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Why do airports need to identify strike remains to species?
Not all bird strikes are created equal. For example, the number of bird strikes increases during the summer months at all airports in Canada. However, the risk level is not necessarily correlated with the number of birds struck because the risk is related to the size and flocking behaviour of the bird. Therefore, a simple count of bird strikes gives no indication of risk.
Airports need to wean themselves from simply counting strike numbers because those numbers are relatively meaningless. Is 20 swallow strikes comparable to 20 duck strikes? Certainly not. A blood smear on an aircraft or a piece of a bird recovered after a strike is not "just another strike". Airports need to know what species are being struck in order to adjust wildlife control measures to address the hazard. We need to measure strike rates by hazardous species not by a simple count of strikes. A strike record without species identification is very minimal information especially if there are few or no species identified in an airport's strike history. Not only does accurate bird strike identification indicate the strike hazard, compilation of strikes by species allows airports to accurately determine the strike risks and develop a program to reduce those risks.
BSC offers unique Bird Identification services for our corporate members. Our bird identification services are divided into 3 groups:
|Group 1||Group 2||Group 3|
|Photos: Basic Bird Identification when you have an intact (or relatively intact) animal. This service is free.||Feather Sample (when all you have are a collection of feathers but no intact animal): The Cowan Tetrapod Avian Forensics Morphology Initiative, University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum, uses feather-to-feather comparisons and feather down expanded node microscope techniques to identify feathers. BSC corporate members receive a discounted price of $200 per sample.||DNA Sample (when you only have a blood smear or some animal tissue): The Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Guelph will do a genetic analysis of the material to identify the species involved. BSC corporate members receive a discounted price of $150 per sample.|
Group 1 - Photos: Basic Bird Identification when you have an intact (or relatively intact) animal
BSC is using its internal expertise to identify or confirm the identification of any strikes that occurred on a Canadian Airport. This service is free. Bird identification labs find that a significant proportion of bird strike identifications are wrong. Send us a couple of photos of each of your strikes and we can confirm your identification and help you improve your bird strike data. As well, we will archive your photos as part of the bird strike database. Here is Bird Strike Canada Photo ID Protocol.
Send pictures to _EMAIL_
Group 2 - Feather Sample (when all you have are a collection of feathers but no intact animal):
The Cowan Tetrapod Avian Forensics Morphology Initiative, University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum offers feather identification services. The normal fee is $300. BSC members receive a discounted price of $200 per sample.
Before sending samples, please send an email outlying how many and what type of feather samples (e.g., whole feather, feather pieces) to Ildiko Szabo, a Society of Forensic Science (SWFS) certified Avian Forensic Morphologist. All sample labels must include date, location found, flight information if available, and your case number. (Suggested case number: Airport Code – Date (DDMMYY)-airline code, flight number, 24 hour clock time)
Please email: _EMAIL_
Ship samples to:
SWFS Certified Forensic Scientist
Cowan Tetrapod Collection UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Group 3 - DNA Sample (when you only have a blood smear or some animal tissue):
The Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Guelph will do a genetic analysis of the material to identify the species involced. BSAC corporate members receive a discounted price of $150 per sample. If you send in a batch of 5 samples at once, you only pay for 4!
The Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB) is committed to supporting airport safety by using advanced DNA technologies to deliver accurate & affordable species identifications for wildlife collisions involving civilian and military aircraft. Airports must use the CCDB Form and follow the simple collecting and packaging instructions at the bottom of the form to submit samples.
Don't forget to read instruction below and fill the CCDB Form.
For more information contact:
Evgeny Zakharov, Director of Laboratory Operations
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Phasing out SSL / TLS protocols and ciphers with user-friendly error messages
The phasing out of legacy encryption protocols like TLS 1.0 or the family of CBC encryption ciphers is a recurring necessity. This has been going on for many years. And it will only be a few years until TLS 1.2 should be retired in favor of its successor TLS 1.3.
When disabling one of the SSL/TLS protocols or retiring a cipher suite, then there is always the question of how many users you are blocking. If you have configured your server side encryption endpoint with an extended access log, then such a report is at your fingertips. I have described such a setup in my tutorial on the topic. So you can take an educated decision at the right moment when the user base is no longer substantial. The browser vendors are doing a very good job updating their installations. So the numbers are generally coming down a lot faster then they used to. But maybe you have legacy agents that access certain APIs and locking them out is not an option. So you better know who is using the old cipher before you disable it.
However, there is a problem that persists: When you disable a protocol or cipher, then the users relying on it can no longer connect to your server. They are confronted with a hard to understand error message. You do not have control over this error message and for 99% of the users it will look very bad. For the users, it will look as if you had a security problem – and not they with their outdated browser.
Would not it be better to introduce a grace period during which you still accept the connection, but redirect it to a dedicated "weak cipher" page? On said page you could then explain the problem and urge the user to upgrade the browser.
It is surprisingly simple to pull this off with Apache.
Six steps for user-friendly error pages
Step 1 : Create an error page and name it weak-encryption.html.
Step 2 : Define the legacy SSL / TLS protocols and ciphers that you want
to phase out.
Step 3 : Configure a conditional statement (-> ) in your Apache configuration that checks the SSL/TLS protocol used for the connection.
Step 4 : Write a nested conditional statement that checks if the URI is different from weak-encryption.html.
Step 5 : If the condition in step 3 and the condition in step 4 match, then
create a rewrite rule that redirects to the weak-encryption path.
Step 6 : Repeat step 3 to 5 for weak ciphers.
An Apache recipe to put this in practice
I'm a proposing a configuration that puts this into action. It works with the help of the Apache directive and ModRewrite:
 RewriteRule ^/ /weak-encryption.html [redirect,last] RewriteRule ^/ /weak-encryption.html [redirect,last]
This is configured on The site works seamlessly for modern ciphers and protocols, yet the requests with legacy encryption are being redirect to the weak encryption page. You can try out the setup as follows:
$> curl --tlsv1.2 --ciphers "AES128-SHA" --verbose
* Trying
* Connected to ( port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* Cipher selection: AES128-SHA
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
CApath: none
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / AES128-SHA
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
* subject:
* start date: Februar 2 18:55:24 2020 GMT
* expire date: May 2 18:55:24 2020 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "" matched cert's ""
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET /cms/ HTTP/1.1
> Host:
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Date: Mon, 10 Februar 2020 15:57:17 GMT
< Server: Apache
< X-Frame-Options: sameorigin
< Referrer-Policy: same-origin
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Location:
< Content-Length: 227
(If you have TLSv1.3 support, the call for a weaker cipher is ignored silently. You need to make sure you're using a lower TLS version. The same is true with TLSv1 and TLSv1.1. At least my curl is not supporting it at all.)
This call should redirect you to
Technically, it should be possible to do the same thing with a pure ModSecurity construct. However, the problem is that the SSL variables are not accessible by ModSecurity (and the directive SSLOptions +StdEnvVars does not help. The issue has been reported before).
I am not sure if you can do the same with NGINX too. NGINX is usually less flexible, but this is a case where it might be possible to pull this of on said platform just as well.
If you want to deploy a more complex error page - one meeting the corporate branding with the inclusion of logo and separate CSS files, then you will have to extend the conditional statements or - better still - embed CSS and images right into the weak-encryption.html page.
Good luck!
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I am also covering this and other advanced configuration as part of my teaching. Here is a link to me next public courses.
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ACF207 - Animation Project
2022 unit information
|Enrolment modes:||Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne)|
Students must complete unit ACF107
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
|Scheduled learning activities - campus||
1 x 3-hour seminar per week
This is a project-based unit. Students both individually and as a group are set tasks of creating and producing a short animation film in response to and framed by a set piece of spoken recorded sound. The unit focuses on the relationship between sound and image, including lip-syncing technique responses to a spoken word recording. This is a real-world application that requires students to acquire and apply knowledge as required by the specific needs of their project. Problems range from creating narrative film ideas, selecting animation styles in keeping with storyline, creating animatics and resolving sync-sound issues related to a character's mouth movements. Students further enhance their skills in archival research and character development. Use of animation strategies and technologies developed in other animation units are applied in this unit. An important challenge for the project in this unit is to produce a narrative for an occurrence or event for which there is no visual moving image record.
Unit Fee Information
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1898 HOME > Lt. Henry H. Whitney
Lt. Henry H. Whitney
In May 1898, Lt. Henry H. Whitney of the Fourth Artillery was sent to the island on a reconnaisance mission, sponsored by the Army's Bureau of Military Intelligence. The mission was almost a disaster when newspapers leaked his identity, but he posed as a crew member in the furnace-room of the merchant ship and evaded detection by a boarding party of Spanish officers. He provided maps and information on the Spanish military presence by posing as a British merchant marine officer, and reported that the Spanish forces were few in number and poorly equipped.

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Our partner organization from Banja Luka – "Perpetuum mobile – Institute for Youth and Community Development" within the program planned for Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls (November 25) this year, in addition to various promotional and educational activities for young people and due to the limited number of people in one place, focused its actions on visibility in the community, so on that occasion the Cultural Center Banski dvor in Banja Luka was illuminated in orange (orange is a trademark and recognizable sign for November 25).
Passers-by were given specially branded face masks and white ribbons, and Banja Luka residents had the opportunity to write their message on the wall dedicated to women and girls who are victims of violence.
The action was preceded by an interview entitled "What did women say?" with four very successful ladies today, who unfortunately have experience when it comes to violence against women and girls.
After the action, members of the Be a Man Club Banja Luka released lighted lanterns with messages.
The activity was implemented within the project Young Men Initiative II (YMI): "Promoting Healthier Lifestyles among Youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Challenging Gender Stereotypes II" and the project: "Men and Boys as Partners in Promoting Gender Equality and the Prevention of Youth Extremism and Violence in the Western Balkans", supported by the Swiss Government, Oak Foundation, Austrian Development Agency and CARE International Balkans.


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An archivist working on a six-month cataloguing program at the National Portrait Gallery uncovered pieces of wood, leather and fabric from the tomb of King Richard II in a cigarette box marked "August 31, 1871, Westminster Abbey, GS." The GS stands for Sir George Scharf, the National Portrait Gallery's first director, who was at Westminster Abbey on August 31, 1871, when Richard II's tomb was opened for cleaning.
Scharf didn't just keep souvenirs from Richard's coffin. He also made thorough sketches of the king's skull and bones, including detailed measurements. The drawings are so accurate archivists believe it may be possible to reconstruct Richard's appearance. Chroniclers at the time described him as handsome. He was just 33 when he died on Valentine's Day, 1400, probably of starvation, while being held in captivity at Pontefract Castle by his usurper cousin, Henry IV.
The contents of the box were only listed as relics from a royal tomb when catalogued, no specifics about which royal tomb it was. Scharf witnessed the opening of several royal tombs, including those of Edward VI, Henry VII and James I, so archivists had to cross-check the date with diary entries to figure out whose relics they were.
Krzysztof Adamiec, National Portrait Gallery Assistant Archivist (Scharf Project), says: "It was a very exciting discovery and one that reveals the hidden potential of Scharf's papers. By matching diary entries, with sketches, notes and other material in the collection a unique record is revealed. Scharf meticulously recorded almost everything he saw and experienced. In reading his papers, one is able to reconstruct in minute detail 'a day in the life' of this remarkable Victorian gentleman."
The Scharf papers held in the National Portrait Gallery's Heinz Archive & Library comprise business, personal and family records which reflect not only the history of the Gallery, but also the wider social history of Victorian England.
Scharf was a careful observer of life in his own times and his diaries, notebooks and sketches provide a detailed record of a changing London, everyday Victorian life, and important historic events of the era. They are also an exceptional resource for the study of portraits and portraiture. Alongside his responsibility, as Director, for building-up the National Portrait Gallery's collection, Scharf also worked in a private capacity on various external projects. He was directly involved in some of the most significant exhibitions of the Victorian period, including Crystal Palace (after its relocation to Sydenham) in 1854 and the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition in 1857.
There are 230 notebooks among Scharf's papers in which he recorded everything from a sketch of Sir Winston Churchill as a baby to detailed views of Coventry, whose remarkably well-preserved medieval city was completely destroyed by German bombing during World War II.
The Scharf papers are being catalogued as part of the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives, an ongoing project to digitize masses of historical archives from the National Portrait Gallery. You can search the online archives here. It's surprisingly fascinating stuff, even when it's not sketches of medieval royal skulls.
6 thoughts on "Relics from tomb of Richard II found at NPG"
I've never really gotten the appeal of facial reconstruction outside of forensic need, victim ID and such. They've got a portrait (or more than one most likely) by someone who presumably(?) saw him alive. It doesn't seem like the likeness was embellished too much, he rather looks like a drugged out Larry Fine.
Verisimilitude wasn't a huge priority in medieval art, though, so contemporary portraiture isn't really reliable. The general appeal is putting the idealized distant within our grasp. It's the same reason pioneering color photography and film makes such a strong impression: it's brings subjects closer to us.
I am admittedly ill informed about the accuracy of such reconstruction, but it seems to me that even if it is accurate with current humans, a significant amount of error could creep in given the different environmental factors likely in previous times. While it isn't related directly to facial features, consider the effect of improved diet on the average human height.
It's only my opinion, but dwelling on such things seems to be a desire to show off new technologies more than than gaining a deeper understanding of the actual subject. I'm just weird, but you already knew that.
We know his height, though, from analysis of his bones (he was 6 feet, as coincidence would have it, despite the inadequacies of the period diet). Of course there are surface elements we can't gauge from the bones — scars, birthmarks, eye and hair color — but facial reconstruction is generally speaking pretty accurate, enough so it is used in criminal forensic investigations.
I don't think it's really about showing off. People did this sort of thing long before digital renderings made it easier. They just used bone casts, clay and paint. I think people just want to see themselves in the past.
For one hundred years Egyptian art experts claimed that ancient Egyptian artists had no understanding or ability to make lifelike portraits. Since facial reconstructions have been produced for numerous royal mummies it has become clear that Egyptian artists were producing some exceptional fine (3D) individual portraits. For one hundred years Egyptian art experts have been deluding themselves.
They are quite accurate (70%)and have been tested, using cat scans of skulls, on living subjects in order to gauge accuracy.They are frequently used in battlefield ID and for unidentified human remains. Fleshy parts like ears are the least accurate of course, and the tissue data is based on samples collected in the 80's so the reconstructions may well still be somewhat fattier than, say, a medieval subject really was. Deep lines on the face are obvious but smaller lines and skin condition are guesswork.
As for height…it's never been a linear thing tbh. Bronze age Britons were of very similar heights to us, while in medieval times height had dropped several inches with the average man being 5ft 7, still well within modern ranges. It was the Industrial Revolution when people became very short.It is unlikely we will continue to gain much more height, having regained that of our bronze age ancestors.


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- Explain, demonstrate and prove the value of 3DS Solutions to our partners/ clients through technical expertise to support the revenue sales plan - Opportunity centric / primary Industry & primary Brand
- Transfer skills by sharing technical knowledge internally and/or to partners
- Define and qualify with Partner/Customer the Demonstration Use Cases
- Deliver accurate demonstration and proof of concepts
- SIMULIA technical resource (presales) in North America focused on multiple industries including Aerospace and Defense, High Tech, T&M and Life Sciences.
- Work with Client Executives and SIMULIA sales representatives on account strategic growth initiatives including:
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The problem here is that ==(.*)== matches ==(=Subsection=)==, so the first thing to do is to make sure there is no = inside the title : ==([^=]*)==([^=]*).
We then need to make sure that there is no = before the beginning of the match, otherwise, the first = of the three is ignored and the subtitle is matched. This will do the trick : (?<!=)==([^=]*)==([^=]*), it means "Matches if not preceded by ...".
We can also do this at the end to make sure, which gives as a final result (?<!=)==([^=]*)==(?!=)([^=]*).
>>> re.findall('(?<!=)==([^=]*)==(?!=)([^=]*)', x,re.MULTILINE)
[('Mainsection1', '\nSome text here\n'),
 ('Mainsection2', '\nText goes here\n')]
You could also remove the check at the end of the title and replace it with a newline. That may be better if you are sure there is a new line at the end of each title.
>>> re.findall('(?<!=)==([^=]*)==\n([^=]*)', x,re.MULTILINE)
[('Mainsection1', 'Some text here\n'), ('Mainsection2', 'Text goes here\n')]
EDIT :
section = re.compile(r"(?<!=)==([^=]*)==(?!=)")
result = []
mo = section.search(x)
previous_end = 0
previous_section = None
while mo is not None:
 start = mo.start()
 if previous_section:
 result.append((previous_section, x[previous_end:start]))
 previous_section = mo.group(0)
 previous_end = mo.end()
 mo = section.search(x, previous_end)
result.append((previous_section, x[previous_end:]))
print result
It's more simple than it looks : repeatedly, we search for a section title after the previous one, and we add it to the result with the text between the beginning of this title and the end of the previous one. Adjust it to suit your style and your needs. The result is :
[('==Mainsection1==',
 ' \nSome text here \n===Subsection1.1=== \nOther text here \n\n'),
 ('==Mainsection2==',
 ' \nText goes here \n===Subsecttion2.1=== \nOther text goes here. ')]
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Hmm we are getting there but i am missing something.I still need the text from the subsections so that the result would be:[('Mainsection1', 'Some text here\n===Subsection1.1=== Other text here\n' ) Thanks so far – Fox Mulder Oct 17 '11 at 15:07

I'm afraid we've reached the limit of my regex knowledge. What I would do know is use the first part of my regex ((?<!=)==([^=]*)==(?!=)) to detect titles and then just get the text in-between the matches. Do you want me to elaborate on this idea, or is it not an option ? – madjar Oct 17 '11 at 15:13

That could work so if you want then please go ahead! Thanks a lot so far – Fox Mulder Oct 17 '11 at 15:16
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Calculating Averages When Joins Are Required to Filter Data
Calculating Averages When Joins Are Required to Filter Data
Question:
[Joe Celko's Magazine Sales Puzzle]
This one was posted on the Sybase forum of CompuServe by Keith McGregor in November of 1994.
One of his end users came to him with the following query. After nearly three days of trial and error, he still didn't have a clue how to tell her to do it. He could have done this in about 30 minutes using COBOL and flat files.
You are given the following tables for a magazine distribution database:
 CREATE TABLE Titles (product_id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, title INTEGER NOT NULL, issue INTEGER NOT NULL, issue_year INTEGER NOT NULL); CREATE TABLE Sales (product_id INTEGER NOT NULL, custno INTEGER NOT NULL, net_sold_qty INTEGER NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (product_id, customer)); CREATE TABLE Customers (custno INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY customer_name CHAR (20) NOT NULL);
He needs to select the customer_name(s) where:
a) The average net_sold_qty is greater than two for BOTH title 02667 and 48632 (if the average is two or less for either one, do not select the customer at all).
or
b) The average net_sold_qty is greater than five for title 01107 (if this is true, select the customer regardless of the result of condition a).
Answer:
Let's create a view of the three tables joined together which will give us the basic information we are after. Maybe this view can be used for other reports later.
 CREATE VIEW Magazine(customer_name, title, net_sold_qty) AS SELECT Sales.customer_name, Titles.title, net_sold_qty FROM Titles, Sales, Customers WHERE Sales.custno = Customers.custno AND Titles.product_id = Sales.product_id;
Then we write the query from hell:
 SELECT customer_name FROM Magazines AS M0 GROUP BY customer_name HAVING — the two accept conditions (5 < (SELECT AVG(net_sold_qty) FROM Magazines AS M1 WHERE M1.custno = M0.custno AND title = '01107')) OR (2 < (SELECT AVG(net_sold_qty) FROM Magazines AS M2 WHERE M2.custno = M0.custno AND title IN ('02667', '48632'))) AND NOT -- the two reject conditions ( 2 > (SELECT AVG(net_sold_qty) FROM Magazines AS M3 WHERE M3.custno = M0.custno AND title IN = '02667') OR 2 > (SELECT AVG(net_sold_qty) FROM Magazines AS M4 WHERE M4.custno = M0.custno AND title = '48632') );
For bonus points, can any reader simplify or improve this expression? Hint: DeMorgan's law might be useful and it would help to have a decision table.
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The solution provided to the puzzle can be greatly simplified by using two techniques: First create a VIEW of the average sales and include an 'EXISTS' for the condition of two titles which both must exceed a threshold.
The DML:
 CREATE VIEW Magazines (custno, title, avg_qty_sold) AS SELECT Sales.custno, Titles.title, AVG(Sales.net_sold_qty) FROM Titles, Customers, Sales WHERE Titles.product_id = Sales.product_id AND Customers.custno = Sales.custno AND Titles.title IN (01107, 02667, 48632) GROUP BY Sales.custno, Titles.title; SELECT DISTINCT Customers.customer_name FROM Magazines, Customers WHERE Customers.custno = Magazines.custno AND ((Magazines.title = 1107 AND Magazines.avg_qty_sold > 5) OR (Magazines.title = 2667 AND Magazines.avg_qty_sold > 2 AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM Magazines, Other WHERE Other.title = 48632 AND Other.custno = Magazines.custno AND Other.avg_qty_sold > 2)));
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GALLERIES > BIRDS > PASSERIFORMES > TURDIDAE > SONG THRUSH [Turdus philomelos]
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Location: Stewart Island, South New Zealand
Date: April 20, 2017
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SPECIES INFO
The Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) is a thrush that breeds across much of Eurasia. It is also known in English dialects as throstle or mavis. It has brown upperparts and black-spotted cream or buff underparts and has three recognised subspecies. Its distinctive song, which has repeated musical phrases, has frequently been referred to in poetry.
The Song Thrush breeds in forests, gardens and parks, and is partially migratory with many birds wintering in southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East; it has also been introduced into New Zealand and Australia. Although it is not threatened globally, there have been serious population declines in parts of Europe, possibly due to changes in farming practices.
The Song Thrush builds a neat mud-lined cup nest in a bush or tree and lays four or five dark-spotted blue eggs. It is omnivorous and has the habit of using a favourite stone as an "anvil" on which to smash snails. Like other perching birds (passerines), it is affected by external and internal parasites and is vulnerable to predation by cats and birds of prey.
Taxonomy
Name
The Song Thrush was described by German ornithologist Christian Ludwig Brehm in 1831, and still bears its original scientific name, Turdus philomelos. The generic name, Turdus, is the Latin for thrush, and the specific epithet refers to a character in Greek mythology, Philomela, who had her tongue cut out, but was changed into a singing bird. Her name is derived from the Ancient Greek philo- (loving), and melos (song). The dialect names throstle and mavis both mean thrush, being derived from the German drossel and French mauvis respectively. Throstle dates back to at least the fourteenth century and was used by Chaucer in the Parliament of Fowls.
Classification
A recent molecular study indicates that the Song Thrush's closest relatives are the similarly plumaged Mistle Thrush (T. viscivorus) and the Chinese Thrush (T. mupinensis); these three species are early offshoots from the lineage of Turdus thrushes before they diversified and spread across the globe, and hence are less closely related to other European thrush species such as the Blackbird (T. merula).
The Song Thrush has three subspecies, with the nominate subspecies, T. p. philomelos, covering the majority of the species' range. T. p. hebridensis, described by British ornithologist William Eagle Clarke in 1913, is a mainly sedentary (non-migratory) form found in the Outer Hebrides and Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is the darkest subspecies, with a dark brown back, greyish rump, pale buff background colour to the underparts and grey-tinged flanks.
T. p. clarkei, described by German zoologist Ernst Hartert in 1909, and named for Eagle Clarke, breeds in the rest of Great Britain and Ireland and on mainland Europe in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and possibly somewhat further east. It has brown upperparts which are warmer in tone than those of the nominate form, an olive-tinged rump and rich yellow background colour to the underparts. It is a partial migrant with some birds wintering in southern France and Iberia. This form intergrades with the nominate subspecies in central Europe, and with T. p. hebridensis in the Inner Hebrides and western Scotland, and in these areas birds show intermediate characteristics. Additional subspecies, such as T. p. nataliae of Siberia, proposed by the Russian Sergei Buturlin in 1929, are not widely accepted.
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The Song Thrush (as represented by the nominate subspecies T. p. philomelos) is 20 to 23.5 centimetres (8 to 9.25 in) in length and weighs 50"?107 grammes (1.8 to 3.8 oz). The sexes are similar, with plain brown backs and neatly black-spotted cream or yellow-buff underparts, becoming paler on the belly. The underwing is warm yellow, the bill is yellowish and the legs and feet are pink. The upperparts of this species become colder in tone from west to east across the breeding range from Sweden to Siberia. The juvenile resembles the adult, but has buff or orange streaks on the back and wing coverts.
The most similar European thrush species is the Redwing (T. iliacus), but that bird has a strong white supercilium, red flanks, and shows a red underwing in flight. The Mistle Thrush (T. viscivorus) is much larger and has white tail corners, and the Chinese Thrush (T. mupinensis), although much more similar in plumage, has black face markings and does not overlap in range.
The Song Thrush has a short, sharp tsip call, replaced on migration by a thin high seep, similar to the Redwing's call but shorter. The alarm call is a chook-chook becoming shorter and more strident with increasing danger. The male's song, given from trees, rooftops or other elevated perches, is a loud clear run of musical phrases, repeated two to four times, filip filip filip codidio codidio quitquiquit tittit tittit tereret tereret tereret, and interspersed with grating notes and mimicry. It is given mainly from February to June by the Outer Hebridean race, but from November to July by the more widespread subspecies. For its weight, this species has one of the loudest bird calls.
An individual male may have a repertoire of more than 100 phrases, many copied from its parents and neighbouring birds. Mimicry may include the imitation of man-made items like telephones, and the Song Thrush will also repeat the calls of captive birds, including exotics such as the White-faced Whistling Duck.
Distribution and habitat Nominate subspecies in Lithuania
The Song Thrush breeds in most of Europe (although not in the greater part of Iberia, lowland Italy or southern Greece), and across the Ukraine and Russia almost to Lake Baikal. It reaches to 75oN in Norway, but only to about 60oN in Siberia. Birds from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia winter around the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East, but only some of the birds in the milder west of the breeding range leave their breeding areas.
Birds of the nominate subspecies were introduced to New Zealand and Australia by acclimatisation societies between 1860 and 1880, apparently for purely sentimental reasons. In New Zealand, where it was introduced on both the main islands, the Song Thrush quickly established itself and spread to surrounding islands such as the Kermadecs, Chatham and Auckland Islands. Although it is common and widespread in New Zealand, in Australia only a small population survives around Melbourne. In New Zealand, there appears to be a limited detrimental effect on some invertebrates due to predation by introduced bird species, and the Song Thrush also damages commercial fruit crops in that country. As an introduced species it has no legal protection in New Zealand, and can be killed at any time.
The Song Thrush typically nests in forest with good undergrowth and nearby more open areas, and in western Europe also uses gardens and parks. It breeds up to the tree-line, reaching 2,200 metres (7,250 ft) in Switzerland. The island subspecies T. p. hebridensis breeds in more open country, including heathland, and in the east of the Song Thrush's Eurasian range, the nominate subspecies is restricted to the edge of the dense conifer forests.
In intensively farmed areas where agricultural practices appear to have made cropped land unsuitable, gardens are an important breeding habitat. In one English study, only 3.5% of territories were found in farmland, whereas gardens held 71.5% of the territories, despite that habitat making up only 2% of the total area. The remaining nests were in woodlands (1% of total area).
The winter habitat is similar to that used for breeding, except that high ground and other exposed localities are avoided; however, the island subspecies T. p. hebridensis will frequent the seashore in winter.
Subspecies T. p. clarkei in England
Behaviour
The Song Thrush is not usually gregarious, although several birds may roost together in winter or be loosely associated in suitable feeding habitats, perhaps with other thrushes such as the Blackbird, Fieldfare, Redwing and Dark-throated Thrush. Unlike the more nomadic Fieldfare and Redwing, the Song Thrush tends to return regularly to the same wintering areas.
This is a monogamous territorial species, and in areas where it is fully migratory, the male re-establishes its breeding territory and starts singing as soon as he returns. In the milder areas where some birds stay year round, the resident male remains in his breeding territory, singing intermittently, but the female may establish a separate individual wintering range until pair formation begins in the early spring.
During migration, the Song Thrush travels mainly at night with a strong and direct flight action. It flies in loose


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Title: Is there an association between balance confidence and balance performance in community-dwelling older adults?
Authors: Wooton, Angela Kaye
Keywords: balance
Issue Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: [Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [December 2011]
Abstract: Falls are a major concern for older adults. Research suggests older adults do not accurately assess their actual balance and gait abilities placing them at risk of a fall. Although deficits in balance performance in older adults are normally attributed to underlying physiological factors, psychological constructs such as balance confidence may be associated with balance performance.
The objectives of this study were to investigate the associations between balance confidence and balance performance in community-dwelling older adults, and to describe the relationships between sociodemographic, and socioeconomic characteristics of older adults, 65 years of age and older.
A correlational non-experimental research design was used to investigate the associations between balance confidence and balance performance in older adults. The study sample consisted of 140 community-dwelling older adults, 65 to 100 years of age. Data was collected from three residential apartment complexes in Henderson, Kentucky. Study participants completed the Demographic Questionnaire, Folstein Mini-Mental Exam (MMSE), Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale and the Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA) Tool.
Study results indicated a significant correlation between balance confidence and balance performance F (7, 132) = 40.45, p < .001. Balance confidence, cognitive health, and number of falls were significant (p < .001) predictors of overall gait and balance performance on the POMA Tool. These three predictors explained 68.2% (R² = .682) of the variance in the multiple regression models.
This study provided evidence of the associations between balance confidence and balance performance in community-dwelling older adults. The ABC scale is a useful screening tool which can be used to identify older adults with deficits in balance confidence, placing them at higher risk for impaired balance, which may progress to a traumatic fall. Further research is warranted to explore the impact of balance confidence on impaired balance and/or gait, which has been associated with falls in older adults.
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Canada, Mexico, United States Consider Energy Efficiency Cooperation Plan
North America may work together towards a new energy efficiency plan.
In 2001, the North American Energy Work Group (NAEWG) was formed, then in 2006 the North American Energy Security Initiative (NAESI) followed, now government officials are talking about a new level of intra-continental cooperation.
The plan, put forward by NAEWG, will focus on energy efficiency, as it is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to reduce energy use, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
NAEWG's plan calls for cooperation between Mexico, the United States and Canada and this month the discussions among the group embers are expected to increase.
"This will make life easier for manufacturers of appliances, lighting products and electrical equipment," an U.S. Energy Department official said.
The U.S. Energy Star
program will be one of the principal focuses of this new plan. Energy Star is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that is designed to save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
Other focuses are, sharing vehicle fuel-economy and other transportation-efficiency technologies among the three countries and integrating all three energy systems to increase savings, new technology and trade.
Biofuels, hydrogen, clean coal and carbon capture and storage will also be under consideration by NAEWG.
Does this sound like an effective approach to global climate change to you? Or does it sound like a way to move product? Or another approach to free trade within North America?


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If you're considering a holiday in Majorca, it's worth checking the average temperatures for the time of year you are planning to visit.
The climate and temperatures can vary in different areas, depending on how close to the coast, and to the Serra Tramuntera mountain range.
Generally, inland areas reach slightly higher temperatures than in coastal areas, and hotter temperatures are found in the north east of the island as there are less sea breezes affecting that area.
Average Temperatures in Majorca, by month
Although the island enjoys a warm, Mediterranean climate, it can become chilly in winter months, and there are some months when there is a higher chance of rain.


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High Flying Bugs
Have you ever wondered what altitude insects reach when flying in the sky? Although there is much to be learned about insect physiology and how it handles high altitudes, scientists have developed a few techniques that help determine the height that certain insects can reach.
By putting bumblebees into a chamber that mimics high altitudes researchers found that bumblebees can reach altitudes as high a mount everest, which is almost 30,000 feet. This is an impressive height when you consider that the highest flying bird reaches 37,000 feet. Flies and butterflies can even reach heights of just under 20,000 feet.
However, higher altitudes means thinner air, and that means that flying insects will have to flap their wings much faster since the small amount of molecules in the air make it harder for wings to take advantage of lift. But the bumblebees will change the way they flap their wings to adapt to the change in oxygen. By studying the way insects fly at high altitudes we can learn more about engineering mechanisms of human flight.
Do you think that learning about how insects fly at extremely high altitudes could help humans develop more sophisticated airborne vehicles?
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Automating the Cure Process
Letters can be generated for Cure and Notification of Sales (NOS) events. Triggering letter generation through a button click initiates the business service method to call the cure letter generation. Administrators create the correspondence template and define rules before generating the cure letter and then they monitor accounts that meet cure conditions.
Administrators send cure letters to customers who are in default, typically these type of letters explain that their account is delinquent before initiating a vehicle repossession process. In addition to this type of generic letter, administrators can also send letters for notice of sale after repossessing a car from a customer. Administrators first create a correspondence template for these types of letters using Word. Next they add the template to the Correspondence Templates view and then associate the template to existing rules. To select the appropriate template and generate the letter, perform the procedures that follow.
To add correspondence templates
 1. Navigate to Administration - Document > Correspondence Templates view.
 2. In the Templates list, click New File.
 3. In the Choose File dialog, select the template file and click Open.
 4. Repeat Step 2 and Step 3 for each template you want to add.
To associate correspondence templates to rules
 1. Navigate to Administration - Collections > Correspondence Administration view.
 2. Query for the rule that you want to associate the template with, for example Auto_CF*.
 3. Select the record, in the Template field, click the multiple select button to select the correspondence template.
 4. Repeat Step 2 and Step 3 for each correspondence template you want to associate to a rule.
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A new countywide network of OTAGO trained specialist exercise trainers is now up and running aimed at helping to reduce the number of older people in Northamptonshire who have a fall.
Each year around one third of all people aged over 65 will have a fall and the consequences can be significant, often triggering a downward spiral of loss of confidence and independence, with increased reliance on health and social care services.
To help tackle this, a group of 14 exercise professionals has successfully completed the OTAGO programme leader training course which enables them to offer the exercise programme to older people across the county. The OTAGO exercise programme is an effective, evidence-based programme which is specifically designed to help older people increase their strength and balance, and therefore reduce the risk of them having a fall.
Standing Up for Ourselves
The OTAGO training was funded by Northamptonshire County Council as part of a joint strategy called Standing Up for Ourselves which has been developed in partnership with the NHS and other local and voluntary sector groups to transform the county's approach to falls prevention and promoting bone health.
Councillor Sylvia Hughes, county council cabinet member for public health and wellbeing said: "Congratulations to this first cohort of staff now fully trained in the OTAGO exercise programme. They will be working with people who may have fallen or feel unsteady on their feet or have concerns about balance and movement, to help to increase their strength and mobility, and in doing so prevent falls and injuries.
"Research shows that regular participation in exercise of this nature has a real and positive impact on falls prevention, reducing the likelihood of individuals being admitted to hospital with serious and potentially life-changing consequences. Plus these fun and friendly exercise classes are also a chance to socialise and try something new."
Visit the Northamptonshire Sport website to find an OTAGO session near you.


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3D MRI tumor images. The method proposed demonstrates good generalization capability from the best individuals obtained in the learning phase to handle sparse image data on publically available benchmark dataset and real time data sets.
A 2-D analytic based eddy-current transient model for a conducting plate is derived that is capable of accounting for continuous changes in the input conditions. Only the source field on the surface of the conducting plate needs to be known. In addition, a 2-D steady-state analytic based eddy-current model that is capable of accounting for frequency and velocity changes in two directions is derived. Both analytic based models have been validated using finite element code. The transient and steady-state models are integrated into an electromechanical system where the magnetic source is a Halbach rotor. The accuracy of both calculation methods is compared. The stiffness and damping coefficients are derived using the steady-state model.


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Can I pair AirPods using Bluetooth to an Android phone or Windows computer?
Pairing the AirPods to a non-Apple smartphone or computer is similar to pairing other Bluetooth devices. Follow these steps to connect AirPods to a PC or other device:
- Place the AirPods in the case, then open the lid.
- Press and hold the white button on the back of the case.
- The AirPods status light blinks white to indicate pairing mode.
- Pair the AirPods using the device or computer's Bluetooth settings menu.
Once paired, the AirPods can be used like any other wireless Bluetooth headphones.


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4096 hz is the activation frequency of quartz crystals. The crystal is activated by beating the tuning fork directly on the base of the crystal itself; this very high frequency amplifies the specific properties of the crystals through sound activation. The frequency of 4096 hz has been indicated by the sound scientist John Worrell Keely as the one that makes the crystal structure of quartz vibrate. Many people also use it as a sound smudge to purify environments.
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Heroic ants take suicide pilgrimage to save colony
For aeons we have been their tormentors; burning them with magnifying glasses, pouring boiling water into their homes and shooing them away from our picnics with petulant disdain. But now the humble ant has risen above its lowly status thanks to a new study cementing its reputation as the epitome of selfless heroism.
Basing their hypothesis on a combination of sound scientific methodology and, presumably, repeated viewings of CGI animations such as Antz and A Bug's Life, Professor Jurgen Heinze and sidekick PhD Student Bartosz Walter have documented the heroic and noble nature of the Temnothorax unifasciatus species of ant in a report published in Current Biology
The researchers found that, upon an ant learning it has contracted a terminal illness, the plucky insect will leave the safety of its home and venture into the wilderness to die alone in a bid to save its colony.
While there have been reports of such behaviour previously it had not been proven that ants were indeed behaving in this manner through their own free will. A common parasitic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae, was often given as the reason why ants would leave their nest to die.
This quite spectacularly gruesome affliction would involve the parasite taking control of the subjects mind and forcing them to climb, zombie-like, to an elevated point such as the tip of a blade of grass so that the fungus could grow out of its body and spread it's spores further.
To prove that this was not the real reason behind an ant's suicidal mission Professor Heinze released C02 into a colony of the insects which caused those affected to age prematurely. Upon realising their grim fate, the ants would, often within hours, leave the colony never to return.
They would not, however, be forced to leave by other workers attempting to protect the healthy population, but would turn tail of their own accord, even, sob, shortening their own life spans significantly in doing so.
Rumours of ants being heard outside nests bellowing in dramatic tones "I am going outside, and may be some time," a la Captain Oates are, as yet, unsubstantiated.


es Secret that contains the Base64-encoded SCRAM password for the scram-sha-512 authentication type, or the Base64-encoded certificates and keys for the tls authentication type.
You can retrieve the credentials by using the name of the KafkaUser. For example, you can retrieve the credentials as follows:
 1. Set the current namespace:
 kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=<namespace>

 2. Log in to your Kubernetes cluster as a cluster administrator by setting your kubectl context.
 3. Use the following command to retrieve the required KafkaUser data, adding the KafkaUser name and your chosen namespace: \
 kubectl get kafkauser <name> -o jsonpath='{"username: "}{.status.username}{"\nsecret-name: "}{.status.secret}{"\n"}'

 The command provides the following output:
 - The principal username
 - The name of the Kubernetes Secret, which includes the namespace, containing the SCRAM password or the TLS certificates.
 4. Decode the credentials.
 - For SCRAM, use the secret-name from the previous step to retrieve the password and decode it:
 kubectl get secret <secret-name> -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 --decode

 - For TLS, get the credentials, decode them, and write each certificates and keys to files:
 kubectl get secret <secret-name> -o jsonpath='{.data.ca\.crt}' | base64 --decode > ca.crt

 kubectl get secret <secret-name> -o jsonpath='{.data.user\.crt}' | base64 --decode > user.crt

 kubectl get secret <secret-name> -o jsonpath='{.data.user\.key}' | base64 --decode > user.key

 kubectl get secret <secret-name> -o jsonpath='{.data.user\.p12}' | base64 --decode > user.p12

 kubectl get secret <secret-name> -o jsonpath='{.data.user\.password}' | base64 --decode

 5. Additionally, you can also retrieve endpoint details such as the admin API URL and the schema registry URL by using the following commands:
 - To retrieve the admin API URL from the status.endpoints list in the EventStreams custom resource, run the following command:
 kubectl get eventstreams <instance-name> -n <namespace> -o jsonpath="{.status.endpoints[?(@.name=='admin')].uri}"

 - To retrieve the schema registry URL from the status.endpoints list in the EventStreams custom resource, run the following command:
 kubectl get eventstreams <instance-name> -n <namespace> -o jsonpath="{.status.endpoints[?(@.name=='apicurioregistry')].uri}"

The cluster truststore certificate is required for all external connections and is available to download from the Cluster connection panel under the Certificates heading, within the OpenShift Container Platform UI, or by running the command kubectl es certificates. Upon downloading the PKCS12 certificate, the certificate password will also be displayed.
Similarly, if you are using OpenShift Container Platform, you can inspect these KafkaUser and Secret resources by using the web console.
Warning: Do not use or modify the internal Event Streams KafkaUsers named <cluster>-ibm-es-kafka-user, <cluster>-ibm-es-georep-source-user, <cluster>-ibm-es-iam-admin-kafka-user, or <cluster>-ibm-es-ac-reg. These are reserved to be used internally within the Event Streams instance.
Authorization
What resource types can I secure?
Within Event Streams, you can secure access to the following resource types, where the names in parentheses are the resource type names used in Access Control List (ACL) rules:
 - Topics (topic): you can control the ability of users and applications to create, delete, read, and write to a topic.
 - Consumer groups (group): you can control an application's ability to join a consumer group.
 - Transactional IDs (transactionalId): you can control the ability to use the transaction capability in Kafka.
 - Cluster (cluster): you can control operations that affect the whole cluster, including idempotent writes.
Note: Schemas in the Apicurio Registry in Event Streams are a special case and are secured using the resource type of topic combined with a prefix of __schema_. You can control the ability of users and applications to create, delete, read, and update schemas.
What are the available Kafka operations?
Access control in Apache Kafka is defined in terms of operations and resources. Operations are actions performed on a resource, and each operation maps to one or more APIs or requests.
Resource type Operation Kafka API
topic Alter CreatePartitions
 AlterConfigs AlterConfigs
 IncrementalAlterConfigs
 Create CreateTopics
 Metadata
 Delete DeleteRecords
 DeleteTopics
 Describe ListOffsets
 Metadata
 OffsetFetch
 OffsetForLeaderEpoch
 DescribeConfigs DescribeConfigs
 Read Fetch
 OffsetCommit
 TxnOffsetCommit
 Write AddPartitionsToTxn
 Produce
 All All topic APIs

group Delete DeleteGroups
 Describe DescribeGroup
 FindCoordinator
 ListGroups
 Read AddOffsetsToTxn
 Heartbeat
 JoinGroup
 LeaveGroup
 OffsetCommit
 OffsetFetch
 SyncGroup
 TxnOffsetCommit
 All All group APIs

transactionalId Describe FindCoordinator
 Write AddOffsetsToTxn
 AddPartitionsToTxn
 EndTxn
 InitProducerId
 Produce
 TxnOffsetCommit
 All All txnid APIs

cluster Alter AlterReplicaLogDirs
 CreateAcls
 DeleteAcls
 AlterConfigs AlterConfigs
 IncrementalAlterConfigs
 ClusterAction ControlledShutdown
 ElectPreferredLeaders
 Fetch
 LeaderAndISR
 OffsetForLeaderEpoch
 StopReplica
 UpdateMetadata
 WriteTxnMarkers
 Create CreateTopics
 Metadata
 Describe DescribeAcls
 DescribeLogDirs
 ListGroups
 ListPartitionReassignments
 DescribeConfigs DescribeConfigs
 IdempotentWrite InitProducerId
 Produce
 All All cluster APIs
Implicitly-derived operations
Certain operations provide additional implicit operation access to applications.
When granted Read, Write, or Delete, applications implicitly derive the Describe operation. When granted AlterConfigs, applications implicitly derive the DescribeConfigs operation.
For example, to Produce to a topic, the Write operation for the topic resource is required, which will implicitly derive the Describe operation required to get the topic metadata.
Access Control List (ACL) rules
Access to resources is assigned to applications through an Access Control List (ACL), which consists of rules. An ACL rule includes an operation on a resource together with the additional fields listed in the following tables. A KafkaUser custom resource contains the binding of an ACL to a principal, which is an entity that can be authenticated by the Event Streams instance.
An ACL rule adheres to the following schema:
Property Type Description
host string The host from which the action described in the ACL rule is allowed.
operations array An array of strings that lists all the operations which will be allowed on the chosen resource.
resource object Indicates the resource for which the ACL rule applies.
The resource objects used in ACL rules adhere to the following schema:
Property Type Description
type string Can be one of cluster, group, topic or transactionalId.
name string Identifies the value that the ACL rule will authenticate against when receiving incoming requests, rejecting anything that does not match. For example, the topic that can be accessed based on the topic name, or the transactionalId that can be used by a client. The name value can be used in combination with the patternType value to use the prefix pattern.
patternType string Describes the pattern used in the resource field. The supported types are literal and prefix. With literal pattern type, the resource field will be used as a definition of a full topic name. With prefix pattern type, the resource name will be used only as a prefix.
The default value is literal.
Using the information about schemas and resource-operations described in the previous tables, the spec.authorization.acls list for a KafkaUser can be created as follows:
# ...
spec:
# ...
 authorization:
 # ...
 acls:
 - host: '*'
 resource:
 type: topic
 name: 'client-'
 patternType: prefix
 operations:
 - Write
In this example, an application using this KafkaUser would be allowed to write to any topic beginning with client- (for example, client-records or client-billing) from any host machine.
Note: The write operation also implicitly derives


How to Cap a Copper Plumbing Line
Working with copper plumbing is often troublesome for the uninitiated, but there are some tasks that can give even an avid home plumber fits. After removing a fixture, it is sometimes necessary to either temporarily or permanently cap off the supply line. Supply lines are frequently difficult to drain, making them harder to solder and turning a normally straightforward procedure into a frustrating ordeal. The solution is to create enough empty space in the pipe where you need it most, in the immediate vicinity of the end cap.
How to Cap a Copper Plumbing Line
 1. 1. Shut Off the Water
 Turn off the water supply. Open a faucet on the same supply line as the one being capped to relieve pressure on the line. Drain the line as completely as possible.
 2. 2. Cut the Pipe
 Cut the copper pipe with a pipe cutter at the chosen location, instructs Enduring Charm LLC. Ream the inside of the pipe with the reamer attached to the pipe cutter or a separate reaming tool.
 3. 3. Insert the Tubing
 Insert 24 inches of a piece of thin vinyl or rubber tubing into the open end of the copper pipe. Start a siphon by sucking on the other end of the tubing, then hold the end over a bucket to catch the water. Drain the water level down to the point where the siphon stops, providing approximately 24 inches of empty pipe below the opening.
 4. 4. Clean the Pipe and Cap Fitting
 Clean the outside of the end of the pipe and the inside of a cap fitting with steel wool until the copper is bright and shiny, advises Upgraded Home. The key to a good, leak-free soldered joint on copper pipe is cleanliness. The pipe and any fittings must be completely clean and bright. After cleaning, don't touch the surfaces to be soldered with your hands.
 5. 5. Apply the Paste Flux
 Apply paste flux liberally to the clean outside portion of the pipe and the inside of the cap fitting using a flux brush. Slip the fitting fully onto the end of the pipe.
 6. 6. Add Cement Backer Board
 Place a fire extinguisher nearby. Insert a piece of cement backer board or sheet metal between the pipe and any combustible surfaces, such as wall studs, drywall or cabinetry.
 7. 7. Apply Heat to the Pipe and Cap Fitting
 Unroll a 6-inch length of lead-free solder from a roll. Light a propane torch and adjust it to obtain a strong, steady flame with a blue center cone. Apply heat to the pipe and cap fitting. Concentrate the heat on the joint to avoid heating the rest of the pipe unnecessarily.
 8. 8. Feed Solder Into the Joint
 Touch the tip of the solder to the pipe just below the cap fitting, on the side of the pipe opposite the flame. Feed solder into the joint once it starts to melt. Remove the heat and stop feeding solder when a bright silver ring forms around the entire joint at the base of the cap fitting, and when several drops of excess solder appear on the pipe.
 9. 9. Wait for the Joint to Cool
 Turn off the torch and set it carefully aside. Watch the joint for five seconds as it cools to be sure steam pressure doesn't blow any pinhole leaks in the solder seam. Wipe the joint with a damp rag.
 10. 10. Turn on the Water
 Turn on the water and check for leaks.
 Note: To quickly and temporarily cap a line so the rest of the house has water while you're doing repairs, install a compression stop valve. Push-to-connect fittings are also available that will suffice for temporary service.
 Things You Will Need
 - Pipe cutter
 - Reamer (optional)
 - Thin vinyl or rubber hose
 - Bucket
 - Copper cap fitting
 - Steel wool or emery cloth
 - Paste flux
 - Flux brush
 - Piece of scrap cement backer board or sheet metal
 - Fire extinguisher
 - Propane torch
 - Lead-free solder
 - Damp rag
 Warning
 Always wear shoes, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt as well as leather gloves and eye protection when soldering copper pipe.


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Caring for our beaches and coastline
Coast Care, Bay of Plenty Regional Council, is a community partnership programme, which uses local knowledge and enthusiasm to restore the form and function of the dunes in the Bay of Plenty. Ph: 0800 884 880 or 0800 368 267 or _URL_
The dunes are the backbone of our beaches, the buffer between the land and the sea. A properly functioning beach system will contain a wide, well vegetated and gently sloping dune, which is a reservoir of sand. During a storm the dune is a sacrificial zone, buffering the effects of large waves.
- It is vital to keep both foot and vehicular traffic off the sand dunes.
- There are numerous marked access ways, most with sand ladders, along Pukehina Parade, to provide safe routes to both the beach and the estuary.
- Please use these to protect the sand dunes from damage.
- Coast Care know that native dune plants play a vital role, binding light blowing sand onto the beach, and making stable sand dunes. Withoutthese plants, the sand blows away and dunes disappear leaving the land vulnerable. Grazing by stock, excavation for development, introduction of exotic plant species and trampling by pedestrian have significantly reduced the abundance of these specialised native dune plants. Many dunes are fenced for protection.
- The Coast Care Coordinator and Coast Care contractors offer advice on reducing and repairing dune damage, help facilitate activities, and supply the volunteers with free resources.
- The resources include native dune plants, informative brochures, fertilisers and building materials for constructing fences and sand ladders and great morning and afternoon teas on project days!
- The Western Bay of Plenty District Council is responsible for the maintenance of the existing sand ladders.


text: Learning about the sexual health and behavior of patients is an important part of providing high-quality, patient-centered, accessible, and efficient health care to the people in your health center. This toolkit has been created to help develop and implement systems for collecting routine histories of sexual health with all adult patients. Sexual histories should also be taken with adolescent patients. However, because the history-taking approach differs somewhat for adolescents, we recommend supplementing the information provided here with additional resources focused on adolescents. Understanding that all health centers are different, the tools have been designed to be adaptable to different practices and patient populations. Additionally, an extensive list of resources has been included to further your learning about sexual health and behavior and taking routine sexual histories.


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Expanded Learning Partnerships
Strong partnerships between schools and expanded learning programs lay the foundation for building stronger, more equitable support systems for children and their families. Building on prior investments in the expanded learning system, California's school reopening guidance encouraged intentional coordination across schools and expanded learning providers to best meet the needs of students during this unprecedented time. This brief provides key principles for school and expanded learning partnerships—informed by insights from leaders and practitioners from across California—that policymakers and practitioners should consider as they move from reopening to rebuilding.
This brief is part of a series that explores how expanded learning programs and staff can play an instrumental role in supporting students now and throughout pandemic recovery. The other brief, Learning Hubs: In-Person Learning for the Whole Child, discusses how learning hubs can provide in-person education supports to students who are distance learning; raises considerations for local policymakers, schools, and expanded learning partners; includes guidance for the design and operations of learning hubs; and identifies the policy levers that support the model.
Four PACE commentaries contribute to this series, each of which addresses the needs of student populations that have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and offers actionable guidance for districts, schools, and expanded learning providers. The commentaries look at the role of expanded learning for students in foster care; experiencing homelessness; with learning differences; and in upper grades.


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Business cards hold official information about an organization or a person. These cards contain the contact details and business details. The business cards are exchanged for formal introduction and marketing. It is necessary to design the business cards formally for a better first impression. These cards serve as an identity of a business or an individual, so people give them special considerations.
The business cards of a business or individuals are kept inside the card boxes. These card boxes are placed on the desks or organization of employees. It is essential to keep cards in a box to maintain their sequence and for the convenient accessibility of others. As cards are official representations, their boxes should maintain their integrity and appearance. Most people or organizations make custom business card boxes according to their cards.
Styles for Business Card Boxes:
Although cards for a person should be given consideration, the cards for organization should be given more attention. These cards signify the whole organization, and they will be responsible for forming an impression. Also, business card boxes are the official representation of the businesses, so these are made in different styles and designs. Most individuals try to make impressive boxes to hold their cards. An exception box on the desk will draw the attention of the people, especially cards that represent the business. Here are some unique designs to make business card boxes:
Card Holder Boxes:
The holder boxes are the most common packaging styles for the cards. These are simple containers that can keep the cards. Also, the size of the holder box depends upon the size of the card. These boxes are usually small, and the cards are kept in standing forms. The holder boxes are convenient and standard style for keeping the business card. All the business receptions contain these boxes with a range of cards.
Two-Piece Card Boxes:
Now, many people prefer two-piece boxes for their personal business cards. These boxes keep the cards in lying form. Also, these boxes are preferred as they protect the cards from external conditions. The two-piece box contains a lower container and an upper cover. So the cards are usually kept in a covered form which prevents them from wearing out. Also, these boxes look exceptional with elegant styling.
Sliding Card Boxes:
The sliding boxes slide out from the sleeve. These boxes have an outer sleeve that covers the card in the container. So, the styling is mostly carried out on the sleeve. The sliding boxes for the card are thin and elongated. Their opening and closing give a similar experience as a drawer. Moreover, these look exceptional with the cards when you slide open.
Card Folding Boxes:
The folding boxes give the option of numerous styles and designs for any product. You can make boxes in a square or rectangular shape. Also, there are many options for sealing, like tuck end or roll end. Thus, the folding style for card boxes is used to style the packaging in different styles.
A die-cut window on the box is a great technique to make impressive packaging. For instance, the window cut on the top will showcase the cards without opening the packaging. So these will keep the card protected while marketing the business at the same time. You can place window boxes on the reception of the commercial places. Every coming individual will sight them and only open them if they need the card. Thus, it will limit the exposure while keeping the marketing aspect of the card. Window boxes are hence a great approach to making customized business card boxes.
Flap Card Boxes:
You can design the card boxes in the flap style. The flap boxes always look valuable and add worth to the product. Also, modify the flap in the style of a magnet. These magnets help to seal the packaging. Therefore, every time a person takes out a card, the flap will seal automatically. These boxes improve the unboxing experience greatly. Thus, flap boxes with magnetic closure are a great approach.
Standing Card Boxes:
The business card can be kept in the vertically upright form in standing boxes. These boxes are rectangular in vertical form. To be precise, the standing boxes are similar to cigarette boxes without a lid. These boxes are only suitable for the business card. Although they might appear simple, but with design, these will look exceptional. Therefore, standing boxes are also another style to design business card boxes.
In conclusion, there are several attractive methods to manufacture business card containers. These boxes should be appropriate for official purposes. The best possible designs are holder boxes, window boxes, two-piece boxes, sliding boxes, etc. The card boxes are always customized according to the business card. Therefore, no matter the organization, the business card packaging is always personalized.


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Germany Food Imports: A Short Guide for Exporters and Importers
Germany Food Imports: A Short Guide for Exporters and Importers
Germany has one of the wealthiest consumers based in the world. Currently, the population is about 82 million projected to decrease to a 65million, due to the declining birth rate. Since Germany is an EU member, it follows all the directives. The country maintains a high level of food safety and continuously monitors the whole supply chain. Everyone from the vendor to the importer must and keep responsibility for food in the market. The following is a summary of the laws and standards of the country.
German Food Law
Although Germany follows EU regulations and objectives, it maintains the Food, Commodities, and Feed Code called the LFGB. The LFGB is consistent with the EU regulations and states the goals of German food law. It outlines the guidelines for labeling, inspection, seizure, and general food safety.
The rules control both the local and international food markets. In case of problems or law breaches, legal liability falls on the importer. It is because the government cannot punish any foreign producers. However, each federal states enforce the LFGB rules independently; thus, the repercussions vary.
Usually, a sampling of foreign goods takes place randomly. Each federal state maintains laboratories for conducting the tests, where they look for improper labeling, banned ingredients, and quality. Besides, products found to violate the guidelines, are reported to the press. The press will announce the brand name, and its producer or importer.
BundesamtfürVerbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) is the German food standards agency that ensures compliance with the food regulations. It operates under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
German Food Labelling Regulations
Food Information to Consumers (FIC) regulation 1169/2011 provides the guidelines for labeling drinks and food entering the EU market. According to the directive, the food labels need to contain the name of the food.
It should list the ingredients and their quantities, allergens, net food quantity, nutritional declaration, 'use-by date,' conditions of use, or special storage conditions. Other information includes the producer's address and country of origin. Amendments in 2016 specified that all the allergens must be listed on the products list instead of using the term "Contains allergens."
Special Packaging in Germany
Germany requires producers to adhere to the German Packing and Waste Avoidance Law. The importers or manufacturers have to enter contracts with licensed national recycling companies. Products bear the Green Dot, which shows that they are recyclable.
German Customs Declaration Form
Goods moving from one EU country to another do not require passing through customs. However, for non-Union goods, they have to undergo a customs procedure known as "Release for free circulation and consumption." After the procedure, which involves transiting through the customs warehouse, the importer may freely dispose of them. To find out more about the guidelines, look at the zoll.de website.
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text: Serious concerns have been raised about the ecological effects of industrialized fishing, spurring a United Nations resolution on restoring fisheries and marine ecosystems to healthy levels. However, a prerequisite for restoration is a general understanding of the composition and abundance of unexploited fish communities, relative to contemporary ones. We constructed trajectories of community biomass and composition of large predatory fishes in four continental shelf and nine oceanic systems, using all available data from the beginning of exploitation. Industrialized fisheries typically reduced community biomass by 80% within 15 years of exploitation. Compensatory increases in fast-growing species were observed, but often reversed within a decade. Using a meta-analytic approach, we estimate that large predatory fish biomass today is only about 10% of pre-industrial levels. We conclude that declines of large predators in coastal regions have extended throughout the global ocean, with potentially serious consequences for ecosystems. Our analysis suggests that management based on recent data alone may be misleading, and provides minimum estimates for unexploited communities, which could serve as the'missing baseline' needed for future restoration efforts.


Fusion Paths not taken
the Last Tech Age 2014/12/30
Do magnetized plasma targets offer options for smaller, cheaper fusion power?
In this part -2 of our Paths Not Followed series, we discuss 3 proposals that show promise of being fusion game changers. All consider manipulating blobs of plasma isolated from any coils that generate magnetic fields for confinement.
All our proposals involve fusion concepts with a compact toroid (CT) also known as a magnetized target fusion (MTF) object, i.e., blobs of magnetized plasma whose self-fields are sufficiently stable to provide confinement. People sometimes use MTF and MIF (Magneto Inertial Fusion) interchangeably.
The internal fields in a CT will hold it together for a time (much) longer than required for thermal drift to dissipate an similar but unmagnetized blob.
 - General Fusion D-T
 Inject an MTF blob into a chamber, generate shock to cause implosion fusion.
 - Helion Energy D-3He
 Use 2 MTFs for colliding plasma targets, pinch the stagnation to fusion conditions
 - HyperV Technologies D-T
 Plasma Jet Liner. Fire many high speed MTFs to collide, stagnate and form a high energy liner to partially compress a target plasma blob. Magnetically pinch the target to final stagnation and fusion.
Fig 1 describes the terms related to the proposals.
Side Point: The FRC with its ring of current is very similar to one of the proposed explanations for ball-lightening. The FRC has a short confinement time because the plasma can leak out through the X points at either end of Fig 1's drawing. If the MTF formation mechanism can inject helicity also (see Dynomak discussion in Part 1 of Fusion Paths Not Taken), the FRP becomes a stand-alone "spheromak" and the blob should stay together as long as the current path remains a spiral (not a ring). A Spheromak MTF does not have to form, but has been demonstrated.
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General Fusion
Michel Laberge.
MagnetizedTarget Fusion
Fig 2 Michel Laberge, 2014
The idea is to
 - fire a D-T plasma MTF object down a magnetic field path
 - into a chamber with conductive walls
 - shock squeeze target to fusion density and temperature.
Fig 3: General Fusion reactor diagram
The walls are a rotating vortex of molten metal (a mix of lead and lithium to breed Tritium) vortex (green in Fig 3).
Plasma 'injectors' at top and bottom of the design generate RFC plasma blobs (double lobe yellow objects top and bottom), then accelerate them into the center of the vortex, where they collide, stagnate (the central spark in Fig 3) and are ready to fuse.
Fusion energy is released when the monster pistons (blue) slam into the chamber walls (dark red), generating huge inward-focused shock waves that force the final compression to the energy release.
Fig 4: General Fusion T4 experiment
Fig 4 shows the General Fusion T4 experiment. Sequencing the actions while maintaining cylindrical symmetry is everything. Formation, injection, stagnation and inward traveling shock waves must all happen correctly. Everything will be over in 100 millionths of a second – extremely long compared to laser fusion and ultra short compared to mainline magnetic fusion.
I think that the hard part will be to generate converging shock waves with enough power and symmetry to keep the target from splattering like a egg when hit by a hammer. And I hope General Fusion does not have to follow the ICF fusion path and discover that the difficulty lies with its symmetry. Glen Wurden (LANL) presented a positive discussion of this program.
Dr. Laberge was an industrial physicist when he formed General Fusion in 2002. Over the years, he has assembled a team and received support from many investors, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos. His strategy is a fascinating blend and extension of many past ideas. It could be called liner driven fusion (as Sandia National Lab proposes with its Z machine), colliding plasma fusion like several other proposals, magnetic pinch (based on concepts that are at least 60 years old) or MTF – Laberge's preferred term. The molten metal vortex wall is very much like fusion reactor proposals from the 1980s.
Helion Energy
SpecificationsHelion Energy
David Kirtly.
Magneto-Inertial Fusion MIF
Fig 5: David Kirtley, Helion Energy
This MIF system was implemented by the four founders.
It uses the fusion engine concept developed by John Slough, Head of MSNW. All 4 founders of Helion are also behind MSNW and, apparently, other Seattle area high tech companies.
Fuel would be D-3He, producing 50 times fewer neutrons than the D-T reaction to be used with other systems, but has the technical challenge of generating temperatures 2¼ times higher. The low neutron load makes a power generator much smaller, longer lived, and allows for direct conversion of energy in the charged particles into power into the utility grid.
Fig 6: Helion's 3 cycle Fusion Engine idea
FIg 7: John Slough, Helion, MSNW, and Uni Wash
The idea of the Fusion Engine is shown in Helion's sketches (Fig 6). The 1 million miles per hour translates to about 45×107 cm/s, 10 times faster than the plasmas fired by the guns I used decades ago.
The plasma accelerator is related John Slough's fusion rocket engine, being developed by his MSNW and graduate students at the University.
Fig 7 shows John Slough next to a partially disassembled test stand.
The system starts with two MTFs formed by the end accelerators/guns and stagnating in the center cell. They ramp the external magnetic field to pinch the merged toroids to the nearly 550 M degrees that the fuel requires. This is a good idea, and their challenge will probably be achieving this temperature before the MTF disassembles due to internal instabilities.
HyperV Technologies
SpecificationsHyperV Technologies
Fig 8: Douglas Witherspoon
F. Douglas Witherspoon.
Plasma Jet Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Plasma Liner Fusion
HyperV was formed to make generators of hypervelocity plasma jets, rail and coaxial plasma "guns." Useful to the military and desirable for space rocket engines.
They form a key technology in the plasma liner fusion effort at Los Alamos,the PJMIF program with its PLX stand.
Hypervelocity plasmas converge on an MTF target, forming a "plasma liner" to push the target to collapse to high density and pressure. This is the offshoot of early schemes where an metal foil liners were magnetically pinched (imploded) to collapse the target into a high energy blob. The foil converted to a heavy ion plasma at pinch onset … why not start with a high inward velocity plasma? The magnetized target fusion concept that leads to JPMIF was first proposed in 1997.
Fig 9: LANL's PLX chamber during initial build
Fig 9 shows the PLX (Plasma Liner Experiment) test facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
It is 9 ft (nearly 3 m) in diameter with radial ports for 30 rail or coaxial plasma guns (and diagnostics, presumably).
Fig 10: PLX diagram
Fig 10 shows a diagram of the full set up, the blue boxes are the plasma jet generators. This has a cut-away to sketch the stagnating beams in the center.
High velocity, fully ionized plasmas do not pass through each other, they form shock waves at the collision interface and appear reasonable as compression pistons in the way General Fusion uses material pistons to produce imploding shocks for its lead-lithium liner.
Fig 11: Jet stagnation in 2PI experiment
Fig 11 shows results from the TwoPI test stand at HyperV. Very small guns are mounted around the circumference of a circle (the 2π), but only about half are active, here. The central stagnation region is clearer than those in pictures of when the full array of guns operate.
The PLX test will have 30 larger guns mounted on a sphere, not around a circle. The target will be at the center, and will be magnetized just as the beam stagnates.
As has been often said in popular press reports, MIF means the system will be "operating half way between mainline laser inertial confinement and tokamak magnetic confinement." Well, not really. Half density at 22×1021 ions/cm3 is 11×1021 ions/cm3. What they mean is MIF is close not to the arithmetic average, but the geometric average, the half way between the logarithms of the densities. This half-way density is actually in the low 1018 ions/cm3 range. (Sorry for the math, but popular writers sometimes "get my goat" as my grandmother used to say.)
This slow collapse leaves me nervous. Will they avoid the Rayleigh-Taylor compression instability that has so far defeated the laser implosions at NIF (LLNL) which are 1,000 times faster?
PLX is operated by the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences with research support from 12 other labs. In the science blood-bath that is being prepared by Obama's appointee, will very worthwhile efforts like this continue? HyperV Technologies does not currently need external funds to pay for their work (but they can always use support for spaceship thrusters


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Playground accessibility and usability for children with disabilities experiences of children, parents and professionals
Sammanfattning: Studies have identified barriers in the physical environment causing restricted participation in play activities for children with disabilities. Therefore, was the overall aim of this thesis to identify and explore aspects of playground accessibility and usability for children with disabilities based on the experiences of children, parents and professionals. The design of the thesis includes four studies examining different aspects of playground accessibility and usability. Data were collected in Study I through interviews with creators of playgrounds (i.e., persons in a municipality responsible for playgrounds), and with users of playgrounds (i.e., children with restricted mobility, and adults that accompany the children to playgrounds). Data in Study II were collected using a questionnaire completed by persons responsible for playgrounds in 41 municipalities of northern Sweden. In Study III, data were collected through interviews of children with different abilities and in Study IV parents of children with disabilities were interviewed regarding playground design. Data from the interviews were analysed qualitatively while data from the questionnaire were analysed using descriptive statistics. Results of the studies showed that persons responsible for playgrounds have not always considered accessibility for children with disabilities. In fact, many of them had never thought about the issue and also expressed a lack of knowledge needed for building accessible playgrounds (I, II). Further, based on children's experience, playgrounds are important environments for all children, but these are not accessible and usable for all (III). According to the parents, playgrounds do not support play or social interaction for children with disabilities and the design of most playgrounds made their children dependent on adult support. This in turn limited contact with peers and causing the children a sense of being different (IV). To conclude, the results showed that playgrounds are not an accessible or usable environment for many children with disabilities in Sweden. This has affected children with disabilities in negative ways that in turn can cause play deprivation, dependency and stigmatization. The results also indicated that there seems to be lack of awareness regarding children's rights in society and legislation that governs playgrounds.
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The Denali Fault is located in Alaska's Denali National Park and to the east. This National Park includes part of a massive mountain range more than 600 miles long. Along the Denali Fault, lateral and vertical offset movement is taking place (as evidenced by many earthquakes in the region).
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is the most active seismic area in the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. The NMSZ is located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois.
The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. Spanning more than 185 miles (298 km) in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, it is perhaps the best known fault zone in the Mid-Atlantic region, and some small earthquakes have been known to occur in its vicinity.


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F. Scott Fitzgerald – Why Is The Great Gatsby Such A Great Book?John Atkinson Books
"The Great Gatsby" is widely regarded as a classic of American literature, and there are several reasons why it is considered such a good book:
Captivating Storytelling: The novel is a well-crafted work of fiction that tells a captivating story about the pursuit of the American Dream, the excesses of the Jazz Age, and the complexities of human relationships. The narrative is filled with twists and turns, and the characters are compelling and memorable.
Poetic Language: F. Scott Fitzgerald's prose is known for its poetic and lyrical quality. The descriptions of people and places in the novel are vivid and evocative, and the language is rich and elegant.
Themes: The Great Gatsby explores important themes such as social class, love, wealth, and power, which are still relevant today. It also presents a commentary on the decadence and corruption of the American Dream in the 1920s.
Symbolism: The novel is rich in symbolism, from the green light at the end of Daisy's dock to the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. The symbols add depth and complexity to the narrative, and allow the reader to interpret the novel in multiple ways.
Overall, "The Great Gatsby" is a well-crafted novel that tells a compelling story with rich characters, poetic language, important themes, and powerful symbolism. It continues to be celebrated as a classic of American literature because it speaks to universal human experiences and emotions.
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CosmWasm
What is CosmWasm?
A smart contracting platform called CosmWasm was created for the Cosmos ecosystem. Simply described, it uses WebAssembly (Wasm) in the Cosmos (Cosm) fashion, thus the name.
The Cosmos SDK can accept modules that have been created for CosmWasm. Thus, anybody presently developing a blockchain using the Cosmos SDK may quickly and simply add CosmWasm smart contracting capabilities to their chain without changing the existing logic.


What does Microsiemens mean?
 - PPM means Parts Per Million. With a conductivity metre you can measure the number of all dissolved particles. Often the conductance is also shown in microsiemens. He says something about the amount, not the quality of the water components. 5 ppm lead, quicksilver, uranium or cadmium can be catastrophic, 1000 ppm calcium in comparison is perfect! Whoever wants to judge the quality of water with a measurement of conductance, is either completely uninformed or purposefully does not tell the truth, for to advertise —> reverse osmosis, I refer to this in another section.
 - Where does the increase in ppm come from, even though the water before electrolysis is filtered and like that the contaminants are removed? In the cathode chamber minerals build up from 2 litres of water in 1 litre alkaline activated water. Aside from some filters also adding —> calcium, because it is good for us and for the buffering of activated water. That is why it has mostly more ppm, yet fewer contaminants, which can be measured in alkaline activated water.
 - Last but not least I have to point out that with the conductance solely electrolyte, hence ions can be measured in the water, electrically neutral atoms cannot.
 - Furthermore you should consider, that the very bad contaminants like lead, quicksilver or uranium, also hormones and antibiotics in minimal amounts are very harmful. Heavy metals are measured in micrograms, whilst the good metals like calcium, magnesium or potassium are measured in milligrams, so the order of magnitude is a thousandth bigger. If a filter can remove ppm from the water, it does not mean by a long way that the "evil" ones were removed.
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In San Jose, California, stands an unlived-in mansion, a Victorian pile with 160 rooms, 40 staircases, 467 doors, and 10,000 windows. The house's eccentric chambers, tortuous hallways, and stairways to nowhere today stand as testament to the damaged, bereaved psyche of the lonely widow who designed it. Built on the tragic fortune of "the gun that won the West," this is the Winchester Mystery House, the inspiration and setting for Jeremy Blake's Winchester film trilogy. Melding Blake's signature digital abstractions with footage of the mansion, the work interrogates traditional cinematic modes of storytelling; cultural mythologies surrounding guns, violence, and the American West; and the relationship between physical and simulated reality in the digital age.
In this publication, curator Benjamin Weil considers the Winchester trilogy in the context of the artist's career, and architecture critic Mitchell Schwarzer examines the San Jose mansion and its surroundings as a peculiar convergence of three built environments: the Winchester house, the aging Century Theatres complex across the street, and the Mediterranean-style Santana Row commercial development. Lush plates presenting sequences from all three works are accompanied by artist statements that provide insight into Blake's myriad motivations and rich symbolic vocabulary.