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- 1 Why is the Philippines classified as a biodiversity hotspot?
- 2 Is Southeast Asia diverse?
- 3 Why is Southeast Asia so special?
- 4 What is biodiversity in Asia?
- 5 Is Philippines rich in biodiversity?
- 6 What part of the Philippines is rich in flora and fauna?
- 7 What is the main religion in Southeast Asia?
- 8 What is the most diverse country in Southeast Asia?
- 9 Is Japan part of Southeast Asia?
- 10 What is the most beautiful country in Southeast Asia?
- 11 What is the oldest language in Southeast Asia?
- 12 What is the culture of Southeast Asia?
- 13 Which country has the best biodiversity?
- 14 What is the country in Southeast Asia?
- 15 How much of worlds biodiversity is in Southeast Asia?
Why is the Philippines classified as a biodiversity hotspot?
Philippines: A Biodiversity Hotspot It is considered to be a mega – diversity country because of the exceptional diversity in ecosystems, species and genetic resources found within its 7,100 island territory. The overexploitation of natural resources, reduced the forests to an alarming 24% from its original cover.
Is Southeast Asia diverse?
Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world —with more than 100 ethnic groups and 655 million people speaking more than 1,000 languages and dialects—but many organizations operating there have not yet tapped the potential of this talent resource.
Why is Southeast Asia so special?
Pristine beaches, compelling history, sprawling rice terraces, and an abundance of activities to suit every type of traveler – Southeast Asia has these things in spades. It's also steeped in rich, ancient customs and traditions that are remarkably different from those of the West.
What is biodiversity in Asia?
The Asia Pacific region is exceptionally rich in biodiversity. The tropical forests of South East Asia, the reefs of the 'coral triangle', the temperate forests and the large river basins found in the region are among the most unique on Earth.
Is Philippines rich in biodiversity?
The Philippines is one of the 17 mega biodiverse countries, containing two-thirds of the Earth's biodiversity and 70 percent of world's plants and animal species due to its geographical isolation, diverse habitats and high rates of endemism. The Philippines' biodiversity provides several ecosystem services.
What part of the Philippines is rich in flora and fauna?
As a result, Palawan not only showcases many of the flora and fauna associated with the rest of the Philippines, but also has many birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, trees and plants found on the island of Borneo.
What is the main religion in Southeast Asia?
Buddhism is the most important religion in Southeast Asia being the second largest in this region after Islam with approximately 205 million Buddhists today. Almost 38% of the world's Buddhist population resides in Southeast Asia.
What is the most diverse country in Southeast Asia?
(CNN) — Bordered by Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei, and with a heritage of diverse influences including a long period of British colonial rule and an economically powerful Chinese community, Malaysia is one of the most multicultural nations in southeast Asia.
Is Japan part of Southeast Asia?
Observers preferring a broader definition of "East Asia" often use the term Northeast Asia to refer to China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, with Southeast Asia covering the ten ASEAN countries as well as the island of Taiwan.
What is the most beautiful country in Southeast Asia?
Here are Southeast Asia's most beautiful countries ranked by our readers.
- The Philippines.
- Laos. This little nation sandwiched between Thailand and Vietnam sits in a similar position here.
- Thailand. An ever-popular backpacking destination, we're surprised to see Thailand at the bottom of this list.
What is the oldest language in Southeast Asia?
The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts.
What is the culture of Southeast Asia?
Buddhist culture has a lasting and significant impact in mainland Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam); most Buddhists in Indochina practice Theravada Buddhism. In the case of Vietnam, it is also influenced much by Confucianism and the culture of China.
Which country has the best biodiversity?
Brazil is the Earth's biodiversity champion. Between the Amazon rainforest and Mata Atlantica forest, the woody savanna-like cerrado, the massive inland swamp known as the Pantanal, and a range of other terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, Brazil leads the world in plant and amphibian species counts.
What is the country in Southeast Asia?
Southeast Asia is composed of eleven countries of impressive diversity in religion, culture and history: Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
How much of worlds biodiversity is in Southeast Asia?
Southeast Asia is a bio-cultural hotspot encompassing about 20 per cent of global plant, animal and marine species. The region contains three mega diverse countries — Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines — where four of the world's 25 biodiversity hotspots are located.


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Bird identification videos
Ruff, with their variable size and plumage, often present identification issues. However, by learning how to recognise Ruff in their various guises through this video, you'll be able to pick them out with confidence, and have a great reference point for identifying other similar-looking waders.
This video looks at two often confused falcons, the Kestrel and Merlin, and discusses the key features for separating the two.
The latest identification video tackles the difficult pair of gulls, Iceland and Glaucous. March is one of the best months of the year to catch up with wandering gulls as they make their way back to their summer haunts.
This identification video looks at Whinchat, Stonechat and Wheatear. These three birds are not too difficult to separate in breeding male plumage, but a lot harder in female and juvenile. Check out our tips to help here.
BTO Data Reports
Our reports provide rigorous scientific information to inform Environmental Impact Assessments in the UK.
Paper call for special HPAI issue
We are putting together a special issue of the BTO journal Bird Study to bring together research documenting the HPAI outbreak and its impacts on wild birds.

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2006 Historic Preservation Award Recipients
National Preservation Month, sponsored by the National Trust of Historic Places, was celebrated by Proclamation within the Village and across America during the month of May. This year's theme is "Sustain America - Vision, Economics, and Preservation".
Villa Park's Annual Historic Plaque Award Program includes awards for Historic Preservation, Historic Landmark and Sears Catalog Home categories.
At the April 24, 2006 Village Board meeting, the Villa Park Historic Preservation Commission announced the three winners of this year's annual Historic Plaque awards.
George and Marianne Kolak for their historic 1903 Prairie-style farmhouse located at 240 South Myrtle Avenue. The Montgomery House (PDF) was one of the first homes built by early developer Charles Heisen in the Villa subdivision. The first owner was the Montgomery family. Silent child movie star "Baby Peggy" was born in 1918 in her grandfather's house and started to work at age 19 months after her father, Jack Montgomery, a famous cowboy stuntman, moved his family to Hollywood. After appearing in over 150 two-reels, she retired at the age of 10 and later became a successful author.
Donald and Chris Shore for their historic 1909 vernacular farmhouse located at 619 East Madison Street. The Wyckoff House (PDF) is located on land that was originally part of the Asa Knapp farmstead established in 1842. In 1908, developer Frank E. Ballard purchased the property and created the "Park Farms" subdivision. The first owner was George G. Wyckoff. Today, the Sugar Creek Golf Course resides on much of the former Knapp farm.
Lastly, a Sears Catalog Home awards was given to Scott Iselin for his unique brick Crescent (PDF) model Sear's mail-order house, located at 242 Astor Court and built in 1925. The original owner, Vic Hansen, was a part-time bookkeeper for Villa Park Fuel Company and was head auditor for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 1949, Vic Hansen and Ray Rugaard purchased the business equally. In the 1960s, Rugaard bought out Hansen and it then became the Villa Park Material Company, Inc.
The present owners and caretakers are commended for their contributions to the community and for the preservation and maintenance of these important structures that links the past with the future of Villa Park. These buildings are significant to the history and development of the Village of Villa Park and contribute to its character and heritage.


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The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) was developed recently to unify international efforts in the management of the disease. The most important GOLD objective is raising awareness that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an increasing health problem. The first step in the GOLD program was to prepare a consensus report, named "Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of COPD," based on best-validated evidence and current pathogenetic and clinical knowledge. It encourages implementation of effective strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and management of the disease in all countries, and emphasizes the importance of renewed research initiatives.

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EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD
This online lesson will be conducted by Piotr Stankiewicz, with the use of materials prepared by researchers from the Institute of Geophysics PAS: Paweł Czubak and Anne Neska.
Students will familiarise with the influence of geomagnetism on life on planet Earth and learn what the Earth's magnetic field is, will define its sources, where the magnetic poles are and discover what actually tourist compass shows and under what conditions it shows falwed measurements. They will get acquainted with the term "magnetic declination" and learn how to calculate declination in a given year on the basis of available data from geomagnetic observatories. Calculations will be based, among others, on data from INTERMAGNET, an organization of geomagnetic observatories around the world. Students will also learn how to find the maximum and minimum value of the magnetic declination of the day; determine the declination for the date and for certain place; determine the difference between the declination determined from measurements and declination derived from calculator declination.
If you enrol for the webinar, in the section for enroled, you will find worksheets for students. Please, print them in advance and distribute. Students will have opportunity to actively fill in the tasks and calculate. Have fun!


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October Weather in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo Mexico
Daily high temperatures are around 71°F, rarely falling below 66°F or exceeding 75°F.
Daily low temperatures decrease by 4°F, from 51°F to 47°F, rarely falling below 40°F or exceeding 55°F.
For reference, on May 8, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo typically range from 51°F to 77°F, while on January 12, the coldest day of the year, they range from 41°F to 68°F.
Average High and Low Temperature in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
The daily average high (red line) and low (blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted lines are the corresponding average perceived temperatures.
The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on October. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
Average Hourly Temperature in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
Average Hourly Temperature in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo18152229112233445566778899101011111212131314141515161617171818191920202121222223232424252526262727282829293030313112 AM12 AM4 AM4 AM8 AM8 AM12 PM12 PM4 PM4 PM8 PM8 PM12 AM12 AMSepNovNowNowcoldcoldcoolcoolcoolcomfortablevery cold
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The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
Punata, Bolivia (3,375 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo (view comparison).
Compare San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo to another city:
Clouds
The month of October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo experiences very rapidly decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 83% to 58%.
The clearest day of the month is October 31, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 41% of the time.
For reference, on September 14, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 88%, while on February 24, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 69%.
Cloud Cover Categories in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
Cloud Cover Categories in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo1815222911223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282929303031310%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%SepNovOct 117%Oct 117%Oct 3141%Oct 3141%Oct 1123%Oct 1123%Oct 2133%Oct 2133%NowNowclearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercast
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The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds.
Precipitation
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo, the chance of a wet day over the course of October is very rapidly decreasing, starting the month at 55% and ending it at 20%.
For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 77% on June 28, and its lowest chance is 3% on December 13.
Probability of Precipitation in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
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The percentage of days in which various types of precipitation are observed, excluding trace quantities: rain alone, snow alone, and mixed (both rain and snow fell in the same day).
Rainfall
To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo is very rapidly decreasing, starting the month at 3.9 inches, when it rarely exceeds 6.3 inches or falls below 2.0 inches, and ending the month at 1.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 2.5 inches or falls below 0.2 inches.
Average Monthly Rainfall in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
The average rainfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average liquid-equivalent snowfall.
Sun
Over the course of October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo, the length of the day is decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 31 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 2 seconds, and weekly decrease of 7 minutes, 12 seconds.
The shortest day of the month is October 31, with 11 hours, 26 minutes of daylight and the longest day is October 1, with 11 hours, 57 minutes of daylight.
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo1815222911223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282929303031310 hr24 hr4 hr20 hr8 hr16 hr12 hr12 hr16 hr8 hr20 hr4 hr24 hr0 hrSepNovnightnightdaydayOct 111 hr, 57 minOct 111 hr, 57 minOct 3111 hr, 26 minOct 3111 hr, 26 minOct 1611 hr, 41 minOct 1611 hr, 41 minNowNow
The number of hours during which the Sun is visible (black line). From bottom (most yellow) to top (most gray), the color bands indicate: full daylight, twilight (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and full night.
The latest sunrise of the month in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo is 7:33 AM on October 30 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 0 minutes earlier at 6:34 AM on October 31.
The latest sunset is 7:21 PM on October 1 and the earliest sunset is 1 hour, 21 minutes earlier at 6:00 PM on October 31.
Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 1:00 AM on October 31, 2021, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.
For reference, on June 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:56 AM and sets 13 hours, 18 minutes later, at 8:14 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:02 AM and sets 10 hours, 58 minutes later, at 6:01 PM.
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo1815222911223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282929303031312 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AMSepNov6:34 AM6:34 AMOct 316:00 PMOct 316:00 PM7:24 AM7:24 AMOct 17:21 PMOct 17:21 PM7:27 AM7:27 AMOct 117:13 PMOct 117:13 PM7:30 AM7:30 AMOct 217:06 PMOct 217:06 PMDSTOct 31DSTOct 31SolarMidnightSolarMidnightSolarNoonSunriseSunsetNowNow
The solar day over the course of October. From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar midnight, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The day, twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray. The transitions to and from daylight saving time are indicated by the 'DST' labels.
Moon
The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for October 2021. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.
Moon Rise, Set & Phases in October in San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo
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Chrysler PT Cruiser P0660: Meaning, Causes, & Diagnosis
P0660 Chrysler PT Cruiser
P0660 is a somewhat common OBDII code. It's generic, so it has the same meaning for the Chrysler PT Cruiser as it would any other vehicle made for the 1996 model year and up.
This code indicates that there is an issue with the bank 1 side of the intake manifold valve tuning control circuit. Common causes for P0660 include a bad wiring harness to/from the intake tuning valve, a bad PCM, or a bad intake manifold tuning valve control circuit. It's most commonly caused by wiring issues.
P0660 Definition: Intake Manifold Tuning Valve Control Circuit Open (Bank 1)
P0660 Definition Chrysler PT Cruiser
Here's the meaning of the P0660 definition divided into its three distinct parts.
Intake Manifold Tuning Valve Control Circuit
The intake manifold tuning valve control system is responsible for redirecting air inside your PT Cruiser's intake manifold
It relieves air pressure on the opposite side of the intake manifold. Or, it can channel air down a completely different runner for power/efficiency purposes.
Open
An open implies that two points of an electrical circuit are externally disconnected. In this case, the two points in question are the PCM and the intake manifold tuning valve control circuit.
The wiring between these two parts of your PT Cruiser may run through the CAN bus system, which is a wiring junction. Getting a schematic for your vehicle (the exact model year and engine combination is essential) can make determining the cause of P0660 much easier. You should do a quick visual inspection for obvious issues before doing so (more on that below).
Any one of your PT Cruiser's modules can detect this issue. Examples of different modules include body control, transmission, ABS, traction control. If there's a PCM issue, the other modules can still report P0660.
Bank 1
Bank 1 is the part of your vehicle with the first cylinder. You don't need to concern yourself with this if you have an inline four-cylinder engine or inline-six.
P0660 Symptoms: Chrysler PT Cruiser
There usually are symptoms associated with P0660. Here are the most common ones:
 - Check engine light
 - Decreased power at the higher end of the RPM range
 - Decreased fuel mileage
 - Rough/choppy idle
 - Difficulty starting
It's more likely that the decreased engine power will be at the higher end of the RPM range. It can happen at any engine speed. You may only notice the check engine light.
Chrysler PT Cruiser P0660 Causes and Diagnostics
P0660 Diagnosis
Here are the most common causes of P0660 and a good order to diagnose your Chrysler PT Cruiser in at home.
1. Check for Manufacturers Communications
Manufacturers (including Chrysler) send communications via "technical service bulletin," commonly referred to as TSB's. While this site doesn't keep a database of them, they are easy to find online
If you click on the link above, it'll take you to the NHTSA website in a new window. Look for your exact year and engine combination Chrysler PT Cruiser on there. If there is a TSB related to the intake manifold tuning valve, it gives you a great place to start your diagnosis with a known point of failure.
2. Inspect the Wiring Harness
Check the wiring connector on the bank one side of the intake manifold tuning valve control circuit.
Examine where it plugs into the harness. Make sure that there is no visible damage to it or the pins inside. If there is damage, you may need to repin or replace it. If there is corrosion, use a good electrical contact cleaner to clean it.
Now that you've established that the harness connector looks good, examine the wiring coming from the intake manifold control valve as far as you can. Look for damaged, frayed, or burnt wiring. If there is, replace the wiring in question.
Verify that the ground wire is solid and free of corrosion where it bolts to the body, engine, or frame. Then, run a temporary ground to the intake manifold tuning control valve. If it solves the problem, you'll need to fix your PT Cruiser's OEM ground wire.
3. Bad CAN Bus
The CAN bus is responsible for taking information from the various sensors and sending it to whatever modules need it (including the PCM).
If the wiring harness seems fine until it reaches the CAN bus system, its pins will need to be inspected, which is getting into the weeds for most shade tree mechanics.
A mechanic would be able to use a specialized scanner to determine precisely where in the wiring system the wiring harness is open and causing P0660 in your PT Cruiser. They could also check the continuity of the circuits.
4. Other Causes
 - Bad PCM/ECM- While the PCM is rarely the problem with most codes. If everything checked out with the wiring, replacing or reflashing the PCM can clear P0660. Have a mechanic take a look at your PT Cruiser before replacing a PCM.
 - Bad Intake Manifold Tuning Valve- P0660 indicates a wiring issue with the intake manifold tuning valve. But, if its wiring can fail internally, which will throw the code. It's not very high on the probability scale.
Conclusion
It can be difficult to chase down some of the wiring issues that can cause P0660 in the Chrysler PT Cruiser. But, it'll often be caused by something that is easy to see under the engine bay. There's nothing wrong with having a look. Good luck!
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From June 5-6, 2018, UNAM – UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MEXICO will host the international conference "Cities and Climate Change: Science, Policy and Practice to Building together an Action Agenda" under the coordination of Dr Gian Carlo Delgado Ramos, Researcher at the CEIICH – CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES INTERDISCIPLINARIAS EN CIENCIAS Y HUMANIDADES, aiming to partake in the construction of spaces for dialogue between academia, decision-makers and practitioners with the purpose of elucidating feasible routes for the advancement of a common action agenda for urban transition.
The conference is framed as a legacy activity of the CITIESIPCC CONFERENCE held this March 2018 in Edmonton, Canada, which sought to inspire the development of border research on cities and climate change.
As such, it is a response to the current trend in which urban settlements are increasingly seen as key spaces to understand and address global ecological change, including climate change.
The themes to be explored at the conference include:
- Climate change implications on human settlements;
- Urbanization and climate change: challenges and solutions;
- Urban networks for facing climate change;
- Climate change policy-making at the local level; and
- Coping climate change in Mexican urban settlements
About UNAM, Cities IPCC, ICLEI Mexico
To register for this event please visit the following URL: http:// →
When & Where
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One of the more interesting of aircraft rumored to have been in use during World War II is the Vril 10 Fledermaus. Still a controversial topic, the Fledermaus is alleged to be the work of the VrilGesellschaft, a secret society that is said to have been interested in the fusion of science and mysticism.
Nation of Origin: Germany
Tech (Air Tech): 9
Tech (Electronics): 2
Night Flight: Yes
The Fledermaus appears on page 48 of the Naval Ops: Commander manual however, thus far we have been unable to obtain this craft through research and are thus certain the Fledermaus is either a mission reward, the original name used for the Foxbat, or a lost ship; a design taken from the final version of the game that somehow stayed in the manual. Looking at aircraft of similar tech levels and the background of the Fledermaus we can assume the Fledermaus would have been a fast moving flying saucer most likely equipped with a 20mm Aerial Machine Gun in addition to some form of anti-sub weaponry since the ship is categorized as a scout. Following this line of reason we can conclude that the craft would have been the earliest flying saucer available to German players. If wiki users have information concerning the aircraft in the game please message such information to an administrator.
- Fledermaus means Bat in German.
- Fledermaus was also the name of a German Anti-Aircraft Artiliary peice.
- In the SF3D Universe the Fledermaus is an aircraft used by a fascist government to control its colonial holdings with force. This aircraft is almost saucer like but more closely resembles a hover jet.
- 'Die Fledermaus' is a German Operetta.


The Nine Uses of Calamansi
Also known as kalamansi, calamansi, calamondin.
1) Calamansi is processed to juice, concentrate, acidulant for other juices, jellies, jam and marmalade.
2) A rich source of Vitamin C. Cures cough and cold.
3) Calamansi juice is also used as a meat tenderizer and adds flavor to the dishes. Can be made to sauce and marinade.
4) It also helps strengthen the bones and stimulate growth especially among growing children.
5) Helps in smooth blood circulation facilitate normal digestion due to its alkalinizing effect.
6) Treatment for itchy scalp and enhancing hair growth.
7) It can also heal insect bites, remove freckles, clear up acne, cure pimples, and deodorize underarms.
8) Heavy stain remover.
9) Peel can be processed to candy (jump here) or use for other purposes (jump here).
bowl of calamansi
 - paano po gamitin ang kalamansi para pang-alis ng freckles?
 - pwede po bang makainom nng kalamansi juice kahit mayrong gallstone.
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Simple utilities returning (non-missing) case names, and (non-eliminated) variable names.
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A character vector.
x <- 1:20 y <- x + (x/4 - 2)^3 + rnorm(20, sd=3) names(y) <- paste("O",x,sep=".") ww <- rep(1,20); ww <- 0 summary(lmxy <- lm(y ~ x + I(x^2)+I(x^3) + I((x-10)^2), weights = ww), cor = TRUE) variable.names(lmxy) variable.names(lmxy, full= TRUE)# includes the last case.names(lmxy) case.names(lmxy, full = TRUE)# includes the 0-weight case
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Animal Species:Ischnochiton australis
Not only is this the largest chiton found in Sydney, it is also the most common. If you turn a rock over on any rock platform in Sydney, you should find a few. This species congregates in large groups on rocks close to the low-tide mark.
The shell of this chiton is green-brown and generally not covered in algae, as is the case with some other chiton species in Sydney.
This chiton species is found in southern Australia.
Chitons are found on intertidal rocky shores.

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Hello everybody, Maurizio here.
We got a few requests for a how-to on this situation: sometimes, after you replace your hard drive (and therefore copy the files from the old to the new drive), even if you pay attention to preserve the original file paths on the new drive, you see that the files (or the folders) start having this "disconnected" icon:
and if you try to open the files (or the folders), you are asked to insert the old drive, which does not exist anymore:
Why does this happen? Why does Tabbles not know that the files are now on the new drive? And what to do about it? This blog post answers these questions.
First, why does Tabbles not know about it? Well, to be fair, if you had moved your files with Tabbles or with Explorer, everything would be fine, meaning that Tabbles would have detected the move operation, and would have updated its internal paths and disk informations, so it would know that your files are now on the new drive. But since you copied the files to the new drive (or moved them while Tabbles was not installed), Tabbles does not detect the move operation. So it cannot find the files; the disk looks detached to Tabbles.
What is the solution? Unfortunately, for now, there is no point-and-click way to tell Tabbles that a disk has been replaced with another. The solution is to use Sql Server Management Studio to manually run a script. Here are the detailed instructions:
First, (if you are using Tabbles LAN) backup your tabbles.mdf database file, in case you make mistakes and need to restore it later. The location of this file will be something like:
C:/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/MSSQL11.SQL2012/MSSQL/DATA/tabbles.mdf
(the actual path depends on where you chose to install Sql Server).
Now we are ready to start.
First, you should take note of the new disk serial number, and the new disk size, as follows:
In Tabbles, locate the new drive in the side panel; right-click on the new drive, and choose:
folder menu > advanced > see which disk contains this file
Then a dialog will open, like this:
Take note of the disk serial number and disk size. These info are about the new drive (or, more precisely, partition).
Now we need to find the serial number and size of the old disk drive (partition). To do this, locate a file with the "disconnected" icon (by opening a tabble that contains it). Then right click the file itself, and choose "advanced -> see which disk contains this file":
And take note of serial number and size.
Now you know four values which we will call: OLDSERIAL, NEWSERIAL, OLDSIZE, NEWSIZE.
Now, intuitively speaking, we need to tell Tabbles the following: "Any file on a drive with serial number OLDSERIAL and size OLDSIZE must be changed to have NEWSERIAL and NEWSIZE".
If you are using Tabbles Cloud, write us at _EMAIL_, tell us the four values, and we'll do the change.
If, on the other hand, you are using Tabbles LAN, do the following:
open Microsoft Sql Server Management Studio:
In this login dialog, enter administrator credentials (the same credentials that you used to create the tabbles database in the first place). For that, it will most likely be sufficient to choose "Windows authentication", if you configured Sql Server so that your Windows user has super-user privileges. Else, you will need to choose sql authentication:
And you will need to write login and password of the super-user, which you defined when you installed sql server.
After login, you need to start a new query with this button:
And enter the following script:
use tabbles;
update [file]
where diskId = '§OLDSERIAL§OLDSIZE';
Of course, replace NEWSERIAL etc. with the actual values. So the actual query will look like this:
use tabbles;
update [file]
set diskId = '§0CED08AF§278768590848'
where diskId = '§AC4D085§451577638912';
then press the execute button:
And the change will be applied. Now you should no longer see the "disconnected" icon in Tabbles, and be able to open the files once again.
I hope this helps. Should you have questions following this tutorial, please feel free to comment here, or in the forum.
There are quite a few how-tos like this that we want to write. See you to the next episode!


Mineral Processing
Note: The context of the process mineralogy data requested and supplied should be very clear, and needs to represent the deposit/material to be processed as closely as possible. Mineral processing is performed at many tonnes per hour, and for years, so any information obtained on small and non-representative samples is often useless. In the development and operation of mineral processing plants, large economic decisions are based upon mineralogy, and if the samples provided for study are not representative of potential run-of-mine ore, flow sheet and process development will be less than ideal and will lead to long term loss of recovery and expensive mill retrofitting.
Coarse-grain placer monazite (notice scale @ 500um)
Residual primary bastnäsite grains with web-like secondary REE minerals being produced from them due to weathering.
Below are a few questions that need to be addressed in the process mineralogy studies, if not already addressed in the geological mineralogy work:
 - What are the REE-bearing minerals, and how much of each exists? Examples are bastnäsite, monazite, xenotime, synchysite, allanite, etc.
 - Are there any possible economic by-product minerals? Examples are barite, fluorite, pyrochlore, columbite, uranium and lithium minerals, etc.
 - Are the REE minerals a by-product? REE bearing minerals can often be a by-product of other process operations. In these cases, REE recovery will be directly affected by the operating company's interest and relative economics.
 - Are there both minor and major hosts of the REE? Examples of minor REE-bearing minerals are apatites and zircons—these minerals can often contain a few tenths of a percent REE.
 - What percentage of each REE is carried by each REE host mineral?
 - Are there any silicate-based REE minerals? These minerals are known for difficulty in the hydrometallurgy stage.
 - Are the REE minerals primary or weathered/altered (also known as "supergene") Historically, weathered/altered REE minerals are difficult to process due to extreme fine grain size, needle or dendritic-like structure.
 - What is the shape/structure of the REE minerals?
 - If reasonably round, what is the average size and size distribution of the REE minerals?
 - After grinding, what is the % free REE mineral surface area as a function of particle size? i.e. how much REE mineral liberation exists as a function of particle size?
 - What is the chemistry/assay of the REE minerals? i.e. based upon microprobe/equivalent analysis what is the % of each important element in the REE mineral? Having this information will allow an estimate of the grade of potential mineral concentrate.
 - What are the gangue minerals, their amounts and characteristics?
 - Are there any impurity elements of concern, and in which minerals do they reside? i.e. thorium, uranium, arsenic, lead, etc.
Some definitions regarding Mineral Processing:
MINERAL LIBERATION – The relative amount of surface area, after grinding, of a particular mineral grain. For example, a 30% liberated bastnäsite grain means that 30% of the surface area of that grain is bastnäsite and 70% is something else. The something else is one or more other minerals. Mineral liberation is essential for the mineral processing engineer, in that high grade mineral concentrates cannot be made without sufficient amounts of REE mineral liberation. This mineral liberation is produced during size reduction procedures (such as grinding) where finer grinding usually means increased liberation.
MINERAL PROCESSING SCOPE – The development of a REE processing flow sheet is composed of three major stages, with complete success and understanding required at each stage before the next stage is attempted:
 1. LAB SCALE – The first is lab scale batch tests, also referred to as scoping studies. The sample amounts per test are in the gram to a few kg range. These are a snap shot of a particular lab procedure on a particular sample, which may or may not be representative of the bulk geological material of the mineralized region in question. Often the best (and easiest to obtain) samples are tested first.
 2. PILOT PLANT – The second stage of lab testing is termed pilot plant scale. It is continuous, and intended to be scalable to full production. It utilizes somewhere in the range of 10-100 kg per hour, and runs for days/weeks and includes a variety of potential ore types. Engineering data for feasibility studies and scale up is obtained during this process.
 3. PRODUCTION – Full or production scale procedures are the industrial equivalent of the pilot plant, continuously operated with 50 to 1000 tonnes per hour as feed.
PROCESS RECOVERY – The percentage of the REEs that show up in the product or midstream process relative to that of the mined ore or previous process step. Results are usually given in % values. Typical values are in the 50-90 % range.


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The Blackfriars Bridge over the River Thames was constructed back in Victorian times, and now it's getting a distinctly steampunk facelift with the addition of 4,400 photovoltaic panels. When complete, this installation is expected to be not only the largest solar power array in the United Kingdom, but also the world's largest solar bridge.
The bridge, constructed in 1886, forms the foundation for the new Blackfriars station, which is being upgraded by Network Rail to meet the needs of more passengers and an improved train service. As part of these improvements, a new roof will be added to the historic structure with over 6,000 square meters (around 19,685 square feet) of solar panels.
All this renewable energy will be delivered directly to the Blackfriars rail station, covering 50 percent of the station's energy needs and reducing CO2 emissions by an estimated 511 tons per year. The station will also be pursuing such eco-improvements as a rain harvesting system and solar tubes to allow for more natural lighting throughout the building.
London's Solarcentury is behind the project's solar engineering, working in conjunction with engineers from Jacobs to incorporate solar generation into the station design; the high-efficiency solar modules utilized by the project come courtesy of Sanyo.


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Beth Darnall discusses "Less Pain, Fewer Pills"
Chronic pain affects millions of Americans, and as the number of pain sufferers reach epidemic proportions in the United States, so too does the use of opioids to treat and manage pain, despite little research to support their long-term benefit. During this podcast, Stanford pain psychologist Beth Darnall, PhD, discusses her new book, Less Pain, Fewer Pills," which is aimed at helping the millions of sufferers regain control over their chronic pain without the use of opioids.
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Demetre Chiparus Cleopatra Art Deco Bronze
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Art Deco Bronze ' Cleopatra ' by Demetre Chiparus circa 1925 is an extremely important and rare quality statue by the artist who was arguably the master of Art Deco figurative sculpture. Chiparus's work is in many museums and major collections .Referenced in almost all books on Art Deco statues and Art Deco furnishings, this is certainly the finest signed piece we have ever offered of this important artist's work. Amazing details in both dimension and color: the skirt with dimensional scales, scarabs around the belt, necklaces, detailing on the sandals, feet, and headdress, in both bronze and brass colors. Amazing foundry work and the quality of the metalwork execution.
Cleopatra is shown sitting in the reclined position with additional detailing on the pillow and bed. This outstanding piece is double mounted on marble, with beveled sculpted edges, signed D H Chiparus in the bronze but also marked on the plate: CLEOPATRE par D.H. Chiaparus Laureate du Salon des Beaux-Arts.
Demétre Haralamb Chiparus (16 September 1886 – 22 January 1947) was a Romanian Art Deco era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris, France. He was one of the most important sculptors of the Art Deco era.
"Sculptures of Demetre Chiparus represent the classical manifestation of Art Deco style in decorative bronze ivory sculpture. Traditionally, four factors of influence over the creative activity of the artist can be distinguished: Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, ancient Egyptian art, and French theatre. Early motion pictures were among his more notable subjects and were typified by figures with a long, slender, stylized appearance. Some of his sculptures were directly inspired by Russian dancers. For example, faces of "Persian Dance" figures reveal the likenesses of Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein, and the dress in "Starfish Girl" exactly reproduces the sketch for Goldfish's dress from the ballet "Underwater kingdom" by Lev Annensky. Chiparus could have been influenced by Russian ballets indirectly, through the performances of French music halls and cabarets which bore traces of the strong impact of Russian ballet. Quite often, Chiparus used the photos of Russian and French dancers, stars and models from fashion magazines of his time."
"After the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922, the art of ancient Egypt and the East came to French fashion and is also reflected in the creative activity of Chiparus. Several sculptures by Dimitri Chiparus and Claire Colinet represent queen Cleopatra and Egyptian dancers. The sculptures of Chiparus reflect his time and 1920-1930s sentiment of "folle". Coming from the oldest French tradition of high-quality and extra-artistic decorative arts, the sculptures of Dimitri Chiparus combine elegance and luxury, embodying the spirit of the Art Deco epoch."
Collector interest in the work of Chiparus appeared in the 1970s and has flourished since the 1990s. A major collection of Chiparus' work is on display in the permanent collection of Casa Lis, the art nouveau and art deco museum in Salamanca, Espana.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron is among some of the famous Britons distantly related to people involved in the slave trade, according to a new database.
Several unscrupulous employment
agencies in a central Chinese city are reportedly recruiting
migrant workers and selling them as slaves where they are
subjected to dreadful working conditions.
Egyptian archaeologists claim to have discovered a new set of tombs which proves that the men who built the great pyramids, more than 4,000 years ago, were not slaves -- but paid labourers.
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Sungrow, a leading global supplier of renewable energy solutions, has developed a wide range of solar inverter that cater to different applications and requirements. In this article, we will focus on Sungrow's SG2.0RS-S, a single-MPPT string inverter designed for 600 Vdc systems.
The SG2.0RS-S is compatible with high-power PV modules and bifacial modules, which means it can handle a wide range of module types and configurations to maximize the energy output. Moreover, the inverter has a lower startup voltage and wider MPPT voltage range, which allows it to capture more energy from the modules and adapt to different operating conditions. The built-in smart PID recovery function can also help to mitigate the potential performance degradation caused by PID (potential-induced degradation), which is a common issue in some PV systems.
Safety is a top priority for solar installations, and Sungrow has integrated several protection features into the SG2.0RS-S to ensure safe and reliable operation. The inverter has an integrated arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) that can detect and isolate any abnormal current flow caused by arc faults, which can prevent fire hazards. The inverter also has built-in type II DC&AC surge protective devices (SPDs) that can absorb and divert voltage surges and lightning strikes, which can protect the system from damage. The corrosion protection rating of C5 can withstand harsh environments, which is important for long-term durability.
In conclusion, Sungrow's SG2.0RS-S is a high-performance, safe, and smart solar inverter that can meet the demands of various 600 Vdc PV systems.


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Gertrude Berg debuts in "The Goldbergs"
November 20, 1929
Gertrude Berg's popular radio program, The Goldbergs, about an upwardly mobile American Jewish family debuted on NBC radio on November 20, 1929. Berg developed the kernel of the show as a series of live sketches to entertain guests at her family's Catskills hotel. It was produced in recurrent runs as a daily 15-minute program on NBC and other networks for nearly two decades before shifting to television in January, 1949. On both radio and TV, Berg served as the sole writer, producer, and star of one the nation's most popular programs.
Throughout its 30 years on radio and television, as well as in presentations on Broadway and on film, The Goldbergs dealt explicitly with Jewish life in the United States, joking about the cultural differences between "old world" immigrants and their American-born offspring. Berg's Molly became a cultural touchstone, a figure combining old world wisdom, new world common sense, and a mother's humanity in confronting the perplexities of American life. Over the show's three decades, the Goldberg family moved from a New York City tenement to the Bronx and later to suburban Connecticut, mirroring the upward progression of many Jews into the American mainstream.
Although Berg continued to produce The Goldbergs into the 1950s, the show's popularity declined. The demise of The Goldbergs reflects the homogenizing trend in postwar American society. As millions of ethnic Americans fled their traditional urban enclaves in search of an un-hyphenated, simply "American" identity in the suburbs, programming explicitly grounded in ethnic cultures gave way to more all-American shows like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best. The Goldbergs went off the air in 1955.
To learn more about Gertrude Berg, visit Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.
See also: This Week in History for October 18, 1948: Molly Goldberg makes her television debut and January 10, 1949: Gertrude Berg's "The Goldbergs" premieres on television; Television in the United States.
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Caring for and Preventing Rain Rot on Horses
Do you own horses? Or are you thinking about getting your first horse soon? Horses are fun and fascinating companions, but they have many unique health needs that have to be met. They are also prone to developing health issues related to their hygiene and living conditions. One of these problems is known as rain rot.
Rain rot on horses is a type of bacterial infection of the skin. If your horse comes down with a skin condition you think might be rain rot, you should address this problem as soon as possible.
Read through the article below to learn more about rain rot as well as how to care for and prevent it.
What Causes Rain Rot on Horses?
Rain rot is a condition that is caused by the presence of bacteria on the skin. The bacteria responsible for the infection is called dermatophilus congolensis. It lives on the skin and then, when the opportunity arises, infects the skin due to the presence of other problems. For example, if there is damage to the skin, the bacteria take that chance to enter the skin and spread.
There are several causes that may lead to an infection from this type of bacteria. Some of the problems that can lead to rain rot on horses include:
When insects bite your horse, they break the skin and may allow bacteria to enter.
Heat causes the skin to become weak and damaged, allowing the bacteria to find a way in.
High Humidity or Excess Moisture
Too much moisture encourages the growth of bacteria on and within the skin.
Other Skin Lesions
If your horse has a scratch, bite, or abrasion on her skin, she may be more likely to develop rain rot.
Long or Dark Hair
Horses with long hair or dark hair develop mats in their hair and may develop scabbing related to rain rot. When the scabs come off, pus usually oozes out of these sores.
If you think your horse is suffering from this condition, it's extremely important to find out for sure. When your horse has a positive rain rot diagnosis, it's time to think about how to care for the condition.
Caring for Rain Rot on Horses
Some horse owners prefer to leave rain rot to clear up on its own over time. It is possible for this condition to rectify itself, especially if the underlying cause is addressed or removed. For example, if moisture is causing the problem, keeping your horse dry until the sores clear up can be enough of a solution for many people.
However, the sores can potentially spread and may get worse before they get better. They also cause a lot of pain, which can contribute to behavioral changes and may prevent your horse from being able to be ridden. For these reasons, it may be prudent to address this problem with your horse rather than waiting for the condition to clear up.
Gently Bathe Your Horse
To treat rain rot, you will first need to bathe the horse gently to remove the scabs from the sores. This may be painful for your horse, so practice caution; if she is in pain, she may kick.
After bathing, make sure to dry her thoroughly. Otherwise, the presence of too much moisture on the skin may prolong the condition.
Apply Appropriate Helpful Products
Moderate to severe cases of rain rot on horses may need to be treated with an antibiotic. However, some prefer to look for alternatives when caring for their animals.
Curicyn offers an equine wound and skin care product that is specifically designed to address these types of skin problems on animals. Created with the intention of promoting rapid healing for conditions such as rain rot, this product causes little to no scarring. In addition, it does not cause any burning, itching, or staining for your animal.
How to Prevent Rain Rot on Horses
Prevention is key when it comes to many horse skin conditions, including rain rot. It's not difficult to prevent your horse from developing this problem, but it may take some changes to the way you stable or ride her.
Daily grooming is an important factor in preventing your horse from developing rain rot. Brush her very frequently and make sure the brushes are kept clean. Do your best to reduce sources of insects in her stable and field, and to keep those insects from biting her as much as possible.
Stay Out of Humid, Muggy or Wet Environments
Keep your horse out of very humid, muggy, or wet conditions. If her stable is always moist, do what you can to fix the problem and keep her dry when she's stabled. If there are portions of her field that are very muddy or always damp, try to prevent her from using these areas whenever possible.
Wash and Dry Thoroughly After Muddy Rides
If you ride your horse through the mud or rain, wash and dry her thoroughly afterward. And if she does end up with a case of rain rot, make sure you keep her separated from other horses, as the condition can spread very easily.
Use Different Tools for Non-Infected Horses
It's also important to use different tack and grooming items for horses that do not have this condition. Otherwise, you may risk cross contaminating your healthy horses and causing the problem to take over very quickly.
Disinfect any items that come into contact with the affected horse regularly.
Address Rain Rot on Horses As Soon As Possible
By paying attention to your horse's needs, you'll be better able to keep her healthy and happy. Although rain rot may seem like an overwhelming problem when it happens to you and your horse, it's still a condition that can be addressed and cared for properly.
Remember, too, that rain rot may mimic the symptoms of some other skin conditions so it's important to find out if your horse has been impacted by this.
Curicyn offers a variety of products that promote rapid healing for many skin conditions your horse may contract. If you have any questions about our products or how they can help your animal, feel free to contact us any time. We're proud to be your partner in your animal's health. Find your closest Curicyn retailer for additional access to our products.
In addition to our wound and skin care product, Curicyn offers other products that can help with equine skin conditions. Curicyn's fly spray for horses product helps protect your horse from bugs and insects that could lead to different skin conditions, such as ticks, fleas and gnats. Moreover, we also offer an equine first aid kit that contains all the products you need should your horse develop a skin condition when on the road. It's also something that can be kept in your horse's stable so everything you need is in one place.


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Sustaining Members Code of Ethics
The credibility of the AMSUS Sustaining Members (SM) section is dependent on the trust and confidence we earn from our members, parent organization, and customers. We gain credibility by adhering to our commitments, displaying honesty and integrity, and reaching goals solely through honorable conduct. It is the purpose of our Code of Ethics to provide a guide to proper business conduct for all corporate member representatives, hereby referred to as representatives. We expect all representatives to observe the highest standards of ethics and integrity in their conduct. This means following a basic code of ethical behavior that includes the following:
- The antitrust laws promote competition by prohibiting anti-competitive behavior. All representatives should take care not to disclose anything that is competitively sensitive or proprietary. If you feel the least bit uncomfortable with the contents of any aspect of any SM program, raise the issue immediately so that it can be fully discussed and resolved.
- Representatives shall maintain a high standard of ethical conduct and thus contribute to the integrity of the Association.
- Representatives shall at all times respect the rights and dignity of all individuals.
- Representatives have the responsibility for demonstrating, through their actions, clear and direct behavior consistent with this Code.
- Representatives shall maintain a commitment to integrity by complying with all laws, rules, and regulations when we do business.
- Representatives shall be dedicated to ethical, fair, and considerate behavior in all their dealings.
- Representatives shall avoid any activity that might impair, or appear to impair, the ability to make objective and fair decisions when conducting business.
- Since we deal with federal government customers, for whom special rules apply, business courtesies shall not violate any law or regulation or the standards of conduct of the recipient's organization.
- Representatives shall not improperly influence, manipulate, or knowingly mislead any customer, other member, or business partner of the association.
- Representatives shall protect all other members' right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted.
- Representatives shall treat colleagues with respect, fairness, and good faith, and advocate conditions of membership that safeguard the rights and welfare of all.
- Representatives shall provide the highest level of service to the AMSUS SM organization through accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests.
- Representatives shall not advance private interests at the expense of the organization, colleagues, or customers.
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Details relating to the German Commemorative of 2006.
Issue Date: 03.02.2006
Number Minted: 30,000,00
(Note: German coins differ from those of the other Eurozone countries in that they are minted in five different locations and there are different mint marks that can appear on German coins.)
Mint location and corresponding Mint mark :
Berlin - A
Munich - D
Stuttgart - F
Karlsruhe - G
Hamburg - J
This is the first German commemorative coin and the first in the German series of 16,each of which will represent one of the provinces of Germany.
The province represented in this coin is Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's northernmost province bordering on Denmark.
The motif chosen by Schleswig-Holstein to represent it is the Holstentor in Lübeck. The Holstentor together with the Hansestadt Lübeck became a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Program in 1987.
The Holstentor was built as a city gate, forming the Western boundary of Lübeck's inner city. At the bottom of the inner circle the name of the province appears. At nine and three o'clock the mint mark and the initials of the designer are to be seen.
The issuing country "BUNDESREPUBLIC DEUTSCHLAND" appears boldly around the lower half of the outer ring.
From 2013 onwards the outer ring, for all euro Commemorative Coins, has been reserved for the twelve stars of the EU.
The Holstentor also appeared on the old 50 DM note.


Monitoring radiant power in the critically ill newborn under a radiant warmer.
S. Baumgart*, W. D. Engle, C. B. Langman, W. W. Fox, R. A. Polin
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To evaluate radiant power received by infants under radiant warmers, 11 neonates (mean gestational age 32.2 weeks, mean weight 1.50 kg) were monitored. A wattmeter was used to evaluate warmer power (watts), and a thermopile placed at bed level was used to correlate warmer power to radiant power density received (mw/cm2). Warmer power ranged from 133-301 watts. A linear relationship existed between warmer power and radiant power density received (r = 0.97, p < 0.001). After establishing that radiant power delivery could be monitored with a wattmeter, this technique was used to quantitate radiant power in a small series of infants with and without a plastic shield. Radiant power density received decreased in all infants when shielded (mean 14.6-11.2 mw/cm2, p < 0.01). This study demonstrates: (1) radiant warmer power can be monitored with a wattmeter; (2) warmer power correlates to radiant power density received; and (3) radiant power monitoring can be used to evaluate radiant power demands in specific clinical situations.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)721-724
Number of pages4
JournalCritical Care Medicine
Volume8
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1980
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
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East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Perspective in End-of-Life Decision Making From Indian and German Viewpoints
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2008 June; 11(2): 165-174
Culture creates the context within which individuals experience life and comprehend moral meaning of illness, suffering and death. The ways the patient, family and the physician communicate and make decisions in the end-of-life care are profoundly influenced by culture. What is considered as right or wrong in the healthcare setting may depend on the socio-cultural context. The present article is intended to delve into the cross-cultural perspectives in ethical decision making in the end-of-life scenario. We attempt to address the dynamics of the roles of patient, family and physician therein across two countries from East and West, namely, India and Germany. In India, where illness is more a shared family affair than an individual incident, a physician is likely to respect the family's wishes and may withhold the 'naked truth' about the diagnosis of a fatal disease to the patient. In Germany, a physician is legally required to inform the patient about the disease. In India, advance directive being virtually non-existent, the family acts as the locus of the decision-making process, taking into account the economic cost of available medical care. In Germany, advance directive is regarded as mandatory and healthcare is covered by insurance. Family and the physician appear to play larger roles in ethical decision making for patients in India than for those in Germany, who place greater emphasis on autonomy of the individual patient. Our study explicates how culture matters in ethical decision-making and why the bioethical discourse is necessary in the concrete realities of the socio-cultural context. To explore the possibility of finding a common ground of morality across different cultures while acknowledging and respecting cultural diversity, thus remains a formidable challenge for the bioethicists.
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Intra-National versus International Trade: How Stubborn are Nations in Global Integration?
This paper examines the home country bias in the goods market among OECD countries. An average country imports about two and a half times as much from itself as from an otherwise identical foreign country, after controlling for sizes of exporter and importer, their direct distance, geographic positions relative to the rest of the world and a possible linguistic tie. If one believes that the substitutability among goods produced in OECD countries is high, as it seems reasonable, the observed bias implies relatively small nontariff barriers. Over 1982-94, the home bias of OECD countries as a whole exhibited a slow but steady decline. The bias in a typical member country of the European Community relative to its imports from other member countries showed a fifty percent decline during the period.
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A Finnish study found that having many boys shaves months off a mom's life. (Photo: Getty Images)Parents often quip that their kids—especially their rambunctious little boys—are "going to be the death of me," and new research shows that they may be right: Having sons can shave an average of eight and a half months off of a mom's life.
(The affect on dads? None, apparently.)
Also on Shine: A Dad's Time-Lapse Video of his Son, from Birth to Age 21
The study, by evolutionary ecologist Dr. Samuli Helle of the University of Turku in Finland and Dr. Virpi Lummaa of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, was published this week in the journal Biology Letters. He and his team looked at the post-childbirth survival rates of 11,166 mothers and 6,360 fathers in pre-industrial Finland, using records kept by the Lutheran Church there.
"Irrespective of access to resources, mothers, but not fathers, with many sons suffered from reduced post-reproductive survival," they wrote in the study.
The subjects were born in eight different parts of Finland during the 17th to 20th centuries—a time period when the mostly agricultural society did not have access to modern medical care or birth control. After crunching the numbers, the researchers found that a mother who bore six sons would live on average another 32.4 years after the youngest son's birth, while a mother who gave birth to girls would live approximately 33.1 years after her youngest daughter came along.
The shorter life expectancy was the same regardless of the mom's social or financial status, though Helle said that "societal and cultural reasons could also play a factor."
"Adult sons may be beneficial for their parental well-being and thus survival in some countries, but girls may be beneficial in other countries," he told Livescience. In Finland during the 1700s and 1800s, a girl helped her mother by shouldering many of the household responsibilities, which could have increased the mother's life span slightly. Dads weren't affect, probably because reproduction takes far less of a toll on a man's body than it does on a woman's.
Still, Helle said in a statement: "The research shows the more sons you have the lower post-reproductive survival was. Biologically, there is a bigger cost associated with having a boy than a girl, so that is one explanation for the shorter lifespan." Male babies are usually bigger than female babies, which may have meant that they required more nutrients from the mother's body during gestation, researchers suggest.
But modern moms with boys shouldn't worry too much: The study shows correlation, not cause (that is, it shows a link between having sons and dying earlier, but doesn't prove that one causes the other). Besides, Helle points out, life these days is very different from that experienced by the mothers in the study, the vast majority of whom were born before 1960. Twenty-first century families are smaller than they were in the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s, and better nutrition, medical care, and birth control options mean that women are far healthier now than they used to be.
"One could speculate that owing to modern medical care, smaller family size and more abundant resources, the biological costs of reproduction might not play that important role in modern societies anymore," Helle said.
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Using expected utility for Good(hart)
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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.
Goodhart's curse happens when you want to maximise an unknown or uncomputable U, and instead choose a simpler proxy V, and maximise that instead. Then the optimisation pressure on V transforms it into a worse proxy of U, possibly resulting in a very bad result from the U-perspective.
Many suggestions for dealing with this involve finding some other formalism, and avoiding expected utility maximisation entirely.
However, it seems that classical expected utility maximisation can work fine, as long as we properly account for all our uncertainty and all our knowledge.
The setup
Imagine that there are 1000+5 different variables that humans might care about; the default value of these variables is 0, and they are all non-negative.
Of these, 5 are known to be variables that humans actually care about, and would like to maximise as much as possible. Of the remaining 1000, an AI agent knows that humans care about 100 of these, and want their values to be high - but it doesn't know which 100.
The agent has a "budget" of 1000 to invest in any variables it chooses; if it invest in a given variable , that variable is set to . Thus there is a diminishing return for every variable.
Then set
 - V={The means of the 5 known variables}.
And we get a classic Goodhart scenario: the agent will invest 200 in each of these variables, setting them to just about 14, and ignore all the other variables.
It knows we care, but not about what
In that situation, we have not, however, incorporated all that we know into the definition of V. We know that there are a 100 other variables humans care about. So we can define V as:
 - V={The mean of the 100+5 variables the humans care about}.
Of course, we don't know what the 100 variables are; but we can compute the expectation of V.
In order to make the model more interesting, and introduce more complicated trade-offs, I'll designate some of the 1000 variables as "stiff" variables: these require 40 times more investment to reach the same value. The number of stiff variables varies between 1 and 99 (to ensure that there is always at least one variable the humans care about among the non-stiff variables).
Then we, or an agent, can do classical expected utility maximisation on V:
This graph plots various values against the number of stiff variables. The orange dots designate the values of the 5 known variables; the agent prioritises these, because they are known. At the very bottom we can make out some brown dots; these are the values of the stiff variables, which hover barely above 0: the agent wastes little effort on these.
The purple dots represent the values of the non-stiff variables; the agent does boost them, but because they have only 1/10 of being variables humans care about, they get less priority. The blue dots represent the expected utility of V given all the other values; it moves from 0.13 approximately to 0.12 as the number of stiff variables rises.
This is better than only maximising the 5 known variables, but still seems sub-optimal: after all, we know that human value is fragile, so we lose a lot by having the stiff variables so low, as they are very likely to contain things we care about.
The utility knows that value is fragile
*We* know that human value is fragile, but that has not yet been incorporated into the utility. The simplest way would be to define V as:
 - V={The minimum value among the 100+5 variables the humans care about}.
Again, V cannot be known by the agent, but its expected value can be calculated. For different number of stiff variables, we get the following behaviour:
The purple dots are the values that the agent sets the 5 known variables, and the un-stiff unknown variables to. Because V is defined as a minimum, and because at least one of the un-stiff unknown variables must be one the humans care about, the agent will set them all to the same value. The brown dots track the value of the stiff variables, while the blue points are the expected value of V.
Initially, when there are few stiff variables, the agent invests their efforts mainly into the other variables, hoping that humans don't care about any of the stiff variables. As the number of stiff variables increases, the probability that humans care about at least one of them also increases. By the time there are 40 stiff variables, it's almost a certainty that one of them is one of the 100 the humans care about; at that point, the agent has to essentially treat V as being the minimum of all 1000+5 variables. The values of all variables - and hence the expected utility - then continues to decline as the number of stiff variables further increases, which makes it more and more expensive to increase all variables.
This behaviour is much more conservative, and much closer to what we'd want the agent to actually be doing in this situation; it does not feel Goodharty at all.
Using expected utility maximisation for Good(hart)
So before writing off expected utility maximisation as vulnerable to Goodhart effects, check if you've incorporated all the information and the uncertainty that you can, into the utility function.
The generality of this approach
It is not a problem, for this argument, if the number of variables humans care about is unknown, or if the tradeoff is more complicated than above. A probability distribution over the number of variables, and a more complicated optimal policy, would resolve these. Nor is the strict "min" utility formulation needed; a soft-min (or a mix of soft-min and min, depending on the importance of the variables) would also work, and allow the utility-maximiser to take less conservative tradeoffs.
So, does the method generalise? For example, if we wanted to maximise CEV, and wanted to incorporate my criticisms of it, we could add the criticisms as a measure of uncertainty to the CEV. However, it's not clear how to transform my criticisms into a compact utility-function-style form.
More damningly, I'm sure that people could think of more issues with CEV, if we gave them enough time and incentives (and they might do that as part of the CEV process itself). Therefore we'd need some sort of process that scans for likely human objections to CEV and automatically incorporates them into the CEV process.
It's not clear that this would work, but the example above does show that it might function better than we'd think.
Another important challenge it to list the different possible variables that humans might care about; in the example above, we were given the list of a 1000, but what if we didn't have it? Also, those variables could only go one way - up. What if there were a real-valued variable that the agent suspected humans cared about - but didn't know whether we wanted it to be high or low?
We could generate a lot of these variables in a variety of unfolding processes (processes that look back at human minds and use that to estimate what variables matter, and where to look for new ones), but that may be a challenge. Still, something to think about.
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If the position information provided by the transponder is not as accurate as desired, the software can still use the positions of multiple transponders in the water column in a Kalman Filter to estimate the ocean currents acting on the cable and improve the cable shape and touchdown computations. This is particularly helpful when ocean currents are not being measured or when the quality of the transponder position data is not very high. The Kalman filter outputs a current profile such that the difference between the measured and calculated (by the model) transponder positions is minimized. These currents can be used by the cable model to predict touchdown conditions in the near future and make corrections to the installation procedure to avoid undesirable touchdown conditions.
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- Pour all of the the glue into the mixing bowl.
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- Stir the glue and water together.
- Add your food color now - about 6 drops should do it.
- Now add the liquid starch and stir it in.
- It should be nice and blobby by now. As you play with your slimy concoction, it will become more stretchy and easier to hold.
- Explore your slimy creation and store it in a zip bag when you are not using it.
The glue is a liquid polymer. This means that the tiny molecules in the glue are in strands like a chain. When you add the liquid starch, the strands of the polymer glue hold together, giving it its slimy feel. The starch acts as a cross-linker that links all the polymer strands together.
The project above is a DEMONSTRATION. To make it a true experiment, you can try to answer these questions:
1. Does changing the amount of water or glue change the feel of the slime?
2. Do different glues make better slime?
3. How does changing the amount of each ingredient change how the slime turns out?
4. What happens to slime if it is stored out of a bag compared to in a bag?


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A creek is a natural flowing stream of water smaller than a river that is also referred to as a brook.
A creek is also a small coastal inlet
the sand creek massacure happened in 1864
clear creek is next to amana and by the oxford and tiffen Iowa
The Creek Indians lived in South Middle Tennessee. Creek Indians also lived along the Tennessee River. Creek Indians also lived in Alabama and Georgia.
Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
The Creek War of 1836 (also known as the Second Creek War or the Creek Alabama Uprising) was a conflict fought between the United States and factions of the Creek Nation in 1836 and 1837. The war took place in the border region betweenAlabama and Georgia along the Chattahoochee River.
The address of the Alum Creek is: Fuquay Creek, Alum Creek, 25003 0530
a summarhill creek
The creek has a central square, The creek made things by hand and the creek had a government
There is the:Arkansas River,Colorado River,Florida River,Illinois River,Michigan River,Idaho Creek,Indiana Creek,Maryland Creek,Minnesota Creek,Montana Creek,Virginia Creek,Missouri Creek, (six different creeks),New York Creek, (two different creeks),Ohio Creek, (two different creeks),Pennsylvania Creek, (two different creeks),Tennesee Creek, (two different creeks), andTexas Creek, (of which there are seven different creeks).
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No, the Conodoguinet Creek is longer. Pine Creek is 86 miles long, but the Conodoguinet is 104.
The word creek is a common noun. When used in the name of a creek, the name or title for something. Examples:Fall Creek Falls, Pikeville, TNColdwater Creek (clothing)Blue Creek Elementary School, Jacksonville, NCDawson's Creek (TV program)Fly Creek, NY 13337Creek Nation Casino, Muscogee, OK
The word creek is a common noun unless used for a specific creek such as Rock Creek in Washington, DC or a proper name such as Coldwater Creek fashions.
was the battle of kettle creek an american defeat
Tangle Creek, Granite Creek, Sycamore Creek, Wet Bottom Creek, East Verde River, Fossil Creek and Oak Creek.
The address of the Beech Creek Marsh Creek Watershed Heritage Museum is: Po Box 484, Beech Creek, PA 16822-0484
Antigua and Barbuda have no rivers. Antigua has three streams: Ayers Creek, Cooks Creek, and Fitches Creek.


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Introduction to the Family History Library Catalog > Place-name Search
Do a Place-name Search when you want to find records in the collection of the Family History Library by the name of a place (locality) where an ancestor lived. Microfilms located through this search can then be ordered through your local Family History Center.
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With increasing worldwide demand for safe blood, there is much interest in generating red blood cells in vitro as an alternative clinical product. However, available methods for in vitro generation of red cells from adult and cord blood progenitors do not yet provide a sustainable supply, and current systems using pluripotent stem cells as progenitors do not generate viable red cells. We have taken an alternative approach, immortalizing early adult erythroblasts generating a stable line, which provides a continuous supply of red cells. The immortalized cells differentiate efficiently into mature, functional reticulocytes that can be isolated by filtration. Extensive characterization has not revealed any differences between these reticulocytes and in vitro-cultured adult reticulocytes functionally or at the molecular level, and importantly no aberrant protein expression. We demonstrate a feasible approach to the manufacture of red cells for clinical use from in vitro culture.


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The question of how to power devices at the nanoscale is getting increasing attention. Georgia Tech's Z.L. Wang has one answer:
Researchers have developed a new technique for powering nanometer-scale devices without the need for bulky energy sources such as batteries.
By converting mechanical energy from body movement, muscle stretching or water flow into electricity, these "nanogenerators" could make possible a new class of self-powered implantable medical devices, sensors and portable electronics…
"Our bodies are good at converting chemical energy from glucose into the mechanical energy of our muscles," Wang noted. "These nanogenerators can take that mechanical energy and convert it to electrical energy for powering devices inside the body. This could open up tremendous possibilities for self-powered implantable medical devices."
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