How would the code look like if you have a folder with multiple files where you want to change a word inside all the files?
 32. Ganesh says:
 How to Find and replace if text is like this ?
 This is the Version L"{dffd56-dsf55-dfdsf5-545a}"
 33. CasE sensitive says:
 Hi.
 Running Windows 8.1, how do I accomplish search and replace with case sensitive text?
 34. Mike P says:
 Love your articles.
 What if you need to escape a character that's within quotes? For example, my replace string is: AssemblyVersion("1.2.*"). This works: -replace "1.2.*", "1.2.3" but is to broad. As such, I've tried: -replace 'AssemblyVersion("1.2.*")','AssemblyVersion("1.2.3")'
 without success. Have I got my quoting all wrong and/or is escaping handled differently when the string is quoted?
 35. Kishore says:
 Hi
 How to search a string in updating files in directory please provide the script
 36. KMSigma says:
 This is a great example and I'm using it to cleanup some entries within some of my IIS logs. However, many of the logs are over 300 MB flat files. When running, the PowerShell process routinely takes up over 1GB of Memory (as it reads the entire file into
 memory). Is there a more efficient way to handle this?
 37. KMSigma says:
 After some tinkering, I decided to use:
 $Source | Get-Content | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '[RegexString]', '[ReplaceString]' | Out-File -FilePath $Destination -Append -Encoding ascii }
 This prevents PowerShell from reading the entire file at once, but it still needs to churn through each line.
 It's now running with less than 200 MB memory, but it's still a hog when it comes to CPU utilization. I'm not sure that there's a way to get by that particular issue.
 If someone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears, but I thought that I'd share what I've found.
 38. MJ Ross says:
 What am I doing wrong here? I just need to replace the "shared_buffers = 32MB value to 256MB?
 (Get-Content F:hpUCMDBDataFlowProbepgsqldatapostgresql.conf)
 |ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "shared_buffers = 32MB", "shared_buffers = 256MB"}
 |Set-Content F:hpUCMDBDataFlowProbepgsqldatapostgresql.conf
 Thank you for any help you could offer?
 39. Thomas P Gould says:
 Hey Scripting guy – This was a great forum. I am trying to apply this knowledge to a little more complex scenario. How would i do something along these lines when i would need to replace multiple invalid characters in a string.
 Lets say i have a variable $StringWithInvalidChars = "This is an invalid character, i think?"
 How would i go about replacing the , with , and also the ? with ? since both are invalid characters and is "technically" an invalid character. At first i thought this would be easy lets just do a loop that looks something like this:
 $arrInvalidCharacters = '$','( )','*','+','.','[',']','?',",'/','^','{','}','|',','
 foreach ($InvChar in $arrInvalidCharacters)
 {
 $VariableWithOutInvalidChars = $VariableWithInvalidChars | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "$InvChar","$InvChar"}
 }
 But this will replace the first invalid character and none of the rest. Is there a way to look past an escape character only if is being used as an escape character, otherwise replace it as an escape character?
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Opening TRF file
No one can deny the dominance of Android devices in the smartphone market. About 88 percent of the world's smartphones are using the android platform. It is certain that you have a file with the apk. extension and having trouble on how to open it. You don't have to worry anymore since techshift provides us a comprehensive step-by-step visual guide on how to open a.APK file across different operating systems.
What is.APK?
The.APK file stands for Android Package. Google created the file format to share and install applications on Android devices. It is an executable file or in zip format, thus it cannot be read because it is compiled. However, it can be opened using 7 software on 4 platforms.
Here's the step-by-step guide by on how to open.APK file on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android:
Opening.APK file on Windows OS
There are four simple steps on how to open a.apk file on Windows. Keep in mind that this will only work on Windows 7, 8, and 10
 1. You need to download specific software that can open the file like Google Android SDK, BlueStacks, Core WinZip, 7-Zip, and RARLAB WinRAR.
 2. Finding the original location of the file is the second step. You can usually find it in the /download/ folder.
 3. Once you found the file, perform a right-click on it and choose the "Open with" option.
 4. After clicking the "Open with" option, you will need to select the software you downloaded to open the.apk file (e.g. Google Android SDK). Click on the software and click "OK".
TRF format files may encounter problems
Opening.APK file on Mac OS
Like on Windows, there are also just four easy steps on how to open a.apk file on Mac OS.
 1. Downloading software that can open the file is also the first step here. On Mac OS, Google Android SDK and BlueStacks can be used too, but you can also download Apple Archive Utility.
 2. Locating the downloaded file is the second step. It is commonly found in the /download/ folder.
 3. Press right-click on the file and click the "Open with" option.
 4. Once you click "Open with", you should see the software you downloaded to open the file (let's say, in this case, we used Google Android SDK again). Choose the software and click on "OK".
In summary, opening an.apk file is not hard, there are just programs that you first need to install on your device in order to open the file. This may vary depending on the operating system you are using. For Windows, you can use Google Android SDK, BlueStacks, Corel WinZip, 7-Zip, RARLAB WinRAR programs. For Mac OS, you can download Google Android SDK, Apple Archive Utility, and BlueStacks programs. Only download Google Android SDK on Linux. Finally, for Android, simply install the Google Android software.


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Attributes can be assigned to products. These allow PULPO WMS to identify any custom information that comes from the ERP system or any other source for better performance and control of tasks and processes within the warehouse. Attributes can contain (metadata) data used by third-party systems, which PULPO WMS itself does not need.
The open and publicly documented API of PULPO WMS makes it possible to quickly connect different systems. If required, PULPO WMS can also be used as an information hub to exchange important information between systems without these systems having to communicate directly with each other. This may be useful especially for older systems.
Examples of Data Transfer to Third-Party Systems: An order may e.g. receive important information for the TMS (Transport Management System) in its attributes.
Assigning attributes to products
Product Create/Edit dialog selected in the create and edit products process, attributes can be assigned by clicking the corresponding tab located at the right side of the screen.
The following information must be filled:
Attribute: Define a custom name for the product's attribute
Value: Assign (if necessary) a numeric value for the attribute
An attribute, for example, could be:
Storage_temperature : 5 °C
This attribute will remain with the product through every task and process that PULPO WMS performs so that users and third parties can easily identify the product's customized information.
Example of URL image attribute:
Suppose you would like to create a product that carries an attribute related to a URL image. PULPO WMS allows this type of attributes to better recognize and identify products in the warehouses:
First, a product must be created in PULPO WMS. This can be done manually in the Web App by following the steps explained in the create/edit products article.
Suppose you created a product called "Television". When it comes to assigning the product's attribute, you can fill in the URL information you want regarding the television. Simply type: "image_url" as the name of the attribute and paste the image link in the value field. Then click on the
3. PULPO WMS will then display, in the detailed information of the product, the corresponding URL image, thus allowing it to improve the visualization of any product from the list.

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The discovery of two-headed animals in nature often makes local news headlines. There's just something about the sheer novelty of seeing a turtle or snake with two heads that fascinates us to no end.
Throughout the history of the natural world, researchers, conservationists, and even ordinary citizens have observed and documented numerous instances of polycephaly (multi-headedness). The term comes from the Greek words for "multiple" (poly-) and "head" (kephalē).
By far, the most common variant of this is bicephaly or dicephaly (two-headedness). However, tricephalic (three-headed) animals have been found on rarer occasions as well. A variant of this condition, diprosopus, results in an animal being born with a single head, but with two faces.
All of these variations of polycephaly are classified as cephalic disorders, or congenital conditions resulting from genetic abnormalities or damage sustained in the nervous system during development. And this isn't just a modern-day phenomenon; scientists have found fossils of two-headed embryos dating back to at least 150 million years!
Getting a head (or two, or three)
One reason why an animal might end up with two heads is the embryo's incomplete splitting (or axial bifurcation). This is also why some humans end up being born as conjoined twins (though bicephaly is extremely rare in these cases). In other cases, two separate embryos may fuse together (albeit incompletely) to form a single-bodied but two-headed individual.
Bicephaly is most commonly observed in reptiles. It's possible that their higher polycephaly rate is because they produce more offspring; basically, more chances of "winning." It also might be because they're more exposed to factors in their environment that may affect their development.
However, since polycephalic animals don't exactly have a high survival or reproductive rate, the condition often isn't an inherited one. In other words, when it comes to surviving in the wild, two heads aren't really better than one.
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Trainer
An AIOPS (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) trainer is a professional who specializes in teaching individuals and organizations about using AI and machine learning techniques to optimize IT operations. They typically have expertise in both AI and IT operations, and are able to provide training on a wide range of topics related to AIOPS.
The main goal of an AIOPS trainer is to help individuals and organizations understand the benefits and best practices for using AI in IT operations, and to provide them with the knowledge and skills needed to implement AI-based solutions.
Some of the responsibilities of an AIOPS trainer may include:
 1. Developing and delivering training programs on AIOPS, including topics such as performance monitoring, incident management, and automated troubleshooting.
 2. Creating training materials, such as presentations, hands-on exercises, and case studies.
 3. Providing guidance and support to individuals and organizations as they implement AI-based solutions in their IT operations.
 4. Monitoring and assessing the progress of trainees, and providing feedback and additional support as needed.
 5. Staying current with industry developments in AI and IT operations, and incorporating new technologies and best practices into training programs.
 6. Providing consulting services on AIOPS strategy development and implementation.
An AIOPS trainer typically has a background in IT operations or a related field, as well as experience with AI and machine learning technologies. They may also hold relevant certifications, such as the International Association of AIOPS Professionals (IAOP) or the Association of AIOPS Professionals (AOP) certification.
The role of an AIOps Consultant is to help organizations implement and use AIOps solutions. This includes tasks such as:
 - Understanding the organization's IT environment: The AIOps Consultant needs to understand the organization's IT environment, including the different systems and applications, the data that is collected, and the problems that the organization is facing.
 - Designing and implementing an AIOps solution: The AIOps Consultant needs to design and implement an AIOps solution that is tailored to the organization's specific needs. This may involve selecting and configuring an AIOps platform, collecting and preparing data, and building and deploying models.
 - Training the organization's staff: The AIOps Consultant needs to train the organization's staff on how to use the AIOps solution. This includes training on how to collect data, build models, and interpret results.
 - Monitoring and troubleshooting the AIOps solution: The AIOps Consultant needs to monitor the AIOps solution to ensure that it is working properly and to troubleshoot any problems that occur.
The role of an AIOps Trainer is to teach others about AIOps. This includes tasks such as:
 - Providing training on the basics of AIOps: The AIOps Trainer needs to provide training on the basics of AIOps, such as what AIOps is, the benefits of AIOps, and the different components of AIOps.
 - Providing training on specific AIOps technologies: The AIOps Trainer may also need to provide training on specific AIOps technologies, such as anomaly detection or root cause analysis.
 - Providing hands-on training: The AIOps Trainer may also need to provide hands-on training, where participants can learn how to use AIOps tools and techniques.
 - Providing ongoing support: The AIOps Trainer may also need to provide ongoing support to participants, such as answering questions and providing guidance.
Both AIOps Consultants and AIOps Trainers play an important role in helping organizations adopt and use AIOps solutions. By providing expertise and guidance, they can help organizations to improve their IT operations and achieve their business goals.Here are some of the skills that are typically required for these roles:
 - Knowledge of AI and machine learning: AIOps is a technology that uses AI and machine learning to improve IT operations. Therefore, AIOps Consultants and AIOps Trainers need to have a strong understanding of these technologies.
 - Experience in IT operations: AIOps is a solution that is used to improve IT operations. Therefore, AIOps Consultants and AIOps Trainers need to have experience in IT operations.
 - Communication skills: AIOps Consultants and AIOps Trainers need to be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
 - Problem-solving skills: AIOps Consultants and AIOps Trainers need to be able to identify and solve problems related to AIOps.
 - Teaching skills: AIOps Trainers need to be able to teach others about AIOps.
If you are interested in a career in AIOps, there are a few things you can do to prepare:
 - Get a degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. This will give you the foundation in AI and machine learning that you need to be successful in this field.
 - Get experience in IT operations. This will give you the hands-on experience that you need to understand the problems that AIOps can solve.
 - Take courses on AIOps. There are many courses available online and in person that can teach you about AIOps.
 - Network with other AIOps professionals. This will help you to learn about the latest trends in AIOps and to find job opportunities.


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UMRBA shared how it is working in collaboration with its federal partners, local entities, and numerous stakeholders to develop and act on robust solutions for adapting to, and mitigating, the effects climate change, underscoring the importance of the:
- Upper Mississippi River Restoration program
- The Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program
- The Gulf Hypoxic Action Plan, including the states' nutrient reduction strategies
- Long term flood, drought, and sediment resilience planning
The passage of the 2020 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) reinforced Congress' commitment to integrated, multipurpose management on the Upper Mississippi River and water resources across the nation. In the same action, Congress supported the region's goals for improving disaster preparedness, economic growth and resilience, and ecological health on the Upper Mississippi River. This includes:
- Substantially increasing the annual authorized appropriation for the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program
- Alleviating constraints to the Inland Waterways Trust Fund that will fund the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP)
- Removing the largest policy impediment to beneficial use of dredged material – i.e., modifying the Federal low-cost standard
- Authorizing the construction of GLRMIS construction for a total cost of $858 million as well as the Grand River Basin ecosystem restoration project in Iowa and Missouri and the Meramec River Basin ecosystem restoration project in Missouri
UMRBA offered the following specific comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it develops guidance for implementing the provisions authorized in WRDA 2020:
Inland Waterways Trust Fund: The adjustment of the Inland Waterway Trust Fund cost share allocation to inland waterway lock construction and major rehabilitation projects will help ensure that the Upper Mississippi River and nation's inland waterways are able to reliably and efficiently serve an integral role in domestic and international transportation. But, federal investment in the nation's waterways infrastructure must be equitable. There is dismaying discrepancy between the Upper Mississippi River System's contributions to the Inland Waterways Trust Fund and the return investment in the river's infrastructure. UMRBA respectfully requests that the Administration place a higher priority on financing the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program for the Upper Mississippi River System.
Project partnership agreements: Implementing the solutions that involve the states or other nonfederal entities serving as cost-share sponsors is impeded, or are dramatically slowed, by the terms required in the cost-share project partnership agreements (PPAs). UMRBA encourages the Administration to participate actively with Congress, UMRBA, and other nonfederal sponsors to seek a legislative solution to shared liability and respectfully request that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provide a clear termination date for the OMRR&R responsibilities. Section 143 of WRDA 2020 directs the Corps to include a brief description and estimation of the anticipated OMRR&R costs for nonfederal sponsors in the project partnership agreements. UMRBA respectfully requests that the provision also include a defined end-term based on the expected useful life of the project's construction features – i.e., match the 50-year project design life.
In addition, UMRBA respectfully suggests that a provision be added providing greater specificity regarding adaptive management to address risk and uncertainty with respect to achieving project outcomes as well as the need and ability to perform OMRR&R obligations dependent on whether the project features perform as intended.
Beneficial Use of Dredged Material: Congress' change to the Federal standard calculation provides tremendous opportunity – not only for the Upper Mississippi River but for the coasts, Great Lakes, and rivers across the country. Implementation guidance is particularly important to ensuring that beneficial use can play a significant role in the river's long term resilience to sedimentation as well as in advancing integrated river management. UMRBA respectfully requests that a representative team of interdisciplinary and interagency experts from the Upper Mississippi River and other regions across the country serve on a team to consider implementation guidance. UMRBA would welcome the opportunity to participate in such a dialogue.
Given the numerous project types and unique ecological and social factors throughout the country, UMRBA encourages the Corps to consider how to balance the need for long term flexibility with the necessary direction that Districts will require. UMRBA understands that the policies related to beneficial use are complex, including methods for calculating environmental and economic benefits and efficiencies. In the letter, UMRBA provides a few observations of beneficial use limitations beyond the low-cost Federal standard.
Floodplain Resilience Planning: UMRBA is pleased by Congress' support for the Corps' Section 729 planning authority to advance resilience planning on the Upper Mississippi River System. UMRBA would be the cost-share sponsor of the Section 729 study as directed by Congress in Section 214 of WRDA 2020. UMRBA is interested in using the planning authority to develop integrated, systemic plans to managing floods, drought, and sediment in the Upper Mississippi River System floodplain. We believe that it will be important to consider the changing weather, landscape, hydrology, and geomorphology as well as the region's economic, social, and ecological values when advancing each of the following specific objectives:
- Develop an integrated, comprehensive, and systems-based plan to minimize the threat to health and safety resulting from flooding by using structural and nonstructural floodplain management measures
- Develop new, or renew existing, comprehensive long-term channel management plans that are sustainable, cost-effective, and ecologically sensitive
- Develop mitigation strategies for multi-year drought events that would increase the resilience of communities and economies adjacent to, or dependent on, the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers nt in the Upper Mississippi River System floodplain.
UMRBA is excited to launch our new web presence. We hope you will have a good experience, finding information and learning about the work we and our partners are doing to protect and improve the many river uses.
We will continue to expand website content, particularly with information about the river ecosystem, economy, and people who live along the river, and work to improve it.
Our primary goal was to create a more accessible, useful resource for you to find information on the river, the ongoing and historic programs, and projects, and UMRBA's current events and upcoming meetings.
Please contact staff with any questions or suggestions.


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There is no agreement on the origin of the name Bahrs Scrub. It is quite possible that the area got its name from German settler Carl Wilhelm Bahr, born in 1840, or his son Wilhelm, born in 1860. The name may originate from Jimmy-bark Scrub, as reported by a correspondent for The Queenslander newspaper in 1866, who documented his journey through the Albert and Logan districts. The area is called Barr's Scrub in a letter to the editor of a local paper dated 21 February 1874. The hill between Bethania and Holmview has always been locally known as Bark Hill, so perhaps the name evolved from this.
Windaroo Creek rises in Bahrs Scrub and flows eastwards into the Albert River. In 1993, approval was given for the construction of a state high school to called Bahrs Scrub State High School. When it opened, it became known as Windaroo Valley High School, with the name taken from the housing estate being marketed at the time. Formerly in Albert Shire, then Gold Coast, Bahrs Scrub was made part of Logan City in 2008.


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Deworming schoolchildren: A smart investment for policymakers and philanthropists
Submitted by grace on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:00
May 14, 2012 | Copenhagen Consensus Center
The Copenhagen Consensus Center ranks deworming fourth among the sixteen most cost-effective investments to overcome the world's biggest challenges in 2012. This list is compiled by an expert panel of Nobel Laureate economists charged with determining the smartest ways to advance global welfare, particularly in developing countries. The panel recommends that US$300 million be allocated annually for deworming, providing an endorsement that policymakers and philanthropists can look to when prioritizing allocation of limited resources.
Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell is quoted by the Center, saying: "Deworming is an overlooked intervention deserving of greater attention and resources. This simple, cheap investment can mean a child is healthier and spends more time in school."
Deworming is mentioned in three of the ten challenge papers due to its impact on education, health, and nutrition status of school-age children. To learn more about the economists' rankings and read the outcomes and challenge papers, please visit the Copenhagen Consensus Center website, and see the related Slate articles by Center Director Bjørn Lomborg on strategies for fixing education, and the best solutions to combat infectious diseases.

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Women are happier as compared to men, say American scientists in their recent findings. Researchers at the University of South Florida recently ran a study in which they noticed the presence of more happiness genes in women's brain than their opposition. They claim that the entire game of happiness and sadness in human beings is being played by these genes.
The genes in talks is known as 'MAOA', which researchers believe make good effect upon the levels of feel-good chemicals in the brain, which are further responsible for all the fluctuations that occur in the moods of both men as well as women.
They explained that the MAOA genes are present in two variations, a highly active one and a comparatively lesser active one. For which, approx 350+ men and women were questioned by the researchers during their study about how happy they were followed with the collection of their saliva sample that was further tested for their DNA.
They found that women, who showed presence of the less active type, were happier than others, but the ones, who had two copies of the 'happy' type of MAOA, were happiest among all the participants. Declared results revealed 59 percent women with one copy genes, 17 percent with two but among men only one in four lacked the happiness gene.
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6 Reasons Why SeaWorld Should Keep its Orcas
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6 Reasons Why SeaWorld Should Keep its Orcas
Due to the controversy over animal treatment, SeaWorld has scaled back on its marine mammal shows and breeding. (George Skene/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
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Lately, there has been much controversy over SeaWorld's – among other amusement parks and attractions – use of animals for recreational purposes. Here are some reasons SeaWorld should keep its orcas:
1. SeaWorld cannot operate without killer whales.
Former SeaWorld Research Director John Hall said in the 1997 documentary "Whale of a Business" that an estimated seventy percent of SeaWorld's profits were due to the presence of orcas. In comparison, the documentary "Blackfish," which harshly criticized SeaWorld's practices, caused revenue to fall by six percent. The drop in revenue then caused SeaWorld's stock value to fall 33 percent.
2. The orcas are not a significant danger to humans.
In the fifty years that SeaWorld has existed, only three people have been killed by the business's killer whales, according to the Orca Project. Two of the deaths were of SeaWorld trainers. Their deaths were accidents that are unlikely to happen again due to SeaWorld's recent changes in safety procedures. The other death, of a visitor, was entirely the fault of the individual. He snuck into an orca's tank after the park was closed.
3. SeaWorld does not have a significant impact on the wild orca population.
SeaWorld has twenty-four orcas in captivity, and all its orcas were bred from the few orcas it captured decades ago. The twenty-four orcas that it has are insignificant compared to the 50,000 killer whales worldwide. Many of SeaWorld's orcas suffer due to inbreeding and damage from living in captivity and probably would not survive anyway if released into the wild. The orca population's main threats are pollution, habitat disturbance and oil spills. None of these main threats exist in SeaWorld.
4. SeaWorld's treatment of orcas is far better than factory farms' treatment of animals used in the meat industry.
Both SeaWorld and factory farms treat animals poorly. However, while a pig raised and slaughtered in a factory farm might feed a family of four, the orcas raised in SeaWorld are helping feed tens of thousands of employees by the revenue they help generate.
5. SeaWorld is improving the treatment of orcas around the world.
Scientists at SeaWorld have released studies on the orcas that SeaWorld has in captivity. In addition, according to its website, SeaWorld has raised awareness of many issues that orcas face and has donated millions to research, rescue and conservation efforts for all marine life.
6. Orcas are animals.
Their treatment, much like that of the animals humans use for food, is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
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How to: Sign Setup Files with SignTool.exe (ClickOnce)
You can use SignTool.exe to sign a Setup program (setup.exe). This process helps ensure that tampered files are not installed on end-user computers.
By default, ClickOnce has signed manifests and a signed Setup program. However, if you want to change the parameters of the Setup program later, you must sign the Setup program later. If you change the parameters after the Setup program is signed, the signature becomes corrupted.
The following procedure generates unsigned manifests and an unsigned Setup program. Then, ClickOnce signing is enabled in Visual Studio to generate signed manifests. The Setup program is left unsigned so that the customer can sign the executable with their own certificate.
To generate an unsigned Setup program and sign later
 1. On the development computer, install the certificate that you want the sign the manifests with.
 2. Select the project in Solution Explorer.
 3. On the Project menu, click ProjectName Properties.
 4. In the Signing page, clear Sign the ClickOnce manifests.
 5. In the Publish page, click Prerequisites.
 6. Verify that all the prerequisites are selected, and then click OK.
 7. In the Publish page, verify the publish settings and then click Publish Now.
 The solution publishes the unsigned application manifest, unsigned deployment manifest, version-specific files, and unsigned Setup program to the publishing folder location.
 8. In the Publish page, click Prerequisites.
 9. In the Prerequisites dialog box, clear Create setup program to install prerequisite components.
 10. In the Publish page, verify the publish settings and then click Publish Now.
 The solution publishes the signed application manifest, signed deployment manifest, and version-specific files to the publishing folder location. The unsigned Setup program is not overwritten by the publish process.
 11. At the customer site, open a command prompt.
 12. Change to the directory that contains the .exe file.
 13. Sign the .exe file with the following command:
 signtool sign /sha1 CertificateHash Setup.exe
 signtool sign /f CertFileName Setup.exe

 For example, to sign the Setup program, use one of the following commands:
 signtool sign /sha1 CCB... Setup.exe
 signtool sign /f CertFileName Setup.exe

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No matter what type of shock the patient has, perfusion is impaired resulting in decreased blood flow to all areas of the body.
Create a concept map describing the physiological effects on each body system. Include the signs and symptoms the nurse would expect to see as a result.
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Describe the effects of decreased blood flow to each body system
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Parents' Singing to Fetus and Newborn Enhances Their Well-being, Parent-Infant Attachment, & Soothability: Part One
Regular contributor Penny Simkin shares her experiences with parents who sing to their baby in utero and then continue after birth and looks at what the research says about this practice in this two part blog piece. Part two can be found here. Join me in reading about some unique situations that Penny shares as she explores this opportunity for parents to bond with their unborn child. - Sharon Muza, Science & Sensibility Community Manager.
People have sung to their babies forever. Every culture has lullabies and children's songs that are passed down through the generations. New ones are written and shared and the custom goes on –a rich part of the fabric of human civilization. These songs are designed to relax babies, calm their fears, or entertain and amuse them throughout childhood. As we have learned more about the life and capabilities of the fetus, we have realized that the fetus can hear clearly for months before birth, and also can discriminate sounds and develop preferences for some sounds over others. Furthermore, at birth, newborns respond to familiar sounds by becoming calm and orienting toward the source of the sound, and even indicate their preferences for familiar voices and words over the unfamiliar.
Newborn babies prefer their parents' and other familiar voices over those of strangers (1), and they prefer hearing a story that their mother had read frequently in utero rather than an unfamiliar story or the familiar one read by someone other than their mother (2). Fetuses hear, remember, have preferences, respond to, and discriminate among differences — in sounds, music, voices.
These exciting findings have inspired educators to advocate prenatal learning through recordings played through a mother's abdomen (of languages, music, and other things). They have inspired birth activists and baby advocates to provide a safe enriching environment for the fetus. Advocates of prenatal bonding emphasize communication between parent and unborn child as a powerful way to strengthen the bond.
I'd like to offer my take on this phenomenon and urge everyone who works with expectant parents to tell them about some unique and heart-warming benefits of singing or reciting rhymes to their unborn babies.
I think my interest in parents singing to their babies prenatally began in the 1980s when I first read Michel Odent's book, "Birth Reborn"(3). Odent is a French physician who has always been ahead of his time. He had a unique and original maternity care program at his hospital in Pithiviers, France. His book had a great influence on my understanding of normal birth, and the book is still worth reading today, along with all his subsequent ones. One lovely aspect of his program is particularly relevant to the topic of this blog post. The program included a weekly singing group at the hospital, attended by pregnant women, their partners, families with young babies, the midwives, and Odent himself. The group was led by an opera singer who believed singing to be important for fetuses, babies and those who care for them. Odent's account inspired me to invite Jamie Shilling, a folk singer who had recently taken my birth class, to bring her guitar and her baby to my classes a half hour early each week and sing with the expectant parents. That went on very successfully for several class series, then the groups decided to combine and carry on in a monthly singalong for expectant parents and new families, in a private home –Although the groups eventually disbanded, they provided many parents with opportunities to sing together and connect with their babies and each other in relaxing and peaceful surroundings. A high point during that time was when Michel Odent came to Seattle to give a conference and he agreed to come to one of our sing-alongs. See the photo of Jamie leading the group of expectant and new parents, with Michel Odent and myself participating. He taught us the song, "Little Black Cat" in French.
I couldn't help but think during those times, how the unborn and new babies must love hearing their parents singing. Seeing the parents caressing the mother's belly as they sang was heartwarming. That happened in the mid- 1980s, when much research on the capabilities of the unborn and newborn baby was beginning to be published. Recalling those special gatherings, I have always suggested to my students in childbirth class that they sing to their unborn babies, or play their favorite recorded music, with the thought that the baby will remember it and be soothed by it after birth.
But it was one couple, whom I served as a birth doula, who took my suggestion to another level, and showed me much more about the value of singing to the unborn baby. They were having their second child, hoping for a VBAC. When they discovered that they were having a boy, they decided to give their baby the song, "Here Comes the Sun" and sang it to him often during pregnancy. The VBAC was not possible, and as the cesarean was underway, and the baby boy, crying lustily, was raised for the parents to see, the father began belting out the baby's song. Though the mother didn't have a strong voice under the circumstances, she also sang. The baby turned his head, turned his face right toward his father and calmed down while his father sang. Time stopped. As I looked around the operating room, I saw tears appear on the surgical masks.
It's a moment I'll never forget, and it was that event that taught me the value, not only of singing prenatally, but also, singing the same song every day. Not only does the baby hear his or her parents' voices, not only does he or she hear music, but the baby also gets to know one song very well. Familiarity adds another feature to this concept, because we know that fetuses have memory and prefer the familiar. Think for a moment about what this might have meant to our cesarean-born baby –suddenly being removed from the warmth, wetness, and dimness of the womb with its mother's reassuring heartbeat, into the cold bright noisy operating room. The baby's transition to extrauterine life is hectic and full of new sensations. He cries reflexively, but perhaps also out of shock and discomfort. Then he hears something familiar – voices and music and the sounds of words that he has heard many times before – something he likes. He calms down, and seeks the source of this familiar song. Everyone present is moved by this gift to the baby from his parents.
I've become passionate about this idea as a way to enhance bonding between parents and babies, but also as a unique and very practical measure for soothing a fussing baby or a sick baby who can't be held or breastfed. Please join me on Thursday, for Part Two on this topic when I will continue the discussion including research evidence that supports this concept: practical suggetions for childbirth professionals to share with expectant parents; and some very endearing film clips of families singing to their babies.
1. Brazelton B. Cramer B. (1991)The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants, and The Drama Of Early Attachment. Da Capo Press Cambridge, MA.
2. De Casper A. 1974, as described in Klaus M, Klaus P, Kennell J. 2000. Your Amazing Newborn. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA.
3. Odent M. 1984, Birth Reborn. Pantheon Books: New York


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Definition of of
1 —used as a function word to indicate a point of reckoning north of the lake
2a —used as a function word to indicate origin or derivation a man of noble birthb —used as a function word to indicate the cause, motive, or reason died of fluc : by plays of Shakespeared : on the part of very kind of youe : occurring in a fish of the western Atlantic
3 —used as a function word to indicate the component material, parts, or elements or the contents throne of gold cup of water
4a —used as a function word to indicate the whole that includes the part denoted by the preceding word most of the armyb —used as a function word to indicate a whole or quantity from which a part is removed or expended gave of his time
5a : relating to : about stories of her travelsb : in respect to slow of speech
6a —used as a function word to indicate belonging or a possessive relationship king of Englandb —used as a function word to indicate relationship between a result determined by a function or operation and a basic entity (such as an independent variable) a function of x the product of two numbers
7 —used as a function word to indicate something from which a person or thing is delivered eased of her pain or with respect to which someone or something is made destitute robbed of all their belongings
8a —used as a function word to indicate a particular example belonging to the class denoted by the preceding noun the city of Romeb —used as a function word to indicate apposition that fool of a husband
Examples of of in a Sentence
He is a coworker of mine.
I threw out that old shirt of yours.
She's a friend of my mother's.
He had the support of his family to help him.
the plays of William Shakespeare
What is the name of the band?
We admired the courage of the young woman.
the President of the United States
What is the total cost of the repairs?
The value of the antique is high.
Origin and Etymology of of
Middle English, off, of, from Old English, adverb & preposition; akin to Old High German aba off, away, Latin ab from, away, Greek apo
First Known Use: before 12th century
Origin and Etymology of of
First Known Use: circa 1800
Definition of OF
OF Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of of for English Language Learners
: belonging to, relating to, or connected with (someone or something)
—used to indicate that someone or something belongs to a group of people or things
: living or occurring in (a specified country, city, town, etc.)
OF Defined for Kids
Definition of of for Students
1 —used to join an amount or a part with the whole which includes it most of the children the back of the closet
2 : belonging to, relating to, or connected with a shirt of his the top of the hill
3 : concerning I heard the news of your success.
4 : that is the city of Rome
5 : made from a house of bricks
6 : that has : with a man of courage a thing of no importance
7 —used to show what has been taken away a tree bare of leaves cured of disease
8 —used to indicate the reason for a fear of spiders
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Making space for reactive citizen science: reflections from the "Sensing for Justice" project roundtable
December 15, 2022
December 16, 2022
The project Sensing for Justice - researching the potential of citizen science in environmental litigation and mediation - convened a dialogue roundtable at the Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022. During the roundtable, participants were invited to reflect along three main lines: (I) how to provide social and legal support to less structured and more spontaneous citizen science initiatives, here framed as 'reactive'; (II) what type of legal/institutional recognition is desirable for these more 'reactive' forms of citizen science; (III) which novel communication approaches - for example, visuals and story-telling - can enable us to enter in dialogue with these initiatives. After these prompts, we asked the participants to react with spoken interventions and drawings. Together, we could draft a 'manifesto' voicing the need of reactive environmental citizen science and sketching avenues to ensure that the practice can flourish and have impact.
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Review of Lawrence Wright's Novel The End of October
The End of October reviewed by Nicholas O'Connell of The Writer's Workshop.
The End of October reviewed by Nicholas O'Connell of The Writer's Workshop.
Video interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright
By Nicholas O'Connell
Talk about prescient. Lawrence Wright's new novel, The End of October, appeared in April, 2020, right as COVID-19 exploded across the U.S. and world. A medical thriller, the novel tells the story of a fictional pandemic caused by a mysterious new virus, Kongoli, which spreads like wildfire, threating to bring the world to its knees. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winner and best-selling author, Lawrence Wright, it tells the tale through the eyes of Dr. Henry Parsons, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, who travels to an internment camp in Indonesia where 47 people have died from acute hemorrhagic fever.
Like few others, Parsons understands the magnitude of the potential pandemic. Working on behalf of the World Health Organization, he wracks his brain to figure out how to combat the virus. By choosing a main character like Parsons, Wright is able to explain virology in all its complexity. Like his previous book, The Looming Tower, the novel displays amazingly skilled reporting, yielding surprising observations: "For Henry, the most surprising feature of viruses was that they were a guiding force behind evolution. If the infected organism survived, it sometimes retained a portion of the viral material in its own genome. The legacy of ancient infections might be found in as much as 8 percent of the human genome, including the genes that controlled memory formation, the immune system, and cognitive development. We wouldn't be who we are without them."
As readers follow Henry's attempts to stop the virus, we learn fascinating lessons about viruses, including Kongoli, and COVID-19 the current scourge.
Despite Parson's best efforts, he fails to prevent an infected Indonesian man, Bambang Idris, from joining the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. Wright describes the man's journey in rich, colorful, and terrifying detail, as the Bambang unwittingly infects millions of others. The novel throws into relief the varieties of global cultures, from Muslim Saudi Arabia to contemporary United States, and how the virus infects all of them.
As the pandemic rages, Parsons seeks to return to his family in the United States. He hitches a ride on a nuclear submarine to head back to the U.S. Predictably, the pandemic erupts in the close quarters of the vessel. Using his wits and expertise, he discovers an important breakthrough about the virus.
By the time he returns home, American civilization is collapsing. The novel paints a credibly dystopian picture of the destruction such a virus might cause. Though characters like the Parsons' wife Jill are insufficiently sketched and some of the dialogue is stilted, overall, the novel is a riveting page turner that warns what our future might look like if we don't get COVID-19 under control.
Nicholas O'Connell is the founder of The Writer's Workshop, a creative writing program that teaches writing classes.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Mousterian plant and fish use at El Salt?
Belatedly catching up on some Paleolithic news, a short newspaper feature (in Spanish) from Alcoy in Mediterranean Spain describes some of the recent results from the ongoing research by B. Galván at the Mousterian site of El Salt (pictured below at the base of the overhang at the center left).
The site itself is very interesting, sitting as it does at an ecotone and containing some substantial Mousterian levels, but what especially piqued my curiosity is the mention that collaborations with specialists in organic chemistry have allowed the extraction of animal fats from stones associated with some of the hearths at the site that indicate that deer and wild goats were cooked at the site. These analyses also have yielded fatty residues from plants that suggest some cooking/burning of plants at the site. Also of note is the reported presence, in the same hearths, of some burnt fragments of fish bones, which suggest that food resource may have been excavated at El Salt as far back as 50,000BP, when only Neanderthals were present in Europe. Not much else in the way of details, unfortunately.
H/T: Mundo Neandertal
Anne Gilbert said...
This kind of reminds me of the appccarent find of fish bones at Grotte xvi in SW France, and also that Neandertals apparently used grasses and other plant material in their fires, possibly ctoc dryc or csmcoke cficshcc or other foocd sources.
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onix said...
and i was thinking it was natural we like the taste of victoria perch,,, ;) lake<< turkana and northsea fish. actually the whole riftvalley as it relates to hominids is a lake deposit.
also the eating plants bit i find a bit obscure,
is there really anyone who seriously thinks any of our ancestors or close relatives didn't eat masses of at least fruits, berry's, nuts, (spring)leaves and the like's? that is very contrary to any anthropology's except the inuits,
iotw. humans (any result of hominids) love to eat plants whenever they can be obtained from the landscape. early humans stayed away from permafrost a bit more,
or so it seems, and as far as i know the inuit adaption is at most some 10-20kA.
that only is a convincing argument plants were a major part of the diet. if any ancestor had been particularly fond of only meat they could have lived in polar regions and on higher lattitudes then they did.
also afaik all ancestors had relatively bigger molars, wich indicates coarser (vegetal) food in primates?
it is worth considering the scavenging that often appears a major part of protein provision and remains that important (in europe) untill say 400kA. they invest a lot of tools and time for marrow. means obviously they ate something more.(10 -15% marrow not considering meat would probs be enough for protein and fat consumption) obtaining marrow from bones i think is also not very timeconsuming, smash, scrape, munch (run).
carnivorism could btw be proven from teeth, both as wearmarks and in mineral tracers. (ofcourse nothing is the matter, i haven't seen one mineral analyses that mentioned a carnivorous diet, so there was none, actually the comparison of wearmarks suggests exactly that, that within one layer of continual habitation there is a trend to decline or fluctuations of the animal resources for one population.)
in anthropology cultures tend to refer meat and fish, so that when there is abundance a larger part of the diet exists of tastier meat or fish. megatherium had less cutmarks when it was still common, so i wonder if we can compile anything like sequences or cultures in quantative comparisons of cutmarks in typical(terminate) prey.( anything we hunted enough for it to become rare)
allthough doing that is more common for modern human, the correlation between species and older hominids is in any case suggestive and with the help of climate we may be able to draw much more conclusions from cutmarks on bones in their respective layers. (climate taking care that certain prey would get more significantly scarce in divere area of hominid/human inhabitation at a(supra?) cultural (for cutmarks) level.
at some points in prehistory modern humans hunted down gruesome numbers of prey in europe, for scratches of meat only. killing the ones that depended on the bison? or just the extremest example of a slow dispersal into barely touched lands?
in either case a comparison of cutmarks and the rate of extinguishing of several or most (most would be liable) bigger/ easier prey would probably give interesting information about the correlation between habitations (known sites) and their 'thrifts'.
geographical,'cultural/nutritional' and demographically mobement whence paleoclimatologically quitte comprehensively)
we would globally become to know when they could eat what
and assign that to layers or interprete these with even formerly unknown prey.
probably tallying a few of the more prominent and nutritionally significant bones and their cutmarks could then quite precisely date and correlate levels.
(more about oils and body shades)
Anne Gilbert said...
This is an interesting comment, but many people still feel that Neandertals ate (mostly or wholly) meat products, based on the traces of certain characteristics found in the remains. This seems to be norne out by the kind of animal remanis found at many Neandertal site. But there is also evidence from several sites that suggest that they also made use of plant materiale.g. El Salt, as Dr. Riel-Salvatore suggested, and also at Tor Faraj, in Jordan. They may have eaten some plant products in season, or used plant matcerial for other pruposes, such as twine, for example. Perhaps this perception has cmore to do with the climate in the more northerly part of Paleolithic Eurasia, but also on the presumed caloric needs of large-muscled-and boneed people living in harsh conditions. But being "generalized foragers", I would imagine they made use of any and all food sources available, depending on the season. These discoveries seem to bear out this supposition.


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- 1520s, "short note or document," from a shortened form of Middle French etiquet "label, note," from Old French estiquette "a little note" (late 14c.), especially one affixed to a gate or wall as a public notice, from estiquer "to affix, stick on, attach," from Frankish *stikkan, cognate with Old English stician "to pierce" (see stick (v.)).
Meaning "card or piece of paper that gives its holder a right or privilege" is first recorded 1670s, probably developing from the sense of "certificate, license, permit." The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in American English since 1711. Meaning "official notification of offense" is from 1930; parking ticket first attested 1947. Big ticket item is from 1970. Slang the ticket "just the thing, what is expected" is recorded from 1838, perhaps with notion of a winning lottery ticket.
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The Reborn Knights of Belka, also known as Felsen Belka, was a rebel faction formed in 2016 after the end of the Annean Continental War. They proved to be a serious threat during the Second Osean Continental War in 2017.
Origins and Rise to Power (Unknown Year - Early 2017)
The origins of the Reborn Knights of Belka remain shrouded in mystery and speculation, but it is believed to have had its roots in the Falcons of Dawn and the Gray Men, even though the future leader of the Reborn Knights of Belka condemned their actions openly, which ultimately lead to him siding with the Ghosts of Razgriz in 2010. However, in 2016, Brigadier General Erik Felsen, leader of the 8th Air Division sent to reinforce Emmeria during the Annean Continental War realized that Osea had drastically reduced its military after 2010, as did the rest of the world; furthermore, there was widespread discontent in Belka over the failure of the Gray Men. The people demanded reparations to be given to them by Osea for their humilation 21 years prior at the Belkan War's conclusion. Felsen, a political genius in his own right, saw this as an opportunity to make his move, using a far different philosophy from his predecessors. He believed that Belka must obtain an honorable victory in open war, and for that reason, his group of rebels were dubbed the 'Reborn Knights of Belka', as they seemed to revive the chivalry once characteristic of all Belkan military personel long ago; this gave them widespread admiration and support by the time the began their coup in January of 2017.
At first it was believed to be a reemergance of the 'Falcons of Dawn', a terrorist group formed in 1996 and all but eradicated by 2006, but in truth these rebels were not ordinary terrorists; in fact, they were made up entirely of trained soldiers from the militaries of Osea, Ustio and of course Nord Belka. Under the brilliant and charismatic leadership of Erik Felsen and after an awe-inspiring show of strength, the group rose to power in a virtually bloodless Coup D'etat.
The Second Osean Continental War (Mid-Late 2017)
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Aftermath (2018-)
The Reborn Knights of Belka had fallen, and with them fell Belka as a nation, which as of now it no longer was. The General Resource Limited company, no longer nationalized but maintaining a formidable security force was given the task of restoring order to the region in exchange for the right to covern all of North and South Belka once that has been completed. In the meantime, war crimes tribunals hunted down and executed every major politician and military leader from the rebel government for war crimes...except for one that was never accounted for. Erik Felsen, humiliated and defeated, fled from Dinsmark and arrived in Erusea, only to be dragged into the Erusian Civil War, and then managed to escape on a small charter boat to the Aurelian Continent, where an old contact of his gave him a home at a fruit plantation in the rural areas to the west of Griswald (even this place wasn't safe as he found himself dragged into the Aurelia-Laesath War); he was never found until four hours prior to his death on January 1st, 2045, officially bringing the Reborn Knights of Belka to its final end.
 - The flag of the Reborn Knights is in fact the historical flag of the legendary Knights Sudentor, an order of medieval Paladins that served under the Royal Kingdom of Sudentor and gained legendary status serving in religious crusades between the years 1000 and 1250. The descendents of this order would eventually make up many of the signers of the so-called "Treaty of Sudentor" in 1889, creating the Principality of Belka.
 - While presumably a restoration of the Belkan Monarchy, the Kaiser only had a nominal role as a figurehead, and thus cannot be considered the true leader; that honor goes to Erik Felsen, the commander of its Armed Forces and leader of the "Chivalry Party" in the Belkan Reichstag that took control of Belka in 2016. This was made even more obvious when the Kaiser died in early 2017 after being shot by an escaped patient from a local mental hospital, following which the monarchy was abolished and became known as the Military Dictatorship it always was.


Are Mice Attracted to House Plants?
Question: Are mice attracted to - or feed from - common houseplants? We have a mouse problem in our workplace and our HR department wants all employees to remove their plants, citing that they attract mice. I believe it is the fact that most employees eat at their desk and store food in their cubicles. Can you please advise on this?
Answer: You're the one that is correct and they are the ones that are wrong. There would be nothing about common houseplants (any potted plant indoors) that would be attractive to mice. On the other hand, food stored in cubicles would be the first place mice would go.
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8 Bizarre Chinese to English Translation
Over the years, there are heaps of jokes spreading online regarding some weird Chinese to English translation found in China. Many of them are the result of a literal interpretation, character by character.
Recently, Mella Robinson and Mellissa Stanger from businessinsider.com.au listed "18 Chinese expressions with bizarre literal translations". They believe those peculiar expressions are derived from the fact that the Chinese "characters that make up each word or phrase individually carry different meanings based on the context in which they're used", thus "when translated character by character into English", they could sound bizarre, poetic and, sometimes, hilarious.
Now let's look at the Chinese origins of some of the bizarre or poetic expressions that the article mentioned.
A cheer = add fuel (加油):
Meaning of the expression: It urges someone to exert more energy into his/her performance.
So-so = horse horse tiger tiger (马马虎虎):
Origin of the expression: It first appeared in a classic short story about an ancient artist who added a horse's body behind a tiger's head that eventually cost the life of his son as the young man later identified a tiger as a horse when hunting in the wilderness. Unprofessionalism sometimes could have a deadly consequence.
United States = Beautiful Country (美国):
In the earlier years, when Chinese translated a foreign name, they often tried to pick characters that not only have a similar pronunciation but contain positive connotations, just like when they name babies. So for a Chinese character shown in a translated phrase, it contains very little or no original meaning. Character 美 has been made part of the translated Chinese name of the US only because its pronunciation is close to Me in America. In fact, the UK's Chinese name (英国) can also be read as Heroic Country, France (法国) as Lawful Country and Germany (德国) as Ethical Country, but which does not mean Chinese think the UK is a country full of heroes, France respects law better than any other nations or Germany indeed stands on a moral high ground.
Being cheated on = wear a green head cloth (戴绿头巾):
The expression emerged since the Yuan Dynasty 700 years ago. When the Mongols occupied and ruled China, they got upset over the practice of Chinese brothels because they charged men for sex. In the old Mongol tradition it was perfectly okay for a man to sleep with any woman he wanted for free, thus brothel's existence was seen as a defiance against Mongol custom, so they ordered Chinese men running brothels to identify themselves by wearing a green coloured head cloth as the way to publicly shame them. Since then green head cloth has been used in China to indicate a man with an unfaithful wife.
Sexual harassment = eat tofu (吃豆腐):
Possible origin of the expression: Chinese tofu stores were traditionally run by husband and wife, with the man making tofu in the back of the house (a hard manual labour) and wife selling tofu at shopfront. Tofu is known to contain wonderful skincare benefits, as the women selling tofu consumed the product daily, their skin often looked tender and white, just like tofu, thus the jealous wives of the men who were keen to pay a visit to tofu store would confront the husband by questioning: are we going to eat tofu again today? Meaning: are you going to harass the tofu store lady again?
Computer = electric brain (电脑):
Computer literally means a device for computing, which is what it initially did. In Chinese there is a word just for computing tool: 计算器, meaning a device for calculation. As for computer, since it does more than calculation but acts as extended human brain, therefore it is called electric brain.
Trite language = wind flower snow moon (风花雪月):
Origin of the expression: Wind, flower, snow and moon in China are traditionally associated with four seasons (wind in summer, flowers in spring, snow in winter and moon in autumn). In the classic ages, the ability to composing poem was seen as a basic literature capability of a scholar. For some who lacked talent in creative writing, these four elements would become a constant theme in their verses.
A threat or warning = show you some colour (给你点颜色看看):
Possible origin: When one is bashed and bleeding, the black eye and red blood could become visible.
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As Yasodhara Ashram starts planning for 2015, we want to stay inspired by focusing on Vision, Learning and Ideals. How do we bring vision, learning and ideals to life – personally and in our work and organizations? Thank you to the Yasodhara Yoga Edmonton group for the November reflections.
In this satsang talk from 2005, Swami Radhananda encourages us to let devotion override the intellect so we come from a different place of inspiration.
Swami Radha explores how the different images of the Divine relate to qualities of learning that we can bring to life in ourselves.
 1. Go on a symbolic walk. Write and/or draw a picture about your experience. With your writing and/or picture in front of you, do the eagle pose and ask yourself: Can I see the big picture of my life? Where do I want to be? What is my next step?
 2. Do the Warrior II pose reflecting on the questions: What do I know from the past that can support me in my present position? What choices are before me now? What is my vision for the future?
 3. Swami Radha writes that "Every emotion erects its own screen," keeping us blind. (Kundalini Yoga for the West, p. 141) How do emotions screen how you see yourself? Stand in front of a mirror at various times of the day, especially when emotions run high. Look at your face and ask: "How do I see myself? How are my emotions affecting how I see myself? Is this a face I can trust? Would I want to be friends with this person?" Reflect then do a Divine Light Invocation. How does your perception change?
 4. What is your vision for the future? What are your personal goals? Chant and write a reflection. Create a collage or vision board based on ideas and images from your reflection.
 5. Using the Kundalini chart and any spiritual practices of your choice, ask: How do I learn? What have I learned? What helps me to keep going? Bring a current situation into your reflections.
 6. Observing how you use your time may help clarify where your ideals lie, and how to turn your vision for a week into reality. Draw or download a chart that displays the upcoming week – hour by hour. Write in your appointments, your work schedule, travel and other activities for the entire week, including when you rise and go to bed. Reflect on your ideals for the week: What are your priorities? What have you been putting off? Be honest with how long each activity takes – overestimating to allow for the unexpected. Slot in activities and begin. Reflect daily, focusing on what constitutes a "good" or "productive" day.
 7. Read the section on "What is a friend?" (Kundalini Yoga for the West, p. 205): Do the "I am functioning from my centre" practice for three to five minutes in various locations. What kind of a friend do I want to be: with myself, with the Most High within, with others?
 8. Work with Eagle Pose: Reflect on the eagle's quality of vision. Ask: "What does it mean to be a visionary? Take time to reflect, to observe. How do you see yourself? Go into Garudasana looking at your life with compassion and seeing with divine vision." (Hatha Yoga the Hidden Language, p. 187)
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November reflections were prepared by the Yasodhara Yoga Edmoton teachers: Niall McKenna, Cathy Anne Pachnowski, Michelle Blance and Carlean Fisher.
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Once Educational Goals for program(s) have been defined, units need to map them to their curriculum. Curriculum mapping is the process of identifying where in the program each Educational Goals is covered. A completed curriculum map thus provides an overview of the relationship between course content, Educational Goals, assignments, and assessments. Curriculum mapping can also reveal gaps in the curriculum and make it easier for units to detect whether their program level Educational Goals are representative of what students are learning in their courses. Curriculum maps can be general, linking Educational Goals with courses, or more detailed, listing types of assignments for assessment (e.g. a particular paper or presentation).
Curriculum Maps to Use, Share and Adapt
Below are three examples of curriculum maps, ranging from more simple to more complex, that indicate which courses cover each Educational Goal:


text: In The Preamble as Policy: A Guidebook to Governance and Civic Duty the authors show that the Preamble to the Constitution is more than an introduction to the document; it sets the tone for the rest of the document and how it should be viewed and interpreted. It is also a list of goals for a new government and a tool for holding our elected representatives accountable for their efforts on our behalf. The Preamble as Policy looks at the history of the development of the Constitution to show how the Preamble can be used to judge the laws and policies enacted by the federal government. The Preamble as Policy weaves political thought, history, and current events together allowing for examination of an oft forgotten part of the Constitution. It provides a unique framework and firm foundation for class discussions or social interactions about what we have achieved as a nation and where we might have come up short.


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The RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, and more than 1,550 people lost their lives in the freezing water. Among the survivors who managed to escape in a lifeboat was the actress Margaret Brown. Much later known as the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, she was a true heroine of her time also remembered as a respected human-rights activist.
Margaret was born in a small town in Missouri called Hannibal and spent her childhood in a house near the Mississippi River. At the age of 18, she moved to Colorado with her sister Mary and opened a blacksmith shop in Leadville. A year later, she met Irish miner James Joseph Brown, who became her husband and together they moved to Denver.
They became very wealthy after James discovered gold in one of his mines. For a few years, the couple traveled through Europe until Margaret got word that her daughter's son was very ill. This was the reason why she immediately booked a ticket to America on the RMS Titanic.
During the sinking, Margaret compelled the crew of the lifeboat to return to the debris field around the sunken ship to rescue people still in the water. She assured the survivors that a rescue ship would come, and a few hours later the Carpathia arrived.
After the tragedy, Margaret fought hard for workers' rights, always thinking about how the men who had been working in the lower decks of the doomed ship were the first to drown.
At the end of the 1890s, Margaret and James decided to settle in Denver, so they bought a house that was designed in stunning Victorian style. Because of her work as an activist, she spent a lot of time traveling and while she was on a trip, her husband rented the mansion to wealthy families visiting Colorado. At the time of the Great Depression, the place became a boarding house that ran until Margaret's death.
A few years later, the mansion was sold and had many owners until it was converted into a museum in the 1960s as a result of the effort of Historic Denver Inc., which saved it from demolition. The group restored the house to how it looked when the Browns lived in it and organized 45-minute tours during which visitors could see the original furnishings and memorabilia.
Visitors to the Molly Brown House Museum praise it as one of the most beautiful examples of Victorian architecture in the city. On the site, Victorian dinners and lunches are served for free, which makes the tour even more interesting.
In the formal parlor of the house, there is a lecture for children during which a tour guide explains to them what it was like to be a child in the 1900s, although this particular area of the house was forbidden to children during Brown's time. Many souvenirs can be bought in the gift shop and valuable historical books can be seen in the library.
The legend about her courage was born after the survivors of RMS Titanic reached New York. Passengers kept talking to reporters about her insistence that the boat return. Molly died in 1932. Later, Carolyn Bancroft wrote a romantical story about the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" that became very popular and was broadcast in the 1940s.
That story was the main inspiration for the play The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which was also turned into a movie starring Debbie Reynolds. The museum was named after the legend to attract more visitors, but after people arrive they learn the true and fascinating story about this heroine.


Ask your average trainer/coach how many muscles there are in the body, or in trainer/coach parlance how many muscle groups exist and they will give you the circulated 'correct' answer which is:
 - biceps, triceps, deltoids, lats & other back muscles, abs, quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes and calves
In total, they will typically identify 9 muscle groups or approximately 40 individual muscles if you account for both sides of the body and the fact that muscle groups are comprised of distinct muscles (e.g. quad = 4, hence quadriceps means that 4 individual muscles make up the muscle group).
Ask a bodybuilder and the 'correct' answer is even simpler: when working out at the gym since there is only… arms day, chest day, back day, and once in awhile leg day that must mean there are 4 muscle groups.
Ask your average masters swimmer, cyclist, runner or multisport athlete and they don't even think about muscles because they don't do strength training… all that matters to them are heart rate [HR] zones, power zones and/or pace times… muscles… who cares about muscles.
Ask Google how many muscles there are in the body and you will end up with a varied response but a response that starts at no less than 600 or so muscles, and depending on how discrete you want to be when counting muscles you may get an answer closer to 800 muscles. Point being… it ain't the 40 muscles or whatever the number the typical trainer/coach or bodybuilder gives.
Wait a minute… 600+ muscles? Where? What do they do? Did evolution have nothing to do for a millennia and spent its time screwing around creating random muscles or are all these muscles actually important? Evolution wastes notime and nothing; evolution especially does not waste energy so screwing around, randomly creating muscles is simply stupid talking. Seriously… think about it… do you really think you have hundreds of muscles in your body that are ornamental?
Yet this is exactly what the typical trainer/coach believes and the fact that strength training for most trainers & coaches hasn't changed in 40 years only proves the point. Most trainers and coaches still rely on the same old circuit of machines that came at the start of the fitness craze in the '80s (to clarify… that's the 1980s that I am referring to). Ask a trainer or coach today for 'core' work and they will give you ab exercises circa 1990, or if they are tech savvy they will show you the latest 'core' work they found on Youtube (typically performed by a former gymnast who makes single arm push ups look like a sissy warm up rendering the video pointless to anyone who isn't a gymnast or doesn't have plans on becoming a gymnast).
If sport is the demonstration of physiological and psychological mastery of the body, shouldn't that mean that the starting point for trainers & coaches should be knowing all muscles, what role they play in the function of the body and how they contribute to peak performance? Seems reasonable. But leave it to the unand under-educated who are too eager to actually get an education & experience, because all that matters is short cutting their way to being able to 'coach' asap… so let's swipe all that stuff away as if its irrelevant. Indeed…its all irrelevant until you strain or sprain a ligament, a tendon, a muscle, or are in such chronic pain during or after training or racing that the simple thought of sport makes you sick, or like in unfortunate cases… you end up as the athlete in a local 10k, 1/2 marathon or triathlon suffering a heart attack because your coach encouraged you to "go for it", "give 100%", and of course… because its either "PR or ER" (and sometimes the ER – i.e. emergency room – does in fact happen).
In the end, when you work with those who have taken short cuts to get where they have gotten, all that they can do is offer you short cuts to where you hope to get. Problem is there are no short cuts… anywhere. The long way is the right way, hence it is the shortest way to your goals, to your peak potential and consistent peak performances in sport, and in life.
Stephen Hawking
Today, we are overwhelmed by trainers & coaches who call themselves experts… all deluded to the nth degree by their illusion of knowledge. Trainers, coaches and DIY athletes who have taken a weekend course, who have completed an 'epic' event over the past weekend, or whatever they deem qualifies them as 'knowledgeable' enough to spew advice on how to train for any event. The stupidity that reigns in sport is beyond belief.
Meanwhile, for those that take the time to become educated and experienced… in 1st year of the Rehabilitation Medicine degree – which is the prerequisite for the Physiotherapy National Exam (PNE) and becoming a registered physio – a full cadaver dissection is required to truly learn not only the muscles of the body, but how those muscles actually exist in the body, under the skin, in and around all the other tissues. A full course is required to truly understand how muscles connect to tendons, to other muscles and finally to bones making the entire musculoskeletal system functional. Thats not the end of it though, in addition to studying the muscles, all the nerves, the arteries and veins supplying each muscle and how all those tissues travel through the arms and legs to reach their destination is part of the curriculum. It still doesn't end there… then there is all the connective tissue including the structure and layout of the bones and the joints they form. In courses that follow, physiotherapists have to learn how to test muscles, nerves and connective tissue discretely to isolate which one was and which ones aren't injured, and then how to restore normal function.
Physiotherapists use this education to rehab injured athletes, but the best of the best work with physiotherapists from the start. To avoid injury and the time off from training and racing, top athletes who are pursuing their potential know that the way to start is the right way… training the body to develop symmetrically to achieve peak efficiency in movement, to obtain mastery of movement, so that injuries and down time are avoided at all costs.
Meanwhile, trainers and coaches think that after a 2hr session on 'injury prevention & rehab' they actually know all that there is to know about injury prevention & rehab. After all, if you walk out from the session with a 'pre-hab' routine for your athletes you must be a bonafide expert, n'est pas?
This is what passes as acceptable education & experience for typical trainers & coaches, and worst… most think that this level of knowledge is all there is.
That is how dumb-ed down human anatomy has become.
This is how dumb-ed down strength training has become.
This is how dumb-ed down training for sport has become.
What level of performance do you want to experience? If you seek to experience your fullest potential, there are no short cuts, so stop working with short cut experts and take the time to find someone who has invested in becoming educated and experienced to the point that they truly can guide you to an Olympian experience.
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The Outer Line: 'Did I Just Bonk?' – signals no cyclist should ignore
There are some signals which might suggest that you should take a more serious look at your health, rather than simply "soldiering on" in silence.
How is it that we have taken exercise to the point that pushing and pushing and pushing ourselves til we give ourselves heart issues has become near normal? How is it that athletes both young (as young as 15) and old are all suffering from a wide variety of heart health issues? Is it really a stretch of the imagination when you have spin class instructors & CrossFit instructors all constantly screaming "go hard"? Enlarged hearts, arrythmias, silent heart attacks or full blown heart attacks are written up consistently in the sports media, but then are written off as statistical outliers and swept aside as quickly as possible. Why? Because those who are pushing us to train in such a manner that we end up inflamed, in pain, injured, ill or worse, dealing with a self inflicted disease do not have anywhere near the education or the experience in order to be 'advising' anyone on anything dealing with their health. Trainers, coaches and the entire industry surrounding them have tried to distance themselves from health referring to themselves as the fitness industry and fitness experts…as if one thing hasn't got anything to do with the other. Exactly… this is what you get when the uneducated and the inexperienced short cut the system in order to profit themselves, saying screw you to everyone that they hurt in the process. But… my trainer/my coach is passionate about training, about sport, about me achieving my goals… great… if they are that passionate how about they start by getting themselves the education and the experience through apprenticeship needed in order to be useful.
Imagine this scenario…
Imagine needing surgery to solve a medical crisis; upon meeting your surgeon you learn that they only completed a couple weekend courses and have never actually completed medical school, nor observed or performed the surgery that you need and that they are supposed to perform on you. In their defense they exclaim that they are passionate about helping people and equally passionate about helping people be healthy… and besides, they really seem to a "nice" person. So, how excited are you to be under the care of this "surgeon"? Does passion and being a


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Intrinsic surface-drying properties of bioadhesive proteins
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Sessile marine mussels must "dry" underwater surfaces before adhering to them. Synthetic adhesives have yet to overcome this fundamental challenge. Previous studies of bioinspired adhesion have largely been performed under applied compressive forces, but such studies are poor predictors of the ability of an adhesive to spontaneously penetrate surface hydration layers. In a force-free approach to measuring molecular-level interaction through surface-water diffusivity, different mussel foot proteins were found to have different abilities to evict hydration layers from surfaces - a necessary step for adsorption and adhesion. It was anticipated that DOPA would mediate dehydration owing to its efficacy in bioinspired wet adhesion. Instead, hydrophobic side chains were found to be a critical component for protein-surface intimacy. This direct measurement of interfacial water dynamics during force-free adsorptive interactions at solid surfaces offers guidance for the engineering of wet adhesives and coatings. Home and dry underwater: Repulsive hydration forces hinder wet adhesion in the absence of applied external forces. The direct measurement of hydration-water dynamics by NMR relaxometry at 10 GHz revealed that the most hydrophobic mussel adhesive protein, and not the most enriched with 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, effectively dries the surface and overcomes repulsive hydration forces to adsorb spontaneously to surfaces in preparation for adhesion.


text: The teeth of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus grow continuously. The mineral phase, a high magnesium calcite, grows into single crystals within numerous compartments bounded by an organic matrix deposited by the odontoblasts. Electron microscopic examination of glutaraldehyde‐fixed Ethylene Diamine Tetra acetic acid (EDTA) demineralized teeth shows the compartment walls to be organized from multiple layers of cell membrane which might contain cytoplasmic protein inclusions. Proteins extracted during demineralization of unfixed teeth were examined by gel electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, and amino acid analysis. The tooth proteins were acidic, they contained phosphoserine, and they were rich in aspartic acid. By contrast, the proteins of similarly extracted mineralized Aristotle's lantern skeletal elements were nonphosphorylated and were rich in glutamic acid. Vertebrate tooth and bone matrix proteins show similar differences. Surprisingly, an antibody to the principle rat incisor phosphoprotein showed a significant cross‐reactivity with the urchin tooth protein, by dot‐blot and enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay procedures. Thus, the urchin tooth proteins contain epitope regions similar to those which are phenotypic markers of vertebrate odontoblasts. Whether this is an expression of convergent or divergent evolutionary processes, it is likely that the matrix proteins play a similar role in matrix mineralization. The sea urchin tooth may thus be an excellent model for the study of odontoblast‐mediated mineral–matrix relationships.