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Weed biomass can be used to calibrate the quantity of nutrients absorbed from soil. The current approach proposes a vivid experimental protocol of analyzing edaphological indicators in view of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash (NPK) uptake by weeds. The mean dry weed biomass of tea plantations were recorded to be 256.88g/m2 while corresponding average NPK withdrawal per hectare (ha) of land was investigated to be 280.8Kg, 1.3Kg, and 21.3Kg respectively. The results precisely imply a positive correlation between weed biomass and amount of NPK withdrawn; which are thus envisaged to be directly proportional to each other, and can be attributed to be a major parameter affecting tea plantation soil fertility. Weed control can effectively reduce soil nutrient drainage.
Rubi Samanta, Sourav Chakraborty, Mainak Mukherjee, Malay Bhattacharya. Withdrawal of nutrients by weed biomass aggravates soil nutritional deficiencies in young tea plantations of Sub Himalayan West Bengal. European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 22-24

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Basketball Traveling Rules
Basketball Traveling
What is a Travel?
Traveling is a violation in basketball that occurs when a player takes too many steps without dribbling. The usual rule of thumb is that a player may only take two steps without dribbling; three steps is a travel. However, in reality this rule is much more complicated.
When Does a Travel Occur?
Traveling may occur when a player receives the ball while moving or stationary, or when a player starts dribbling. When a player receives the ball, they must establish a pivot foot.
Pivot Foot
Basketball Pivot Foot
A pivot foot is the foot that must remain in the same spot on the floor. The other foot is allowed to move in any direction any number of times, as long as the pivot foot remains put. If the pivot foot moves or leaves the ground, it will result in a travel.
If a player receives the ball with two feet on the ground, either foot may be used as a pivot foot. If a player receives the ball in the air, whichever foot touches the ground first is the pivot foot. If a player receives the ball in the air and both feet hit the ground at the same time, either foot may be used as the pivot. This is known as a jump stop.
A jump stop counts as one step. A player is allowed to use a pivot after a jump stop unless there was a step before the jump stop.
The pivot foot may move when passing or shooting, but the ball must be released before the pivot foot touches the ground again. A player can also move their pivot foot when dribbling,however, the ball must be released before moving the pivot foot to avoid a traveling violation.
Other Traveling Situations
There are other specific situations in basketball that are traveling violations:
 - If a player in possession of the ball falls to the ground, it is a travel.
 - If a player on the ground, holding the ball, stands up without dribbling, it is considered a travel. However, a player retrieving a loose ball is allowed to slide on the court without being called for a travel.
 - If a player receives the ball while running, they are allowed up to two steps before either stopping, passing, or shooting;if the player wishes to dribble in this scenario, they must release the ball before their second step. Any more than two steps will result in a traveling violation. For example, a player going for a layup is allowed two steps on their way to the basket. If three steps are taken, the player will be called for traveling and the shot will not be counted.
Calling Traveling
basketball referee hand signal traveling
The penalty for a traveling violation is a turnover to the other team. The other team will receive the ball at the out of bounds point that is closest to the spot where the travel occurred. A referee calls a traveling violation while simultaneously signaling the violation with circular arm movements. You may see fans, players and coaches may mimic this motion when they believe their opponent has committed a traveling violation.


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New ATLantis murals have been installed in space station.
The mural in the Tiangong-2 module on the International Space Station is one of the largest ever created in space.
It's being made from recycled materials, which will be reused on the orbiting outpost.
We can't wait to see what the space station looks like when it arrives.
NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MDA / SwIR / Flickr The station has been orbiting the Earth since 2009 and has a population of nearly 3.3 billion people.
It's a major milestone for the station and the human spaceflight program.
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As The Deer Pants
Ted E. Bowling
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Ted Bowling, focusing upon the figure of a deer panting for water in Psalm 42, explores the various connotations of the verb pant as it applies to thirsting after water in an arid environment as well as to the exhaustion experienced by an animal escaping from a predator, even to the point of submerging itself in a brook, in order to cover its scent. King David, as he fled from Absalom, might have written this Psalm when he was at the end of his tether, throwing himself on God's mercy, unsure whether death or God's intervention would be his fate. David, a man after God's own heart, did not ask God to spare his life, but only to facilitate a closer relationship with Him. Psalm 42 teaches us that, no matter what happens in our lives, nothing is more important than our drawing closer to God, yielding to His perfect will for us.
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Purple sapphire (Heliophorus epicles)
Purple sapphire (Heliophorus epicles) is a species of animal in the Lycaenidae, a small-medium butterfly with black wings and dark skin, black and white body and antennae, living in thickets at an elevation of _PHONE_ meters.
H. epicles has black forewings on the upper side with dark yellow plots in the midsection and white margins. The hind wings are black with a dark yellow band and white margins.
Dlium Purple sapphire (Heliophorus epicles)
The back is black or dark gray. The chest, abdomen and legs are black and white. A pair of antennae are black and white which alternately form rings with black tips.
Purple sapphire lives by roadsides, vast grassy forests and thickets of wastelands. Eggs are laid on lower plants. Larvae tend to be plump and rest on the underside of the leaves.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Lycaeninae
Tribe: Heliophorini
Genus: Heliophorus
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plot(cfit, tp_args=list(labels=a$names, gp=gpar(fontsize=8, col="darkgrey")))
(I have also tested this with the on-line example with the iris dataset.)
how do i get a 45 angle for the x axis labels in the following code
AFAIK, with base graphics, you can only ask for 0/90° orientation of labels on x- or y-axis (see the las parameter in par()). However, with lattice or ggplot2 you can do it.
Here is an example with lattice::barchart():
tt <- table(sample(LETTERS[1:6], 100, rep=T))
library(lattice)
barchart(tt, horiz=F,
 scales=list(x=list(rot=45, labels=paste("Fancy label", 1:6))))
bar chart
Replace labels with your own labels or if you already have a named table, leave it as is.
I have a big table in R, now I want to select the odd rows and paste a label before the first element of this row
If I understand your question correctly, you want to display some text and the first element of all odd rows. You can try this:
cat(paste("This is odd", A[c(2,4),1], "\n"))
No need for a loop there. Should you want to work with a larger matrix, and take all odd rows, you can use seq(2, nrow(A), by=2) instead of c(2,4).
Programming a QQ plot
Here is a simple solution using base graphics:
scores <- rnorm(200, mean=12, sd=2)
gender <- gl(2, 50, labels=c("M","F"))
opar <- par(mfrow=c(1,2))
for (g in levels(gender))
 qqnorm(scores[gender==g], main=paste("Gender =", g))
par(opar)
A more elegant lattice solution then:
qqmath(~ scores | gender, data=data.frame(scores, gender), type=c("p", "g"))
See the on-line help for qqmath for more discussion and example of possible customization.
How to combine 2 matrices into a graph
If you just want to plot correlations as a function of distances, without imposing a particular structure on your plot, you can just extract the lower part of your respective matrices, e.g.
x <- matrix(rnorm(1000), nrow=20)
d.mat <- as.matrix(dist(x))
c.mat <- cor(t(x))
plot(d.mat[lower.tri(d.mat)], c.mat[lower.tri(c.mat)])
Interactive plotting in Python?
My first thought would be Mayavi, which is great for data visualization, especially in 3D. It relies on VTK. It is included in the Enthought flavoured version of Python, together with Chaco for 2D plotting. To get an idea, look at Travis Vaught's nice screencast in Multidimensional Data Visualization in Python - Mixing Chaco and Mayavi .
It also possible to embed basic interactive functionalities (like slider) to Matplotlib, see matplotlib.widgets and the widget examples.
Finally, you can use rpy (or better, rpy2) and benefit from the R interface.
Performing an if statement on each row in R
Unfortunately, I came late and with a solution similar to @Andrie's one, like this:
dat <- matrix(c(3,3,3,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,3,1,2,2,2,3,3),
 nr=10, byrow=TRUE)
# here is our lookup table for genotypes
pat <- matrix(1:9, nr=3, byrow=T, dimnames=list(1:3,1:3))
Then
> pat[dat]
 [1] 9 8 9 9 9 9 6 2 5 9
gives you what you want.
However, I would like to say that you might find easier to use dedicated package for genetic studies, like the one found on CRAN (like genetics, gap or SNPassoc , to name a few) or Bioconductor , because they include facilities for transforming/recoding genotype data and working with haplotype.
Here is an example of what I have in mind with the above remark:
> library(genetics)
> geno1 <- as.genotype.allele.count(dat[,1]-1)
> geno2 <- as.genotype.allele.count(dat[,2]-1)
> table(geno1, geno2)
 geno2
geno1 A/A A/B
 A/A 6 1
 A/B 1 1
 B/B 0 1
Canonical Correlation Analysis in R
Your X variance-covariance matrix is not positive-definite, hence the error when internally calling fda::geigen.
There's a similar function for regularized CCA in the mixOmics package, but I guess it will lead to the same error message because it basically uses the same approach (except that they plugged the geigen function directly into the rcc function). I can't actually remember how I get it to work with my data, for a related problem (but I'll look into my old code once I find it again :-)
One solution would be to use a generalized Cholesky decomposition. There is one in the kinship (gchol; be careful, it returns a lower triangular matrix) or accuracy (sechol) package. Of course, this means modifying the code inside the function, but it is not really a problem, IMO. Or you can try to make Var(X) PD with make.positive.definite from the corpcor package.
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Controlling z labels in contourplot
Here is my take:
library(lattice)
x <- rep(seq(-1.5,1.5,length=50),50)
y <- rep(seq(-1.5,1.5,length=50),rep(50,50))
z <- exp(-(x^2+y^2+x*y))
# here is default plot
lp1 <- contourplot(z~x*y)
# here is an enhanced one
my.panel <- function(at, labels, ...) {
 # draw odd and even contour lines with or without labels
 panel.contourplot(..., at=at[seq(1, length(at), 2)], col="blue", lty=2)
 panel.contourplot(..., at=at[seq(2, length(at), 2)], col="red",
 labels=as.character(at[seq(2, length(at), 2)]))
}
lp2 <- contourplot(z~x*y, panel=my.panel, at=seq(0.2, 0.8, by=0.2))
lp3 <- update(lp2, at=seq(0.2,0.8,by=0.1))
lp4 <- update(lp3, lwd=2, label.style="align")
library(gridExtra)
grid.arrange(lp1, lp2, lp3, lp4)
You can adapt the custom panel function to best suit your needs (e.g. other scale for leveling the z-axis, color, etc.).
Gnuplot: Variable colors (and linewidths) for 2D-Vector plot
I would put only one color specification, e.g.
set xrange [0:10]
set yrange [0:10]
plot "test.dat" using 1:2:3:4:5 with vectors lw 3 lc rgb variable
where test.dat contains
1 1 2 0 0x000000
1 2 2 0 0xff0000
1 3 2 0 0xffff00
1 4 2 0 0x382288
The same can be done using the following inline rgb function
rgb(r,g,b) = int(r)*65536 + int(g)*256 + int(b)
plot "test2.dat" using 1:2:3:4:(rgb($5,$6,$7)) with vectors lw 3 lc rgb variable
where test2.dat now reads
1 1 2 0 0 0 0
1 2 2 0 255 0 0
1 3 2 0 255 255 0
1 4 2 0 56 34 136
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Location: Range Management ResearchTitle: Characterizing the spatial and temporal activities of free-ranging cows from GPS data Author
|Estell, Richard - Rick|
Submitted to: The Rangeland Journal
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/19/2012
Publication Date: 6/1/2012
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Citation: Anderson, D.M., Winters, C.D., Estell, R.E., Fredrickson, E.L., Dominec, M., Detweiler, C., Rus, D., James, D.K. 2012. Characterizing the spatial and temporal activities of free-ranging cows from GPS data. The Rangeland Journal. 34:149-161. Interpretive Summary: This research described how animal borne GPS devices set to record 1 s fixes can be used to identify standing, foraging and walking activites among free-ranging cows. The protocol requires characterizing the rate of cow travel obtained from GPS fixes with observational data recorded simultaneously while observing animals engauged in each of the three activities and using the rates of travel determined from these concurrent data to categorize consecutive GPS fixes recorded when observers were not present. This approach provides a 24-7 spatial and temporal profile of these three important cow behaviors. The procedure was evaluated on a small herd of cows in each of two years immedately before and following the abrupt weaning of their calves. Though cow travel increased significantly following weaning the most interesting aspect of these data reveal that subtle within day changes also take place and these behaviors would be missed with a less frequent fix rate. Furthermore, by using the GPS time stamp data together with the sun's angle with respect to the horizon the three behaviors were further characterized. This information should provides resource managers unique information to proactively manage cow dominated landscapes. The key to obtaining this type of management information is to use electronics that are robust and consistently reliable.
Technical Abstract: Electronic tracking provides a unique way to document animal behavior on a continuous basis. This manuscript describes how uncorrected 1 s GPS fixes can be used to characterize the rate of cow travel (m·s-1) into stationary, foraging and walking activities. Cows instrumented with GPS devices were observed; and the beginning and ending times of the above activities were recorded. Data were collected across a number of days and among a number of cows in order to calculate a mean travel rate for each activity. GPS data were also collected when observers were absent from the paddock and these data were then characterized into the three activities based on rate of travel determined between consecutive GPS fixes. The activities were further characterized within a 24 h period based on the sun's angle with respect to the horizon. GPS data were analyzed from four cows (two in 2009 and two in 2011) and collected for four consecutive 24 h periods before weaning and seven similar time intervals following weaning. Weaning took place in March each year around mid-day when calves were between 223 and 234 days of age. These data suggest abrupt weaning caused cows to change their spatial and temporal behavior not only among but also within days. Overall cow travel increased (p = 0.0093) post-weaning with subtle within day behavioral changes. Further testing will be required to substantiate the biological implication of spatial and temporal cattle behavioral changes when developing optimum proactive husbandry practices for managing cow dominated landscapes.

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A further step to carbon neutrality for Novelis in 2050
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Novelis, which operates Asia's largest aluminium recycling centre in Yeongju, NorthGyeongsang Province, is building the new recycling centre to meet the long-term global demand for sustainable, low-carbon aluminium sheet for can, automotive and high-end specialty products. The addition of Ulsan Recycling Centre will allow Novelis to increase its recycling capacity by more than 20% to 440,000 t in Korea and to enhance its capability to process different types of aluminium scrap. This is the latest in a string of Novelis' recent investments to increase its recycling capacity globally.


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The effects of equal ∑Ai for different combinations of the annealing temperature and annealing time on corrosion resistance and evolution of precipitates of Zircaloy-2 were investigated.Nodular corrosion resistance in the out-of-pile corrosion test was degraded with increasing ∑Ai only when it was increased by extending the annealing time at 894K but did not depend on ∑Ai which was increased by raising the annealing temperature for a constant annealing time of 2.5h. Extensive observation and micro-analysis of precipitates by analytical electron microscope (AEM) suggested the cause of degradation of nodular corrosion resistance to be the remarkable increase in volume fraction of Si-containing precipitates such as Zr3Si and Zr2Si, which were observed more frequently in large ∑Ai only when it was increased by extending the annealing time at 894K.On the other hand, uniform corrosion resistance was improved with increasing ∑Ai irrespective of the annealing conditions, but was slightly better when ∑Ai was increased by extending the annealing time under constant annealing temperature at 894K. This behavior can be understood from the reduction in content of alloying elements such as Fe, Cr and Ni which remained as solutes in the matrix at large ∑Ai.
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INNOVATIVE ECONOMY: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR USEFUL HUMAN CAPITAL
Keywords:human capital, development, sustainable development, school education, health, The Human Capital Index
This scientific article examines human capital and its importance for sustainable economic development. The purpose of covering the topic was to use the Human Capital Index data. In the scientific community, a holistic vision of the forms and types of human capital has not yet been formed. There is an abundance of different approaches, methods and tools for influencing the object under study.


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What your child can learn from doing a self portrait
The biggest collection of self portraits in the world, Face Britain was a national art project that offered every child the opportunity to make their face famous. Jeremy Newton, Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts, explains why it's so important for children to immortalise themselves in their own work of art.
1. Your child is unlikely to have a better excuse for looking at themselves in the mirror. A self portrait gives children the time to study their eyes, nose, mouth and the rest of their face and body, and to work out how it all fits together – perfect for teaching children how to draw basic body shapes.
2. Creating a self portrait allows the maximum amount of artistic freedom. It's you, so you can create it anyway that you want. The simplicity of a self portrait means that children can experiment with whatever materials they like to create their portrait, and try any style they wish.
3. Self portraits are a great way to get into art history. Every artist, from Rembrandt to Tracey Emim, has had a go at their self portrait. It's the perfect vehicle for tracing the changes in visual art from past to present.
4. Self portraiture is the most introspective of art forms. By creating a self portrait, children learn who they are, how they want to present themselves and what's important to them.
5. Drawing a self portrait is also excellent for teaching children that these personal ideas aren't the same as what everyone else thinks. Children can learn how diverse our society's views, values and appearances are, and hopefully develop values of respect and tolerance.
6. Self portraiture helps your child to consider their aspirations for the future. When creating a self portrait it's important to encourage your child not just to think about who they are but who they want to become.
7. Self portraits allow children to see how they change as they grow. Like everyone, children are changing all the time – both year to year and day to day. Regular self portraits allow children to document that change, and help them to understand it.
8. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, creating a self portrait is fun! Self portraiture should be about creating something for yourself, and not worrying about what other people think or how they may respond. Children will learn that doing art is, at its best, quick, simple and enjoyable.


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Definition of gunfire in English:
The repeated firing of a gun or guns: they'd been caught up in gunfire in Beirut
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Maya Bernstein, Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives at UpStart Bay Area, discusses her vision of Jewish Education for the 21st Century, one which encourages the development of "Jewish educational activism". She describes how hevruta learning can be a model for how this type of ethical education can proceed.
She suggests that the process of Hevruta learning can inform and enhance the Jewish ethical activist classroom in the following ways:
- Responsibility for the Other
- Ideas are Multi-faceted and Complex
- Deliberate Partnering – Paving the Way for Critical Relationships
- Cultivation of Compassionate Listening
- Movement between Intellectual Discussion & Personal Contemplation
- Nature of the Educational Relationship
"Hevruta is a powerful tool in facilitating the movement from study to action, and thereby helping Jewish wisdom stay relevant and agile in today's world. Jewish education can contribute invaluably to the challenge of striving to define and create an ethical global community. In our Jewish educational environments, we must ensure that we train the next generation to engage in this process, armed with a set of values, texts, and tools unique to our tradition. The philosophical methodology behind hevruta learning to create ethical educational environments should be considered as one vehicle to help ensure that the Jewish education our children receive is one that will stay with them for a lifetime, and inspire and challenge how they behave as human beings in this world."


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You can use one of the following functions :
however you should be aware of the tradeoffs between send(), transfer(), and call.value()().
x.transfer(y) is equivalent to if (!x.send(y)) throw; Send is the low level counterpart of transfer, and it's advisable to use transfer when possible. someAddress.send() and someAddress.transfer() are considered safe against reentrancy. While these methods still trigger code execution, the called contract is only given a stipend of 2,300 gas which is currently only enough to log an event.
someAddress.call.value()() will send the provided ether and trigger code execution. The executed code is given all available gas for execution making this type of value transfer unsafe against reentrancy. Using send() or transfer() will prevent reentrancy but it does so at the cost of being incompatible with any contract whose fallback function requires more than 2,300 gas.
One pattern that attempts to balance this trade-off is to implement both a push and pull mechanism, using send() or transfer() for the push component and call.value()() for the pull component.
It is worth pointing out that exclusive use of send() or transfer() for value transfers does not itself make a contract safe against reentrancy, but only makes those specific value transfers safe against reentrancy.
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The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors (死徒二十七祖, shito nijuunanaso?) are the aristocratic elite of the vampires. The original group were those of the Dead Apostles who escaped from their role as the "emergency rations" of the True Ancestors, but it currently refers to the distinct factions amongst the Dead Apostles due to some having been succeeded by new generations of Dead Apostles. Some of the originals, more than half, have been sealed away by the Church and some have been annihilated, changing the leadership of the different factions throughout the generations as they have been replaced, while others still reign as Ancestors in the present era. There are some missing numbers yet to be replaced, as they have been executed by the Church, sealed by the Church, or they are atoning for their sins.
The sealed Ancestors are stored in coffins within the Church under eternal imprisonment because they are unable to be totally destroyed. The factions following these Ancestors are still in good condition without their leaders, and they are currently gaining strength to either take back their Ancestor or destroy them.[1] Those who are over four thousand years old from the Age of Gods are referred to as the Elder Title: League of the Age of Gods (神代連盟（エルダータイトル）,?). There are those who favored establishing kingdoms consisting of Territories, Dead Apostles, and the Dead, and there are some exceptional members who possess neither a Territory nor a coven. The oldest favor Territories, whereas those who transformed from the culmination of pursuing magecraft have little interest in such power.
The main reason why the group remains in some form after years of repeated killing and destruction among each other and hunts from the Church is because one Ancestor acts as the prophet. Declaring the Rose Prophecy (薔薇の予言,?), she always foresees the death of those Ancestors and warns them so they may prepare a successor immediately. Louvre was given the message "--Tonight, Death will appear before thee" around three hours before his death. They are mainly non-aggressive against one another, and there are two main factions in the present. They can be considered an organization with power rivaling the Church and Mage's Association.[2]
They are very powerful beings, and many have the ability to utilize Reality Marbles. Their general rankings are not determined exclusively by how powerful he or she is individually, but rather the paramount danger he or she poses to humanity. Those within the first ten ranks cannot be defeated by normal concepts, as they, themselves, are fantasy much like members of the Phantasmal Species. Those who live in fantasy can only be defeated by fantasy that is greater than themselves. Furthermore, for those who have reached the Ancestor class, it is possible to exist as a phantom even after losing the physical body. Those who have completely lost their original bodies are Nrvnqsr Chaos, Stanrobe Calhin, Night of Wallachia, Gransurg Blackmore, Caubac Alcatraz, and Michael Roa Valdamjong. They are, on average, capable of facing Servants in battle, but, as both are types of beings that live in Mystery, such battles would come down to "having the means of killing the other guy somehow."[3]
Servants will generally hold a slight advantage, barring compatibility issues, and the Knight classes, Saber, Archer, and Lancer, will all be able to have solid fights. Though Saber's Excalibur is extremely effective against those who overwhelm by material quantity and alienness, there are those capable of surviving being hit by Excalibur-class attacks through pure endurance. At the same time, those same ones with extreme endurance would have a tough time with Lancer's Gae Bolg.[4] ORT, to which Earth's rules do not apply, and Primate Murder can be called in a league of their own above both Ancestors and Servants.[5]
Aylesbury ValestiEdit
One major event for the Ancestors is the Aylesbury Valesti (アルズベリ・バレステイン,?) ritual established by Crimson Moon that involves the revival of The Dark Six.[6] It is a grand ritual the Ancestors have been preparing for decades, and it has come together in Aylesbury over the last ten years. It is suggested that the ritual, performed much earlier in the 1970s for unknown reasons, resulted in the world's mana being dried up in Fate/Extra.[7] Due to the development being funded and developed entirely by human means, the Mage's Association and Church are unable to intervene until the advent of the ritual.
List of the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle AncestorsEdit
 1. Primate Murder
 2. The Dark Six is the Original Dead Apostle (最初の死徒,?) known as the Six Royalties of the Dark (闇色の六王権,?) and the First and Highest System (最古にして最高のシステム, saiko ni shite saikou no system?). It has not reached one-hundred percent completion and it is currently regenerating.[9] It is supposed to bring all Dead Apostles together once it awakens in the Aylesbury ritual.
 3. Brunestud of the Crimson Moon (Type-Moon)
 4. Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg (Wizard Marshall Zelretch)
 5. ORT (Type-Mercury)
 9. Altrouge Brunestud
 10. Nrvnqsr Chaos
 Replacement : Louvre (Dead Apostle of the Lake)
 12. ???
 13. Night of Wallachia (TATARI, Zepia Eltnam Oberon)
 14. Van-Fem
 16. Gransurg Blackmore (Lord of the Black Wing)
 17. Trhvmn Ortenrosse
 18. Enhance
 19. ???
 20. Merem Solomon (Crown)
 22. ???
 23. ???
 25. ???
 26. ???
 27. Caubac Alcatraz
Extra: Michael Roa Valdamjong (The Serpent of Akasha)
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Title: [KCNQ4 gene mutations affected a pedigree with autosomal dominant hereditary hearing loss]
Authors: Qiuju Wang, Juyang Cao, Ning Li, Yang Yang, Qigui Wang, Liming Yu, Dongyi Han, Weiyan Yang
Journal, date & volume: Zhonghua Er Bi Yan Hou Ke Za Zhi, 2002 Oct , 37, 343-7
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate if the KCNQ4 gene contributes to a Chinese non-syndromic hearing loss pedigree and to detect the gene mutations in the pedigree using candidate approach. METHODS: PCR-SSCP and clone sequencing were performed to identify the mutations and polymorphism in PCR products of KCNQ4 coding sequence in the six-generations pedigree of autosomal dominant hereditary hearing loss. RESULTS: Mutations and polymorphism detection were performed on the KCNQ4 coding sequence in 36 family members of the pedigree. A molecular polymorphism marker located in the exon2 and exon3 intron sequence, which resulted from a copy variation of 47 base pairs insertion or deletion, was found in KCNQ4 sequence. CONCLUSION: A new molecular polymorphism marker with different genotypes was proved to locate at the intron sequence between at exon2 and exon3. The correlation between genotype and phenotype was analyzed. Deaf individuals were accompanied by the increase of the intron copies in the family. These findings suggest that the changes of the copies of intron between exon2 and exon3 of KCNQ4 might be a specific marker for the hearing loss of the pedigree.


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All-American Food Recipe Makeovers
Recipe Makeovers for All-American Food
Cook lighter versions of American cuisine classics.
By Elaine Magee, MPH, RD
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Reviewed by Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD / LD
I love all of the kitchens that make up our American food culture. Where else can you find almost any type of food under the sun, from Indian to Thai, Chinese and Japanese; Italian, Greek, French, Mexican, Cuban, Vietnamese, Indonesian and more? However, there are still foods that are unmistakably American.
There are foods that may have been invented elsewhere but turned into American phenomena, such as french fries, fruit cakes, cupcakes, popcorn, bagels, pizza, and the entire "salads" category. There are foods we made ourselves, like pancakes and waffles, grilled cheese sandwiches, and muffins. And then there is really American food invented by Americans on American soil, such as toll house cookies, corn dogs, cornbread, donuts, potato chips, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Another great American food contribution: Almost anything ice related, like ice cream sandwiches, sundaes of hot fudge, and root beer floats.
All of these all-American foods are fantastic and part of our culinary heritage. The problem is, most of them are low in nutrients and low in fiber - but a lot of calories. Admittedly, some classic American foods cannot be overworked while retaining their desirable properties - donuts, for example. But many others can be "treated" to have fewer calories and fat while still staying true to the delicious food that Americans have come to know and love.
Here are 12 all-American foods great for cutting calories, followed by some brightened up American recipes.
American Food Makeover # 1: Apple Pie
According to The Food Encyclopediasa) Apples were introduced to North America from Europe and Western Asia in the 17th century. Apple dishes have been interwoven in American cuisine ever since, from apple chips to caramel apples to apple pie.
Makeover Tips: Make a lighter apple pie by using a low-fat, partially whole grain crust and using less sugar in the filling. The filling or the top crust also does not have to be "dotted" with butter.
American Food Makeover # 2: Chocolate Chip Cookies
By most standards, the chocolate chip cookie is the epitome of an American biscuit. And one of the most famous chocolate chip cookies is the Toll House Cookie. Ruth Graves Wakefield made America's original chocolate chip cookie from small pieces of semi-sweet chocolate in 1939 at her Toll House Inn near Whitman, Massachusetts The new food lover's companion.
Makeover Tips: Use a low-fat margarine with plant sterols instead of stick butter or margarine in your chocolate chip cookie recipe. You can cut the sugar by a quarter and replace half of the white flour with whole wheat flour. Using a little less chocolate chips will also shave some calories and fat grams.
American Food Makeover # 3: Corn Bread
This is an all-American fast bread that is made in all different styles (Mediterranean, frying pan, sweet) with all sorts of features (green pepper, cheese, bacon, onion, etc.). There have been all sorts of names for cornbread, and there are many variations that are part of American culinary history, such as johnnycakes, hushpuppies, and spoonbreads.
Makeover Tips: Make cornbread recipes easier by using less fat in the batter (replace bacon fat, lard, or shortening with a low-fat margarine with plant sterols) and replace that fat with low-fat buttermilk or fat-free sour cream. For some recipes, you can make a fat substitute mixture of canola oil and non-fat sour cream. Use fewer eggs (replace two egg whites or 1/4 cup egg substitutes). If your recipe calls for ingredients like bacon or cheese to stir in, consider using a low-fat option and adding less of it. Increase the fiber in your cornbread by replacing half of the white flour you need with whole wheat flour.
American Food Makeover # 4: Corn Dogs
This popular carnival and state fair, where a hot dog on a stick is dipped in thick cornbread batter and deep-fried, was created for the state fair in 1942 by Texan Neil Fletcher The new food lover's companion.
Makeover Tips: Use leaner dogs (there are several "light" brands) and bake your corn dog until the cornbread batter is firm instead of deep-frying it. If deep-frying is a must, use at least one cooking fat that is higher in monounsaturated fat, preferably one that also contains vegetable omega-3s (like canola oil).
American Food Makeover # 5: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Most of us grew up on mommy's grilled cheese sandwiches. They are also standard rates for guests across the country.
Makeover Tips: Make a healthier grilled cheese sandwich by using whole grain or multigrain bread (multigrain sourdough is delicious), low-fat cheese, or a little less of the regular cheese. Instead of buttering them, quickly spray the outsides of the bread with canola oil before placing it on your non-stick griddle or pan.
American Food Makeover # 6: Muffins
Muffins are very popular on the American breakfast and dinner table. American muffins are usually leavened with baking soda or baking soda instead of yeast. They offer a wide variety of ingredients and flavors, from savory to sweet.
Makeover Tips: You can reduce the fat in your muffin batter - you really only need about 2 tablespoons of oil for every 12 small muffins. You can also replace half of the white flour with whole grain wheat. And you can cut down the sugar and add ingredients like fresh or dried fruit, ground cinnamon, and roasted nuts to give the flavor a boost.
American Food Makeover # 7: Pancakes
Many countries have their own version of pancakes: thin or thick; small or large; filled or topped with delicious ingredients. American pancakes are often made with buttermilk, are typically thicker than other pancakes around the world, and are generally around 4 inches wide.
Makeover Tips: Make lighter pancakes by adding less fat to the batter, using low-fat milk or buttermilk, and adding very little fat (if any) to the pan. But that's only half the health battle with pancakes - it's what people do with the pancakes after they cook that can really pile the calories. Keep added butter, whipped cream, and syrup to a minimum and switch to reduced calorie pancake syrup if possible. If you really need to add butter, go for the whipped variety.
American Food Makeover # 8: Pizza
Pizza may have started in Italy, but America made it the popular food it is today. American pizza chains are constantly trying to come up with new and exciting toppings, along with crust variations like filled, deep dish, or crispy.
Makeover Tips: Avoid greasy pizza places and look for more authentic pizzerias with a bread-like crust, lots of nutritious pizza sauce, and a moderate amount of cheese. Choose vegetables as toppings instead of high-fat meat. If you're making pizza at home, replace half of the white flour with whole wheat flour. You can also choose a semi-skimmed or low-fat cheese.
American Food Makeover # 9: Popcorn
Most people can't go to the movies without buying popcorn. For many, it's the standard snack at the end of a long day at work or at school. A common equation for popcorn is that a tablespoon of oil plus 1/2 cup of corn kernels pops up to about 4 cups. And that doesn't even include the butter that is usually drizzled over it.
Makeover Tips: Use less oil when popping the corn and add less butter after popping. Basically, this is what popcorn makers are doing with their light microwave popcorn options.
American Food Makeover # 10: Potato Chips
These crunchy snack-time favorites were reportedly invented by a cook at Moon's Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1853. One guest insisted on extra thin fries, so Chef George Crumb cut the potatoes thinly and made them crispy when fried.
Makeover Tips: You need some oil if you're making potato chips (without this they would just taste like dried potatoes), but the trick is to use less of them. To achieve this, bake thinly sliced potatoes with a light layer of canola cooking spray or a light brush of canola oil instead of deep-frying them.
American Food Makeover # 11: Potato Salad
The American rendition of creamy potato salad - a standard at delis, picnics, and barbecues - is dressed in mayonnaise. The German-style potato salad uses a warm vinaigrette that is traditionally made from bacon fat.
Makeover Tips: Instead of using regular mayonnaise, make a light mayo dressing by using half light mayonnaise and half fat-free sour cream. Refine the taste of the dressing with honey mustard or relish, freshly ground black pepper or herbs and spices.
American Food Makeover # 12: Root Beer Float
These are on the menu in many American cities in ice cream parlors and old-fashioned soda fountains.The original root beer was a low-alcohol carbonated drink that was made in Philadelphia, according to a druggist The Food Encyclopedia. Today's root beer is of course a soda pop with flavors reminiscent of that earlier drink.
Makeover Tips: Make a low calorie root


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Background: Isolated populations are a useful resource for mapping complex traits due to shared stable environment, reduced genetic complexity and extended Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) compared to the general population. Here we describe a large genetic isolate from the North West Apennines, the mountain range that runs through Italy from the North West Alps to the South.
Methodology/principal findings: The study involved 1,803 people living in 7 villages of the upper Borbera Valley. For this large population cohort, data from genealogy reconstruction, medical questionnaires, blood, anthropometric and bone status QUS parameters were evaluated. Demographic and epidemiological analyses indicated a substantial genetic component contributing to each trait variation as well as overlapping genetic determinants and family clustering for some traits.
Conclusions/significance: The data provide evidence for significant heritability of medical relevant traits that will be important in mapping quantitative traits. We suggest that this population isolate is suitable to identify rare variants associated with complex phenotypes that may be difficult to study in larger but more heterogeneous populations.


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The craft of making swords has been inherited from parents and grandparents and it has been mastered by the Damascenes. Sword is considered the rarest and most exquisite antique gifts; it is also considered a precious masterpiece and heritage for those who are interested.
- Swords have two types:
Yamani, Indian and Kilij swords: are good swords with old wootz steel blade.
Khurasani, Egyptian and Damascene swords: are new swords with modern wootz steel blade.
There are others names of swords such as ( al Husam, al Mohanad, al Sarem, al Battar, al Masoor, Zul Fiqar, al Rasoob, al Maqzam ). Prophet Mohammad also had nicknames for his swords such as ( al Maqzam, Kilij, al Rasoob, al Masoor, al Battar ).
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North America holds about 5% of the world's population and 25% of its incarcerated population. Its prison population has increased 800% in the past 40 years. And Michigan prisoners will typically serve 120% of their minimum sentence.
Those stats call for action. And a population of students in the Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI) program are helping facilitate some important conversations related to these statistics from behind bars.
"Inner transformation is key to radical reconciliation, and ultimately restorative justice. We hope that as more people come to see the humanity and values of these forgotten men and women, the willingness to discard people will end."
Jamie Sturdevant, a student at Calvin's Handlon Prison campus, spoke this collective hope on behalf of the CPI students who organized and led the second annual West Michigan Restorative Justice Conference. The theme of the October 13 conference was "Hope, Healing, and Radical Reconciliation."
Leading from inside the fences
Throughout the conference, CPI students introduced speakers, explained restorative justice, and sang original pieces via pre-recorded videos. The Handlon Tabernacle Choir began the conference in song and then proceeded to define restorative justice.
CPI student Shawn England described how restorative justice is focused on relationship-building, not punishment. "Reconciliation requires more than leaving places of power for periodic visits to communities of oppressed people," he said. "It means building ongoing relationships with many persons from marginalized communities and engaging in those relationships for the duration of our lives."
"The road to healing and reconciliation is never easy; it requires humility and courage," CPI student Aaron Wadsworth added. "We are all called to walk this road, but we do not walk the road alone."
Restorative justice speakers
The student organizers introduced conference speakers from various backgrounds and experiences with restorative justice. Calvin alumnus and former professor Nicholas Wolterstorff argued that restorative justice must focus on healing the breach between personal relationships rather than providing a consequence for a harm. "Aren't persons more important than laws? Aren't laws for the sake of persons?" Wolterstorff challenged.
Father David Kelly, the director of Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, followed Wolterstorff by encouraging others to become more proximate to those affected by injustice. "We have to be willing to go in and touch the woundedness of one another," Kelly said. "As a church, we ought to be living in the Holy Saturday moment—to embrace the hurt and pain of the crucifixion, and yet give witness to the resurrection."
After offering statistics on the history of American incarceration, writer and speaker Dominique Gilliard spoke on America's historic, concealed imprisonment system: convict leasing. "We are addicted to punitiveness and we have understood it as justice. As Christians, we cannot accept that definition of justice because it is morally bankrupt," Gilliard said.
State representative and Calvin alumnus David LaGrand then provided an inside look at Michigan's criminal justice landscape and specific legislative areas for reform. He argued that the church has a crucial role to play in this pursuit. "We need to focus on who is hurt and how we can heal who is hurt," LaGrand said.
Jerline Riley then spoke about losing her son in February 1994 at the hands of a CPI student. She described the long reconciliation process between herself and the student, and how she now views him as a son. "I see him moving forward and doing great things with his life, because that's what God raises us up for," Riley said. "Seventy times seven—that's how I feel about life. I hope I play a role in him coming home someday. I am a wounded healer, and I want God to use my story to plant seeds."
Hope College professor and Calvin alumnus Charlotte Van-Oyen Witvliet concluded the conference by speaking on the dehumanization of the incarcerated and the power of forgiveness. "We cannot confuse an image bearer of God with the wrongdoing of which they are responsible," Van-Oyen Witvliet said. "This person needs to undergo positive transformation; that transformation helps us pivot away from desiring that person's destruction."
Restorative Justice Club
The conference was made possible by Handlon's Restorative Justice Club, which meets biweekly to learn about how to become part of the movement toward a more personable and just society. Professors Thomas R. Thompson and Matthew Walhout have been the club's faculty mentors since the club's inception in Fall 2017. "The club's members and leadership are highly self-motivated and self-facilitating. We receive much more than we give, but we do provide some administrative legs on the outside of the facility," Thompson said.
According to Thompson, the Restorative Justice Club members would like the conference venue to vary institutionally and ecumenically throughout the coming years to achieve greater awareness and participation in the restorative justice movement. In March 2017, the first West Michigan Restorative Justice Conference took place at Hope College.
Currently, efforts are being made to launch a chapter of the Restorative Justice Club on Calvin's main campus, which would interact and coordinate with the CPI chapter's interests and efforts.


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|Bradley Rubenstein, Unititled (Girl with Puppy Dog Eyes), 1996|
At first I see this image as a brash conceit. All art is a conceit - right? - but this image forces me to see the conceit, to see that it's a mash-up. Maybe I am troubled because I have this ontological conviction that a photograph tells me something about reality. Maybe so. But maybe the reality that I am seeing is not so conceitful as I first think. What is going on here? Through the use of digital manipulation puppy dog eyes are inserted into a girl's eyes.
I Like Images That Make Me Re-Think What I am Seeing
I like images that ask me to question the image, to make me consider its mode of production. How did the artist do this? What was his method? I suppose this is Rubenstein's point. By making me aware of how this particular image was produced I am struck by another possibility - the genetic manipulation that would be required to produce a real girl born with puppy dog eyes. Rubenstein is playing with conceit to alert us to the biogenetic possibility that what we see as conceit could become a reality. What if someone decided that little girls and little puppies are a desirable combination? Is what we see in the art an image of a possible future?
Two Paragons of Cuteness: Kids and Puppies
On the placard, a museum curator has written this, "Merging two paragons of cuteness—kids and puppies—into unsettling hybrids, the artist offers an eerie forewarning of the transgressive potential of genetic manipulation." Where is the transgression? In imagining such mutations? Is the point that the degrees that separate the photoshop touch-up from the biogenetic not that far apart? Perhaps. Maybe the most unsettling aspect of Rubenstein's photographs is that he is telling us we have already arrived at this stage - we are just waiting for the biotechnology to catch up. I think I need to go watch Bladerunner and re-read Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans.
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art


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The surface tension of a liquid can be determined by measuring the force F needed to just lift a circular platinum ring of radius r from the surface of the liquid. (a) Find a formula for y in terms of F and r. (b) At 30o C, if F = 8.40 x 10-3N and r = 2.8 cm. calculate y for the tested liquid.
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Fits and tolerances are a foundational mechanical design skill, but they're commonly misunderstood and misused. In this video, we explain how to apply correct and functional fits and tolerances using ASME B4.1 and Machinery's Handbook, so your parts fit together exactly as you intend, the first time, every time. No emergency filing required! Thanks to Tarrka Design!
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If you are in Mr. Hurd or Mr. Phan's class, you can answer these questions in schoology to hand them in electronically for full credit. Otherwise, answer the questions, and hand them in to your teacher using their preferred method.
 1. When you dimension a part on a drawing, the dimension you use to make the part is called the _____________ dimension. Fill in the blank and explain why we cannot manufacture a part to this dimension.
 2. Define the word tolerance as it relates to the manufacturing of parts.
 3. (0:50) Looking at the chart in the video at 0:50, which process provides a more accurate dimension? Electrical Discharge Machining or Milling? Give at least one reason why you think this to be true. (Hint: Look up wire EDM if you do not know what it is…)
 4. (1:03) What factors influence how accurate a machining process is? List at least three.
 5. (1:17) How come we don't just manufacture everything to within a tolerance of 0.001"? Explain…
 6. (1.29) Describe a Running fit and give an example in manufacturing when you might need this type of fit.
 7. (1:31) Describe a Clearance fit and give an example in manufacturing when you might need this type of fit.
 8. (1:33) Describe a Press fit and give an example in manufacturing when you might need this type of fit.
 9. (3:22) Describe the difference between an LC9 and an LC11 tolerance from the Machinery Handbook. What type of equipment is necessary to achieve these fits?
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For Prompt Storm 15, Megan calls for photographs of Rocks, Gems and Minerals. There were so really cool photos I wanted to share with you (in my head) but my library is not within my reach due to probably permanent technical difficulties. So, instead my contribution focus more on rock formation near the sea due to volcanic activity or sea erosion.
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1. Petite Piton [One of the twin peaks created by volcanic plugs in Soufriere, St. Lucia]
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On the strength and timing of fire-grazing interactions in grassland ecosystems
Spatiotemporal interactions between fire and grazing are known to be a key process generating habitat heterogeneity and sustaining biodiversity in mesic grasslands. However, the strength and role of fire-grazing interactions in semiarid, low-productivity grasslands are poorly understood. We studied patch burn grazing in the semiarid shortgrass steppe of northeastern Colorado, comparing unburned pastures with pastures where 25% of the area was burned in the fall of each year. For each of 4 years with varying precipitation amounts and timing, we tracked cattle responses to the patch burns using GPS collars. We used direct observations of cattle foraging bouts to develop a model predicting periods of cattle activity versus inactivity based on GPS collar data. We evaluated the degree to which grazing cattle select burned versus unburned portions of pastures, and whether such models improve predictions compared to analyses based on all animal locations.
Grazing cattle selected burned patches during periods when vegetation was growing rapidly (indexed by increasing NDVI), whereas cattle grazing distribution was more strongly controlled by topography when vegetation greenness was stable or declining. In 3 of 4 years, cattle weight gains during the May-Oct grazing season were unaffected by patch burning; in the fourth year, patch burn significantly increased the rate of cattle weight gain. Our findings show that fire does significantly influence the spatiotemporal pattern of grazing in semiarid grasslands, but this interaction is substantially weaker than in mesic grasslands and is contingent upon the timing of precipitation pulses and associated patterns of vegetation growth and senescence.


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CR-39 is transparent in visible spectrum and is almost completely opaque in the ultraviolet range. It has high abrasion resistance, in fact the highest abrasion/scratch resistance of any uncoated optical plastic. CR-39 is about half the weight of glass and index of refraction only slightly lower than that of crown glass, making it an advantageous material for eyeglasses and sunglasses lenses. A wide range of colors can be achieved by dyeing of the surface or the bulk of the material. CR-39 is also resistant to most of solvents and other chemicals, to gamma radiation, to aging, and to material fatigue. It can withstand the small hot sparks from welding. It can be used continuously in temperatures up to 100 °C and up to one hour in 130 °C.
In the radiation detection application, raw CR-39 material is exposed to proton recoils caused by incident neutrons. The proton recoils cause tracks, which are enlarged by an etching process in a caustic solution of sodium hydroxide.
The enlarged tracks are counted under a microscope (commonly 200x), and the number of tracks is proportional to the amount of incident neutron radiation.
Effect of alpha-particle energies on CR-39 line-shape parameters using positron annihilation technique.(Polyally diglycol carbonate )
Jul 01, 2006; Polyally diglycol carbonate "CR-39" is widely used as etched track type particle detector. Doppler broadening positron...


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MURRAY, UT (2/7/2011) – One of the most prolific inventors at Intermountain Medical Center has come up with a new invention: a device that could potentially revolutionize diabetes care.
The new device is called a Smart Tray and was invented by Joel Ehrenkranz, MD, director of diabetes and endocrinology at Intermountain Medical Center, flagship hospital for the Intermountain Healthcare system.
The tray includes seven separate sections, each with its own sensitive scale, and is programmed with a database of 7,000 food items
Users can place different foods on the tray, tell the tray what it's holding, and begin eating. The tray will instantly calculate the calories, carbohydrates, protein, and fat being consumed. That information can be relayed wirelessly to a computer, mobile device, or insulin pump and automatically determine the patient's next dose of insulin.
"Right now diabetics don't have access to accurate, personalized nutritional information. It's very timeand labor-intensive to calculate, so it's hard for hospitals and individuals to do. That makes it harder to control the disease," said Dr. Ehrenkranz.
"The Smart Tray gives caregivers and patients precise information, and that will empower them to better manage diabetes," he says.
The Smart Tray can also track things like potassium, cholesterol, and sodium, which will benefit individuals with heart failure,renal failure, high cholesterol, and even individuals who just want to loseweight. The tray is also customizable, so that users can input their familyrecipes.
One major benefit is that the tray works with Intermountain Healthcare's internationally recognized electronic health record system, sothat nutritional information can be streamed into a patient's chart and become part of an extremely complex set of data used to improve care.
The Smart Tray project began at Intermountain Medical Center, with collaboration from Richard Brown, dean of the University of Utah College of Engineering. A patent is pending and The Smart Tray is moving toward production. The goal is to use it in Intermountain hospitals and eventuallymake it available to individuals for use at home.
"This project is the type of research and innovation that is occurring at Intermountain Medical Center on a daily basis," says David Grauer, CEO/administrator of the hospital. "We're very proud to be able to support this kind of work that will lead to significant advancements in the way care is delivered to patients."
Currently, there are more than 500 clinical trials underway at Intermountain Medical Center.
The Smart Tray is the latest in a long list of inventions by Dr. Ehrenkranz, who has developed several drugs and medical devices. One recent example is a simple, inexpensive test for iodine deficiency. The test, featured in the February edition of the journal Thyroid, works like a home pregnancy test, eliminating the need for labs and technicians. It's being used in developing nations to diagnose newborns with iodine deficiency and begin treatment, preventing major public health problems such as goiter.
Dr. Ehrenkranz is a graduate of Stanford School of Medicine and has served on the medical staffs of hospitals on the East Coast, Colorado, and Arizona. He is the holder of seven patents and is widely published in the field of endocrinology. He has served in roles with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, as well as several professional organizations.
Dr. Ehrenkranz, MD, and a handful of other scientists, were recently honored by the University of Utah for their inventions and contributions to advancing science in the state of Utah.


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Interviewing is the art of capturing and shaping smoke; it's holding up a mirror and hoping you'll get a true image and not discover you're talking to a vampire who shows no reflection. [p360]
Grobel's interviews have primarily been for print: magazines. In his final chapter, he interviews himself (with some amusing repartee!). But this exchange gets at the heart of what someone who wants to interview family can get from his book, besides the fascinating celebrity anecdotes:
Q: A Lot of the anecdotes deal with celebrities, but most people who might be curious abou innerviewing won't be interviewing celebrities. Why didn't you devote a chapter to how to talk to farmesrs, pharmacists, salesmen, teachers and others who might make interesting stories for local newspapers and such?
A: Because there's no difference: you prepare for a papermaker or a geologist or restaurateur the same as you do a movie star. It really doesn't matter who you interview, the procecss is the same: you do all the research you can, you look for ares of interest, you aim for originality, you write down questions or topics, you try to keep your questions concise and to the point, and you listen. And always remember that you're in charge. If you lead, your subject will follow.
Q: What's the difference between a conversation and an interview?
A: A conversation is something people do when they open their mouths and talk to each other. An interview is a conversation that is edited, structured, put together like a jigsaw puzzle, and focused more on one person than the other. …[A straight transcription of who ordered what at the restaurant is] mostly boring, as most conversations tend to be. Interviews, hopefully, are conversations with the boring parts edited out. An interview is not a true dialog, but a prompted monologue. Someone is asking someone else questions and eliciting answers. [p345-355]
At a discussion on writing for character and dialog (i.e., screenwriting), someone made a similar observation: A movie is about life, with all the boring parts cut out. Here, "movie" refers to the finished form, the script, the story, the finished form on the screen. What is meant by "interview" is a tad more ambiguous, since it refers to the process of sitting down and having that structured conversation, as well as the finished form that appears in print.
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More than $352 million has been approved through the Regional Early Action Planning grants program (REAP 2.0) through the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
"These highly competitive awards are going to communities that have demonstrated a strong commitment to transforming historically under-resourced communities," said HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez. "High-impact REAP 2.0 grants will make possible the development of significant affordable housing near transit hubs, connecting vulnerable Californians to opportunity and moving the state toward its climate goals by reducing vehicle traffic."
REAP 2.0 is a flexible grant program for building neighborhoods that allow more Californians to live closer to jobs, services, and daily destinations. It provides planning and implementation dollars to cities, counties, and regional governments to build sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities that are inclusive and take measurable strides toward reducing vehicle miles traveled.
"Abundant affordable housing is key to addressing the climate crisis," said Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Secretary Lourdes Castro Ramírez. "California is proud to partner with local communities to build more affordable homes in the right places – near jobs, transit and neighborhood services – to mitigate the impact of climate change, improve people's quality of life, and meet the state's climate goals."
The majority of funding will go to Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) including:
- Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG) $9.1 million
- Madera County Transportation Commission (MCTC) $2.2 million
- Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) $31.8 million
- San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) $38.7 million
- Shasta Regional Transportation Agency (SRTA) $2.2 million
- Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) $237.4 million
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) $567,239
- City of Oakland $10 million
- City of Rancho Cordova $4 million
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) $2.4 million
- San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) $10 million
- Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) $3.6 million
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I'm looking for ways to determine the quality of a photography (jpg). The first thing that came into my mind was to compare the file-size to the amount of pixel stored within. Are there any other ways, for example to check the amount of noise in a jpg? Does anyone have a good reading link on this topic or any experience? By the way, the project I'm working on is written in C# (.net 3.5) and I use the Aurigma Graphics Mill for image processing.
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I'm not entirely clear what you mean by "quality", if you mean the quality setting in the JPG compression algorithm then you may be able to extract it from the EXIF tags of the image (relies on the capture device putting them in and no-one else overwriting them) for your library see here:
If you mean any other sort of "quality" then you need to come up with a better definition of quality. For example, over-exposure may be a problem in which case hunting for saturated pixels would help determine that specific sort of quality. Or more generally you could look at statistics (mean, standard deviation) of the image histogram in the 3 colour channels. The image may be out of focus, in which case you could look for a cutoff in the spatial frequencies of the image Fourier transform. If you're worried about speckle noise then you could try applying a median filter to the image and comparing back to the original image (more speckle noise would give a larger change) - I'm guessing a bit here.
If by "quality" you mean aesthetic properties of composition etc then - good luck!
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basically, I only need to know the amount of noise and compression in a given image. – Matthias Jan 12 '09 at 14:29
Okay - so with any luck the EXIF tags will give you the compression and something based on a median filter and comparison back to the original image with give you a measure of noise: – Ian Hopkinson Jan 12 '09 at 14:55
The 'quality' of an image is not measurable, because it doesn't correspond to any particular value. If u take it as number of pixels in the image of specific size its not accurate. You might talk about a photograph taken in bad light conditions as being of 'bad quality', even though it has exactly the same number of pixels as another image taken in good light conditions. This term is often used to talk about the overall effect of an image, rather than its technical specifications.
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I think you're asking about how to determine the quality of the compression process itself. This can be done by converting the JPEG to a BMP and comparing that BMP to the original bitmap from with the JPEG was created. You can iterate through the bitmaps pixel-by-pixel and calculate a pixel-to-pixel "distance" by summing the differences between the R, G and B values of each pair of pixels (i.e. the pixel in the original and the pixel in the JPEG) and dividing by the total number of pixels. This will give you a measure of the average difference between the original and the JPEG.
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I wanted to do something similar, but wanted the "Soylent Green" option and used people to rank images by performing comparisons. See the question responses here.
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Reading the number of pixels in the image can tell you the "megapixel" size(_TAG_/_PHONE_), which can be a crude form of programatic quality check, but that wont tell you if the photo is properly focused, assuming it is supposed to be focused (think fast-motion objects, like trains), nor weather or not there is something in the pic worth looking at, that will require a human, or pigeon if you prefer.
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sure, you can't tell whether you're dealing with a nice image or not ;) I just need to roughly check whether the image might be of poor quality, technically. If you have a 3000*2000px image with a filesize of 500kb, the probability is quite high that it is not of too good quality. – Matthias Jan 12 '09 at 12:29
I just created 20,271 byte (19.7 KB) image that is 3000*2000 and I would say that the quality is Perfect, it exactly reflects what I intended it to. – UnkwnTech Jan 12 '09 at 12:37
All the measurement of 3000*2000 = 1.5MB tells you is how much data is stored in the file, which may or may not be indicative of it's quality. – UnkwnTech Jan 12 '09 at 12:39
And more colors == bigger filesize what if the pic is of a starry sky? It could easily have a small file size, high resolution, and excelent Quality – UnkwnTech Jan 12 '09 at 12:40
right, the number of colors really is a drawback on this form of comparison. but once again, it doesn't have to be too exact, just a rough guideline. – Matthias Jan 12 '09 at 12:49
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Pope Francis will visit this Catholic-run HIV treatment center in Mozambique
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Days ahead of his trip to three Eastern African nations, Pope Francis sent a video message to the people of Mozambique, saying his heart embraces them.
Vatican City, (CNA) - Days ahead of his trip to three Eastern African nations, Pope Francis sent a video message to the people of Mozambique, saying his heart embraces them.
Part of Francis' visit to the country's capital city of Maputo Sept. 5-6 will be a stop at the Zimpeto DREAM center, a medical clinic run by the Community of Sant'Egidio, a lay Catholic movement centered on peace and helping the poor.
The Zimpeto DREAM Center, which opened in 2002, is focused on HIV prevention and antiretroviral treatment. According to the Sant'Egidio Community, around 23% of the adult population in Maputo is estimated to have HIV.
The center sits on the outskirts of Maputo, in one of the city's poorest and most populated neighborhoods. Pope Francis will visit the center and greet patients the morning of Sept. 6 before saying Mass in the Zimpeto stadium.
The Zimpeto clinic has four wards. One is for treating HIV infection and for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission and another is for the early detection of cervical and breast cancer.
Another department treats tuberculosis, which is among the leading causes of death both in HIV-infected people and in Mozambique in general.
The fourth ward is for treating malnourishment, especially in children.
Sant'Egidio estimates the Zimpeto DREAM Center has served 3,800 patients and has helped 500 children of HIV-positive mothers be born free of the virus.
An estimated 200,000 patients have been treated in an additional 12 DREAM centers throughout Mozambique, with three biomolecular laboratories. The centers have also provided free training courses to around 5,000 health professionals.
Pope Francis said in his video message Aug. 30 that though he will not be traveling beyond Mozambique's capital during this visit, his "heart reaches and embraces all of you, with a special place for those who live in tribulation."
Mozambique suffered grave destruction and loss of life after being struck by Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in March and April of this year.
Around 600 people lost their lives in Mozambique in Cyclone Idai and an additional 45 in Cyclone Kenneth. The destruction to land and infrastructure was catastrophic and is estimated to have caused a combined almost $900 million in damages.
The pope said Aug. 30 he is praying for the people of Mozambique and cannot wait to meet with them.
He also invited everyone to join him in praying to God the Father for fraternal reconciliation in the country.
On Aug. 6, Mozambique's government signed a long-anticipated peace and reconciliation accord with the opposition party, Renamo. The peace deal comes after decades of conflict, which followed the 1992 end of a 17-year civil war. The signing concludes years of peace talks.
"Hope for a firm and lasting peace," Francis said.
"I will have the joy of sharing these convictions with you," he said, and of seeing the growth of the seed planted by Pope St. John Paul II during his 1988 visit to the country.
"This trip enables me to meet the Catholic community and to confirm it in its witness of the Gospel, which teaches the dignity of every man and woman and exacts from us to open our hearts to others, especially the poor and the needy," he stated.
"I invoke upon you and upon your country God's blessings and the protection of our Mother, the Virgin Mary. See you soon!" he concluded.
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- The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
- I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
- The state or quality of being aware of something
- The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
- (state of consciousness): consciousness, wakefulness
- (state of being aware of something): knowledge, consciousness
the state of consciousness
the state or quality of being aware of something


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The molad (average synodic lunar period) is expressed by Rabban Gamliel (in Rosh Hashanah 25a) as 29 1/2 days, 2/3 of an hour, and 73 chalakim (1 chelek = 3 1/3 seconds).
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73 may have been the Sanhedrin of Shamaya and Avtalyon.
Both were converts to Judaism; there's some discussion whether they were full voting members of the Sanhedrin, or only served in an advisory, non-voting capacity (in which case 71 +2 = 73).
73 are the volumes of Schottenstein.
(It fits the beat!)
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73 is the number of answers to shiv'im mi yodeya!
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73 is the regular (alef = 1... tav = 400) gematria of "חכמה" (wisdom) and the reverse (in decimal representation) of the ordinal-value (alef = 1... tav = 22) gematria of the same word (37).
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