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Take back the Harley and the mistletoe
By Sallie Rose Hollis on Thursday, December 31, 2020
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Just in time for the holidays, the concept of the mondegreen reared its comical head.
No, I'm not talking about the traditional holiday greenery that you decorate with at this time of year. I'm talking about the words or phrases that result from mishearing something said or sung – so named because as a child someone misunderstood the words "laid him on the green" when her mother recited a poem. Yes, it's actually a word and, yes, that's its origin.
The subject is on my mind after listening to "Say, Say, Say" on the radio the other day. You see, ever since I heard Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney sing that song in 1983 I wondered who Baby Thudeus was.
Surely you know what I'm talking about: "standing here baptized in all my tears, Baby Thudeus …."
I never could get that line to fit with the rest of the lyrics. Who was this strange child?
Actually, I always knew that something in my interpretation was probably amiss, but at the time the song was released, the World Wide Web did not exist, so it wasn't easy to research such things. Then, as the years passed, my curiosity dimmed.
But a few days ago, after my radio listening experience, it was rekindled. So I fanned the flames and found the answer.
Thanks to the website kissthisguy.com ("Excuse me while I kiss this guy"/"Excuse me while I kiss the sky"), I'm now no longer clueless. In reality, the words are: "standing here baptized in all my tears, baby, through the years …."
I guess the tipoff should have been that "through the years" appears earlier in the song as well: "Through the years how can you stand to hear my pleading for you, dear?" But who pays attention to such details?
Truthfully, I still like Baby Thudeus better. Over the 37 years since the song's release, I have gotten pretty used to the poor child. And at least my interpretation is better than an alternate one: Baby Gluteus.
But I'm digressing from my original intent for this column. Before the holidays are over, I had wanted to drag out some mondegreens from our most beloved Christmas carols. I shared a few last December in another column and, gosh, word must have gotten out because in January the story "This Is Why You Mishear Popular Song Lyrics" ran in the magazine Popular Science. (I didn't know my reading audience was that large.)
I'll just present the name of the song and the resulting mondegreen and leave the untangling to you. Now, imagine you're a child with a limited vocabulary and a notyet-complete view of the world ….
All I Want for Christmas – "take back the Harley and the mistletoe"
Away in a Manger – "no crisps for a bed"; "the catalog glowing; the poor baby wakes"
Deck the Halls – "deck the halls with bras of holly"; "see the grazing mule before us"; "strike the heart, enjoy the florist"
Frosty the Snowman – "with a corncob pipe and a butt and nose"
God Rest, Ye Merry Gentlemen – "get dressed, ye married gentlemen; let nothing through this May"
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing – "joyful oily nations, rise; join the triumph of disguise; with the jelly toast proclaim"
Jingle Bells – "dashing through the snow, on a one-horse soap and hay"; "bells are 'bout to ring, making spareribs bright"
O, Come, All Ye Faithful – "O come, holly faithful"; "sing, choirs of angels; sing on eggs all stationed"
Winter Wonderland – "later on, we'll perspire, as we drink by the fire."
Regarding that last mondegreen: It might not be a bad idea, so … Cheers! And Happy New Year!
Sallie Rose Hollis is a Union Parish native, retired Louisiana Tech associate professor of journalism and Ruston resident. She can be reached via email at sallierose@mail.com.
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Have you read the autumn issue of Legal Information Management?
It features an opening article by Dvora Liberman relating to the critical role of the court clerk in Crown Courts.
Then, there are three articles about the Moys Classification scheme. Helen Garner reviews the progress of the Moys Reclassification Project at the Bodleian Law Library at Oxford. Harpreet Dhillon discusses the issues concerning the Middle Temple Library's transition from an alphabetical organisation of textbooks to a subject order using the Moys Classification Scheme and Megan Guthrie takes a law firm perspective on reclassifying using Moys at the law firm, McCann FitzGerald.
In our international perspectives section, two articles appear – one from Canada, the other from Argentina. Victoria Elizabeth Baranow, of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP in their Toronto office, looks at the changing role of law librarians in the context of an evolving legal profession. On a completely different subject, Gloria Orrego Hoyos and Esteban Pizá, from Buenos Aires, discuss the challenges and obstacles to conducting legal research on the subject of personal drug consumption (minimum doses) in Latin America.
Under the current interests heading, Caroline Mack gives an introduction to the knowledge and information management services in the Legal Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. David Gee offers his latest report analysing the results of the SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey for 2016/2017. And, then, there follows two short pieces that are connected to each other. Matt Terrell, of the publisher Justis, introduces the inaugural Law and Technology International Writing Competition which was launched in 2017 and aimed at attracting students to write a 1,000 word piece in the style of a blog entry. The winning entry in this competition, which follows Matt's introduction, was written by Róisín Costello from Trinity College Dublin with the title of The Tortoise and the Hare? Due Process and Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence in the Digital Age. Many congratulations to Róisín on her success! The regular current awareness feature, compiled by Katherine Read and Laura Griffiths, concludes this issue.
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Meet Cameron, The Countercultural Icon Who Bewitched Los Angeles
By Priscilla Frank
Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel, known simply as Cameron, was born in 1923 in Belle Plaine, Iowa. Not far into her life, she established the reputation of being a witch.
Perhaps this was due to her electric red hair, her long black fingernails and matching black garb, her predilection for driving around town in a hearse. Or maybe it was due to her ethereal and erotic artworks, conjuring witches, angels and other dark forces that float off the page. Likely, it was a combination of the two.
Cameron, Holy Guardian Angel according to Aleister Crowley, 1966. Casein and gold lacquer on board, 29 1⁄2 x 19 1⁄2 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica. Photo Credit: Alan Shaffer
A selection of 91 of Cameron's works are slated to go on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center this fall, exploring the cult figure's influence on the postwar Los Angeles art scene. The exhibition, Cameron's largest survey since 1989, will feature artworks once thought to be lost, including paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and poetry from the full range of her career.
After high school, Marjorie Cameron enrolled in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service portion of the Navy, where she worked as a mapmaker and photographer. "Cameron," her military address, became a name that stuck. After her time in the service she moved with her family to Pasadena, California, where her father and brothers began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is where Cameron met Jack Parsons, a rocket scientist and occultist -- a follower of Aleister Crowley and friend to L. Ron Hubbard.
Upon seeing Cameron, Parsons, who'd just recently studied Enochian magic along with Hubbard, became convinced she was the "Scarlet Woman" he'd been looking for -- a goddess in human form, a manifestation of sex magick, the incarnation of his ideal love. The two soon married, Parsons introducing Cameron to the secrets and rituals of mystical lore. Their love story ended when Parsons tragically died in 1952, after a freak accident in his garage lab.
Cameron, Black Egg, n.d., Paint on cardboard, 11 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica.
In her artwork, Cameron combined Crowley's occult with the surrealism and symbolism of French poets, yielding dark yet whimsical depictions buzzing with otherworldly power -- think Leonora Carrington meets Kiki Smith. "Her hallucinated vision, at the edge of surrealism and psychedelia embodies an aspect of modernity that deeply doubts and defies cartesian logic at a moment in history when these values have shown their own limitations," explained MOCA Director Philippe Vergne. "Her work demonstrates that the space in the mind is without limit."
Aside from painting and drawing Cameron also made waves as an actress, starring in Kenneth Anger's "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" and Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" alongside Dennis Hopper. After a drawing of hers -- inspired by her first peyote trip -- was dubbed obscene by authorities in 1957, Cameron avoided the gallery scene and even burned a majority of her artworks. Yet she continued to create until her death in 1995, exploring the dark corners of mysticism and the beyond.
Cameron, East Angel, n.d., Graphite, ink and gold paint on paper, 23 3⁄4 x 36 3⁄4 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica. Photo Credit: Alan Shaffer
Over the past half century Cameron has become a mythic countercultural force in Los Angeles, a place now so often aligned with a certain penchant for paranormal activity. Her fierce personality and enchanting aura continue to haunt the magic-tinged cityscape."Cameron was a true feminist," wrote Scott Hobbs, a friend of the artist. "The loss of her physical 'beauty' was just another phase of her life as a woman. She simply did not care. She scoffed at women who tried to hold on to their youth. I remember her telling a friend who had some 'work' done: 'You can erase the lines but the pain is still there!'"
Yet despite her reputation as a cult heroine and style icon, her artworks remain surprisingly unseen. "It's an exciting opportunity for younger artists to see the output of someone who has a rather mythic underground status in the art world but whose objects and creations we haven't had the opportunity to see in the flesh," said Yael Lipschutz, who curated the exhibition.
The exhibition, titled "Songs for the Witch Woman," will feature the recently published book of the same name. The publication, produced by Fulgur Esoterica, features poems by Parsons alongside illustrations by Cameron that, according to MOCA, "echo the intimate themes of their turbulent love story."
We can hardly contain our excitement. "Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman" will run from October 11, 2014 until January 11, 2015. In the meantime, get a preview below.
Cameron, Dark Angel, n.d., Ink and paint on paper, 34 3⁄4 x 23 3⁄4 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica. Photo Credit: Alan Shaffer
Cameron, Fossil, 1958. White ink on paper, 18 3/8 inches x 11 1⁄2 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica. Photo Credit: Alan Shaffer
Cameron, Prince of the Serpents, 1965. Casein on matte paper, 7 1⁄2 x 4 3⁄4 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica.
Cameron, June 2, 1962. Printed, poem and drawing included in Semina 8, 1963 Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica.
Cameron, West Angel, n.d., Graphite, ink and gold paint on paper, 23 3⁄4 x 36 3⁄4 inches. Courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation, Santa Monica. Photo Credit: Alan Shaffer
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Els esports de tir són un grup col·lectiu d'activitats esportives competitives i recreatives que impliquen proves d'exactitud, precisió i velocitat en el tir; s'utilitzen diversos tipus d'armes de foc a distància, referides principalment a les armes de foc i pistoles d'aire, en formes com pistoles, rifles i escopetes.

Història als Jocs Olímpics
El campió francès de tir esportiu i fundador dels Jocs Olímpics moderns, Pierre de Coubertin, va participar en moltes d'aquestes primeres competicions. Aquest fet va contribuir a la inclusió de cinc esdeveniments de tir als Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu de 1896. Al llarg dels anys, les normatives i les competicions han canviat diverses vegades per mantenir-se al dia amb la tecnologia i els estàndards socials. Antigament, els objectius del trets tenien formes d'humans o d'animals, però actualment tenen una forma circular per evitar associar aquest esport amb la violència. Al mateix temps, s'han eliminat alguns esdeveniments i se n'han afegit de nous. Els Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu del 2004 van incloure tres disciplines de tir (rifle, pistola i escopeta) on els atletes van competir per 51 medalles en 10 proves masculines i 7 de femenines.

Als Jocs Olímpics, l'esport de tir sempre ha tingut la distinció de concedir les primeres medalles dels Jocs. A nivell internacional, la Federació Internacional de Tir Esportiu (ISSF) supervisa tots els esdeveniments de tir olímpic de tot el món, mentre que els òrgans nacionals de govern (NGB) administren l'esport a cada país.

Havent establert originalment el tir com a esport organitzat als Estats Units d'Amèrica, l'Associació Nacional del Rifle va ser escollida per administrar la participació dels Estats Units en els jocs olímpics. L'ANR va gestionar i va donar suport financer a esports de tir internacionals i convencionals (és a dir, partits nacionals) durant més de 100 anys fins a la formació de l'associació USA Shooting.

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Il Museo diocesano del Montefeltro "A. Bergamaschi" di Pennabilli, paese in provincia di Rimini, situato nel Palazzo Bocchi presso il Santuario della Madonna delle Grazie, fu costituito nel 1962 da monsignor Antonio Bergamaschi, vescovo di San Marino-Montefeltro (1949 - 1966), per conservare le opere d'arte e la suppellettile liturgica proveniente dalle chiese del territorio diocesano.

Dopo alcuni anni di chiusura, per accurati e radicali lavori di restauro della sede e riallestimento dell'esposizione, per volere di monsignor Luigi Negri, il Museo è stato riaperto al pubblico l'8 luglio 2010.

Opere
L'itinerario museale si sviluppa in quindici sale, disposte su tre livelli, dove sono esposti dipinti, sculture, argenterie, maioliche, paramenti e arredi sacri. Di rilievo:
 le Nozze mistiche di santa Caterina d'Alessandria (XV secolo);
 una pisside (XVI secolo), in rame dorato, di bottega fiorentina;
 un tabernacolo (fine XVI secolo), in legno intagliato e dipinto, di bottega marchigiana;
 la veste della Madonna delle Grazie (XVII secolo), di seta ricamata;
 il rivestimento della Madonna delle Grazie (1734), in lamina d'argento sbalzato e dorato, di bottega romana, utilizzato per proteggere l'affresco con la Madonna delle Grazie (XV secolo);
 la statua reliquiario di San Leo, opera di un anonimo scultore pennese.

Inoltre, sono conservate opere di grandi artisti come Benedetto Coda, Catarino di Marco da Venezia, Giovan Francesco da Rimini, Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Guido Cagnacci, Nicolò Berrettoni e Carlo Cignani.

Completa l'itinerario museale:
 una raccolta di reperti archeologici, provenienti dal territorio pennese.

Bibliografia
 Erminia Giacomini Miari, Paola Mariani, Musei religiosi in Italia, Milano 2005, p. 81

Voci correlate
 Diocesi di San Marino-Montefeltro
 Musei diocesani italiani

Collegamenti esterni

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Ahead of Kumbh Mela, portion of under-construction building for heliport collapses in Prayagraj
Several construction works have been taken up in Prayagraj ahead of the Kumbh Mela, which is slated to begin on January 15.
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Jan 10, 2019, 08:21 AM IST
A portion of the building, which was being built to be used as a heliport during Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, collapsed on Wednesday night. At least two labourers got trapped in the collapse. They were, however, rescued later.
Several construction works have been taken up in Prayagraj ahead of the Kumbh Mela, which is slated to begin on January 15. A new temporary city, which is believed to be the largest in the world, has been set up along Prayagraj, which has 250-km long roads and 22 pontoon bridges.
Prayagraj: A portion of the building for heliport which was being built as a part of the arrangements for Kumbh Mela, collapsed last night, trapping two labourers under it; they were later rescued. pic.twitter.com/RAJ34ynlx5
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The Uttar Pradesh government and police department has also made elaborate security arrangements for the grand religious event. Integrated Control and Command Centre and CCTV cameras have been put in place to keep a vigil as lakhs of devotees are expected to converge from across India and abroad.
The Uttar Pradesh Police has also deputed more than 20,000 police personnel, who are teetotallar and consume only vegetarian food.
Authorities have also advised those visiting Prayagraj during Kumbh Mela to keep their identity cards handy. People have also been asked to keep with them the phone number of any of their family members, who could be contacted in case of any emergency.
Nearly 12 crore devotees are expected to visit the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj which will begin January 15. Touted as the biggest cultural and religious event in the world, the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj has been accorded the status of world heritage by the UNESCO. The event, which will conclude on March 4, has been included in the list of 'intangible cultural heritage of humanity.' Representatives of 192 countries are expected to visit the Kumbh Mela.
During the Kumbh Mela, millions of pilgrims including naked, ash-smeared ascetics, will bathe at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and a mythical third river, the Saraswati.
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Interview with Alina Garcia Ravelo, December 14, 2018
00:00:23 - Cone rod dystrophy / Education experience
Segment Synopsis: Ravelo talks about how her diagnosis of cone rod dystrophy has impacted her educational experience. Ravelo explains that during her grade school and high school years, her small hometown in Cuba did not offer much technological assistance for people with disabilities. Ravelo talks about her difficulty as a university student because she had trouble seeing the board but was embarrassed to use a telescope in front of her classmate. She eventually started using telescope during class, and was very successfully academically, completing her industrial engineering degree.
Keywords: University of Habana; cone dystrophy
00:05:17 - After college / Coming to the United States
Partial Transcript: I used to take, like, two buses to get to the school and two buses to come back home.
Segment Synopsis: Ravelo talks about Cuba's lack of public accommodations for people with sight disabilities. Ravelo explains that she momentarily had to live with her parents in Cuba after graduating due to the lack of employment in the area. Ravelo says that she eventually moved to the United States where she lived with family in West Palm Beach, Florida. She recalls her initial difficulty in finding a job, before she was eventually began working for the Division of Blind Services. Ravelo talks about moving to Bainbridge, Georgia to work as an industrial engineer at the Georgia Industries for the Blind.
Keywords: Banbridge, Georgia; Cuba; Division of Blind Services; Georgia Industries for the Blind; Luis Narimatsu; Six Sigma Green Belt; West Palm Beach; ZoomText; assistive technology
00:10:30 - Challenges growing up / Technological-assistance for the visually-impaired
Partial Transcript: Growing up what were some of the challenges...
Segment Synopsis: Ravelo talks about some of the challenges she faced as a result of growing up with a visual impairment in Cuba. She explains that she often had trouble reading bus signs and would have to ask assistance from those around her. Ravelo explains the cultural differences between the United States and Cuba--in the United States, a white cane is a symbol of blindness, while in Cuba, no such signals exists, which makes it harder for blind people to inform those around them of their disability. Ravelo talks about the ways in which the technology available in the United States for the visually-impaired has helped her in her career as an industrial engineer and in her everyday life.
Keywords: ZoomText; technology
VANSTONE: Hello, my name is Catherine Vanstone, and I'm going to have a conversation with--
GARCIA RAVELO: Alina Garcia Ravelo.
VANSTONE: --for "Our Stories, Our Lives," an oral history project with the Georgia Libraries for Accessible Statewide Services. It is December 14, 2018, and this is being recorded at the Georgia Industries for the Blind in Bainbridge, Georgia. What is your story?
GARCIA RAVELO: Hello, like I say, my name is Alina Garcia Ravelo. I [was] born in Cuba with cone dystrophy. I [was] born with that disability. It's a really not common disability. Not a lot of people have that. What happened to me is I received, like, more light than I'm supposed to, so the light bothered me a lot. I always wear sunglasses when I go outside. Even inside the room, I have difficulty to see well because of the light. The light really bothers me.
I [was] born in Cuba. I went to the school for the blind over there. We didn't 00:01:00have assistive technology, so it was really hard. My classroom was about the size of eight students, more or less. We really had very good teachers, but like I say, no assistive technology. I didn't have anything to help me with the materials or anything like that--just magnifier glasses; that was the only thing.
I went to the high school. It was a high school just for kids with disabilities, different kind of disabilities. The school was very far away. The school had a bus that used to go to our house and pick up us, but I spent every day, one hour and a half, going to the school and come back to the school, another hour and a half.
I started to get interest in going to college and an engineering degree, so I start college in the University of Habana, studying industrial engineering. And 00:02:00that was the really hard part, because when I get out of this school for kids with disabilities was when I start to really feel the real world, put it in that way. Even my parents always treated me like a regular child.
It was difficult when I just started the university. I remember the first day at the school. I was in physics class and the professor started to write on the board, really, really small, and I couldn't see it. The only thing I had at that time was a small telescope that my doctor gave me. But it was my first day in the school, so I didn't want everybody to know that I was legally blind, because, you know, you are young and you don't want to look weird in the class.
So at the right time, I talked with the professor and I told him, "Please, can 00:03:00you write a little bigger for me?" And he said, "I have to think about it." That was his reaction. When we came back in the room, he started to write even more small. So that day was terrible. I get out of the school and just cry because I was like, I'm not going to get my degree because if all the professors are like him, I'm not going to be able to do it.
But I decided that I was going to start to use my telescope, and I was not going to care about what the other people say about it. So the next day at the school, that's what I did--I started to use the telescope. It was [to] my surprise that that professor started to write bigger in the board. I guess he thought about it. I started to use the telescope when the other--in my room, the other students in the class saw me wearing that. They started to go away from me. They 00:04:00didn't want to be with me. I was by myself probably the first two, three months of the school, because nobody wants to talk with me or anything, I guess because they thought they will have to help me with school and all that. But I started to study so hard and I started to get A's in all my classes. When the other students saw that, they came back. And at that time, they start wanting to talk with me and they want me to explain the classes and whatever.
So yeah, that was hard at the beginning.
The other thing is in Cuba we didn't have markers to write on the board. The school board was like, blue and the board was green, and I'm colorblind so I couldn't see the difference. The contrast was really hard for me, and you cannot find those kind of markers in the stores in Cuba. So my family from here used to 00:05:00send me the markers to Cuba, and I go to the university with the markers in my backpack and give it to every professor every day, because we didn't have any.
I used to take, like, two buses to get to the school and two buses to come back home. And in Cuba, you don't have privileges. You are--if you have disabilities, it's long lines waiting for the buses. You have to wait and the people doesn't care if you cannot see or not. You just have to make your way and just jump into the bus and push everybody like everybody else. (laughs)
But I graduated top of my class, and after that, I started to think that I want to leave Cuba because as an industrial engineer, the school offered me a job in the school, in the university, as a professor, but what I was going to make was 00:06:00twenty-five dollars a month. So it's no way that you can live with that. So the only possibility for me was to stay at home with my mom, my father, and live with them because I couldn't afford to buy a house or anything. Thank God, my father has a good job so he could support me, but I didn't want that for me. So I have family in Mexico, family here in United States, and I started to talk with them and told me that I wanted to come here.
My mom and my dad at the beginning, they didn't like the idea because, first, they want to be with me and, second, with my vision impairment, that was really tough. At the end, I found a way. I went to Mexico, I crossed the border. Because I'm Cuban, I got my paperwork to be ready to work and all that. I moved 00:07:00with my family in West Palm Beach, near West Palm Beach, and I applied for the service at the Division of Blind Services in Florida. And they started to send my rsum to different places. But my counselor told me that she didn't have a job for me, because I was an industrial engineer and she didn't have anything to offer me. And she say, "Well, you know what? You can work in McDonald's." (laughs) But thank God, Georgia Industries for the Blind--and Luis Narimatsu was the recruitment HR person at that time--he received my rsum and they called me, they interviewed me, and I came here for the interview. They offered me a job as a junior industrial engineer. So I moved to Bainbridge by myself. I left my family in West Palm Beach and moved to here. I didn't know nobody; that was a hard part, too, because this is a small town. So 00:08:00coming from Havana to Boynton Beach--that's where my aunt lives--and I was just there for six months, and after that, just come here--I didn't know nobody--was really hard.
Plus, on top of that, I didn't know any English, just a little bit. I'm still working on it. I'm not that good now, but at that time, I just knew the basic sentences. I'm really thankful of GIB because they accepted me, you know, with my English problems, and they really helped me.
I came here. I used to work for the other engineer that was here. I rent an apartment, start to live here. And after that--I think it was two years after that--I bought my house. And now, I got promoted to industrial engineer, not a 00:09:00junior industrial engineer anymore. I start my master's degree and I finish my master's degree this year. And I got my certification in Six Sigma Green Belt; it's for quality. And now I live in my house. I was able to bring my mom and my sister from Cuba. They are here with me now. That's what I have been doing here.
VANSTONE: So where do you find your support here in Bainbridge?
GARCIA RAVELO: Where did I find support? Basically, here at GIB. Here, you know, you can talk with everybody, and everybody is going to try to help you in the way that they can. Luis helped me a lot with assistive technology. Like I say, I didn't know anything about it. So he was the first person that told me you need to know about ZoomText and MAGic and things like that, because I didn't have 00:10:00[any] idea. So he really helped me.
Like I said, the Division of Blind Services helped me to come here, and he paid for the ZoomText for me. That' what really helped me.
VANSTONE: You talked about getting on the bus in Cuba in Havana and some of the challenges of that and the markers, things we take for granted here in America. Growing up--and you said it was--what were some of the challenges as a kid? You were going to the disability school but--
GARCIA RAVELO: Yeah. Really, like I say, my mom and my dad, they didn't treat me like I had a disability. But for example, the kids used to play in Cuba in the streets and all that--I couldn't do that because I wasn't able to see the cars, of course, and bicycles and all that. So I always stayed close to my house. They were playing hide and sight [sic], I think you call it here, and I was just 00:11:00staying close to my house.
In the school, for example, I didn't like the--you know, the buses stopped close to my house but not really my house. So I didn't like--you know, regular kids go to the school. The just walk because they don't have problems. They just walk.
But my mom and my dad, they always go and get me, because, you know, they worried about my visual impairment.
And in Cuba, we don't use a lot of canes, like for the blind. I don't know. I guess because we don't have it. I grew up in the school for the visually impaired, and don't remember kids wearing the canes. Just blind kids. They just don't wear it, I guess because in Cuba we don't have those.
In the school, it was really hard when I went to the university, because the 00:12:00elementary school and high school, the school has those buses, so I didn't have to worry about go to the school by myself. But in the university, it was really hard, because I couldn't see the numbers on the bus. Like, I know I have to took Number Nine, bus Number Nine, but I couldn't see the number, and I couldn't see the color, either, because they go by the numbers and by colors. But I'm colorblind, so I was all the time asking people, "What is that bus? The one that's coming, what is that bus?"
And that bothered me, because people look at me like, you know, you don't have a cane. When you don't have a cane, you look like you are, you know, a regular person. That's why I think that it's important when you go out, you know, if you are able to use your cane so that people are aware that you have a disability. But in Cuba, we didn't have it. So I all the time ask, "What is that number? What is that color?" And the people are like, "Why is she asking me that?" But 00:13:00that was a challenge because I didn't like to be asking people about it.
And because the sun bothers me a lot, that was another thing on top of that. I used to wear regular pairs of glasses, a regular pair of glasses that you can buy in the store, because in Cuba we don't have special glasses. So now that I came here, I have very good glasses that is for people with my condition. And that really changed my life, because now I can go out with my glasses and I can walk. You know, I don't feel afraid and nervous about walking because the sun made me blind. The sun made me like, blind. But now with these glasses, I can do it. In Cuba, that was not possible.
In the school, in the room, more than markers and all that, the professors, when they get to know me and they understand the disability because they never had 00:14:00another student with my disability, it is not very common in Cuba that people with disabilities go to college. That's not really common, because like I say, we didn't have the help and assistive technology, so the kids just don't go to college.
VANSTONE: So at this point, was it hard adapting to the assistive technology?
GARCIA RAVELO: No, it wasn't hard for me. I really like ZoomText. It really helps me with the computer. I can put my phone on my contacts the way I want it. I really like it. Magnifiers have been helping a lot. So it wasn't really hard. I think it was one day of training and I was fine.
VANSTONE: Just more excitement of having the opportunity--
GARCIA RAVELO: Having the opportunity, yeah.
VANSTONE: --to use it, from before. Your story really goes from not having any 00:15:00assistance outside of family support, the professors once they understood, but no technology, and then coming here and having all these opportunities.
GARCIA RAVELO: And not only that, just the opportunity to find a job and be successful, because in Cuba, yes, I was going to be a professor in the university, but I don't know what else I was able to do, you know, if I want to move to another job. I don't know, because we don't have the assistive technology and we don't have anything like that. So I wasn't sure, if I moved to another job, if I they will accept my disability. And here, we have all the opportunities. You just want to get that opportunity and move forward, and you can do whatever you want.
VANSTONE: An exciting story and a very different story from what we've been hearing. So thank you for sharing!
GARCIA RAVELO: Thank you.


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Fantasy Football: Jay Cutler back to starting for Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Cutler throws a pass during a game against the Los Angeles Chargers in September. Photo by Lori Shepler/UPI | License Photo
Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Cutler has cleared concussion protocol and will start Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos, coach Adam Gase said Wednesday.
Cutler sustained a concussion in the Dolphins' 30-20 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 19 and sat out last Sunday's 35-17 setback to the New England Patriots.
"He'll be all right," Gase said of the 34-year-old Cutler. "We'll get a good week of practice. We need to make sure we get the ball out on time."
Cutler has thrown for 1,602 yards with 13 touchdowns and nine interceptions this season for the Dolphins (4-7), who rank 30th in total offense and have the NFL's 31st-ranked passing attack.
Cutler spent his first three seasons with the Broncos after Denver selected him with the 11th overall pick of the 2006 draft.
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Astronomers Explain Theory Behind Cosmic "Bones" of Milky Way
Written by AZoQuantumJul 30 2018
For several centuries, people have wondered about the milky strip extending across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered that the Milky Way is formed of innumerable stars. Yet, it was only after the 20th century that astronomers were successful in interpreting its form and its true nature.
Fire wheel: The Milky Way system, called galaxies, resembles a gigantic spiral with an estimated 200 billion stars. One of them is our Sun. (Image credit: Robert Hurt/SSC/Caltech/JPL/NASA)
"My third observation relates to the nature of the Milky Way (...) No matter which part of it one targets with the telescope, one finds a huge number of stars, several of which are quite large and very striking; yet, the number of small stars is absolutely unfathomable." In 1610, these words were written by a man who used his self-constructed telescope to study unknown lands that were not of this world. It was this study that earned him a spot in history: Galileo Galilei.
The land that he outlined is exactly out of this world, and the document is titled Sidereus Nuncius ("Starry Messenger"). In that document, the Italian mathematician and astronomer has presented his observations of the satellites of Jupiter, the Earth's moon, and even the Milky Way. To that point, their nature had been a mystery, and had most importantly been the subject of mythology. In the 5th century BC, Democritus, the Greek natural philosopher, had already claimed that the diffusely glowing strip in the sky—known by the African !Kung bushmen as the "backbone of the night"—included innumerable weak stars.
Grindstone in the Firmament
However, after Galilei's discovery, almost one and a half centuries had passed before this celestial structure again became the subject of scientific study. Thomas Wright of County Durham considered that stars were arranged in a flat region like a grindstone, which extended over the entire sky. He considered the Milky Way to be nothing other than the projection of this grindstone. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant took over this theory—and came quite close to revealing the truth.
In his General Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, published in 1755, he described the Milky Way as an extended and very diluted layer of stars. The Sun, the Earth, and all the other planets were part of this layer; however, they not at its center. Based on the line of sight, along the plane of the layer or vertically out of it, different numbers of stars can be observed.
However, what are the means by which astronomers can find out whether the obvious view of the Milky Way in the sky reflected its actual spatial structure? Stellar statistics developed by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel at the end of the 18th century seemed to be a promising solution: Herschel recorded the brightness and coordinates of all the stars that he could observe using his telescope.
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However, the project was a failure: besides the unreliability of these measurements—for instance, though it could determine the apparent brightness of the stars, it was not possible to determine their absolute luminosity and eventually their distance—there was also a basic issue: the Milky Way is filled with gas, interstellar matter, and dust clouds that absorb the light from the stars. This hides the view of the central region and renders it impossible to observe the overarching structure. Hence, stellar statistics can never cover the system as a whole but only the area around the Sun up to a radius of nearly 10,000 light-years. The advancement was not achieved until the middle of the 20th century, when astronomers learned to view the sky with different eyes with the help of radio telescopes.
A Look Through Curtains of Dust
The most common element in the universe is hydrogen. Neutral hydrogen (H1) is part of the interstellar matter and fills the space between the stars, and hence also fills the Milky Way. This suggests that the distribution of the hydrogen gas clouds trace the shape of the entire system, akin to the way in which the human body is shaped by bones.
However, in what way can these cosmic "bones" be rendered visible? The nanouniverse answers this question: in hydrogen's ground state, the spin direction of the atomic nucleus and the electron orbiting around it are antiparallel. During the collision between two hydrogen atoms, the spin direction of the nucleus and the electron may be swapped to be parallel to each other—and after a specific time, they return to their fundamental antiparallel state.
Energy is released in this process and radiated as an electromagnetic wave. This line is in the radio range of the electromagnetic spectrum. In spite of the very low density of interstellar matter, atoms constantly collide with one another, making the H1 areas to glow in the light of this hydrogen line.
This radiation pierces through the dust curtains nearly unobstructed and can be detected by radio telescopes. This new door into the universe has enabled astronomers to unearth Milky Way's spiral structure. Yet, in the 1970s, scientists discovered that hydrogen alone was not adequate as an indicator of the morphology of the galaxy since, for instance, it is less concentrated in the spiral arms than it was anticipated. The search started afresh.
Arms in Motion
Clouds of interstellar molecules turned out to be the most critical indicator. Radiation is emitted by these molecules in the light of carbon monoxide, or CO. The representation of the Milky Way can now be refined gradually. Consequently, the galaxy (derived from the Greek word gala: milk) is nothing but a bent wheel that has a diameter of 100,000 light years and a thickness of only 5,000 light years. A circular bulge of stars with an integrated cigar-shaped structure—a type of bar—surrounds the wheel hub with its black hole.
A ring extends about 15,000 light years from the center, consisting of stars as well as gas and dust clouds. A number arms of characterize the galaxy, with majority of them bearing the labels of the stellar constellations in which humans view them: These include the Norma and Scutum-Crux Arms, the Sagittarius and Perseus Arms, the Cygnus Arm, and the 3-Kiloparsec Arms.
The solar system is situated in the Orion Arm, 26,000 light-years from the center and practically on the main plane. The system includes nearly 200 billion suns and is surrounded by a spherical halo that contains thousands of globular star clusters and a spherical region comprising of very thin hydrogen plasma. The whole galaxy rotates, with objects very near to the center rotating faster, and those located farther from the center rotating more slowly. The curve of this differential rotation reveals irregularities that cannot be explained by only visible mass.
In this case, it is probable that invisible dark matter has a part to play. Moreover, the astronomers have faced one more problem: in spite of the rotation, the spiral arms do not unwind but retain their shape for billions of years. One interpretation for this is shockwaves that travel throughout the entire system and compact the matter in the spiral arms similar to a traffic jam on the motorway. Scientists still do not have a clear idea over what causes these density waves.
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Q: Pulling Array From JSON using tidyjson I'm trying pull select arrays from a JSON object using the developer version of the R tidyjson package. I'd like to create the example table below from the example JSON object below.  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the table I'm trying to create:
document.id   location.lat  location.lng    viewport     name    place_id
1             32.123451     -85.234541      northeast    Name1   sdfdfasdfasdfdasfdas
1             32.123451     -85.234541      southwest    Name1   sdfdfasdfasdfdasfdas
2             33.345454     -84.345454      northeast    Name2   sdfdsfdsfdff
2             33.345454     -84.345454      southwest    Name2   sdfdsfdsfdff

Here is my JSON object:
    JSON_TEST <- "{
   \"html_attributions\" : [],
\"results\" : [
{
  \"geometry\" : {
  \"location\" : {
  \"lat\" : 32.123451,
  \"lng\" : -85.234541
},
  \"viewport\" : {
  \"northeast\" : {
  \"lat\" : 32.234341,
  \"lng\" : -85.345655
},
  \"southwest\" : {
  \"lat\" : 32.235624,
  \"lng\" : -85.234655
}
}
},
\"icon\" : \"https://fake/fake/fake1.png\",
\"id\" : \"qwerqewrqwerqewrqewrqwreqewrqewrqwr\",
\"name\" : \"Name1\",
\"place_id\" : \"sdfdfasdfasdfdasfdas\",
\"reference\" : \"asdfdasfadsfdasfdfdfdffff\",
\"scope\" : \"TEST1\",
\"types\" : [
\"bar\",
\"liquor_store\",
\"food\",
\"store\",
\"point_of_interest\",
\"establishment\"
],
\"vicinity\" : \"343 Fake Place Lane, Atlanta\"
},
{
  \"geometry\" : {
  \"location\" : {
  \"lat\" : 33.345454,
  \"lng\" : -84.345454
},
  \"viewport\" : {
  \"northeast\" : {
  \"lat\" : 33.234534
  \"lng\" : -84.234643
},
  \"southwest\" : {
  \"lat\" : 33.345443,
  \"lng\" : -84.345422
}
}
},
\"icon\" : \"https://fake/fake/fake2.png\",
\"id\" : \"sdfdsfdsfdff\",
\"name\" : \"Name2\",
\"place_id\" : \"sadfsdfdfdf\",
\"reference\" : \"asdfdasfdsfd\",
\"scope\" : \"TEST2\",
\"types\" : [ \"bar\", \"point_of_interest\", \"establishment\" ],
\"vicinity\" : \"21434 Fake Place Ave, Atlanta\"
}
],
\"status\" : \"OK\"
}
"

A: Hope it helps!
JSON_TEST <-
"{\"html_attributions\" : [],
  \"results\" : [
  {\"geometry\" : {\"location\" : {\"lat\" : 32.123451,\"lng\" : -85.234541},
                   \"viewport\" : {\"northeast\" : {\"lat\" : 32.234341,\"lng\" : -85.345655},
                                   \"southwest\" : {\"lat\" : 32.235624,\"lng\" : -85.234655}
                                  }
                  },
  \"icon\" : \"https://fake/fake/fake1.png\",
  \"id\" : \"qwerqewrqwerqewrqewrqwreqewrqewrqwr\",
  \"name\" : \"Name1\",
  \"place_id\" : \"sdfdfasdfasdfdasfdas\",
  \"reference\" : \"asdfdasfadsfdasfdfdfdffff\",
  \"scope\" : \"TEST1\",
  \"types\" : [\"bar\",\"liquor_store\",\"food\",\"store\",\"point_of_interest\",\"establishment\"],
  \"vicinity\" : \"343 Fake Place Lane, Atlanta\"
  },
  {\"geometry\" : {\"location\" : {\"lat\" : 33.345454,\"lng\" : -84.345454},
                   \"viewport\" : {\"northeast\" : {\"lat\" : 33.234534,\"lng\" : -84.234643},
                                   \"southwest\" : {\"lat\" : 33.345443,\"lng\" : -84.345422}
                                  }
                  },
  \"icon\" : \"https://fake/fake/fake2.png\",
  \"id\" : \"sdfdsfdsfdff\",
  \"name\" : \"Name2\",
  \"place_id\" : \"sadfsdfdfdf\",
  \"reference\" : \"asdfdasfdsfd\",
  \"scope\" : \"TEST2\",
  \"types\" : [ \"bar\", \"point_of_interest\", \"establishment\" ],
  \"vicinity\" : \"21434 Fake Place Ave, Atlanta\"
  }
  ],
\"status\" : \"OK\"
}"

#devtools::install_github("sailthru/tidyjson")
library(tidyjson)
library(dplyr)
JSON_TEST <- gsub("\\n","",JSON_TEST)
JSON_TEST %>%
  as.tbl_json %>%
  enter_object("results") %>%
  gather_array %>%
  spread_values(
      name = jstring("name"),
      place_id = jstring("place_id")
  ) %>%
  enter_object("geometry") %>%
  spread_values(
    location.lat = jnumber("location","lat"),
    location.lng = jnumber("location","lng")
    ) %>%
  enter_object("viewport") %>%
  gather_keys("viewport")

Don't forget to let us know if it solved your problem :)

A: Your data looks like it comes from Google's Places API. Therefore, you can by-pass the JSON formatting and use my googleway package to get the results for you
library(googleway)

api_key <- 'your_api_key'

myPlaces <- google_places(search_string = "Restaurants in Melbourne",
                        key = api_key)

the results come back as a list in R, so you can grab the pieces of information directly

head(cbind(myPlaces$results$geometry, myPlaces$results$place_id))

# location.lat location.lng viewport.northeast.lat viewport.northeast.lng viewport.southwest.lat viewport.southwest.lng
# 1     28.07650    -80.59910               28.07842              -80.59773               28.07572              -80.60043
# 2     28.07724    -80.60456               28.07843              -80.60320               28.07573              -80.60590
# 3     28.07872    -80.60723               28.07993              -80.60588               28.07723              -80.60858
# 4     28.07950    -80.60212               28.08073              -80.60069               28.07803              -80.60339
# 5     28.21043    -80.66411               28.21174              -80.66287               28.20904              -80.66557
# 6     28.07839    -80.60321               28.07982              -80.60167               28.07712              -80.60437
# myPlaces$results$place_id
# 1 ChIJSzCXdo8R3ogRodiPcpYYLGw
# 2 ChIJl_1IpI4R3ogR50nk7fYHdb8
# 3 ChIJ2QdwWowR3ogRKJOrSqPQuYU
# 4 ChIJK_gOU44R3ogRGXv8ScI7-t0
# 5 ChIJxytL4RwF3ogRw9qGq8mSm5w
# 6 ChIJa7H_5I4R3ogRys0um892_VA

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A NOISY Northolt resident has been jailed for a year at Brentford County Court.
Ryan Elliott, 20, was convicted of five breaches of an anti-social behaviour injunction which prevented him from making too much noise at home.
Elliott, who lived alone in Greenhill Gardens, continued to play excessively loud music and caused disturbances by shouting, banging and throwing possessions.
On December 18, the court heard that despite being served with the injunction on October 30 last year, council officers witnessed five breaches.
Elliott, who had lived in the property since October 2010, consistently ignored warnings from officers, leading to the seizure of his stereo, speakers and television.
The injunction forbade him from having more than three people in his house at once and from communicating with his neighbours during proceedings.
Councillor Julian Bell, leader of Ealing Council, said: "This is the first time the council's noise nuisance team has worked to bring a housing anti-social behaviour case to court and it is a good result.
"Mr Elliott clearly had no regard for his neighbours and persistently ignored our warnings. Neighbours had endured the noise for months and some were experiencing ill health as a result.
Residents wanting to report issues with noise or seek advice should call 020 8825 8111.


The 'Introduction to the UK veterinary profession – a key CPD course for overseas vets and VNs' is run by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) and the Veterinary Defence Society (VDS) and in conjunction with the British Veterinary Association (BVA).
The course is aimed at overseas veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses during their first two years working in the UK, as well as those considering working here. The course is split into two days.
The day covers how the UK veterinary professions are organised with information about jobs, employment rights and the support available if things go wrong.
Talks are given by representatives from the RCVS, VDS Training, BVA, British Veterinary Nursing Association and the Vetlife charity.
The course also aims to help delegates understand their legal duties as a veterinary professional in the UK, which can vary significantly from their own country, along with expected standards of professional conduct.
The day is free to attend and lunch is provided.
The course is provided by VDS Training, which presents delegates with scenarios they may face in the consulting room and advice on how to handle them in a role-play format using professional actors.
The day costs £180 per delegate and lunch is provided.
The two days combined provide overseas vets and vet nurses with the necessary information and support needed to practise in the UK. The overall aim is to reduce the risk of complaints being made about veterinary professionals as well as improving their experience of working in the UK and advancing their communication skills.
The course is held twice a year.
Registration will open in summer 2019.
If you have any questions about the course please contact the RCVS Events team on events@rcvs.org.uk or 0207 202 0773.


As a restoratively driven surgical procedure the dentist must eventually restore his or her implants, therefore it is imperative that they understand the restorative process. This course will delve into the procedures necessary for optimal lab communication. This is part 8 of a comprehensive series of courses on implants by Dr. Schleshinger that will be released every couple of months on Dentaltown.
Dr. Charles Schlesinger, DDS, FICOI is a dental implant educator and clinician who has been lecturing internationally for the past 10 years. He graduated with honors from The Ohio State College of Dentistry in 1996.
After graduation, he completed a General Practice residency at the VAMC San Diego and then went on to become the Chief Resident at the VAMC W. Los Angeles. During his time in Los Angeles, he completed extensive training in oral surgery, implantology and advanced restorative treatment.
Once he completed his residency, Dr. Schlesinger maintained a thriving restorative and implant practice in San Diego, CA for 14 years. In 2012 he relocated to Albuquerque, NM to become the Director of Education and Clinical Affairs for OCO Biomedical. In 2013 he took over as Chief Operating Officer of OCO Biomedical along with his clinical responsibilities. In 2016 Dr. Schlesinger left OCO Biomedical and founded The CD Schlesinger Group, LLC to help practitioners gain knowledge and experience with implants and became a Key Opinion Leader for The Hahn Implant System. Additionally, he continues to provide comprehensive implant care to patients in a private practice setting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


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Talking about The Soil at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden you can be forgiven for thinking that the conversation is about gardening – but in this instance, it's about rich Kasi-soul music being performed at the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts.
The Soil is a South African 3-member acapella group whose music is defined as Kasi-soul and features an eclectic mix of musical genres such as jazz, hip hop, Afro-pop and Afro-soul – all accompanied with beatboxing – a distinct feature in the group's musical style. Each member of The Soil takes turns in solo vocal performances, with their songs delivering an uplifting, positive and happy message to listeners.
In addition to well-known songs such as Susan, Thambolan and Joy, concert-goers can look forward to a sneak preview of other brand new releases from The Soil's upcoming new album. This will be the band's fourth performance at Kirstenbosch which also marks the beginning of The Soil's KOROBELA TOUR in celebration of love.
TICKETS: R150 for youth (6 – 21 years with ID), R190 for adults and children under 6 enter for free. Book tickets online through Webtickets.


1. The Options dialog is now a web page that opens in a new tab. Chrome has one less modal dialog and the new Options page is better suited for netbooks. Another advantage is that each section of the Options page has a permalink that can be bookmarked.
Even if Chrome doesn't have too many customizable settings, there's a search box that lets you quickly find an option. Try searching for "cookies" and you'll notice that Chrome finds settings that aren't immediately obvious.
2. You can now change the default page zoom value. Go to the Options page and select "Under the hood" (or paste chrome://settings/advanced in the address bar) and change the "page zoom" value. The default value is 100%, but you can pick values like 120% or 144%, which are useful if you want to connect your computer to a TV.
3. The same section of the Options page lets you change the minimum font size. Click "customize fonts" and choose one of the values that are available for the minimum font size.
4. Synchronize passwords and use them from any computer, as long as you can install Google Chrome. The new option is not enabled by default and it requires your confirmation before saving your passwords to your Google Account. There's even an extra security feature that lets you choose a custom encryption passphrase, so that your passwords are safe even if someone guesses your Google Account password. For advanced features and cross-browser functionality, try LastPass.
5. Reorder the apps from the new tab page using drag and drop. This option was available for the frequently visited pages and you can now use it to change the order of your favorite apps.
7. Chrome 10 comes with hardware acceleration for Web videos. "Traditionally, web browsers relied entirely on the CPU to render web page content. With capable GPUs becoming an integral part of even the smallest of devices and with rich media such as video and 3D graphics playing an increasingly important role to the web experience, attention has turned on finding ways to make more effective utilization of the underlying hardware to achieve better performance and power savings. There's clear indication that getting the GPU directly involved with compositing the contents of a web page can result in very significant speedups. The largest gains are to be had from eliminating unecessary (and very slow) copies of large data, especially copies from video memory to system memory. The most obvious candidates for such optimizations are the <video> element and the WebGL canvas, both of which can generate their results in areas of memory that that CPU doesn't have fast access to," explains Google.
Test GPU acceleration for videos at YouTube's HTML5 site. Adobe Flash 10.2 also added full GPU acceleration for videos and YouTube is one of the sites that support this feature, so you can compare Flash 10.2 videos and HTML5 videos to see which version uses less processing power.
8. Chrome 10 for Windows finally sandboxes the built-in Adobe Flash plugin. This is one of the reasons why Google decided to bundle the plugin with Chrome.
9. If you didn't like Gmail's notification feature because it didn't work when you closed Chrome, you'll find it much more useful when Gmail's app adds support for background pages, a feature that's now available in Chrome. "Apps and extensions that use the new background feature can continue to run in the background — even if the user closes down all of Chrome's windows. Background apps will continue to run until Chrome exits. The next time Chrome starts up, any background windows that were previously running will also be re-launched. These windows are not going to be visible but they will be able to perform tasks like checking for server-side changes and pre-emptively loading content into local storage," explains Google.
When you install the first app or extension that supports backgrounding (like this one), Chrome adds a new icon to the system tray (Windows and Linux) and a new entry in the context menu of the Chrome icon from the Dock (Mac). The new icon and context menu entry let you go to a background app, open the task manger or the options page.
10. Chrome disables certain outdated plugins by default and provides an option to update to the latest version. Popular software like Adobe Reader, Java or Apple QuickTime have many security vulnerabilities that are frequently exploited in the wild because users don't install the versions that fix these issues.
serious problems until yesterday with email/chat notifications from Gmail, with official google chrome on linux desktop (ubuntu)..
someone doesn't know whom was copied.
I don't think it's that important who implemented a certain feature first. The great thing about Chrome is that it changed the perspective on web browsers: they're no longer simple applications that render web pages. Browsers are now optimized for running web apps, they're increasingly fast, have simple interfaces, faster development cycles and have many features borrowed from operating systems.
I wish IE would copy Chrome MORE. Developing is so much easier when you can say "I'm not going to support IE". While Firefox and Chrome have their differences, they're easy enough to work around. IE6 is like a groin kick every time you use it.
Missing 'f' in the URL for background pages.
The Chrome team does it again. Great work!
"Chrome disables certain outdated plugins"
How does the password syncing compare with lastpass in terms of security and functionality?
LastPass is much better because you can use it in almost any browser, there's a web interface, you can access recently used sites, there's an auto-login feature, you can create groups and multiple identities. LastPass even lets you export your passwords, a feature that's not available in Chrome. Another advantage is that your passwords aren't tied to your Google account.
Chrome's password sync is a very basic feature that saves passwords to your Google account and makes them available to any other Chrome instance that uses the same Google account to synchronize data.
Yeh I've been hoping for a Google equivalent of Lastpass which was cross browser and which you could use on phones w/o paying a subscription. I guess it's not there yet, maybe soon.
Will the new Google Chrome support SimplePass biometric fingerprint reader?
How about allowing me to control flash cookies and static cookies that are not completely stubbed out?
Currently Chrome allows privacy with respects to the primary www.website.cookie. cookie only. (i.e. I want to deny the incompletely stubbed out cookie, website.cookie, which would prevent all of the following: tracking.website.cookie, stalking.website.cookie and advertising.website.cookie; the last one is probably why Chrome will never allow for this.
Privacy is king, not just speed.
...now about flash cookies...oops does not do anything there either...huge fail.
At least if your device allows for Linux root access you can redirect .adobe and .macromedia to /tmp (erased upon boot up in Linux by default). Which is only sudo Flash cookie control after a reboot.
So if I use Google Chrome, I will always be forced to write scripts to open SQLLite DBs to clean up flash and not fully stubbed out cookies...and this is helping me how?
Talking about security or privacy without addressing those seems a bit short sighted and ill conceived.
background pages do concern me. Has anyone profiled the memory usage?
No mention of the Web navigation API? or what it even does, other then possibly helping ad-blocker extensions.
*whoops, Accidentally messed up my AOL openID.
Chrome is rocking day to day with bunch of user friendly updates & features.
I know most people don't have laptops to use these things, but these both are pretty fails - a) touch panning is implemented in firefox and ie pretty decently, and it's not like Mozilla is developing Android for tablets b) if I make some stuff like Verne doodle using modern technology, I make sure, it works in my own browser.
I think this is so informative it can help me much!
@omnicolor I'm with you there. Currently developing a web based game with HTML5 CSS3, not bothering with IE. One of the many things I like about Chrome is that it's always up to date.
Chrome is one of my favourite Google products... it speeded up and refined Web browsing in the same way that Gmail did for email.
Hi all. As much as I love Chrome, I've been literally forced to use X-Marks for syncing my bookmarks between Chrome on my many PC's. Chrome claimed to have this feature a long time ago, but it was so buggy that it would destroy bookmarks, clone them by the thousands, and block GoogleDocs features. It was hell and then some. Google would not even address the problem other than to not use Chome. So my question, is... Does bookmark syncing work at all yet? If so, I'll finally be at least 90% satisfied with Chrome. It's my browser of choice and I love it.
Does Chrome 10 support MP4, WEBM still for HTML5 video?
Chrome 11? Man that's old school. I've been using Chrome 12 for at least 100 years.
I am a loyal Chrome user and with the new features I will like it more. Changes in zooming and password synchronization are great!
After the latest update to Chrome, I am unable to use it - it doesn't work in either normal or incognito mode. The browser starts, no pages load (it appears to be loading my home page - iGoogle - but it never actually loads), and memory usage begins to climb - I usually kill it after it reaches 600 MB or so. I tried uninstalling and then installing again to no avail. I'm running on Windows 7 x64. Any ideas?
Have Chrome 10. The entire URL for web pages is missing in the URL bar. What happened? How can I get the URL to appear again?
When opening a new tab, which is a custom speed dial start page supporting keyboard shortcuts, the url bar is blank and the page is not focused anymore like before. How to make it work like before?
Yeah, that's nice, but where's "Print Preview"?????
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Q: Stuck on how to add a "select all" function with discount I basically have a form that calculates totals in a list by selecting check boxes. However, I'd like to modify it so that people can select "check all" so it selects all the check boxes, and makes the total $999 rather than what it would be if they just added all the items one by one. So it's basically a discount if they select all of the check boxes. Has anyone done something like this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the code I have right now, and I'm just stuck on this...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-con" href="../favicon.ico" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Add Boxes</title>

            <form action="BLANKPAGE_TEST_2.cfm" method="post" id="addCommentForm" name="MyAddingForm" onsubmit="return submit_form()">

                    Item One

                    <input type="checkbox" name="ItemOne" value="119.00" onclick="CheckChoice(this);" onfocus="startCalc();" onblur="stopCalc();" class="checkbox" /> $119

                    Item Two

                    <input type="checkbox" name="ItemTwo" value="119.00" onclick="CheckChoice(this);" onfocus="startCalc();" onblur="stopCalc();" class="checkbox" /> $119

                    Item Three

                    <input type="checkbox" name="ItemThree" value="119.00" onclick="CheckChoice(this);" onfocus="startCalc();" onblur="stopCalc();" class="checkbox" /> $119

                    Item Four

                    <input type="checkbox" name="ItemFour" value="119.00" onclick="CheckChoice(this);" onfocus="startCalc();" onblur="stopCalc();" class="checkbox" /> $119

                    Item Five

                    <input type="checkbox" name="ItemFive" value="119.00" onclick="CheckChoice(this);" onfocus="startCalc();" onblur="stopCalc();" class="checkbox" /> $119

                    Total $:
                    <input type="text" name="amount" readonly="readonly" class="inputSmall" />

            </form>

A: I'd prolly make a function to check if all boxes are set, something like this:
function allChecked()
{
 for (xx=0; xx < document.MyAddingForm.elements.length; xx++)
 {
     if (document.MyAddingForm.elements[xx].type == 'checkbox' && document.MyAddingForm.elements[xx].checked == false)
      return false;
 }
 return true;
}

After that you could just call it in your CheckChoise() function and set the amount to 999
    if(allChecked())
      document.MyAddingForm.amount.value = '999';
    else
      //Re-set displayed total on form:
      document.MyAddingForm.amount.value = eval(form_amount);


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Q: UIButton with custom view - addTarget:action:forControlEvents: does not work My button is as follows

*

*Created label1

*Created label2

*Created customView (UIView)

*Added label1 and label2 on custom view

*Created myCustomButton(UIButton)

*Added customView on myCustomButton

I have already done userInteractionEnable for custom_View, label1 and label2.
Then added
[myCustomButton addTarget:self action:@selector(OnButtonClick:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

And
-(void)OnButtonClick:(UIButton *)sender
{
}

But above function is never called even when I touch the button. Any solution?

A: Rather than creating the customView (an instance of UIView) , you add customView as a instance of UIControl as also addTarget to the customView ,
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[button setFrame:CGRectMake(10,10,300,300)];

UIControl *customView = [[UIControl alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,300,300)];
[customView addTarget:self action:@selector(customViewClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

UILabel *label1 = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10,10,100,100)];
[label1 setText:@"Hello How are you ?"];

UILabel *label1 = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10,150,100,100)];
[label1 setText:@"I am fine Thnank You!"]

[customView addSubView:lebel1];
[customView addSubView:lebel2];

Now in the CustomViewClicked Method
-(void)customViewClicked:(id)sender
{
     UIControl *senderControl = (UICotrol *)sender;

     NSLog(@"sender control = %@",senderControl);
}

Hope it will help you.

A: Swift 4.2 Solution
This is the solution of the problem (based on previous answers) with the last version of Swift:
func customButton() {

    // Label Creation
    let firstLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 30))
    firstLabel.text = "first"

    let secondLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 30, width: 100, height: 30))
    secondLabel.text = "second"

    // Custom View creation
    let viewFrame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 60)
    let customView = UIView(frame: viewFrame)
    customView.addSubview(firstLabel)
    customView.addSubview(secondLabel)
    customView.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

    // Custom button
    let button = UIButton(type: .custom)
    button.frame = viewFrame
    button.addSubview(customView)

    button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(click), for: .touchUpInside)
    addSubview(button)
}

@objc
func click() {
    print("Click")
}

Notes: Disabling the user interaction of the customView is definitely needed, since it is added on top and will eventually interfere with the tap gesture that we want to catch.
For seeing this more clearly, simply use the "Debug View Hierarchy" while debugging:

A: Just a minor problem with your code my friend, you just need to add only one following line to your code, forget to setUserInteractionEnabled:NO to UIView it will allow you to click the button
UILabel *lbl1 = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 30)];
[lbl1 setText:@"ONe"];
UILabel *lbl2 = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 30, 100, 30)];
[lbl2 setText:@"Two"];

UIView * view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 130)];
[view setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];

[view addSubview:lbl1];
[view addSubview:lbl2];

UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[btn addSubview:view];
[btn setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 130)];
[btn addTarget:self action:@selector(click) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

[self.view addSubview:btn];

Click Method
-(void)click
{
    NSLog(@"%s",__FUNCTION__);
}


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Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is een Nederlands bedrijf gespecialiseerd in het ontwerpen, bouwen, installeren en vervoeren van offshore-faciliteiten voor de olie- en gasindustrie.

Activiteiten
De Heerema Groep bestaat uit twee onafhankelijke, maar elkaar aanvullende divisies:
Heerema Marine Contractors: installatie van offshore platforms wereldwijd.
Heerema Fabrication Group: bouwer van offshore-installaties en heeft werven in Vlissingen en Polen.

Tezamen hebben deze twee divisies wereldwijd zo'n 2000 medewerkers in dienst. Marine Contractors is ongeveer driemaal groter dan Fabrication met de omzet als maatstaf.

Kantoren
De Heerema Groep heeft meerdere kantoren in onder andere Leiden, Genève en Luxemburg, waarin de algemene gecentraliseerde zaken worden geregeld voor het hele bedrijf. De divisies beschikken verder over verschillende productie- en kantoorlocaties over de gehele wereld.

Geschiedenis

Constructora Heerema
In 1948 richtte de Nederlandse ingenieur Pieter Schelte Heerema het bedrijf op. Hij deed dit nabij Maracaibo in Venezuela, nadat hij door zijn niet onbesproken verleden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog - Pieter Schelte Heerema was lid van de Waffen-SS - uit Nederland gevlucht was. Heerema was op dat moment gespecialiseerd in het bouwen en installeren van boorplatformen voor de olieindustrie. Tot 1960 werden er vele boorplatformen, kades, betonnen pieren en bruggen gebouwd door Heerema in en rondom het Meer van Maracaibo.

Heerema Marine Contractors

Na 1960 ging Heerema zich als Heerema Engineering Services richten op de olie- en gasindustrie in de Noordzee. Dit was een grote uitdaging voor het bedrijf, aangezien het op de Noordzee regelmatig zwaar weer is. Door efficiënte en stabiele kraanschepen te gebruiken kon Heerema grotere offshore-units in één keer plaatsen, waardoor er minder units nodig waren en de platformen sneller in productie waren. In 1963 liet Heerema een Noorse tanker, de Sunnaas, ombouwen tot het eerste kraanschip - met een capaciteit van 300 ton - in de offshore dat een echte scheepsvorm had, waarna het werd omgedoopt tot de Global Adventurer. Dit type kraanschip was beter geschikt voor de weersomstandigheden op de Noordzee dan de bakken die tot dan in de Golf van Mexico werden gebruikt.

In 1978 lanceerde Heerema de eerste half afzinkbare kraanschepen, de eerste twee kraanschepen waren de Balder en de Hermod. Door deze schepen kon het werk ook bij slechter weer gewoon plaatsvinden.

1997 was een belangrijk jaar voor Heerema: de in 1988 opgerichte joint venture Heeremac werd opgeheven en Heerema kwam in het bezit van het half-afzinkbare kraanschip DB-102 - het grootste kraanschip ter wereld - van joint venture-partner McDermott, dat werd omgedoopt naar Thialf. Hiermee had Heerema nu drie van de vijf op de wereld bestaande half-afzinkbare kraanschepen in bezit.

In juli 2008 ontving Heerema zijn grootste opdracht tot dan toe, ter waarde van US$ 1 miljard van BP. Dit project, Block 31, betrof het volledige traject van ontwerp tot installatie van pijpleidingsprojecten voor de kust van Angola.

In 2013 kwam de Aegir in de vaart. In tegenstelling tot de andere kraanschepen is dit niet halfafzinkbaar, maar een monohull. Het is een diepwaterconstructieschip en kan worden gebruikt als kraanschip en pijpenlegger. Aan boord is er een hoofdkraan die een gewicht van 4000 ton kan heffen met een radius van 40 meter. Pijpen worden gelegd met behulp van de J-lay-toren of het reelsysteem en het schip is ontworpen om te werken tot een diepte van 3500 meter.

In april 2014 verkreeg Heerema met alliantiepartner Technip van Total zijn grootste opdracht ooit, Kaombo met een waarde van $ 3,5 miljard. Het betrof opnieuw een project voor de kust van Angola, nu in concessieblok 32.

Eind 2015 werd begonnen met de bouw van een nieuw kraanschip bij Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. De Sleipnir is opnieuw een halfafzinkbaar kraanschip en krijgt twee kranen van elk 10.000 ton. Het schip zal sneller varen dan oudere SSCV's waardoor het in kortere tijd van werkgebied kan wisselen. Het kraanschip zal een investering vergen van meer dan een miljard euro. Het kraanschip wordt 220 meter lang en 102 meter breed en wordt eind 2018 opgeleverd.

In april 2018 meldt HMC te stoppen met de installatie van offshore pijpleidingen. Er is veel overcapaciteit in deze markt waardoor de vooruitzichten ongunstig zijn. Als gevolg hiervan komen zo'n 350 arbeidsplaatsen te vervallen en zal de Aegir worden omgebouwd tot kraanschip. In oktober 2017 werd ook al een banenreductie aangekondigd van 200 kantoorbanen en 50 plekken op de schepen. Na deze reorganisaties blijven ongeveer 850 medewerkers over.

Schepen

Heerema Fabrication Group
In de tachtiger jaren daalden de olieprijzen sterk en wachtten de bedrijven met het investeren in olieplatformen: Heerema zou hierdoor inkomsten mislopen. Dit probleem werd opgelost door het uitbreiden van het dienstenaanbod van het bedrijf. Heerema besloot zich ook te richten op de daadwerkelijke bouw van offshore-units. Speciaal hiervoor nam men een fabricagewerf in Vlissingen over en in 1990 het Nederlandse staalconstructiebedrijf Grootint Zwijndrecht. In 1990 werd tevens de Heerema Fabrication Group-divisie opgericht om het volledige productieproces in onder te brengen.

In november 2016 maakte Heerema Fabrication Group bekend dat ruim de helft van de 770 arbeidsplaatsen gaat verdwijnen. Hiervoor waren al de werven Dordrecht, Great Yarmouth (Verenigd Koninkrijk) en Tonsberg (Noorwegen) gesloten. In Nederland verdwijnen 350 van de ruim 500 banen en in het buitenland nog eens honderd functies waarbij gedwongen ontslagen onvermijdelijk zijn. Alle vier werven blijven open omdat elke productielocatie zijn eigen specialismen heeft. Door de lage olieprijs krijgt het bedrijf minder opdrachten en Heerema verwacht niet dat de vraag naar installaties voor de olie- en gasindustrie in de komende vijf jaar gaat aantrekken. In 2019 en 2020 werden de werven in Zwijndrecht en Hartlepool gesloten en de terreinen verkocht.

Publicatie
 Boudewijn Pothoven & Matthijs Dicke: Een eigen koers. 50 jaar Heerema Marine Contractors. Rotterdam, De Tijdgeest, 2012.

Externe link
  Website Heerema Groep
 Heerema's vessel location map

Nederlandse multinational
Offshore


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Introduction: The structure and function of complex organisms are subject to the laws of physics and chemistry. Organisms vary in size (and shape) over an extremely large range. How size affects their structure and function is a fascinating subject - the study is called allometric scaling. In this blog, I shall look at scaling of avian eggs - probably one of the simplest systems for such a study.
Eggs of different birds are roughly similar in shape and are some of the simplest structures available. Scaling behaviour of eggs points to a common reproductive strategy in birds. One can attempt to explain deviations from simple scaling behaviour as adaptations to prevailing environmental factors.
What is an egg? - An egg (ovum) is essentially a reproductive cell produced by the female. The ovum is fertilized by the male sperm. Once fertilized, the egg has a full complement of chromosomes and genes for development. The fertilized cell (zygote) then rapidly divides to produce a developing embryo. An avian or bird egg is designed to nourish and protect the embryo growing from the zygote.
Each fertile egg contains everything, except oxygen, to support the subsequent development of the embryo during incubation. The egg needs only a warm humid environment and oxygen while the embryo is maturing. A healthy chick hatches at the end of incubation.
In mammals, the embryo develops inside the mother receiving its nourishment through the placenta; the baby is delivered to the outside world on maturity.
About Birds: Birds sizes range from 3 g hummingbirds to the now extinct elephant bird (Aepyornis) weighing over 500 kg - a mass range greater than 150,000. Their eggs weigh from 0.3 g to 10 kg - a range of over 30,000.
Please note that the egg mass is in grams but the female body mass is in kg.
Within a bird species, the variation appears to follow closely an exponent of 0.77. Different species have a significant variation in the egg to body weight ratio but eggs of a species closely follow the 0.77 exponent with bird mass (parallel lines in the slide) .
Small birds invest a large amount of energy, of the order of 20% of their body weight, to produce their eggs - eggs of smaller birds are a bigger percentage of their body weight. Human babies weigh about 6% of their mother's body weight. An avian egg contains all the essential nutritional provisions required for the development of a chick - increased egg weight represents the extra investment by the bird. Notice the New Zealand Kiwi (Apteryx) has a disproportionately large egg - we shall discuss some of the ideas to throw light on why this might be so.
In the rest of this blog, I shall use egg mass as the independent variable - conversion to bird mass is easily achieved using the scaling law given in the second slide.
The egg takes a certain time for the chick to develop - the incubation time. During this period, the egg loses water to the outside and this water is supplied by the egg. The space occupied by water vapour is replaced by air diffusing from outside and results in the air cell (number 7 in the previous slide) growing larger. For a chicken egg, the optimum temperature for incubation is 38 C.
The incubation time depends on the initial egg weight. This was studied by Rhan for a large range of bird species. Incubation time of eggs across the bird species is shown in the next slide.
Conductance of fluids is proportional to the total pore area (individual pore area times number of pores) and inversely proportional to the pore length (shell thickness).
Avian eggs appear to employ some very interesting adaptation strategies in response to environmental and other conditions. We shall look at some examples later but let us talk about the structure of the egg shell first.
EGG SHELLS: Egg shells are made of calcium carbonate (density = 2 g/cc) and provide protection for the embryo. Eggs do not vary enormously in overall shape - their surface area scales as 0.666 power of the weight and volume.
Although bird eggs appear to be fragile, they are in fact extremely robust. The oval shape applies the same rules of engineering as arched bridges; the convex surface can withstand considerable pressure without breaking. This is essential if the egg is not to crack under the weight of the incubating bird. It takes 12 kg equivalent of pressure to break a swan's egg and 55 kg for an ostrich egg.
The relative increase in the weight of the egg shell for larger birds is entirely due to the increase in the thickness of the shell. Thickness of the shell determines its strength against breaking - larger eggs have to support the heavier mass of the parent bird that does the incubating and all eggs experience impacts with other objects in the nest. Egg shells are designed to be sufficiently strong and breaking of normal eggshells in nests is rather infrequent. However, eggshells are still required to be weak enough that the hatching chick can break though the shell. It is an interesting compromise.
Greater shell thickness will imply that gases will diffuse through the shell less quickly. The effect of greater shell thickness on exchange of gases is compensated by the increase in pore area - remember that Fick's law of diffusion says that water loss is determined by total pore area divided by the pore length (shell thickness).
This means that gas conductance per day changes with egg weight as Apore x Lpore or W0.78 - Interestingly, the incubation time changes as W0.217 - such that the total water loss during the incubation of the egg is W0.78x W0.217 or W - proportional to the egg weight. This all makes good sense when we use the laws of physics to understand the variation of shell thickness, pore area with egg weight!
Example 1: The single egg of Cassin's Auklet (body mass 165 g) weighs about 29 g. The incubation time for a 29 g egg is predicted as 25 days and shell thickness equal to 0.24 mm. The actual incubation time of 38 days is considerably longer than the 25 days predicted for eggs of this size. The measured shell thickness is 0.23 mm - the same as predicted for 29 g egg weight. In order to preserve water loss during incubation to an acceptable level, the Auklet egg has about half as many pores as expected from allometric scaling relationship. The number of pores was estimated as 3295 while the expected value would be 6020. I do not know why auklet eggs have long incubation time but the strategy to manage water loss from the egg makes sense.
Example 2: Adaptation to Altitude: Birds breed up to 8500 meters in the Himalayas. Incubation of eggs at high altitudes raises several issues. The atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude and the rate of diffusion of gases across the egg shell is correspondingly affected.
From the slide, we note that relative to sea level, the air pressure is reduced to 35% at 8500 meters and 62% at 4000 meters. Note that the atmospheric pressure at sea level is 760 torr. Because molecules move more freely at lower density, the overall diffusion of oxygen, carbon di-oxide and water molecules through the pores of the egg shell is increased at higher altitudes.
The rate of water loss depends on the water vapour pressure difference between the inside and outside of the egg. To achieve the measured amount of water loss, optimum nest water vapour pressure should be about 30 torr, corresponding to 42% humidity. The incubating bird ensures that humudity in the nest is maintained at the correct level.
At higher altitudes, the increased rate of diffusion produces increased water loss. Birds adapt to live and breed at higher altitudes by producing eggs with a lower effective pore area.
This compensation limits the water loss through the eggshell at higher altitudes to be the same as at sea level.
Red-winged blackbird eggs at 2410 m altitude had total pore area reduced to 0.72 of the total pore area for bird eggs at 87 m altitude.
Indian chicken eggs at 3500 m altitude had total pore area reduced to 0.65 of the total pore area for bird eggs at 220 m altitude.
While this adaptation of pore area reduction solves the matter of controlling water loss from the egg, it raises a problem for the supply of sufficient oxygen to the growing embryo.
OXYGEN: The partial pressure (concentration) of oxygen decreases with altitude and with reduced pore area, the egg has to find ways of supplying sufficient oxygen to the embryo. All living beings must adapt to the reduced oxygen concentration (hypoxia) at higher altitudes (60% of sea-level concentration at 4000 meters). Avian embryos, at high altitudes, do not have the benefit of maternal protection against hypoxia as in mammals. However, avian eggs do hatch successfully at altitudes up to 6500 m or even higher.
Avian eggs have evolved different strategies to solve the problem of hypoxia leading to successful hatching at high altitudes. A discussion of strategies in detail is outside the scope of this blog, however a common feature is that all bird embryos have blood hemoglobin (Hb) with high affinity for oxygen.
Example 3: Penguin's Thick Eggshells - An Adaptive Trait: Sea birds that nest on hard surfaces lay thick eggs to prevent breakage of eggs; thick eggshells are stronger as strength of the eggshell increases as square of the shell thickness.
I shall discuss here the example of penguin species, Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) incubate their eggs on hard substrates with little nesting material—all circumstances that could lead to high rates of egg breakage. However, Magellanic Penguin eggs are seldom broken - low breakage rates attributable to thick eggshells.
Average weight of a Magellanic Penguin Egg is 128 g and from the scaling of eggshell thickness (L) with egg weight (W), I would expect that L should be 0.52 mm. The measured average value of L is 0.81 mm - 56% thicker than expected for the size of the egg. How the extra calcium for the thicker eggshell is provided is a good indication of adaptive strategy.
Another adaption strategy that penguins employ is that their eggs are quite pointed. This ensures that they roll in a circle and do not fall off the cliff on which they are being incubated.
The following two slides show the pointed eggs of some penguin species.
Example 4: Why are the Kiwi Eggs so big??
A large egg has some advantages. Most bird eggs are 35-40% yolk but the kiwi egg is 65% yolk. The nutritious yolk produces kiwi chicks that hatch fully feathered and are independent. The yolk continues to sustain the chick for the first few weeks of its life. By that time, chicks can provide for themselves and kiwi parent seldom have to feed their offspring.
An earlier suggestion was by Stephen Gould that the big size of the kiwi egg is simply a relic from when the kiwis were much bigger birds. In New Zealand, until a 1000 years ago there were no major ground-dwelling egg-eating predators to encourage a shrunken egg and discourage the loss of mobility that comes from carrying such a large egg.
Lively debate has continued over the past few decades and the most recent DNA analyses appear to indicate that the extinct Madagascan Elephant birds are the closest relatives of the New Zealand kiwi. This is fascinating research and has lot to say about how and when flightless birds spread over the globe and are now found in all continents.
Final Word: It is interesting to note that many properties of avian eggs scale with egg size which itself scales with bird size in a systematic manner. In itself, the scaling is to be expected from simply increasing the bird weight - everything else remaining the same. However, environmental condition have required that avian eggs adapt to the external conditions and this is the case in many instances. A serious deviation from the scaling trend line may point to some peculiar circumstance and this can lead to some fundamental change in the way we interpret that piece of evidence. New Zealand kiwi is a good example of such a situation.
It is my pleasure to thank Professor Dee Boersma for his help in giving me information about Magellanic penguins.


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O Distrito peruano de Huacaschuque é um dos onze distritos que formam a Província de Pallasca, situada no Ancash, pertencente a Região Ancash, Peru.

Transporte
O distrito de Huacaschuque é servido pela seguinte rodovia:
 PE-3N, que liga o distrito de La Oroya (Região de Junín) à Puerto Vado Grande (Fronteira Equador-Peru) no distrito de Ayabaca (Região de Piura)

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 Subdivisões do Peru
 Peru

Distritos da província de Pallasca