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20 DRAGON FRUIT / PITAHAYA seeds...
Warning: Last items in stock!
Pitaya, pitahaya or dragon fruit is a cactus cactus of the family Cactaceae.
it is native to Central America, but nowadays it is cultivated everywhere in tropical zone.
Its flowers are huge, they are white with yellow heart, a real wonder.
there is also a variety of yellow pitaya.
The seeds of dragon fruit are black in the shape of a drop of water, they look like those of venus fly trap but in bigger.
The fruit of the red pitaya weighs about 350 grams and measures about ten centimeters.
It is edible, very low in calories, has a thick red skin with small leaves. (like scales)
This cactus looks like virgin vines was imported to Vietnam by French settlers in the early nineteenth century.
In traditional medicine, pitahaya is attributed to many digestive virtues.
100 grams of fruit contain only about 50 calories.
Dragon fruit has many minerals, is rich in vitamins and is a powerful antioxidant for the body as well as wolfberry, jiaogulan or cape gooseberry.
Sowing pitaya seeds:
sow your dragon fruit seeds, in a box of fine potting soil, cover your substrate seeds by only 1 to 2 mm.
Then, spray water reasonably well on the potting soil.
Then place your box in a very warm place at 30 to 35 ° C.
Do not re-water your seedlings until the pitahaya seeds have sprouted! (risk of damping off)
Wait for your dragon fruit plants to make 2 cm before transplanting them into pots separately.
- Cactus really atypical, little spicy.
- Beautiful flowering and unusual fruits.
- Very easy to grow, requires little maintenance.
- Growth relatively fast for a cactus.
Also exists as a plant to grow.
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In the photo, fruit toward the top of the cucumber plant has aborted. They are drying up from the blossom end toward the stem end of the fruit. While water shortage played a role in the abortion of these fruit, not all aborted cucumber fruit can be explained by a water shortage in the plant. Other factors such as the fruit load on the plant are also possible causes.
LETTUCE TISSUE DAMAGE
Since the leaves of the lettuce plant are the part of the plant that we eat, we don't want them to be too tough to chew. Lettuce leaves are fairly delicate and therefore can be damaged relatively easily by sudden changes in water availability and the relative humidity in the air.
When something happens to interrupt or slow the flow of water through the lettuce leaves, the cells at the outer margin of the leaf are the ones that get shorted first and most severely. As noted earlier in this article, a sudden drop in the relative humidity in the air in the greenhouse is one of the things that can lead to a shortage of water within the plant. If they collapse and die, there will be a layer of dead cells around the margin of the leaf. The cells toward the middle of the leaf survive and continue to grow. The resulting tissue is puckered and bubbled because its expansion is restricted by the surrounding dead cells.
The Bibb lettuce picture with the puckered leaves shows the type of damage that can occur from a sudden lack of water in the plant. Notice that the outer leaves of the plant are not affected. The cells in those leaves were fully expanded and mature when the stress on the plant took place. The cells in the margins of the younger leaves are the ones that collapsed and died.
When excess water builds up in the lettuce plant, the cells in the leaves at the growing point of the stem can be over-supplied, possibly causing them to burst and die. This is what has happened at the growing point of the Bibb lettuce plant having the open centre. This is called latex tip burn in lettuce. When lettuce plants start to close in over the middle of the plant, excess water is more difficult to dissipate than when the plant is more open. Latex tip burn is, therefore, more likely to occur during the later stages of lettuce growth than during the earlier stages of growth.
Latex tip burn will often take out the whole growing point of the plant. All the cells in the growing point burst, resulting in plant death. The crop is terminated if this happens because normal plant growth will no longer be possible. If the plant is left in the greenhouse to continue to grow, secondary growth will start at the buds at the lower leaves of the plant. The small secondary heads on the plants in the accompanying picture resulted from growth after the terminal bud of the plant was killed by latex tip burn.
Even if the growing point is not completely inactivated by the latex tip burn, the lettuce plant will not grow normally and should be harvested. If there are enough leaves on the plant to be useful, they can be eaten. The rest of the plant should be discarded.
HOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY CAN BE CONTROLLED
The leaf and fruit damage described above can be reduced or eliminated if the rapid changes in the relative humidity in the greenhouse can be slowed enough so the plants can adjust to the changes without tissue damage. An environmental control system capable of tracking and changing the relative humidity in the greenhouse is the ideal solution. Because such a system is relatively expensive for a small greenhouse, many hobby greenhouses have a very limited capability of tracking and modifying the relative humidity in the greenhouse.
Air exchange and heating are generally used to lower the greenhouse relative humidity. An evaporative cooler, a mist system, or a few water sprinklers can be used to increase the moisture in the greenhouse air. The control of the greenhouse relative humidity takes a secondary position to the control of temperature within the greenhouse. If the temperature in the greenhouse is high enough or even too high, heat should not be used to lower the relative humidity in the greenhouse. If the greenhouse is being heated, not much water should be evaporated to increase the greenhouse relative humidity because evaporating water takes additional heat energy. The relative humidity control system must be properly integrated with the heating and cooling systems in the greenhouse to provide the optimum environment for plant growth and development.
If you are not ready to buy a larger, more highly equipped greenhouse at this time, there are a few things you can do to minimize plant damage in the greenhouse due to rapid relative humidity changes. Generally speaking, make efforts to prevent situations that can create rapid changes. For example, on warm, sunny days do not leave the greenhouse closed up until ten o'clock in the morning. This allows excessive heat to build up. Avoid leaving the greenhouse cooling fans on after the temperature has started to drop in the greenhouse, due either to cloud cover or the onset of evening. Also, avoid leaving the wet wall on all night, which could generate excessive moisture in the form of high relative humidity, potentially causing condensation on the plants.
Last, make a point to stay aware of the environment changes in your greenhouse. The more closely in tune you are to temperature and relative humidity changes in it, the better able you will be to make the needed adjustments that will minimize plant damage.


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This article explains how to use the District Metered Areas tool in WaterGEMS and WaterCAD, to quickly generate District Metered Areas (DMA's) in your model.
A video demonstration is embedded further below.
Note: This tool is available starting with version 10.02.01.06. If you have an older version, please see the below section titled "Other Methods for DMA generation".
District Metered Areas or DMA's are areas in a water distribution network which are isolated from the whole of the system. This way the flows in and out of the DMA can be metered or quantified. DMA's provide a more accurate way of tracking water user and loss in the system. DMA's are created in such a way that they can be isolated from the system without adversely affecting the demands, pressures and supply for the rest of the system.
Some key points to consider while establishing a DMA;
The DMA tool in WaterGEMS and WaterCAD can help the user easily demarcate a DMA based on the user's defined criteria. DMA creation is an iterative process and this tool allows merging adjacent DMA's and controlling the user defined criteria for DMA creation.
Before the model is delineated into different DMA's the following points should be considered;
A typical workflow to begin DMA delineation would be as follows;
The District Metered Areas tool can be found under Analysis > Analysis Tools > More > District Metered Areas.
The DMA algorithm will create DMA's based on the boundaries specified. There are three types of elements which can serve as boundaries because they can be either closed or opened. These are;
Each of the above elements has an initial setting as "Boundary Candidate" under the property "DMA Status". The pipes however, have four different properties;
For pumps and valves there are only two states; "boundary candidate" and "boundary";
Once the District Metered Areas tool is selected the following dialog box opens up;
There are several toolbar commands at the top. Before the DMA algorithm is used for DMA demarcation, there are a few options you must consider before modeling. In the "Assign DMA Status" command, there is an option for "Initialize DMA Boundary Status". This option allows you to set your parameters for DMA creation. If you only want a particular element(s) to serve as boundaries you can define it so in this option; you can specify the same as an initial criterion for DMA demarcation. Basically, this option allows you to "globally edit" and assign the desired DMA status for an element. This is especially useful in cases where you know that a particular element type is supposed to be a "boundary" or a "boundary candidate".
With this initialization you can define default "DMA status" for the above elements based on your DMA generation requirements. In the snapshot above, pumps and pump batteries are considered as "Boundary" which means that these represent fixed DMA boundaries. Hence for the above case pumps or pump stations will act as DMA boundaries. However, this depends on your interpretation of a DMA. For a very large network some intermediate / intermittent / smaller pumps may be ignored if you are considering large metered areas and small fluctuations with such pumps are within allowable tolerances. This can be true also for cases where a large number of DMA's are generated causing you to merge a bunch of them.
As another example, if you know that all PRV's will be DMA boundaries, then you can tell the DMA tool to always have them as DMA boundaries during the DMA analysis (separating your DMAs), by choosing "boundary" in the field next to "PRV's" in this tool. This will globally change the DMA Status of PRVs to "boundary". If you are not yet sure which PRVs should be DMA boundaries, you can let the tool decide (based on other criteria) by choosing "boundary candidate" next to the PRV option, which will set all PRVs' DMA Status to "boundary candidate".
The rest of the commands are as follows;
Once the "Compute" command is executed with either the "Target Number of Nodes" or "Target Pipe Length", the DMA tool creates DMA's as per user defined criteria.
The DMA tool enables us to demarcate DMA's automatically but there are a few guidelines which can help you generate DMA's satisfactorily;
Longer overview and demonstration on our YouTube channel:
This section deals with means and methods for DMA generation in WaterGEMS / WaterCAD versions below CONNECT Edition Update 2 (10.02.01.06).
Option 1 : Using the Pressure Zone Manager to try to isolate a DMA:
The software will not tell you what valves to close to create a DMA, or where to install the meter. Using the Pressure Zone Manager, you can try different ways to isolate DMA's.
You would select the valve locations and the software will display the color coded DMA's, and provide statistics such as demand, minimum and maximum HGL, minimum and maximum ground elevation, minimum and maximum pressure, and the labels for the boundary elements, pipes, and nodes in the DMA. Go here for an example.
There is a support solution on the Pressure Zone Manager which includes a section on identifying DMA's.
Option 2 : If you have flow data that was collected at the entrance of the DMA, and upstream and downstream pressure at the PRV in the entrance of the DMA, you can follow this procedure:
Option 3 : Simplifying Existing DMA's to a single junction:
If you already have built-out DMAs in your model but have a need to simplify them down to a single junction (representing the demand/inflow to that DMA), here are some options:
Create and manage pressure zones and DMA's in WaterCAD and WaterGEMS
Special Interest Group recording - "Creating District Metered Area for Water Auditing and Non-Revenue Water Control"


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Our research aims to improve the efficiency of the reinforcement of loose rocks with two-component polymer resins. The standard approach consists of the injection of two pre-mixed components into a rock massive. We propose a stepwise injection of individual components of a resin into the rock and deep extrusion of the solutions into the rock by gas between the injection stages. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method provides a reduction of polymer consumption per unit volume of the rock, and an increase in the impregnation depth, area of the resin impact, and the reinforced rock volume in comparison with the conventional method of prepared resin solution injection. The cured resin partially fills the sand rock pore space, binds the grains, and acts as a reinforcing frame. The highest reinforcement is achieved with the sequential stepwise injection of the resin by separate small portions of each component. We have shown the uniaxial compressive strength is on average more than twice as high that obtained with the conventional injection method. This can be explained by higher fracture toughness of the reinforced rock with a flexible hardened network of the cured resin in the structure.
Предметные области OECD FOS+WOS
- 2.05 ТЕХНОЛОГИЯ МАТЕРИАЛОВ
- 1.04 ХИМИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ

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Focus Point 13 on the Heritage Trail
Probably the oldest recorded feature on the Hill is the four and a half foot long carving of the Sun Goddess and its lesser-known counterpart the Moon God. The Sun Goddess is carved in a human crucificial form and its name refers to the sun ray design at the feet of the goddess. The figure's central axis is orientated 100° magnetic; the feet point roughly towards the rising sun at midsummer. It appears to have been re-cut at some point in the past, but has retained much of its original detail. Much of what we know of these carvings is shrouded in mystery but they are believed to be Norse Irish in origin and it has been suggested that they are from the late 9th century. If this dating and origin are correct the deities would be named Sunna (sun) and Mani (moon). Sunna and Mani where children of a giant named Mundilfari, who was known as the turner of time.
Sunna is a tall, golden and beautiful goddess and crosses the sky every morning with wild abandon in her sun chariot pulled by Allsvin and Arrakar (see focus point 10). Behind her chariot she pulls the sun and before her runs Daeg (Dag) her herald who rides Skinfaxi (a red bay horse) whose mane casts red light as it goes, creating the sun rise.
Mani is calmer than his sister and was generally deemed more thoughtful; he is renowned for his compassion especially to children in trouble, Mani's chariot was not pulled by horses but by two large dogs. Mani seldom uses his chariot as he is god of walkers and travellers and often just walks across the sky. He also has a herald, called Nott (a Jotun goddess, and mother of Daeg the sun herald) who rides a pitch-black steed named Hrimfaxi. As Hrimfaxi rides through the sky, water drips from his bridle covering the realms of the gods and men in a fine layer of dew which is found by those rising early in the morning.
The carvings are extremely delicate. Please do not walk on them, clean them, outline them in chalk, or worst of all, attempt to restore them.
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I want to know how i can a make mathmatic opaeration on OutSystem, just divide one value by other where the user will type the two values and an Expression will show the result, I tried to create all the local variables and assign but i can't finish this.
The Only thing that appears when i type the values and press the "Calc" button is that the expression turns in 0 and the text fields turns to 1
Hi Eduardo,
What you want to do is realy simple in OS. You just need 3 screen variables (one for each value and one for result) and build a screen with 2 inputs fields, one expression and one button.
The action associated with button just need to do the operation in one assign, and set the result into the result variable, use the Ajax refresh widget to refresh the result on expression and its done.
You can get more information and some useful examples in Academy Homepage.
Regards
Thanks Ricardo, but I'm using all the methods that you said.
With the breakpoint I can see that the Two Variables receives the value but the final/total variable doesn't receive any value of the operation
Why these is happening?
Hello Eduardo,

Are you using the result variable in your screen? That behaviour Its a litle bit weird.
If you can upload your eSpace could be more easy to understand the problem.

Here is the eSpace
Hi Eduardo,
Looking at your eSpace I see that you are confused on how to use expressions, how the user input can be used on the server side, and several other basic concepts.
My advice for you is to watch the videos at the Academy, and practice with them. This way you'll master the most fundamental concepts of the OutSystems Platform.
For understanding how to manipulate user inputs you can see the videos from 5. Data Binding in Form Inputs.
Now, I don't want to leave you empty handed, so I'll try to explain you problem.
Your expression is returning a Boolean. I understand why this makes sense to you, but this is basically what to are doing:
total == Decimal.Parse("3.1415")/ Decimal.Parse("2.0")
As you can understand, this is not efficient, change friendly...
So if you just change your expression to inputqtd/inputperc, this would return what you are expecting.
In your 'Calcular' action, the only thing you need to do, is use the refresh action, to refresh the expressions. You don't need the assign (it is simply wrong), and you can optmize to refresh only the expression, and not the whole container.
Again, you should definitly check out the Academy videos :)


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A ''shelf'' is a persistent, dictionary-like object. The difference
with ''dbm'' databases is that the values (not the keys!) in a shelf
can be essentially arbitrary Python objects -- anything that the
pickle module can handle. This includes most class
instances, recursive data types, and objects containing lots of shared
sub-objects. The keys are ordinary strings.
To summarize the interface (
key is a string,
data is an
d = shelve.open(filename) # open, with (g)dbm filename -- no suffix
d[key] = data # store data at key (overwrites old data if
# using an existing key)
data = d[key] # retrieve data at key (raise KeyError if no
# such key)
del d[key] # delete data stored at key (raises KeyError
# if no such key)
flag = d.has_key(key) # true if the key exists
list = d.keys() # a list of all existing keys (slow!)
d.close() # close it
- The choice of which database package will be used
(e.g. dbm or gdbm) depends on which interface
is available. Therefore it is not safe to open the database directly
using dbm. The database is also (unfortunately) subject
to the limitations of dbm, if it is used -- this means
that (the pickled representation of) the objects stored in the
database should be fairly small, and in rare cases key collisions may
cause the database to refuse updates.
- Dependent on the implementation, closing a persistent dictionary may
or may not be necessary to flush changes to disk.
- The shelve module does not support concurrent read/write
access to shelved objects. (Multiple simultaneous read accesses are
safe.) When a program has a shelf open for writing, no other program
should have it open for reading or writing. Unix file locking can
be used to solve this, but this differs across Unix versions and
requires knowledge about the database implementation used.
See About this document... for information on suggesting changes.
- Module anydbm:
- Generic interface to
- Module dbhash:
db database interface.
- Module dbm:
- Standard Unix database interface.
- Module dumbdbm:
- Portable implementation of the
- Module gdbm:
- GNU database interface, based on the
- Module pickle:
- Object serialization used by shelve.
- Module cPickle:
- High-performance version of pickle.

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Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) and electrocardiogram (ECG)-derived respiration (EDR) have been used to detect sleep apnea (SA) for decades. The present study proposes an SA-detection algorithm using a machine-learning framework and bag-of-features (BoF) derived from an ECG spectrogram. Methods: This study was verified using overnight ECG recordings from 83 subjects with an average apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) 29.63 (/h) derived from the Physionet Apnea-ECG and National Cheng Kung University Hospital Sleep Center database. The study used signal preprocessing to filter noise and artifacts, ECG time–frequency transformation using continuous wavelet transform (CWT), BoF feature generation, machine-learning classification using support vector machine (SVM), ensemble learning (EL), k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classification, and cross-validation. The time length of the spectrogram was set as 10 and 60 s to examine the required minimum spectrogram window time length to achieve satisfactory accuracy. Specific frequency bands of 0.1–50, 8–50, 0.8–10, and 0–0.8 Hz were also extracted to generate the BoF to determine the band frequency best suited for SA detection. Results: The five-fold cross-validation accuracy using the BoF derived from the ECG spectrogram with 10 and 60 s time windows were 90.5% and 91.4% for the 0.1–50 Hz and 8–50 Hz frequency bands, respectively. Conclusion: An SA-detection algorithm utilizing BoF and a machine-learning framework was successfully developed in this study with satisfactory classification accuracy and high temporal resolution.
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Maxwell Sensors Inc. develops proprietary Digital Magnetic Beads (DMB) technology that combines two advanced technologies, lithographic digital barcodes and molecular chemistry, into a new technology. The optically bar-coded beads are fabricated at low cost by photolithography and can be functionalized with nucleic acids, proteins or other probe molecules, allowing large multiplexed assays to be carried out in homogeneous or heterogeneous media. We were asked to develop a reader for these beads.
Read and identify up to 3,000 optical beads per second while simultaneously quantifying the fluorescent emission of each bead.
Correlating the bar code reading with fluorescent detection at 3,000 beads/seconds.
We had no trigger mechanism in place that could be used to trigger the camera.
Using a DALSA line scan camera, a National Instruments data acquisition board to generate synchronization signals, a laser excitation source and a photon multiplier tube we were able to perform the required measurements.
We were able to read beads that were only 200um long and detect 5um optical features at speeds of up to 1.5 meter/sec. We correlated fluorescent emission with a secondary reader to each bead with no means of triggering. Using our advanced imaging capabilities and years of experience we were able to rapidly develop this cutting-edge technology, which significantly shortened the time to market for our customer.


Publikation
Titel:
„Dependency parsing for medical language and concept representation"
AutorInnen:
Friedrich Steimann
Kategorie:
Artikel in Zeitschriften
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 12:1 (1998) 77–86
Abstract:
The theory of conceptual structures serves as a common basis for natural language processing and medical concept representation. We present a Prolog-based formalization of dependency grammar that can accommodate conceptual structures in its dependency rules. First results indicate that this formalization provides an operational basis for the implementation of medical language parsers and for the design of medical concept representation languages.
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The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-08/32.COM/8B.Add and WHC-08/32.COM/INF.8B1.Add
2. Approves the following Statement of Significance for Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey, United Kingdom:
Studley Royal Park, including the ruins of Fountains Abbey, combines into one harmonious whole buildings, gardens and landscapes constructed over a period of 800 years. All, important in their own right, have been integrated into a continuous landscape of exceptional merit and beauty. Its principal components are:
Studley Royal: one of the few great 18th Century 'green gardens' to survive substantially in its original form: arguably the most spectacular water garden in England. The landscape garden is an outstanding example of the development of the 'English' garden style throughout the 18th century, which influenced the rest of Europe. The garden contains canals and ponds, cascades, lawns and hedges, with elegant temples and statues used as eye-catchers. The layout of the gardens is determined by the form of the natural landscape, rather than a design that is imposed upon it. The Aislabies' design survives substantially in its original form.
Fountains Abbey ruins: a key element in the garden scheme, providing the spectacular culmination to the principal vista, but also of outstanding importance in its own right. It is one of the few Cistercian houses surviving from the 12th Century and provides an unrivalled picture of a great religious house in all its parts. Fountains Abbey, founded in 1132, soon became one of the largest and richest Cistercian abbeys in Britain, before being closed by Henry VIII in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was partially demolished soon after.
Jacobean Fountains Hall: an outstanding example of a building of its period and partially built with stone from the Abbey. It has a distinctive Elizabethan facade and is enhanced by a formal garden with shaped hedges. The interior of the Hall has been adapted for successive uses, including a courthouse.
St. Mary's Church: an outstanding example of High Victorian Gothic architecture by one of its leading exponents, William Burges, in 1871, and considered to be one of his finest works. A building of importance in its own right, it has also been successfully integrated into the landscape of the Park. The church is one of a pair: its twin is Christ the Consoler at Skelton-on-Ure. They were both designed by Burges and built using the same craftsmen.
Criterion (i): Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey owes its originality and striking beauty to the fact that a humanised landscape was created around the largest medieval ruins in the United Kingdom. The use of these features, combined with the planning of the water garden itself, is a true masterpiece of human creative genius.
Criterion (iv): Combining the remains of the richest abbey in England, the Jacobean Fountains Hall, and Burgess's miniature neo-Gothic masterpiece of St Mary's, with the water gardens and deer park into one harmonious whole, Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey illustrates the power of medieval monasticism, and the taste and wealth of the European upper classes in the 18th century.
3. Recommends that assessment for statements of authenticity and integrity / statements of protection and management should be postponed to the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee (2009) awaiting adoption of a methodology and an agreed format for Statements of Outstanding Universal Value for inscribed properties.


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@@ -7,17 +7,12 @@ events. Monarch is written in CoffeeScript, but can also be used from
JavaScript.
-## Defining Models
+## Defining Model Classes
Monarch associates model constructors with tables in an in-memory relational
-database, in the same way ActiveRecord associates a Ruby class with a table on a
-database server.
+database. On the surface, the API resembles ActiveRecord.
-### In CoffeeScript
-
-To define a record class in CoffeeScript, create a subclass of 'Monarch.Record',
-then call the '@extended' class method with a reference to the current class and
-define the table's schema by passing a hash to the '@columns' class method.
+To define a record class in CoffeeScript, create a subclass of 'Monarch.Record'.
'''coffeescript
class Blog extends Monarch.Record
@@ -27,15 +22,18 @@ class Blog extends Monarch.Record
userId: 'integer'
title: 'string'
createdAt: 'datetime'
+
+ @belongsTo 'user'
+ @hasMany 'posts'
+ @hasMany 'postComments', through: 'posts', className: 'Comment'
'''
-### In JavaScript
+Until CoffeeScript offers an automatic '@extended' hook, you'll need to
+call '@extended' manually at the top of the class body. Next, call '@columns'
+with a hash of field-name/type pairs, and optionally call '@hasMany' and
+'@belongsTo' association methods. More on those later...
-To define a record class in JavaScript, first create a constructor, then pass it
-to the top-level 'Monarch' function along with a hash of column definitions. It
-will automatically be setup as a subclass of 'Monarch.Record'. The 'Monarch'
-function returns your constructor, so class methods like 'hasMany' can be called
-immediately in a method-chaining style. More on that later.
+### In JavaScript
'''javascript
function() Blog {}
@@ -44,11 +42,18 @@ Monarch(Blog, {
userId: 'integer',
title: 'string',
createdAt: 'datetime'
-});
+})
+ .belongsTo('user')
+ .hasMany('posts')
+ .hasMany('postComments', { through: 'posts', className: 'Comment' });
'''
-Unless otherwise noted, examples will be shown in CoffeeScript from here on out.
-
+To define a record class in JavaScript, first create a constructor, then pass it
+to the top-level 'Monarch' function along with a hash of column definitions. It
+will automatically be setup as a subclass of 'Monarch.Record'. The 'Monarch'
+function returns your constructor, so other class methods can be called in a
+method-chaining style. Unless otherwise noted, examples will be shown in
+CoffeeScript from here on out.
## Loading Data
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it's a declarative recipe for constructing a set of records based on the current
contents of the local repository.
-### Accessing and Iterating Over Records in a Relation
+### Accessing Records in a Relation
To retrieve a relation's records, call its 'all' method. You can also iterate
over every record in the relation using 'each' and 'map'. For example:
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## Working with Records
+### Reading / Writing Field Values
+
+Field accessor methods are available on your records for every column defined
+on their class.
+
+'''coffeescript
+blog = Blog.find(11)
+console.log "#{blog.title()} by #{blog.user().fullName()}
+
+# just like in jQuery, call field accessors with an argument to assign values
+blog.title("New Title")
+blog.save() # more on saving later
+'''
+
+### Observing Record Updates
+
+In addition to observing collections of objects via relations, you can also
+observe individual records with 'onUpdate'.
+
+'''coffeescript
+blog.onUpdate (changeset) ->
+ if changeset.title
+ oldTitle = changeset.title.oldValue
+ newTitle = changeset.title.newValue
+ console.log "The blog title changed from #{oldValue} to #{newValue}"
+'''
+
+'onUpdate' returns a subscription object. Call 'destroy' on it when you are no
+longer interested in updates.
+
+'''coffeescript
+subscription = blog.onUpdate -> ...
+
+# I don't care about updates any more
+subscription.destroy()
+'''
+
+### Synthetic Columns
+
+### Associations
+
+### CRUD Operations
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As I discuss in this answer, how the Vedas originated is that from time immemorial, sages known as Dhrishtas heard sacred verses directly from the gods during a state of Tapasya (deep meditation), and then in the Dwapara Yuga they were compiled into the four books we call the Vedas. But this chapter of the Apastamba Dharma Sutras, a text associated with the Yajur Veda, says that such sages are not born in the Kali Yuga:
 3. Like Svetaketu.
Here is what Haradatta says in his commentary on these Sutras:
As I discuss in this question, Shwetaketu is the son of the sage Uddalaka Aruni. An important part of the Chandogya Upanishad is a dialogue between Shwetaketu and his father, during which the famous Mahavakya "Tat Tvam Asi" is mentioned.
But my question is, what Yuga was Shwetaketu born in? The reason I ask is that the Apastamba Dharma Sutras seem to be saying that Shwetaketu is an example of the kind of person who was born in the Kali Yuga, but was still able to learn the Vedas quickly like a Rishi would due to his actions in a past birth. And indeed, this chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad says Shwetaketu learned the Vedas in a mere 12 years, whereas the standard pace for learning all four Vedas is 48 years.
Yet in this chapter of the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata, Pandu describes Shwetaketu as someone who was born in the distant past:
It hath been heard by us that there was a great Rishi of the name of Uddalaka, who had a son named Swetaketu who also was an ascetic of merit.... Thus, O timid one, was the existing usage established of old by Swetaketu, the son of Uddalaka, in defiance of antiquity.
So considering that Pandu lived in the Dwapara Yuga, Shwetaketu cannot have been born in the present Kali Yuga. So is it possible that he was born in some past Kali Yuga? If so, which Mahayuga was he born in?
The only clue I've come across is the fact that Shwetaketu was the uncle of the sage Ashtavakra, purported author of the Ashtavakra Gita, and Ashtavakra visited the court of a king named Janaka. But it's not clear to me whether this refers to the famous father of Sita, because pretty much all the kings of Mithila were known by the name Janaka. The Janaka visited by Ashtavakra is probably the same Janaka mentioned in the Upanishads, but I don't know whether this Janaka is the same as the father of Sita, whose given name was Siradhvaja.
By the way, on a side note Shwetaketu was not the biological son of Uddalaka Aruni, as I discuss here.
 - You forgot to embed the link in the first line of your post."As i discuss this answer..." – Rickross Mar 5 '16 at 6:38
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 Is it possible that the reference to Svetaketu was not to show that he was in Kaliyuga, but to point out that, in Kali Yuga, no Rishi or new perceivers of Veda will be born, but people like Svetaketu, who master the Vedas will exist? That is, a Rishi was one who'saw' new mantras and revealed that to the Universe, but Svetaketu learned the already revealed Vedas and attained Knowledge. But, he did not himself reveal any new mantra. Similarly, in Kaliyuga, there will not be any Rishis who would be able to perceive newer mantras, but only those few who can master Vedas, realize Self – Nithin Sridhar Mar 5 '16 at 10:58
 - _USER_ Well, at least how Haradatta is interpreting things is that it has nothing to do with realization, but rather with the speed of learning the Vedas. In earlier Yugas, Rishis could acquire the Vedas quickly, because they could just directly perceive them, whereas in the Kali Yuga the only way you can learn the Vedas quickly is as reward for good actions in your past birth. Otherwise most people in the Kali Yuga have to learn them at the standard pace of 12 years per Veda. And I'm inclined to agree with Haradatta; the Apastamba Sutra isn't the sort of text that would discuss Jnana. – Keshav Srinivasan Mar 5 '16 at 14:16
 - _USER_ But yeah, it could be that Apastamba isn't saying that Shwetaketu was born in the Kali Yuga, but rather its just an example of the sort of person who can exist in the Kali Yuga: someone who can't perceive the Vedas but can learn them quickly. By the way, the reason that people used to take 12 years to learn a Veda is that you're supposed to take a break between the Uttarayana day in January (aka Makara Sankranti or Pongal) and the Dakshinayana day in August. But nowadays people are too impatient, so they study the Vedas all-year long. That's why we say the "Kamo Karshith" Japam. – Keshav Srinivasan Mar 5 '16 at 14:28
 - More importantly, A Rishi is one who reveals a newer aspect of Vedas and others study Vedas and then may even Realize the knowledge of Vedas, but they may not become Rishi, i.e. reveal new Mantras. Also, Rishi and Jnani is different. – Nithin Sridhar Mar 5 '16 at 14:51
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This chapter examines the sociological roots of the current problems in contemporary policing. Employing Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, capital, and doxa the chapter begins by highlighting the cultural mechanisms that maintain and reproduce ineffective policing practices. In an example from Wilmington, Delaware in the United States, the authors show how the 'game' on the field of policing focusses primarily on law enforcement outputs. This game shapes the worldview and dispositions of officers (habitus). Police officers are recognised and rewarded (capital) for acting in ways that align with the game's logic. This process creates the condition doxa, in which the socially constructed and changeable field of policing is mistaken for natural way it should be. This chapter also considers why perspectives on police reform diverge and what this means for the future of policing in an age of reform.
Nolan, James; Hinkle, Joshua C.; and Molnar, Zsolt, "Changing the Game: A Sociological Perspective on Police Reform" (2020). CJC Publications. 34.


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To assess the potential for wind energy over the region, we use the Weather and Research Forecasting model (WRFV3.7) coupled to a 1-Dimensional lake model. Seto et al.(2012) land cover projections for the year 2030 were used for the sensitivity. Simulations were conducted for different years, that is 2009, which was a climatological year, 2006 an extremely wet year and 2010 a dry year.
With the current land cover the wind speeds show that Kenya and Tanzania have a high potential in wind energy. Some parts of Uganda also show high potential in wind energy. Different resolutions show different wind speeds, with the coarser resolution missing some regions that have high wind speed. No major differences were obtained by looking at different years. The highest wind speeds occur in the early hours of the day and in the evening. The probability of getting wind speeds greater than 3.5 m/s, the typical cut-in speed for a small turbine to start generating power is greater than 60%. Using future projected land cover, we find that the wind speed over the urbanized region changes slightly with some urbanized regions having slightly higher wind speeds. Further analysis on why wind speeds increase will be done. In conclusion East Africa has the potential to expand their wind power energy and urbanization has an effect on the wind power energy production.


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The Map That Changed The World
You can see the Geological Society's copy of William Smith's first accurate geological map on loan to Tate Britain.
In the decade since it was first published, Simon Winchester's 'The map that changed the world' has cemented the reputation of William Smith as one of the most influential scientists in Britain's history.
Smith went on to create the first accurate geological map of a nation, contributing to the industrial revolution and pioneering the science of stratigraphy. You can listen to the podcast: 'The map that changed the world' on the Geological Society's website and also see their copy of the William Smith map which is currently on loan to Tate Britain to form part of a show by Patrick Keiller until the end of October 2012.


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Microsoft is testing underwater data centers
By | 10.12.2018
Microsoft is testing underwater data centers
Microsoft тестирует подводные центры обработки данных
Project Natick is the name of the new project, which is nothing more than an attempt by Microsoft Research to create data centers for cloud computing at the bottom of the ocean.
The idea was born from the desire of companies to reduce energy consumption. As you know, servers in data centers generate a tremendous amount of heat and cooling required to maintain a low temperature consume a lot of energy. The construction of such infrastructure on the ocean floor promises significant cost reduction through the use of «natural» power and cooling (the energy of the waves and ocean water).
The first tests on a small prototype, which in November last year, he was immersed on the bottom of the ocean a kilometer from the Pacific coast of the United States have yielded positive results.
Currently, Microsoft has more than 100 data centers worldwide, the cost of which has exceeded 15 billion dollars. A Project in Natick, the company sees a viable way to reduce the cost of their service.
Detailed information about Project Natick available on the official website.
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Job Title: Airworthiness Inspector - Avionics
Organization: Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Job Ref: CAA/ADV/EXT/06/2016
Reports to: Principal Airworthiness Inspector Avionics
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is a corporate body responsible for the regulation of Civil Aviation in Uganda. It manages Entebbe International Airport and 13 other aerodromes upcountry. CAA carries out its work in conformity with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS). The Authority now plans to recruit suitably qualified Ugandans of impeccable integrity and commitment to fill the following positions in its establishment.
Job Summary: The Airworthiness Inspector – Avionics will set examinations and carry out surveys for avionics engineers/technicians and aircraft maintenance organization, respectively for the purpose of licensing them in accordance with ICAO and manufacturer's standards in order to achieve the highest level of aircraft airworthiness and safety.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures safety of aircraft and passengers by monitoring aircraft airworthiness in areas of radio communication, navigation systems and tools, electronics and autopilot.
- Ensures that aircrafts using Uganda air are airworthy by having sound electronics system which meets specification of the manufacturer, and those of ICAO.
- Prepares certificates of airworthiness and associated flight manuals.
- The incumbent prepares AMEL examination papers, revises the existing papers as necessary and conducts complementary oral examinations where required.
- Issues, extends and renews aircraft maintenance engineers' licenses and certificates of Airworthiness.
- Investigates and reports on aircraft accidents submitted by operators and prepares schedules for private aircraft.
- The incumbent coordinates with flight operation section in AOC certification process of new and existing operators.
- Enforces regulations by authority of relevant regulatory provisions.
- Carries out critical surveys of maintenance organizations in so far as the inspection and airworthiness of aircrafts concerned.
- Build and maintains close liaison with Quality Manager of approved firms regarding matters of airworthiness of aircraft and inspection staff approval.
- Provides advice when needed to the engineering staff of maintenance organizations and to owners of private aircraft.
- Processes applications for renewal of certificates of airworthiness.
- Inspects, periodically, aircraft maintained on a continuous overhaul basis.
- Issues permits to fly pending renewal of certificates
- The incumbent examines and reports upon local modifications preparatory to final approval.
- Investigates defects in airborne equipment and prepares defect report.
- Scrutinizes the work of individual licensed aircraft maintenance engineers and approved persons with particular reference to their inspection ability.
- Issues approvals to persons to work on aircraft and for certification in terms of the Regulations.
- Supervises the weighing of aircraft and approved weight schedules.
- Inspects periodically all companies' refuelling equipment for serviceability and checks for contamination of fuel.
- Examines annual log books of private aircraft relating to the work required in terms of approved maintenance schedules and renews certificates of airworthiness,
- Approval of carriage of dangerous Goods by Air.
- Performs any other lawful duties as allocated by the immediate Supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicants for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Airworthiness Inspector - Avionics job opportunity should hold an honours Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Aeronautical Engineering and Aircraft Maintenance Engineer's License in ''A" & "C", "X" and "R"
- At least four years' experience in aircraft maintenance facility preferable in quality assurance and inspection
- Broad process aeronautical knowledge in areas that apply to aeroplane and helicopter aircraft categories.
- Acquired skill as a pilot or aircraft maintenance engineer or air traffic controller or aviation qualification other than the above.
- Age: Between 28 to 40 years
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who desire to join the aviation industry should send their hand-written applications with detailed CV and copies of academic certificates plus transcripts with the Job reference number clearly marked at the top left hand corner of the envelope should be sent to the address below. Please indicate your (day time) phone contact.
The Director, Human Resource and Administration,
Civil Aviation Authority (Head Office),
P.O. BOX 5536, Kampala, Uganda.
Deadline: 26th August 2016 by 5:00 PM
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Officials on their way for 'working visit' to Yellowknife and Tuktoyaktuk
Governor General Mary Simon will be in Yellowknife and Tuktoyaktuk this week with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to talk with N.W.T. leaders, meet with members of Joint Task Force North and learn about climate change challenges facing northern communities.
Simon is expected to fly into Yellowknife Tuesday.
On the agenda for Simon Tuesday are meetings with N.W.T. Commissioner Margaret Thom about youth and education, and with Premier Caroline Cochrane.
Simon will be travelling with her husband, Whit Fraser, who lived and worked in the Northwest Territories in the late 1960s and early '70s.
Steinmeier is expected to arrive Wednesday, with the two officials visiting Joint Task Force North before flying to Tuktoyaktuk.
There, they're set to meet with Indigenous leaders to learn about how climate change is impacting the hamlet.
Related stories from around the North:
Norway: Thawing permafrost melts ground under homes and around Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, The Independent Barents Observer
Russia: 30–50% of critical northern infrastructure could be at high risk by 2050 due to warming, says study, Eye on the Arctic
United States: Alaska villages facing erosion, flooding receive relocation grants, Eye on the Arctic


Scala Language Type Variance Invariance
By default all type parameters are invariant - given trait A[B], we say that "A is invariant on B". This means that given two parametrizations A[Cat] and A[Animal], we assert no sub/superclass relationship between these two types - it does not hold that A[Cat] <: A[Animal] nor that A[Cat] >: A[Animal] regardless of the relationship between Cat and Animal.
Variance annotations provide us with a means of declaring such a relationship, and imposes rules on the usage of type parameters so that the relationship remains valid.


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The impact of the Food for Life Partnership
Independent research, summarised in a new report 'Good food for all' reveals the success of five years of the Food for Life Partnership. The Partnership is working with over 4,500 schools and communities across England to transform food culture. The evidence from three independent research studies focuses in particular on four main areas of impact: children's health, tackling inequalities, improving education, and local enterprise and sustainability.
Good food for all
Read about the impact of the Food for Life Partnership in its first five years of funding by the BIG Lottery.
Download our evaluation report
Hear from Food for Life Partnership schools
Good for improving education
- More than twice as many FFLP primary schools received an Ofsted rating of outstanding following their participation (37.2% compared to 17.3% outstanding pre-enrolment). Headteachers reported a positive impact on pupil behaviour, attention and attainment.
- Inspectors have recognised the positive role of FFLP in supporting personal development and wellbeing: 67.1% of schools felt the programme had a clear impact on their Ofsted report in terms of pupils' personal development and well-being.
Good for children's health
- The programme is associated with changes in eating habits, with an increase in the proportion of primary school-age children reporting eating five portions of fruit or vegetables a day by 5 percentage points to 21% (those reporting eating four or more portions rose by 12 percentage points to 49%). And 45% of parents said the family is eating more vegetables, with 43% switching to healthier and more sustainable choices in the shopping basket.
Good for tackling inequalities
- Disadvantaged pupils are benefiting: over a two-year period, free school meal take-up went up 13 percentage points in FFLP schools, 20.9% in secondary schools, and by 21% across the board in schools achieving our Silver or Gold award. Nationally, over 20% of primary school pupils and 30% of secondary school pupils eligible for healthy free school meals choose not to eat them for reasons including fear of stigma and the lure of fast food outlets.
Good for local enterprise and sustainability
- School meal take-up rose by 5 percentage points over two years, making them more cost effective
- Over £3 in social, economic and environmental value was created for every £1 spent on Food for Life menus, mostly in the form of new jobs in the local economy.
The independent evaluation team:


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[prəˈkleɪm], (Verb)
- announce officially or publicly
(e.g: they proclaimed that housing shortages would be solved within ten years)
- indicate clearly
(e.g: his high, intelligent forehead proclaimed a strength of mind that was almost tangible)
late Middle English proclame, from Latin proclamare 'cry out', from pro- 'forth' + clamare 'to shout'. The change in the second syllable was due to association with the verb claim
definition by Oxford Dictionaries
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To see Good Tennis! What divine joy
Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ?
Let other people play at other things;
The King of Games is still the Game of Kings
- Parker's Piece by J.K.Stephen
Known as Real Tennis in the UK, Court Tennis in the US, and Royal Tennis in Australia, this game is a direct ancestor to the more popular and widely known game, Lawn Tennis. The game itself is supposedly decended from a pastime of a group of French Monks from the 12th Century which they knew as 'jeu de paume'. Originally the game was played in small castle courtyards and cloistered monastery quadrangles, and, as the name implies, it involved striking a ball with the palm of your hand, over a rope.
Gradually, as monks travelled to other monasteries, the more practical rules were more widely adopted, the more bizarre rules abandoned. Players started wearing gloves to protect their hands, and it was then a short step to playing with crude bats, and then onto strung rackets. A scoring system, which was inherited by Lawn Tennis was introduced. Royal Patronage from Henry VII in Britain and Louis XII in France popularised the game in their respective nations, leading to thousands of courts being built, and the laws being officially codified.
The 16th and 17th centuries saw the popularity of Real Tennis reach its peak, It was estimated that over 1800 courts were in existence in Paris alone, as well as one in Versailles, which is now the museum of the French Revolution. one at Hampton Court, which is still used to this day, and even one built aboard a French ship. William Shakespeare even mentioned the sport in his play Henry V, and the opening scene of Edmond Rostands play, Cyrano De Bergerac takes place on a Real Tennis court.
The evolution of Real Tennis into its more popular form started in 1858, when Major T.H. Gem and J.B. Perara invented an outdoor version of the game, adapted for play on grass. By 1877 the All-England Croquet Club which ws based at Wimbledon, decided to hold the first Wimbledon Tournament, and revised the 1858 rules, within a couple of years the game had spread to the New World. The popularity of Real Tennis took a nosedive, due to this young pretender appearing on the scene, but did not die out completely and it is still played today, and is virtually indistinguishable from the 16th century version, to the point that the court that Charles I built at Hampton Court in 1625 is still used for championship play today
The Real Tennis court is heavily influenced by its monastic beginnings, and gives the players far more scope for strategy than in lawn tennis due to the plethora of uneven surfaces and special rules attatched to different sectors of the court.
No two Real Tennis courts are exactly alike, but they do share common features. All courts are asymmetrical and are approximately 110ft long by 40ft wide by 30ft high. The two short sides and one of the long sides of this rectangular court each have a lean-to known as apenthouse on them. These structures protrude 7ft from the wall, and are topped with a sloping roof which is 7ft high on the court side, and 10ft at the walls. The one remaining long wall, known as the Main Wall houses the Tambour, an angled butress placed about a third of the way inside the Hazard end of the court. Opposite the Tambour is a window in the penthouse called the Winning Gallery
Across the centre of the court, separating the Hazard and Service ends is the net, which is 3ft high in the middle and 5ft high at the ends. On the back wall of the Hazard end is the Grille, and on the back wall of the Service end is the Dedans, a large net covered window in the penthouse. I've tried to represent this arrangement below.
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On the floor of the court are a series of lines, known as Chase Lines. At the Service end, going from the back wall they are labelled Half-a-Yard, One Yard, One and Two (describing the Half-yard line between the one yard line and the two yard line) and so on up to Six, then Half-a-Yard Worse than Six, the Last Gallery, Half-a-Yard Worse than the Last Gallery, A Yard Worse than the Last Gallery, the Second Gallery, the Door, and the First Gallery. On the hazard side, going from the net. Hazard Half-a-Yard, Hazard One Yard, Hazard One and Two, Hazard Two Yards, Hazard the Second Gallery, Hazard the Door and Hazard the First Gallery. Unsurprisingly enough these markings line up with the galleries you'd expect.
A Synopsis of the Rules - taken with permission from _URL_ and slightly adapted.
- Scoring is as in lawn tennis. To win a game a player wins four points and be more than two points ahead of his opponent. The first player to win six games wins the set but it is not necessary to be ahead by two games; the eleventh game is decisive.
- It is the score of the player who won the last point that is called first. (This is different to lawn tennis)
- Service is only from the Service end of the court
- For the service to be correct,
- the ball must touch the penthouse on the receiver's side; the ball may also touch the side penthouse on the server's side and/or the side wall,
- the first bounce of the ball must be on or beyond the service line at the hazard end,
- the server must stand further from the net than the second gallery line.
- The ball must go over the net but it can first strike the wall or penthouse on the striker's side.
- The ball is out if it strikes the side walls above the green painted line or hits one of the rafters or lights.
- The player wins a stroke by playing a shot which enters the dedans, the grille, or a Winning Opening, or by winning a Chase.
- The only way that the player in the Hazard end can gain the service and switch ends is by laying a chase
- A Chase is laid when the ball goes into any of the Galleries, bar the Winning Gallery, or when the ball bounces on the floor for a second time between the net and the back wall. This doesn't affect the score at the time.
- Chases come into play when the score is within one point of game or if two chases have been laid, the players change sides (and service) and the chases are played in the order in which they occurred.
- The player who has not laid the chase has to win the chase by ensuring that the second bounce of his or her return is nearer the back wall than the chase being played.
- The gallery posts are considered to be part of the gallery nearer the net.
- The stone sides of the openings are not considered to be part of the opening.
- Hitting the net post loses the stroke.
For a full version of the rules, try _URL_


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Caltech geophysicists find four active volcanoes in Andes with innovative satellite radar survey
Four volcanoes in the central Andes mountains of South America, all previously thought to be dormant, must now be considered active due to ground motions detected from space, geophysicists say.
In a paper appearing in the July 11 issue of the journal "Nature", California Institute of Technology geophysics graduate student Matt Pritchard and his faculty adviser, Mark Simons, unveil their analysis of eight years of radar interferometry data taken on 900 volcanoes in the Andes. The data were gathered from 1992 to 2000 by the European Space Agency's two remote-sensing satellites, ERS 1 and ERS 2.
Of the four centers of activity, Hualca Hualca volcano in southern Peru is especially worth close observation because of the population density in the area and because it is just a few miles from the active Sabancaya volcano. A second volcano now shown to be active, Uturuncu in Bolivia, is bulging vertically about 1-to-2 centimeters per year, according to the satellite data, while a third, Robledo caldera in Argentina, is actually deflating for unknown reasons. A fourth region of surface deformation, on the border between Chile and Argentina, was unknown prior to the study, so the authors christened it "Lazufre" because it lies between the two volcanoes Lastarria and Cordon del Azufre.
While the study provides important new information about volcanic hazards in its own right, Pritchard, the lead author, says it also proves the mettle of a new means of studying ground deformation that should turn out to be vastly superior to field studies. The fact that none of the four volcanoes were known to be active—and thus probably wouldn't have been of interest to geophysicists conducting studies using conventional methods—shows the promise of the technique, he says.
"Achieving this synoptic perspective would have been an impractical undertaking with ground-based methods, like the GPS system," Pritchard says.
The sensitive data is superior to ground-based results in that a huge amount of subtle information can be accumulated about a large number of geological features. The satellites bounce a radar signal off the ground, and then accurately measure the time it takes the signal to return. On a later pass, when the satellite is again in approximately the same spot, it sends another signal to the ground.
If the two signals are out of phase, then the distance from the satellite to the ground is either increasing or decreasing, and if the features are volcanic, then the motion can be assumed to have been caused by movement of magma in the subsurface or by hydrothermal activity.
"You can think of a magma chamber as a balloon beneath the surface inflating and deflating. So if the magma is building up underground, you expect a swelling upward, and this is what we can detect with the satellite data."
Given the appropriate satellite mission, all the world's subaerial volcanoes could be easily monitored for active deformation on a weekly basis. Such a capability would have a profound impact on minimizing volcanic hazards in regions lacking necessary infrastructure for regular geophysical monitoring.
Another unusual finding from the study that shows its promise in better understanding volcanism is the Lascar volcano's lack of motion. Lascar has had three major eruptions since 1993, as well as several minor ones, and many volcanologists assume there should have been some ground swelling over the years of the study, Pritchard says.
"But we find no deformation at the volcano," he explains. "Some people find it curious, others think it's not unexpected. But it's a new result, and regardless of what's going on, it could tell us interesting things about magma plumbing."
There are several possible explanations to account for the lack of vertical motion at the Lascar volcano, Pritchard says. The first and most obvious is that the satellite passes took place at times between inflations and subsequent deflations, so that no net ground motion was recorded. It could also be that magma is somehow able to get from within Earth to the atmosphere without deforming surfaces at all; or that a magma chamber might be deep enough to allow an eruption without surface deformations being visible, even though deformation is occurring at depth.
The study is also noteworthy in that Simons and Pritchard were able to do their work without leaving their offices on the Caltech campus. The data analysis was done with software developed at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the authors say this software was critical to the study's success.
Simons, an assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech, and Pritchard are scheduled to attend a geophysics conference in Chile in October, and will try to see some or all of the four volcanoes at that time.
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What is meant by first contact?
Basically it's the start of the eclipse. The point where the eclipsing body first touches the primary star's image and starts a decrease in the primary star's brightness as seen from Earth. But it's not so simple. With epsilon Aurigae, first contact appears to be wavelength dependent. This means that the longer (red and visual bands) wavelengths will start to show an eclipse before the shorter (blue and ultraviolet bands) wavelengths.
In addition, because epsilon Aurigae is known to vary a fair amount out-of-eclipse, knowing exactly when the eclipse is starting (first contact) is not easy. One approach, and the one used for the Campaign predictions, is to determine the average magnitude for a given band out-of-eclipse. Next, after the eclipse is well underway there will be an ingress curve or line showing the system getting fainter with time. This should be a fairly straight line. The slope of that line is important as it can be used along with an intersection with the average out-of-eclipse value to determine the first contact point, also for second contact..
Unlike many eclipsing binary star systems where there are dozen, hundreds or even thousands of eclipse observations, because of epsilon Aurigae's long period of 27.1 years there are only a handful of eclipse observations and most of those were prior to many significant developments in equipment and techniques.
Another variable for predicting first contact is that the precise time between first contacts appears to be changing for each eclipse. The 2009/2011 eclipse will add another layer of data to these predictions.
For this current eclipse the V band prediction for first contact is 30 July 2009. RI and JH bands are most likely to be days or weeks earlier. We have no data from previous eclipses so no predictions for those bands. The B band is predicted for 11 August 2009 and the U band 21 August 2009.
Other contact points and mid-eclipse timing have similar problems. It will be interesting to see how these times compare with current predictions and with past eclipses. Much will be learned from the new data. Perhaps some surprises and enlightenment.


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Azolla Cultivation at JAXA [November, 2010]
[Azolla cultivation at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Photo: Erik Sjödin]
The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project was initially inspired by the paper Azolla as a component of the space diet during habitation on Mars published by researchers at the Space Agriculture Task Force at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in 2008.
In this paper the researchers "evaluate a candidate diet and specify its space agricultural requirements for habitation on Mars. Rice, soybean, sweet potato and a green-yellow vegetable have been selected as the basic vegetarian menu. The addition of silkworm pupa, loach, and Azolla to that basic menu was found to meet human nutritional requirements. Co-culture of rice, Azolla, and loach is proposed for developing bio-regenerative life support capability with high efficiency of the usage of habitation and agriculture area." The researchers further suggest that "agriculture designed under the severe constraints of limited materials resources in space would make a positive contribution toward solving the food shortages and environmental problems facing humans on Earth, and may provide an effective sustainable solution for our civilization".
In the paper the space agriculture researchers puts numbers on the nutritional value of Azolla and describe how Azolla can fit into a productive space agriculture system. They also briefly describe what Azolla tastes like and how it can be cooked:
"Azolla roots taste similar to Alfalfa sprouts, and the leaves resemble moss. However, the smell of Azolla might cause a problem of acceptance as food material. However, boiling Azolla reduces its smell to an acceptable level. Boiling is also important for storage of Azolla. Azolla contains 96.4% water, and its taste is crisp. Roots of Azolla can be cooked in many different ways, for example fried, sautéd, and baked or added to soup and salad. Leaves of Azolla are green or red in color. Red-colored Azolla leaves contain anthocyanins, which are known to show anti-oxidative function. This is good for healthy life in space."
However, to get more satisfying answers to the question of how Azolla can bee used as a food stuff I decided to attempt to cultivate and cook the plant myself and together with farmers, gardeners and chefs.
In October 2010, after some initial cooking and cultivation attempts I was privileged to get to visit Prof. Masamishishi at the Space Agriculture Task Force at JAXA in Japan and learn more about Azolla and space agriculture.
The photos above show one of Prof. Masamishishi's experimental Azolla cultivations. In this system Azolla is co-cultivated with rice and the edible salt water plant Saltwort (to the left). In a space agriculture system the water would contain re-circulated urine, which is salty. However, Azolla and rice are freshwater plants that don't tolerate high salt levels. Therefore the Saltwort is used to remove salt from the water before it flows into the Azolla and rice cultivation.
Growing Azolla together with rice is not particular to space agriculture. Azolla has been grown in rice paddies and used as a green fertilizers and weed prevention for rice in Asia for thousands of years. When Azolla grows on the water surface in a rice paddy it blocks sunlight from entering the water, which prevents weeds from growing and competing with the rice. More importantly, Azolla is one of few plants that can fixate nitrogen, an essential plant nutrient, from the air. When the rice grows large enough to block the sunlight from reaching the Azolla the Azolla dies. It then sinks to the bottom of the paddy where it provides the nitrogen it has absorbed to the rice.


text: We used microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (MPECVD) to carbonize an electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor to form carbon fibers. Scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to characterize the fibers at different evolution stages. It was found that MPECVD-carbonized PAN fibers do not exhibit any significant change in the fiber diameter, whilst conventionally carbonized PAN fibers show a 33% reduction in the fiber diameter. An additional coating of carbon nanowalls (CNWs) was formed on the surface of the carbonized PAN fibers during the MPECVD process without the assistance of any metallic catalysts. The result presented here may have a potential to develop a novel, economical, and straightforward approach towards the mass production of carbon fibrous materials containing CNWs.


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WP7 Imaging data management
WP Leaders: Aad van der Lugt (Erasmus MC) and Charles Majoie (Amsterdam UMC)
Aim: to facilitate imaging data management and analysis for the consortium studies, and to assess which imaging characteristics are associated with final infarct size and poor outcome, and which imaging characteristics modify the effect of endovascular treatment
Clinical image acquisition protocols
To allow for a structured systematic analysis of all image data and an automated imaging biomarkers extraction, standardized image acquisition protocols are important.
We described the minimum requirements for image acquisition protocols to be used in the medical centers that participate in the clinical studies of the CONTRAST consortium.
Here below you will find the protocols, with the version date both in the file name as in the document itself.
Imaging data collection – infrastructure and tasks
A transparent infrastructure and a clear description of roles & responsibilities regarding the imaging data collection is of uttermost importance to be able to build an image storage and exchange infrastructure of the highest standards.
Here below you will find a document with information about:
– imaging data collection infrastructure;
– required imaging data;
– sending data to XNAT;
– sending data without XNAT;
– roles & responsibilities.
Imaging data request procedure
Medical images (CT/MRI) are collected as part of the clinical studies in CONTRAST. These data are available for reuse under specific conditions. Click here to read the procedure, and here to fill in the request form. Please reach out to the CONTRAST WP7 Workpackage leaders with your request.


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Stewarding Sustainability Transformations
In the context of the world's pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists. With reference to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Boundaries it introduces the theory and practice of Collective Stewardship as a management tool that respects the integrity of human and natural systems. Drawing on the work of transdisciplinary scientific scholars and seasoned sustainability practitioners, it shows how transformative change can be built on life's inherent tendency to generate patterns of vitality and resilience. This ground-breaking monograph shows workable pathways to stewarding patterns of aliveness in social and ecological systems at all levels of the global society. As a highly regarded author and expert in collective leadership, Petra Kuenkel inspires academics and practitioners alike to explore new routes towards co-creating responsible futures in the era of the Anthropocene, where the human footprint has begun to change the course of planetary evolution. She invites decision-makers, researchers, planners and social activists to become stewards of systems patterns, enhance their collaborative competencies and guide life-enhancing socio-ecological interaction at scale. The conceptual architecture the author elaborates builds transformation literacy and boils down to a practical guidance for planning and implementing interventions across all sectors of society. It helps bring about change through a deliberate combination of enlivening narratives, empowering metrics, enabling processes, multi-level governance, guiding regulations, and life-supporting innovation. This comprehensive book sets a new direction in the field of sustainability transformations and will become a foundation for planning collective action and achieving impact at scale.


How to Copy Formatting Between Paragraphs in Word 2010
Formatting in Microsoft Word 2010 can be tricky, especially if you make a lot of changes to a specific paragraph. You might not remember specifically where one of your formatting options is located, causing you to search frantically as you try and apply that same formatting to a different section of your document. This can be especially troublesome if you are creating a document for work or school that needs to be formatted in a very specific way. Fortunately Word 2010 has a tool called the Format Painter that will copy all of the formatting from a selected bit of text, then paste it to another text selection. Learn how to use this tool by following the steps outlined below.

Use the Format Painter in Word 2010 to Apply Existing Formatting to Another Paragraph
This tutorial will focus on taking the formatting from one specific paragraph and applying it to a different paragraph. However, you can follow these steps for a sentence, word or letter. Word will simply copy the formatting from your source selection, then apply it to the target selection.

Step 1: Open your document in Word 2010.

Step 2: Click the Home tab at the top of the window.
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Step 3: Highlight the text containing the formatting that you want to copy to another location in your document.
select the text containing the formatting that you want to copy

Step 4: Click the Format Painter button in the Clipboard section of the ribbon at the top of the window.
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Step 5: Highlight the text to which you want to apply your copied formatting. Note that the formatting will be applied as soon as you release your mouse button.
highlight the text to which you want to apply the formatting

Your original formatting should now be copied to the text that you just selected, as in the image below.
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Have you copied and pasted data from a lot of different places into one Word document, and now everything is formatted differently? Learn how to clear all formatting in Word 2010 to make all of the text in the document look the same.
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Jewish books are a source of great inspiration for Jews world-wide with a wide variety of different themes and genres that connect to the Jewish community in ways both religious, emotional, artistic, and informative.
One of the most popular genres of Jewish books is Israeli history books that cover all different angles of Israel's past, present, and possible futures. Often, these Jewish books take on a very informational tone as they meditate on Israel's politics, economics, and most famously, her military struggles.
Though not unique to Jewish books, the genre of historical fiction takes on a different atmosphere in Jewish books. The Holocaust is a favorite topic in this genre. The intense emotions, heavy visuals, and meaningful messages portrayed in such Jewish books make them one of the best ways to learn about Jewish culture and history as well as one of the most world-changing events ever. Many of these Jewish books have been turned into Israeli movies to reach a wider audience.
One popular author in this category of Jewish books is Leo Uris. Uris is widely recognized for Jewish books about the Holocaust such as "Mila 18" about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and "Exodus" which follows Jewish refugees after World War II as they attempt to reach the land of Israel and build a nation.
These types of Jewish books tell moving stories as while educating us about the rich and fantastic history of a determined people. Jewish books such as Uris's and the history told within them affect all areas of modern Israeli art including Israeli music.
However, the term "Jewish books" does not only refer to Israel, the Holocaust, and related issues. Jewish books include works be world renowned authors for works not connected to Judaism.
Franz Kafka is one such example as is Kahlil Gibran famous for his Jewish books related to spirituality, but not to Judaism. Other types of Jewish books are well known for being excellent aides to the Jewish faith and many are written by famous or highly respected Rabbis such as Rabbi Meir Lau. These Jewish books cover all aspects of Judaism. Some attempt to inform beginners of the Jewish traditions and religious practices while others delve deep into religious texts attempting to explain the meaning of the universe through Hebrew texts or Kabbalah.
Many Jewish books are well-recognized for their significant contributions at all levels of society. This includes Jewish cooking books that most often like to bring you different takes on typical Israeli dishes. There are however, a great number of Jewish cookbooks that also cover food from different countries where there are or once was a large Jewish population.
World of Judaica is proud to offer a wide and growing selection of Israeli books on our site! Jewish Books have been a source of inspiration for generations and are an integral part of one of the most important values in Judaism – education.
Important Jewish Books
The variety in themes in Jewish books is vast, and includes religious, emotional, artistic, informative, historical, cultural, culinary and more. At World of Judaica, we operate all of our business from Israel, and therefore are at the centre of the political, economic, military, and cultural aspects that shape the nation of the Jewish people. This has all been chronicled in Israeli and Jewish books, yet it is a history so dense, not even dozens of books could tell the full story.
Jewish writing was flourishing in the land of Palestine from as early as the seventh and eighth centuries in the form of poetry. In the past few decades, many books related to the Jewish people tell a story through emotions and visuals. This is common in books about the Holocaust; for example, Leon Uris's Mila18 about the Warsaw uprising, or Exodus about the Jewish refugees after WWII, and their attempt to build a nation. Other famous Jewish books include: Start Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Jerusalem: A Sotry of Forty Centuries by Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, The Sabbath by Abrahan Joshua Heschel, The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen and My Life by Golda Meir.
Not all Jewish books are necessarily about these topics. There are many well-known Israeli writers who discuss spirituality, culture, and cooking! Life-cycle (birth, marriage, and mourning) is also a popular topic in Judaica books. People are telling their stories of Jewish dance, yoga, and tips on navigating the 'shuk', or Israeli outdoor market. Israeli and Jewish authors are also well known for their everyday works of fiction such as Jonathan Safran Foer, American Jewish author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Eventually, many of these well-known pieces of literature were made into movies, as the film industry could attract a wider audience. Today, although many films related to Judaism are still based off of historical events, books have become far more present than ever before. Now, people are writing about what is happening today – about the technological and economic boom in Israel, and its role in shaping an un-stable middle-east fighting for freedom and democracy.
We hope you will enjoy our selection of literature – it tells a story of rich history amongst a determined people.
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A medical dosimetrist performs calculations with the goal of creating a treatment plan that maximizes radiation dosage to the patient's target tissue while minimizing radiation to nearby tissue. Dosimetrists perform their job in collaboration with a medical physicist and a radiation oncologist.
A medical dosimetrist needs knowledge of brachytherapy, radiation oncology simulators, and treatment machines. Some of the dosimetrist's duties include assisting with brachytherapy, supervising radiation therapists, and performing in-vivo dosimetry.
What is a Medical Dosimetrist?
A medical dosimetrist possesses a good overall knowledge of math, physics, anatomy & physiology, radiobiology. Medical dosimetrists also know the characteristics and clinical relevance of radiation oncology treatment machines and equipment.
With their expertise, medical dosimetrists design, generate and measure radiation dose distributions and dose calculations. A medical dosimetrist can do this while providing oversight to high-level treatment procedures in both external beam radiation therapy and brachytherapy.
What Does a Medical Dosimetrist Do?
Medical Dosimetrists design an individualized plan of treatment for cancer patients. They use computer sciences and mathematics to calculate an appropriate dosage and position for the treatment. They also communicate with the patient's oncologist to ensure accuracy.
To prevent the surrounding tissue from experiencing the same cellular death as the cancerous cells, the radiation therapist positions the patient in the most advantageous way possible. Then, multiple beams of radiation are focused on the patient from different angles. The beams intersect on the cancer cells, allowing for a higher concentration of radiation right where it is needed.
Dosimetrist Salary
According to Salary.com, the average dosimetrist salary in the United States is $121,477 as of May 27, 2021. However, the range typically falls between $111,265 and $131,995. Salary ranges can vary widely of course for a dosimetrist depending on experience and education.
How to Become a Dosimetrist
If you are looking for a way to advance in your career as a radiologic technologist, joining a medical dosimetry program and becoming a medical dosimetrist is a great way to do so. It is a relatively new field that continues to grow.
Because the demand for medical dosimetrists is so huge compared to those getting the certification, it is an opportune field to advance your career. If you have a bachelor's degree in radiation therapy or radio technology, this program is a way for you to take the next step in your career as a dosimetrist.
In short, being a medical dosimetrist can be thought of as a form of specialization for holders of a degree in radiation therapy. Keep in mind that certification rules must be followed to the letter if you are planning to make a career as a medical dosimetrist.
Education and Training Requirements
The field of medical dosimetry aims at imparting students with the right knowledge on the use of radiation for cancer treatment. Numerous universities and colleges offer certificate and degree completion programs for those wishing to specialize as medical dosimetrists.
Medical dosimetrists must have a degree and state license to practice radiation therapy. A dosimetrist must have knowledge of medical physics and oncology, drawing from math, physics, and biology to form integrated treatment plans.
Employers also look for medical dosimetrists to have good listening and communication skills, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Medical dosimetrists must be able to work harmoniously with other staff members, including medical physicists, radiation therapists, and radiation oncologists. They must also consider risks in the case of unpredictable results.
If you are seeking certification as a dosimetrist, you must have graduated from a JRCERT accredited program that teaches medical dosimetry. Besides that, you must be a holder of a bachelor's degree.
The JRCERT accredited programs all run for at least 12 months. To get a dosimetrist certification, you must present the official transcript and the diploma copies from the program where you obtained the dosimetry skills.
After graduation, you are eligible to sit for the medical dosimetrists exam provided by a recognized body. For instance, the American Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) can issue the exam.
Another route for beginning your journey towards a medical dosimetry certification is to have a degree in biology, physics, or a field related to the medical sector. For example, if you have a physics degree, it means you covered areas such as strong and weak nuclear forces, fundamental particles, radioactive decay, and electromagnetism. On the other hand, if you have a biology degree, you were taught about the life cycle, behavior, and structure of living organisms.
All of these are fields that are related to the area of medical dosimetry.
Three-Attempt Rule
The three-attempt rule applies to all medical dosimetrist candidates that have gone through a dosimetry program and wish to get a certification. A dosimetrist candidate that fails the certification on their third attempt is disqualified from seeking certification again for a period of two years. If the medical dosimetry certification exam is offered more than once every year, they are allowed to take the certification exam that many times.
After a dosimetrist candidate waits out the two-year period, they will have to submit a new application for the medical dosimetrist certification exam. Approval will be based on the prevailing conditions of the time. Whether you had qualified for the medical dosimetry exam or not in the past will not be considered.
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If you aspire to become a medical dosimetrist, you will need to complete courses in the fields of radiation safety, radiobiology, and medical terminology, among many others. If you choose to sign up for a medical dosimetrist program, you will also receive instruction on how to manage patients, the use of the latest medical technology, and how to participate in a medical diagnosis.
A certificate program in medical dosimetry usually lasts for one year. If you want to earn your degree as a medical dosimetrist, it will take much more time.
Programs for training medical dosimetrists that have received JRCERT accreditation are aimed at educated and experienced professionals. If you currently working as a radiotherapist or as a radio technologist, you are a good fit for these programs. Additionally, the medical dosimetrist programs are open to individuals who have a bachelor's degree in a healthcare-related field or physical science.
The program's aim is usually to ensure that students can competently sit for Certified Medical Dosimetrist (CMD) test and pass. The certification, which is voluntary, can be accessed via the Medical Dosimetry Certification Board (MDCB). Although not necessary, most employers will require that you have the medical dosimetry certification anyway. If you want to retain the certification, you must engage in continuing education for medical dosimetrists.