illustrations: 100 color photos
Size: 8 in x 10 in / 203.2 mm x 254 mm
Edition: Second Edition, New Edition, New Cover, New Recipes, and Updated
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Over the years there have been many video tape formats used in domestic situations and these legacy formats are now getting older and less reliable, the machines that play them back are becoming harder to find and the repair of many of them is becoming almost impossible because of the lack of spare parts and qualified technicians. As new technology allows us to transfer these tapes to more reliable formats we find ourselves doing more and more of this work at DJM Digital.
The are many tape based formats that are housed in plastic cases (cartridge style) of one size or another such as VHS and S-VHS are some of the common full sized tapes formats that we transfer. Camera tape formats include Video 8, 8mm, Digital 8, VHS C, and Mini DV tape formats as now transferred on a regular basis.
DJM Digital has a number of video tape machines to cater for the wide variety of video tape formats available and can usually help you with your treasured video content.
The benefit of transferring to DVD is that once a master has been created then multiple copies can be produced very quickly and at very competitive prices.
We see many damaged tapes in our day to day transfer work and often have to deal with people's precious video tape memories that have been damaged by poor storage conditions, heat, mold, or water. Interestingly when stored correctly Video can be water tight - the layers of tape are actually closer together than a molecule of water, so apart from the outer layers which may be damaged (often irretrievably) we can quite frequently retrieve a vast amount of information from the tape.
Often we have to replace the video housing with a new one, replace the tape hubs, clean the outer layers of tape and then run the tape to check it will play OK. We can then transfer the video content to DVD.
If you have problems retrieving your video content from damaged tapes, before throwing them away as irretrievable, consider sending them to us for assessment. In some cases this process maybe covered by your home and contents insurance.


A classic French shellfish and fish stew recipe, prepared with the freshest possible seafood, caught and served the same day. Served with a spicy sauce rouille.
Creamy fish chowder! With cod, or firm white fish, Yukon Gold potatoes, onions, clam juice, and cream.
Easy to make! Pasta with sauce of tuna, tomato, garlic, shallots, olives, parsley.
Sautéed salmon fillets served with a simple lemony cream sauce.
Delicious Coconut Shrimp Curry! Quick and EASY, this shrimp curry dish with coconut milk is perfect for a midweek meal. ONE pot and it takes only 30 minutes to make, and that's starting with frozen shrimp!
Crispy fried catfish fillets coated in a seasoned cornmeal crust!
Mexican style octopus salad, with tomatoes, green and red onion, cucumbers, and cilantro.
Shrimp and grits is an iconic Southern dish and easy to make at home. Grits topped with shrimp, onions, peppers and bacon come together for this classic dish with great flavor.
Delicious cod fish cakes with fresh cod fillets, potatoes, bread crumbs, parsley, Parmesan, garlic, and egg.
How to make tartar sauce with mayonnaise, dill pickles, capers, mustard, shallots, scallions, Tabasco and lemon juice. Perfect with fish or crab cakes.
Classic ceviche (or seviche) recipe! Here's how to make ceviche using the traditional Latin American method to prepare fresh fish - cubes of red snapper are cooked by lime and lemon juice. Serve this delicious ceviche wrapped in corn tortillas or with chips.
Spring rolls with shrimp and vegetables! So fresh and easy. Make for a snack, appetizer, or light meal. Serve with peanut sauce for dipping!
A classic Chinese stir fry of shrimp and snow peas with a mild ginger-garlic sauce.
Cilantro lime shrimp! Simple sautéed shrimp with garlic, cilantro, green chile and lime.
Skillet Shrimp and Asparagus, only use one pan! Quick, easy, and delicious, perfect for a midweek meal.
Ahi tuna, also known as yellowfin tuna, marinated in sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onion, and lime juice, then pan seared.
Alaskan King Crab steamed briefly and served with melted butter.
Make fish tacos with fresh fish fillets, corn tortillas, salsa, avocado, and coleslaw with this quick and easy fish taco recipe.
Delicious, rich and creamy crab bisque, made with fresh cracked Dungeness crab meat, and stock made from the crab shells.
Honey Glazed Salmon Recipe with the addition of apple cider for a delicious caramelized flavor. Salmon fillets are cooked in a honey and apple cider glaze on stovetop, then served over fresh wilted spinach.
Classic shrimp jambalaya with long grain rice, chicken broth, onion, bell peppers, celery, garlic, tomatoes, creole seasoning, and fresh shrimp.


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Why Star Wars IX is called "The Rise Of The Skywalker"
When Disney finally announced the title of Star Wars IX: "The Rise Of The Skywalker", fans wasted no time speculating intensely about what this could mean. Who is rising? Which Skywalker does the title refer to? Is one of the trilogy's main characters actually a member of the Skywalker family? Click here to watch the new Star Wars IX trailer and make up your own opinion!
Nothing is confirmed yet but tons of fan theories have risen from the title. Here you can check out the top 4 theories so far:
1. The ghost of the Skywalker rises:
At the end of the first Star Wars IX trailer we can hear the evil laugh of emperor Palpatine, indicating that he might appear in the movie. But he doesn't necessarily need to be alive to appear, we've seen dead characters come back as ghosts in several movie, including master Yoda in the last installment of the trilogy. The rumor spread amongst Star Wars fans that this movie's final battle might be between Kylo Ren and Rey, who are both joined by the ghosts representative for their forces, Palpatine for the dark side and either Luke Skywalker or Anakin Skywalker for the light , thus becoming the Skywalker who rises.
2. Kylo ren rises:
This theory suggests that the rise of the Skywalker isn't about neither Anakin nor Luke, but about Kylo Ren, aka. Ben Solo, who actually has Skywalker blood running through his veins thanks to his mother Leia. The theory suggests that the movie will be about Ben's rising from the dark, returning to the light and proving himself as a true Skywalker.
3. The Skywalker dynasty:
One more popular theory says that the name Skywalker in the title wouldn't have to stand for a single person at all. Some fans believe that Skywalker will be the new name for the Jedi and that Rey will lead them to bring peace to the galaxy. The Skywalker name might be included in the ancient Jedi texts that Rey took from the mystical tree before Yoda burnt it down in Star Wars VIII. The books contain all that Rey would need to teach a new generation of warriors called "Skywalkers", which might stand for a combination of Jedi and Sith, just as Anakin Skywalker's character suggests and showing that as everything in life: everything has good and bad in it and it's actually just about doing the right thing. This idea would also connect to the title of Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi, confirming that Luke was indeed the last Jedi since all future Force-sensistive persons would be known as "Skywalkers".
4. Another character turns out to be a Skywalker:
It could turn out that, as teased in the previous movies, Rey is actually a Skywalker, or that another yet totally unknown character is (like one of the force-sensitive kids at the end of Star Wars VIII) and the movie is all about protecting him and helping him rise. If this theory came to be true, the movie would also lay the ground for a future trilogy with new characters and a new story-line, which would be much in Disney's interest.
But the truth is: we simply don't know what this title means and only patience until the movie comes out will tell us the truth. I wish you all good luck during your wait!
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All of Us Looks to Improve Care for Each of Us
By CINDY SANDERS
Photo Credit: National Institutes of Health.
NIH Precision Medicine Project is Changing the Research Landscape
Historically, medicine has been a 'one size fits all' proposition. It's only been in the last few decades, as researchers have begun to uncover specific mutations and mechanisms driving disease, that the concept of precision medicine has really begun to take root and flourish.
While the field is still in its infancy, a bold initiative from the National Institutes of Health - the All of Us Research Program - is working to move the science forward dramatically. "Our goal is to improve health and medical breakthroughs for everyone," stated All of Us CEO Joshua Denny, MD, MS.
The ambitious initiative looks to enroll one million individuals in the United States across the full spectrum of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, geography, health status and other factors influencing health. Denny noted many segments of the population have been underrepresented or left out of research projects in the past. "We specifically said we wanted this population to be reflective of the diversity of the United States," he explained.
By capturing this huge amount of deidentified data, the hope is to build one of the most comprehensive precision medicine platforms in the world, allowing researchers to speed discovery by tapping into a breadth and depth of information that is not currently available. Moreover, Denny said the goal is to make this rich dataset easily accessible. "We really believe that the best science is done in a broad, open fashion," he noted.
Denny has been involved with the initiative from the very beginning. He was part of the NIH's Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group while serving in his previous role as director of the Center for Precision Medicine and vice president for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The work group released a detailed report in September 2015 that became the framework to create the All of Us research platform. At the end of last year, Denny was tapped to lead the NIH effort.
Engaged Participants
Participation was purposefully made easy. Anyone aged 18 or older who lives in the United States is eligible to become part of the large study by simply logging onto JoinAllofUs.org. Participants answer health surveys, share electronic health records and might be asked to provide key physical measurements and biospecimens of blood and urine. Some will also be asked to provide saliva for lab and DNA tests. Those asked to share biosamples are able to visit a convenient partner site. However, participants decide how much data they are willing to share. Those who opt not to share their EHR can still participate in health surveys but wouldn't be included in other aspects of the program.
Denny noted active engagement among participants sets the program apart. "We're not a typical research study that just collects information and does research ... we engage participants," he said of actively seeking input and sharing information.
Advancing Research
At the heart of All of Us is the desire to move science forward in a safe, effective, efficient manner by building one of the world's largest and most comprehensive databases.
"It is really to drive medical care, treatment and prevention," Denny said of the massive undertaking. "It is both about population research and precision medicine research."
He pointed to cystic fibrosis research that led to the 2013 debut of the first drug targeting a specific CF mutation. "It only worked in 5 percent of the population, but it was almost curative," he said of the breakthrough. Building off that genetic knowledge led to further discovery. By 2019, novel treatments were available to improve function and quality of life for 90 percent of CF patients.
From a population health standpoint, Denny said researchers discovered a small population of African-Americans in Dallas had a rare mutation that corelated with significantly lower cholesterol and was protective of heart disease. That discovery by geneticists at UT Southwestern ultimately led to a new class of drugs for lowering LDL cholesterol in the broad population.
"Those two stories highlight the power of genomics and how data can impact specific populations and everyone," Denny said.
Having easy access to rich data allows researchers to move more quickly and with greater assurance, he said of the repository of millions of pieces of information All of Us will contain that can be easily sorted by population characteristics, disease characteristics, geography, age, exposures, medication regimens, genetic signatures and more. "You don't have to recruit a new population of participants," he pointed out. "Once you have a research database that's large and has dense disease data and molecular information like genetics, it's almost a look up." Denny added the current COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for this type of information that could provide scalable insights into who is protected and affected by the virus.
"We're trying to rethink the whole process of doing research," he said, adding the goal is to allow broad access for both public and private researchers following beta testing, which launched at the end of May. Once researchers have registered and gone through the onboarding process, All of Us uses a 'data passport' model that provides wide access to explore data rather than having to be granted permission for each study on a project-by-project basis.
As part of beta testing the All of Us Researcher Workbench, participating researchers have begun using the study's initial dataset and tools and have been asked to provide feedback. "We really welcome any U.S. academic researcher at this beta phase," Denny added. Go to ResearchAllofUs.org for more information on applying for access.
Increasing Enrollment
To date, All of Us has more than 349,00 individuals who have taken the first steps of enrolling. Of that group, over 271,000 have completed the initial stages of the program, which include completing the in-person visit for measurements and biospecimens, offering consent for EHR access, and finishing the initial surveys. Denny noted progress has been slowed over the past few months during shelter-in-place orders that accompanied COVID-19. He added genetic testing was slated to begin just as the pandemic hit. "We've actually paused our in-person recruiting right now," he explained, adding the team is assessing safety and timing to restart visits to partner facilities.
Despite that pause, Denny encouraged anyone interested in being part of this seminal study to begin the enrollment process now. In addition to providing important information online that could be immediately useful, it also puts participants in a ready position when in-person visits start back. While Denny said it is crucial for physicians to share the importance of All of Us with patients to increase representative enrollment, he encouraged providers to become part of the cohort, as well.
"The program is only as powerful as the participants who join us on this journey," Denny concluded. "We want to make sure everyone is represented here at the table."
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In this article, we are creating Slide-in Animation with CSS3. Slide-in Animation is the very important animation when you wanted to show HTML element slide from left to right. We are creating slide-in animation from left to right direction. So it means when you load your page it will slide in from the left side and pasted on the specified position. CSS3 Provide us the better way to create amazing animation. There are thousands of properties that make your animation live and attractive.
Now just Look at the Example and learn how to create slide-in animation using HTML and CSS. In the above image, you will see the button at the center of the screen. We will slide this button from left to right. So to do this animation done just follow this steps.
Make a simple project in the editor. Create an empty folder and open this folder in your editor it would be a visual code editor, atom or sublime text. We are using visual code editor in this tutorial.
In this folder create two files Index.html and Style.css file. In the index.html file, we insert a simple HTML5 snippet and name title of the page. We also created a Style.css file. In the style.css file, we style the HTML elements.
We will simply create HTML5 snippets and link Style.css file using link tag. If you specify the different name for the Style.css file then change it with your stylesheet file name. In the body tag insert container class. We are using Container class to center the element. In this class insert a button with slide_in class. Using Slide_in class we access the button in the stylesheet. So we will select the button using a class selector. At the last specify Slide in Text for the button.
In this file, we style the button and center button element. Select container class using the class selector and center button element. For the background, we specify linear gradient color. Look at the example I will explain you everything.
After center the button element select button using slide_in class and specify some style. We will add padding, border, border-radius, background-image, font-family, and font size. To used animation specify animation property with animation name. Animation name refers to the keyframe name. Now just create @keyframe to create animation. In style.css file insert this code.
Now in the above code, we created a step by step animation for slide_in. We are using Transform property and specify SkewX with value. The Skew defines a transformation that skews the element in the horizontal direction on the 2D Plan. We are also using Opacity property to create the fade in animation.
Insert the above code inside of style.css file and that's it. Your Slide-in animation is ready. Now you just run the index.html file in the browser. You will get the amazing slide-in animation at the end.
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When I think about what IoT can bring to organizations it really is all about the data. There is one customer that I think is the purest example of a simple yet elegant business model and that's Petasense – where the value of the data is the value of the company.
What Petasense designed was a Mote, an egg-sized, battery-powered sensor that monitors vibration patterns in industrial motors, pumps, compressors, fans and other equipment that rely on rotating parts. Abnormal or excessive vibration often indicate potential failures and when identified early enough, simple, inexpensive repairs can be made before a costly, time consuming breakdown.
The Mote is designed to allow battery life for up to two years and and strategically uses the computing power of the Electric Imp module, present in each Mote, to pre-process vibration data at the edge to reduce noise and optimize the volume of data sent to the cloud. This provides the Petasense cloud with highly relevant data sets for analysis and allows for greater optimization of their data handling and processing.
As such, their customers can predict the health and optimize performance of their assets with Industrial IoT sensors and Machine Learning so that they can visualize asset health and performance and receive real time alerts from anywhere.
This is what IoT is all about, analyzing and deriving insights from IoT device data, to inform business actions and proactively engage customers.
With IoT you can analyze petabytes of sensor data from thousands of diverse manufacturing systems in near real-time to do predictive maintenance and eliminate machine downtime. By processing and analyzing time-series sensor data from production systems, companies can now effectively detect signs of mechanical wear and equipment issues well before they are visible to factory staff, so that they can take action before a failure occurs.
The question should be not whether you can can connect a sensor to your cloud platform. The question should be: How am I going to get the maximum value out of the data that I am now receiving and what new opportunities do this data provide for me to increase revenue, lower costs, build better products and ultimately have a better offering/product/experience for my customers.
Want to learn more? Read the Petasense Case Study and see how they did it.


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Durham Summit IV & V
4101 North Roxboro Street, Stadium Heights, Durham, NC 27704
TBC Place II
4025 Stirrup Creek Drive, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27703
Central Park Two
5003 South Miami Blvd, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27703
Durham Summit II
2828 Croasdaile Drive
2828 Croasdaile Drive, Croasdaile, Durham, NC 27705
Durham Summit III
3404 North Duke Street, Stadium Heights, Durham, NC 27704
201 West Main Street, Downtown Durham, Durham, NC 27701
Research Triangle Park - North Campus
5 Moore Drive, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27703
79 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709
Golden Belt
807 East Main Street, Golden Belt, Durham, NC 27701
Research Triangle Park - Pamlico
3306 East State Highway 54, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709
The Frontier - 600 Building
600 Park Offices Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Meridian Corporate Center - 2700 Meridian Pkwy
2700 Meridian Pkwy, Copper Creek, Durham, NC 27713
Miami North Office Park
Medical Park Drive
4321 Medical Park Drive, Summer Meadow, Durham, NC 27704
110 Corcoran Street, Central Park, Durham, NC 27701
10 Laboratory Drive
10 Laboratory Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Tri-Center South XIV
2511 East Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27713
Research Triangle Park - Ellis Research Center
2400 Ellis Road, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27703
Research Triangle Park - 14 TW Alexander Drive
Quadrangle V
6330 Quadrangle Drive, The Landing at Southpoint, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Pinnacle Park III
4407 Silicon Drive, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27703
Paradigm Park
2222 State Highway 54, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27713
Golden Belt Campus - Mill No.1
800 Taylor Street, Golden Belt, Durham, NC 27701
Durham, NC Economic Overview
Strategically perched at the heart of North Carolina, the City of Durham, or the Bull City, is a confluence of education, creativity, industry and innovation. It got its name from Dr. Bartlett S. Durham, the man who donated his land for a railroad station. Although the railroad station laid its initial foundation, it was a thriving tobacco industry that put Durham on the map. It was incorporated as a town in 1869 and has served as the county seat of Durham County since 1881.
Durham is a welcoming community that seems to be always open to something new. It is a key location within the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle Park (RTP) (or just the Triangle) and a nexus for art and culture. In 2016, Durham ranked 48 on the list of best places for business and career, on Forbes' list.
The economy of Durham is defined by three major industries: technology, healthcare and education. Durham hosts the RTP, a high-tech research and development center, and several leading companies in technology like Cree and IBM. Also dubbed the City of Medicine, Durham has six major hospitals and an unrivalled physician-to-population ratio that is close to 4.5 times better than the national average. Finally, Durham education sector has employed a significant portion of the town's workforce and continues to provide highly-skilled labor for its industries. The gross metro product of Durham in 2016 was about $36.6 billion.
Durham, NC Commercial Real Estate Market
The Durham commercial real estate market is often analyzed in tandem with that of its neighbor Raleigh. Notably, the industrial side of this combined market has been tight for the last few years, due to high tenant demand and short supply of industrial space. In the first quarter of 2017, the industrial vacancy rate of the Raleigh-Durham industrial market stood at 7.0%, which represented about 4.4 million square feet of vacant space, despite a negative net absorption rate of 234,301 square feet of industrial space on the Triangle flex submarket. The market has yet to fully recover from the 1.3 million square feet of industrial space vacated by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2016.
Durham office space is also in high demand, with low vacancy rates, of less that 2%, in the last six quarters.
Downtown Durham office space registered a vacancy rate of 1.3% in the first quarter of 2017 and a positive net absorption rate of 38,038 square feet of office space. The average rent price per square foot was $28.77.
The South Durham office submarket is the largest of the region, and showed a vacancy rate of 3% and a positive office absorption rate, in the first quarter of 2017. About 76,000 square feet of space were under construction in the first quarter of 2017 and the average rental rate of $21.94 was significantly lower than in the Downtown Durham submarket.
At just $14.53 per square foot of office space, the small North Durham office space submarket is the most cost-effective market for tenants. However, it had the highest vacancy rate, of 28.9%.
The general lack of large Class A properties on the Triangle office market is expected to be offset by the 1.8 million square feet of office space that is under construction, as of mid-2017.
Durham, NC Office Sales Volume
Data provided by Yardi Matrix, for properties larger than 50K SF, which sold at over $5M.
Durham, NC Office Transactions
Durham, NC Commercial Inventory Breakdown
Total: 21,767,759 SF
100k to 500k SF: 13,081,039 SF / 60.09% of total office
500k to 1M SF: 1,198,809 SF / 5.51% of total office
> 1M SF: 2,183,038 SF / 10.03% of total office
Class A: 10,990,555 SF / 50.49% of total office
Class B: 9,127,091 SF / 41.93% of total office
Class C: 644,156 SF / 2.96% of total office
Employment in Durham, NC
Durham's unemployment rate has remained lower than the national average since the turn of the century. It is now down to 4.4%, from a peak of 8.5% in 2010. Job growth in Durham is about 2.25%. Jobs in health care, education and research industries are well-paying. That explains why the annual average wage of Durham residents is higher than the national average.
Health care and social assistance industry - The largest Raleigh & Durham workforce, of about 60,580 workers, is in the health care and social assistance industry. Duke University and its vast Medical Centre is the biggest employer with over 40,000 employees.
Scientific, research and technology industry - More than 48,000 workers in Durham are employed in the scientific, research and technology industry. About 40,000 of these workers are on permanent employment at the RTP. It is estimated that the RTP has incubated about 1,800 startups in the last 50 years. Major employers at the Triangle are IBM Corporation, GSK and Cisco Systems Inc.
The wholesale trade sector in Raleigh & Durham has employed over 25,000 workers. Lastly, The Durham Public Schools had employed 4,600 workers in 2014.
Education in Durham, NC
Durham boasts of top-notch educational resources and opportunities. Durham Public Schools system serves in excess of 33,000 students and is the seventh largest in the state of North Carolina. The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a pioneer public high school with an emphasis in mathematics and science, is located in the city.
Durham is also home to the esteemed Duke University, North Carolina Central University and Durham Technical and Community College.
Commuting Time in Durham, NC
Durham has the best commute time in the region partly due to its lower population compared to that of Raleigh in the Wake County. Therefore, getting anywhere around the Triangle is easy. The average commute time in Durham is about 23.3 minutes.
Although there are efficient and affordable public bus, commuter rail and light rail systems in the Triangle, using a car remains the most preferred means.
Durham Demographics
Total Population257,232
Male Population(47.0 %) 120,795
Female Population(53.0 %) 136,437
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Despite much rhetoric on the part of the Mengistu government to the contrary and an entire chapter of the 1987 constitution devoted to "basic freedoms and rights," Ethiopia under Mengistu had one of the worst human rights records in the world. Haile Selassie's modernization of the penal code and the introduction of legal guarantees in the 1955 constitution indicated at least a recognition of the human rights problem. But Amnesty International described subsequent improvements in human rights conditions as "severely qualified." Human rights violations after 1974 increased dramatically, despite the regime's assurances to the UN that political prisoners received "fair trials" and obtained adequate food and clothing from their families. According to reports issued by Amnesty International, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the testimony of refugees, the human rights situation deteriorated still further from 1976 to 1978. Although human rights organizations often lacked verification of the exact extent of violations, many observers made repeated charges that Ethiopian troops had massacred civilians and committed atrocities in Eritrea and that the Ethiopian government had perpetrated human rights violations throughout the country, including arbitrary arrests, imprisonment without due process, torture, summary executions, and mass killings during the Red Terror.
In a report based on the observations of a 1976 fact- finding visit to Ethiopia, Amnesty International stated that, since 1974, "there has developed a consistent pattern of widespread gross human rights violations," and it singled out the association tribunals for the most egregious disregard of basic human values. Addis Ababa responded to this charge by labeling the evidence presented by Amnesty International as "imperialist propaganda [against] authentic socialist revolution" and claimed that actions taken against political dissidents during the Red Terror were "justified" for the elimination of "counterrevolutionaries." Official sources subsequently added that the human rights enjoyed by the "broad masses" were greater than they had been before the revolution and dismissed the "individual human rights" concept that was the premise of Western criticism of the regime as being irrelevant to a revolutionary government building a Marxist society.
The enormity of government-sponsored operations against suspected political opponents during the Red Terror has defied accurate analysis and has made attempts at quantification of casualties irrelevant. Amnesty International, for example, concluded that "this campaign resulted in several thousand to perhaps tens of thousands of men, women, and children, killed, tortured, and imprisoned." Other sources estimated that, during 1977-78, about 30,000 people had perished as a result of the Red Terror and harsh conditions in prisons, kebele jails, and concentration camps. Ethiopian sources opposed to the Marxist regime claimed that the security forces had killed 2,000 teachers and students in a pre-May Day 1978 massacre in Addis Ababa. The authorities also executed hundreds of unarmed Eritrean civilians in Asmera while the city was under siege by secessionists in December 1977. In a single sweep in Addis Ababa the same month, troops killed about 1,000 students for distributing antigovernment leaflets.
During the Red Terror in Addis Ababa, security forces frequently mutilated the bodies of political dissidents, dumping them along roads or stacking them on street corners. They also forced some victims to dig their own graves before being executed. The government required families to pay a "bullet fee" of about 125 birr to retrieve bodies of relatives, when they could be found and identified. Sweden's Save the Children Fund lodged a protest in early 1978 alleging the execution of about 1,000 children, many below the age of thirteen, whom the government had labeled "liaison agents of the counterrevolutionaries." Based on its assessment of the human rights situation in Ethiopia in 1979, the United States Department of State reported to congressional committees in February 1980 that "serious violations of individual rights and civil and political liberties take place in Ethiopia amidst a restructed economic and social system that is aimed at improving the basic living conditions of the great majority of the country's poor."
During the 1984-85 famine in northern Ethiopia, the Mengistu regime devised a scheme to resettle 1.5 million people onto so-called virgin lands in southern Ethiopia. The government forcibly moved people who resisted the plan, and many of those who were resettled fled to Sudan and took refuge in camps or tried to walk back to their northern homelands (see Resettlement and Villagization, ch. 2; The Politics of Resettlement, ch. 4). According to a report issued by an international medical group, 100,000 people died as a result of Mengistu's resettlement policy; Cultural Survival, another humanitarian organization, estimated that 50,000 to 100,000 died. To make matters worse, Mengistu refused to allow food to be distributed in areas where inhabitants were sympathetic to the EPLF, TPLF, or other antigovernment groups, a strategy that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands.
When a new famine emerged in late 1989, threatening the lives of 2 million to 5 million people, Mengistu again used food as a weapon by banning the movement of relief supplies along the main road north from Addis Ababa to Tigray and also along the road from Mitsiwa into Eritrea and south into Tigray. As a result, food relief vehicles had to travel overland from Port Sudan, the major Red Sea port of Sudan, through guerrilla territory into northern Ethiopia. After an international outcry against his policy, Mengistu reversed his decision, but international relief agencies were unable to move significant amounts of food aid into Eritrea and Tigray via Ethiopian ports. By 1990 there also were many reports that the Ethiopian air force had bombed relief convoys and that the Ethiopian armed forces had used napalm and cluster bombs against separatists in Eritrea and Tigray. The EPLF, too, attacked food convoys, claiming that the regime was using them to ship weapons to its troops.
Due process of law and legal guarantees prohibiting abuse of power basically did not exist in revolutionary Ethiopia. After revision of the penal code and the criminal procedures code in 1976, judicial warrants were no longer required for house searches or for the arbitrary off-the-street arrests that became the norm in the late 1970s. Specific charges were not necessarily brought against detainees after politically motivated arrests, and those held had no right to counsel. The bulk of noncriminal arrests involved suspects seized at the discretion of authorities on charges of nonparticipation in mandatory political activities, curfew violations, and participation in unauthorized meetings. In most cases, those arrested or summoned to association tribunals for questioning would be released after a scare or a roughing up, but many would disappear without a trace. Whole families--including young children-- would be taken into custody and held for indefinite periods in lieu of a missing relative who was a suspect.
In Addis Ababa, special security force squads, assisted by kebele defense squads, would arrest political suspects, who would then be taken to police headquarters for interrogation by officials. After questioning, often accompanied by torture, the authorities would assign suspects to a prison to await trial or hold them in detention camps without charges. Under these circumstances, many detainees welcomed sentencing, even if it was for a long period. The government confiscated a suspect's possessions after arrest and required families to search prisons to locate their relatives.
According to a variety of estimates, there were 6,000 to 10,000 political prisoners, including surviving officials of the former imperial regime, in Ethiopian prisons in 1976. During the Red Terror, as many as 100,000 persons may have passed through Ethiopian jails. Appeals by Amnesty International in support of approximately 3,000 known political detainees in 1978 had no effect, and most of these individuals were believed to have been killed while in custody. Other sources put the number of political prisoners at 8,000, of whom half eventually were released.
Categories of political prisoners still held in 1991 included former government officials; prominent civil servants and businessmen; armed forces officers, including those implicated in the May 1989 coup attempt against Mengistu; students and teachers; members of ethnic, regional, and separatist groups; leaders of professional and women's groups and trade unionists who resisted government takeover of their organizations; churchmen; suspected members of the EPLF, TPLF, or other guerrilla movements; and others arrested on various pretexts on orders from the government or from kebeles or peasant associations. Political prisoners generally included a large number of young persons and educated professionals, a high proportion of them Eritrean or Oromo.
Censorship, openly imposed under the old regime, became even harsher after 1974. The press, radio, and television were controlled by the state and were considered instruments of government policy (see Mass Media, ch. 4). Independent media outlets, such as the Lutheran broadcasting station in Addis Ababa, were seized by the Mengistu government. Censorship guidelines for the press were vague, but many Ethiopian journalists were imprisoned for less than enthusiastic cooperation with the Mengistu regime. All reports to the foreign press had to be transmitted through the Ethiopian News Agency. After 1975 government authorities expelled many Western journalists for "mischief and distortion" in their reporting. The Mengistu government also banned songs, books, and periodicals that were judged to be contrary to the spirit of the revolution.
Because of the limited access to Ethiopia afforded Western observers and the secrecy surrounding almost all of the Mengistu government's activities, accurate and consistent information and statistics pertaining to the Mengistu regime are difficult to obtain. In 1991 there still were no definitive studies describing in sufficient detail the entire scope of national security problems in contemporary Ethiopia. Those interested in Ethiopian national security affairs therefore must rely on a variety of periodicals, including Africa Research Bulletin, Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Third World Reports, and Africa Confidential. The International Institute for Strategic Studies' annuals, The Military Balance and Strategic Survey, also are essential for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of Ethiopia's security forces. The same is true of the annuals Africa Contemporary Record and World Armaments and Disarmament, the latter published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Harold G. Marcus's Ethiopia, Great Britain, and the United States, 1941-1974 provides an excellent analysis of the historical evolution of the Ethiopian armed forces. Other useful historical sources include Donald N. Levine's "The Military in Ethiopian Politics"; Richard A. Caulk's "The Army and Society in Ethiopia"; and Yohannis Abate's "Civil- Military Relations in Ethiopia." Marina and David Ottaway's Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution also is essential for an understanding of the military's role in contemporary Ethiopia.
Material on human rights practices in Ethiopia can be found in the annual Amnesty International Report and in other Amnesty International publications, such as Ethiopia: Human Rights Violations, Ethiopia: Political Imprisonment and Torture, and Ethiopia: Political Imprisonment. Although dated (1979), Bekele Mesfin's "Prison Conditions in Ethiopia" remains a valuable first-hand account of the life of a political prisoner in Mengistu's Ethiopia. For an analysis of the human costs of Mengistu's resettlement policy, Jason W. Clay and Bonnie K. Holcomb's Politics and the Ethiopian Famine, 1984-1985 is fundamental. (For further information and complete citations, see Bibliography.)
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Fertilizer and plastic pollution are main emerging issues in 2011 UNEP
Feb 23, 2011 | Plastic Pollution, Politik
Foto Credit: British Antarctic Survey
Nairobi, 17 February 2011 Massive amounts of phosphorus—a valuable fertilizer needed to feed a growing global population—are being lost to the oceans as result of inefficiencies in farming and a failure to recycle wastewater.
Phosphorus pollution, along with other uncontrolled discharges, such as nitrogen and sewage, are linked with a rise in algal blooms which in turn harm water quality, poison fish stocks and undermine coastal tourism.
In the United States alone, the costs are estimated to be running at over US$2 billion a year, indicating that globally and annually the damage may run into the tens of billion of dollars.
At the same time there is also growing concern over the impact of billions of pieces of plastic, both large and small, on the health of the global marine environment.
New research suggests that the plastic broken down in the oceans into small fragments —alongside pellets discharged by industry—may absorb a range of toxic chemicals linked to cancer and impacts the reproductive processes of humans and wildlife.
Experts say both phosphorus discharges and new concerns over plastics underline the need for better management of the world's wastes and improved patterns of consumption and production.
The two issues are spotlighted as among key issues —deemed persistent, re-emerging or newly emerging— in the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Year Book 2011 which is being presented today in advance of the annual gathering of the world's environment ministers opening on 21 February.
The Year Book calls for better enforcement of such rules, better consumer awareness and behavioral changes and improved support for national and community-based initiatives.
There is also an urgent need for improved and more innovative monitoring of plastic throughout the marine environment given that real gaps remain in understanding the ultimate fate of these materials.
There is evidence that some plastics are not floating but sinking and piling up on the seabed.
"Plastic debris has been observed on the ocean floor from the depths of the Fram Strait in the North Atlantic to deepwater canyons off the Mediterranean coast—much of the plastic that has entered the North Sea is thought to reside on the seabed," says the Year Book.
It also calls for phasing in changes in the collection, recycling and re-use of plastics. "If plastic is treated as a valuable resource, rather than just a waste product, any opportunities to create a secondary value for the material will provide economic incentives for collection and reprocessing," the Year Book points out.
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I guess everyone knows the tragic story of the EastmanKodak Company: founded in the 19th century, dominating the photographic film market during most of the 20th century and finally collapsing into bankruptcy in the early 21st century, shaken by a new technology they had once decisively initiated.
Florence: Lessons from a Global Innovation Hub
While discussing innovative cities, one can't help but think about those that were major catalysts for change in the past: Athens, Istanbul, Hong Kong, and Florence, for example. But how do they compare to more modern innovation hubs such as Silicon Valley, London, or Singapore? In this article, we'll look at Florence - and 10 recognizable and applicable elements that contributed to its success throughout the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. We'll also look at how Florence spurs innovation today.
The Right Time will Never Come: 5 Steps to Execute Your Idea
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After two years of coming up with my idea, I finally launched the platform 'Scout Me Online.' All the reasons why we procrastinate, avoid or delay in making decisions committing to a specific task are because we believe we need to have something or be perfect. And when we don't have those, or we doubt ourselves, which reinforces our current belief.
'Collaborative Synthesizim' and Innovative Nations
In an increasingly interconnected world, those individuals, sectors, and nations who can master collaborative synthesis will emerge as alpha-innovators. Through "collaborative synthesizim", the use of highly-integrated, progressive technologies working in synchronization will drive innovative practices, encourage new ways of thinking, and present new challenges.
Three Hurdles to Sustainable Innovation
Most people agree on the importance of sustainability in innovation, so why is it difficult to deliver? In this article, we'll explore three hurdles to sustainable innovation: it's often not considered by innovators themselves as they plan their projects; sustainability is not framed as an exciting and imaginative opportunity; and that sustainable innovation may not fit into a company's ongoing processes.
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Bottom-up innovation is fueled by many ideas initiated by employees, as opposed to top-down innovation, which is fueled by a strong vision - often by the company's founder. Bottom-up innovation leaders are entrepreneurial, supported by management's emphasis on creativity and a can-do culture, and often share these eight attributes.
Making Innovation More of a Science And Less of an Art
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One of the greatest challenges facing innovation professionals is to find the right approach to a given innovation problem. Whether that's instilling the innovation mojo in a large corporation or simply helping teams become more innovative, the ways to do this seem to be more of an art than a science. However, during the last ten years there has been a strong push to turn this art form into more of a science.
5 Most Influential Innovators of the 21st Century
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Ever since the beginning of mankind, there has always been someone who pushes the human race forward, such as the cavemen who learn how to make fire or the Native American Indians who sharpened stones to create weapons. With the advancement of technology in the 21st century these innovators: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheila Lirio Marcelo are creating new ways to travel, interact with others and access professionals for help.


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Pictured Above: The very popular production, Smoke on the Mountain, was performed twice at Homeplace in 2018.
The Stage in the Bank Barn
The original Bank Barn (so named for the way it is build into the bank of a hill) was originally built in the 1860s. The stage is lit with overhead, adjustable lighting and a large backstage area which nicely services the performances. The seating can be adapted for a small, intimate, near stage experience and for event seating up to 150 when utilizing our unique Straw Bale Bleachers. As you might expect, the Straw Bale Bleachers are always a hit with the children. Being a wooden building with a high barn ceiling and rectangular shape, the barn fosters the most beautiful tones from voices or acoustic instruments. The sound quality in the space is incredible and so warm and rich, it has to be heard to be believed. The Bank Barn Theatre has two large sliding doors and a board and batten design which bring the hills "alive with the sound of music"!
We invite theater troupes, poets, and musicians to utilize our space, with opportunities to either rent or to participate in events we are hosting for entertainment the whole community can enjoy.
Theater in the Barn at Homeplace
The bank barn at Homeplace is a unique venue. Renovation of the barn, which was built in the mid-1860s, included complete reconstruction and addition of the stage as designed by Lindsey Wilson Director of Theater, Professor Robert Brock. The setting is informal and retains much of the charm of an early barn.
Professor Brock came to Lindsey Wilson from the Kentucky Repertory Theater at Horse Cave. He began at the Repertory Theater in 1998 and was artistic director from 2002 until 2010. While at Kentucky Repertory Theater, Brock produced 86 plays. During his tenure the theater received many accolades, including selection as one of the top ten small regional theaters in the nation by USA Today. While at Lindsey Wilson he has directed several outstanding productions including A Christmas Carol, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, Our Town and The Importance of Being Earnest, using both students and local community actors.
Smoke on the Mountain
The Two Gentlemen of Verona


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Q: Measuring Stride distance wirelessly I'm trying to fit two sensors in a shoe each (such that each shoe has one sensor). their purpose being to calculate the stride length of a person, as a person takes a stride, the distance between two sensors will "peak", thus indicating a stride. However, I don't know what is out there or what sensors to use. I was thinking of using RFID 433 MHz sensor, or ASHR, but not sure how to proceed. Thanks.

A: Use one shoe (master) to emit a sonic pulse. Use the other shoe (slave) to receive it and immediately transmit it back to the first shoe. The time taken (as calculated by the first shoe) to send and then receive a pulse is related to the stride length.
Radio won't work because the biggest delay is the turnaround time from reception to retransmission and, given the slight variations in turnaround time (due to CPU not being 100% on the ball) will be longer than the transmission time by a thousand times!

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Duplex 266㎡ For Sale in Hyde Park
EGP 3,600,000
Reference Number: IQ-HPDuplex
New Cairo City
The 5th Settlement
5th Settlement Compounds
13,534 Price/m2
Duplex 266 meters at the under market price and a very special view in Hyde Park HPR With an area of 266 square meters Nautical Very special view 3 bedrooms including master with bathroom 3 bathrooms reception kitchen At a price that will not be repeated and a very special location HYDE PARK NEW CAIRO… THE PLACE FOR NEW BEGINNINGS Happiness is a universal feeling that is best experienced with new beginnings. At Hyde Park New Cairo, we love creating and celebrating new beginnings. That's why we've created places that will elevate your experience of every new beginning, whether it's a new job, a new home, or a new family member. Facts & Figures More than just numbers, it's the community, lifestyle, and experience that make all the difference at Hyde Park New Cairo. Hyde Park has made its home across 6 million square meters in the heart of vibrant New Cairo, flaunting not just its size of acreage, but rather the quality of spaces, designs, landscape, and facilities. It redefines today's living standards and introduces new concepts of integrated communities that are nestled within Mother Nature. A total area of 6,000,000 sqm of master-planned, mixed-used places. The largest landscaped park in Cairo, spanning 600,000 sqm of lush greenery and walking trails. The largest business district in New Cairo, offering 400,000 sqm of office spaces and business services. A larger-than-life shopping and leisure destination across 130,000 sqm, with more than 1,000 sqm of retail space. 24/7 security and facility management. 1,500 units delivered to date. 2,500 units under construction. 6 property types available to choose from (Apartments - Duplexes - Townhouses - Twin Houses - Family Houses - Villas).
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Duplex 200㎡ For Sale in Bloomfields
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namespace Carto\LivreOrBundle\Tests\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

class DefaultControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
	public function testIndexAfficheCommentaires()
	{
		$client = static::createClient();

		$crawler = $client -> request('GET', '/en/livre-d-or/');

		$this -> assertTrue($crawler->filter('html:contains("Leave a comment")') -> count() > 0,'problème affichage du livre d\'or');
		$this -> assertTrue($crawler->filter('html:contains("Author")') -> count() > 0,'problème affichage du formulaire');
	}

	public function testIndexEnregistreCommentaires()
	{
		$client = static::createClient();

		$crawler = $client -> request('GET', '/en/livre-d-or/');

		$form = $crawler -> selectButton('submit') -> form();
		$form['form[auteur]'] = 'testeur';
		$form['form[contenu]'] = 'Mon nouveau commentaire';
		$crawler = $client -> submit($form);

		$this -> assertTrue($crawler->filter('html:contains("Mon nouveau commentaire")') -> count() > 0,'problème enregistrement commentaire livre d\'or');
	}

	public function testIndexSupprimeCommentaires()
	{
		$client = static::createClient();

		$crawler = $client -> request('GET', '/en/user/admin');

		$crawler = $client -> followRedirect();

		$form = $crawler -> selectButton('submit') -> form();
		$form['_username'] = 'admin';
		$form['_password'] = 'adminpass';
		$crawler = $client->submit($form);

		$crawler = $client -> followRedirect();

		$crawler = $client -> request('GET', '/en/livre-d-or/admin');

		$link = $crawler -> selectLink('Supprimer') -> link();
		$crawler = $client -> click($link);

		$this -> assertTrue($crawler->filter('html:contains("Mon nouveau commentaire")') -> count() == 0,'problème suppression commentaire livre d\'or');
	}
}

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Uwe Rust (* 21. Mai 1940 in Magdeburg; † 15. April 2012) war ein deutscher Geograph mit Schwerpunkt der Geomorphologie afrikanischer Wüsten. Er war Professor für Geographie an der Universität München (LMU). Seine Spezialgebiete waren Geomorphologie, Bodengeographie und Klimatologie.

Werdegang
Rust wurde 1970 unter Hans-Günter Gierloff-Emden an der LMU promoviert und ebendort 1974 habilitiert. 1980 wurde er Professor in München. Er war Mitglied der Geographischen Gesellschaft München. Aufgrund seiner Herkunft betrieb er mit seinem Kollegen Friedrich Wieneke Forschungen zu und Exkursionen nach Norddeutschland. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt waren Expeditionen zur Geomorphologie der Namib-Wüste, über die er zusammen mit Friedrich Wieneke seine Habilitationsschrift verfasste. Er war weiterhin maßgeblich an der Interuniversitären Namibia-Forschungsgruppe (IUNFG) beteiligt.

An der Physisch-Geographischen Fakultät der LMU hielt Rust unter anderen die Einführungsvorlesungen in Klimatologie sowie Lehrveranstaltungen zu den Süd- und Nordafrikanischen Trockengebieten wie auch Hauptseminare mit Schwerpunkten geomorphologischer Fragestellungen.

Weblinks

 Uwe Rust, Autorenporträt auf der Website Namibiana

Quellen
 Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender. 20. Ausgabe. Saur, München/Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-598-23612-3.

Geograph (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Deutscher
Geboren 1940
Gestorben 2012
Mann
Geomorphologe

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Using data analytics, businesses and governments are tracking peoples' digital footsteps. It can be anything from web pages visited to Siri inquiries. While this data is valuable for businesses hoping to learn more about their consumers, or governments hoping to offer better services, it raises serious questions about privacy. The Agenda welcomes Dr. Ann Cavoukian, former Ontario information and privacy commissioner, to discuss why she believes it's possible for security, data analytics and privacy to co-exist.


Gaining a competitive edge from the bedroom to the boardroom begins with diet and exercise. Simply put, no one can ever or will ever, out train a bad diet. Nutrition is the foundation of how you feel. Proper nutrition balances hormones, provides targeted fuel to propel you through your day and allows your body to establish healthy cycles of sleep.
Here are 6 simple steps to help you dial this portion of the recipe in so you can start chiseling that six pack out from under the Winter slumber.
1. Take the Time to Eat Breakfast in The Morning.
Breakfast should include complex carbohydrates and clean protein. Essentially, complex carbohydrates provide energy while the protein ensures that the body has material readily available for rebuilding tissues.
Combining the complex carbohydrate with a protein stabilizes blood sugar levels and stokes the metabolism. Fail to provide your body with the energy that it requires to function properly and it will feed off of your muscle tissue and ultimately hamper your metabolism. A good combination would be a bowl of oatmeal, eggs, grapefruit and a cup of coffee for example.
This also requires some planning. Eating every three hours keeps your blood sugar/insulin levels stable throughout the day, controls cravings, prevents binging, reduces fat storage and keeps your metabolism burning hot.
Since you hear the word "metabolism" quite frequently in conjunction with nutrition, let's take a quick look at what it means. Basically, "metabolism" is the rate at which your body burns through food. When you hear that someone has a "fast metabolism," this simply means that the person's body is efficiently using the calories derived from food whether active or at rest.
In short, eating frequently makes you burn more calories. On the contrary, missing meals immediately slows the metabolism, triggers the body's starvation response and thus slows desired fat burning.
Ever wonder why people that consume few calories and perform cardio until they drop see very little to absolutely no results? They have a slowed metabolism. Frequent eating combined with the right food choices will super-charge the metabolism and turn your body into a virtual fat incinerator.
Simple carbohydrates are those found in refined sugar, honey and fruit juice. This type of sugar will provide quick energy but will also taper off just as quickly.
Sugar significantly disrupts proper insulin metabolism- ultimately causing fatigue and promoting fat storage.
4. Watch Out in the Evening.
The brain reacts by providing a nagging, nail-biting, jump-out-of-your-skin craving for foods that contain refined sugar like cookies, ice-cream and cake to spike serotonin levels. Everything is good for a while, until the low serotonin state inevitably returns and the vicious cycle begins anew.
Third, do something else like go for a quick, invigorating walk outside, read, take a shower, drink some water or – whatever it takes to distract yourself.
Accordingly, the body is much more likely to store the calories consumed in a substantial dinner as fat. The general rule is to eat breakfast early enough so that you can get in all of your required meals with your final meal consumed two to three hours before you go to sleep. Does this require some serious commitment and steadfast dedication? You bet. Are the results worth it? No question.
Water helps eliminate waste and toxins, regulates the body's temperature, transports nutrients, helps muscle tone, reduces sodium buildup, relieves fluid retention and helps metabolize fat. In fact, water is essential to the fat burning process. So, flood your body with water throughout the day.


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Home | Home Styles | Elements | Sargasso 1620
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Sargasso 1620
Master Bedroom: Main Level
Total Area: 1616
First Floor: 1616
Other Floor: -
Size: 76'x51'
This design exudes the spirit of comfortable relaxation in an efficient one level plan. A large and open gathering area easily accommodates several food preparation areas, informal seating, and relaxing or eating before a roaring fire. The expansive wall of windows and door let in the view. A screened porch and large deck area draw family and guests to enjoy the outdoors, day or night, rain or shine.
Here's what independent Lindal Cedar Homes dealer John Axmith, of Axmith & Company, Ltd., had to say about working on this custom home, which he helped the clients design and build on a small private island in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.
His clients were a couple in their early 70s, which is one reason the house is a single-story design and only 1,620 square feet.
The island where the home was built is just off the mainland coast in Ontario, where "cottaging" is both a verb and a lifestyle. The island is primarily rock, and the home itself is pinned to the rock.
"We had nice table land and could have put anything there," Axmith said. "The concept was to have the great room and the sun room and then a bedroom wing in an L-shape going back behind it."
Axmith worked with John Holgate; a longtime trusted colleague in the construction business, to build the house in 2013. The builder has built over 100 Lindal houses supplied by Axmith. All materials had to be delivered to the island by barge. The project began in late spring and shut down in November when the weather made it difficult to continue. Work resumed in April of the following year, and the house was completed in early July.
Home Design Features
It's a custom home and doesn't strictly adhere to the modern Lindal Elements grid system. The posts are 8 feet apart. Axmith liked the "cleaner" look of having the posts further apart in this design. It also allowed the clients to install a 15-foot slider door in the main room.
The great room is 32 feet wide and incorporates the kitchen, living and dining areas. "In the master bedroom we added a beam just for aesthetics," Axmith said.
The couple hired an interior designer to create an ultra-modern indoor aesthetic.
The exterior siding is composed of pre-stained cedar.
One thing people like most about this design are the ceilings, which strike just the right balance between elegant height and cozy comfort. In the great room they rise to 14 feet, but drop to 11 feet in the master bedroom, and 9 feet in the bedroom wing and sunroom. These different volumes and heights are reflected in the multiple flat roofs that top this modern design.
A Flat-Roofed Home in a High Snow-Load Area
Axmith said a lot of people query him about the wisdom of designing flat-roofed homes in an area where the annual snowfall can be up to 70 inches. He said that with Lindal's superior engineering capabilities, it is never an issue. The entire roof is coated and protected by EPDM, a synthetic rubber membrane that has been widely used on low-slope roofs for over 40 years. Roof runoff is facilitated by the installation of tapered insulation, which reaches a subtle high point from which moisture drains in four different directions. The roof itself is engineered to support heavy snow loads of up to 70 pounds. Beams 25 feet in length made of HGL glu-laminated fir and spaced 8 feet apart span the home from front to back. TJI joists lie perpendicular to and on top of the beams at regular intervals. Below, glulam posts in the outside wall are spaced at 8-foot intervals, supporting the beams. "It is exactly the same as any flat-roof commercial building," Axmith said. "The nice thing with Lindal is there is never an issue structurally. Stick houses run into problems with flat on roof drainage." Lindal's post-and-beam system means that snow load pressure and wind resistance can be directly transferred into the ground. This is one reason why homes built using post-and-beam construction reliably meet and often exceed energy code requirements.
Axmith has good memories of this project. "They were great people to work with, more than happy with the design," he said. The builder built 100 of the 130 Lindal homes built in this area over the years. "It went very smoothly."
A different version of the Sargasso design is available through Lindal's Quick Ship Program: a collection of best-selling homes already drawn to the final permit stage. Each comes with a menu of optional revisions. Our Quick Ship homes are sold at a discount — subject to certain conditions — and can ship much faster than our more customized home packages.
Please reach out to your local Lindal representative for details and pricing.
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