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Mouse cursors let you simulate mouse movements in your Articulate Storyline courses. They're great for software training and simulations.
Choose from a gallery of cursor styles. Add sounds and visual effects. Control the path, timing, and speed of mouse movements. You're in command.
- Adding Mouse Cursors
- Changing Cursor Styles
- Adding Mouse-Clicking Sounds
- Adding Visual Click Effects
- Changing the Path of Mouse Movements
- Changing the Timing and Speed of Mouse Movements
There are two ways to add mouse cursors to a project.
- Storyline automatically adds mouse cursors to screen recordings when you insert them as step-by-step slides. You can adjust mouse cursor styles, effects, paths, timings, and speeds. (See the following sections for details.)
- You can also add mouse cursors manually, just where you need them.
To add a mouse cursor manually, go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, click Mouse, and choose a cursor style. It'll automatically appear on your slide.
Tip: Only one mouse cursor can be added to each slide, and it must be added to the base layer of the slide. Mouse cursors aren't supported on layers or slide masters.
To change the style of a cursor, select the mouse object on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and choose a different style from the Cursors gallery.
Want to use your own cursor image? Just click Browse for Cursors at the bottom of the Cursors gallery, then select a file on your computer with a *.cur or *.ani extension.
When the mouse reaches the end of its path, it can play a single-click or double-click sound, or you can omit the clicking sound altogether.
Select the mouse object on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and click None, Single, or Double.
To show an animated click effect at the end of a mouse movement, go to the Format tab on the ribbon and mark the box to Show Click Effects. Uncheck it if you don't want to simulate a mouse click.
Choose the direction of the mouse movement and whether its path is curved or straight.
- Select the mouse object on the slide. When a mouse object is selected, you'll see its path represented by a black line.
- Go to the Format tab on the ribbon and mark the Straight Pointer Path box to make the mouse move in a straight line. Uncheck it to move the mouse in a curved line.
- To set the direction of a mouse cursor's motion, use the Enter From selector to choose an entrance point.
Tip: If the Enter From selector is grayed-out, it's because the direction of the mouse movement is already determined by the previous slide. When you have consecutive slides with mouse cursors, the end point of the first will be the beginning point of the next.
A mouse cursor is visible for the entire duration of a slide. However, you can change when its movement starts and ends. You can also make it slow down before the end of its path.
- Select the mouse object in the timeline.
- Drag its left edge along the timeline to adjust when its movement begins. Drag its right edge along the timeline to adjust when its movement ends.
- Unlike other Storyline objects, the beginning and ending of a cursor's movement is controlled by the timeline, not the appearance and disappearance of the cursor itself.
- By adjusting the timing of a cursor's movement, you're also controlling its speed. A shorter duration results in a faster motion, and a longer duration results in a slower motion.
- If you want the mouse movement to slow down just before the end of its path, go to the Format tab on the ribbon and mark the box to Reduce Speed Before Click.


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Category: Living Well Published on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:38 Written by CNN
During spinning class, I often find myself wishing I was in a pool. For one, water would make the sweat dripping down my back less noticeable. Two, it has to be easier to sneak a break when the instructor can't see your legs below the surface.
A new study presented this week at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress suggests there might also be other - more important - benefits to hydro-spinning.
The study analyzed cardiovascular data from 33 young, healthy participants who performed the same workout on a dry land stationary bike and on a water stationary bike.
Also called hydro-riders or aqua bikes, water stationary bicycles are anchored to the bottom of a pool so that cyclists are submerged up to their shoulders. Resistance can be added by changing the pedal size or, in some bikes, the angle of plates in the wheels.
Researchers found that participants' oxygen consumption and average heart rates were lower while riding in the water. In other words, their cardiovascular systems were working more efficiently to do the same amount of exercise.
Study author Dr. Martin Juneau is director of prevention at the Montreal Heart Institute in Canada. The institute's EPIC center offers "Aquavelo" fitness classes and opens its water stationary bicycles up to members during open swim. Juneau says the bikes were so popular they had to start printing tickets to reserve workout times.
Aqua bikes were originally created for rehab of knee injuries in athletes, Juneau says. But because water makes us virtually weightless, hydro-spinning is also used for obese or arthritic patients who want a low-impact workout.
"Patients love it," Juneau says. "They feel it's easier, but when you look at the increase in (aerobic) capacity, it's just as good as land training."
The researchers believe hydrostatic pressure (or the pressure of the water) on the body makes it easier for your system to return blood to the heart. This reduces the number of times your heart has to beat – lowering the average heart rate and amount of oxygen needed to sustain an intense workout.
The study needs to be duplicated with more participants to confirm the results, Juneau says. Further research is also needed to see if the effects are the same for older and/or overweight cyclists.
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Dwarf Alberta spruce trees, Picea glauca var. Albertiana "Conica," are common evergreens in residential landscapes. They are slow growers, adding just 2 to 4 inches per year, and have a natural pyramid shape and light green foliage. Typically, dwarf Alberta spruce trees maintain themselves and require little pruning. However, there are some occasions when pruning is required.
Things You'll Need
- Hand pruners
- Pruning shears
Stand back and look at the dwarf Alberta spruce to identify any stems that are a distinctly different color and that have grown much longer than the other branches. This is a genetic deformity that must be removed.
Trace the deformed stem to where the coloring changes back to a light green and then go back a little further to the next junction with a stem. Cut the branch off using hand pruners.
Examine the overall shape of the dwarf Alberta spruce and use pruning shears to neaten up the pyramid shape if desired. Trim off only 1 to 2 inches from the tips of the stems, sloping upward to a point as you prune the upper portions of the tree.
Examine the tree regularly for signs of new deformed growth development. If new growths develop, prune them off as soon as they occur, in the same manner done previously. If you wait until the growths are larger before pruning them, the tree could end up with gaps in the foliage.

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include the element that the selector matches, use the jQueryprevUntil() method. It simply returns all of the preceding siblings items in the DOM hierarchy between the two specified components, to put it simply.
 In the example that follows, all of the < ul> element's prior siblings—that is, both the < p> and < p> elements—will be highlighted.
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 The siblings() function is a built-in feature of jQuery that is used to locate all siblings elements of the currently chosen element. Siblings in the DOM Tree are those who share a parent element. The World Wide Web Consortium has established the DOM (Document Object Model) as a standard. This defines how to access items in the DOM tree.
 Q2. What is jQuery traversing method?
 In jQuery, traversing refers to travelling through or over the HTML components in order to locate, filter, or pick out a specific or all of them. It provides every descendant element of the chosen selection. between the supplied selection and parameters, it returns all ancestor elements.
 Q3. What is sibling in JavaScript?
 A sibling is a node that shares a parent (in the same childNodes list). Element Siblings are components that share a parent (in the same children list).
 Q4. What is the function of sibling?
 Siblings fill a special place in each other's lives that mimics both the influence and support of friends and the company of parents. Siblings are exposed to one another on a regular basis, much like other members of the immediate family, because they frequently grow up in the same home.
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 The sibling-correlation method calculates the proportion of overall inequality that may be attributed to things that siblings have in common. This percentage is typically much higher than what is indicated by estimates of intergenerational mobility.
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Natrol White Kidney Bean Carb Intercept is a dietary supplement that features Phase2 Carb Controller Complex - a unique combination of White Kidney Bean Extract and Foodbound® Chromium. Each serving provides 1,000mg of Phase 2 Carb Controller Complex, a clinically tested ingredient that may reduce the enzymatic digestion of dietary starches and help metabolize fats and proteins for energy.
- Helps Control Carbs
- Helps Metabolize Fat
- Assists in Weight Control
How do I take it?
Take 2 capsules right before eating your starch containing meal. Do not exceed 4 capsules per day.
How does Phase 2 White Kidney Bean Extract work?
When taken with a starch-containing meal, it inhibits the breakdown of starch into glucose and other simple sugars that can be absorbed by the intestine into the body.
Where are the White Kidney Beans grown?
United States of America, specifically Nebraska


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HXD: Timing accuracy
- Relative timing
As shown in figure 1, the HXD has detected periodic signals from several pulsars after the barycentric corrections, both with PIN and GSO. The pulse periods of Crab pulsar on over 23 observations agree with those measured by Jodrell Bank Radio observatory within 1.0 ns (this error mainly arise from duration of an observation and statistics of signals), as shown in figure 2. The main pulses of these Crab observations stay within 0.005 phases during an observation, implying the stability of arrival time measurements is within 1.9 x 10-9.
Figure 1: Periodograms and pulse profiles of A0535+262, Hercules X-1, PSR1509-58, and the Crab pulsar, observed with the HXD. Left panels show the periodograms, obtained by PIN in the 10--70 keV band. Middile and right panels show pulse profiles by PIN and GSO, respectively.
Figure 2: Pulsation periods of the Crab pulsar obtained by the HXD, compared with the radio measurements at the Jodrell Bank observatory. The residuals are shown in the bottom panel.
- Absolute timing
According to a simultaneous observation of Crab with other X-ray missions, RXTE, INTEGRAL, and Swift on 2007 March 20-21, the absolute timing of the main pulse of Crab with the HXD agree with other instruments within 160 micro s, as shown in figure 3. Among 23 observations of Crab with Suzaku, the main pulse phase scatters by about 0.010 ± 0.005 phases (with 90% err), which corresponding to 360 ± 150 micro s. This value becomes better as 270 ± 130 micro s, if we select datasets which were operated with 34m antenna system on a week day.
Figure 3: X-ray pulse-profiles of the Crab pulsar obtained by the Suzaku HXD PIN (10--70 keV), the RXTE PCA (2--30 keV), the HEXTE (20--100 keV), the INTEGRAL IBIS ISGRI (20--100 keV), and the Swift BAT (15--350 keV) from top to bottom. The phase 0 corresponds to the arrival time of the first pulse obtained by the Jodrell Bank Radio observatory.
Figure 4: Phases of the first pulse of Crab obtained by HXD PIN, compared to the Jodell Bank ephemeris. Phase 0.0 corresponds to the barycentric arrival time of the radio pulses determined by the Jodell Bank observatory, and the Suzaku data are shown in circles (Filled circles was taken with the 34m system on working days, and open-gray circles presents other conditions, 20m system or weekend.). The phases tagged as ''X-ray 07'' are determined by the simultaneous observation on 2007 May in Figure 3.
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Invention Has Potential to Create Virtual Worlds for Gaming, Automotive, Robotics, VR
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NVIDIA introduced groundbreaking AI research that enables developers for the first time to render entirely synthetic, interactive 3D environments using a model trained on real-world videos.
Company researchers used a neural network to render synthetic 3D environments in real time. Currently, every object in a virtual world needs to be modeled individually, which is expensive and time consuming. In contrast, the NVIDIA research uses models automatically learned from real video to render objects such as buildings, trees and vehicles.
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The technology offers the potential to quickly create virtual worlds for gaming, automotive, architecture, robotics or virtual reality. The network can, for example, generate interactive scenes based on real-world locations or show consumers dancing like their favorite pop stars.
"NVIDIA has been inventing new ways to generate interactive graphics for 25 years, and this is the first time we can do so with a neural network," said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, who led the team developing this work. "Neural networks — specifically generative models — will change how graphics are created. This will enable developers to create new scenes at a fraction of the traditional cost."
The result of the research is a simple driving game that allows participants to navigate an urban scene. All content is rendered interactively using a neural network that transforms sketches of a 3D world produced by a traditional graphics engine into video. This interactive demo will be shown at the NeurIPS 2018 conference in Montreal.
The generative neural network learned to model the appearance of the world, including lighting, materials and their dynamics. Since the scene is fully synthetically generated, it can be easily edited to remove, modify or add objects.
"The capability to model and recreate the dynamics of our visual world is essential to building intelligent agents," the researchers wrote in their paper. "Apart from purely scientific interests, learning to synthesize continuous visual experiences has a wide range of applications in computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics," the researchers explained.
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In times of grief, organizing a funeral can pose a significant challenge, both emotionally and financially. If you happen to be in California, specifically Los Angeles, you might ask, "how much is a funeral in California?" In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the intricacies of expenses associated with funerals in the Golden State, with a special emphasis on Los Angeles.
How Much is a Funeral in California
Funeral Expenses in California
Funeral costs exhibit notable variations based on multiple factors, including location, service type, and individual preferences. On average, a funeral in California typically ranges from $7,000 to $12,000 or more. This comprehensive figure encompasses crucial elements like the acquisition of a casket, embalming services, and professional fees. Although, there are services like direct cremation that can be much less expensive, and take much less planning.
Geographic Considerations: California's elevated cost of living often reflects in funeral expenses. Major urban centers like Los Angeles often feature higher funeral costs compared to rural areas.
Funeral Services in Los Angeles
As one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the United States, Los Angeles has its unique considerations when it comes to funeral expenses.
- Funeral Homes in Los Angeles: The city boasts a range of funeral homes, each offering diverse services and pricing structures. Some funeral homes cater to specific cultural or religious needs, which can influence costs. For instance, regions with a higher concentration of cultural communities may have distinct pricing models.
- Cemetery Expenses: The choice of cemetery can substantially affect overall funeral costs. In Los Angeles, numerous cemeteries have their own pricing structures. Some may offer scenic views, while others carry historical significance. These factors can impact the overall cost.
Los Angeles Funeral Costs
When looking into funeral expenses in Los Angeles, you may come across related topics that provide detailed information:
- Los Angeles Funeral Homes: Different funeral homes in Los Angeles offer varying services and pricing. Thorough research and comparisons are essential to find an option that aligns with your needs and budget.
- Los Angeles Cremation Services: Cremation, an alternative to traditional burial, may involve different cost dynamics. Los Angeles has numerous cremation providers; researching their pricing can aid informed decision-making.
- Los Angeles Burial Expenses: If you opt for burial, understanding the costs associated with acquiring a cemetery plot in Los Angeles is crucial. Costs can vary depending on location and cemetery.
Factors Impacting Funeral Costs in California
- Individual choices play a significant role in funeral expenses. Whether you opt for a traditional burial, cremation, or an eco-conscious burial can affect overall costs. Additionally, decisions regarding the choice of casket, funeral service arrangements, and memorial items can contribute to expenses.
Location and Cemetery Selection:
- As mentioned earlier, location and the choice of cemetery can significantly influence costs. In Los Angeles, renowned cemeteries may command higher prices due to their prestige and limited availability.
- Funeral expenses encompass various fees, including professional services, transportation, and permits. Comprehensive inquiry about potential expenses during funeral planning is essential to prevent unexpected financial burdens.
Funeral Planning in Los Angeles & California
To alleviate the financial burden of a funeral, consider pre-planning or pre-paying for arrangements. Many Los Angeles funeral homes (including Clarity) offer pre-planning options that allow you to lock in today's prices, ensuring your preferences are met when the time comes.
Cultural and Personalized Funerals in California
Los Angeles is known for its cultural diversity, and this diversity often leads to personalized and unique funeral ceremonies that celebrate an individual's life in various ways. Different communities may have distinct funeral customs and preferences, which can influence the type of service and associated costs.
- Cultural Traditions: Various cultural communities in Los Angeles have their own ways of honoring and remembering the deceased. These traditions can range from music and dance performances to specific rituals or ceremonies. It's important to work with a funeral home that can accommodate these cultural preferences.
- Personalized Farewells: Many families in Los Angeles choose to create highly personalized and meaningful funeral services. These might include storytelling sessions, memorial videos, or the display of cherished items that reflect the person's life and passions. While these personalized services can be touching, they may involve additional costs, so it's crucial to plan accordingly.
- Green Burial Options: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in eco-friendly or green burial options. Los Angeles offers several green burial grounds where individuals can be interred in a more environmentally conscious manner. These options often come with lower costs compared to traditional burials, and they can be embraced by people from all walks of life.
In California, including Los Angeles, funeral costs can exhibit considerable diversity. Understanding the factors influencing these costs, such as location, personal choices, and cemetery selection, is vital when making decisions during a challenging time. Thorough research and proactive planning can help you navigate the process more smoothly and ensure a dignified farewell for you or your loved ones without undue financial strain.
Remember that while this guide offers valuable insights, consulting with local Los Angeles funeral homes is advisable to obtain precise pricing tailored to your specific requirements. The wide array of funeral customs and personalization options in Los Angeles underscores the importance of celebrating an individual's life in a meaningful and respectful manner, reflective of their unique journey.
Additional Insights on Planning and Coping
Planning a funeral involves not only financial considerations but also emotional ones. Coping with grief and honoring your loved one's memory are essential aspects of the process.
- Grief Support: In addition to funeral planning, it's important to seek grief support. Many communities in Los Angeles offer grief counseling and support groups to help individuals and families navigate the challenging emotional journey.
- Memorialization: Creating lasting memorials, such as engraved plaques or commemorative trees, can provide solace and a sense of connection with the departed. These memorialization options can be discussed with funeral directors to add a personal touch to the farewell.
- Legal and Administrative Assistance: Funeral arrangements often involve paperwork and legal formalities. Consider seeking legal and administrative guidance to ensure that all necessary documents are filed correctly and promptly.
- Financial Planning: Beyond the immediate funeral expenses, it's important to evaluate the broader financial implications of a loved one's passing. Consult with financial advisors to understand how the loss might affect your financial situation and to make necessary adjustments.
- Emotional Well-Being: The grieving process is unique to each individual, and it's essential to prioritize your emotional well-being. Los Angeles offers a wealth of resources, including grief therapists, support hotlines, and mindfulness practices, to help you cope with loss.
- Celebration of Life: Consider organizing a separate celebration of life event in addition to the funeral. This gathering can be more informal and focused on celebrating the person's life, sharing memories, and finding solace in the support of friends and family.
- Legacy Preservation: Explore ways to preserve the legacy of your loved one. This could involve digitizing old photos, recording their life story, or creating a memorial website or social media page where friends and family can share memories and stories.
- Continuing Bonds: It's common to feel a continued connection with the departed long after their passing. Allow yourself the space to maintain a continuing bond through rituals, conversations, and remembrance activities.
- Estate Planning: If your loved one had specific wishes or assets that need to be managed, consult with estate planning professionals to ensure a smooth transition and distribution of assets.
- Support Networks: Lean on your support network. Friends and family can be a tremendous source of comfort during these trying times. Sharing your feelings and memories can help process grief together.
In conclusion, planning a funeral in California, particularly in Los Angeles, is a multifaceted endeavor that encompasses financial considerations, cultural nuances, and emotional aspects. While this comprehensive guide provides valuable information on funeral costs and related topics, it's crucial to remember that the grieving process is a deeply personal journey. Seek support from various resources available in Los Angeles, from grief counseling to legal assistance, to help you navigate this challenging period.
Ultimately, the goal is to honor your loved one's memory in a way that feels meaningful and respectful, acknowledging their unique life journey and the impact they had on those they left behind. As you embark on this journey, remember that you are not alone, and there are numerous resources and compassionate individuals in Los Angeles who are ready to provide guidance and support every step of the way.


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Mixing Meat
Mixing meat by hand also raises its temperature and should be done quickly to extend life of sausages. It takes roughly about 5 minutes to thoroughly mix 10 lbs. of meat. The ingredients may be premixed with cold water in a blender, and then poured over the minced meat. The water helps to evenly distribute the ingredients and it also helps soften the mass during stuffing. We can easily add 1 cup of cold pater to 5 lbs. of meat because it is going to evaporate during smoking anyhow. A rule of thumb is about 8% of water in relation to the weight of the meat. It only takes 5 minutes to mix 5 - 10 lbs of meat by hand. The time is important because fat specks start to melt at 95-104° F (35-40° C). We want to prevent this smearing to keep the sausage texture looking great.The temperature of the sausage mix should be between 0-5º C (32-40º F). If this temperature increases, the sausage mix should be cooled down in a refrigerator before proceeding to the stuffing step.
If the meat/fat mixture is not mixed adequately (then the salt/myosin reaction will be minimal and the water holding capacity and the meat binding capacities will be reduced. Apply some force when mixing, kneading might be a good word for it. This will help to extract proteins which will combine with salt and water and will create a sticky meat mass. This will hold meat particles together and will result in a good texture.
If the meat was previously cured, then the salt, nitrite, and sugar was already added to it. Now we have to add the remaining spices. They should be mixed with cold water in a blender, and then poured over the minced meat. The water helps to evenly distribute the ingredients and it also helps soften it during stuffing. We can easily add 1 cup of cold water to 5 lbs of meat because it is going to evaporate during smoking anyway. Water should not be added to uncooked sausages which will be cold smoked, slow fermented or air dried.
When mixing meat with ingredients, it is best to follow this sequence:
 1. Minced meats, starter culture, nitrite/nitrate, spices.
 2. Minced fat.
 3. Salt.
There are some people that like to add spices to meat during the grinding step. Then they will mix it again. Some don't mix at all but grind meat through a big plate 3/4" - 1", then add spices to ground meat and regrind it again through a 1/8" plate. Some say that placing salt in a grinder has a detrimental effect on a cutting knife and that it should be avoided. We believe that the easiest procedure for someone using a manual grinder is to grind the meat first and then mix it well with all ingredients.
Mixing introduces spices and flavorings into the previously minced meat. Home based sausage makers use a grinder to mince the meat which is then mixed by hand with other ingredients. The mixer is a must when over 50 lbs. of sausage is produced as the task is physically demanding. There are small manually cranked mixers designed for a hobbyist and they will accomodate 25-50 lbs. of meat. Keep in mind that for limited home production a small mixer has some short comings. It must be:
 - washed before use.
 - washed in hot water after the use.
 - stored somewhere.
It makes little sense to go into all this trouble to mix 5 lbs. of minced sausage mass when the same task can be accomplished in 5 minutes using hands and any suitable container. The meat should be placed in a big container to facilitate mixing it by hand. Like everything else, the container should be made of stainless steel, stone, or food grade plastic. Remember to taste your sausage now, before you stuff it, since you still have time to implement any changes. Make a tiny hamburger anf fry it, it will take only a minute or two.
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Mixing meat for sausages
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If you are a fit person mixing of 50 lbs of meat should not present a problem.
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There are small hand cranked mixers that can mix 20 – 50 lbs at a time. However, it is easy to mix 20 lbs of meat by hand the way we have been kneading dough for centuries.
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Inside view of a 50 lb capacity manually operated meat mixer. Photo courtesy Sausage Maker, Buffalo, NY.
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110 lb and 220 lb capacity mixers by Koch Equipment, Kansas City, MO
Originally whole cuts of meat were either dry cured or immersed in brine. This required an investment in time and storage space. Today the majority of meats are injected with a solution of salt, nitrite, phosphates, sodium erythorbate and other ingredients and flavors. The operation is performed by a bank of about 30 needles which inject a solution under pressure into the meat. There is a limit to how many needles can be inserted as this procedure creates holes and affects the internal structure of the meat. To evenly distribute the injected solution inside, the tumblers come into play. They offer the following advantages:
 - Curing solution is distributed evenly inside of the meat.
 - Curing times are greatly reduced.
 - Mechanical action leads to stronger extraction of meat proteins and more exudate is created which helps in binding meat cuts together.
All tumblers employ a similar principle of operation: a set of paddles rotate inside of a tank moving meat pieces around. There are units that operate under a vacuum that further improve the results.
Meat tumbler
Tumbler operation. A good tumbler must have a diameter of at least 3 feet, otherwise there is little impact to falling meat pieces.
Meat tumbler
Koch LT-60 Vacuum tumbler, 1000 lbs. capacity. Photo courtesy Koch Equipment, Kansas City, MO.
The tumbler is a machine with a rotating drum. The meat pieces bounce around its moving walls providing better brine distribution inside of the meat. Tumblers normally are horizontal units where meats are struck by the paddles, fall down and are moved up again by the rotating paddles. A tumbler resembles a cloth dryer which moves wet clothing around by means of a rotating drum with paddles. Through the use of vacuum tumbling, meat, poultry, fish, and seafood processors can produce ready to cook, value added products while reducing labor content and increasing product yields. Vacuum tumbling offers improvements to product sliceability, cure color, and overall product juiciness and tenderness which results in higher profitability.
Small products (below 2.5 inches in diameter) can be marinated and tumbled within minutes. Large (2.5 inches or larger) products can be marinated using a combination of injection and tumbling. Large whole muscle meats are normally injected with brine.
The primary purpose of tumbling these products is the optimal protein extraction which will allow individual pieces of meat to stick together during the cooking process. Due to renewed public interest in making quality products at home, smaller tumblers (8 and 15 lbs.) are carried by distributors of sausage making equipment and supplies.
Massagers generally are vertical units and offer more delicate action than tumblers. Meat pieces rub against each other or the surface wall of the massager without loss of contact. Although the actual massaging or tumbling time is only about 1-3 hours, this action is continuously interrupted and meats are allowed to rest. The process generally continues for about 24 hours at low temperatures. The machines are normally loaded 1/2 - 2/3 capacity. Due to their gentler mode of operation, massagers need more time than tumblers to perform the same task.
Meat massager
Meat massager
Koch equipment stainless steel Magnum Series 6000 massager with 6000-liters capacity.
The machine comes standard with cooling and is equipped with a uniquely designed baffle that rotates and slides the product throughout the drum during processing. This results in the product remaining against the walls and baffles of the drum versus the actual tumbling delivered by competitor models. The advantage is a more gentle massaging action while extracting protein in a highly efficient manner under constant vacuum.
 - Improved product quality (juicier, more tender, and flavorful).
 - Increased profit margins through the delivery of ready-to-cook, value-added products.
 - Increased productivity through reduced handling/processing time.
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Key to a thriving, happy romance? Plenty of playfulness, say researchers
HALLE, Germany — A new study finds that couples who play together, stay together. Researchers in Germany say being playful with your loved one can influence how happy you feel with your sex life. It may even reveal how long the relationship will last.
Scientists believe playfulness is not only important for children, but it also plays a role in most adults' love lives. Surprising your partner or recreating special moments through role play are some of the things that can boost a relationship. Researchers suggest that a person's playfulness can help with reducing conflict. It also cuts down on monotony as pairs engage in an active and fulfilling sex life and build trust with each other.
The study's authors play encourages positive emotions and might relate to potential biological processes such as activating hormones and certain brain circuits. It also influences how people communicate and interact with each other. For example, it helps adults deal with stress and resolve interpersonal tension.
These can all impact relationship satisfaction (RS) and trust, ultimately affecting the longevity of relationships.
"Our literature review and studies from our lab show that being playful contributes to most people's love lives," says lead author Kay Brauer from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in a media release.
"Playful behaviors such as surprising the partner, retelling and reenacting joint experiences with the partner, or jointly forming new experiences often contribute to the happiness and longevity of relationships."
How is playfulness linked to the bedroom?
Many studies have looked at play and playfulness in children, but researchers say it's understudied in adults — especially its role in romantic life. Yet having a romantic relationship is among the most desired life goals for adults. It can affect a person's physical and mental well-being.
Previous research shows adult playfulness helps people to build and maintain social relationships. This has also been seen in animals through rough-and-tumble play and facial expressions.
One popular theory as to why playfulness has such positive effects on romantic relationships is because it leads to positive emotions which help people to build and strengthen social bonds. Other theories suggest being playful might make people particularly attractive and visible to others. It could even be a signal for mating.
Research suggests play and playfulness could also play a part in "sexual selection," with men seeking playful females as a sign of youth, health, and fertility. Women seek the same trait in men as a sign of non-aggressiveness.
"The literature suggests that playfulness facilitates the experience of positive emotions, relates to potential biological processes, and how people communicate and interact with others," Brauer and the team write in their report.
Having fun keeps couples together
"We assume that individuals' playfulness affects the partner and the couple as an interdependent unit as well. For example, by contributing to RS, reducing conflict (e.g., by solving interpersonal tension) and monotony (e.g., by engaging in an active and fulfilling sexual life), and building trust with the partner."
"The literature supports the notion that high RS, trust, and low conflict are robust predictors of stable and satisfying relationships," the researchers continue. "Hence, we expect that playfulness indirectly contributes to the longevity of relationships. However, it must be noted that several components of this suggested model have not been tested empirically yet; for example, there is no knowledge on playfulness and trust."
While the majority of findings suggest that playfulness contributes positively to relationships, no study has examined the negative consequences of playfulness at this point. Existing research suggests some types of playfulness could have a link to jealousy, or a perceived threat of a person's relationship. However, current research supports the idea that playfulness contributes positively to forming and maintaining relationships.
The findings appear in the journal Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
SWNS writer Laura Sharman contributed to this report


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15,000 years ago, humans camped in a lush Texas valley, leaving thousands of artifacts behind, from tools to face paint. This could be definitive proof that ancient people arrived in America by boat, not by walking the Bering Strait. More »


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In the previous article of this series, we saw how assertions are the key to self-validating tests. Even if an assertion's result is only a pass/fail value, programmers and testers find very handy to associate to the fail value some kind of additional information about the failure, to allow easier debugging without insertion of var_dump() and similar statements into the code.
As I showed you in the previous article's code sample, assertions are useful the most when they fail, and in case they do, they should explain what happened so that a correction can be made quickly. An assertion that passes does not do anything; an assertion that fails shows an error.
Whata happens when tests are failing
The typical scenario is that of a large test suite, with hundreds or thousands of tests. At the time of a commit to the source code repository (or of a push if we're talking about git), the whole test suite must be green. Even if only one tests is red, the test suite is regarded as red.
Sometimes, a regression is introduced by a programming error or an unforeseen scenario, and the output of the test suite becomes something like this:
[12:30:02][giorgio@Desmond:~/txt/articles]$ phpunit assertionmessage.php
PHPUnit 3.5.5 by Sebastian Bergmann.
Time: 0 seconds, Memory: 3.75Mb
There were 4 failures:
1) AssertionMessagesTest::testAsserTrue
The object is not an Iterator.
Failed asserting that is true.
2) AssertionMessagesTest::testAssertEquals
The square root of 17 is not 4 but 4.1231056256177.
Failed asserting that matches expected .
3) AssertionMessagesTest::testAssertContainsFailsWithCustomMessage
The array does not contain 4.
Failed asserting that an array contains .
4) AssertionMessagesTest::testAssertContains
Failed asserting that an array contains .
Tests: 4, Assertions: 4, Failures: 4.
The green tests are not noisy (which would be a smell), since they are not interesting at the moment. The red tests, which our focus is on, are shown with all the associated information. Along with the test name, the line of interest, and the kind of problem (failure/error), the assertion message is shown.
How to write a meaningful message
An assertion message can be passed as an argument of the assertion method, to be used in case of failure. Writing good assertion messages is an art, but before diving into some code to show you some messages I wrote, we can see how assertion messages are categorized in literature:
 - Assertion-Identifying Message: includes information on which of the assertions in the same method caused the failure. This information can be for example the name of the checked variables. It's good to understand at a glance which assertion failed, but PHPUnit shows you the line of the test method that caused the failure, so it's not strictly necessary to include this kind of messages.
 - Expectation-Describing Message: tells us what should have happened, but did not according to the data passed to the assertion method.
 - Argument-Describing Message: when using assertions which are not very smart, like assertFalse() or assertTrue(), a failure would tell us by default only something like False was passed to assertTrue(). Adding an Argument-Describing Message will tell us instead The predicate on the set containing all red cars was false instead of true.
Watch the test fail
I can never say it enoug: when you write your tests, watch them fail (this mean also that each test should be written in advance with regard to the code it exercises, following the discipline of Test-Driven Development).
This practice is not only useful for avoiding false positives, which are rare anyway, but to show at least for once the assertion message. You can check that when the test fails, the error message is meaningful and the test does not cause a Fatal Error. Watch your test fail to ensure that when they'll fail due to a regression in the future, you will be pleased by how fast you'll learn what's wrong.
The code sample shows how to use PHPUnit's assertion methods with the $message optional argument. Any time you use basic methods like assertTrue(), a message is mandatory. The need for $message is inversely proportional to the specificity of the assertion: for example when assertContains() fails, PHPUnit has already valuable information in the the method itself to produce a readable error message.
Note that the usage of "" (double quotes) enables fast composition of error messages via variable substitution.
class AssertionMessagesTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
public function testAsserTrue()
$object = null;
// back in PHPUnit 3.4 where we did not have assertInstanceOf()
$this->assertTrue($object instanceof Iterator, 'The object is not an Iterator.');
public function testAssertEquals()
$expected = 4;
$square = 17;
$result = sqrt($square);
$this->assertEquals($expected, $result, "The square root of $square is not $expected but $result.");
public function testAssertContainsFailsWithCustomMessage()
$array = array(1, 2, 3);
$testElement = 4;
$this->assertContains($testElement, $array, "The array does not contain $testElement.");
* This Assertion Message would be enough. It will even be better in some cases,
* since PHPUnit would display nicely $testElement even if it was not "castable"
* to a string (an object or array).
public function testAssertContains()
$array = array(1, 2, 3);
$testElement = 4;
$this->assertContains($testElement, $array);
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Only 19 men have had the privilege of being called a double recipient of the Medal of Honor. The first to receive that honor was Army Maj. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, who earned his medals for Civil War bravery and for saving two child hostages years later. Baldwin went on to have a storied career that lasted through World War I.
Baldwin was born on June 26, 1842, in Manchester, Michigan, to Francis and Betsy Ann Baldwin. According to the Texas State Historical Association, he had two half-sisters.
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Troubleshooting method for daily operation of dryer
Dryer is an important machine in organic fertilizer production line and NPK fertilizer production line. In the process of operation, it is inevitable that there will be some problems of this kind. Do not be alarmed when you encounter these problems. As long as you master the know-how, you can solve it yourself.
First, the dried material does not meet the specified moisture requirements: the simple way to solve this situation is to first control the production capacity of the dryer equipment, and then increase or decrease the supplied heat;
Second, the rolling ring swings to the cylinder: This phenomenon occurs because the side of the concave joint of the rolling ring is not tightened. The solution is to tighten it slightly, but it should not be too tight. Too tight may cause accidents..
Third, the gap between the big gear and the small gear of the dryer is damaged. There are generally three reasons for this:
1. The idler is worn out;
2. The blocking wheel is worn out;
3. The pinion is worn out.
The solution to this situation is to first analyze whether the wear is serious, and replace it if it is serious. If it is not serious, just turn it and install it on the reverse side. If you are afraid of its instability, you can replace new ones it in pairs.
Fourth, the dryer equipment cylinder vibration when in fertilizer manufacturing process: there are generally two reasons for this situation:
1. The place where the supporting device of the equipment is connected to the base is damaged. If this is the case, just correct it and strengthen it;
2. The side of the rolling ring is worn;
The solution to this glitch is based on its wear and tear. If it is not serious, it only needs to be turned. If it is serious, it must be replaced.


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|Dating from the 17th century, the ring was discovered by a novice metal detectorist on the shores of Loch Lomond. Before the sale, experts managed to discover the ring's history.|
The crest belonged to the Colman family of Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, who made their fortune in the mid 16th century from the cloth trade. It's thought to have belonged to Edward Colman, who became an ardent convert to Catholicism. The inside of the ring bares an engraved "I" for Jesus, a personal symbol that could indicate that the owner was a member of the Jesuits, an undercover society of Catholics which was illegal in England at that time. In September 1678, Jesuits were accused of involvement in plots to assassinate the king and restore Charles II. Edward was listed as a plotter. He was found guilty of treason and hung, drawn and quartered. Considered to be a Catholic martyr, he was beatified by the Pope in 1929.


It's far easier to duplicate, rename and customize an existing Drupal theme and use it to build your first theme than to build one from scratch.
The first step is to install the theme you want to modify. Then make a copy of the theme directory on your computer. Use this local copy to make your changes, and then upload the modified copy to your site/all/themes directory on your web host.
To edit the files in a theme, you need some sort of text editor:
 - On a Windows machine, you can use the NotePad text editor.
 - On the Mac, TextEdit will work, although be sure to choose Format→Make Plain Text.
To create your own version of a theme, follow these steps:
 1. Rename the folder to a distinctive name you want to use for your theme.
 The name may only contain lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores. The example uses drupalfordummies.
 2. Open this folder and locate the.info file. Rename this file with your new theme name.
 For this example, is used.
 Make sure you rename the info file. Don't copy it with a new name. You only want one info file in your theme directory, and the name needs to match the name of your theme.
 3. Open the.info file in a text editor).
 4. Change the first line of this file to simply
 ; $Id$
 5. Change the name = line to use your theme name.
 In the example, this line is changed to name = Drupal For Dummies.
 This will be the name that shows up on the module selection page. It can contain spaces.
 6. Change the description text to describe your theme.
 The example changes the description to description = Yellow and Black Theme.
 7. Save this file using the new name you gave your theme.
 The examples is named You can delete the original.info file.
 Your.info file should now look similar to the following illustration.
 8. Open the template.php file in a text editor, use FIND and REPLACE to find the name "garland" and replace it with your theme's name (for example, drupalfordummies). Save your file.
 9. Repeat Step 8 for the theme-settings.php file.


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Comparing pneumatic conveying system types
In this column, we'll return to a topic covered in the March 1991 column: types of pneumatic conveying systems. The types include vacuum, pressure, and combination vacuum-pressure systems. We'll describe each, along with its advantages and disadvantages, to help you understand what each system includes and how systems of each type are designed.
Before discussing each system, let's examine some common misconceptions about how the systems work. Many people believe that a vacuum system draws material into the conveying line's center and separates the material, and that a pressure system forces material toward the conveying line walls and compacts the material. However, neither is true. At any point in either a vacuum or pressure system, the air's dynamic action on the material is the same. The particles are moved through the conveying line by the airflow, which is established by a pressure differential. In a vacuum system, air flows from atmospheric pressure to a reduced pressure; in a pressure system, air flows from an elevated pressure to atmospheric pressure. In other words, air always flows from a higher pressure to a lower pressure and always expands through the conveying line.


Japanese-born artist Michiyo Ihara uses only paper and pencil to create artwork that expresses the complexity of the universe. Beginning at the center of the white paper, she makes her first mark. Building outward with amazing skill and intricacy, she rotates the paper to continue the drawing. Each tiny symbol, sometimes animal, plant or planet, exists within a cell-like membrane. One little universe begets another as they grow outward in a beautiful, imperfect near symmetry. Ihara begins each drawing title with the word snowflake to reference the infinite and unique possibilities of creation.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.


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Delaware is the first state to have its own yeast. Gov. Jack Markell signed a proclamation giving a yeast named Kloeckera (apiculata) (strain KA 1) this designation, which is an honorary title because the state legislature is not currently in session to vote on the matter.
The yeast is the key ingredient in Delaware Native Ale, or DNA, a new, limited-time ale created by Dogfish Head Brewery that features grown-in-Delaware hops, peach and pear juices and other native ingredients. The light ale was introduced recently at a mid-day gathering at the brewery's pub in Rehoboth Beach.
Tom Evans and Nancy Gregory had every right to feel like proud parents at the event – after all, they isolated the yeast, identified it, and gave it its first home, in laboratories in the University of Delaware's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Evans is a professor of plant pathology in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. Gregory is a Cooperative Extension associate in that department who works closely with Evans on other research projects. She spends most of her days in UD's Plant Diagnostic Clinic, looking for bad guys — fungal, bacterial and viral diseases that have shown up on a farmer's crops or a homeowner's prized garden plant. After she has identified the pathogen, she and other Extension colleagues usually are able to present solutions for controlling the problem.
But for the Dogfish Head project, Gregory was looking for good guys – yeasts that would make the perfect base for a native Delaware brew. Yeast is the single most important ingredient in beer brewing. As a fungus, it's a living organism that metabolizes, reproduces and lives off ingredients in beer. During the beer's fermentation stage, yeast is responsible for converting sugar to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It also plays a large part in what the beer will ultimately taste like.
There are literally thousands of varieties of yeast in the world, notes Gregory, including wild yeasts. Dogfish already possesses a proprietary, cultivated yeast that it uses for the majority of its beverages, according to Katrinka Housley, a lab technician with Dogfish.
But the brewery wanted a wild yeast, native to Delaware, for the new ale. State Secretary of Agriculture Ed Kee steered Dogfish's brew team to Evans and Gregory for guidance in finding just-the-right yeast.
One day in early August, a team from Dogfish that included Housley, her supervisor, Steven Thompson, and brewery president Sam Calagione, met up with Gregory and Evans at Fifer Orchards, which offered to be the yeast source. Bobby Fifer, a co-owner of the orchards, showed the group around, scoping out good sites. They eventually settled on a few locations to trap yeast, including the packing house, underneath peach trees in the orchard, and near a bunch of hovering fruit flies.
(No worries, Dogfish fans. Fruit fly yeast did not end up in the new ale.)
The group set out about 100 agar plates — petri dishes containing a growth medium to culture microorganisms. They snacked on Fifer doughnuts for about a half hour while the plates trapped yeasts.
Gregory and Evans then grew and isolated numerous wild yeasts over a period of several weeks in "dirty" and "clean" labs at UD. (As the name implies, the clean lab is kept free of contaminants, while things like a leaf with bacteria or a pumpkin with fungi are allowed inside the dirty lab.)
"At that point in the development of a yeast isolate, you're weeding through all the chaff to get to the wheat," notes Evans. "You're looking at microscopic budding cells under a microscope, separating yeasts from other fungi and bacteria, or other material."
The UD scientists incorporated their noses into the culling process, too. "Some yeasts smell like bread, some a little fruity and some just plain foul," says Evans. The stinkers were immediately taken out of the running.
A dozen or so promising candidates for the ale were sent to Dogfish in mid-August. Before they were shipped, Gregory identified each isolated, pure yeast strain through several tests, collaborating with colleagues in CANR and at Delaware Biotechnology Institute.
Once Housley and Thompson had the strains of yeasts on hand they had just a few weeks to see which ones performed best in sample brews that were then tasted by Dogfish's 37 trained tasters.
"It was challenging working with wild yeast strains," says Housley. "They are a little more unpredictable than cultivated strains."
The winning yeast, Kloeckera (apiculata) (strain KA 1) originated in a box of peaches that were "seconds" — not quite picture perfect and up to Fifer standards.
"As a land-grant institution, UD is committed to working with Delaware's agricultural producers to improve their profitability," says Evans. "We're involved in education, applied research, and outreach to agricultural operations throughout the state. This project was a new one for us, but it certainly fits with our mission."
And Dogfish was very happy to get the help.
"Tom and Nancy's brain power and wealth of knowledge were invaluable," says Thompson.
Evans plans to incorporate information about finding Kloeckera (apiculata) (strain KA 1) into a class he teaches each fall. The students will even get to see a sample of Delaware's new state yeast, which Gregory has safely stored away in a liquid nitrogen cabinet in the clean lab.
Article by Margo McDonough
Photos by Danielle Quigley and Nancy Gregory


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Re: [DivyaG] 'constant' in perl
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Can we define any variable as constant in perl (just like const in C and Java), so that its value cannot be modified throughout the program?
There are two techniques to get unmodifiable values in Perl: 'use constant;' and 'use Readonly;'
The pragmatic constant is part of the standard Perl installation and is available to any script. It creates a sub that returns the value. It can be used anywhere a sub can.
perl -e 'use constant PI=>atan2(0,-1); print PI, "\n"'
Running the deparser on it, you can see the sub. You can also see that the compile phase replaces the sub with the value for faster execution.
perl -MO=Deparse -e 'use constant PI=>atan2(0,-1); print PI, "\n"'
Readonly is a module available from CPAN: _URL_
What is does is tie into the variable and disables its ability to change. This adds some execution overhead every time the variable is used.
It biggest drawback is that Readonly must be installed on every system where the script runs.
I love Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy.
Perl documentation is available at perldoc.perl.org. The list of standard modules and pragmatics is available in perlmodlib.
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The Nelson River high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines accommodate 2 bipolar transmission systems called Bipole I and Bipole II. The term bipole refers to a positive (+) pole and a negative (–) pole. Each pole is comprised of 2 conductor cables which, in bundles 4 cm in diameter, are supported by the steel transmission towers.
Bipoles I and II deliver approximately 75 per cent of our generating capacity from the Nelson River in northern Manitoba to southern Manitoba via 2 rows of identical steel towers, which follow an 895-kilometre (km) route from Gillam southward through the Interlake region.
One transmission line has its northern terminus at Radisson Converter Station near Gillam. The other extends another 42 km northeast to Henday Converter Station. The southern terminus of both transmission lines is Dorsey Converter Station at Rosser, about 26 km northwest of Winnipeg.
Due to the heavy reliance on one transmission corridor and a single converter station in the south, the system is vulnerable to extensive power outages from severe weather (major ice storm, extreme wind event, tornado), fires, or other events. Read about the Bipole III Transmission Reliability Project.
The tremendous hydroelectric potential of the Nelson River was untapped until the 1960s, when the technology became available for the long-distance transmission of HVDC electricity. Currently, about 80 per cent of our electricity is produced by hydroelectric generating stations on the Nelson River. Manitoba Hydro has since become world-renowned for research and development in this field.
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How do I pass through where not Exists in ProductName table.
LOAD *, ResourceID as Value
DROP TABLE ProductNameTemp;
LOAD *, ResourceID_1 as Value_1
DROP TABLE UsersTemp;
Load ProductName, LastUsage, '' as Netbios_Name0, '' as User_Name0, ResourceID
where not Exists(Value, ResourceID_1);
Load ProductName, '01/01/1981' as LastUsage, Netbios_Name0, User_Name0, ResourceID_1 as ResourceID
where not Exists(Value_1, ResourceID);
I am not able to understand what you want to do. As per my understanding first you want to load ProjectName and User tables without any where clause. Then why do you again want to load productName table with where not exist clause.
As per documentation the exist clause syntex is:
exists(field [, expression ] )
Determines whether a specific field value exists in a specified field of the data loaded so far. Field is a name or a string expression evaluating to a field name. The field must exist in the data loaded so far by the script. Expr is an expression evaluating to the field value to look for in the specified field.
Please explain in detail what do you want to do.


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Community Food Economy: The community food economy map is a platform for adding information about individuals' experiences within the food economy. It is ultimately up to community organizations and their members what information they would like to have displayed on this map. The information added to this map could include economic activity that is accounted for in the "community economy", such as bartering, trading, sharing of food; as examples, the map could include backyard garden or rooftop food production, informal catering services, gardening activities and workshops, or information about free meals. Clicking on any of the maps below will bring you to the dynamic map in Google Fusion. At the bottom of the page are links to the editable versions of each of these maps.
The Google Fusion Table User's Guide will help with navigating and editing the maps.
Food Economy Maps:
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iPhone Appidemic: Equalizer
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What is it?
Equalizer is a graphic equalizer through which you can play your music on your iPod, iPhone or iPad. The interesting part with this version is that you have control over the shape of the equalization curve and the ability to select the exact frequency you want to modify.
How does it work?
EqualizerFor the casual user, there are seventeen presets that represent the usual offerings: treble booster, bass booster, jazz, rock, etc. So, if you just want to make your music sound generally better, you're only a couple of screen taps away.
There are also the usual media player controls for adding playlists, editing playlists, and going into shuffle mode. If you really like to customize your sound, there are some handy features that are easy to use but will give you tons of tone control.
Now that I have the attention of my fellow audiophiles, let's get to the functionality. The app is not like a rack mount EQ that works in the background, it actually functions as the media player front end. This means you will need to open Equalizer to listen to your music through the graphic EQ. Don't worry, it's very easy to use. The program gives you control of seven frequencies—from 25 Hz to 19,145 Hz. Each of the seven dots on the EQ screen is a point you can touch and drag to either accentuate or attenuate the frequency to which it is assigned. The clever parts are the ability to expand the range of influence and to shift the control frequency.
The explanation may be a bit on the audio geek end, but if you're still reading I'll assume it's because you are interested in an EQ, so this should make sense. Each control frequency has an influence factor (labeled Q). The larger the Q value gets (0.1 is the smallest value and 6.0 is the largest value), the more narrow the influence around the control frequency becomes; your equalization curve will look spiky. As the Q factor gets smaller the frequency influence gets broader; your curve gets smoother.
All seven of the frequency control lines will stack to provide an overall equalization effect which is represented by the green line at the top. The next really clever bit is this; you can change the frequency each dot controls. If you don't happen to like the fourth dot from the left being centered on 1,000 Hz, you can touch and drag it to 900 Hz or 1,300 Hz or anywhere else you want it.
If the touch and drag method isn't fine enough control for you, simply tap the frequency indicator at the top left of the screen and you can type in the exact frequency you want to assign to the selected dot. You can also tap and type in a value for the dB gain and the Q value to customize your sound.
EqualizerOnce you assign just the right frequencies, you can tap on the toggle to change the dots to up and down control only. Another fun feature is that you can toggle a setting in the tools screen to set the equalizer for both sides or independent left and right side equalization. Once the left side has been set, simply swipe the field to get to the right side controls. When you have dialed in the perfect sound, you can save the preset and e-mail it to your other mobile devices so you don't have to do all the tinkering again and can get on with listening to your music.
Is it contagious?
Oh, yes. If you consider yourself even a marginal audiophile, then you know the usefulness of a graphic equalizer. With the parameters over which you have control, and the level to which you can control each parameter, audio geeks will be busy for hours customizing their sound and basking in the glory of their inner sound engineer.
As one of the aforementioned audio geeks, here's a hearty "thanks" to Tibor Horvath and the folks at Audioforge Labs.
Category: Entertainment
Developer: Audioforge
Cost: $2.99
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|A Model-driven Software Component Framework for Fractionated Spacecraft
Fractionated spacecraft is a novel space architecture that uses a cluster of small spacecraft modules (with their own attitude control and propulsion systems) connected via wireless links to accomplish complex missions. Resources, such as sensors, persistent storage space, processing power, and downlink bandwidth can be shared among the members of the cluster thanks to the networking. Such spacecraft can serve as a cost effective, highly adaptable, and fault tolerant platform for running various distributed mission software applications that collect, process, and downlink data.
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Poetry and folk music have a long and rich tradition in Ireland. And since
the turn of the century, many poems and songs have been inspired by the
conflicts in Northern Ireland, and between Britain and Ireland. The selections
below are a brief sample of how Irish poets and musicians have translated the
violence and conflict of their homeland into art.


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The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History
1 Jan 1999
Allen & Unwin
The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights is the first book of its kind. Not only does it tell the history of the political struggle for Aboriginal rights in all parts of Australia; it does so almost entirely through a selection of historical documents created by the Aboriginal campaigners themselves, many of which have never been published. It presents Aboriginal perspectives of their dispossession and their long and continuing fight to overcome this. In charting the story of Aboriginal political activity from its beginnings on Flinders Island in the 1830s to the fight over native title today, this book aims to help Australians better understand both the continuities and the changes in Aboriginal politics over the last 150 years: in the leadership of the Aboriginal political struggle, the objectives of these campaigners for rights for Aborigines, their aspirations, the sources of their programmes for change, their methods of protest, and the outcomes of their protest. Through the words of Aboriginal activists, across 150 years, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights charts the relationship between political involvement and Aboriginal identity.


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Mustard blood partition: differences between rodents and cancer patients, and the consequences for anticancer drug development
Session type: Poster / e-Poster / Silent Theatre session
1Plymouth Oncology Centre, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK, 2Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Mustard related anticancer agents have been central to clinical and experimental oncology for 50 years. We have previously demonstrated that mustard analogues exhibit a more profound dose schedule dependent cytotoxicity in rodents compared to humans; this cannot be explained solely by differences in metabolism. Partition studies exploiting sediment technologies1,2, indicate different blood partitioning of mustard moieties depending on the dose schedule. The study aimed to determine the impact of mustard blood partition on the efficacy of mustard analogues in humans and small rodents.
Blood from human volunteers, and blank blood from cancer patients, rats and mice, was exposed for 1 hr to therapeutic concentrations of phosphoramide mustard (PM). Red Blood Cells (RBCs), plasma and plasma water were obtained by MESED procedures. PM was determined by LC.
RBCs and plasma water from all species were loaded in a dose dependent manner, with the steepest curves in the RBCs of rat and mouse blood. The maximum percentages of RBCs and plasma water partition versus total blood were significantly higher in the rat (76% and 79%) and mouse (81% and 85%), when compared to human blood (53% and 49%). In each species, the PM present on/in the RBCs could be washed off completely with blank plasma from that species.
The blood partition of PM differs in humans and small rodents. The partition profiles in small rodents may account for the striking higher activity of mustard analogues in small laboratory tumour bearing animals compared to cancer patients, a phenomenon not yet fully explained. Furthermore, the ability of RBC mustard concentration to predict antitumour activity2 is now better understood. Blood partition studies should be employed routinely in new anticancer drug development.
 Driessen et al. Clin Biochem; 27: 195-6 (1994).
 Wildiers et al. Int J Cancer; 99: 514-9 (2002).


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What is a non-manifold mesh
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The non-manifold mesh arises while you are editing meshes using tools like Blender. Certain mesh operations cannot be performed on non-manifold meshes. A non-manifold mesh might have one or more elements with the following properties:
 1. An edge incident to more than two faces.
 2. Two or more faces connected only by a vertex and not by an edge.
 3. Adjacent faces whose normals are pointing in opposite directions.
This video explains these concepts beautifully in Maya.


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In the evolving world of design, Figma has emerged as a powerhouse. With its collaborative capabilities and robust features, it's no surprise that Figma has become the go-to tool for many web designers. However, due to some limitations of the tool, designers often find themselves creating artworks outside of Figma, typically in software like Adobe Illustrator CC or Affinity Designer. This then requires the artwork to be imported back into Figma, making the seamless compatibility of these platforms crucial.
Round 01: Vector Objects with Gradient Color
The process of transferring vector objects adorned with gradient colors across these platforms is straightforward and accurate. Whether moving from Adobe Illustrator CC to Affinity Designer or Figma, the fidelity of the gradients, including the color codes, is impeccably maintained. Similarly, Affinity Designer proves its compatibility with Figma in this regard.
However, an interesting observation is the difference in layer complexity when importing from Adobe Illustrator CC and Affinity Designer into Figma. It seems that Affinity Designer tends to generate slightly more intricate layer structures.
Round 02: Live Text
When it comes to live text, Adobe Illustrator CC and Affinity Designer have proved to be compatible. However, if you're copying live text from Adobe Illustrator CC to Figma, the text converts into a bitmap image, making it uneditable in Figma. Conversely, copying live text from Affinity Designer to Figma poses no such issue.
Round 03: Stroke with Different Weights
The compatibility of stroke weights across these platforms is excellent. Whether you're copying and pasting from Adobe Illustrator CC to Affinity Designer or Figma, or from Affinity Designer to Figma, the color and stroke weight remain exactly the same.
Important Points to Note
Unfortunately, it's currently not possible to copy anything from Figma to Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer. This is a limitation that hopefully will be addressed in future updates.
The compatibility between Figma, Adobe Illustrator CC, and Affinity Designer plays a significant role in the design process, and understanding these nuances can aid in a smoother, more efficient workflow. With continuous software updates and improvements, we can look forward to even more seamless design collaborations in the future.


Kotlin program to find out the average marks of a list of students
Kotlin program to find out the average marks of a list of students :
In this Kotlin example program, we will learn how to find the average marks of a list of students. Our program will create one list of few students first and then it will find out the average marks of these students.
We will show you two different ways to find out the average. The first method will show you the traditional way by using a loop and the second method will use built-in average method.
This program will give you better understanding on how to use for-loops, iterating list and how to use data-class in kotlin.
Method 1 : Using a for-loop :
Using a loop, we can iterate through a list and find out the sum of marks of the list of students. Then, we can divide it by the size of the list to find out the average value. Let's take a look at the program :
//1
data class Student(val name: String, val marks: Int)
fun main(args: Array) {
 //2
 val studentList = listOf(Student("Alex", 40), Student("Brook", 32), Student("Carlos", 39), Student("Albert", 55), Student("Mark", 66), Student("Jack", 25), Student("Rose", 44), Student("Mary", 22))
 //3
 var totalMarks = 0
 //4
 for (student in studentList) {
 totalMarks += student.marks
 }
 //5
 val avgMarks = totalMarks / studentList.size
 print("Average marks : %d\n".format(avgMarks))
}
Explanation :
The commented numbers in the above program denote the step number below :
 1. Student is a data-class. These types of classes are used to create simple model class. This class can hold two different types of values : name of String type and marks of Int type.
 2. In the main function, we are creating one list of 8 different students. We are using listOf method to create the list. Each Student has different name and marks.
 3. Create one variable totalMarks with value 0.
 4. Now iterate through the list elements one by one by using a for loop. Inside the loop, for each element of the loop, add its marks to the totalMarks variable. So, we are adding marks of all Student to the totalMarks variable.
 5. Finally, calculate the average marks by dividing the total marks by the size of the list. And print out the result.
It will print the below output :
Average marks : 40
kotlin find average student marks
Method 2 : Using average() :
Instead of using a loop, we can also use map and average() to find out the average from a list only in one line. The complete program will look like as below :
data class Student(val name: String, val marks: Int)
fun main(args: Array) {
 val studentList = listOf(Student("Alex", 40), Student("Brook", 32), Student("Carlos", 39), Student("Albert", 55), Student("Mark", 66), Student("Jack", 25), Student("Rose", 44), Student("Mary", 22))
 val avgMarks = studentList.map { s -> s.marks }.average().toInt()
 print("Average marks : %d\n".format(avgMarks))
}
As you can see that the average value avgMarks is calculated only in one line instead of iterating it using a loop. The return value of average() is Double and that's why we are using toInt() to convert it to an integer. The output of the program will be same as the previous one :
Average marks : 40
kotlin find average marks of students
Conclusion :
In this tutorial, we have learn how to find the average marks of a list of students in Kotlin. Both of the methods explained above will result the same output but second one is more preferable in kotlin. Try to run the examples and drop one comment below if you have any queries.
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UBC Theses and Dissertations
Electromagnetic waves within non-uniform boundaries and in inhomogeneous isotropic media James, Christopher Robert
Field restrictions on E- and H-waves are examined for an inhomogeneous isotropic medium. Restrictions on E-and H-waves are, also, discussed for wave-guides of varying cross section, such as for example a circular-section waveguide having an axially dependent radius For an axially symmetric periodic structure with a slowly varying radius, an approximate wave equation is derived which is separable. The field problem is then reduced to finding the solution to Hill's equation. A treatment of electromagnetic waves in media with characteristics possessing finite discontinuities in the direction of propagation is developed. The development avoids the use of explicit boundary conditions. To illustrate the method, three examples are given. This method is extended to include media with characteristics possessing finite discontinuities in, and transverse to, the direction of propagation. Two examples are given. In the first an E-wave solution is found for a cylindrical waveguide loaded periodically with dielectric disc, the disc radius being smaller than the cavity radius. Two methods of solution are offered: one is a first mode approximation and the other is an approximate series solution. A short comparison is made between experimental measurements made on dielectric loaded periodic structures of the forementioned type and theoretical predictions based on the first mode approximation.
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AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF CHELSEA.
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Section 3 of chapter 133 of the acts of 1989 is hereby amended by striking
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libpq is the C application programmer's interface to PostgreSQL. libpq is a set of library routines that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries. libpq is also the underlying engine for several other PostgreSQL application interfaces, including libpq++ (C++), libpgtcl (Tcl), Perl, and ecpg. So some aspects of libpq's behavior will be important to you if you use one of those packages.
Three short programs are included at the end of this section to show how to write programs that use libpq. There are several complete examples of libpq applications in the following directories:
Frontend programs that use libpq must include the header file libpq-fe.h and must link with the libpq library.


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Table of content
- Understanding Navigation Drawer Icon and its Importance
- How to Choose the Right Navigation Drawer Icon Color
- Step-by-Step Guide on Transforming Your Android App Design
- Tips and Tricks for Creating Unique and Attractive Navigation Drawer Icons
- Examples of Successful Navigation Drawer Icon Transformations
Are you tired of using the same old navigation drawer icon colors in your Android app? Have you been searching for a way to transform your app design and make it more visually appealing? Look no further! With this epic navigation drawer icon color tutorial, you can learn how to breathe new life into your app and create a unique, eye-catching design.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of choosing the perfect color scheme for your navigation drawer icons. We will cover the basics of color theory and demonstrate how different color combinations can affect the overall look and feel of your app. From there, we will provide step-by-step instructions for implementing your chosen color scheme and customizing your navigation drawer icons.
By the end of this tutorial, you will have the tools and knowledge necessary to completely transform your Android app design. You'll be able to impress your users with a fresh, modern look and feel that stands out from the rest. So what are you waiting for? Let's get started and take your app design to the next level!
Understanding Navigation Drawer Icon and its Importance
The Navigation Drawer Icon is a crucial element in designing Android mobile applications. It is the three horizontal lines found typically in the upper-left corner of the screen that, when clicked, reveals a list of options or functions of the app.
This icon serves as the main gateway for users to navigate through the application and access its features. It provides an intuitive and user-friendly way to organize complex app functionalities that would otherwise be challenging to find.
It's important to note that the Navigation Drawer Icon should be easily recognizable and visually appealing to attract user attention. A poorly designed icon could result in users struggling to find features or abandoning the app altogether.
Investing time and effort in designing an eye-catching Navigation Drawer Icon could elevate the overall user experience and improve app engagement rates.
So, if you're looking to enhance your app design, start with revamping your Navigation Drawer Icon. Give it the attention it deserves and watch your app's user engagement go through the roof!
How to Choose the Right Navigation Drawer Icon Color
When it comes to creating a navigation drawer for your Android app, choosing the right icon color can make all the difference. Not only does it impact the look and feel of your app, but it can also affect the user experience. Here are some tips for selecting the perfect navigation drawer icon color:
Consider your brand colors. Your navigation drawer should align with your overall brand aesthetic. Choose a color that complements the rest of your app's design and reinforces your brand identity.
Focus on contrast. The navigation drawer icon should stand out against the background of your app. Consider using a contrasting color to ensure that the icon is easily visible and identifiable.
Think about functionality. The navigation drawer should be intuitive and user-friendly. A color that is too bold or flashy could be overly distracting, while a color that is too subtle might be difficult to notice. Finding the right balance is key.
Test it out. Don't be afraid to experiment with different colors and solicit feedback from others. Conduct user testing to see how different colors impact the user experience, and make adjustments accordingly.
By following these tips and taking the time to choose the right navigation drawer icon color, you can transform your Android app design and create a more enjoyable and engaging experience for your users. So why not give it a try and see how it can elevate your app to the next level?
Step-by-Step Guide on Transforming Your Android App Design
Transforming your Android app design can seem intimidating, but with this step-by-step guide, you can easily elevate your app design to the next level. First and foremost, focus on your navigation drawer icon color. This small detail can make a big difference in the overall aesthetic of your app.
Start by selecting a color scheme that complements your app's theme and brand. Avoid using too many colors and opt for a minimalistic approach. Once you have your color scheme, select the appropriate shades for your navigation drawer icon.
Next, ensure that the icon is optimized for various resolutions and screen sizes. Use a vector file format to ensure scalability and avoid pixelation. Once you have the appropriate file format, use the appropriate tools to integrate the icon into your app's design.
Finally, test your app design and make any necessary adjustments. Solicit feedback from beta testers to ensure that your app's design is not only aesthetically pleasing but also intuitive and user-friendly.
With these simple steps, you can easily transform your Android app design, making it stand out from the crowd. So why wait? Start experimenting with your app's navigation drawer icon color today and see the results for yourself.
Tips and Tricks for Creating Unique and Attractive Navigation Drawer Icons
Are you tired of bland and unappealing navigation drawer icons in your Android app? Look no further! Here are some useful that will transform the design of your app.
First and foremost, think about the theme and color palette of your app. Your navigation drawer icon should complement the overall aesthetic of your app. A monochromatic icon can be sleek and modern, while a colorful icon can add some fun and playfulness. Experiment with different hues and shades to find the perfect balance.
Next, consider the shape and style of your icon. A simple and straightforward approach can be effective, but don't be afraid to get creative! Try incorporating unique shapes, textures, and patterns into your design. Remember that your icon should be easily recognizable and convey the purpose of the navigation drawer.
When it comes to typography, less is often more. Avoid using too much text in your icon and opt for a clear and legible font. You can also play with the placement of the text within the icon, whether it's centralized or off to the side.
Incorporating animation and interactivity into your navigation drawer icon can also enhance the user experience. Consider adding a subtle animation when the user hovers over or clicks on the icon.
With these tips and tricks, you can create navigation drawer icons that are not only functional but also visually stunning. So why not take your Android app design to the next level? Try out these techniques and watch your app transform into a masterpiece!
Examples of Successful Navigation Drawer Icon Transformations
If you're looking for inspiration to transform your Android app's navigation drawer icon, you're in luck! We've rounded up some examples of successful transformations that are sure to spark your creativity.
First up is the Airbnb app. They've taken a simple hamburger menu icon and added some flair by changing the color to a vibrant orange. This not only makes it stand out, but it also aligns with their brand colors.
Another great example is the Gmail app. They've taken the traditional hamburger menu icon and turned it into a three-dot icon that opens up into a customizable menu. This not only adds more functionality to the navigation drawer, but it also looks sleek and modern.
Finally, we have the Google Drive app. They've ditched the traditional hamburger menu icon altogether and replaced it with a simple "menu" label. This not only makes it more clear for users who may not be familiar with the hamburger icon, but it also makes the app feel more polished and refined.
With these examples in mind, it's clear that even small changes to your app's navigation drawer icon can have a big impact on its overall design and functionality. So go ahead, experiment with colors and icons, and see what you can come up with! Your users will thank you for it.
In , incorporating color into your navigation drawer icon can greatly enhance the visual appeal and user experience of your Android app. By following the simple steps outlined in this tutorial, you can easily transform the default grayscale icon into a vibrant and eye-catching design that reflects your brand's personality and enhances your app's usability.
Experiment with different color combinations and techniques, such as adding gradients, shadows, and transparency, to create a truly unique and memorable icon. Remember to keep your audience in mind and ensure that your icon is easily recognizable and intuitive for users of all skill levels.
So what are you waiting for? Give your Android app design a fresh, new look with this epic navigation drawer icon color tutorial and take your user experience to the next level!


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Patient Monitor Accessories
1. ECG Cable :-
An five lead ECG Cable is provide with the Patient Monitor. ECG Cable contains the transducer which convert the ionic signal into electrical signal and measure the electical activity of heart (ECG : Electocardiogram).
2. SpO2 Probe :-
SpO2 Probe contain an sensor at one end which is attached to the patient fingure for measure the level of saturated oxygen in blood.SpO2 Sensor work on the principle of plethsmography.
3. NIBP Cuff and hose :-
Blood pressure of an patient is measure by non-invasive tecnique using the NIBP cuff and hose. NIBP (Non-invasive Blood Pressure) measured by the monitor work on the principle of Oscillometric method of BP measurement.
4. Temperature Probe :-
Temperature probe used to measure the temperature of the patient. It contain the thermistor for the measurement of the temperature.
5. EtCO2 Cable :-
EtCO2 cable consist the sensor for the measurement of the EtCO2 (Expiratory End tidal CO2) through an sampling line. It can be main stream or side stream based on the location of the sensor.
Main stream EtCO2 :- Sensor is inserted via a airway adapter (Sample taken directly from airway).
Side stream EtCO2 :- Sensor located inside the monitor (through sampling line exhalation air is passed).


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Policy-based management is an administrative approach that is used to simplify the management of a given endeavor by establishing policies to deal with situations that are likely to occur.
Policies are operating rules that can be referred to as a way to maintain order, security, consistency, or otherwise furth a goal or mission. For example, a town council might have a policy against hiring the relatives of council members for civic positions. Each time that situation arises, council members can refer to the policy, rather than having to make decisions on a case-by-case basis.
In the computing world, policy-based management is used as an administrative tool throughout an enterprise or network, or on workstations that have multiple users. Policy-based management includes policy-based network management, the use of delineated policies to control access to and priorities for the use of resources. Policy-based management is often used in systems management.
Policy-based management of a multi-user workstation typically includes setting individual policies for such things as access to files or applications, various levels of access (such as "read-only" permission, or permission to update or delete files), the appearance and makeup of individual users' desktops and so on. There are a number of software packages available to automate some elements of policy-based management. In general, the way these work is as follows: business policies are input to the products, and the software communicates to network hardware how to support those policies.
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Policy-Based Management is a policy based system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server.