Is what you are eating causing your digestive and stomach symptoms?
As a nation, we spend $10 billion dollars a year on heartburn/acid reflux medicine such as Nexium and Pepcid AC (NPR, Healthinc, May 2015). Sixty million people have some form of IBS/Irritable Bowel Syndrome, while more than 5 million people suffer from daily constipation, resulting in 2 million doctor visits and $725 million a year for laxatives, anti-spasm meds and fiber supplements such as Metamucil (Gastroenterology Association). Crazy right? These remedies often have a yo-yo effect (days of constipation followed by days of diarrhea) and cause other side effects. And every day, millions of Americans complain of gas, feeling bloated, and/or ongoing stomach upset (Washington School of Medicine). Why all the tummy troubles?
• What's going on in your gut? The lining of your small intestine is comprised of trillions of bacteria that coexist in a complex balance that keeps you healthy. Bacteria in our gut is also known as our microbiome. These trillions of bacteria break down food, protect us from disease and keep us functioning optimally. But things like antibiotics, some over-the-counter medications, food additives, and food sensitivities upset the balance of good bacteria to bad bacteria. When the microbiome get out of balance, your stomach reacts with gas, bloating, constipation, and/or diarrhea.
• An imbalanced gut could cause "leaking." Many health coaches and nutritionists are aware of "leaky gut syndrome" – although your doctor may not be. My Dr. was not aware. Leaky gut is a result of damage to the intestinal lining. How does this happen? The naturally-occurring bacteria may overgrow; your stomach may not completely digest your food; and natural waste that would typically be absorbed may "leak" from your digestive system into your blood stream. Like the lactose-and gluten-intolerances discussed below, a leaky gut causes an autoimmune response, and that can cause gas, bloating and pain, as well as skin rashes, joint pain and exhaustion. Note that medications used for joint aches and body pains, as well as antibiotics, can cause chronic inflammation, which many experts believe can lead to leaky gut.
• Stress can have you running to the bathroom. When we're stressed, our body produces hormones and chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline. These can cause an overproduction of stomach acid, causing acid reflux or GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) -- a chronic digestive disease that occurs when stomach acid flows into the esophagus, causing burning. Some foods such as tomato sauce, as well as alcohol and caffeine can aggravate symptoms. I know its a bummer for many. Focusing on relaxation techniques such as yoga, meditation and breathing exercises can help reduce stress and anxiety. These exercises may actually alter the brain's neuro pathways, helping you become more resilient to the affects of stress. Deep breathing – one breath in to the count of five; hold; then release to a count of seven – slows that rapid heart rate caused by anxiety or stress. There are many actions you can take to help reduce your stress; but the first step is to identify what's causing the stress. As a health coach, I often recommend that clients jot down a few notes at the end of each day about their stress level, triggers, and how they feel they are coping.
• Your bowels are irritable. About 20 percent of all women suffer from IBS, which can cause gas, bloating and painful yo-yo-ing between diarrhea and constipation. Diet and stress can both contribute to IBS symptoms. A study by Dr. Mark Hyman found that changing certain foods in your diet can eliminate 30 percent of your symptoms. As a health coach, I help you identify which foods to eliminate, which foods are not a problem, and guide you through an effective process for maintaining your healthier lifestyle. For example, while caffeine may increase IBS, you may need to wean yourself off of coffee or Diet Coke and learn healthier alternatives that still allow you the joys of a morning ritual. My first suggestion to clients with IBS is to keep a food journal – you can start doing this now! Write down everything you eat, making sure to mark the time, amount, ingredients, and/or brand. This is a great investigative tool and helps us become more aware of what we're eating and how we feel afterwards.
• What does your weight have to do with it? People who are overweight are 50 percent more likely to suffer from GERD and/or heartburn, and are more susceptible to gallstones (causing pain in the upper right-side of your stomach). Excess weight puts more pressure on your stomach, which then puts pressure on the valve opening to your esophagus. Slimming down to a healthier weight can reduce and often eliminate your food-related heartburn and GERD.
• Could wheat be the culprit? More people are discovering their stomach distress is related to a gluten intolerance; studies show about 20% of Americans are affected, with celiac disease often the diagnosis. Celiac disease and gluten intolerance create an autoimmune reaction; the body produces antibodies that attack the protective "villi" found in the small intestine. Villi are what help you absorb nutrients, so when they are compromised, you get cramping, bloating and nutrient-deficiency. If your parents or siblings suffer from celiac or gluten-intolerance, there's a greater chance you might, too, as there is a strong genetic link. You can get a blood test to determine if you have celiac disease, but there is no current test to conclude if you are gluten-intolerant. Becoming gluten-free helps millions of sufferers eliminate symptoms, but eliminating gluten can be tricky and is best done with the help of a health coach who can help you learn more about the foods you can and cannot eat. Foods you'd never think would contain gluten often do – such as soy sauce and ketchup! Plus, to truly reap the benefits, gluten-free is an all-or-nothing diet – simply "reducing" your gluten intake often will not eliminate your symptoms.
I hope that this information has helped you.
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My hardworking husband has completed his graduate degree, a Master of Science in Engineering. Graduation was this past weekend, and the relief in his face, in his life, and in his wife has been immediate.
The most noticeable difference so far came on Sunday. We attended the late service at church, ate a leisurely lunch with friends (shout out to the Sloans and the baby dedication celebration), drove home where we both took nice long naps instead of Brad doing homework, and went back to church for the Christmas celebration since we had nothing. else. to. do. Can somebody say glory?
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Q: Rails architecture questions I'm building a Rails site that, among other things, allows users to build their own recipe repository.  Recipes are entered either manually or via a link to another site (think epicurious, cooks.com, etc).  I'm writing scripts that will scrape a recipe from these sites given a link from a user, and so far (legal issues notwithstanding) that part isn't giving me any trouble.
However, I'm not sure where to put the code that I'm writing for these scraper scripts.  My first thought was to put it in the recipes model, but it seems a bit too involved to go there; would a library or a helper be more appropriate?
Also, as I mentioned, I'm building several different scrapers for different food websites.  It seems to me that the elegant way to do this would be to define an interface (or abstract base class) that determines a set of methods for constructing a recipe object given a link, but I'm not sure what the best approach would be here, either.  How might I build out these OO relationships, and where should the code go?

A: You've got two sides of this thing that are obvious. The first is how you will store the recipes, which will be models. Obviously Models will not be scraping other sites, since they have a single responsibility: storing valid data. Your controller(s), which will initiate the scraping and storage process, should not contain the scraping code either (though they will call it).
While in Ruby we don't go for abstract classes nor interfaces -- it's duck-typed, so it's enough that your scrapers implement a known method or set of methods -- your scraping engines should all be similar, especially in terms of the public methods they expose.
You will put your scrapers -- and here's the lame answer -- wherever you want. lib is fine, but if you want to make a plugin that might not be a bad idea either. See my question here - with a stunning answer by famous Rails-guy Yehuda Katz - for some other ideas, but in general: there is  no right answer. There are some wrong ones, though.

A: The scrape engine should be a stand alone plugin or gem plugin. For the dirty and quick, you can put it inside lib. That's the usual convention anyway. It should probably implement a factory class that instantiates different types of scrapers depending on the url, so for client usage, it will be as simple as:
Scraper.scrape(url)

Also, if this is a long running task, you might want to consider using resque or delayed-jobs to offload the task to separate processes.

A: Try focusing on getting the stuff working first before moving it to gem/plugin.
Also, forget about interface / abstract class - just write the code that does the thing.
The only thing your model should know is if that's remote recipe, and what's the url.
You could put all scraping code in app/scrapers. Here's an example implementation outline:
class RecipePage
  def new(url)
    @url = url
    @parser = get_parser
  end

  def get_attributes
    raise "trying to scrape unknown site" unless @parser
    @parser.recipe_attributes(get_html)
  end

  private
  def get_html
    #this uses your favorite http library to get html from the @url
  end

  def get_parser(url)
    #this matches url to your class, ie returns domain camelized, or nil if you are not handling particular site yet
    return EpicurusComParser
  end
end

class EpicurusComParser

  def self.recipe_attributes(html)
    # this does the hard job of querying html and moving
    # all the code to get title, text, image of recipe and return hash
    {
      :title => "recipe title",
      :text => "recipe text",
      :image => "recipe_image_url",
    }
  end
end

then in your model
class Recipe
  after_create :scrape_recipe, :if => :recipe_url

  private

  def scrape_recipe
    # do that in background - ie in DelayedJob
    recipe_page = RecipePage.new(self.recipe_url)
    self.update_attributes(recipe_page.get_attributes.merge(:scraped => true))
  end
end

Then you can create more parser, ie CookComParser etc

A: Often, utility classes that aren't really part of the MVC design are put into the lib folder. I've also seen people put them into the models folder, but lib is really the "correct" place.
You could then create an instance of the recipe scraper within the controller as required, feeding the data into the model.

A: Not everything in app/models has to be an ActiveRecord model. Since they directly pertain to the business logic of your application, they belong in the app directory, not the lib directory. They are also neither controller, view, or helper (helpers are there to help the views and the views alone). So, they belong in app/models. I would make sure to namespace them, just for organizational purposes into app/models/scrapers or something of that sort.

A: I'd set up a rake task to scrape the site and create new rake task.  Once that is working I'd use a background processor or cron job to run the rake task.

A: I would create a folder in lib called scrapers. Then within that folder create one file per scraper. Call these epicurious, cooks etc. You could then define a base scrapers class that contains any shared methods that will be common to all scrapers. Similar to the followsing
lib/scrapers/base.rb
class Scrapers::base
  def shared_1()
  end
  def shared_2()
  end
  def must_implement1
    raise NotImplemented
  end
  def must_implement2
    raise NotImplemented
  end
end

lib/scrapers/epicurious.rb
Class Epicurious < Base
  def must_implement1
  end
  def must_implement2
  end
end

Then call the relevant class from within your controller using Scrapers::Epicurious.new or call a class Method within Scrapers::Base that calls the relevant implementation based upon a passed argument.

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when i attempt to take manual control of the bomb pilot the autopilot of the plane pilot does not take control ofthe plane.why.
how does the k14 gunsight work and what are the benefits.
Shift + F1 will fix the site in the Germerman planes. Can't help you on the bomber. Haven't flown it in ages.
The benefits are that u are able to drop from high altitude with some accurasy.
Im not sure but i think that "online" (if u meant online) u have no ai pilot taking over.
Offline u should have this option.
some bomberjock will soon enlighten u better than I can.
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AI DOES take the pilot position in offline game if pilot automation is ON. Online this doesn't happen even if pilot automation is turned on.
In order to operate the K-14 Gunsight in the P-51D20NA, you will first have to set a key to toggle it from Fixed, to Fixed + Giro, to Giro.
You will find this option in your key commands as... "Toggle Sight Mode" in the Gunsight/Bombsight section. This will enable you to switch through the modes of the K-14 gunsight.
Then you will need to set controls to select the type of plane you are engaging, so that the Gunsight matches their wingspan.
The commands for this are "adjust sight control to right" and "adjust sight control to left".
It can be quite useful in helping to calculate lead shots, so you have a better idea of when to shoot when you are pulling lead on your target.
You can also set the "icrease sight distance" and "decrease sight distance" controls so that you can calibrate the gunsight to meet your set MG convergeance.
In the HE111, if you are flying offline the ai should take control of the plane as was said.. However keep in mind that by doing that you lose the ability to "fly" the plane from the bombadier position. Clarification below in online play..
Best thing to do IMO offline and online, is make sure you have a key bound to "Level Stabelizer".. when you hit this the plane will fly in a straight/level path no matter what you do with your stick.. this allows you to use trim to control the plane in small increments. For instance using rudder trim to do left/right adjustments on your bomb run. This allows for stable flight like the autopilot gives you, but with the added bonus of being able to make small adjustments to your flightpath.
However, when you toggle the auto leveler on, also drop combat flaps and give the elevator some positive trim to keep the plane flying on a level course, otherwise she'll have a tendancy to want to nose down a little bit.
Another thing to keep in mind, when you set the speed on the bombsight, that the speed indicated in the speedbar/spedometer on the instrument panel is indicated air speed, not true, and you need to enter TRUE air speed into the sight. If I recall correctly there is a IAS-TAS conversion table on the FB CD as a PDF file.
But, if you don't want to mess with that you can just adjust sights airspeed input as you go along to make sure there is no "drift", to keep your crosshairs locked on to your target.
It takes some practice to get the hang of, but once you do get proficient with the bombsight you can drop your bombs on a tank from 5000m..
Little tip for flying online in Scripted Servers like Warclouds/Greatergreen/F16..
Altitude, altitude, altitude... and never fly straight from your base to the target.. take different routes.. keep an eye out for tracer fire and steer clear of it..
Hmmmm,looks like nobody knows that you CAN fly the plane in bombardier position.
Now , before entering in the plane be in the pilot position and make sure pilot automation is on.If is on,then you can move to a gunner position and see you can move the gun and fire.Go back in the pilot position and turn it off.Now,go in the same gunner position and you will notice you can't move or fire the gun.
So,how to fly and bomb or man the gun in offline missions? Simple.
From now on you can drive and shoot in the same time in gunner position.
Online is a bit of a tad,because autopilot doesn't work,so there's no reason to turn automation on/off.It works like a charm everytime.
Hope that clarified some things.
Edit: one more thing.Using level stabilizer you can't drive the plane anymore,but you can use rudder trim which is more than enough to fine tune the position of the aircraft regarding the target.As said above,before engaging level stabilizer,trim the bugger and drop some flaps.That should keep her pretty level.
Become familiar with how a non-gyro, standard gunsight works. I will be using some examples that assume you have an idea of how to use the gunsight, and how to set your convergence. I may tocuh on those two topics to illustrate how it relates to the K-14 gyro gunsight, but I will not go into great detail on those subjects; typing all this up is mo0re than enough typing for me.
First, assign some keys to your K-14 functions. I beleive the defaults are un-mapped, and they are for the bombsight.
Now. Take a look at the K-14. You will see something immediately: a list of planes around the perimeter of the body of the sight. Don't worry about that, we'll discuss how to select a plane, why, and when, or even if you should use the gyro feature. For now, just be aware of the ability to select plane types.
You will note that in fixed+gyro and gyro, there is a pattern of small diamond shapes on the gunsight glass, and it moves as you manuever. This is called your pipper. This is the gyro feature, obviously.
Remember the list of plnes from before? Cycle through them. Note that the pipper gets bigger or smaller depending on what plane you select. Note how that the bigger the wingspan of the plane selected is, the larger the pipper is. This is key. Remember that: the pipper is intended to match the visual wingspread of your target.
Now try something new: increase or decrease range on the K-14 while in fixed+gyro or gyro only mode. Note how the pipper smoothly gets bigger or smaller, similar to the function in which you select target plane type.
This is all the pipper control you have: resizing the pipper.
OK. Let's say you are roughly 150 meters away from a Bf 109, on his six o'clock (directly behind him as he flies away from you). You turn on your K-14 to fixed+gyro or gyro only. At this range (150m), if you select 'bf109' from the list of targets on the sight, the pipper will frame the wings of your target if the dot is centered on the fuselage. This tells you that you are at the range that the sight is preset to: about 150m, more or less. What does this do for you? Well, if you now place the dot in the center of the pipper on his right wingtip and pull the trigger, if he does not manuever, you will get strikes on his right wingtip. Maybe not a lot, but that is also a function of convergence, which is where the bullets from your guns cross in front of your aircraft. If you set the convergence to 150m ahead of time, obviously, in this example I have given you, you will do more damage because a lot more lead will have struck the target.
This brings us to "why change the range on the K-14?" Well, maybe you don't like 150m convergence. You prefer 100m, or 300m. Well, now you set your convergence-there are several ways to find your convergence, including shooting at an enemy without the K-14 in fixed+gyro or gyro only, pausing the game, and then using the 'enemy view' to see if you are getting hits at the point where the bullet streams cross- and you fly a mission. Let's say you are in the same situation as the example previosuly mentioned, and you find that 300m is a good convergence for you.
You are behind a Bf 109 on his six. You now remember more or less how big the enemy plane looked when you determined that 300m was a good point for your convergence. You flip on the K-14 to fixed+gyro mode. You determine that you are approximately 300m away, based on your experience while setting convergence, and now you resize the pipper to roughly the correct size to frame the enymy's wings, when that enemy is selcted on your gunsight selector. Sounds harder than it is. You are using standeard techniques to determine convergence, the same for any other aircraft without the K-14. But now, you can make the pipper the right size. Once you know that size for that distance and for just one enemy plane, you can start to make very good estimated judgements on other sizes for the pipper for other aircraft. Let's say you don't run into a Bf 109, but instead it's a FW 190. Well, flip on the K-14 to a gyro equipped mode. You know that the FW 190 is slightly larger than the Bf 109, and has a wider wingspread. All you do is set the range for the pipper as above, Now select "FW 190" on the selector, and your are very close to being properly ranged for that aircraft, and at your convergence.
1) all you ever do is change pipper size.
2) try to set range first. Sounds hard, but it's actually easy. It does take a little effort though. You will simply be cahnging the sight to this size automatically after a while.
4) do not try to constantly reset the K-14's pipper in combat for a 'perfect' frame of your eney's wings whwnever range changes! This is extremely hard and is not how the sight works. Set the pipper to the right size for your convergence, and then fire at the convergence. If you want, you can try to get some lucky hits on aircraft that are far way by increasing the range, but remember: you are now out of your convergence range. The rule of thumb is: fire only at convergence range, and set the pipper size to convergence.
One more thing: How can you use the K-14 to fire at targets not on the selector list?
Simple. Select a similarly sized aircraft. For example, if I wanted to size the pipper, at my convergence, at a P-47, I would think about the P-47's size. First, I'd switch on a gyro mode on the K-14. Next, I size my pipper to range (another good trick is to set your range in fixed+gyro, because you can compare the wingspread of the target in the regular recticle with the pipper), and after I am confident that the pipper is the right size for my range, I would select "FW 190" on the list: that is approximately the right wingspan for the P-47.
One good thing to always bear in mind: the sight will never tell you waht the range is. You tell the sight what the range is first. But you don't need to know range. All you do is compare sizes. First you recognise what size the pipper will be at what you beleive to be your convergence range. Then, set the pipper to that size by changing range. Now select the target aircraft, if you have done your homework and know how to tell ropughly how far an enemy is from you, when you resize the pipper manually by changing range to the proper size (so that the pipper's outline will frame the wings of the target), when you then select the target type, the pipper will be properly sized.
Sounds confusing. Let's look at it the other way around.
You should be able to set the pipper to the correct size to match your convergence range without a target nearby. The, by selecting a target from the list, the pipper will be the correct size for that target. It's not magic, it's just a little time spent setting a convergence range that works for you, and then remembering how big the target was when you did that. Then you change the pipper size to match that.
For example, you are flying a P-51D with the K-14. You see a Bf 109 and are on his six, directly astern. Select fixed mode. You close in. At your convergence range, whatever that may be, you open fire. You see many hits, and he catches fire and crashes.
Now, what you do is recall where his wings were in the fixed sight when you clobbered him. Were the wings just a tocuh shy of tocuhing the edges of your sight? Were they past the edges of the sight so much that the fixed sight's edge was in the middle of the wing? Whatever, doesn't matter, just remember that. Then turn the K-14 to a gyro mode, and manually change the pipper by changing range, so that the pipper mimics the size of the target's wings when you clobbered him. Remember that one tip about setting the pipper first with range.
set the pipper size for your convergence. I suggest using a Bf109 as the aircraft to learn this on, simply because it's the default setting on the K-14 and it makes things easier.
Once you set that pipper size, selecting another aircraft automatically makes the pipper the right size for that target's wingspan at your convergence range.
Next: "How can I use the K-14 if the target is broadside to me?" Well, the K-14 isn't perfect. It can't calculate high deflection well. That's why you have other modes of operation other than just the pure gyro only feature. But- if the target is not perfectly in front of you it doesn't matter if the wings don't look their full size because of your depth perception. The sight uses wingspan as an easy reference, not as a need to properly function. If you know your range, set the pipper to it, and select the correct aircraft, you will know already if the target is at the proper range, that's all you need. In a medium to low deflection shot, the gyro feature, if trained on the target for a breif moment, should accurately calculate lead for you, and where the pipper dot is on the enemy is where bullets will land if he doesn't manuver.
Do not rely on the K-14 in gyro mode. Many pilots in real life didn't care for it and used the fixed mode only. There is no rule that says you must use it, but a couple say don't use it in some situations. The K-14 is a good tool that produces results when used properly. It cannot do everything and needs to be properly set up to function. These is a certain amount of hype regarding this gunsight, and if used in the correct circumstances, will live up to that, in my experience. But if you have a 90* deflection shot, turn it off and use the fixed mode. Most of the time, I use it in fixed or fixed+gyro.
The Golden Rule of the K-14 in gyro modes is this: match sizes- pipper to wingspan, and at your convergance range.
How do you guys find this stuff out. I admit I don't read the manuals very well, but I don't see where this is documents in the official game ?
Did I just miss it ?


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Hell has finally frozen over. Gertie's getting married!
When a charming gold-digger by the name of Cliff Dow comes to Sinful and steals from their friend, Marie, the Swamp Team 3 decides to get even by publicly shaming him at the "When Hell Freezes Over" wedding of the century.
And everything's going according to plan until… Well, this is Sinful after all.
Meanwhile, a mystery woman also arrives. She says she's a FEMA representative. But Fortune thinks otherwise. She's met her before. But where? More importantly, is she friend or foe?
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Right off of Piazza della Signoria is the Uffizi Gallery. My parents and I would be going into the Uffizi on another day so this time we just passed through underneath it. The Uffizi Gallery is inside an elevated "U" shaped building that used to be a palace and during peak tourism season you can see rivers of tourists passing beneath it. Since we were visiting in late November there weren't as many people walking around and it was easier for me to catch a gap in the crowds to take today's photo. When we came out on the south side of the building we were next to the Arno River and close to the Ponte Vecchio Bridge. From there we'd continue on towards our main destination of the day, Piazzale Michelangelo, which will be the subject of the next Florence 2018 photo on Friday.
In the lower right of the photo you'll notice that there's an armored vehicle and a few soldiers standing around. During my previous two trips to Florence in 2012 and 2015 there were no soldiers on patrol in the city and their presence outside the Uffizi and other attractions, while reassuring, is an unfortunate reminder of the growing security needs in much of Europe.


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The Diameter Distribution Histogram (% of fibres in 1-micron class intervals).
Mean Fibre Diameter is measured by Laserscan. Results are reported as micrometers (microns). The organic card sliver snippets fall into the Laserscan and are automatically mixed into a solution within the instrument. Prepared fibre snippets are automatically dispersed in a carrier liquid that transports them through the measurement cell. In the cell, fibres intercept the laser beam and changes in the beam intensity are converted to diameter readings by the computer. In a parallel optoelectronic processing circuit the validity of each reading is confirmed by the fibre-optic discriminator. After measurement, the fibres are caught in a cloth filter for subsequent removal. Each snippet is only measured once.
Each sample is only measured one time. . Also the Coefficient of Variation of Fibre Diameter can be calculated. In addition, for appraisal purposes, the Certificate can show the Mean Curvature of the fibres in the sample and the Comfort Factor of the sample.
Fig 3.1 The Schematic Diagram of the Lasercan Machine.
The (Fig. 3.1) shows how a Laserscan works. Fibre snippets are dispersed into isopropanol-water mixture and the resultant suspension then flows through a measurement cell. As they pass through the cell the fibre snippets intersect a thin beam of light generated by a laser. This beam is directed at a measurement detector. The detector produces an electrical signal that is proportional to the amount of light incident upon it. Therefore, when a fibre snippet passes through the beam this electrical signal is reduced by an amount that is directly proportional to the projected area and therefore thickness or diameter of the fibre. The relationship between the magnitude of this decrease and Mean Fibre Diameter is determined by calibrating the instrument using card sliver where the Mean Fibre Diameter and Diameter Distribution have already been determined by direct measurement using the Projection Microscope.
After fineness, length is the most important property of a fibre. In general a longer average fibre length is to be preferred because it confers a number of advantages.
The quality of the fibre of cotton depends on its fineness, purity, shine, and colour and especially of the length of the fibre (yard). As much as greater is the length of the fibre (It is to oscillating between 10 and 50 mm) the yard is finer, more resistant and more regular. The long fibre cotton o is more expensive than that of short and average fibre.
An object only it is seen with its own colour if is illuminated with white light or with light of its same colour.
Color measurements were made using a Spectrocolorimeter SF-600 Plus colorimeter from Datacolor International. The spectrocolorimeter analyzes light energy reflected or transmitted by a sample, wavelength by wavelength. The photometric characteristics of a material are measured in the visible spectrum, and spectral graphs are produced. In physical terms, the color of an object is measured and represented by its spectrophotometric curve. This is a graph representing the reflected or transmitted part of incident energy as a function of the wavelength, in the visible spectrum between 400 and 700 nm. For example, if all of the wavelengths are absorbed, the color is perceived as black, whereas if all wavelengths are fully reflected (100%), white is perceived.
Fig 3.2 A graph of the visible spectrum of light is shown below with wavelengths expressed in nm.
The tests had been made with the card sliver of Naturally Coloured Cotton. For problem with the raw material all the experiments only had been calculate one time. The colour to exanimate it is the naturally coloured cotton. The great different of this colour with respect another is the way to obtain them. This colour grows in the same plant by biological method. Nowadays only there are two varieties of colour, brown and green with its different tonalities.
With these analysis intends to show the viability of the organic cotton with respect al conventional cotton and there is another way.
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash. The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN 2015-C01". The Standard determines the concentration necessary of soap, time of the bath and temperature. The tested samples are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
- Multi-fibre Fibre tests: Sufficient to cut specimens 40 x 100mm. This fabric was formed with different types of natural a synthetic fabric; wool, acrylic, polyester, nylon (6.6), cotton and acetate, in accordance with "ISO 105-F10" standards.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution, 5g of soap for each litre of water. The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 40 C ± 2o C. The sample will be 30 minutes in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
In agreement with the standard "UNE IN 2015- C01", when the sample is dry, it is valuating different colour in the sliver and the multi-fibre fabric too with respect the original sample.
Multi-fibre fabric: Grey scales for assessing staining, which met with standard "ISO. 105. A03".
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash with sodium Chloride. The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN 2015- C03". The Standard determines the concentration necessary of soap, concentration of bath, time of the bath, temperature and the quantity of Sodium Chloride (Na Cl). The tested samples are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution; 5g of soap for each litre of water more 2g Sodium Chloride. The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 95o C ± 2o C. The sample will be 30 to 240 minutes in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
In agreement with the standard "UNE-EN 2015- C03", when the sample is dry, it is valuating different colour in the sliver and the multi-fibre fabric too with respect the original sample.
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash with sodium carbonate. The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN 105 E06". The Standard determines the concentration of bath, time of the bath, temperature, the quantity of sodium carbonate (Na 2 CO3), and Sodium Hydroxide (Na OH) for obtain a pH= 8 level , recommended for this test.. The tested samples are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution; 100g sodium carbonate (Na 2 CO3) in each litre of waters. The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 40o C ± 2o C. The sample will be 30 minutes in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
In agreement with the standard "UNE-EN 105 E06".when the sample is dry, it is valuating different colour in the sliver and the multi-fibre fabric too with respect the original sample.
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash with sodium carbonate. The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN 105 E05". The Standard determines the concentration of bath, time of the bath, the quantity and concentration of Acetic Acid (CH3COOH), and Sodium Hydroxide (Na OH) for obtain the exactly pH= 5 level , recommended for this test. The tested samples are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution; 50g of Acetic Acid (CH3COOH) in each litre of waters and Sodium Hydroxide (Na OH) for obtain a pH= 5. The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 37o C ± 2o C. The sample will be 30 minutes in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
In agreement with the standard "UNE-EN 105 E05".when the sample is dry, it is valuating different colour in the sliver and the multi-fibre fabric too with respect the original sample.
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash with . The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN ISO 105 E03". The Standard determines the concentration of bath, time of the bath, temperature, the quantity of; Chlorine (Cl), Sodium Chloride (Na Cl), Sodium Carbonate(Na2CO3), Iron (Fe) and Sodium Hydroxide (Na OH) for obtain the a pH= 7,5± 0,05level recommended for this test. The tested samples are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
- 120g to 170g of Sodium Chloride (Na Cl)/ 1litre of water.
- 20g of Sodium Carbonate (Na2CO3) /1litre of water.
- 0, 01g of Iron (Fe)/1litre of water maxim.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution; - 40g to 60g of Chorine (Cl), 120g to 170g of Sodium Chloride (Na Cl), 20g of Sodium Carbonate(Na2CO3) and 0,01g of Iron (Fe), in each litre of waters and Sodium Hydroxide (Na OH) for obtain a pH= 7,5± 0,05The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 27o C ± 2o C. The sample will be 60 minutes in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash with sodium chloride. The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN ISO 105 E02". The Standard determines the concentration of bath, time of the bath, temperature and the dissolution of Sodium Chloride (Na Cl). The tested samples are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution; 30g Sodium Chloride (Na Cl) in each litre of waters and Sodium Hydroxide (Na OH) for obtain a pH= 3,5± 0,05. The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 37o C ± 2o C. The sample will be four hours in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
In agreement with the standard "UNE-EN 105 E02".when the sample is dry, it is valuating different colour in the sliver and the multi-fibre fabric too with respect the original sample.
The test assesses both the colour change in a sample and cross-staining into multi-fibre fabric in a standard wash with sodium chlorite. The test conditions it is governed by the standard "UNE-EN ISO 105 N02". The Standard determines the concentration of bath, time of the bath, temperature, the quantity of; Sodium Thiosulfate (Na2O3S2), Sodium Chlorite (NaClO2), and Acetic Acid (CH3COOH), for obtain the pH= 3,5, recommended for this test. The exact concentration of sodium chlorite is determined by valuation with cradle solution of sodium thiosulfate.
The card sliver is deposited between two multi-fibre fabrics and it sews by for the four sides. It is prepared the stock solution; 30g of Sodium Chlorite (NaClO2), and Acetic Acid (CH3COOH) for obtain a pH= 3,5± 0,05. The machine to use is type Mathis.
It is deposited the sample in one bowl with 200 ml of solution with a temperature of 80o C ± 2o C. The sample will be 60 minutes in contact with the solution in a constant rotation. Spend this time it is dry the sample to ambient temperature and after it are graded with the use of Grey Scales.
In agreement with the standard "UNE-EN ISO 105 N02"when the sample is dry, it is valuating different colour in the sliver and the multi-fibre fabric too with respect the original sample.
One of the primary uses of a spectrophotometer is to determine the concentration of a solution. The spectrophotometer shines light at a set color (wavelength) through a sample and the machine determines the percent that the light is absorbed by the sample. By comparing this amount to a graph of known concentrations, the concentration of an unknown solution can be determined.
1. Determine the color of light that is absorbed the most by the solution. Often this wavelength is given. You change the color (wavelength) of light shining through a concentrated sample of the solution material and graph the absorbance.
2. Make known concentrations of the substance to be tested. For example: 20%, 40% etc. Set the spectrophotometer to the wavelength determined in step 1 and measure the absorbance of each known solution and graph absorbance vs. concentration.
3. Measure the absorbance of the unknown and determine the concentration from the graph in step 2.


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Smartphone cameras are a lot larger than before. Companies are making their cameras more stable, functioning better in low light, and adding features they like.. Many would base their buying decisions on-camera power. The argument is that cameras are critical these days for mobile devices.
This generally makes camera apps better than applications from third parties. OEMs simply know better and better optimize their camera settings. This is particularly true for Google, Samsung, and Huawei phones, which together with camera hardware use AI and software optimization. Still, in some cases, a third-party app can be useful. Here are the best Android camera apps!
Lastly, note that newer versions of Android will force the stock camera app to be used anyway. It's just something to consider. Motion Cam (Google Play link) is also an honorable mention because it has some nice ideas but is beta as of the time it's published.
1. Your stock camera app
Each phone has its own camera app. You can certainly shake the app equally. The manufacturers explicitly design these apps for the camera on your computer. Often these apps have functionality that others don't. For eg, the manual focus in the LG V50 makes something green with focus glow. So you see where the camera is concentrated. We suggest that you update the camera app to extend rather than uninstall your feature set. Every app on this list will do better when used next to the camera stock app. Typically you leave features at the door unless you use them.
2. VSCO
VSCO is a common and very efficient photo editor and camera application combination. The camera side is a bit straightforward and not as strong as your native phone or other camera program. The photo editor side is however one of the best in cell phones. There are a number of filters, effects and settings. Moreover, several of these same videos are also available for video content. Perhaps his special attribute is his ability to mimic a large number of other cameras. However, this program is very costly and many of its most attractive features are behind an annual payroll of $19.99.
3. HDR Snap Camera
The Snap Camera HDR is a strong link between serious photographers and amateur photographers. Manual camera controls, video 4K capture, support for RAW, HDR and file size options are supported. Funny shooting modes, effects, borders, colors and vignettes are also included. There are camera apps that do a little better manual controls and apps that make fun filters and so better. It's uncommon to find an app that does both. Before purchasing the pro edition, try the free version.
4. Simple Camera
Simple Camera, well is a simple app for the camera. It has a no-frills user interface and does not include a lot of additional features. You can take pictures from both front and rear cameras, adjust where images are saved and if necessary, restrict your resolution. That's just about it. We do not recommend this to people who want to enhance their images. However, we'd advise someone who is constantly frustrated and annoyed about how complicated new camera apps are and don't care about the quality of the picture for something quick that works. Google Camera would be recommended before this, but it's another decent, super minimal option without much fuss.
5. Say Cheese
SayCheese is another form of camera program. It's a remote camera app with some good features. It enables you to connect to the phone of a friend and take images on your smartphone with your camera. This is a very good solution for circumstances where you want to take a group shot, but don't have anyone to take for you. The app is beta in early access when it's written, so there are some bugs. It has performed very well in our research, however and we expect that further changes would bring stability.
6. ProCam X
ProCam X is one of the newest camera apps on the list and does very good work. It relies more on professional features rather than on filters and types in social media. The software consists of burst mode, facial recognition, 4K video recording support and RAW support. There are also manual controls (if your system supports it the ability to turn the shutter sound off, and many camera modes, such as scene mode or focus mode. It hits several check boxes for a good third-party app and it's not a bit bad after processing. Moreover the standard version is not all that pricey.
7. Pixtica
One of the newer camera apps in the list is Pixtica. It has a lot of fun little tricks and a good post-processing. Some features include live filters, hand controls, exposure controls, a GIF recording system, slow motion mode, RAW support, and QR code scanner. It also features a very simple photo editor and gallery. We like its broad range of characteristics and its all-in-one style. However some features include a subscription and your camera app can still do better post processing.
8. Open Camera
Open Camera is one of the most common apps for serious cameras. It has most of the essential features we spoke about before. Manual camera controls are part of that. There is also a timer, external microphones support, HDR, exposure bracketing and more. It's also a perfect choice for photographers and videographers alike. The software is completely free without purchasing in-app or ads. It's totally open source as well. That's a plus still. If you want to help the creator, there is an optional (and separate) donation application.
9. Google Camera
Google Camera is the official camera software of Google. It's the one on most Google computers. It has a limited but powerful range of characteristics. They have lenses blur mode, slow movement, picture spheres, video stabilization, etc. Compatibility is the only drawback. You can only do this on Android 7.1.1 and up devices (at the time of this writing). And later on, this is only likely to be seen by smartphones running the new Android. If not, it's free and it's very good. If you want the best features of Google Camera, you might want to sideload a modified version for your computer.
10. Pro Filmic
Filmic Pro is one of the newer Android camera apps. It's also this list's most expensive camera app. It also has several special characteristics. This requires some very detailed manual inspections. For eg, it has a double exposure and focus slider, a white balance adjustment matrix and a gamma curve monitor. It also includes some additional analytics, live RGB power, and much more. This was a very shaky beginning. However the developers seem to take user suggestions and tweak the program to correct bugs actively. It'll be fine one day, hopefully. Test this carefully within the refund timeframe if you want to check it out.
11. Cymer
One of the older and more common camera apps is Cymera. It focuses more on mainstream characteristics. That means a bunch of filters, stickers, special effects and similar features are available. It also has a feature for a beauty camera. It can add or delete features from your body and face. We are not great fans of such sudden shifts, but each of them. It also contains a small edit photo editor. You can download it free of charge. You can purchase additional items while shopping in-app.
12. Camera MX
Camera MX is one of the pro and most common apps for camera applications. Developers periodically update the app, keeping it up-to-date. It works best with easy things. The app provides a number of shooting modes. You can also take pictures or videos with it. Even a GIF mode is available for making your own GIFs. The integrated photo editor will do the basics. It's an all-in-one decent solution. Serious photographers may want to look somewhere else. The pro-version of this can also be used as part of the Google Play Pass if you have it.
13. Bacon Camera
We're going to be honest. When we first saw the term, we figured Bacon Camera was a joke program. This is a legitimately respectable camera program, however. It includes manual controls such as concentration, white balance, compensation for exposure, ISO and more. You get RAW and DNG support as well as conventional JPEG support. It allows manual controls for devices not supported by the Google Camera2 API. We didn't have test devices that didn't support it. Other features include GIF support, panorama mode and scheduling. This is surprisingly strong and surprisingly cheap in its pro version.
14. Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop Camera
Technically, Adobe Lightroom is a photo editor and not a camera app. whether it also comes with a built-in camera app. The camera is decent and includes broad keyword features such as HDR, RAW support, and different modes and presets. Moreover, if you need it too, you have the normal collection of manual camera functions. The surprising news is that Adobe Lightroom is actually one of the best smartphone photo editor apps, so you can use the camera app and edit it instantly. In 2020, Adobe launched Adobe Photoshop Camera (Google Play link) with various functions, including various filters, photoshop-real-time effects, automatic sound, portrait mode controls, and more. It's mainly a social media camera, but overall it's still a decent choice.
15. A Better Camera
A Better Camera is a remarkably stable camera program. It supports HDR images, panoramas up to 360 degrees, various multi-shot modes, night mode, and video recording functions, of course.. The standard of photography is very good and it has some additional features including elimination of objects if you get your car or something in your accident shot. The pro edition also unlocks some bonus features. This one is a little old and since 2018 hasn't seen an upgrade. However if the creator supports it actively, he should be on this list.
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Yana Sizzlers, it is a famous name in Pune for around 12-13 years. They have an outlet in Bangalore too. It is operating from 5-6 years. I wonder how did I ever miss this place? The Bangalore outlet is in the busy street of Koramangala 60 feet road, next to Shree Krishna cafe (Now that is how I was explained the location). It is near Anand sweets.
I do like sizzlers but finding it very difficult to find a good place for my regular visits. As Indijoe closed down on Church street, with Yana Sizzlers I could heave a sigh of relief.
On a Sunny Sunday, I was invited by Vivek to come and try out their sizzlers and more at Yana Sizzlers. I was very late for lunch so i preferred to have just one sizzler, Spicy Fish Fillet. It was served with veggies, rice and mashed potatoes. After a long time, I had some good mashed potatoes. The fish was sizzling hot and tasted extremely spicy. Now that is something which could spice up my Sunday. Upon request, I got to know that one can cancel the veggies and rice for extra portion of meat. My next visit will surely have more meat.
As I accompanied my sizzler with a peach iced tea.
Yana Sizzlers offers more than 125 sizzler options with 26 options in veg category, seriously too many options to choose from. The sizzlers here are healthier as the veggies are either boiled or blanched and the usage of oil is also minimal. The taste at Yana Sizzlers has remained the same throughout all outlets and also over the years.
Apart from Sizzlers they also serve soups, salads, starters, pasta and more which makes it an ideal place for everyone to enjoy their meal.
For desserts, sizzling brownie with vanilla and hot chocolate is the usual option for many at any sizzler place. It tasted well, I cannot write much as I had very little. Their signature desserts - the sizzling banana walnut cake with butterscotch and the sizzling apple pie with ice cream and apple sauce are a must try here, had a taste of both and they were extremely delish. They taste differently and definitely better than any other place.
I also tried caramel custard which was good but little on the sweeter side for my taste. I will try all of them in good portion in my next visit.
Some mint candies post your meal?


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Whirlwind Golf Club To Host Final Stage Of Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament
Whirlwind Golf Club at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler, Ariz. will host the Final Stage of Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament Thursday, December 7th through Sunday, December 10th. The four-day, 72-hole, stroke-play competition will include approximately 138 golfers and will determine each competitor's status for the 2018 Web.com Tour season.
The Web.com Tour is the developmental tour for the PGA TOUR, and features a mix of rising stars and proven veterans looking to regain their TOUR cards. Those who are inside the top 25 of the Web.com Tour money list at the end of the Regular Season are awarded PGA TOUR cards for the next season. An additional 25 cards will be handed out at the conclusion of the Web.com Tour Finals. Since 2013, the Web.com Tour has been the pathway for those seeking to earn their PGA TOUR card. The Qualifying Tournament, which had previously been the primary route for qualifying for the PGA TOUR, has been converted as an entryway to the Web.com Tour.
Twelve First Stage events were conducted throughout late September and early October in locations across the country from Florida to California. All five Second Stage events are taking place in November, with the Qualifying Tournament Finals set for Whirlwind Golf Club at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler. Players who advance to Qualifying Tournament Finals will be assured of at least conditional status on the Web.com Tour in 2018.
The Final Stage of Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament will be played on Whirlwind's two Gary Panks-designed golf courses – Devil's Claw and The Cattail. Since opening in 2000, Whirlwind Golf Club has established itself as one of Arizona's top professional tournament venues, having hosted events for the PGA of America, the USGA, and the Web.com Tour's Gila River Golf Classic. In addition to professional tournaments, Whirlwind hosts numerous charitable events for organizations including the Boys and Girls Club, City of Hope, Cox Charities and the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation. The Web.com Tour's Gila River Golf Classic presented by Wild Horse Pass was held from 2001 to 2005 and played on the Devil's Claw course for the first two years, then shifted to the Cattail course for the final three years.
For more information on Whirlwind Golf Club at Wild Horse Pass, visit www.whirlwindgolf.com or call 480-940-1500. For more information on the Final Stage of Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament, visit www.pgatour.com/webcom.


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Q: Finding a substring I have to write some code for an assignment which finds a substring within a string.
Here is my code, and I added comments:
// the target is the substring that we want to find in the source string
// m is the length of the target, and n is the length of the source
int contains(char target[], int m, char source[], int n) {
int flag = 0; // the source originally does not contain the target
int i;

    // go through each character of the source string
for(i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    int targetIndex = 0;
    int j;

            // check if the preceding characters of the source string are a substring
            // that matches the target string
    for(j = i; j < n && targetIndex < m; j++) {
        if(target[targetIndex] == source[j]) {
            flag = 1;
            targetIndex += 1;
        }
        else {
            flag = 0; // a letter does not match
            break;
        }
    }
}

return flag;

}
So when I test this method, I always get 0 returned and I can't understand why.
If I try int i = contains("potatoes", 8, "toes", 4); it gives 0.
I've tried putting some print statements to see what character it matches, and it seems it only finds the first letter "t".

A: You need to break the outer for when you have a match.
The way your code works, you may find a match, then run the outer loop again and "forget" about it.

A: Try like this:
for(i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    int targetIndex = 0;
    int j;

            // check if the preceding characters of the source string are a substring
            // that matches the target string
    for(j = i; j < n && targetIndex < m; j++) {
        if(target[targetIndex] == source[j]) {
            flag = 1;
            targetIndex += 1;
        }
        else {
            flag = 0; // a letter does not match
            break;
        }
    }
  if(flag == 1)
  {
   break;
  }
}

You can instead try with the strstr function of C which will make things easier for you.
Example:
char *x= "Find the substring in this string";
char *y= "substring";
if(strstr(x, y) != NULL) {
    return true;
}

A: A little modification to your code with explanatory comments.
// the target is the substring that we want to find in the source string
// m is the length of the target, and n is the length of the source
int contains(char target[], int m, char source[], int n) {
int flag = 0; // the source originally does not contain the target
int i;

    // go through each character of the source string
for(i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    int targetIndex = 0;
    int j;

            // check if the preceding characters of the source string are a substring
            // that matches the target string
    for(j = i; j < n && targetIndex < m; j++) {
        if(target[targetIndex] == source[j]) {
            targetIndex += 1;
            if(targetIndex == m) { // the 'target' has been fully found
                flag = 1;
                break;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            break;
        }
    }
    if(flag == 1)  // 'target' is already found, no need to search further
    {
      break;
    }
}

return flag;
}

Break both the inner and outer loop when the substring is fully found.
EDITED:
Also, instead of int i = contains("potatoes", 8, "toes", 4); , it should be int i = contains("toes", 4, "potatoes", 8); -- as per your function description.


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Freeman Technology makes senior appointment in Asia Pacific and confirms distribution agreement for FT4 Powder Rheometer in China
Powder characterisation company Freeman Technology (Tewkesbury, UK) has announced significant expansion into Asia with the appointment of Dr Nishil Malde as General Manager for Asia Pacific and the extension of its distribution agreement with Asia specialists DKSH, to now include China.
Managing Director Tim Freeman said: "Our business in Asia continues to grow and moving into China is an exciting development for Freeman Technology. I am delighted to confirm that we are partnering with DKSH to serve this hugely important market and together we have already installed an FT4 Powder Rheometer at the East China University of Science & Technology in Shanghai. It also gives me great pleasure to formally welcome Nishil Malde to the Freeman Technology team to steer our continuing developments in the Asia Pacific region."
In 2011, Freeman Technology appointed DKSH, an established organisation that operates in 35 countries and has a particular focus on Asia, as its distribution partner for the FT4 Powder Rheometer in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan. This agreement has now been extended to include China where DKSH China has headquarters in Shanghai and regional offices at various locations around the country.
Dr Nishil Malde, who joined Freeman Technology in June 2012, is responsible for the company's business in Asia Pacific, providing support for distribution partners in the region. He brings extensive sales and channel management experience in international markets as well as technical expertise and understanding of a wide variety of materials testing methodologies and applications.
Also supporting the establishment of the FT4 Powder Rheometer in China is Material Scientist and Product Manager for China, Dr Xiaowei Fu, who will be based in Shanghai. Dr Fu is moving back to China from the UK, having already worked for Freeman Technology for five years. Customers in China will benefit from his long experience with the FT4 Powder Rheometer and wealth of powder characterisation expertise.
The FT4 Powder Rheometer is a universal powder tester that uses patented dynamic methodology, automated shear cells and bulk property tests, including density, compressibility and permeability, to quantify powder properties in terms of flow and processability. It delivers data that maximise process and product understanding, accelerate R&D and formulation, and support process optimisation. With a decade of use and applications knowledge behind it, the FT4 Powder Rheometer is a proven and widely used tool that provides reliable and reproducible information.


Cannot. I've seen too much that I cannot unsee. I am haunted by the suffering of these animals who though mortally wounded stillt rust us to do right.
I cannot even imagine remaining at the track as a bettor after a death occurs.


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Report: Jackson charter schools did not meet academic goals
by Kate Royals December 5, 2016 December 6, 2016
Two Jackson charter schools failed to meet their own academic goals for the 2015-2016 school year, according to the annual report approved by the state charter authorizer board on Monday.
Reimagine Prep, which is run by the Nashville-based RePublic Schools, had set a goal of all students who started the school year reading below grade level would improve by at least 1.5 grade levels. However, only 46 percent of their students met that benchmark.
Midtown Public Charter School was vying for all students who scored at the minimum levels in reading and math to demonstrate at least 1.5 years of growth. But only 20 percent of their students reached that goal.
Officials say because last year was the first year of operations for the two schools, it is too early to make judgments about their programs' effectiveness and it will take a longer period to dramatically improve low-performing students.
Both Reimagine Prep and Midtown did meet the goals set by the charter authorizer board for their finances and organization.
The report, which is produced each fall by the Charter School Authorizer Board, includes further academic data from the two schools broken down by gender, race, economic status, and students with and without disabilities. It also compares charter school students' performance to their counterparts in Jackson Public Schools, excluding those JPS students who attend schools with selective admissions.
At Reimagine Prep, a higher percentage of 5th graders scored proficient in math and English Language Arts than their counterparts in JPS. At Midtown, a smaller percentage scored proficient in math than in JPS, but a slightly higher percentage reached proficiency in English Language Arts.

Report: Jackson charter schools did not meet academic goals

by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today
December 5, 2016

Two Jackson charter schools failed to meet their own academic goals for the 2015-2016 school year, according to the annual report approved by the state charter authorizer board on Monday.

Reimagine Prep, which is run by the Nashville-based RePublic Schools, had set a goal of all students who started the school year reading below grade level would improve by at least 1.5 grade levels. However, only 46 percent of their students met that benchmark.

Midtown Public Charter School was vying for all students who scored at the minimum levels in reading and math to demonstrate at least 1.5 years of growth. But only 20 percent of their students reached that goal.

Officials say because last year was the first year of operations for the two schools, it is too early to make judgments about their programs' effectiveness and it will take a longer period to dramatically improve low-performing students.

Both Reimagine Prep and Midtown did meet the goals set by the charter authorizer board for their finances and organization.

The report, which is produced each fall by the Charter School Authorizer Board, includes further academic data from the two schools broken down by gender, race, economic status, and students with and without disabilities. It also compares charter school students' performance to their counterparts in Jackson Public Schools, excluding those JPS students who attend schools with selective admissions.

At Reimagine Prep, a higher percentage of 5th graders scored proficient in math and English Language Arts than their counterparts in JPS. At Midtown, a smaller percentage scored proficient in math than in JPS, but a slightly higher percentage reached proficiency in English Language Arts.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


A wedding for the books commenced at the stunning Mission San Luis. If the lovely brides forgot to bring a pair of dancing shoes, you wouldn't have known it! This was a true celebration with friends and family. "A fairly reserved crowd," the brides-to-be told me before the wedding. Yeah, right. These folks kept the dance floor alive without exception the entire night. Rebecca Kelly and her team of Street Chefs made sure everyone had the sustenance necessary to keep the energy flowing. The food — as always with her team — did not disappoint.
The brides also booked our monogram light, but designed it themselves! It matched their wedding invitations and was very well done.
The night ended with a glow stick last dance with a bang, followed by a glow stick exit.
Cupcakes and Cake: Emily's mom Ellen! They were delish!


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Premiere Pro & Dreamweaver - Fullscreen background video for a website
How to make your html background video super small file size
2. Resources & what is covered in the course
3. Cool examples of full screen video backgrounds on websites
Creating your video background
4. Where to get video for your background
5. Setting up your video background & basic editing in Premiere Pro
6. Adding texture color opacity to your background video in Premiere
7. How to make your html background video super small file size
8. How to make a WebM video file in Adobe Media Encoder & Premiere Pro & After Effects
Creating the video background website
9. Getting our website setup in Dreamweaver
10. Adding a fullscreen background video to a website using Dreamweaver
11. Basic text & images on top of our video background
12. Production Video - Building the rest of our website
13. Make a fullscreen video background mobile friendly & responsive
14. Add background video to a specific div tag box on your website
15. Cheat Sheet
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Hi there, in this video it's all about picking the right format for our video, and getting the file size super-duper small. So what we'll do in this video is, we're going to make a group of videos like this, lots of different versions so we can see the differences in file size, and we're going to look at this one, see this one, 10MB, and then it drops off a cliff down to 1.7, and still looks good, I promise. So let's go and do that now.
So, how big is big? 1MB is really small, and good, and 10MB is getting pretty big. Anything over that, you'll have to have a pretty good explanation to convince me that you needed a background video that was that long, unless it's your actual product and it's actually doing stuff, mostly these background videos are kind of supportive graphics, and a really big file size is going to make that website load really slowly, and that in terms of user experience is bad. So, try to get it as small as you can. I try and keep it around the 2MB sort of level, I've seen stuff, like we jumped to the PayPal website, here, you can see their background, one is, they're using quite a big file size, and it's really long, and if you picked through their website, you can see it's about 10MB, so that decided that this particular page is worth 10MB for them.
So back here in Premiere, we're going to start exporting this thing now, and we need to export a couple of different file formats. The main ones are-- the big one is in mp4. It's the most usable, easily shared one. The other ones that you're going to have to do is one called a WebM, so it's W-E-B, and an M, so WebM. Google made that one, and at the moment it's the most common fall-back video format. There's some other ones like the ogg, O-G-G, or O-G-V, now that was meant to be the standard, but at the moment nobody is using it, everyone's using WebM instead. So my advice to you at the moment, in 2017, is that mp4's followed by our WebM; the two formats we're going to need.
What we're going to do is we're going to export this full background version, and we'll do this one as well, but we'll focus this video on doing the background version, the same rules apply to both of them. So when we export a video, we need to go to-- it's 'Control-M' or 'Command-M' on a Mac, so it's 'File'-- where is it? 'Export', and it's 'Media'. This will export it from this document. Now, if it's grayed out and you can't see it, it's kind of washed out like these ones, it means you don't have one selected. Because we can have different sequences, if you have something selected up here, it doesn't know which one you mean, so you go to 'File', 'Export', and you go-- because it doesn't know which one you mean, so you're going to click on here, and you can tell you clicked on it, you see that blue line around the outside, that indicates, "I mean this guy." Or you can select on them in the project window too.
So, remember, 'Command-M', this will open up, making use of this window here, it's fine, what we're going to do, is we're going to hit 'Queue', and we can get to the exact same screen in Adobe Media Encoder. If I click 'Export', that little button there, it's going to go off and export it, and I'll have a mp4 when I'm finished, but what I like to do is, pass it on to queueing it, and that just queues it in something called Adobe Media Encoder. It's going to have the same thing, watch this, if I click on 'Match Source', I'm back to that exact same screen, so it doesn't really matter if you adjust it straight out of Premiere, or you do it here in Media Encoder. But I find-- you'll see some perks for this one—it's going to cancel.
So, what happens is, Adobe Media Encoder looks like this, it adds it to this queue here, and what happens is, is I can queue up lots of different versions, my letter box version, I might have 10 different sizes that I want to make, is that I can queue them up here, and you can keep working in Premiere, that's the nice thing about Media Encoder, is that if you hit 'Export' straight from Premiere, Premiere can't be used until it's finished, so this one here just works in the background. Nice!
So what we're going to do is start looking at file sizes versus comparisons. So what we're going to do is look at formats first, so you want an mp4, and actually you want to go to this one, MPEG4, if you click on it, what you'll find is-- can you see it's a 3gp, looks like an old file format, so it's not the one we want. You want this one called 'H.264'. This-- can you see here? Gives you an mp4, and this is the codec we have to use when we're putting stuff online.
Now, the big thing we need to change is-- this 'Match Source' is going to be exactly how you downloaded it, and it's going to give us a really, really big file size, but we're going to use it in terms of comparison. So if you've downloaded something from Adobe Stock, and it's 4K, which is just four times the standard HD, they call it 4K, is, it's got to be huge. So we need to make a few changes. Now if you're watching this video, because you got a job to do, and it's due in about 10 minutes, skip this video, click on 'Match Source', go to what says 'Preset', and go to this one which says 'Import Preset', and then go and find the ones that I've made for you.
So in your exercise files, and there's one under here called 'Encoding Presets'. So, the first one you're going to bring in is, in this case it's going to be mp4, click it, click 'Open', I've already got one, so I'm going to click 'Cancel', and it will appear-- can you see this 'Preset'? It will appear in this list here, click that, click 'Okay', click 'Play', and you'll get something pretty small that will work for your job, so that's my cheating preset, but for the rest of us, we need to learn a little bit about it, just so that we can get our file sizes tweaked as our video.
So, we're going to leave this one as 'Main', 'High bitrate'. What we're going to do is select it-- can you see there's an option here that says 'Duplicate'. This is a good way; it's just going to export the same video but in different settings. So what I'm going to do is, click one that says 'Match Source', and get this big window here, and what I'm going to show you now is to get the file size super small. First one, and easiest one is 'Audio'. If I turn off the 'Audio', it will lower the file size, and it will stop us having to do it later on, when it comes to our coding, we'll have to hit the mute button, there's a mute option in the code to make it mute, but we won't have to, because there'll be no 'Export Audio'. And to be honest, you don't really want audio playing in the background; I hate it when a website starts up with audio automatically playing in the background, I'm looking for the pause button, if there's not a pause button, it's goodbye, website.
So what we're going to do is just do some examples, so we're going to call this one-- let's give it the same name; where am I going to put it? I'm going to put it on my 'Desktop', under my 'Video', my 'Example Videos'. And this one's going to be 'designer-full-background', and this one is going to be called 'noaudio', just as a comparison. I'm going to click 'Okay', and I'm going to select him, duplicate him, and we're going to do some other bits. Click on 'Custom'. So we got no audio. Let's look at the big one. The biggest one to reduce file size is down here under the 'Video' tab, scroll down, scroll down, this little guy here, 'Bitrate Settings' is going to devastate the file sizes. So, at the moment, it's on what's called 'High Quality', so it's set to 10 and 12. The lower you go, the lower the quality, but the lower the file size, and what you'll find is that it's really hard to tell the difference between, say 10, and down at something like 1. It's not HD 4K amazing quality any more, but I'm pretty sure, on your laptop screen, you won't even notice the difference.
So, the file size is at 15MB, this is an estimate, and that can be wildly off, so don't use this as your absolute gauge. Now let's look at this. The first thing we need to do is, we'll set to a variable bit rate of '1 pass', it just means-- 'Constant Bit Rate' means it's going to be all set to 10. Doesn't check, doesn't go up and down, so click on 'Custom Bit Rate', and you just set it to-- say, set it to '1', and it doesn't care it's going to be 1, the whole way through.
Now if you go to 'Variable bitrate', it's going to go through, and say, I was defaulting to this before, remember, it was at 10 and 12; it means it will go up and down depending on what's on the screen. Really, detailed bits of video. I'm going to use the higher bitrate, the higher quality, and the stuff that's not moving just gets the lower bitrate, because it doesn't need it, and that can drastically reduce your file size.
So, in terms of this encoding, 1 pass just means it goes through once, and checks it all, and goes-- you're high, you're low. This thing here, it says '2 pass', does it once, it comes back, and does it again, and what you end up with is smaller file sizes, and better quality. I don't know why you default 1 pass. It takes longer, that's the big thing, so if you're just burning this thing out real quick, you can put it on 1 pass, but there's no point, really.
Now, 'Target Bitrate', what should it be, it's as low as you can go, and you can do some test with your video. If you got some super awesome video from a stock library site, it's probably going to get really low, and look really good still. If you've shot it yourself on your crappy phone, the lower you make it, it's going to look pretty bad, so in our case-- I find-- I pretty much always type in '1', and '1.5'. So just gives it a bit of-- it will target 1, but if it needs 2, it will go up to 1.5; the dizzying heights. Just gives it a little bit of wiggle room. You can see down the bottom here, 1MB, that is magic numbers. And it's all to do with this bitrate.
So let's click-- actually give it a name, so this is 'noaudio', and this 'noaudio', and this is going to be 'noaudio', and what was this one? 'Lowbitrate'. Great! Let's click 'Okay'. So most of that work is done in the bitrate. What I'm going to do is show you some other little things just to get it down even further. You might be dealing with that really big long kind of 2 minute video, and you're going to have to try and get as much as you can out of this, so I'm going to duplicate it again. Click here in 'Custom', and in this case, what I'm going to do is-- so audio is off, my bitrate's already low, I'm going to do a couple of things, one is the 'Frame Rate'.
So what is Frame Rate? Your video is actually just a pile of static images, and if they flash in front of you fast enough, the human eye believes, and human brain believes that they are live action, but they're not, they're not real world stuff, it's just a bunch of images, like a flick book. 25 frames to the second, where all, hook, line, and sink, it's convinced, it's moving images, but it's just lots of flashes of separate frames. The lower you go, the more jumpy it gets, the higher you go the smoother it gets.
So, you can get-- say my GoPro shoots-- I think it's 50, or 60 frames/second, and you can get like 1000 frames/second, well at times, 'Matrix' looking things, out of the scope of this one obviously, but 25 frames/sec is what this was set at. You can go lower. Now if you go down to 10, it's reasonably noticeable. I find a nice compromise, it's 15, and in my case, our video is pretty basic; it's big and green, watch this. I should have had this a long while ago. You can see I've slid this along, because it actually gives me a little preview of where I am in my video, and what happens is, when I change things in, say my bitrate settings, this will update; it's a reasonably good explanation of it, so, I'm going to set this to 'Fit', so I can see it all.
So, 15 frames/sec, I doubt you'll notice it that much. Especially if it is background, and it's blurred, it's fine. You can go down to 10, give that a check. So I'm going to click on this one, this one's going to be, 'noaudio-lowbitrate', this is going to be a really long file name. This one's going to be 'framerate15'. Great! And, let's click 'Okay'.
What else can we do? Just click on this one, so duplicated him, click on this guy. The next one we're going to do-- this one is going to be-- we're going to play around with our height and width. So, we're going to, maybe change the height of this one. We'll do 500 pixels height. So what I mean by that is, under the video tab, at the top here, it's actually exporting it HD quality, and that's not what we need in this case; you could, and there's nothing really wrong with that, the only trouble with it is that the way that we're going to do this encode, there's something we're going to use called the 'minimum height', and the 'minimum width'. And it just means that it's not going to be that responsive, it's going to look a little strange. So it needs to be a little smaller.
So my advice here would be, it's not that full HD; Why? Because you're going to have people looking on this on different devices, and they're not going to be able to see this HD, so it's wasted file sizes; page is going to take a long time to load. So what we're going to do is-- the highest you probably want to go to is 720, which is the-- that's kind of like-- that's the original high definition, more like standard definition. '720 High', and that's the width.
What we're going to do is, we're going to go down even lower, and you can see it kind of fits, let's go to 100 percent, gives you kind of an idea of the size. You can still see, at '720 High', it's still a pretty big video, right? So I'm going to get this here, and I'm going to change this to '500'. Now it's at a small size, but it's going to kind of be able to stretch and expand to fit the background, and I find that, for a full background, works for me. And the file sizes, it's pretty vague, down here, it's still 1MB. How much do we lose, we'll see when we go and export this one. So changing the size here is not just making the file size smaller, it's just the technique that we have to use at the moment in code, minimum heights and widths of 100%. We'll look at it later on, but you need to make it small enough to be able to be used.
Now there are a few other things you can start doing in here, you can start playing around with 'Key Framing', and these are few other things, and they're getting pretty nerdy, and you can play around with profiles and levels, and Field Order; now that's going to be it in terms of how to get the file size smaller, there's a couple of other things down there like frame rates, progressive loading, that's getting into the super nerdy minutiae, and we're not going to go through it in this course because you're not going to see much difference there'll be video people out there touching at me, saying, "How dare I?" but, for me, I found, those are the big ones, those are the good ones, let's click 'Okay'.
So now we've got all these different videos, what you're probably going to do is just jump to this last one, this is what my preset set it to. So if you want to use my preset, it's going to jump it to this 500, 15 frames low bitrate. Job done. I've queued these ones up just to show us file size comparison, and quality comparison. This is why I love Adobe Media Encoder kickback, hit the play button, and it just chews through them all. Actually it's trying to render them all at the same time. And if I was doing this in Premiere, and I hit the 'Export' button, I have to do them all one at a time, which is not a big deal, they're not super long, but you can see this has been effected. If you're working on a really long video-- I love Media Encoder, you can go off, grab a coffee, come back, if it's super long, and you've got a really crappy computer, you might have to go back, you might have to go to bed, and wake up in the morning, and the render still could be working. That happened to me loads. But the power of internet, let's make this zoom up, ready, 1, 2, 3, go zoom.
All right, so that probably took about 2 minutes, my side. Now let's go and look at what files got created. Let's forget about these two at the bottom here, I'm going to actually open them. So these are the things that got made. So let's order them up, in file size, that is-- actually I'm going to bring those guys back, because that was the original, right? This is me making it gray, this is a good little test, right? So, that's the original video, 18MB, making it gray, removing some of the color, it's 16, then we did it without audio, now the audio doesn't make that big jump. One of the other things that we did is we made it quite dark green. That was one of the things we did, so we lost a bit of file size there, these are the few extra things, and then we went and lowered the bitrate, and there's the big change. Can you see here? You can mess around with frame rates, and stuff, but really it's all about this, bitrate, going from 10 and 12, down to 1 and 1.5. You can see a super manageable file size now.
Now in terms of the quality, let's have a little look, so I'm hitting space bar here-- actually, what we'll do is we'll open both of them up, I'll stick them side by side, and it's not going to be-- it's not a super scientific example, but you'll get a sense of these two. So I'm going to hit-- so, over here-- let's pick up 'New', let's put this one at the top here, so this is the high quality one, with no audio. Let's have a little look. I know we zoomed out a bit, and it's not a fair example, but you'll have to trust me, they look fine, especially for a background image, and especially because we're not looking for super hi-def, we're looking for page load time.
It has to look good, not terrible, but it's all about file size, and you can see, bitrate is good; frame rate, got it down a little bit further, so the frame rate's down to 15 seconds. Let's have a look between these two, so, just have a look. You can tell it's a little bit jumpier, but in my case, because my video isn't particularly like-- there's not a lot happening, the dude's just writing, or the girl's just writing a little bit on the notepad, so 15 is fine for me, and also, sometimes that look might look quite cool, you might get down to 10 frames, and it's got that kind of jumpy film grain kind of blurry kind of thing going, so you get file size savings, and it looks kind of cool.
And you can see down here, the actual pixels, making the pixels a lot smaller hasn't done much to the file size either, so why do we go that small? It's so that we can make it responsive later on. Later on, in a couple of years, there's a new bit of tag that comes out, and I'll talk about that later on, that will make it fully responsive, but at the moment we're stuck with min-height, min-width, so we need to make it a little bit smaller than we might have really wanted.
Cool, so we're nearly done. We've done our mp4s, and what we'll do is, we'll cut this video off here, and we'll jump into the next one using the WebM format, not that long, but I'm going to cut that off here, so this video is not epic-ly long. All right, see you in the next one.


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Makarem Hotels reveals expansion strategy in Makkah and Madinah
Makarem Hotels imposing presence at the 25th edition of Arabian Travel Market in Dubai
DUBAI — Makarem Hotels, the award-winning Saudi hotel brand owned by Dur Hospitality partook at the 25th edition of ATM held in Dubai. During its participation, Makarem Hotels announced its strategic expansion plan to increase its portfolio in the Holy Cities of Madinah and Makkah by growing the number of rooms operated by Makarem to more than 5,000 rooms by 2023.
On this occasion, Hassan Ahdab, President of Hotel Operations at Dur Hospitality, said the participation of Makarem Hotels in this international exhibition comes in line with its expansion strategy in the holy cities, and the objectives of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, which aims to increase the number of pilgrims from 8 million to 30 million Umrah visitors annually.
He further revealed the company's development, expansion and renovation works for its hotels in the Holy Cities. Some of its most notable projects include the expansion of Makarem Ajyad Makkah hotel through the development of a new connected tower to add new rooms with a better view of the Haram, which is expected to be finalized during 2020.
Ahdab continued "through its participation in this event, Makarem Hotels aims to highlight its local expertise as a leading Saudi hotel brand, and to keep abreast of recent economic developments in the Kingdom, including, the launch of tourist visas and the growth of the entertainment and tourism sectors." He further expressed his pride in the company's position in the hospitality sector, noting that Makarem Hotels won the Saudi Arabia's Leading Hotel Group award at World Travel Awards for the second year in a row.
It is worth mentioning that the Saudi travel and tourism sector grew four times faster than the wider economy in 2017, according to a report released by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). The total contribution of travel and tourism to GDP was SR240.9 billion ($64.2 billion), or 9.4 percent of GDP in 2017.
Arabian Travel Market (ATM), is the leading global event for the Middle East inbound and outbound travel industry for the last 25 years. The event generates more than $2.5 billion of travel industry deals, and gives information on tourism destinations, accommodation options, tourism attractions and aviation industry in the Middle East and around the world.
The annual business-to-business (B2B) exhibition showcases over 2,800 products and destinations from around the world to over 28,000 buyers and travel trade visitors across four days. Over 39,000 travel professionals, government ministers and international press, visit ATM every April to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at Arabian Travel Market. — SG