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Afghan Skunk Auto is the auto-flowering version of Advanced Seeds' Afghan Skunk. Adding ruderalis genetics produces a plant with a short life-cycle and one which will flower irrespective of whether it receives 12, 18 or even 24 hours of light per day.
The original Afghan Skunk brought the pure indica hit of the Afghani plant combined with the more sativa-leaning effect of Skunk. This strain was 70% indica and 30% sativa. The addition of the ruderalis genes has brought the duration of the life-cycle down to between 9 – 10 weeks and produced shorter plants whose energies go into bud and resin formation sooner than with photo-period strains. It is a robust plant that has good resistance to both plant pests and mould infestations. When cultivated indoors these plants will grow to 75 – 100 cm. tall; outdoors they will grow a little taller but rarely more than 120 cm. tall. It performs very well in all kinds of substrate and grow-media.
Yields are good and indoor growers can harvest between 400 – 500 gr/m2 under 600 watt lighting. Resin production is very high producing an aroma that is likened to the sweet smell of hashish. The taste has undertones of berries and other fruit making this a truly delicious strain. Its THC level has been measured at 15% giving a relaxed, lazy feeling but one which elevates mood. It has also been known to relieve stress, anxiety and to stimulate the appetite.


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- The definition of a handicap is a race where the competition is evened out by giving advantages to the weaker competitor and making the race more difficult for the stronger competitor, or something that is a disadvantage.
- An example of a handicap is a race where heavier people have to carry less weight and the lighter people have to carry more weight.
- An example of a handicap is a broken leg.
- Handicap is defined as to cause a disadvantage.
An example of handicap is to pour a slippery substance over an obstacle course.
- a race or other competition in which difficulties are imposed on the superior contestants, or advantages given to the inferior, to make their chances of winning equal
- such a difficulty or advantage
- something that hampers a person; disadvantage; hindrance
- a physical or mental disability
Origin of handicaporigin, originally a game in which forfeits were drawn from a cap or hat ; from hand in cap
- to give a handicap to (contestants)
- to cause to be at a disadvantage; hinder; impede
- Sports & Games a. A race or contest in which contestants are given advantages or compensations to equalize the chances of winning.b. Such an advantage or penalty.
- Usage Problem A physical or mental disability. See Usage Note at handicapped.
- A disadvantage or inconvenience. See Synonyms at disadvantage.
transitive verbhand·i·capped, hand·i·cap·ping, hand·i·caps
- Sports & Games To assign handicaps or a handicap to (a contestant).
- To cause to be at a disadvantage; impede.
Origin of handicapFrom obsolete hand in cap, a game in which forfeits were held in a cap.
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- Age is often a handicap.
- An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
- A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
- (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
(third-person singular simple present handicaps, present participle handicapping, simple past and past participle handicapped)
- To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
- (by extension) To place at disadvantage.
- The candidate was heavily handicapped.
- To estimate betting odds.
- Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.

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Multifamily Residential Building Fires in Puerto Rico and Exposure Issues Building Occupants Encounter Afterwards
Zimmetry Environmental provides building assessments and indoor environmental quality testing to identify smoke residues, odors, water damage, mold, lead and asbestos hazards following building fires throughout the Caribbean.
Bayamon, Puerto Rico -- Fires in multifamily residential buildings happen all too frequently in Puerto Rico and across the rest of the United States. In fact, the National Fire Data Center reports that multifamily residential building fires accounted for an estimated 109,700 reported fires each year from 2013 to 2015.
This is a significant number of fires for multifamily residential buildings, which include structures such as apartments, town houses, row houses, condominiums and other tenement properties. During those years, cooking (74% of fires) was the leading cause of multifamily residential building fires. Of the cooking fires, 93% were small, confined fires with limited damage. However, even with a relatively small fire, smoke can impact other units in most buildings as it travels through shared walls, ceilings, attics, hallways, elevator shafts and other open spaces. Smoke leaves behind odors and residues which can cause corrosion, etching and discoloration within the property.
The fire suppression efforts used to put out a fire can also cause water damage to building materials, furnishings and belongings. Water used to put out a fire in a multilevel building will make its way down to the lowest level it can reach, typically resulting in water damage on multiple floors. While water will often leave behind obvious signs of damage, even water and moisture behind walls and ceilings, without obvious signs of its presence, can cause problems and quickly lead to the growth of mold in as short as 48 hours. Airborne mold spores can spread in a manner similar to that of smoke, impacting multiple units and affecting the indoor air quality (IAQ) of the building.
"It's not just smoke residues, odors, water damage and mold that become a problem after a fire in a multifamily residential building," said Harry Pena, President of Zimmetry Environmental. "In many instances, these buildings still have lead-based paints and asbestos-containing materials. If disturbed during repair activities without the proper safety precautions in place, any workers and building occupants could be at risk."
Helping building owners, managers and tenants following a fire are the building science and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) professionals at Zimmetry Environmental. Their experts provide post-fire inspections and environmental testing to identify smoke and water damage, odors, mold, lead-based paints, asbestos-containing materials and other potential hazards. Zimmetry also recently sponsored an educational video about IEQ concerns following a fire in a multifamily residential building that can be seen at: _URL_
To learn more about Zimmetry Environmental and their building science, indoor air quality, environmental, and compliance testing and consulting services, please visit _URL_, call _PHONE_ or email _EMAIL_.
About Zimmetry Environmental
Since 2002, Zimmetry Environmental has been providing environmental consulting services to building owners and managers, architects, engineers, EHS professionals and Fortune 500 companies. The company is based in Puerto Rico and provides services across the Caribbean and Central America. The professionals at Zimmetry offer environmental compliance, indoor air quality, asbestos, lead-based paint, Phase I ESAs and general environmental consulting services.

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21.4.7 PowerPC
When GDB is debugging the PowerPC architecture, it provides a set of pseudo-registers to enable inspection of 128-bit wide Decimal Floating Point numbers stored in the floating point registers. These values must be stored in two consecutive registers, always starting at an even register like f0 or f2.
The pseudo-registers go from $dl0 through $dl15, and are formed by joining the even/odd register pairs f0 and f1 for $dl0, f2 and f3 for $dl1 and so on.
For POWER7 processors, GDB provides a set of pseudo-registers, the 64-bit wide Extended Floating Point Registers ('f32' through 'f63').


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This video shows how to enable features in your pm2 config file that allow you to prevent runaway apps from bringing your server down. Setting max memory used, number of running processes allowed and maximum restart attempts are all covered.
There are three other options I want to cover real quickly before we wrap this up, and they're done inside the config file again.
The first one I want to cover is the instances object. What instances will do is spin up the number of processes defined here. If we set this to zero, PM2 is going to spin up one process for every CPU you have in your system.
If you want a little finer control of that, you can put in two, four, six, seven, whatever number you'd like to see as far as the number of running processes. The reason the instances option is so cool is because it allows you to do rolling restarts, and graceful reloads of your app.
In the event that you deploy code and issue a reload command to PM2, what's going to happen is it's not going to kill any active connections.
As those connections close or go away, it will stop them and bring up new processes that contain your new code. What essentially happens there is that anyone who's currently using your website during that reload command won't be disconnected.
Their session will stay, and they'll be allowed to finish whatever operation they were on without having their process killed. This creates a much more professional experience for your users.
Another cool option that may be handy for you in times of desperate need is the max memory restart. You can use this...let's say that you've been profiling your note app, and you've noticed that if you get above eight gig of memory utilization, your app starts behaving very sporadic and is prone to crash. What you can actually tell PM2 to do is just when you get to eight gig of memory utilization, to go ahead and restart your app.
Clearly, this isn't something that you want to depend on, or it doesn't...you don't want this to be your everyday running configuration. If you've got a bug that you just haven't been able to find, and you've got to keep your site up for your customers, this is going to help you out.
The last one we'll cover is max restarts, which is probably a good one to use in combination with max memory restart. What this will do is tell PM2 to only restart your app the number of times listed here, for our example, 10 times.
After 10 times, if your app crashes, PM2 is going to bring that down or it's going to leave it in erred state and it won't attempt to restart it until you stop and restart the entire PM2 process.
This is just like a safety valve, and it's going to keep a rogue app on your system from consuming all your system resources by continually restarting. When it hits that max number, PM2 will just let it die and save your system until you can come in and manually intervene.
The last thing I have to say about this, is we've built out multiple apps suing a configuration file. We've learned how to define each one differently so that each one can have its own unique characteristics.
The coolest thing about all of this is we've done this inside of the config file, and that config file can now be added to your repo, where it gets all the benefits of source control, version control, and it can be managed as code with the rest of your code base.
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The Government of India has approved a proposal to declare the use of tidal and wave to generate electricity as renewable power.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy made the announcement yesterday and said this decision will boost the use of ocean energy in India as the government steps up its efforts to reach its renewables and climate change objectives.
It says exploring all possible avenues to stimulate innovation, create economic growth and new jobs as well as reduce India's carbon footprint is important.
It states: "Energy produced using various forms of ocean energy such as tidal, wave, ocean thermal energy conversation etc. shall be considered as renewable energy and shall be eligible for meeting the non-solar Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO)."
The potential of tidal energy in the country is estimated at around 12,455MW, with possible locations identified at the Khambat and Kutch regions.
The ministry adds the preliminary estimates for wave energy in India stands at around 40,000MW and ocean thermal energy conversation (OTEC) is estimated at 180,000MW, "subject to suitable technological evolution".


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By: Ehsan Mohammadi
Sounds deposit a symbolic bank of meanings and can reveal the hidden layers and aspects of people and their environments. Sensory experiences, and especially auditory patterns, have changed dramatically through the years due to advancing technologies, material revolution, and different lifestyles of people. If we compare the map of Georgestown from past to present, we can see that many trades and local businesses, and consequently many sounds, no longer exist. What are Georgestown's current sounds? What are its lost sounds?
Sounds in and from Gathering Places
Religious sites can feature prominently in the cultural identity of a neighborhood. In the case of Georgestown, The Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a striking presence. The sounds of its bells, organ, and church services are part of the collective memory of many people in the neighborhood. Other sounds are associated with activities of the pub, café, and bakery and their customers. On different occasions during the day, you can see and hear young people playing basketball or soccer in Century Park or on the Saint Bonaventure's College football pitch.
Sounds of Nature
Just as in the other urban neighborhoods, in Georgestown human-made sounds eclipse natural ones and it is not an exaggeration to say that the sounds of nature have become an often overlooked backdrop. However, nature has not entirely lost its voice and on occasion you can hear rain when it's dripping on the leaves or running down into sewers. You can hear dogs barking and when it's sunny, the birds chirping. In addition, one can always hear the wind howling through the trees.
Sounds of Human Beings and their Activities
Despite soundproof ceilings, windows, and doors, in Georgestown, like the other neighborhoods, many different sounds still emanate from houses. These include sounds of music and instruments, sounds of equipment and cars, and casual conversation between the neighbors. If you walk through the neighborhood, you can hear different renovation and construction sounds and even occasionally hear the exhaust from a clothes dryer blowing air through the vent in a house wall. Private cars, delivery trucks, service vehicles, helicopters and airplanes are the other types of sounds in the area. Sometimes you can hear residents, students, children, visitors, and tourists in the streets.
Although there is a Neighborhood Watch program, Georgestown is a safe and quiet neighborhood. People are very friendly, and visitors and tourists are welcomed. With a lack of local markets and corner stores, people shop outside the neighborhood at chain stores. Consequently this cuts down on the interactions among residents and there are not a lot of collective sounds. Natural and human sounds are sometimes drowned out by the sounds of traffic.
In my interview with one Georgestown resident, Laura Winter, she reflected on neighborhood sounds. She spoke with regret about the disappearance of the sounds associated with local stores and with kids playing in the streets. She explained that many children's' play traditions, such as street games, do not exist anymore, and as an elementary school teacher, she tries to introduce similar activities to the children in her classes. She worries that the natural sounds of neighborhood have been replaced by the noise of vehicles, truck horns, and other and machinery. She spoke of changing the location of her bedroom from the front to the back of her house because the muster station of brewery is right out front. Another resident I spoke with echoed some of these thoughts as she reminisced about the lost sounds in the neighborhood and shared how she missed the sound of children skateboarding on the streets.
To sum up, the auditory experience of living in Georgestown has been changed over time in many ways; today Georgestown sounds like a different place than it did in earlier years.


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The time span used to determine when a workflow is persisted.
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The TimeSpan begins to elapse when the workflow instance becomes idle. This property is useful if you want to persist a workflow instance more aggressively while still keeping the instance in memory for as long as possible. The default value for this property is MaxValue. The TimeToPersist property is only valid if its value is less than TimeToUnload. If it is greater, it is ignored. If the TimeSpan specified by TimeToPersist elapses before the TimeSpan specified by TimeToUnload, persistence must complete before the workflow is unloaded. This implies that the unload operation may be delayed until the workflow is persisted. The persistence layer is responsible for handling any retries for transient errors and only throws exceptions on non-recoverable errors. Therefore, any exceptions thrown during persistence are treated as fatal and the workflow instance is aborted.
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Melanothyris Romer, 1952
Protorothyris is an extinct genus of Early Permian protorothyridid known from Texas and West Virginia of the United States. It was first named by Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1937 and the type species is Protorothyris archeri. P. archeri is known from the holotype MCZ 1532, a three-dimensionally preserved skull and from the referred specimens, which come from four additional individuals, MCZ 2147-2150. All specimens were collected in the Cottonwood Creek site, from the Archer City Formation, Texas, dating to the Asselian stage of the Cisuralian epoch, about 299-294.6 million years ago. A second species, P. morani, was first named by Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1952 with its own generic name, Melanothyris. In 1973, J. Clark and Robert L. Carroll recombined P. morani as a Protorothyris species. It is known from the holotype CM 8617, a three-dimensionally preserved skull. It was collected in the Blacksville site, from the Washington Formation (Asselian stage) of West Virginia. Protorothyris was the size of a lizard, about 30 cm in length.
- Llewellyn Ivor Price (1937). "Two new cotylosaurs from the Permian of Texas". Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club. 11: 97–102.
- Alfred Sherwood Romer (1952). "Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Vertebrates of the Pittsburgh-West Virginia Region". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 33: 47–113.
- J. Clark and R. L. Carroll (1973). "Romeriid Reptiles from the Lower Permian". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 144 (5): 353–407.
- Sumida, S. S. and Martin, K. L. M. (1997). Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Land. Academic Press. 510 pp.
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Benjamin DuBose was a political activist, a community organizer, and a noted historian.
Dubose — who died earlier this year — was the co-founder of the New York State Conservative Party, where he helped to advance his small-government ideology.
Ousitde of his political career, Dubose headed the Flatlands Development Corporation — a group that provided community services to thousands of Brooklyn residents — for over a decade. Additionally, Dubose served as the president of the Canarsie Historical Society, where he authored two magazines on Brooklyn history and published multiple articles in the New York Times and the Daily News.
John Denton was a prominent community figure who authored "Little Old Canarsie" — a regular column in the Canarsie Courier.
Denton also managed Canarsie's American Theatre from its grand opening in the early 1920's, and later opened a license plate registration business in the former theatre space after its closing.
Mrs. Desola was a legendary figure in the Canarsie community who saved the lives of many of her neighbors during the Sand Bay Fire — a blaze that engulfed large swaths of the neighborhood in 1919.
Anna Bogen — an E. 96th Street native — was a 1940s activist who fought for improvements in Canarsie schools.


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Let's continue the modal verbs series with should / shouldn't. This post has been improved by Mr. Kimmo Kosunen.
Use should / shouldn't + base form of a verb to give somebody advice or say what you think is the right thing to do.
Note: Should/shouldn't is often used as a form of criticism, especially with the negative: You shouldn't drive so fast! This also depends how the speaker says it – does he sound friendly or as if he's criticizing…
I think you should teach for another school.
The Romanian government should do more for the country.
She should buy a new motorbike; she always seems to have problems with this one.
She shouldn't drive so fast.
should / shouldn't + base form is the same for all persons
An alternative of should is ought. Personally, I don't use ought.
The two forms (should and ought) are almost always used interchangeably but some consider that ought to implies a stronger obligation than should, while others think that ought to is old-fashioned and may always be replaced by should. And when something sounds old-fashioned, it almost automatically also obtains a more formal register.
The only situation I can think of when ought to cannot be replaced with should is in the British English usage of should in the meaning of if:
Should the visitors arrive early, we can have lunch with them. (Not common in American English but often used in British English).
Ought the visitors to arrive early, we can have lunch with them.
The learners of English should remember ought always goes with to.

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The effectiveness of test coverage criteria for relational database schema integrity constraints
McMinn, Phil and Wright, Chris J. and Kapfhammer, Gregory M.
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 25:1, 2015
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Despite industry advice to the contrary, there has been little work that has sought to test that a relational database's schema has correctly specified integrity constraints. These critically important constraints ensure the coherence of data in a database, defending it from manipulations that could violate requirements such as "usernames must be unique" or "the host name cannot be missing or unknown". This paper is the first to propose coverage criteria, derived from logic coverage criteria, that establish different levels of testing for the formulation of integrity constraints in a database schema. These range from simple criteria that mandate the testing of successful and unsuccessful INSERT statements into tables to more advanced criteria that test the formulation of complex integrity constraints such as multi-column PRIMARY KEYS and arbitrary CHECK constraints. Due to different vendor interpretations of the structured query language (SQL) specification with regard to how integrity constraints should actually function in practice, our criteria crucially account for the underlying semantics of the database management system (DBMS). After formally defining these coverage criteria and relating them in a subsumption hierarchy, we present two approaches to automatically generating tests that satisfy the criteria. We then describe the results of an empirical study that uses mutation analysis to investigate the fault-finding capability of data generated when our coverage criteria are applied to a wide variety of relational schemas hosted by three well-known and representative DBMSs — HyperSQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. In addition to revealing the complementary fault-finding capabilities of the presented criteria, the results show that mutation scores range from as low as just 12% of mutants being killed with the simplest of criteria to 96% with the most advanced.
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A New Systems Strategy to Study Cell Surface Receptor Dynamics
A novel computational approach to systems biology research
Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new computational approach for comparing receptor networks in cells. This new approach is based on systems science concepts and can be applied to a wide range of biological problems. A simple but realistic mathematical model was created and then used to explore the design principles of signal transduction and transport receptors. Results, which were published in the June 1 issue of PLoS Computational Biology, have implications for how evolutionary pressures can improve the function of receptor systems by selectively optimizing a few fundamental dynamical parameters.
"Biological systems are shaped by evolution," says senior author Steven Wiley. "Traditionally, it's been difficult to translate this conceptual framework into quantitative terms, which is necessary so that we can use computers to help understand design principles. This work provides one conceptual framework by which to do this."
Why it matters: Cells communicate with their environment through molecules on their surface known as receptors. Receptors bind ligands—specific companion molecules that either carry information about the outside environment or are critical cell nutrients. A variety of receptors are internalized into the cell through a process known as endocytosis. Receptors display a wide range of state-dependent endocytosis rates, but the functional significance of these patterns was not understood.
Methods: Researchers Harish Shankaran, Haluk Resat and Wiley paired a new module-based systems theory approach with quantitative metrics for network function to show that receptor/ligand properties such as endocytosis can be described by just a few control parameters. Using mathematical analysis, they showed that receptor system efficiency and robustness are encoded by two fundamental parameters: the avidity, which quantifies the ability of a receptor system to capture ligand, and the consumption, which quantifies the ability to internalize bound ligand (see figure).
This figure illustrates how each control parameter for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), transferrin receptor (TfR), low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) and vitellogenin receptor (VtgR) can be identified based on its ability to move the system in the appropriate direction in the parameter space. The arrow lengths provide a sense of which receptors are the most sensitive to parameter changes. Sensitivity is in the order TfR > LDLR > EGFR > VtgR. Solid arrows indicate the effect of increasing the control parameter, while the broken arrows show the effect of decreasing the parameter. The contours demarcating the most robust (ms < 0.8) and the most sensitive (ms > 1.2) regions of the parameter space are indicated in gray. Enlarged View
By examining a number of receptor systems (see figure), the researchers demonstrated that receptor system response can be characterized as being either avidity-controlled, which depends primarily on ligand capture efficiency; consumption-controlled, where the ability to internalize surface-bound ligand is the primary control parameter; and dual-sensitive, in which both the avidity and consumption parameters are important. The location of various receptor systems in control parameter space dictates their specific function and regulation.
Most significantly, the researchers believe that the evolution of a given receptor system can be understood in terms of its optimal location in avidity-consumption parameter space. For example, induced endocytosis can be shown to be an optimal solution for transmitting high-fidelity information by signaling receptors.
What's next: In a related article not yet published, the same team of researchers shows that biological signaling networks can be understood in the context of human-engineered electrical and mechanical systems. By analyzing a widely used receptor signaling module, they show that the module behaves like an electronic low-pass filter with a definite frequency bandwidth or as a damped mechanical oscillator. Even though the dynamical parameters may be quite specific to a particular receptor system, the underlying structure of the module is essentially the same for different signaling receptors.
Acknowledgments: The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Biomolecular Systems Initiative at PNNL.
Reference: Shankaran H, H Resat, and HS Wiley. 2007. "Cell surface receptors for signal transduction and ligand transport - a design principles study." PLoS Computational Biology doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi._PHONE_.eor.


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- The average sea tempeature is 15 °C (59 °F).
- The average temperature in Chios in December is quite mild at 12.5 °C (54.5 °F).
- Afternoons can be mild with average high temperatures reaching 15 °C (59 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally quite mild with an average low of 10 °C (50 °F).
- In December the variation/ range of daily average temperatures is 5 °C (9 °F).
- The weather in December is a little damp with rain once in a while. Some 158mm (6.2in) of H2O accrues during an average of 15 days.
- The shortest day is 9:28 long and the longest day is 9:40 long with an average length of 9:31.
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Turkey Government feeds stray Animals during COVID-19 Lockdown
While the coronavirus forces billions of people worldwide into lockdown, another large population is also severely affected; stray animals. This global lockdowns against the coronavirus are just like a death sentence to stray animals. They feel the bite as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads. Hundreds of stray dogs and cats have taken over the streets of major cities in search of what to eat and how to survive as the country remains under a coronavirus lockdown. These stray domestic animals have moved to fill the void, while also suffering the consequences of the pandemic.
But the story is not the same in a place like Turkey; it is good to hear that while the Turkish people stay at home to contain the spread of COVID-19, the government is tackling the issue of who will feed hundreds of thousands of stray animals in the country.
The Turkey interior ministry has decided that the job is the responsibility of local councils across the country and ordered them "to bring food and water to animal shelters, gardens, parks, and other areas where animals are found." The ministry insists that "all necessary actions must be taken to make sure stray animals don't go hungry", adding that dens and animals' shelters should also be sanitized.
Although Volunteers, activists, and residents usually feed Turkey's pack of strays, restrictions on movement and self-isolation have severely affected animal welfare. While councils sometimes provide services to street animals, it is unusual for the central government to order such a move. In Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, which has the most confirmed COVID-19 infections, there are around 128,900 stray dogs and 162,970 stray cats, according to the city 2018 figures.
Turkish social media users highly praised the move, with many thanking the Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. The official Twitter account of Istanbul's Bayrampasa district shared photos of stray animals that were fed on April 5. The district said, they are with their true friends, with whom we share life.
One animal welfare organization in the Black Sea region has called on people who are over 65 years who were banned from going outside to contact their district governor to help feed the animals. Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul tweeted a picture of himself stroking a dog, saying: "We should not abandon our animal friends during these tough days." So far, Turkey has refrained from imposing a nationwide lockdown and instead advises the public to stay home.
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CREATE TRIGGER copy_name_on_insert BEFORE INSERT ON users
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CREATE TRIGGER copy_name_on_update BEFORE UPDATE ON users
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This trigger is working fine in local env, but in production its going into an infinite loop. Does anyone have any idea about this behaviour?
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how is that possible? the only way is that you have infinite record which I don't think you have, or that the trigger is calling itself (recursive function) and the number of recursive call is in max_sp_recursion_depth that's not infinite. – jcho360 Jun 1 '12 at 18:56
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Got this answer from our DBA.
So, this was not a recursion bug (though the error message was really bad, and looked like one). Rather, it was a memory complexity problem.
Basically, each statement must run in a limited memory space (128K in this case). While most statements fit in far less than this space, it appears that this trigger has considerably greater memory requirements.
The reason that this worked in testing is that the tests attempted were not large enough. (And the testing server likely had more memory allocated to it)
As an example, this worked in testing:
UPDATE users SET name="_EMAIL_" WHERE id=1234;
But what really runs in production is:
update users set full_name='Jason H', attr1='abc1', attr2='abc', attr3='adad'.... where id=1917;
Basically, the java/hibernate system is UPDATEing every single field... for some reason. This is pretty silly, and hibernate probably should be doing less.
The considerably greater complexity of the real query pushed it over the memory limits in production.
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text: Oral and maxillofacial pain, inflammation, and associated pathologies have been documented since the beginning of recorded human history, and the use of plant materials from certain families for the relief of these disorders has paralleled this health care need. Humans discovered, through personal experimentation, that numerous plants and plantbased products placed into the oral cavity had the capacity to deliver diverse secondary metabolites and thereby elicit a variety of stimulant, medicinal, and hallucinogenic effects. Recent pharmacognostic research has confirmed the presence of medicinal compounds in several of these plants. Contemporary neurobiological and pathophysiologic research has illuminated the mechanisms and actions of numerous tissues, cell structures, TRP channels, mammalian peripheral and CNS receptors, actions responsive to plant-based and other natural compounds. Consequently, theories have emerged that propose a co-evolutionary relationship and functionality between natural products and the various mammalian cell membrane channels, receptors, and tissues. In this brief review, we will indicate some of the background relating to the contemporary views of the use of various plant-based products as analgesic and anesthetic agents for oral pain and inflammations and briefly discuss their mechanisms of action. An overview of the need for new, plant-based oral analgesic agents and for new experimental models for the discovery process from plant extracts will be described and some discussion will be offered regarding the potential for future research developments in this area of pharmacognosy.


%A Mohammed, Zhana Fidakar %A Abdulla, Alan Anwer %D 2020 %T Thresholding-based White Blood Cells Segmentation from Microscopic Blood Images %K %X Digital image processing has a significant role in different research areas, including medical image processing, object detection, biometrics, information hiding, and image compression. Image segmentation, which is one of the most important steps in processing medical image, makes the objects inside images more meaningful. For example, from microscopic images, blood cancer can be identified which is known as leukemia; for this purpose at first, the white blood cells (WBCs) need to be segmented. This paper focuses on developing a segmentation technique for segmenting WBCs from microscopic blood images based on thresholding segmentation technique and it compares with the most commonly used segmentation technique which is known as color-k-means clustering. The comparison is done based on three well-known measurements, used for evaluating segmentation techniques which are probability random index, variance of information, and global consistency error. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed thresholding-based segmentation technique provides better results compared to color-k-means clustering technique for segmenting WBCs as well as the time consumption of the proposed technique is less than the color-k-means which are 70.8144 ms and _PHONE_ ms, respectively. %U _URL_ %J UHD Journal of Science and Technology %0 Journal Article %R 10.21928/uhdjst.v4n1y2020.pp9-17 %P 9-17%V 4 %N 1 %@ 2521-4217 %8 2020-02-13


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Science experiment n°2
-Plastic Glasses -Borax (also know as sodium tetraborate)
-A spoon -Polyvinyl alcohol
-Ultraviolet light -Glowing, coloring substances (eosin,
-Graduated cylinder fluorescein, methylene blue)
-Soft dirnk with quinina
We take four glasses and we pour 10 ml of borax in each with colorant (Eosin or fluorescein or methylene blue) and in the last, we add quinina. We mix it to make the substance homogenous.
After, we add 100 ml of polyvinyl alcohol in the four glasses, while we stir continuously with the spoon.
Don't stop this movement until the substance is viscous but not sticky.
We must manipulate the substance and pick up all the slime between your fingers and we can juggle and try things.
Put the slimes back in the glasses and observe what happens.
What can you do with slime?
We can :
- Juggle with this.
- Hold it with our fingers.
- Handle as we want.
- Manipulate the substance with ultraviolet light.
Solid or Liquid ?
The slime is liquid because it takes the shape of its container and it has its own shape. The surface is always flat and horizontal. This is a characteristics of liquid.
Primary or Secondary Light Source ?
The slime is a secondary light source because it diffuses ultraviolet light.
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What are flash interviews?
What is a Flash construction interview? The Flash construction interview is one of the most popular forms of construction interviewing today. It basically involves a construction executive meeting a top construction executive or construction executives from the prospective construction employer during an construction interview process, who is consequently shuffled between each interviewer for brief periods of time (10-15 minutes each) so that everyone gets a chance to meet you and form a brief opinion. You of course get the same benefit to meet them, however this form of meeting is usually used as a screening interview method and not used on candidates who are being seriously evaluated.


Working with Reflex files
Writing reflexes requires a few tools. You'll need access to your favorite text editor, and the programs provided in the BrainStem support download. These tools include:
 - arc - The reflex language compiler
 - Python - The BrainStem python library can now load and unload reflex files.
The BrainStem support download can be obtained from the download page on the acroname website.
A Note about Directories
Acroname prefers to distribute a set of directories you can place anywhere on your system rather than rely on platform specific installation routines, and default program locations.
The BrainStem Support download includes the following directories:
 - acroname - Top level folder
 - bin - Executable apps and libraries
 - development - Examples and API libraries (Python and C++)
 - aInclude - Header files for reflexes
Arc the Acroname Reflex Compiler
Arc can be run from the command line. It will compile reflex source files from within the bin folder or from a relative file path (absolute paths will not work). The reflex files will be compiled into map files and placed into the local directory. Map files, which are binary byte code files are executed by the Reflex Virtual Machine on BrainStem modules.
$>./arc -h
This will print information about using the arc compiler. Arc has a couple of useful flags useful for working with reflex file output, but first let us look at the basic command line for compiling reflex files.
$>./arc ../development/reflex_examples/Blink_LED.reflex
This will read in the Blink_LED.reflex source file located in the development/reflex_examples folder, and produce the compiled result at bin/Blink_LED.map.
$>./arc -p ../development/reflex_examples/Blink_LED.reflex
This will read in the Blink_LED.reflex source file in the development/reflex_examples directory, and output the resulting tokenized output of the lexer portion of the compilation process.
$>./arc -a ../development/reflex_examples/Blink_LED.reflex
This will read in the Blink_LED.reflex source file located in the development/reflex_examples folder, and will output the AST for the reflex.
$>./arc -d Blink_LED.map
This will read in the compiled Blink_LED.map binary located in the bin folder, and will generate a .dsm human readable disassembly file in the bin directory. See Appendix IV: Reflex map file Disassembly for more information about understanding the format of the disassembly.
Loading reflex .map files with ReflexLoader
ReflexLoader is our new Command Line Interface (CLI) tool for loading .map files into any BrainStem device. It can be found in the BrainStem development kit under the bin folder.
$>./ReflexLoader -H
This will print the usage information for ReflexLoader. If you are having trouble getting something to work this is one of the best places to look for more information. One thing that is important to make note of is that specifying a device '-d' is required. Additionally, that means that you must also have a device (SN), store and slot specified. Failure to do so will cause the program to return an error. With that said a command is also required if you were wanting the program to actually do something; however, failure to include one will not cause an error.
$>./ReflexLoader -L -i /location/of/file.map -d 0x40F5849A INTERNAL 0
This command will load '-L' the input file '-i' /location/of/file.map to the device '-d' into the INTERNAL store at slot 0.
Unloading a slot is just as easy but instead of using the '-L' and '-i' you would use '-U' and '-o' to specify where you would like the file to go. ReflexLoader will not create any file paths that do not exist so you must give a valid path.
$>./ReflexLoader -E -d 0x40F5849A RAM 0
This command will enable '-E' the reflex that is loaded into the RAM store at slot 0 in the specified device 0x40F5849A. Keep in mind that although you can load a reflex into RAM it will not survive a power cycle as it is volatile memory.
To disable this slot just swap the '-E' for '-D'
$>./ReflexLoader -B -d 0x40F5849A INTERNAL 0
This last command will make a slot bootable. Once this has been set and a power cycle occurs the BrainStem device will automatically enable the reflex at the designated slot. In order to disable a boot slot you will need to replace the slot parameter '0' in this case with 255.
Loading reflex .map files with Python
The BrainStem python library can be used to load compiled map files onto BrainStem modules. To load .map files with python you will need to follow the installation instructions of the getting started guide in the Python section of this reference.
To load a reflex map file into a slot on your brainstem module. First compile the reflex with arc. The resulting map file can be found in your aObject directory. Then start the python interpreter, and import the brainstem package. Instantiate your module and connect. Once you're connected, the following code block will show you how to load, enable and disable the .map file.
>>> fh = open('path/to/map/mymap.map', 'rb')
>>> mapfile = fh.read()
>>> fh.close()
>>> stem.store[0].loadSlot(0, mapfile, len(mapfile)) #loads map into store 0 slot 0
0
>>> stem.store[0].slotEnable(0)
0
>>> stem.store[0].slotDisable(0)
The above code simply opens the map file for reading in binary mode, reads the contents of the file into the mapfile variable, loads that data into store 0 slot 0 and enables and disables the slot.
Boot Reflexes
You can also set your stem to enable the map file on boot. To do this you will need to load the map file into a slot on the internal store of your module (the internal store is index 0). Then set the boot slot on the module by accessing the setBootSlot procedure of the system module
>>> stem.system.setBootSlot(0)
0
>>> stem.system.setBootSlot(255) # will disable the slot from being enabled on boot.
If you do not have python installed on your system, you can also use the aConsole utility to load .map files.


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The next time you're unfortunate enough to make your way to a hospital, emergency room, or urgent care clinic, you'll be asked to attach a small pulse monitor to your finger. The device the nurses clip on to one of your remaining digits is called a photoplethysmographic sensor, and basically it is able to read your pulse through reflected light. In the search to find out how these devices actually work, [Raj] sent in a great tutorial covering the theory behind photoplethysmographicy, and also built a simple device to detect a pulse without using a microcontroller.
These photoplethysmographic sensors operate by shining light into someone's flesh – usually a finger or ear lobe – and recording the light reflected back to the source. The volume of blood in the finger will have an effect on the amount of light reflected back, and makes for a perfect way to automatically measure someone's heart rate.
To build his device, [Raj] used a TCRT1000 reflective optical sensor. Inside this sensor is an infrared LED and a phototransistor. Of course with a finger over the sensor there is a ton of noise both from ambient light and the base rate of reflected light from a piece of flesh. [Raj] filtered this out, leaving only the small variations in the amount of reflected light, thus creating a very simple – and very inexpensive – electronic pulse meter.


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Remnants of a century-old dam
Located south of 16th Street in the Haughville neighborhood, this low-head dam was constructed in 1899 for aesthetic and recreation purposes as part of the development of Riverside Park upstream. More recently it provided for emergency intake pumps for Indy's municipal water supply. The dam partially collapsed in 2018, lowering the water levels it was holding back by at least six feet and will be replaced by a smaller, safer, and more ecologically-friendly rock dam upstream. This dam is owned by the City of Indianapolis, and prior to its collapse altered the river for 4.3 miles upstream.
Dam Safety! Never go near low-head dams. Water flows swiftly over the wall-like structures and create vortex currents that can trap even the strongest swimmers under water.
There is no formal portage around the dam, but you can make your way along shore on either side of the river.


text: We estimated the distant cloud cover by the all-sky image data for forecasting amount of solar energy for short periods. It is confirmed that the time variation of estimated cloud cover is leading and having similar shape to the observed solar radiation. The main result in this study is as follows. (1) According to the image processing results of the cloud, the JPEG data almost similar to RAW data. Therefore, JPEG data file is small memory capacity, high resolution and it is superior as image data collection file format. (2)The ceilometer observes the cloud cover in π/3 rad around the zenith. To the observed solar radiation, the time variation of estimated cloud cover is similar, but also lagged. (3)We presented the estimating method of distant cloud cover by using saturation level of the all-sky cloud image. To the observed solar radiation, the time variation of estimated-distant cloud cover is similar and leading for several ten minutes from several minute. (4)The data to use for an estimate of distant cloud cover is obtained by all-sky image camera with the GPS timer. Therefore, the presented method will be feasible easily.


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After graduating in English Literature, Philip Hinchcliffe worked for a travel company and as a teacher before becoming a script editor for the television company Associated Television. After extensive experience of working with writers and scripts for a number of shows, he began to set his sights on moving into the production side and gained experience as an associate producer.
In the spring of 1974 he joined the BBC to take his first full production job after the corporation's head of serials, William Slater, offered him the role of producer of the popular science-fiction series Doctor Who (1963). He teamed up with script editor Robert Holmes, an experienced television drama writer, and produced three seasons of the programme which were broadcast between January 1975 and April 1977. He led the show into darker, more dramatic storylines, which resulted in unprecedented levels of both popularity and controversy for the series. Television watchdog Mary Whitehouse became a frequent critic of the series during this period, considering it too violent and horrific to be shown at a time when children would be watching. The frequency of her complaints caused growing concern amongst Hinchcliffe's superiors at the BBC, although they publicly backed the producer as he was delivering consistently high viewing figures. After Whitehouse wrote a particularly strong letter to the BBC in November 1976 about the serial The Deadly Assassin, in which she accused the BBC of ignoring its own guidance on the portrayal of violence on television, an apology from BBC Director-General Charles Curran marked a change in the BBC's policy. Hinchcliffe and the BBC agreed that he should be moved on to producing other programmes at the end of that season and his successor, Graham Williams, was ordered to lighten the tone of Doctor Who (1963).
Hinchcliffe's next series was Target (1977), a police series that was intended as the BBC's answer to ITV's popular The Sweeney (1975), although it failed to capture the same degree of popularity and only lasted for two series. Nevertheless, Hinchcliffe would spend the next two decades as one of British television drama's most successful producers, working on series such as Private Schulz (1981) and the long-running Taggart (1983).
Although he has worked on numerous productions, Hinchcliffe is still most famous for his time on the legendary television series Doctor Who (1963), which is still considered the strongest period of the show by many fans. He also wrote novelisations of The Keys of Marinus, The Seeds of Doom and The Masque of Mandragora. Since retiring from television, Hinchcliffe has recorded numerous interviews and commentaries on DVD releases remembering his time on the show.
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Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin:
- Cost of goods sold) / Revenue
A company that has a moat can usually maintain or even expand their Gross Margin. A company can increase its Gross Margin in two ways. It can increase the prices of the goods it sells and keeps its Cost of Goods Sold unchanged. Or it can keep the sales price unchanged and squeeze its suppliers to reduce the Cost of Goods Sold. Warren Buffett believes businesses with the power to raise prices have moats.
Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to another concept called Inventory Turnover:
= Cost of goods sold / Average Inventory
Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. A higher inventory turnover means the company has light inventory. Therefore the company spends less money on storage, write downs, and obsolete inventory. If the inventory is too light, it may affect sales because the company may not have enough to meet demand.
Usually retailers pile up their inventories at holiday seasons to meet the stronger demand. Therefore, the inventory of a particular quarter of a year should not be used to calculate inventory turnover. An average inventory is a better indication.
, Inventory Turnover
, Gross margin
, Revenue* All numbers are in millions except for per share data
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Shaping Wellness: The Transformative Journey of Medical Weight Loss in West Palm Beach, FL
In the picturesque coastal city of West Palm Beach, FL, a transformative wave of wellness is reshaping the approach to weight loss. Medical Weight Loss in West Palm Beach programs have emerged as a beacon of hope for individuals seeking a scientifically-backed, personalized, and sustainable path to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.
In a society where fad diets and quick fixes abound, the residents of West Palm Beach are increasingly turning to Med spa West Palm Beach programs for a more comprehensive and effective solution. These programs, typically supervised by qualified healthcare professionals, offer a holistic approach that goes beyond calorie counting to address the underlying factors contributing to weight gain.
One of the key attractions of IV Therapy West Palm Beach is the individualized nature of the programs. Healthcare providers conduct thorough assessments, considering factors such as metabolism, hormonal balance, and lifestyle to create personalized weight loss plans. This tailored approach ensures that individuals receive targeted interventions that are more likely to yield lasting results.
The medical aspect of these programs often involves the use of prescription medications or supplements to aid in weight loss. These medications, when prescribed and monitored by healthcare professionals, can help control appetite, boost metabolism, and address specific physiological factors that may be hindering weight loss efforts. This evidence-based approach sets Medical Weight Loss in West Palm Beach apart from many commercial weight loss methods.
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While the Centre has been claiming that making Minimum Support Price (MSP) legal for all crops will put a burden of Rs 17 lakh crore on the government exchequer annually, there are economists and experts who are not buying this argument.
The MSP of 23 crops is determined by the Commission for Agriculture Cost and Price (CACP) every year, but only a few crops including wheat and paddy are procured on MSP and the rest are purchased by private players.
Along with cancellation of the three farm laws, making MSP legal for all crops is another major demand of the farmers protesting at the Delhi border.
Now, the question is how this Rs 17 lakh crore figure is being calculated?
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The government's reply is simple — it has calculated this figure on the basis of the total production and MSP declared by the Centre for 23 crops, which includes seven cereals (wheat, paddy, maize, barley, jowar, bajra and ragi), seven oilseeds (mustard, groundnut, rapeseed, soyabean, sunflower, sesame, and niger seed), five pulses (moong, arhar, urad, chana and masoor) and four commercial crops (cotton, sugarcane, raw jute and copra) every year. These 23 crops cover over 80 per cent of India's total agricultural produce.
Currently, there is no legal value of the MSP declared by CACP, which is not a statutory body set up by the Act of Parliament, nor is government bound to purchase all the crops on the declared MSP.
Wheat and paddy are the two crops mostly procured on MSP and that too from Punjab, Haryana, MP, parts of UP and other states by the Centre to distribute it under Public Distribution System (PDS).
Economics Professor, Punjabi University, Patiala, Professor Kesar Singh Bhangu said, "The government says that half of India budget's expenditure will go in the procurement of all these crops if MSP is made legal, but this is not the actual case as it depends on the market circumstances of all such crops to a large extent."
"Making MSP legal does not mean that government has to procure everything as government's presence in the market will help stabilise the market price if farmers get too low prices for their crop in the open market against the declared MSP, which is calculated only to decide a benchmark for a crop," said a senior professor from Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Ludhiana.
The professor further said: "In Punjab where wheat and paddy is procured on MSP, private players also give good prices for both crops to farmers, even a little more than the government because they know that only if they offer a little extra will farmers sell to them. Otherwise farmers have the option to sell to the government. However, this is not the case in Bihar where farmers are at the mercy of only private players and the government's intervention is negligible due to repeal of APMC Act there in 2006.The point I want to make here is that the government's presence always helps in keeping a check on the rates of the crop."
A senior officer in Punjab Mandi Board (PMB) pointed out: "In Karnataka, the state government has adopted Market Intervention Scheme for tur (arhar). There was a production of 14 lakh tonnes of tur dal there last year but the government was required to procure only 2.5 lakh tonnes because after this the market rate stabilised. This shows that just 15 per cent procurement by the government led to stabilisation in prices of tur in the market. The presence of the government in the market makes a huge difference to keep private traders — who indulge in cartelisation in the absence of any government control — in check."
Such examples show that the government does not need to procure the entire crop, barring in some utterly exceptional cases, which happens rarely, said a senior officer in Food Corporation of India (FCI), adding that in case of cotton too, in Punjab last year, the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) had purchased only 35 per cent cotton and remaining was purchased by private players as CCI's entry had stabilised the prices.
"To keep the market forces under control, government's intervention is a must, which can be possible only when the government will make MSP legal as it will keep a check on the middlemen too and provides huge competition," said the FCI officer.
A senior officer in the CCI said that in case of cotton, when traders offer low price, CCI enters to purchase on MSP and then manufacturers and traders get the same cotton at higher price, which they mostly avoid and try to offer farmers close to the MSP.
The experts also said that India is the third largest exporter of rice (non-Basmati). In 2019, the country had exported non-Basmati rice worth $3,583 million against the total export of non-Basmati worth $17,200 million and if the country says it has surplus paddy, it can move to capture the international market in rice export.
"India is importing 2.53 million tonnes of pulses and 2/3 of its oilseeds. If we make MSP legal for such crops, the import of pulses and oilseeds can be cut down manifold and this amount, which is spent on import, can be utilised to pump in MSP regime," they said.
"Making MSP will make country more self-reliant in various agri produces and make farming a remunerative venture for half of the country's population which is involved in farming as there are 146.45 million (14.6 crore) operation agricultural holdings in India as per the agriculture census of 2015-16, which means that 65-70 crore people are dependent on agriculture in the country," said Jagmohan Singh, general secretary Bharti Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta, Dakuanda.
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Titles: The Rule of 55
Create a listing title
Since more than 90% of eBay buyers search by title, it is essential that your title contains the same terms (or "keywords") used by searching buyers. eBay allots 55 characters per title. For a $.50 additional charge, you can add a subtitle, thereby doubling the maximum number of characters (from 55 to 110). However, the subtitle won't show up when someone is doing a typical title search. Keep in mind the first four guidelines below for all listings:
Use common terms. eBay's search feature only finds exact matches, not similar search terms. For example, a potential buyer who types in "headphones" will not find an item listed as "earphones" or "headset."
Use existing titles. The best title is often the one that is used on the product packaging or advertising. If you are selling a juicer, for example, use the name of the product as it is listed on Amazon (such as the "Breville JE9000 Juice Fountain Professional Extractor").
Test out keywords. You may find that listing your "clock" as a "vintage mantel clock" distinguishes it from hundreds of other "vintage clocks." eBay has made it easy for buyers and sellers to choose keywords by publishing popular eBay keywords.
Use adjectives carefully. You will have plenty of opportunity to hype your item in the description so avoid using precious title characters for generic terms such as "stupendous," "super," and "incredible."
While the four title guidelines listed above apply to all listings, those below require a judgment call on your part:
Using eBay acronyms. Most eBay experts advise maximizing your 55-character allowance by using familiar acronyms. But use them carefully; not everyone who searches uses acronyms. Serious cinema collectors may search for MPs, but occasional buyers will more likely search for "movie posters."
Repetition in titles. Repeating information is generally considered a no-no because it wastes precious characters, but sometimes can work effectively. For instance you may choose to write out a number and repeat it in numerical form or use an acronym and spell it out. As an example, the title "1960 Ocean's 11 Eleven MP Movie Poster" would be picked up by several different searches.
Misspellings. They can turn off some buyers. However, there are cases where buyers commonly have spelling problems — for example, they search for "Louis Vitton" or "Louis Vuiton" instead of "Louis Vuitton." If you are dealing in commonly misspelled goods, you may want to include a popular misspelling in order to snare more eyeballs. Curious about how many misspellings occur at eBay auctions? Check out Typohound.
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Sometimes it is not possible to pack up an entire school or even grade level and take them on a camping adventure. Issues like transportation, volunteers, time, tests and a million other factors can be barriers to schools creating opportunities for their students to go camping. So why not host a School Yard Campout!
Camping on the campus is a great way to introduce students and their families to camping and outdoor skills in a safe, community engaging atmosphere. Hosting a school yard campout might be a fun way to reward a class for high achievement, or simply use it as a tool to gain greater family participation with school events. Either way it is a perfect activity to help kids build self-confidence and self-reliance, while learning important outdoor skills.
A recent study Don't Forget the Families, The Missing Piece of America's Effort to Help All Children Succeed, investigates the importance of including parents and caring adults in the learning process in school, after school and during summer programs.
There are many ways to organize a campout, but here are some tips and resources that can help have a successful event.
1. Get the Gear
- Schools can ask for community support through donating tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, flashlights, and other supplies. The school can create a gear library that can be used in years to come.
- Schools can seek funding for the event through local grants or from business to help purchase gear.
- Schools can require families provide their own gear if they want to participate. This might limit participation, but it also is a means to encourage families to continue to camp on their own.
2. Create the Space
- Planning where to pitch the tents chose a flat, open area free of fire ants.
- Provide access to school or sports field's bathrooms or rent port-a-pottys.
- If possible have the camping area be away from a major road, and traffic.
- Make sure the in-ground sprinkler system is turned off during the event to avoid late night surprises!
3. Be Safe
- Some schools may wish to have an on-site security guard available.
- Lighting is good, but when it comes time to camp too much light can result in a sleepless night. Not to mention it will block out the night sky.
- When the families are included that creates a safer environment than just hosting kids with a few chaperones.
- Build in some structure that will create a safe environment such as; quiet time, lights out time, arrival and departure times, and host planned activities.
- If the campout is for kids only, consider having some sort of family ceremony at the end of the campout that also serves as a defined pick up time.
- Consider having a flashlight game or circle if a campfire is not an option.
4. Plan a Cookout
- Cooking out is an important part of the outdoor experience. Consider engaging the community businesses with providing a lunch or dinner that is cooked on site.
- Learning about food, sharing meals and best practices for having food on a campout is also an important outdoor skill. Make sure families are encouraged to bring food, but discouraged from keeping it in their tent. (Keeping food in the tent can attract bugs and wildlife.)
- Pot lucks are another great way to engage families and encourage cooperation for at least one meal.
- S'mores are a fun treat that everyone can make together. There are also lots of great healthy alternatives ideas on Pinterest.
- Cooking is a great way to celebrate cultural diversity in the community.
5. Engage the Community
- Hosting a campout can be a good time to partner with organizations that can provide technical support or lessons the day of the campout. For example: Volunteer Angler Instructor, Game Wardens, Buffalo Soldiers, FFA or 4-H, Texas Wildlife Association, Leave No Trace - volunteer trainer, Scout Leaders.
- Ask businesses to provide support with gear, food, funding, volunteers, t-shirts, flashlights…
- Create a service learning project that goes with the campout to improve the school grounds, creates awareness or let the campout be the culmination event for a school project.
- Consider having some selection time and recognition ceremony at the end of the campout to thank businesses, and highlight kids or families who went above and beyond in a skill or service.
6. Make it Fun
- Plan for structured games or lessons that help kids and families build skills such as: properly setting up a tent, setting up a good camp kitchen, or learning how to use a GPS for a geocaching adventure.
- Help families understand what they will hear and can expect at night. This will help alleviate fears so they can relax and have fun.
- Plan for free time for kids and families to engage with one another, play and explore.
The National Wildlife Federation celebrates camping in June with the Great American Campout. They have some good resources and ideas on their website as well. Once the school campout is over, families can find places to explore in nature at NatureRocksTexas.org.


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The School Fire Education Program delivers fire safety information to all Tasmanian primary school students, promoting awareness of fire safety and fire hazards, and steps to take if fire breaks out in the home.
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The Holm oak (also called Holly oak, Evergreen oak) is a large evergreen oak tree native to the Mediterranean region. Its botanic name is Quercus ilex L. The name ilex was the original (Roman) Latin name for this tree, but botanists have now used it for the holly genus.
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Scientists have found the secrets of the old ship unearthed in 2010 under the ruins of the Twin Towers. First, the large vessel—buried under 22 feet (6.7 meters) of soil and wreckage—was built around the same time the Declaration of Independence was signed. There's more—but there's also one big mystery left unsolved.
By comparing the wood's ring patterns with the historical record, researchers at Columbia's Tree Ring Lab led by Dr Martin-Benito found that the ship was built in a Philadelphia shipyard around 1773. Most importantly, the rings matched samples from Independence Hall—the building where the founding fathers signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
On July 2010, archaeologists monitoring excavation at the World Trade Center site (WTC) in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a portion of a ship's hull. Because the date of construction and origin of the timbers were unknown, samples from different parts of the ship were taken for dendrochronological dating and provenancing. After developing a 280-year long floating chronology from 19 samples of the white oak group (Quercus section Leucobalanus), we used 21 oak chronologies from the eastern United States to evaluate absolute dating and provenance. Our results showed the highest agreement between the WTC ship chronology and two chronologies from Philadelphia (r = 0.36; t = 6.4; p < 0.001; n = 280) and eastern Pennsylvania (r = 0.35; t = 6.3; p < 0.001; n = 280). The last ring dates of the seven best-preserved samples suggest trees for the ship were felled in 1773 CE or soon after. Our analyses suggest that all the oak timbers used to build the ship most likely originated from the same location within the Philadelphia region, which supports the hypothesis independently drawn from idiosyncratic aspects of the vessel's construction, that the ship was the product of a small shipyard. Few late-18th Century ships have been found and there is little historical documentation of how vessels of this period were constructed. Therefore, the ship's construction date of 1773 is important in confirming that the hull encountered at the World Trade Center represents a rare and valuable piece of American shipbuilding history.
Past analysis of the wood also found burrowing holes produced by a worm plague, which researchers think the ship got in a trip to the Caribbean. Dr Martin-Benito believe that this was the reason why the ship suffered a premature death on the coast of Manhattan.
One mystery remains, however: How the hell did the ship end down here? Here's a possible answer:
Historians still aren't certain whether the ship sank accidently or if it was purposely submerged to become part of a landfill used to bulk up Lower Manhattan's coastline. Oysters found fixed to the ship's hull suggest it at least languished in the water for some time before being buried by layers of trash and dirt.


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- One solution to water shortages is to divert water from one drainage basin to another.
- Large- scale transfers of water can be achieved by diverting a river by constructing a large canal to carry available water from one basin to another.
The snowy mountain scheme
- Work began in 1949 and finished in 1974.
- The snowy mountain scheme is the largest engineering project in Australia and is one of the most complex hydroelectric schemes in the world.
- It has 16 major dams, 7 power stations and a network of tunnels, piplines and aqueducts.
- The scheme collects and diverts water so that it can be used by the…