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Can My Pet Fish Get Me Or My Kids Sick?
Pet fish, both salt water and fresh water varieties, can get you sick from a strain of bacteria related to human tuberculosis. Although infection from this bacteria is rare, certain precautions should be taken when cleaning and dealing with aquarium water, fish and products contaminated with aquarium water. This disease is very dangerous for those with a weakened immune system.
The layman term for this fairly rare fish tank disease is Fish Tank Granuloma. The scientific name for this bacteria is mycobacterium marinum. If you think that you or your child has been exposed to or is suffering from this disease, your smart move is to consult your physician who can help pinpoint the cause and prescribe proper treatment. This article is for your additional information only. I feel that it is always smart to do your homework before you consult your physician. The more help you can offer your physician on his diagnosis of a problem the better.
The absolutely fist line of defense against this infection is to wear waterproof gloves when cleaning your fish tank or dealing with fish tank water. Even if you wore gloves, wash your hands and arms thoroughly with anti-bacterial soap when you start and when you are done, just to be safe. This disease often enters the body through cuts and abrasions or any compromise of the skin so be particularly aware of this. Never drink or taste your aquarium water for any reason.
The symptoms of Fish Tank Granuloma are wounds that take a very long time to heal. Generally these wounds are on the hands, arms or fingers. After the wound closes, there may be some soreness and small nodules (called granulomas) around the wound. If this disease enters the bloodstream, nodules may form in the veins close to the original wound. Because this disease is very slow growing, these nodules may take 2-3 weeks and even up to several months to show up. The infected wound may become ulcerous and close lymph nodes may become swollen. This disease may heal itself over time. Your doctor may be interested to know that this bacterium is gram-positive which means it will retain a crystal violet dye for identification purposes.
It should be noted that this disease may also be picked up at incorrectly chlorinated pools, from any fish (uncooked), and from swimming in fresh and salt water in many parts of the world, including the United States. Generally, a cut, abrasion or wound must be present along with the bacteria.
Treatment varies and as of now, there is no set rule to which regimen of antibiotics works best. It can take a long time to rid oneself of this disease. It can take 3 months to almost a year of an antibiotic regimen. Often combinations of antibiotics are used such as tetracyclines, ethambutol, rifampicin, trimethoprim, and/or sulfamethoxazole. Some physicians use Rifampin + Ethambutol, Rifampin + Clarithromycin or Minocycline by itself.


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14 Oracle Text Utilities
This chapter discusses the utilities shipped with Oracle Text. The following topics are included:
14.1 Thesaurus Loader (ctxload)
Use ctxload to import a thesaurus file into the Oracle Text thesaurus tables.
An import file is an ASCII flat file that contains entries for synonyms, broader terms, narrower terms, or related terms, which can be used to expand queries.
See Also:
For examples of import files for thesaurus importing, see Structure of ctxload Thesaurus Import File in Appendix C, "Text Loading Examples for Oracle Text"
14.1.1 Text Loading
The ctxload program no longer supports the loading of text columns. To load files to a text column in batch mode, Oracle recommends that you use SQL*Loader.
14.1.2 ctxload Syntax
ctxload -user username[/password][_USER_]
 -name object_name
 -file file_name
 [-thescase y|n]
 [-log file_name]
 [-trace] Mandatory Arguments
Specify the user name and password of the user running ctxload.
The user name and password can be followed immediately by _USER_ to permit logging on to remote databases. The value for sqlnet_address is a database connect string. If the TWO_TASK environment variable is set to a remote database, then you do not need to specify a value for sqlnet_address to connect to the database.
-name object_name
When you use ctxload to import a thesaurus, use object_name to specify the name of the thesaurus to be imported.
Use object_name to identify the thesaurus in queries that use thesaurus operators.
Thesaurus name must be unique. If the name specified for the thesaurus is identical to an existing thesaurus, then ctxload returns an error and does not overwrite the existing thesaurus.
-file file_name
When ctxload is used to import a thesaurus, use file_name to specify the name of the import file that contains the thesaurus entries.
When ctxload is used to export a thesaurus, use file_name to specify the name of the export file created by ctxload.
If the name specified for the thesaurus dump file is identical to an existing file, then ctxload overwrites the existing file. Optional Arguments
Import a thesaurus. Specify the source file with the -file argument. Specify the name of the thesaurus to be imported with -name.
-thescase y | n
Specify y to create a case-sensitive thesaurus with the name specified by -name and populate the thesaurus with entries from the thesaurus import file specified by -file. If -thescase is y (the thesaurus is case-sensitive), ctxload enters the terms in the thesaurus exactly as they appear in the import file.
The default for -thescase is n (case-insensitive thesaurus).
-thescase is valid for use only with the -thes argument.
Export a thesaurus. Specify the name of the thesaurus to be exported with the -name argument. Specify the destination file with the -file argument.
Specify the name of the log file to which ctxload writes any national-language supported (Globalization Support) messages generated during processing. If you do not specify a log file name, the messages appear on the standard output.
Enables SQL statement tracing using ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE TRUE. This command captures all processed SQL statements in a trace file, which can be used for debugging. The location of the trace file is operating-system dependent and can be modified using the USER_DUMP_DEST initialization parameter.
See Also:
For more information about SQL trace and the USER_DUMP_DEST initialization parameter, see Oracle Database Administrator's Guide
14.1.3 ctxload Examples
This section provides examples for some of the operations that ctxload can perform.
See Also:
For more document loading examples, see Appendix C, "Text Loading Examples for Oracle Text" Thesaurus Import Example
The following example imports a thesaurus named tech_doc from an import file named tech_thesaurus.txt:
ctxload -user jsmith/123abc -thes -name tech_doc -file tech_thesaurus.txt Thesaurus Export Example
The following example dumps the contents of a thesaurus named tech_doc into a file named tech_thesaurus.out:
ctxload -user jsmith/123abc -thesdump -name tech_doc -file tech_thesaurus.out
14.2 Knowledge Base Extension Compiler (ctxkbtc)
The knowledge base is the information source that Oracle Text uses to perform theme analysis, such as theme indexing, processing ABOUT queries, and to document theme extraction with the CTX_DOC package. A knowledge base is supplied for English and French.
With the ctxkbtc compiler, you can:
 - Extend your knowledge base by compiling one or more thesauri with the Oracle Text knowledge base. The extended information can be application-specific terms and relationships. During theme analysis, the extended portion of the knowledge base overrides any terms and relationships in the knowledge base where there is overlap.
 - Create a new user-defined knowledge base by compiling one or more thesauri. In languages other than English and French, this feature can be used to create a language-specific knowledge base.
 Only CTXSYS can extend the knowledge base.
 See Also:
 For more information about the knowledge base packaged with Oracle Text, see _URL_
 For more information about the ABOUT operator, see ABOUT operator in Chapter 3, "Oracle Text CONTAINS Query Operators"
 For more information about document services, see Chapter 8, "CTX_DOC Package"
14.2.1 Knowledge Base Character Set
Knowledge bases can be in any single-byte character set. Supplied knowledge bases are in WE8ISO8859P1. You can store an extended knowledge base in another character set such as US7ASCII.
14.2.2 ctxkbtc Syntax
ctxkbtc -user uname/passwd
[-name thesname1 [thesname2... thesname16]]
[-stoplist stoplistname]
[-log filename]
Specify the user name and password for the administrator creating an extended knowledge base. This user must have write permission to the ORACLE_HOME directory.
-name thesname1 [thesname2... thesname16]
Specify the name(s) of the thesauri (up to 16) to be compiled with the knowledge base to create the extended knowledge base. The thesauri you specify must already be loaded with ctxload with the "-thescase Y" option
Reverts the extended knowledge base to the default knowledge base provided by Oracle Text.
-stoplist stoplistname
Specify the name of the stoplist. Stopwords in the stoplist are added to the knowledge base as useless words that are prevented from becoming themes or contributing to themes. Add stopthemes after running this command using CTX_DLL.ADD_STOPTHEME.
Displays all warnings and messages, including non-Globalization Support messages, to the standard output.
Specify the log file for storing all messages. When you specify a log file, no messages are reported to standard out.
14.2.3 ctxkbtc Usage Notes
 - Before running ctxkbtc, you must set the NLS_LANG environment variable to match the database character set.
 - The user issuing ctxkbtc must have write permission to the ORACLE_HOME, because the program writes files to this directory.
 - Before being compiled, each thesaurus must be loaded into Oracle Text case sensitive with the "-thescase Y" option in ctxload.
 - Running ctxkbtc twice removes the previous extension.
14.2.4 ctxkbtc Limitations
The ctxkbtc program has the following limitations:
 - When upgrading or downgrading your database to a different release, for theme indexing and related features to work correctly, Oracle recommends that you recompile your extended knowledge base in the new environment.
 - Before extending the knowledge base, you must terminate all server processes that have invoked any knowledge base-related Text functions during their lifetime.
 - There can be only one user extension for each language for each installation. Because a user extension affects all users at the installation, only the CTXSYS user can extend the knowledge base.
 - In a RAC environment, the ORACLE_HOME can either be shared between multiple nodes, or each node can have its own ORACLE_HOME. The following requirements apply:
 - Before using any knowledge base-dependent functionality in any of the RAC nodes, ctxkbtc must be run in every ORACLE_HOME in the RAC environment.
 - When using ctxkbtc, the exact same input thesaurus content must be used in every ORACLE_HOME in the RAC environment.
14.2.5 ctxkbtc Constraints on Thesaurus Terms
Terms are case sensitive. If a thesaurus has a term in uppercase, for example, the same term present in lowercase form in a document will not be recognized.
The maximum length of a term is 80 characters.
Disambiguated homographs are not supported.
14.2.6 ctxkbtc Constraints on Thesaurus Relations
The following constraints apply to thesaurus relations:
 - BTG and BTP are the same as BT. NTG and NTP are the same as NT.
 - Only preferred terms can have a BT, NTs or RTs.
 - If a term has no USE relation, it will be treated as its own preferred term.
 - If a set of terms are related by SYN relations, only one of them may be a preferred term.
 - An existing category cannot


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Definition of haute bourgeoisie in English:
noun(the haute bourgeoisie) [treated as singular or plural]
The upper middle class.
- Today, Occultists are routinely disparaged by the superior classes, the haute bourgeoisie, to which I belong, and which also includes most of the widely read art critics and influential art historians.
- These forms of unearned income linked to exploitation led to the emergence of the haute bourgeoisie as a new ruling class, which molded the state and church into instruments of domination over the petit bourgeoisie and the working class.
- Not all Dresden was bombed, of course; on the banks of the Elbe there are still the magnificent villas of the haute bourgeoisie.
French, literally 'high bourgeoisie'.
Definition of haute bourgeoisie in:
- US English dictionary
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Attrition warfare
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Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and material.[1] The word attrition comes from the Latin root atterere to rub against, similar to the "grinding down" of the opponent's forces in attrition warfare.[2][3]
Strategic considerations[edit]
Attrition warfare represents an attempt to grind down an opponent's ability to make war by destroying their military resources by any means including guerrilla warfare, people's war, scorched earth and all kind of battles apart from a decisive battle.[1] Attrition warfare does not include all kinds of Blitzkrieg or using concentration of force and a decisive battle to win. The side that reinforces his army at a higher speed will normally win the war. Clausewitz called it the exhaustion of the adversary.[4]
A side that perceives itself to be at a marked disadvantage may deliberately seek out attrition warfare to neutralize its opponent's advantages over time. Sun Tzu has stated, that there is no country that has benefitted from prolongued warfare,[5] but Russia in 1812 won the war with attrition warfare against Napoleon. When attritional methods have worn down the enemy sufficiently to make other methods feasible, attritional methods are often complemented or even abandoned by other strategies. But in World War I military commanders on both sides relied on attrition warfare resulting in terrible casualties without a strategic result.
The difference between war of attrition and other forms of war is somewhat artificial since even a single battle normally contains an element of attrition. One can be said to pursue a strategy of attrition if one makes it the main goal to cause gradual attrition to the opponent eventually amounting to unacceptable or unsustainable levels for the opponent while limiting one's own gradual losses to acceptable and sustainable levels. That should be seen as opposed to other main goals such as the conquest of some resource or territory or an attempt to cause the enemy great losses in a single stroke (such as by encirclement and capture). Attrition warfare also tries to increase the friction in a war for the opponent.[6]
Examples in history[edit]
Animated map of the Russian campaign
One of the best visual representations of a war based on attrition warfare was created by Minard. It shows the steady decrease of the number of soldiers of the French Grande Armée during the course of the war.
Minard's map of French casualties see also Attrition warfare against Napoleon
Minard's map of French casualties see also Attrition warfare against Napoleon
The French invasion of Russia (1812) is a textbook example how elements of attrition warfare interfered with Napoleon's military logistics and won the war without a decisive battle.
Best known[edit]
The best-known example of attrition warfare might be on the Western Front during World War I.[7] Both military forces found themselves in static defensive positions in trenches running from Switzerland to the English Channel. For years, without any opportunity for maneuvers, the only way the commanders thought that they could defeat the enemy was to repeatedly attack head on and grind the other down.
One of the most enduring examples of attrition warfare on the Western Front is the Battle of Verdun, which took place throughout most of 1916. Erich von Falkenhayn later claimed that his tactics at Verdun were designed not to take the city but rather to destroy the French Army in its defense. Falkenhayn is described as wanting to "bleed France white"[8] and thus the attrition tactics were employed in the battle.
Attritional warfare in World War I has been shown by historians such as Hew Strachan to have been used as a post hoc ergo propter hoc excuse for failed offensives. Contemporary sources disagree with Strachan's view on this. While the Christmas Memorandum is a post-war invention, the strategy of attritional warfare was the original strategy for the battle.[9]
Most unusual[edit]
An example in which one side used attrition warfare to neutralize the other side's advantage in manoeuvrability and unit tactics occurred during the latter part of the American Civil War, when Union general Ulysses S. Grant pushed the Confederate Army continually, in spite of losses; he correctly predicted that the Union's far superior and more numerous supplies and manpower would overwhelm the Confederacy to the point of collapse, even if the casualty ratio was unfavorable.
List of wars[edit]
See also[edit]
Military theory:
 - Clausewitz, Carl von (1873). On War. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - DiGiovanni, Janine (2012). "Bleary-Eyed Troops Fight a Building at a Time in Syria". New York Times. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
 - firstworldwar (1916). "Erich von Falkenhayn on the Battle of Verdun". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - Foley, Robert (1916). ""A New Form of Warfare? Erich von Falkenhayn's Plan for Victory, 1916"". Retrieved 16 March 2018. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
 - Handel, Michael I. (2003). Strategic Logic and Political Rationality: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel. Psychology Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780714654843. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
 - Kaye, C.A. (1957). "Military Geology in the United States Sector of the European Theater of Operations during World War II". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - Merriam Webster Dictionary (2021). "attrition". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - Murray, Nicholas (2021). "Attrition Warfare". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - nctimes (2012). "Airstrikes turn Libya conflict into battle of attrition". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - Sun Tzu (2004). The Art of War. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
 - US DoD (2021). "attrition". Retrieved 3 April 2021.


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Applying Lean Six Sigma to the Environment
How many times do you flush the toilet per day? You might be surprised!
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5! Is that correct? It can't be that many…
In the book, Green Intentions, author Brett Wills discusses ways to reduce different environmental impacts by understanding the value stream of those processes within a business.
Green Intentions
Under the topic of water reduction, he explains how to estimate the amount of water coming from various sources. After you count up the number of urinals and toilets, and record the gallons per flush (gpf) for each device, you should multiply the number of employees by 5, to estimate water usage. 5? That seemed extremely high to me, don't you think?
So of course, I needed to do my own research to see if that is true. Here is what I found…
The last article actually references a study from AWWARF (now Water Research Foundation). I couldn't find the original study, but I'm still looking for it. If you have something better, please let us know.
It seems like others are saying the same thing, and 5 is not far off. Many of these numbers are a daily toilet use, not separated by office and home. Only a couple of them break out the number by toilet and urinals. Here is my recommendation, for those trying to estimate water usage in a company.
 - For urinals, use 3 flushes per office day per male employee
 - For toilets, use 1 flush per male employee, and 4 flushes per female employee
This will put it at 4 total flushes per employee per workday.
So let's show how this information might look in a spreadsheet. Let's look at a company with 110 females and 95 males (205 employees), that pays $0.02 per gallon of water. What is the estimated cost of the urinals and toilets? This information could be used to determine payback on installing low flow toilets.
The estimated employees per device is based on the number of males and females and the percent of each device type, and assumes that each employee has an equal chance of visiting each device. If you want to get more specific, you might look at the breakdown by area (especially in larger buildings). So if you look at the urinals, there are 4 of the 2.5 gpf model, and 2 of the 1.0 gpf model. Since 67% (4 of the 6) urinals are 2.5 gpf, we calculate that 67% of the males will use it (63 out of 95 males).
Here is a link to a simple spreadsheet to get you started. Feel free to modify as needed.
Water Usage Estimates by Toilet
Do you have a different approach? Please share!


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Collaborative Governance for Age-Friendly Cities at Samos Summit 2022
URBANAGE took to the main conference stage to showcase its work in using disruptive technologies to create more age-friendly cities.
July 2022: The 12th Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance offered URBANAGE an opportunity to see, interact with and influence cutting-edge Information and Communication Technologies research projects and initiatives. Attended by high caliber experts from research, administrations and enterprises worldwide, the Samos 2022 Summit focused on the newest developments of ICT applications in the area of digital governance.
On a panel entitled 'Citizen Science and Collaborative Governance' Susie Ruston McAleer from 21c presented URBANAGE's approach bringing together cloud, AI an big data in the form of a decision support ecosystem to modernise and enhance urban planning processes for the design of more age-friendly cities. Sharing the use cases from Helsinki, Flanders and Santander, Ruston McAleer shared the challenges that older residents currently face in navigating cities and the barriers to their participation in public policy debate. The ability to syncronise a virtual replica of a city to mirror real-time processes in a city (local digital twin) present new opportunities for both engaging and encouraging collaborative discussions around a common, relatable version of the truth.
Additional speeches came from Sven Schade from the European Commision Joint Research Centre, who highlighted essons learned from past citizen science experiences; and Ricjard Wacker from Yellowmap who presented the opportunities provided by SSI technologies for smart cities.
Connections after the panel was made with the city of Karlsruhe in Germany and the city of Athens among others. The conference slides will be made available here soon.

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- Will my devices still work if my controller is moved or removed from the system?
- What about control panels and key fobs?
- Does 'pairing' require moving the controller close to the device?
- Can I add a device if there's no device wizard for it?
- How do Z-Wave or Zigbee devices go out of range, or stop working?
- How to exclude Z-Wave devices
- How to exclude Zigbee devices
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Fifteen balls that represent gas particles (atoms or molecules) move inside a box. All of the balls start out moving with the same speed in random directions. For example, the 700 m/s speed is appropriate for neon at 392 K = 119 °C. As the balls collide elastically with the walls and each other (so their total energy is conserved), the speeds of the balls change.
The color of each ball shows its speed, as shown on the bar graph on the right side of the screen. The bar graph shows the average percentage of balls in each speed range. This average is taken over the time since the balls started moving.
1. Use the drop-down menu to select the initial speed of the balls.
2. Press the Start button to start the animation.
3. Press the Pause button to stop the motion of the balls.
4. Press the Reset button to run the animation again. You may change the value of the initial speed after you press the Reset button.
Warning: Remember that for a head-on collision, the balls will trade speeds. In this case, the balls will trade colors, and it may appear that the balls pass through each other. This is just an illusion caused by trading colors.


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Modern methods of construction: guidance for building standards verification
Provides guidance to Local Authority verifiers and Certifiers as defined under the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 when assessing building warrant applications and certifying works which use Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).
This document is part of a collection
8. Future Compliance Plan Approach
8.1. A strengthened approach to compliance
The Compliance and Enforcement Expert Review Panel was set up to support the Ministerial Working Group on Building and Fire Safety following the fire at Grenfell Tower and failings in the construction of Edinburgh School Buildings. The Panel's report
highlighted a need to strengthen the Scottish Building Standards system and the Building Standards Futures Board was established in 2019 to oversee this work. The Compliance Plan (CP) is one of the seven work streams being taken forward by the Futures Board.
The CP work stream aims to provide greater assurance that the risk of non-compliance with the building regulations has been minimised. This will be achieved by considering compliance from the inception of a project through to its completion by requiring better evidence and documentation to be provided by the Relevant Person and the people they appoint to undertake the work.
Following support for the proposal during the public consultation which ran from November 2021 to February 2022, the proposals include the creation of a CP for all High Risk Building (HRB) projects by the Relevant Person and their appointed 'Compliance Plan Manager' (a new oversight role acting on behalf of the Relevant Person).
The CP will identify the risks on a project and set out the evidence needed, inspections to be undertaken and the CP Manager will oversee the CP to ensure it is fully discharged. It is expected that the CP Manager on HRB projects will be a suitably qualified and experienced construction professional.
A Compliance Plan Handbook (CPH) will also be developed providing guidance on this new strengthened approach to delivering building regulation compliant buildings in accordance with the approved building warrant plans and details. It is intended this MMC guidance document will be referenced within the CPH to inform and support the verification of buildings using MMC.
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MVRDV are part of the HASSELL+ team, an international design team including HASSELL, Deltares, Goudappel, Lotus Water, Hatch, Civic Edge, Idyllist and Page & Turnbull that has re-imagined a series of San Francisco Bay Area waterfront communities as vibrant, fundamentally public places for everyday use – but also vital for environmental and emergency needs. The team understands water, designing for water, living with water and the immense social potential that waterfront places offer communities when they are connected to them.
Revitalised public spaces that collect and connect people and water
For the collaborative research phase of the competition, HASSELL+ re-imagined a series of waterfront communities around the San Francisco Bay Area as vibrant, fundamentally public places primed for everyday use – as well as vital hubs for disaster response and environmental innovation. This proposal adds the appeal to "engage" with communities at risk to the current common practice to "protect", "adapt", and ultimately "retreat" from areas endangered by the effects of climate change. This in order to develop integral design solutions that can provide both, physical resiliency for those communities and a social model which engages in decision-making and builds social resiliency.
The design team's approach was inspired by the way the region's communities used open spaces during both the 1906 San Francisco earthquake – one of the deadliest in US history – and the recent, devastating Northern California wildfires. HASSELL+ envisioned a network of green spaces, creeks and revived high streets that would serve as points of collection, connection and water management from the ridgeline to the shoreline and across the bay via an enhanced ferry network. Revitalized 'connectors' – streets and creeks – and new 'collectors' – responsive, adaptable open spaces – would form a network of places for everyday gathering, big events and disaster assembly. Together, they could ultimately make the Bay Area more physically and socially resilient. During the collaborative research phase, this 'collect and connect' concept has been tested by HASSELL+ on exemplary sites around the Bay; outlining possible spatial frameworks and a toolkit for community resiliency and activation. In the second phase, 'collect and connect' will be applied and elaborated by Hassell on chosen sites in South San Francisco.
Designing better waterfront cities – a range of international perspectives
Since the challenge launched last May, it's received an outpouring of support from elected officials across all nine counties in the Bay Area. San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, President Dave Pine sees it as an opportunity to draw on the technical expertise of design teams, think creatively, and ultimately, create lasting change in the county.
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|Better Farming Series 32. Biogas 2: Building a Better Biogas Unit (FAO Better Farming Series, 1986)|
110. Sometimes a hard layer of scum may form on top of the waste mixture in your biogas unit. If this happens, less gas will be made and gas will not collect in the inner tube.
111. If the waste is well mixed before it is put into unit, there will be less chance for scum to form and your biogas unit will make gas well.
112. Scum is more likely to form if you use plant materials than if you use only animal waste.
113. To keep scum from forming, shake your biogas unit from time to time. The drawing below shows you how.

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You asked: Why does hair grow on wounds?
Stimulating fibroblasts through the sonic hedgehog pathway can trigger hair growth not previously seen in wound healing… By stirring crosstalk among skin cells that form the roots of hair, researchers report they have regrown hair strands on damaged skin.
Does hair grow on wounds?
Active new hair growth around wounds is a very rare phenomenon and, as far as we are aware, there have been no previous published clinical reports on this. Although epidermis that is lost on injury can regenerate, the loss of adult hair follicles has, until now, been considered permanent.
Can a wound heal with hair?
Hair follicle stem cells are important contributors to the wound-healing process, according to new research by investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Using an animal model, the researchers discovered that stem cells in the hair follicle are enlisted to help heal wounds in the skin.
Why is a hair follicle important in the repair of skin?
Hair follicles generate hair and help to provide epithelial stem cells used for wound repair.
How do you get hair out of a wound?
Open the skin to reveal enough of the hair to grab with tweezers. Remove the hair with your sterilized tweezers. Gently rinse the area with warm water and dry it.
How to remove them
 1. magnifying glass.
 2. duct tape, for splinters that aren't very deep.
 3. sewing needle.
 4. rubbing alcohol.
 5. tweezers.
 6. antibiotic ointment.
 7. bandage.
ON A NOTE: Does Vitamin E grow facial hair?
Can hair prevent wounds?
This suggests that the hair follicle is important but not necessary for normal wound healing. Investigators and clinicians have noted for years that hair-bearing areas tend to heal more quickly than areas lacking follicles (Bishop, 1945; Brown and McDowell, 1942; Martinot et al., 1994).
Will hair grow back after scrape?
Active new hair growth around wounds is a very rare phenomenon and, as far as we are aware, there have been no previous published clinical reports on this. Although epidermis that is lost on injury can regenerate, the loss of adult hair follicles has, until now, been considered permanent.
Does wearing a cast cause hair growth?
The skin under the plaster cast is subjected to tiny amounts of friction as the cast moves. The friction is not enough to rub away hair, but it is enough to stimulate the hair follicles in the skin to produce new hairs. As the skin is subjected to its normal wear and tear, the excessive hair will gradually disappear.
Can I wash my hair with a cut on my head?
If the laceration is on your scalp, it is OK to shampoo and wash. Be gentle and avoid excessive exposure to water. Take proper care of your wound to help reduce scarring.
How do you revive dead hair follicles?
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"These farms were a source of different kinds of rare fruits and vegetables, especially figs, pomegranates, berries and strawberries, (yet) it needs the support of the relevant agricultural institutions, so that it does not turn from a green area into a dead desert," Abdulrazaq Waraqa, a farmer of Tal Afar bitterly said
The farms of Tal Afar in western Ninewa province are famous in the province, covering an area of at least 500 acres and are watered by the Subashi spring, which is the source of water for the farms.
The farms provide livelihoods for thousands of families and export their products to the district and the entire province, but are currently not given much attention, after being destroyed during the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from 2014 to 2017.
"Rare varieties of figs are produced in the farms of Tal Afar," he said. "Farmers do not have the necessary capacity to revive their farms, some of them have given up farming and turned to other jobs to provide for their families," Waraqa said.
Some of them have given up farming and turned to other jobs
Tal Afar district, which has a population of more than 524,000, according to the Ministry of Planning in 2019, is made of the district center and three subdistricts, 69 km northwest of Mosul, center of Ninewa province.
Jassim Mohammed Younis, the former director of irrigation in Tal Afar, said the climate and fertile soil are suitable for agriculture. Farmers cultivate wheat, barley, cotton, watermelon yet its famous for its figs, olive and pomegranates."
In normal years, the range of rainfall in Tal Afar is 150-400 mm, which agriculture and horticulture experts say helps revive nearby springs, including Subashi.
According to the Ninewa Agriculture Directorate, before the capture of the district by ISIL fighters, there were about 100,000 fig trees and 70,000 pomegranate trees in Tal Afar that relied on the Subashi spring.
The Subashi spring flows from the lower part of the fortress at a rate of one to three meters per second and irrigates 500 acres of farmlands, according to the former director of irrigation in Tal Afar. This is in addition to several acres planted with vegetables on the Subashi Canal.
The spring water is used to irrigate farms and vegetable crops between May 18 and October 18, then used to irrigate winter vegetables between October 19 and May 17 the following year.
Majority of Talafar residents are Sunni Muslim Turkmens, while some Arabs and Kurds reside some urban areas and villages.
Daesh committed atrocities in June 2014 when they controlled the town of Talafar. 1300 people were abducted: 700 men, 470 women and 130 children, among them 400-500 in ISIL controlled prisons in Syria, according to civil society organizations NGOs.
The disputed territories consist of 14 administrative districts, including Talafar, spread across the four governorates of Ninewa, Kirkuk, Salahaddin and Diyala in northern Iraq.
Rashid Abdulqadir, a Turkmen historian, said the farms have an ancient history and belong to the residents of Tal Afar. They were registered in the Ottoman Empire offices
Besides the importance of farms in terms of economy and livelihood, it is considered a tourism asset.
"These farms should be protected because they have a role in reducing desertification, environmental pollution and the effects of dust, is considered one of the prominent features of the city," Abdulqadir said.
After the liberation of Talafar from the control of the ISIS, in August 2017, about 60% of the displaced Turkmens, mostly Shiite Muslims, returned home while the others refrained to return, spread in a number of southern and central province, especially Najaf, Karbala and Babylon, Kirkuk Iraqi Kurdistan Region IKR in the north, and some families fled to Turkey.
Turkmens are considered the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after Arabs and Kurds, residing almost exclusively in the northern towns and villages stretching from Talafar through Mosul, Erbil, Altun Kupri, Kirkuk, Tuz Khurmatu, Kifri and Khanaqin. They are half Sunnis and half Shiite.
These farms should be protected because they also play a role in reducing desertification, environmental pollution and the effects of dust
Meanwhile, Mohammed Ali, an agricultural and economic expert in Tal Afar, believes, "the atmosphere of the farms is attractive and gives you peace, a source of beauty and peace, but unfortunately after 2014 faced destruction."
"It needs revival in order to restore its beauty and turn into a touristic area visited by tourists," Ali hopes.
"These farms suffered. They were burned and destroyed by the fighters of the terrorist organization Daesh (ISIL), who used the farms as a hideout during military operations, so it became the target of air strikes and caused great damage," Waraqa recalls.
"We hope once those days will be back when families were touring the green area and our children would return to play in the green spaces."


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By Paul Parkinson
In case you missed it, yesterday Wind River announced that VxWorks has been selected for the European Geostationary
Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), and has been chosen to run the Integrity Processing Facility (IPF) check set.
The IPF, developed and delivered by Logica, is the crucial element that
validates the information broadcast by the satellites to safety-critical users
such as aircraft in flight or ships navigating through narrow
channels. This is essential, because satellite navigation systems alone do not provide sufficient positional accuracy to be used in safety-critical applications.
The IPF is really good example of a critical system which needs to consistently provide hard real-time performance and total reliability, and this posed some interesting challenges for development and safety certification to the joint avionics software safety standards RTCA
DO-178B and EUROCAE ED-12B at Level B.
Logica and the European Space Agency (ESA) have kindly allowed us to produce a case study which discusses the development and certification challenges and how they were successfully overcome, and this has just been published on the Electronics Weekly website. (Update: the case study can now also be downloaded in PDF from the Wind River website)
I hope you'll find this interesting, and the next time you are on a European flight on a landing approach in very poor visibility conditions, you'll know how VxWorks is helping to guide the aircraft to a safe landing.


nLab reduced homology
Contents
Context
Homological algebra
homological algebra
(also nonabelian homological algebra)
Introduction
Context
Basic definitions
Stable homotopy theory notions
Constructions
Lemmas
diagram chasing
Schanuel's lemma
Homology theories
Theorems
Contents
Idea
In general, the homology of a point is not trivial but is concentrated in degree 0 on the given coefficient object. For some applications, though, it is convenient to divide out that contribution such as to have the homology of the point be entirely trivial. This is called reduced homology.
Definition
Reduced singular homology
We discuss the reduced version of singular homology.
Let XX be a topological space. Write C (X)C_\bullet(X) for its singular chain complex.
Definition
The augmentation map is the homomorphism of abelian groups
ϵ:C 0(X) \epsilon \colon C_0(X) \to \mathbb{Z}
which adds up all the coefficients of all 0-chains:
ϵ:: in iσ i in i. \epsilon \colon \colon \sum_{i} n_i \sigma_i \mapsto \sum_i n_i \,.
Since the boundary of a 1-chain is in the kernel of this map, it constitutes a chain map
ϵ:C (X), \epsilon \colon C_\bullet(X) \to \mathbb{Z} \,,
where now \mathbb{Z} is regarded as a chain complex concentrated in degree 0.
Definition
The reduced singular chain complex C˜ (X)\tilde C_\bullet(X) of XX is the kernel of the augmentation map, the chain complex sitting in the short exact sequence
0C˜ (X)C (X)ϵ0. 0 \to \tilde C_\bullet(X) \to C_\bullet(X) \stackrel{\epsilon}{\to} \mathbb{Z} \to 0 \,.
The reduced singular homology H˜ (X)\tilde H_\bullet(X) of XX is the chain homology of the reduced singular chain complex
H˜ (X)H (C˜ (X)). \tilde H_\bullet(X) \coloneqq H_\bullet(\tilde C_\bullet(X)) \,.
Equivalently:
Definition
The reduced singular homology of XX, denoted H˜ (X)\tilde H_\bullet(X), is the chain homology of the augmented chain complex
C 2(X) 1C 1(X) 0C 0(X)ϵ0. \cdots \to C_2(X) \stackrel{\partial_1}{\to} C_1(X) \stackrel{\partial_0}{\to} C_0(X) \stackrel{\epsilon}{\to} \mathbb{Z} \to 0 \,.
Properties
Relation to ordinary homology
Let XX be a topological space, H (X)H_\bullet(X) its singular homology and H˜ (X)\tilde H_\bullet(X) its reduced singular homology, def. .
Proposition
For nn \in \mathbb{N} there is an isomorphism
H n(X){H˜ n(X) forn1 H˜ 0(X) forn=0 H_n(X) \simeq \left\{ \array{ \tilde H_n(X) & for \; n \geq 1 \\ \tilde H_0(X) \oplus \mathbb{Z} & for\; n = 0 } \right.
Proof
The homology long exact sequence of the defining short exact sequence C˜ (C)C (X)ϵ\tilde C_\bullet(C) \to C_\bullet(X) \stackrel{\epsilon}{\to} \mathbb{Z} is, since \mathbb{Z} here is concentrated in degree 0, of the form
H˜ n(X)H n(X)00H˜ 1(X)H 1(X)0H˜ 0(X)H 0(X)ϵ0. \cdots \to \tilde H_n(X) \to H_n(X) \to 0 \to \cdots \to 0 \to \cdots \to \tilde H_1(X) \to H_1(X) \to 0 \to \tilde H_0(X) \to H_0(X) \stackrel{\epsilon}{\to} \mathbb{Z} \to 0 \,.
Here exactness says that all the morphisms H˜ n(X)H n(X)\tilde H_n(X) \to H_n(X) for positive nn are isomorphisms. Moreover, since \mathbb{Z} is a free abelian group, hence a projective object, the remaining short exact sequence
0H˜ 0(X)H 0(X)0 0 \to \tilde H_0(X) \to H_0(X) \to \mathbb{Z} \to 0
is split (as discussed there) and hence H 0(X)H˜ 0(X)H_0(X) \simeq \tilde H_0(X) \oplus \mathbb{Z}.
Proposition
For X=*X = * the point, the morphism
H 0(ϵ):H 0(X) H_0(\epsilon) \colon H_0(X) \to \mathbb{Z}
is an isomorphism. Accordingly the reduced homology of the point vanishes in every degree:
H˜ (*)0. \tilde H_\bullet(*) \simeq 0 \,.
Proof
By the discussion at Singular homology – Relation to homotopy groups we have that
H n(*){ forn=0 0 otherwise. H_n(*) \simeq \left\{ \array{ \mathbb{Z} & for \; n = 0 \\ 0 & otherwise } \right. \,.
Moreover, it is clear that ϵ:C 0(*)\epsilon \colon C_0(*) \to \mathbb{Z} is the identity map.
Relation to relative homology
Proposition
For XX an inhabited topological space, its reduced singular homology, def. , coincides with its relative singular homology relative to any base point x:*Xx \colon * \to X:
H˜ (X)H (X,*). \tilde H_\bullet(X) \simeq H_\bullet(X,*) \,.
Proof
Consider the sequence of topological subspace inclusions
*xX. \emptyset \hookrightarrow * \stackrel{x}{\hookrightarrow} X \,.
By the discussion at Relative homology - long exact sequences this induces a long exact sequence of the form
H n+1(*)H n+1(X)H n+1(X,*)H n(*)H n(X)H n(X,*)H 1(X)H 1(X,*)H 0(*)H 0(x)H 0(X)H n(X,*)0. \cdots \to H_{n+1}(*) \to H_{n+1}(X) \to H_{n+1}(X,*) \to H_n(*) \to H_n(X) \to H_n(X,*) \to \cdots \to H_1(X) \to H_1(X,*) \to H_0(*) \stackrel{H_0(x)}{\to} H_0(X) \to H_n(X,*) \to 0 \,.
Here in positive degrees we have H n(*)0H_n(*) \simeq 0 and therefore exactness gives isomorphisms
H n(X)H n(X,*) n1 H_n(X) \stackrel{\simeq}{\to} H_n(X,*)\;\; \forall_{n \geq 1}
and hence with prop. isomorphisms
H˜ n(X)H n(X,*) n1. \tilde H_n(X) \stackrel{\simeq}{\to} H_n(X,*)\;\; \forall_{n \geq 1} \,.
It remains to deal with the case in degree 0. To that end, observe that H 0(x):H 0(*)H 0(X)H_0(x) \colon H_0(*) \to H_0(X) is a monomorphism: for this notice that we have a commuting diagram
H 0(*) id H 0(*) H 0(x) H 0(f) H 0(ϵ) H 0(X) H 0(ϵ) , \array{ H_0(*) &\stackrel{id}{\to}& H_0(*) \\ {}^


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Choosing the perfect yoga travel destination is pivotal, considering the many options available worldwide. To guide you in finding the ideal yoga vacation or retreat tailored to your needs and preferences, here are some factors to consider:
1. Type of Yoga:
- Diversity of Styles: Different destinations specialize in various yoga styles, ranging from traditional Hatha yoga in India to dynamic Vinyasa Flow or Power yoga in Europe or America.
- Research Offerings: Ensure that the destination aligns with your preferred style by researching the specific yoga offerings at each location.
2. Climate and Environment:
- Tropical vs. Temperate: Consider your preference for practicing yoga in warm tropical settings, such as a beach or island, versus cooler temperatures or mountainous regions.
- Urban vs. Natural: Explore whether you prefer an urban yoga retreat, allowing you to delve into exciting cities while enhancing your yoga practice.
- Cultural Immersion: Think about the cultural experience you desire during your yoga vacation, as each destination provides unique opportunities to immerse yourself in local customs, traditions, and spiritual practices.
- Enhancing Yoga Practice: The cultural context can significantly elevate your yoga practice and enrich the experience.
- Financial Constraints: Consider your budget, as yoga retreats vary widely in cost.
- Luxury vs. Affordability: While luxurious, all-inclusive retreats offer relaxation, surprisingly affordable options exist in developing countries with lower living costs.
- Flight Expenses: Explore yoga destinations in your country to minimize flight expenses.
With all that said, here are our favorite countries to host a yoga retreat at.
Mexico, a vibrant and colorful country in North America, beckons with its stunning beaches, ancient Mayan ruins, colonial cities, and delectable cuisine, making it an ideal destination for a rejuvenating yoga vacation. Here are some top yoga destinations in Mexico:
Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula
- Pristine Beaches: Tulum, situated on the Yucatan Peninsula, is renowned for its pristine beaches that provide a serene backdrop for yoga practice.
- Ancient Mayan Ruins: Explore the ancient Mayan ruins that add a touch of history and mystique to the coastal landscape.
Puerto Vallarta and Sayulita
- Charming Surf Town: Puerto Vallarta, along with the nearby charming surf town of Sayulita on the Pacific coast, offers a vibrant yoga community and a plethora of retreat options.
- Surfing and Culture: Immerse yourself in the local culture, enjoy surfing lessons, and experience the rich offerings of the region.
- Safe and Cultural: Oaxaca stands out as one of the safest states in Mexico, making it an excellent choice for yoga enthusiasts and culture lovers alike.
- Diverse Options: Oaxaca provides diverse options for yoga travelers, ensuring a blend of wellness and cultural exploration.
- Holistic Experiences:
Mexico, with its diverse landscapes and rich cultural offerings, invites you to embark on a yoga journey that extends beyond the mat. Whether you seek the tranquil shores of Tulum, the vibrant communities of Puerto Vallarta and Sayulita, or the cultural tapestry of Oaxaca, Mexico promises a harmonious blend of wellness and exploration.
In the heart of Peru, where the whispers of the ancient Incan civilization dance with the wind, a transformative yoga adventure unfolds. This land of mystical energies and breathtaking landscapes invites the yoga traveler on a journey that transcends the physical, offering a profound connection with the spiritual realm.
The Andes, a Tapestry of Tranquility
As the sun kisses the rugged peaks of the Andes, a sacred hush envelops the air. The Sacred Valley, cradled within these majestic mountains, emerges as an idyllic sanctuary for yoga retreats. Picture-perfect views unfold, painted in hues of emerald and gold, creating a backdrop that seems plucked from the canvas of divine artistry. Here, in this tapestry of tranquility, the yogi immerses themselves in a practice that resonates with the heartbeat of the Andean spirits.
Cusco, the Vibrant Heartbeat of Incan Heritage
Nestled in the embrace of the Andes, Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, pulses with a vibrant culture. Cobblestone streets whisper tales of ancient civilizations, leading the yogi through a living museum of history. As the sun sets over terracotta rooftops, the rhythmic beats of Cusco's heart echo through the alleys, offering access to iconic wonders like the mystical Machu Picchu.
Lake Titicaca, Where Spirit Meets Serenity
Further afield, Lake Titicaca, a serene expanse nestled between Peru and Bolivia, becomes a canvas for spiritual exploration. Its reflective waters mirror the expansive sky, inviting the yoga traveler to delve into the depths of their practice. The mystical energy of the lake intertwines with the ancient wisdom of the Andean people, creating a space where spirit meets serenity.
In embracing Peru's rich history, stunning landscapes, and spiritual energy, the yoga traveler discovers not just a destination but a profound odyssey. Each step taken in this land, from the Andes to the Amazon, becomes a brushstroke on the canvas of a transformative journey. Peru, with its tapestry of ancient wisdom and natural beauty, unveils the mystical secrets of Pachamama, inviting all who seek to explore the realms of adventure and spirituality.
If you want a yoga retreat in Peru, visit International Yoga's website.


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| General conclusions to the report of the Dardanelles
Commission (plus a map of Gallipoli), 1917.
The report - published in 1917 by the parliamentary commission
investigating the Dardanelles campaign - concluded that it had been
fatally compromised by a number of factors. The difficulties of
a military attack on the peninsula were severely under-estimated
and insufficient resources were diverted from the Western Front
to ensure its success. Both of the Allied landings on the peninsula
(in April and August 1915) were flawed. The commission also censured
by name a number of high-ranking military figures, most notably
Sir Ian Hamilton.
Catalogue reference: CAB 19/1 (1917-18)


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The DateDiff function "Returns a Long value specifying the number of time intervals between two Date values."
DateInterval.Day is the Day member of the DateInterval collection, so the DateDiff function will return the number of days between the two dates, actually the number of Day "boundaries". By boundaries I mean if you gave it 11pm on day one and 1am the next day it would still return 1 day.
The formula is then converting or as someone once said to me "Coercing into a decimal" using the Cdec() function. i.e. it is converting the Long value returned by the DateDiff function into a Decimal value. I won't go into the difference between Long and Decimal datatypes here, suffice to say Long is a floating point type and decimal is an exact numeric type - exacts are generally safer to work with, but this conversion is probably unecessary in this instance because giving DateDiff function a Day interval is only ever going to return integers (not the datetype).
After the Cdec() function, the formula is then multiplying by -1. This is a common trick to convert positive numbers to negative, or negative numbers to positive. For some reason the author of the formula wants to change the sign of the returned value.
One flaw with this formula is that it assumes the date1 and date2 are always in a certain order. For example if Date1 is usually earlier than Date2, this formula will return a negative value because it is being multiplied by -1.
I don't think I can explain this more thoroughly, but it would be preferable if you explained why you need to understand this formula, especially the context of its use.
If you gave the formula these two dates 2013-02-01 and 2013-02-2 as date1 and date2 it would give you a result of -1.
If you gave it those two dates the other way around it would give you +1.


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Introduction: Posture Correction Shirt
MetaSkin is a technology that is based on the amount of Infrared light which is being reflected by stretchable cloth. With the technology used in MetaSkin we want to develop a way to improve the posture of people during sitting for example. When a person sits straight with the shoulders turned backwards and the breast to the front the cloth on the back of the person just underneath the shoulder blades won't be stretched. If the person sits crooked or slumped the cloth on the back of the person will be stretched. This difference should evoke a buzzer, sound or vibration to give feedback to the user about his or her posture.
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Step 1: How Does It Work?
A Reflective sensor which contains a emitter and a receiver part is placed against the cloth. When the cloth is not stretched, a lot of IR light which is sent by the emitter is received again by the receiver. When the cloth is stretched there is less material in front of the sensor which means that less IR light will be reflected by the cloth and received by the receiver. In our product this difference will be used to give warnings to the user. This difference should evoke a buzzer, sound or vibration to give feedback to the user about his or her posture.
Step 2: Do You Crook or Slump While Working on Computer a Lot?
Did you know that experts estimate that as many as 80% of the population will experience a back problem at some time in our lives (American Chiropractic Association, 2015). Most of the people are aware of this but are not able to take action while working.
Step 3: What If You Have a Persuasive Trigger to Improve Your Posture?
Step 4: Materials Required
 1. Jumper wires
 2. Clothing
 3. Long wires
 4. LED
 5. IR sensor (emitter and receiver)
 6. Resistor (10k)
 7. Breadboard
 8. Arduino
 9. Glue
 10. Sensor mount
Step 5: Make the Connections
Step 6: Glue the Sensor on Clothing
Make sure the sensor is not glued and fabric is able to stretch under the sensor. Glue the sensor mount or the wires to the fabric
Step 7: Upload the Code to the Arduino Board
Please find attached the code in the pdf attached.
Step 8: Check and Adjust the 'posture' Threshold
Move your posture from straight to bending position and check the change of values of 'posture' in seek monitor (accessible from magnifying icon on top right corner of Arduino interface). Change the value in the code to the lowest average value you see when you are sitting in bending position.
Step 9: Future Possibilities
You can make it wireless and use flexible sensors to make it less clumsy.
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Renate Hulst and Vinay Bhajantri
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 Hey.. I would like to knw tht what kind of arduino is used in this project.. Plus what kind of jumper wires nd sensor mount is used?.
 Yes, you can use a flex sensor may be. We just went for a cheaper alternative i.e. is the IR sensor (it costs you USD 1 and flex sensor is around USD 8).
 But agreed, it may be a better option!
 i may actually make this. i have a flex sensor and the mentioned wifi chip etc. i will let you know.
 :) just saw your last step - great concept.!!
 Seems like a mild electrical shock would be more effective than a buzzer. ?
 Hey! we used- Vishay TCRT1000, Through Hole Reflective Optical Sensor. The link for that sensor is here-_URL_
 Awesome concept, I'd like one of these shirts!
 Love this!
 Just reading this Instructable was enough make me change how I was sitting.


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In this report, The Economist Intelligence Unit examines the past, present and future of energy innovation for the blue economy. The report looks at the energy needs of different ocean economy sectors, assesses groundbreaking innovations and outlines an enabling environment for energy innovation within the blue economy. Based on three case studies and in-depth interviews with 30 energy and blue economy experts, this report provides valuable insights for all stakeholders working to develop new, clean solutions for the blue economy and beyond.
The report is divided into the following five chapters:
In chapter one, we briefly outline the central sectors of the blue economy—both emerging and established—and identify the main energy consumers. The ocean economy is an important part of both the US and global economy: maritime transport is the largest consumer of energy in the blue economy and a large contributor to global CO2 emissions. As such, the sector is now pushing towards cleaner energy usage. Maritime tourism is the largest ocean-based industry in terms of GDP contribution and employment in the US and is a major consumer of energy. Ship and boat building and the offshore oil and gas industries are also major consumers of energy within the US. Within all of these sectors, including fishing and aquaculture and ocean observation and navigation, marine energy presents opportunities for renewable, in-situ or local power generation that could help pave the way towards the blue economy of the future.
In chapter two, we examine the sailto-steam transition. Steamships were central to a revolution in global trade and migration in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Nearly a hundred years passed between the first voyage of a commercial steamship in 1807 and the completion of the transition from sailboats to steamships. Settling on the paddlewheel as a propulsion system facilitated the earliest commercial steamships while subsequent innovations, particularly screw-driven propulsion and the marinisation of the compound engine, drove increasing diffusion. Steamships gained traction through a series of increasingly large pathway markets while policy support, financing and insurance and complementary infrastructure (among other factors we discuss) were integral to the scaling-up and long-term success of steamships. While wind propulsion went out of fashion with the rise of steamships (which were part of a global transition towards fossil fuel energy sources), new methods of harnessing wind for ocean transport are now burgeoning.
Energy storage, especially batteries, is the theme of chapter three. New economic and political attention towards alternative energy paradigms drove a wave of battery innovations during the 1970s. The lithiumion (Li-ion) battery has become the most prominent of these and now serves as the backbone of the electronics, electric vehicle (EV) and utility storage markets. In the blue economy, energy storage—especially the higher energy density offered by Li-ion batteries—powers ocean observation and research. This observation and research produces fundamental knowledge that enables all blue economy sectors to grow. Furthermore, the battery-driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) market is rapidly growing while the electric boat market is poised to expand in the near future. Time, collaboration, pathway markets and marinisation (adapting technology for use in marine environments) were all central to the development of new battery technologies. Yet batteries still have major limitations for blue economy usage that new innovations— like improved in-situ power generation— could help to overcome.
Chapter four examines the rise of offshore wind. Despite being a relatively new source of energy, offshore wind is now one of the fastest-growing renewable energy sources in the world and will expand massively in terms of value and power generation by 2040. This growth has been fuelled by the advancement of all aspects of offshore wind farms, but especially larger, more advanced turbines and improved foundations. The emergence of new materials led to improved turbines while lessons from the oil and gas industry allowed for better foundations and improved siting further offshore and in deeper waters. While the market size has increased, prices for offshore wind power have rapidly declined and the industry is now creating a large number of jobs and becoming a major player in its own right. Offshore wind is one promising option for green hydrogen production which could enable a near carbon-neutral energy system. Though a number of factors drove the development of the offshore wind industry, marinisation of pre-existing onshore wind technology and specific government policy support are two critical elements of its success. Offshore wind shows us that with proper government and societal incentives and an eye towards leveraging existing technologies, other offshore technologies may have a path towards success.
Finally, chapter five ties the lessons of the case studies and interviews together to identify resource mobilisation—particularly of time—as key for energy innovation in the blue economy. It then outlines eight elements of the enabling environment that can increase the likelihood of successful innovation and reduce the need for the two key ingredients. The chapter details the state and relevance of each element generally, as well as for marine energy specifically, a set of technologies that hold particular promise for the blue economy. These eight elements, ordered broadly by the technology readiness levels (TRLs) they correspond to, are: 1) marinisation, technology transfer and collaboration; 2) policy support; 3) financing environment; 4) enabling and complementary technologies; 5) public awareness, attitudes, and social acceptance; 6) pathway markets, competition and economies of scale; 7) testing, standards and certification; and 8) complementary infrastructure.


Dr William Budd: Bristol's most famous physician
Most people walk past the plaque on 89 Park Street, Bristol without giving a second thought to the man it commemorates. And yet Dr William Budd, who was a true pioneer and was to become Bristol's most distinguished physician, made an immense contribution to medicine and to the life of the city. Born in Devon, he moved to Bristol in 1841, working at St Peter's Hospital and the Infirmary where he cared for patients during typhoid and cholera epidemics, for which there was no cure. He was able to identify how these deadly diseases spread, seeing at first hand the insanitary hovels of Lewins Mead and elsewhere in the city, and realising the need for preventive measures. An early director of the Bristol Waterworks Company, William Budd was the moving force behind ensuring a clean water supply, one of the first essentials in combating water-born disease. Several major epidemics of infection diseases swept through nineteenth-century Britain, killing indiscriminately and showing no respect for age or social class. For years Budd fought to change misguided orthodoxies in the medical professional which denied the contagious nature of these killer diseases. When the 1866 cholera epidemic reached Bristol, much reduced death figures showed that he had largely won the grim fight to improve the nation's health.
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Pets sometimes venture too close to bees. These photos show the state in which they left them.
Dogs and cats are sometimes charmed by seeing bees. They approach it with the intention of playing. However, the response they receive is not the kindest. A visit to the veterinarian is essential after a bee sting.
Here are 19 photos of cats and dogs who regretted having approached the bees.
1. This cat has a red and swollen nose after being stung by a bee
2. Its paw has become giant
3. The poor dog no longer has his head
4. This Boxer lost in the first round against the gang of bees
5. Curiosity is a bad thing, that's the lesson this dog learned
6. The appearance of this Sphynx cat has only become more majestic, although he will no longer seek to approach the bees.
7. After having eaten a few bees, this dog regrets a little
8. This Husky is not happy with his mishap of the day
9. This poor Persian cat can no longer open his eyes
10. He will have learned his lesson once and for all
11. He shouldn't have been so curious
12. A bite in the paw from which he will recover
13. Back from the vet
14. When you're greedy and attacking bees, you pay the price
15. This bitch will no longer eat bees in her life
16. This cat was bothered by the bees
17. Fortunately, her inflammation is healing.
Read also: This dog cheats on its owners every day to receive free treats
18. As for this dog, it is still only at the beginning of its treatment.
19. These 2 friends regretted having wanted to attack bees


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All photos taken on July 29, 2022.
The North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, also known as the Ribbon of Green or the River Valley Parks, is a continuous collection of urban parks around the North Saskatchewan River valley in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. The park system encompasses over 7,300 hectares (18,000 acres) of parkland, making it the largest contiguous area of urban parkland in the country. The park system is made up of over 30 provincial and municipal parks situated around the river from Devon to Fort Saskatchewan, with trails connecting most of the parks together.
Proposals to create a large park along Edmonton's riverfront was first proposed by landscape architect Frederick Todd in 1907, although the formation of a park system did not take shape until the late 20th century. In 1996, the River Valley Alliance (RVA) was formed to coordinate the development of the park system across the metropolitan region. Although large portions of the river valley is public parkland, some sections of the river valley is privately-owned. In addition to park system, the river valley is also used by the metropolitan area for stormwater management.
Most of the river valley is grasslands, although sections of it are forested. The river valley supports a high level of biodiversity, and is used as a wildlife corridor by a variety of animals.
Talks are currently under way to create a new National Park here.
My Unfinished Business title explained by:
- When I retired in late 2014, we had a plan to hike the length of the Edmonton River Valley. While we hiked 107 km (66 1/2 miles) in 2015, we never made it past Capilano Park and 50th Street.
- When we bought our new folding E-bikes, we planned to drive them into the city and ride the trail system. Today, at long last we made it. It was a bit more of a challenge to reload the bikes into the car after our ride, so while the ride was enjoyable, we need to make some adjustments on transporting them.
Today, the temperatures were headed back up to +30 C (86 F) with a "feels like" temperature of +37C (99 F). There was no way we were going for a walk and no way we wanted to be out in the sun in the afternoon.
We skipped morning coffee and drove into Edmonton with the rush hour traffic. Arriving in Goldbar Park, we were greeted by many aromas, The Goldbar waste water treatment plant, the Kinder Morgan Edmonton Terminal, The Esso Refinery. OK, so not necessarily the smells that connote fine summer mornings.
We rode to the nearest washrooms which were still locked. Glad we did not have coffee, we set out along the paved paths to go as far East and North as the trails would take us.
The blue line indicates our route today
For those of you who doubted that two Radbikes would fit in the back of a Prius V, they do. Getting them in was a bit of a challenge, but getting them out was fairly simple. Turns out cardboard is not a good surface to slide a heavy bike on. Back to the drawing board.
When reassembling the bikes, attention must be paid to ensure the folding mechanisms are locked properly and the seat post is in the right position.
And we are off through the Goldbar Park paths
We paused on the Ainsworth Dyer Memorial footbridge to take in the river views. Did I mention that Eastern Edmonton is home to a lot of petrochemical plants?
Corporal Ainsworth Dyer was one of 4 Canadians killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in 2002 when an American fighter dropped a laser guided bomb while the Canadian group was conducting night fire exercises.
Now in Rundle Park, we paused for a few more views….
…before rolling along more paved paths on our journey North
Now down at the river's edge, we stopped for a few more photos of the Strathcona Science Park Pedestrian Bridge, the Beverly and Clover Bar traffic bridges and the Clover Bar/Beverly Train Bridge (10th largest in Alberta) ahead.
This group of Prairie Asters caught my eye as I wheeled back to the main trail.
Strathcona Science Park Pedestrian Bridge
bridging the gap
under the Beverly Bridge with Clover Bar Bridge and Clover Bar/ Beverly bridges in view
Sunridge Ski Area
rolling along under the last bridges
Parks waste collection truck doing the morning garbage pickup along the trail. We are now in Hermitage Park
On the dock of a stocked trout pond in Hermitage Park
I told these guys to wait for the waddle light
The multi use path was closed, so we rode on the roadway for a while….
…before riding on a grassy path…
…and stopping by the wetland pond to see who was out and about. The white spots in the center…
…turned out to be a squadron of pelicans
coots and ducks also enjoyed the cool water
a lady walking her pooch recommended we ride the path around the pond and she was not wrong
This duck family was out for a swim…
…in algae infested water. The algae bloom is due to the recent hot weather
The peaceful path continued…
…before we pulled off on a little viewing platform. This Mom had 21 young ones in her wake…
…and this Momma coot had some gangly looking young ones ignoring her instructions.
Another view of the pelicans
One more look at the pond
Now, we were on the grass path for sure as we approached the area of trail reconstruction
Now at the furthest point of our ride, we reversed course…
…back into Rundle Park, where we pulled off to cross the Strathcona Science Park Pedestrian Bridge for more river views.
Back in Goldbar Park, we could feel the heat building…
…but the real sweating started as I loaded the bikes back into the car.
All in all, a good 20 km (12 1/2 mile) ride in the "cool" of the day. If we can simplify the loading and unloading, we will do this again.


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|A section of Ba Kep Canal in Mekong Delta Soc Trang Province's Dai An 2 Commune is hit by both drought and saltwater intrusion. The national agricultural sector is working hard to help delta farmers battle the historic drought and saltwater intrusion.— VNA/VNS Photo Duy Khuong
HA NOI (VNS) — The national agriculture sector is working to restructure the cultivation schedule to save water, grow saltwater-resistant crops and trees, and efficiently use irrigation water in order to help millions of farmers in the Mekong Delta confront the worst drought and saltwater intrusion in 90 years.
The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting predicts the drought and saltwater intrusion will last until June.
The Water Resource Directorate under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Thursday sent an urgent message to agricultural department heads of 11 Mekong Delta provinces, urging them to warn local farmers about recurring saltwater intrusion with salinity content registering 4 grammes per litre of water between February 25 and March 7. The permitted salinity level is less than than 250 milligrammes per litre.
The directorate advised local farmers to take fresh water to be used for both irrigation and daily purposes from river sections about 30 to 45km away from the mouth of the Mekong River when low and medium tides occur.
Nguyen Van Dong, Director of Mekong Delta Hau Giang Province's Agriculture and Rural Development Department, said all local rice fields are threatened by the drought and saltwater intrusion.
Thus, the local administration had mobilised all sources in an attempt to tackle the problem. It directed units to reinforce dykes when the salinity surpasses 2 grammes per litre, Dong said.
Lu Van Hung, Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, said efforts are being taken to drill new wells to be used as water sources and build reservoirs to store water.
Heads of districts and communes will be held responsible if they fail to obey the committee's directions, he said.
The province also plans to plant a new type of saltwater-resistant rice.
Statistics of the Mekong Delta's Tien Giang Province show that about 9,000 households are living in areas hit by drought and saltwater during the ongoing dry season (from November to April).
In response to the situation, the province has opened an additional 141 public taps to provide water to the households.
A 6.3km pipe system has been promptly constructed to supply 1,200cu.m of water daily to local residents in the communes of Binh Dong and Binh Xuan, which have been suffering the most from water shortages.
In terms of long-term action, the Government and the Ministry of Planning and Investment have mobilised official development assistance (ODA) sources totaling about US$500 million to upgrade the delta's dyke and saltwater-resistance drainage systems.
The agriculture ministry also called upon research institutes and scientists to study and test new types of rice that could resist saltwater as a long-term solution to the problem.
Initial statistics from the Mekong Delta provinces reveal that drought and saltwater intrusion have caused an estimated loss of about VND150 trillion ($6.7 billion) for the delta so far, and the losses are expected to continue surmounting until June.
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh said a total of nearly 340,000ha of winter-spring rice crops were affected by the drought and saltwater intrusion, accounting for 35.5 per cent of the delta's total cultivation area during the winter-spring season.
The ongoing El Nino, which began in 2014 and is considered one of the most intense weather phenomena in at least two decades, was blamed for the severe drought and saltwater intrusion. It also caused rainfall to drop by 10-40 per cent compared to previous years, according to Dao Trong Tu, a senior water expert. — VNS