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Creative Ideas For Data Presentation
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Throw away your excel sheets and PowerPoint files for your next data presentation. Engage your audience and capture their imagination using these 3 simple and creative ways to present data.
1. Make your data tangible for your audience:
We saw a marketing manager of sporting goods manufacturing company use this idea effectively. He threw a ping pong ball to the participants and said that the ball represented their market share in sporting goods segment. Then he threw a basket ball and said that it represented the market share of their main competitor.
When he kept the two balls side by side, the difference in magnitude became quickly apparent to the audience. No numerical data would have created a better realization in the audience's mind than that demonstration.
If you looking to open your presentation with data, you can read more about it here.
How can you make your audience touch and feel the data in your next presentation?
2. Make people a part of your data presentation:
I saw a highly involving presentation made by the CEO of an NGO that supported orphans. The audience had people from various corporates and the presentation was to raise funds for the organization.
All through the presentation the presenter involved young children to represent data. For example, she invited 3 children to come up on stage and stand in a row. She asked the first one to sit down and the third one to raise hands. She said, "These children represent the growth of our NGO in the last three years. Our children are able to live better and reach higher because of your support. I want your help to make them reach higher next year "
This helped her not only to talk about her organization but also to strike an emotional chord with the audience.
How can you involve people in your next presentation?
3. Make the audience build your point:
In one of the budget meetings, I heard a senior manager employ this method effectively. While he allocated budgets to various departments based on their profitability, some department heads insisted on more budgets for their functions.
He invited everyone to do a small activity. He asked them to tear an A4 sheet paper in two halves. He then asked them to tear one of the halves in two. He took the small piece of paper to scoop some toffees from a jar on his table. He then used the bigger piece of paper to scoop toffees. Naturally, he could scoop more toffees with the bigger piece.
He finished by saying," If the pieces of paper represent the share of profits brought in by a function and the toffee jar represents the funds we have. The goodies you get depend on the size of your sheet."
He didn't have to say anything else after that and the message was clear.
There are many ways to make your point using simple demonstrations, if you put your mind to it.
What can you come up with for your next presentation?
Rules for creative data presentation:
The activities you select need to follow these 2 critical rules to be successful:
- It should be made for a key point only. Such activities can be very powerful. So if you use it for an insignificant point, your audience will remember your presentation for the wrong reason.
- The conclusion should be clear to the last person in your audience. If it involves a long explanation to be understood, then avoid it.
Remember, a data presentation can be memorable or boring depending on the way you want to lend meaning to numbers. Take the time to make your audience relate to your numbers. It is worth the effort.
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[teacherartexchange] Daily Warm-Ups in Art
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 12:19:27 PST
Hey All,
I have been interested in doing daily warm-ups in art class due to the
energy and craziness of the students in most of my classes and especially because
they are 1 1/2 hours long. My students tend to finish SOOO quickly and they
learning has just barely skimmed the surface. I just bought this book called
"Daily Warm-Ups: Art Level 1" by Walch Publishing, however I was just
wondering how many other teachers use art warm-ups to lead up to larger projects.
Right now I have just started a Mandala Unit with my students and we are
going to create 4 mini-mandalas and then combine those styles to create a larger
one for each individual student.
How do warm-ups work for you? How long are they? Do they always have to
relate to the lesson?
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Pengaruh Fungisida Berbahan Aktif Tunggal dan Campuran Metiltiofanat dan Karbendazim Terhadap Pertumbuhan Jamur Colletotrichum scovillei Secara In Vitro
The Effect of Concentration of Single Active Ingredients and Mixture of Methylthiofanate and Carbendazim on the Growth Of Mushrooms Colletotrichum scovillei In Vitro
Anthracnose is still the main disease in chili plants, anthracnose in chili peppers can be caused by some of the fungal species Colletotrichum. According to a report obtained from a field survey in 2018 found that Colletotrichum scovillei fungus is a species that infects large chili plants in Bali. An effort to control anthracnose is to use fungicides with active ingredients methylthiofanate and carbendazim. This study aims to determine the appropriate concentration of fungicides with the active ingredients of methylthiofanate, carbendazim and a mixture of methylthiofanate and carbendazim to inhibit the growth of the fungus C. scovillei in vitro. The fungicide inhibition test was carried out using the Poisoned Food Technique. The results showed that the active ingredient fungicide methylthiofanate, carbendazim, a mixture of methylthiofanate and carbendazim at a concentration of 1.5 ml/l effectively inhibited the growth of the fungus C. scovillei in vitro. The results of this study provide information that the tested fungicides are effective in inhibiting the growth of the fungus C. scovillei which causes anthracnose on chili peppers in Bali.

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Indonesia has a vast forest area. The extent of Indonesia's forests is one of the natural resources are prone to damage due to human interests in meeting their needs. One of the damage that often occurs when current is forest fires. Forest destruction accounts for 20-25% of global CO2 emissions that contribute to climate change or global warming. Unspoiled forest with a diversity of plant species are long-lived and litter is a place to store a lot of carbon stocks (C) the highest. The aim of this study was to determine the diversity of plants and the amount of carbon stock above ground level in the forests of the Bukit Barisan of Padang, West Sumatra. Tree biomass was calculated on a plot of 20x20 m, 10x10 m pole, stake 5x5 m, for counting down plant biomass and litter on the plot with a size of 2x2 m (National Standardization Agency, 2011). Biomass calculated by the Ketterings et al. formula (2001). In Bukit Barisan Forest Area, West Sumatra, derived carbon content was 16.029,70 ton/ha. Diversity type was highest at tree level on Station 1, classified as very high diversty with diversity index (H') 3.10.
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United Healthcare is the latest large insurer to join the fight against insurance fraud, which costs the industry more than $80 billion a year, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.
"Health insurance is the 800 pound gorilla in the insurance fraud living room. The sheer number of insurance dollars lost to health insurance fraud dwarfs all other insurance scams," said Jim Quiggle, Coalition spokesperson in an interview with Insurance Networking News. "Medicare fraud alone costs the industry $60 billion and that is a conservative estimate."
In addition to United Healthcare, the National Center for Home Improvement Fraud, Inform Software Corporation and the District Attorney of San Diego County are also recent members. Inform Software creates and markets technology that helps detect medical billing fraud.
"Technology is critical because fraud rings are very complex. You need high powered software to uncover patterns and relationships of large rings that are carefully hidden," Quiggle said. "Technology can do that and it's closer to doing that in real time to predict future patterns of bad behavior by rings that often have ties to the Mob."
Currently, the coalition is preparing its annual study of state fraud bureaus.
"We've gathered data on patterns of arrests, convictions, fraud trends on the streets and how effective the fraud bureaus are in fighting fraud," Quiggle said. "We've completed the research and are now working on the study itself, which will be released later this year."
Growing numbers of organization are joining the Coalition, indicating the recognition that fraud can be more easily defeated jointly rather than individually.
Allstate, the American Insurance Association, Zurich North America, Farmers Insurance Group, Hanover Insurance Group, and Travelers Liberty Mutual sit on the Coalition's board of directors while 18 of the top 20 property-casualty insurers are members.
"We're very involved in trying to bring together the public and private sector to work jointly on reducing health insurance fraud cases. Many of these crime rings working over Medicare are also going after auto insurers," Quiggle said.
In the past year, the Coalition was involved in pushing no fault reform legislation in Florida and has been raising public awareness that garden-variety fraud claims by average Americans is a crime.
"People's moral compasses go wobbly when they see an opportunity to rip off their insurers, so we're warning consumers through the media not to rip off insurers because you have a strong chance of getting caught," Quiggle said. "Too many consumers think that insurance fraud is a victimless fraud."
Founded in 1993, the Coalition is a national alliance of consumer groups, insurance companies and government agencies combating all forms of insurance fraud through legislation and public advocacy.
"We're trying to get more auto insurance fraud laws passed at the state level by acting as a uniting force that is bringing together various groups to jointly fight insurance fraud crimes," said Quiggle who added that twenty states have passed anti-fraud laws based on the Coalition's model insurance fraud bill.
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Low-Power and Low-Cost Dedicated Bit-Serial Hardware Neural Network for Epileptic Seizure Prediction System
This paper presents results of using a simple bit-serial architecture as a method of designing an extremely low-power and low-cost neural network processor for epilepsy seizure prediction. The proposed concept is based on a novel bit-serial data processing unit (DPU) which implements the functionality of a complete neuron and uses bit-serial arithmetic.
Design and Study of a Smart Cup for Monitoring the Arm and Hand Activity of Stroke Patients
This paper presents a new platform to monitor the arm and hand activity of stroke patients during rehabilitation exercises in hospital and at home during their daily living activities. The platform provides relevant data to the therapist in order to assess the patients physical state and adapt the rehabilitation program if necessary.

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Something hard to break - Crossword Clue
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Akshara Abhyasam
Starting Literacy. This is a minor ritual done around the three-year period. The father holds the child's right hand and, to the chanting of priests who asks God's blessings, he helps the child trace the alphabet on a plate of rice with a golden ring. The child is thus initiated into study. The first letter traced is usually "Om" which is the symbol for God and true knowledge in India. Prayers are offered to Ganesha, who removes obstacles, to Saraswathi, the Goddess of learning, and to the Kula Devatha, the family deity who protects the entire family.
Akshara Abhyasam
Turmeric powderSmall Packet
KumkumSmall Packet
Betel leaves1 Packet
Betel nuts2
Sandal wood powderSmall Packet
Flowers1 Bouquet
Fruits any varietyFew of each
Agarbhathi1 Packet
Rice1 pound
Notebook,pencil/ pen/ slate, black/ white chalk piece 1
Tray for Rice 1
Naivedyam Any Payasam/ Kheer
For Puja at home, the following in addition to the above
Pancha Patram and Udharani or
Unused Cup and spoon
Saffron,Cloves,Cardamom and Paccha KarpooramSmall Quantities for Kalasam
Mango Leaves ( If available)1 bunch
Deepam ( Lamps)1


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Assessing Policy Innovation: Climate Action Planning in the U.S. Southwest
Climate action planning
AdvisorGarfin, Gregg M.
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PublisherThe University of Arizona.
RightsCopyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction, presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
AbstractCities are on the front lines of climate change, and local climate action planning has the potential to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions through mitigation and reduce vulnerability to climate risk through climate adaptation. A growing body of planning research has explored climate action planning but has primarily focused on dedicated climate action plans and generally relied upon a narrow sample of coastal and larger cities that do not represent the diversity of cities that planners serve within the United States. This dissertation focuses on climate action planning in arid lands with an overarching research question: How are cities in the U.S. Southwest planning for climate change? The original research I present in this dissertation addresses this question through three interrelated papers that assess the state of planning literature on climate action planning research (Appendix A), document the concerns, approaches, and catalyst and barriers planners report facing when addressing climate risk (Appendix B), and evaluate how climate action planning is being mainstreamed into comprehensive plans (Appendix C). This dissertation advances planning scholarship and practice by expanding the understanding of climate action planning in cities in the arid lands of the U.S. Southwest.
Degree ProgramGraduate College
Arid Lands Resource Sciences


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DAYTON, OHIO – Dr. Darrell Lochtefeld joins Parallax Advanced Research as the director of technology pull and transfer for the Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment (APEX). is a first-of-its-kind program designed to improve the connections between academia and the U.S. Air Force and industry across the U.S. with the goal of creating a major leap forward for U.S. Air Force defense technology development.
cultivates innovation by expanding the American research enterprise for the U.S. Air Force by engaging, connecting and enabling innovators across academia, industry and the Department of Defense that support the needs of the U.S. Air Force. 's mission supports the U.S. Air Force 2030 Science & Technology Strategy.
As the Director of Technology Pull and Transfer for , Lochtefeld is responsible for identifying new and existing technologies and matching them with technology needs and interests of the U.S. Air Force. This includes technologies developed by small businesses, research departments within colleges and universities, commercial research departments and government laboratories. His core activity is to network between and within the technology provider and technology consumer communities. Lochtefeld's long-term goal is to create a systematic way of matching these two communities to improve adoption of new technology and the creation of new warfighting capabilities.
Lochtefeld holds degrees in computer science, business administration and engineering and studied machine intelligence applications for his doctorate degree. Two of Lochtefeld's three degrees were obtained from Wright State University's College of Engineering. He has extensive experience working for the Joint Chemical and Biological Defense and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance communities. He has a technical background in modeling and simulation, analysis and data mining, information fusion, machine intelligence and training systems.
Prior to joining Parallax, Lochtefeld was a civil servant with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing Warfighter Interface Division where he managed advanced product development and transition, and he completed a six-month assignment as special assistant to the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force.
Lochtefeld is married with six stepchildren and lives on a small farm north of Dayton, Ohio. Lochtefeld says his background as a farm boy from Ohio are the origins of his work ethic and practical nature.
About Parallax Advanced Research
Parallax is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that tackles global challenges by accelerating innovation and developing technology and solutions through strategic partnerships with government, industry and academia across Ohio and the Nation. Together with academia, Parallax accelerates innovation that leads to new breakthroughs. Together with government, Parallax tackles critical global challenges and delivers new solutions. Together with industry, Parallax develops groundbreaking ideas and speeds them to market.
cultivates innovation by expanding the American research enterprise for the U.S. Air Force by engaging, connecting and enabling innovators across academia, industry and the Department of Defense ( ). utilizes data analytics to identify transformational operational defense solutions in academia, industry and government sectors; provides process navigation services for academic teams and small businesses; and enhances cross-sector engagement by providing direct connections to the technology needs of multiple programs.


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NREL Collaborates to Commercialize Fiber Hydrogen Optic Sensor
April 21, 2008
Under a collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA), NREL is working with Nuclear Filter Technology to develop and commercialize NREL's innovative fiber optic hydrogen sensor technology. This technology provides industry with the early detection of hydrogen in the air, which only takes a small spark to ignite and explode.
NREL's fiber optic hydrogen sensor utilizes a non-ignitable, flexible, thin, glass or plastic, fiber optic strand that transmits light to a thin film material. The material changes color in response to the presence of hydrogen. The CRADA allows NREL and Nuclear Filter Technology to develop a full-scale prototype of this technology, which ultimately will result in commercially available products.
Industries that use or produce hydrogen can apply this technology. Applications include those for the following industries:
Nuclear Filter Technology is also licensing several NREL inventions related to the fiber optic and thin film materials that sense the presence of hydrogen.


How to sort array of strings by their lengths following shortest to longest pattern in Java
Java 8Object Oriented ProgrammingProgramming
At first, let us create and array of strings:
String[] strArr = { "ABCD", "AB", "ABCDEFG", "ABC", "A", "ABCDE", "ABCDEF", "ABCDEFGHIJ" };
Now, for shortest to longest pattern, for example A, AB, ABC, ABCD, etc.; get the length of both the string arrays and work them like this:
Arrays.sort(strArr, (str1, str2) -> str1.length() - str2.length());
The following is an example to sort array of strings by their lengths with shortest to longest pattern:
Example
import java.util.Arrays;
public class Demo {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 String[] strArr = { "ABCD", "AB", "ABCDEFG", "ABC", "A", "ABCDE", "ABCDEF","ABCDEFGHIJ" };
 System.out.println("Sorting array on the basis of their lengths (shortest to longest) =");
 Arrays.sort(strArr, (str1, str2) -> str1.length() - str2.length());
 Arrays.asList(strArr).forEach(System.out::println);
 }
}
Output
Sorting array on the basis of their lengths (shortest to longest) =
A
AB
ABC
ABCD
ABCDE
ABCDEF
ABCDEFG
ABCDEFGHIJ
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Importance And Prospects of BT Brinjal
What is BT is Brinjal ?
Basically Fruit and stem borer disease free crop in Brinjal is called BT Brinjal. It is popular by the people that FSBR which is developed through genetic engineering. Contrary to what these terms are used for BT does not refer to a biotechnology technique but to a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis which is found in soil.
The cry-1ac gene produces insecticidal proteins that pierce stems leaves and fruits on furrows such as eggplants. This controls the larvae of the ones that live on and eat them. This protein is toxic to insects but poses no threat to humans and animals.
Over the years, several crops have been developed that can produce BT protein on their own and protect themselves against certain pests. BT Brinjal has also been developed from similar genetic engineering which has the same resistance to FSB. Efforts are going on to make new dimensions of technology disease-free according to the crops and will continue.
What is FSB?
First of all we need to know what is FSB? In fact, FSB is the most damaging pest of Brinjal. FSB is a small larva that penetrates the tender part of the stem and eats the inside making it dry.
At the same time it makes holes on the new and tender fruits and makes them hollow from inside which is not edible for human beings. Due to which the fruit is not sellable in the market. FSB does damage from sowing till its harvesting.
What exactly is genetic engineering?
Genetic engineering refers to the system of introducing specific genes into the properties of plants to develop specific traits these genes can be taken from other plants or any other organism. In traditional life the genes of one class of vegetation are combined.
Where as genetic engineering involves the use of modern biotechnology to breed useful properties which is difficult with traditional methods. In fact the generation of plants that can withstand natural calamities such as drought, pest and disease resistant and subsequent development of life-enhancing species after harvesting increase in nutritional value and healthy benefits etc.
Traditional breeding is the purpose of both branches. All in all it can be said that the process of developing new varieties in an artificial way is also possible with the combined effort of genetic engineering.
In fact BT Brinjal prevents damage to crops by stem and fruit borer pests. It is an effective solution from environmental and economic point of view. The fry-1ac protein developed in Brinjal fruit is similar in structure and similar to the soil-derived cry-1a protein.
BT Brinjal prevents damage to crops by stem and fruit borer. It is an effective solution from environmental and economic point of view. The fry-1ac protein developed in Brinjal fruit is similar in structure and similar to the soil-derived cry-1a protein.
How is the resistance of FSB suitable for farmers and consumers?
FSB is an important pest which leaves no stone unturned to completely destroy the Brinjal crop. Once this disease occurs in the plants the crop suffers a lot. For its prevention many types of drugs and chemicals are used which are dangerous for the farmer as well as the consumer. Even after extreme care if the disease is caught then the crops are adversely affected. Market price becomes too much work. By using this type of Brinjal such type of disease can be saved.
What is the difference between BT technology and conventional insecticides?
Conventional insecticides are generally used on crops to destroy pests. There are several drawbacks to this method. Once the insect has penetrated through the fruit, then the use of insecticides is not fruitful. That's why farmers use pesticides again and again, which not only harms the environment, it is also harmful for the health of the farmer and the consumer. The use of insecticides is also not suitable for beneficial animals.
Evidence of the preparation of the bacterium Pacillus thuringiensis to combat the pest is available in sufficient quantity in BT Brinjal plant. It has been observed that spraying of conventional insecticides has only 30 percent effect on fruit and stem borer insects whereas it is 100 percent effective in BT Brinjal.
The use of BT Brinjal changes production costs and profits, the following benefits can be achieved by using BT Brinjal.
- When BT Brinjal is used along with best farming practices, it has the potential to produce more healthy fruits than conventional farming. Due to higher production, the income of the farmers increases.
- As FSBR Brinjal requires the least amount of pesticides, farmers can have very less frequent exposure to pesticides.
- Under the process of distribution through the public distribution system the economically weaker farmers can get seeds of high quality cheaply. Due to this the cost of production can be reduced and it can remain constant. Whatever process the farmers are using for the current species/hybrid varieties they can continue to do the same action in this also.
BT Brinjal is safe for human body.
BT Brinjal is similar in appearance and nutritional value to the traditional Brinjal. It contains the FSB-restricted BT protein. BT Brinjal is just as nutritious as traditional Brinjal.
This is evident from the experiments conducted on different animals. Evidence has been given that there is no poisonous component in BT Brinjal by the experiments done on different species like fish, rooster, rabbit, goat, rat, buffalo etc.
Apart from FSB insects which pests are BT Brinjal effective against?
BT Brinjal is particularly effective against fruit and stem borer insects. Balance It is not effective for controlling other pests. Due to this beneficial bacteria and micro-organisms are not affected as in the case of spraying of other insecticides.
Do BT Brinjal pollens have any effect on other plants?
Directly from field tests, it has been revealed that BT Brinjal pollen has passed from Brinjal plant to plant, yet there is no adverse effect on any other plant due to genetically different.
Due to the cry-1ac gene, there is no change in the structure of the plant, due to which other properties remain in the plant. No adverse effect of BT Brinjal on biodiversity is expected.
How BT Brinjal is beneficial for the environment?
The use of BT Brinjal reduces the use of pesticides. Because of this the chances of getting the constituents of pesticides in the field land and ground water are very less. Due to this the environment can be protected.
Due to the limited use of pesticides more diversity in fauna has been found in the countries where BT Brinjal has been produced. The sole purpose behind the origin of BT Brinjal is to eliminate the FSB pest completely, as there is no threat to any beneficial animal or animal other than FSB.
BT Brinjal seeds are very cheap and can be easily available to small and medium farmers at affordable prices. The open sale of seeds is to be done to the farmers through the public distribution system set up in the agricultural colleges of the state.
These colleges have over many years of experience in the delivery system reaching small and medium farmers. Quantities of seeds will be sent by the private sector to small and gum farmers in India, Bangladesh and the Philippines who want to use hybrid seeds.
These things are not factual at all. Through traditional varieties, BT Brinjal is going to be available to farmers through different agricultural colleges and agricultural institutions at low prices. This variety is qualitatively similar to the varieties currently used by farmers, only BT seed with FSB resistance can be reproduced from different types.
The farmer can prepare the seeds for the next crop in the current crop. It is necessary to take only hybrid seeds separately for each crop. Farmers are still doing the same for years for hybrid seeds.


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What's the purpose of Mocking?Mocking is extremely common in unit tests, but why? The basic idea is that you are attempting to test one specific "unit" of functionality, but you don't want calls to the database, third-party calls, or other side-effects creeping into your unit tests. On the surface this seems like a valid use-case.
Why is Mocking bad?There are many problems related to mocking that I'll try to quickly step through.
Unnecessary Complexity and Decreased ModularityThough the purpose of mocking is actually to reduce complexity it very often increases the complexity of your unit tests because you often end up with confusing and complicated mocking to avoid running aspects of your code that you don't want executed in your tests. You often end up pulling your hair out trying to figure out how the internals of the system are supposed to work in order to get the mocks to operate as expected and then all your tests start breaking as soon as that internal logic changes. You often end up in a scenario where your code works fine because it's written modularly to continue working but your unit tests break because they are essentially implementing the internal functionality via mocks.
Unit tests testing the Mocking frameworkIn extremely complex unit tests or even simpler unit tests that are managed over a long time or through many developers it becomes more and more confusing what the purpose of the test actually is. I can cite dozens of examples where I've been auditing unit tests only to find out that the unit test does nothing but test the mocking framework instead of the code.
Need for Mocking Represents Bad Code SeparationThis is what my entire complaint really boils down to. If you actually need mocking in your unit tests, your actual code that you're testing is poorly written in the first place. You should be writing code in proper units to allow individual testing without the need for mocking at all.
You might have a scenario similar to the code above and you want to test the checkout functionality of your system, but you don't want the payment gateway to be called and you don't want it actually persisting to the database so you might mock those out to avoid those being called. Instead, consider the idea that there are four units of functionality clearly defined in this case:
- Validating the Order
- Calling the Payment gateway
- Persisting the information to the database
- Creating a Receipt
You can see now that each unit of functionality has been broken out into its own method that can be individually tested as needed without the necessity of mocking. Further, the code is significantly cleaner and more maintainable as a result of this refactoring. Not only does it make our unit tests cleaner and easier to maintain without mocks, but it also enforces a higher level of code quality through modularity in your code than was there before.
If you ever decided that the checkout method needed to be unit tested you could refactor it so it takes in a PaymentGateway implementation and Persistance implementation as arguments to avoid side-effects and allowing a test instance to be created to fulfill those needs. Though this is a form of mocking, it follows a better paradigm of consistency and modularity than mocking frameworks do.
As you can see, this is an all-around better way to write code and though it is understood that in existing projects mocking still may be necessary, there is no excuse for such to be necessary in new code.


Can you say all the Chinese words for the meals that we eat in one day? Most people usually eat about three main meals every day, but South China often have other meals that are very popular in China, here are six words for main and other meals that we often use:
早餐(zǎocān ) breakfast
The first meal of the day. About 6am-8am.
早茶( zǎochá) early morning tea
A meal eaten around 9am. A snack (for example, biscuits, bread and black tea). (Informal)
午餐(wǔ cān)lunch
A meal in the middle of the day. About noon or 1pm.
下午茶(xià wǔ chá ) afternoon tea
A light afternoon meal of sandwiches, cakes etc, with a drink of tea or coffee. About 2pm-4pm. It is also sometimes called afternoon tea.
晚餐(wǎn cān) dinner
The main meal of the day, eaten in the evening. Usually when people say "dinner", they mean an evening meal, about 7pm-9pm.
夜宵( yè xiāo) midnight snack.
An extra meal in the midnight.About 9pm-11pm.


Is Uber really decreasing ambulance usage?
Two economists conclude that Uber availability has reduced EMS ambulance transport by 7 percent in major U.S. cities
After calculating the availability of Uber and ambulance usage in major U.S. cities, two economists have concluded that the availability of ride-sharing services has decreased ambulance usage by at least seven percent. Their research is a helpful follow-up to anecdotal reports that patients are picking Uber and Lyft instead of ambulance transport.
Intuitively, it makes sense that given alternative and easily accessible options to reach the hospital, the market would choose those options. An Uber or Lyft ride is a couple of swipes away for millions of users. We are also in a cultural moment of celebrating the gig economy and how it's disrupting everything from vehicle ownership, to vacation lodging, to healthcare.
A medical director of mine was fond of reminding us, "Correlation does not equal causation." Have the researchers truly discovered causation; more Uber cars available leads to less ambulance trips per year? Or have they observed a correlation between two variables?
Are patients asking you if they should have called an Uber or Lyft ride instead of ambulance?
Are patients asking you if they should have called an Uber or Lyft ride instead of ambulance? (Photo/Pixabay)
The full paper, including the description of methods, is worth reading and it's embedded below. Are there other explanations for a decrease in ambulance usage? Several that come to mind for me include:
 - An improving economy. It's good for one's health, generally, to have a job, regular income and benefits.
 - The rate of uninsured Americans has decreased in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. A standard benefit of health insurance is better access to preventative care, vaccinations and immunizations, prescription fulfillment, treatment adherence and health condition screening.
 - Preventative care, through community paramedicine and other social services, often targets the highest ambulance utilizers. It seems a stretch, but plausible, that ambulance use might drop by several percentage points because of call reduction to the top 10, 25, 50 or 100 utilizers in a community.
I don't have data to back up my assertions. Rather, I am suggesting other variables that might have a causation or correlation impact on ambulance usage.
Pros of picking Uber over an ambulance
For consumers, there are many pros to picking an Uber or other types of self-transport over an ambulance. Those reasons include:
 - Knowing the arrival time for the ride-share car at the patient's side.
 - Pricing for the transport is known at the time of request, and depending on proximity, could be considerably less expensive.
 - Selecting their destination, even if it's not the nearest receiving facility.
The only time most people think about EMS and the nearest ambulance is the time between their 911 call and the arrival of the ambulance. Watching the Uber vehicle near its destination on a smartphone map has a longer lead time, with accompanying peace of mind that help is on the way, than listening for the wail of sirens or watching for the flashing of bright lights. Even if that help is just a ride to the hospital.
Cons of picking Uber over an ambulance
For the patient, the biggest con or risk is their condition deteriorating or becoming emergent during transport. It's reasonable for fire chiefs and paramedic chiefs to caution the public about picking an Uber instead of an ambulance when their life is at risk. If their time-critical illness becomes life threatening, it may go unrecognized and untreated by the layperson driver. Other cons of calling an Uber instead of an ambulance include:
 - Selecting an inappropriate facility for the illness or injury, followed by a subsequent trip in another Uber or an ambulance.
 - Delaying care for emergency conditions like myocardial infarction, asthma exacerbation, severe hemorrhage or anaphylaxis that could have been initiated on scene by medical first responders and continued during ambulance transport by EMTs or paramedics.
 - Transportation may not have been the treatment the patient needed. EMTs and paramedics have increasing options for on-scene treatment without transport or the ability to transport the patient to a non-hospital receiving facility.
Make Uber an option for 911 callers
The research doesn't explain if some of the Uber rides were at the direction or scheduling of a 911 operator or hospital-initiated program to transport patients for follow-up or ongoing care. If a nurse, working in a 911 center, is used to triage a low acuity patient into a ride-share vehicle instead of an ambulance, that's still an EMS transport. It's just in a vehicle with lower capital costs and overhead.
What do you tell patients, Uber vs. ambulance?
Patients commonly ask us for reassurance about their decision to call for an ambulance. Are patients asking you if they should have called an Uber or Lyft ride instead of ambulance? If yes, what are you telling them?
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No. 28: Les Iroquois de l'Alberta
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More men were required and all three companies started recruiting from the Iroquois [largely Mohawk] communities around Montreal, in particular, Kahnawake.
As historian Michael Payne explains, there were several things that made the Iroquois very attractive to the fur trade companies.
First and foremost was, they were, by and large, excellent, absolutely outstanding canoemen. They had a very high reputation for their skills on the water.
They were quite willing to leave their home communities and travel thousands of kilometres into the northwest to find work, unlike many other people at the time. And so, in that case, they were available and willing to work.
And they were also, in many cases, expert trappers as well. They were particularly good, and had a very high reputation, as being skillful trappers of beaver and other fur-bearing animals.
So the Iroquois came west. And, when their contracts of employment were finished, many decided to stay here.
Yes, there were a number of communities that developed. These people appear in fur trade records, particularly in the Hudson's Bay Company Records, under the name "freemen".
So, if you look at Hudson's Bay accounts from places like Jasper House, or Dunvegan, even Fort Edmonton, you'll often see a separate category of people included in the post records of trade, under this title of "freemen".
Many of the Iroquois "freemen" settled along the eastern slopes, between the fur trade posts at Jasper and Dunvegan, as well as on the North Saskatchewan River near Edmonton.
At first, local natives regarded the Iroquois as interlopers. But, as historian Michael Payne notes, eventually they intermingled.
There are also many names among First Nations and Métis groups in Alberta that actually can be traced back to these group of Iroquois who came west with the fur trade. Names like Callihoo, Calliou, Cardinal, are very closely associated with the Iroquois background, and most people with that name in Alberta probably can find an Iroquois ancestor from Kahnawake or Oka in their background.
And that's how the Iroquois came to Alberta.
On the Heritage Trail,
I'm Cheryl Croucher.

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In June Marit Kragt from the University of Western Australia in Perth visited Ruralis in Trondheim to continue with the work in WP 3, which investigates farmers' interests in participating in local climate crowdfunding. Marit is an expert on choice experiments, a method that can be built into survey designs. In Coolcrowd, we will use this method to introduce farmers in the survey with a set of different scenarios of local climate crowdfunding and to assess which ones farmers would preferably undertake. This will also assist us for the survey we will conduct with the public in WP4 at a later stage where we will make use of the same approach.
During her visit, Marit Kragt also took the opportunity to give a seminar at Ruralis on carbon farming in Australia, a national policy that pays Australian farmers to store carbon in their soils as a climate mitigation measure in agriculture. Her experience and research expertise in this field specifically to measure attitudes among farmers concerning the costs and benefits of carbon farming is highly relevant for the further progress in Coolcrowd.


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Influences of visual culture in the design of web-based art education instruction: using content analysis for interpreting research and student opinions to (re)consider interactive design
This study explores how the way students learn through visual culture can inform the design of Web-based art education instruction. It focuses on four interrelated topics relevant to current art education curriculum and Web-based learning in higher education: technology and learning, constructivist theory, visual culture, and graphic design. A literature review of each topic in addition to undergraduate student interviews about their experiences contributes to discussing ways to improve Web-based instruction. This interdisciplinary case study presents a critique of the current usability guidelines and standards used for developing websites. The research places an emphasis on the visual interface that serves as the main form of communication between the function of the website and the student audience. The information provides a foundation for interactive design recommendations applicable to Web-based instruction. Recommendations made as a result of this research are applicable to improving constructive, inquiry-based teaching and learning environments in art education and related academic disciplines.
School:The Ohio State University
School Location:USA - Ohio
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:art education internet visual communication design literacy culture graphic constructivism case study
Date of Publication:01/01/2005


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Tree Cutting in Farming Simulator 15
In Farming Simulator 2015 tree cutting was introduced as a new feature. The goal was to offer maximum freedom in how trees are cut. The player can decide the position and angle of the cut. This means that the tree mesh models cannot be pre-cut. The meshes are cut on the fly, and become a physical object once separated. Meshes thus need to be stored in a representation that enables real-time splitting. Furthermore, since falling trees may collide with the environment, the collision skin of the tree needs to be computed on the fly as well. The mass and moment of inertia of a cut tree varies with the location of the cut and also need to be computed in real-time.


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January 12, 2013
'Singing penis' sets noise record for water insect
Ella Davies at the BBC:
Scientists from France and Scotland recorded the aquatic animal "singing" at up to 99.2 decibels, the equivalent of listening to a loud orchestra play while sitting in the front row.
The insect makes the sound by rubbing its penis against its abdomen in a process known as "stridulation".
Researchers say the song is a courtship display performed to attract a mate.
Micronecta scholtzi are freshwater insects measuring just 2mm that are common across Europe.
The team of biologists and engineering experts recorded the insects using specialist underwater microphones.
On average, the songs of M. scholtzi reached 78.9 decibels, comparable to a passing freight train.
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What is significant?
The Thomson River Diversion Tunnel is located about 4km south-west of Walhalla in Gippsland, 1.5km below where Stringers Creek joins the Thomson River. The tunnel was driven through a ridge of land called Stockriders Spur, around which the river formed a horseshoe bend.
Diversion tunnels facilitated alluvial gold mining along the former courses of rivers. After completion the river would flow through the tunnel, allowing in summer time most or all of the flow to be diverted so that the river bed could be sluiced for alluvial gold. In winter the volume of water flow would probably resume the former course, making sluicing very difficult.
Construction of the Thomson River Diversion Tunnel by the Thomson River Alluvial Gold and Tailings Recovery Company was begun in August 1911. Work started at the outlet end and the tunnel was driven at an incline through the slate rock. Construction was completed around October 1912 by blasting through rock at the inlet end. The total length of the tunnel is about 561' (171m). The tunnel is not straight, but reportedly has a sharp change of angle below the entrance and again near the outlet. The entry and exits of the tunnel contribute to the significance as the most visible evidence of the scope of the undertaking.
The fortunes of the Thomson River Alluvial Gold and Tailings Recovery Company are not known, but the working of the horseshoe bend of the Thomson River is not believed to have brought significant dividends. Alluvial mining was never a major feature of the Walhalla field, being confined to sluicing on the beds and banks of Thomson River and its tributaries. In 1886, the mining surveyor observed that nearly all the beds had at some time or other been passed through the sluice-box.
How is it significant?
The Thomson River Diversion Tunnel is of historical and Archaeological significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The Thomson River Diversion Tunnel is historically and archaeologically significant as evidence of one of the dying stages of an industry that had dominated Gippsland for over fifty years. The settlement of the Walhalla area from the mid 1860s had been on the basis of reef mining. With the rapid decline in the fortunes and subsequent closure in 1914 of such prolific mines as Long Tunnel, the sluicing of this part of the Thomson River was one of the last initiatives to win payable gold. Sluicing for alluvial gold in the Thomson River in 1912 had turned the Walhalla wheel full circle from the first prospectors working for gold in Stringers Creek in the early 1860s. The tunnel is significant as one of the last and longest diversion tunnels constructed for winning gold in the Victoria.
The Thomson River Diversion Tunnel is socially significant as a component of one Victoria's most evocative gold mining landscapes. The tunnel contributes to a unique cultural and historical landscape, which was dominated by gold in the nineteenth century, but a landscape with little permanent evidence of its former importance.
THOMSON RIVER TAIL RACE/DIVERSION TUNNEL - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: According to Aitken and Supple et al, the tunnel was cut through a hill to divert the Thomson River and enable alluvial miners to work the dry bed of the river. This interpretation varies from the mining surveyor's account of the tunnel's purpose in 1871: 'At Cooper's Creek a party are engaged in tunnelling in the bed-rock, to form a tail-race for the purpose of draining the flat, which is supposed to be the old bed of the Thomson River.'References: Aitken, p. 39 Mining Surveyors' Reports (Stringer's Creek Division), December 1871 Supple et al, Site M24 (i)


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Classic Crunchy (1kg)
- Ingredients: Roasted peanuts, sugar, salt, emulsifier (E417)
- Benefits: Butterio's classic crunchy peanut butter helps in controlling bad cholesterol and boosts up good cholesterol. It is 100% vegan. Most suitable for gym freaks and health-conscious geeks. The crunchy peanuts give a perfect texture and there are no additives.
- Expiry: Shelf Life is 14 months after the date of manufacturing.
- Direction for use: Oil separation is a natural process, so stir well before use.
Hazelnut Spread (500g)
- Ingredients:: Milk solids, Cocoa solids, Edible Vegetable Oil (palm), Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat ( palm oil and sesame oil), Sugar, Antioxidant 322(i), Edible Common Salt, Hazelnut (13%)
- Benefits: Butterio's hazelnut chocolate spread maintains blood pressure and helps in digestion.
- Usage: Hazelnut spread can be consumed in multiple ways to eat hazelnut spread – cake, brownies, smoothies, bread, and much more.
- Expiry: Shelf Life is 12 months after the date of manufacturing.


How to implement software performance optimization and resource utilization tuning in Linux?
Implementing Software Performance Optimization and Resource Utilization Tuning in Linux
As Linux is widely used in various industries and domains, it is essential to optimize its performance to achieve better resource utilization, improved speed, and enhanced user experience. The objective of this article is to provide a step-by-step guide on how to implement software performance optimization and resource utilization tuning in Linux.
Explanation of the Problem
Linux systems, by design, are optimized for performance and resource utilization. However, due to various factors such as increased usage, outdated configurations, or inefficient system configurations, performance issues may arise. Common performance bottlenecks in Linux systems include:
 1. CPU usage: High CPU utilization can lead to slow system performance, freezes, and crashes.
 2. Memory consumption: Insufficient memory or excessive memory usage can result in system crashes, slow performance, and memory-related errors.
 3. Disk I/O: Slow disk read and write operations can cause system slow-downs and crashes.
 4. Network bandwidth: Limited network bandwidth can cause network-related issues, slow data transfer rates, and connectivity problems.
Troubleshooting Steps
To identify and troubleshoot performance issues in Linux systems, follow these steps:
a. Monitor system resource utilization
Use tools such as top, htop, glances, or sar to monitor CPU usage, memory consumption, and disk I/O. Identify which system resources are consuming excessive resources and prioritize optimization efforts accordingly.
b. Check system configuration and settings
Review system configuration files, such as /etc/sysctl.conf and /proc/sys, to ensure that settings are optimized for performance. Adjust settings as necessary, such as increasing the maximum number of open files or modifying the buffer cache settings.
c. Update and optimize system software
Regularly update Linux distributions and installed software to ensure you have the latest performance-optimized versions. Consider upgrading to newer kernels or using optimized software builds.
d. Tune disk I/O
Optimize disk I/O by using solid-state drives (SSDs) or high-performance hard disk drives (HDDs). Disable unnecessary disk-intensive services, and configure disk scheduling algorithms to optimize I/O performance.
e. Improve network bandwidth
Optimize network bandwidth by configuring network settings, such as net.core.somaxconn and net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog, to improve network performance. Consider enabling network optimization tools, such as ndisc6 or ip_route.
Additional Troubleshooting Tips
 1. Run system diagnosis tools: Run tools such as linux-diag or sysdiag to identify potential issues and optimize system configuration.
 2. Analyze system logs: Review system logs to identify patterns of behavior that may indicate performance issues.
 3. Use performance profiling tools: Use profiling tools, such as perf or SystemTap, to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize system configuration accordingly.
 4. Consider upgrading hardware: Consider upgrading hardware components, such as adding more RAM or replacing slow hard drives, to improve system performance.
Conclusion and Key Takeaways
By following these troubleshooting steps and additional troubleshooting tips, you can effectively implement software performance optimization and resource utilization tuning in Linux systems. Regular monitoring and optimization efforts will ensure your Linux systems remain performant and efficient, providing a better user experience. Key takeaways include:
 1. Monitoring system resource utilization to identify performance bottlenecks.
 2. Regularly updating and optimizing system software.
 3. Tuning disk I/O and network bandwidth settings for optimal performance.
 4. Running system diagnosis and profiling tools to identify and optimize performance issues.
By implementing these strategies, you can significantly improve the performance and resource utilization of your Linux systems, ensuring optimal system performance and user satisfaction.
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The Ushobrakflug train system is a small train track system on Ushobrakflug, first created in YE 35 to connect the various locations on the planet for use in rapid transportation. The track utilises Type 32 rail trains on the track, both for cargo and passenger transport. The tracks are still being expanded as the planet becomes more urbanised and new demands for connections arise. It is officially controlled by the National Infrastructure and Utilities Service, and the Yamatai Department Of Colonization.
There are several train stations that allow passengers to embark and travel to the various places on the planet. Most of these are used both for passengers and cargo. These stations are currently all connected by one continuous track line.
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It is the policy of the Bossier Parish School District that:
- The school district will engage students, parents, teachers, food service professionals, health professionals, and other interested community members in developing, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing district-wide nutrition and physical activity policies.
- All students in grades K-12 will have opportunities, support, and encouragement to be physically active on a regular basis.
- Foods and beverages sold or served at school will meet the nutrition requirements as outlined in Bulletin 1196.
- Qualified child nutrition professionals will provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that meet the health and nutrition needs of students; will accommodate the religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the student body in meal planning; and will provide clean, safe, and pleasant settings and adequate time for students to eat.
- To the maximum extent practicable, all schools in our district will participate in available federal school meal programs (including the School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program, and Summer Food Service Program.
- Schools will provide nutrition education and physical education to foster lifelong habits of healthy eating and physical activity, and will establish linkages between health education and school meal programs, and with related community services.


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FDI, Trade, and Product Innovation: Theory and Evidence
This article investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI, including outward FDI and inward FDI), imports and exports, and product innovation. Our theoretical model predicts that inward FDI, outward FDI, imports, and exports have positive influences on firm innovative activities, which would evaluate the effects of the relative magnitude of different sources on innovation. The empirical results based on the 2003 First Taiwan Technological Innovation Survey confirm three of the proposed hypotheses for the entire sample. However, when focusing on the manufacturing sector, outward FDI, inward FDI, imports, and exports all exhibit strongly positive effects on the determination of conducting product innovation (i.e., the four hypotheses are verified). A consistent trend is that outward FDI has the largest effect on innovation, regardless of the measurement of product innovation and the division of the entire sample, which may imply that in Taiwan a positive effect of "deindustrialization" is to innovate more.
Volume (Year): 77 (2010)
Issue (Month): 2 (October)
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The Toxic Secret of Baby Dish Soap
After reading this post, you'll be an expert on baby-safe dish soap.
We looked at why baby dish soap is necessary;
What toxins are hidden in dish soap for baby bottles;
What criteria does a baby bottle soap have to meet so you can trust it 100%;
And we put together a step-by-step checklist for getting baby bottles squeaky clean.
Let's dive right in!
Toxins in baby dish soap
You might expect so-called "baby-safe" dish soap to be 100% nontoxic.
Unfortunately, most baby bottle dish soaps contain dangerous ingredients. For example:
1. Sodium laureth sulfate (SLES) and sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS)
Manufacturers include these foaming agents in order to create bubbles. Lots and lots of bubbles.
But SLS and SLES have been so heavily processed that they are a far cry from coconut oil. Several steps of chemical-intensive processing stand between them.
Unlike coconut oil, SLS and SLES can damage DNA and harm your baby's respiratory, endocrine, reproductive, digestive, and nervous systems.
Scientists also suspect that SLS and SLES cause cancer.
Remember the chemical-intensive processing that produced them? The SLS and SLES that go into conventional "baby-safe" dish soaps contain residues from those other chemicals.
And many of them are super toxic—like 1,4-dioxane.
The process of making SLS and SLES involves 1,4-dioxane, which may cause cancer.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) gives 1,4-dioxane a toxicity score of 8 out of 10.
Another chemical impurity commonly found in SLS and SLES is ethylene oxide.
Ethylene oxide causes cancer, and (believe it or not) is even more dangerous than 1,4-dioxane.
Ethylene oxide received a toxicity score of 10 in the EWG's Skin Deep database—the highest possible score.
Not exactly an ingredient you want in dish soap for baby bottles!
The lesson? Keep dish soaps with SLS or SLES far away from baby bottles.
Unfortunately, that rules out most supposedly "baby-safe" dish soaps.
But fear not; a truly safe dish soap for baby bottles does exist. We'll tell you more about it at the end of this post.
But first: what other harmful ingredients do "baby-safe" dish soaps often contain?
Fragrance is a catch-all term that can hide up to 3,163 chemicals in baby dish soaps and other products.
These harmful chemicals include phthalates, a well-known hormone disruptor.
3. Methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone
These ingredients can irritate the skin.
They also trigger allergic reactions in up to 3% of the population.
Worst of all, methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone are neurotoxins—in other words, they poison the brain.
These kinds of poisonous ingredients don't belong in baby dish soap—yet there they are.
This chemical harms children's development and poisons the reproductive system.
It also irritates skin.
The EWG gives it a "C" toxicity rating in their Guide to Healthy Cleaning.
Many other harsh substances can be found in baby dish soap.
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That's just the tip of the iceberg. There are many harmful ingredients in baby dish soap besides those.
But how exactly would these harmful ingredients get inside the baby?
Don't they all go down the drain when you rinse the baby bottle?
Let's find out...
Is baby dish soap necessary?
After rinsing, even though you might not see any dish soap left, the truth is that some of it remains behind.
Conventional baby dish soaps leave behind a thin film that is hard to wash off entirely.
And if your area has hard water, the water's minerals cause even more of the dish soap residue to cling to your dishes.
If the dish soap for baby bottles you're using happens to include toxic ingredients, those toxins will stick around and mix in with your baby's next meal.
The bottle goes into the baby's mouth, and those toxins enter the baby's body... where they spread out through the bloodstream, and harm her organs.
A study conducted at the University of Georgia revealed that because babies' and children's organs are still developing, toxins harm them more easily than they would adults.
So, is baby dish soap necessary?
It absolutely is—but with a caveat.
How to choose a baby-safe dish soap
Unfortunately, most baby dish soaps—even the ones that brand themselves as "natural" or even "organic"—contain the same chemicals as conventional dish soap. Ingredient lists commonly look something like this:
So how are you supposed to see through the marketing hype and find a truly baby-safe brand?
Finding a genuinely, no-nonsense, truly natural dish soap requires that you read the ingredients list with great care.
Learn more from this video:
A truly natural dish soap contains no dangerous chemicals that will harm your baby's respiratory, endocrine, reproductive, digestive, or nervous systems.
Or ingredients that cause allergies or cancer.
Or parabens, phthalates, petrochemcials, artificial colors or fragrances.
Instead, the ingredient list should look like this:
This helps you to recognize a truly natural dish soap when you see it—one that is safe for washing baby items.
Then sign up for our giveaway.
Baby-safe dish soap checklist
Many manufacturers cunningly try to persuade you of a dish soap's safety for babies by emphasizing other aspects of the product that, when you think about it, actually have nothing to do with safety itself.
They might tell you the product is:
- Made with plant-based ingredients
- Softly scented
- BPA-free packaging
While these might also sound like great features for a baby-safe dish soap to have, they don't tell you anything about the product's safety for babies.
Here's what we mean:
Harsh ingredients such as SLS are made from coconut oil and thus constitute "natural" and "vegetable-based" ingredients.
Does that make SLS safe? Heck no!
"Biodegradable" means that the product will break down within one year. But a biodegradable formula may still include harsh ingredients that harm your little darling's health long before they break down.
Even BPA-free packaging doesn't tell you anything about the ingredients lurking inside the dish soap bottle.
So what can you do?
Look at the ingredients. Period.
Go to EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, and in the search box, look up the product itself. If the product isn't listed, look up each ingredient individually.
The EWG is a wonderful, high-quality resource. If a baby dish soap passes their test and gets an "A" rating, you can safely use it to wash baby bottles.
Here's an example for an all-natural dish soap that meets all of the above requirements and includes only safe ingredients.
If you check it out, you'll see what we mean.
Does antibacterial baby dish soap work?
In fact, you should NEVER use antibacterial dish soap for baby bottles—for several reasons.
The first is that antibacterial dish soap doesn't do what it claims to. A team of Korean researchers discovered that antibacterial dish soap only kills more bacteria than regular dish soap if the dishes are soaked in it for at least 9 hours—without adding any water.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concurs, and has banned many common antibacterial ingredients in soaps because they provide no benefit to consumers.
Even if antibacterial soap did what it promises, the health effect on babies would be negative.
A team of Swedish researchers discovered that babies' immune systems develop incredibly quickly during the first weeks after birth.
The process of developing a strong immune system depends on the kind of bacteria a baby encounters and prevents allergies, asthma and other diseases later in life.
While antibacterial ingredients don't do much good, they also cause harm—such as by polluting the environment.
In conclusion, antibacterial baby dish soap doesn't provide ANY health advantages, but instead harms the health of your little ones (read this post on antibacterial dish soap for more details).
The best way to clean baby bottles
Is it better to clean baby bottles using a dishwasher or by hand?
That's easy. Dried milk inside baby bottles is almost impossible for dishwashers to remove.
The best way to get dirty baby bottles truly clean is to hand-wash them with the right tools.
Here's how to wash baby bottles like a pro:
1. Immediately after use: disassemble, rinse, and soak the baby bottles to prevent milk residue from drying and hardening inside. (You will be glad you did: this step will save you a LOT of time!)
2. Get a separate baby bottle cleaner brush.
While it might be tempting to use a regular ol' dish sponge, we suggest you don't. Here's why.
Dish sponges contain lots of food residue—and that's not all.
A group of German researchers discovered that used dish sponges contain up to 362 different types of bacteria, and as many as 82 billion bacteria per square inch.
While not all bacteria are bad, the


text: The Mill is one of those few paintings that are significant not only because they are beautiful but because they have profoundly influenced the history of taste. As part of important eighteenthand nineteenth-century collections, The Mill was well known to connoisseurs and artists who valued it as one of Rembrandt's greatest creations. The romantic aura of the scene, with the dramatic silhouette of the mill seen against the stormy sky, captured their imagination. Many stories and myths circulated about the painting, among them that this was a picture of Rembrandt's father's mill. The dark, threatening sky seemed to others to portend the severe financial difficulties that Rembrandt had in the mid-1650s.


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The Silva method, also known as Silva Mind Control, is a hypnosis-based self help program developed by a repairman named José Silva. It claims, among other things, to increase your IQ and help you talk with God by staring into space several times a day.
Method and madness
The heart of the Silva method relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of the brain. Silva came across some work pointing out the differential functions of the left and right hemisphere of the brain and came to the conclusion that the right brain is mystical and all powerful and that everyone is stuck in the left hemisphere. This is patent nonsense and goes against every bit of evidence in neuroscience. Silva though ran with it and claims his method unlocks the power of the right hemisphere allowing people to manifest anything they could possibly want.
Some parts of the method should not be taught to children, or only taught with proper care for their use. In particular, "glove anaesthesia" can get kids in trouble if they just "will the pain away" without attending to the underlying issues. Tales have been told of children carrying on playing with arterial bleeding after making the hurt go away, leading to fatal exsanguination.


Smart Water
 - Sohal, Muhammad Adeel Nasser (Project Participant)
 - Thyne, Geoffrey (Project Participant)
 - Søgaard, Erik Gydensen (Project Licensee)
Project Details
Description
The project concerns the interaction between oil, brine and chalk and has its focus on the interface between these three phases. By using water flooding in oil reservoirs much more of the original oil in place can be recovered and by changing concentration or identity of the ionic substances the interface between chalk and oil can be influenced so more oil will follow the water phase. It means that more oil will be produced. Flotation experiments and core flooding equipment are important parts of the present research.
Layman's description
I forhold til almindeligt havvand, der mest benyttes til water flooding med henblik på en forøgelse af produktionen af olie fra kalkreservoirer, er der i dette projekt tale om, at indholdet af makroioner enten fortyndes, eller der tilføjes større mængder af visse ioner, der vil bidrage til at forøge den producerede oliemængde.
Key findings
Improvement of amounts of produced oil due to use of new species in the sea water has been discovered.
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Bering Sea Ecosystem
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Ice, Ice Everywhere
The Healy was surrounded by ice most of the day today, but it wasn't in the big hospitable sheets that allow a dozen people to get out, walk around, and drill holes. So on two occasions today, scientists and the crew went to great lengths to get access to ice.
The target of the first adventure: a big chunk of ice with algae growing on it. The krill team needs ice algae to feed to the animals in their experiments. They've been getting that algae from cores other people have taken on the ice, but it would take a whole lot of cores to get enough algae that way. Some cores don't hit any ice algae at all. And some days – like today – it's difficult to even get onto the ice to take cores.
So a few days ago Rodger Harvey, a biochemist from the University of Maryland, asked the Coast Guard to come up with a net so they could lasso a big, algae-infused piece of ice and bring it on board. This morning they tested their technique on a promising-looking piece of ice.
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without the responsiveness to devices the entire purpose would be defeated. Progressive web apps also provide guidelines to build a UI which animates or responds at 60 fps (frame per seconds).
To delight users, mobile web apps need to behave, in terms of performance and interface, ideally in these time limits.
Response, animation, idle and load time limits
Response, animation, idle and load time limits
Now we have several reasons to deep dive into a few standards and design patterns, which collectively transform a normal web app into a progressive web app.
Service Worker
A service worker is a standard that comprises scripts run by one's browser in the background, separate from a web page, opening the door to features, which do not need a web page or user interaction. Today, they already include features like push notifications and background sync. In the future, service worker will support things like periodic sync or geo-fencing, too.
Service Worker enable better performance and user experience
Service Worker enable better performance and user experience

Few salient features of Service Worker:
 - Unlike a JavaScript Worker, which cannot access the DOM directly, a service worker can communicate with the pages it controls by responding to messages sent via the postMessage interface, and those pages can manipulate the DOM if needed.
 - Service Worker is a programmable network proxy, allowing control of network requests from the page handled.
 - It terminates when not in use, and restarts when next needed. Hence, we cannot rely on global state within a Service Worker's onfetch and onmessage If there is information that you need to persist and reuse across restarts, Service Worker does have access to the IndexedDB API.
 - Service Worker makes extensive use of Promises. To learn more about Promises – go to Jake Archibald's article.
Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox and IE Edge (In development) have support for Service Worker. Apple Safari has a plan for the same.
Service Worker specification is managed by W3C.
Push and notifications
Push and notifications are important ways to engage users outside the context of web page. They are some of the coolest features of a native app. When we send a timely, precise and relevant notification to users, it increases the value of the offering.
Timely precise and relevant push notification.
Timely precise and relevant push notification.
Service Worker can enable push and notification seamlessly for web. Push is information sent by the server to Service Worker. Notification is a message sent to the user by Service Worker. Just like in native apps you need GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) account for sending web push notifications.
W3C is responsible for creating specifications for both Push API and the Notifications API.
Web App Manifest
The Web App Manifest specification is another standard managed by W3C. It is basically a JSON file which helps in providing configurations to enable several native like features in a web app.
 - Add to home screen – User can now add a web app to their home screen for easy access. Home screen will display an icon of the web app. We can specify icons set (with different sizes) for add to home screen functionality in the web app manifest file. In Mobile Chrome, as with some other browsers, you get an option for it in the menu.
 - Splash screen – A splash screen helps in providing a great user experience when the app is not yet ready to display the first chunk of information. In the absence of a splash screen, the user gets confused about the state of the app. In web manifest we can give the splash screen image, title and theme color configurations. When user opens the web app they will see a splash screen just like in a native app.
 - Theme color – We can configure a theme color to add color to the toolbar, address bar and other features.
 - Launch style – We can configure display and orientation for the web app. Display options are browser or standalone while orientation is portrait or landscape.
To add the Web Manifest to the web page we need to use this code <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">.
App Install Banner
Mobile Chrome provides an easy way for the web page to prompt a user to install the web app to their home page. This is in addition to the 'add to home screen' feature. It helps in increasing accessibility to the app.
Native Hardware Access
We can program the web to get access to native hardware capabilities. Currently available are:
 1. Click to call – Easily link phone numbers for direct dial
 2. User location
 3. Device orientation
 4. Audio/Video recording and playback (Playback is already available in several mobile browsers)
Some capabilities are work in progress:
 1. Generic sensor API
 2. Ambient light sensor
 3. Proximity sensor
 4. Accelerometer Sensor
 5. Gyroscope Sensor
 6. Magnetometer Sensor
 7. Vibration
 8. Battery status
 9. Wake lock
These native hardware capability access standards are again managed by W3C.
Web payment API
Web payment standards developed by W3C group called Web Payment Working Group (WPWG) improve the current online payment mechanism. This is important to cut average shopping cart abandonment rate, which stays at 69% across all devices. It is even higher for mobile devices.
Web Payment in 3 steps with increasing security using Web Payment API
Web Payment in 3 steps with increasing security using Web Payment API.
Web Payment API will cut the steps and increase the reliability for online payment. A single tap makes it the best way for a user to complete their transaction.
Another forum called Web Payments Interest Group (WPIG), which consists of finance, mobile and web industry entities, contributes actively in shaping up the Web Payment standards.
Credential API
Credential API aims to reduce the form filling for login information by a user. It enables the web to use device accounts for one tap and auto log-in and further improves the user experience.
One tap web login using system account.
One tap web login using system account.
Investing in progressive web app
Investment in progressive web app is critical for an organization's mobile strategy to succeed in the long run. The Web is device independent and it gives the opportunity to explore an app without installing anything. Progressive web apps will reduce the feature gap between native apps and web apps in a short while.
There are a few important matrices which motivate us to start investing in progressive web apps.
Progressive web app improve conversion lower acquistions costs and increase reach
Progressive web app improve conversion, lower acquisitions costs and increase reach
Increase reach
Google Chrome has announced about 1 billion active monthly mobile users in just 4 years of its first release. Expectedly there will be even more tremendous rapid growth on the mobile web.
ComScore recently released data which says users are spending 2.5 x times on mobile web apps vs the top 1000 native/hybrid apps.
Reach on mobile apps vs web apps
Reach on mobile apps vs web apps
Lower acquisitions costs
Google worked with several companies like Flipkart and AliExpress for their progressive web app strategy and helped them build a better mobile web presence.
One of the key matrixes for any marketing team is the average customer acquisition cost. Selio declared that their average customer acquisition cost for progressive web apps is a whopping 10 times lesser than for native apps.
selio customer acquasition cost
Selio customer acquisition cost
Improved conversion
Conversion is another key matrix which explains the actual transactions made by acquired customers.
AliExpress revamped their mobile web presence with progressive web app. Very soon, they saw a huge 82 % more conversion on iOS devices following an improvement in their mobile web presence They have also experienced a 2X increase in page views and 74% more time spent on mobile web. Hence it is critical for businesses to continue investing in progressive mobile web apps.
Ali Express improved mobile presence effect
Ali Express improved mobile presence effect
Conclusion
Progressive web app may look like a buzz word around improved web standards and few mobile friendly web design patterns. But we can't deny the positive impact it can bring on businesses and users.
Progressive web app bring some features and improvement for mobile web which was only available for native app in past. Lower cost of development and maintenance as well as ease of distribution will taint on the position of native app in near future.
Native app will not go away but it's significance will take a toll as progressive web app will progress.
We can start leveraging progressive web app standards and design patterns in any domain/verticals mobile web offering.
References
 1. Google progressive web app developer home page
 2. Progressive Web App Dev Summit videos playlist
 3. JavaScript Service Worker article
 4. W3C ServiceWorker standard
 5. W3C Push API specification
 6. W3C Notification API specification
 7. W3C web app manifest specification
 8. Indexdb API specification
 9. Promise design pattern
 10. W3C native hardware capability access standards
 11. W3C web payment API specification
 12. W3C credential API specification
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C#/.NET Fundamentals: Safely and Efficiently Raising Events
The C#/.NET Fundamentals series is geared towards examining fundamental concepts in using C# (and.NET in general) to produce effective solutions.
A couple of posts ago, I discussed the EventHandler and EventHandler delegates, and in particular at one point mentioned in a sidebar that you need to watch out for thread-safety in order to safely raise events in a multi-threaded environment.
There was an interesting discussion in the comments about different ways that people achieve their thread-safety when raising events, and that got me interested in exploring them more in detail and checking them for performance.
Introduction: The Problems with Raising Events
Raising events is pretty easy in the.NET Framework, but it does have its pitfalls. Let's illustrate with a quick example. We'll begin by assuming we are writing a messaging receiver, and every time a new message is received, we want to raise a MessageReceived event that contains the new message.
So, to follow the Microsoft recommended practices for events, we'll create a set of event arguments that inherit from EventArgs (directly or indirectly), and those arguments will include the message we just received:
 1: // all event arguments should inherit from EventArgs
 2: public class MessageReceivedEventArgs : EventArgs
 3: {
 4: // gets the message we received
 5: public string Message { get; private set; }
 7: // constructs an immutable ReceivedEventArgs with the message
 8: public MessageReceivedEventArgs(string message)
 9: {
 10: Message = message;
 11: }
 12: }
And now, we'll create our base UnsafeMessenger class which will implement this message and notify all subscribers of the event MessageReceived. The OnNewMessage() method would typically be private and called by an internal process, but for the sake of performance testing we're leaving it public to pump messages through:
 1: // This is our base example, has no thread-safety
 2: public class UnsafeMessenger
 3: {
 4: // the event listeners can subscribe to
 5: public event EventHandler MessageReceived;
 7: // the method we'll call when we get a new message
 8: public void OnNewMessage(string message)
 9: {
 10: if (MessageReceived!= null)
 11: {
 12: MessageReceived(this, new MessageReceivedEventArgs(message));
 13: }
 14: }
 15: }
On the surface, this seems fine and dandy! And actually, if we were only using this in a single-threaded program, it would meet our needs. The problem with this type of pattern for raising events, though, is that it is not thread-safe.
Why? Keep in mind that a listener can subscribe or unsubscribe from an event at any given time. Imagine that we have one thread that is processing new messages to be sent to the event listeners, and another thread (perhaps in the UI) that is subscribing and unsubscribing listeners.
Let's say there's one subscriber (currently) listening to this event. If we get a new message and call OnNewMessage() to process it to all subscribers, we could end up hitting the if condition:
 1: if (MessageReceived!= null)
And it would pass because we have one subscriber (thus, the delegate is!= null). Let's say though that before that thread has a chance to execute the next line of code, the UI thread unsubscribes from the event:
 1: myMessenger.MessageReceived -= MyMessageHandler;
Uh oh, now the MessageReceived delegate is null because it has no subscribers, this means that when the message processing thread hits the next line:
 1: // We already passed the IF check
 2: if (MessageReceived!= null)
 3: {
 4: // NOW we are processing this line, but MessageReceived is now null!!!
 5: MessageReceived(this, new MessageReceivedEventArgs(message));
 6: }
We are now trying to invoke a null delegate, which will throw a NullReferenceException. Thus, this pattern of raising an even works fine in single-threaded environments, but does not work well in multi-threaded environments.
What we need to do is find a way to make this thread-safe. So, let's begin to look at some ways to do this more correctly, and then we can measure them.
Lock it down! – Synchronizing the event using a lock…
The first potential solution many developers might jump to is to think that since we have a concurrency issue, we should just synchronize access to the event. To do this, we would need to prevent users from subscribing or unsubscribing while we raise events and vice-versa.
At this point, a developer new to.NET may be scratching their head thinking, how do you synchronize access to an event?
 1: // how do we guarantee lock access to this event while being invoked?
 2: public event EventHandler MessageReceived;
After all, you can't control event subscription and un-subscription to guarantee synchronization with raising the event, can you? Well, yes, you can.
It turns out declaring an event in.NET is much like declaring an auto-implemented property. That is, declaring an event, using syntax like that of above, is short-hand for declaring a private delegate behind the scenes, and then exposing access for adding a subscription (add) and removing a subscription (remove). Thus, the simple auto-event above is roughly identical to something like this:
 1: // an auto-event is just a private delegate behind the scenes
 2: private EventHandler _messageReceived;
 4: // what we declare as the event is who can access sub/un-sub of the event
 5: public event EventHandler MessageReceived
 6: {
 7: add { _messageReceived += value; }
 8: remove { _messageReceived -= value; }
 9: }
Neat, huh? So really, a public auto-event is really just a private delegate that allows you to subscribe and un-subscribe publically. That is, the access specifier on the event only controls who can subscribe and unsubscribe to the event. This is the primary difference between a public event and a public delegate. If a delegate is public than anyone can subscribe, unsubscribe, assign, and invoke the delegate. Events, however, give you a handy way to only allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe, but deny them the ability to assign or invoke it the event directly. This is typically what you want when dealing with events, your class handles invoking and assigning the event, and you only allow outside elements to subscribe or unsubscribe to it.
So, now that we know we can change the way add and remove work, we can synchronize access to them and to raising the event:
 1: public class SyncronizedMessenger : IMessenger
 2: {
 3: // delegate and lock
 4: private EventHandler _messageReceived;
 5: private readonly object _raiseLock = new object();
 7: // sub/unsub now in a lock
 8: public event EventHandler MessageReceived
 9: {
 10: add { lock (_raiseLock) { _messageReceived += value; } }
 11: remove { lock (_raiseLock) { _messageReceived -= value; } }
 12: }
 14: // raise the event under the lock
 15: public void OnNewMessage(string message)
 16: {
 17: lock (_raiseLock)
 18: {
 19: if (_messageReceived!= null)
 20: {
 21: _messageReceived(this, new MessageReceivedEventArgs(message));
 22: }
 23: }
 24: }
 25: }
This way, if someone tries to subscribe/un-subscribe while an event is being raised, they'll have to wait for the lock to be free first, and vice-versa. This would, indeed, make us thread safe, but the down side is it could add a lot of contention, especially if subscriptions are changing fairly often and/or events are raised rapidly.
Regardless, it's a lot of extra work to attempt to acquire a lock at every event trigger. Thus, there are easier ways, but we started out with this one first since locking is generally the first resort people jump to in multi-threading.
Performing 1 billion iterations of raising an event using this method on my machine, and comparing it to the UnsafeMessenger, with 0-3 subscribers, we get (all times in milliseconds):
Subscribers Unsafe Synchronized
0 4,011 31,005
1 8,600 34,916
2 20,326


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Scientists from Alltech and Alimetrics collaborated on the study, which has been published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science and compares the rumen degradability and effects on rumen fermentation of three protein sources: whey protein, soybean meal and yeast-derived microbial protein.
The assessment of protein degradation in the rumen of live animals has historically proven difficult, and although analysis of overall protein can be done, tracking the origin of protein from a specific feed component cannot be done with great certainty. In addition, ruminants have a low overall efficiency of nitrogen utilisation, with between 70– 95% of the nitrogen in diets excreted in dung and urine, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The use of this novel in vitro technique can help to overcome such challenges as it allows protein sources to be ranked according to their degradability by rumen bacteria.
"When it comes to comparing protein sources, we believe this tool is particularly useful when some known and commonly used benchmark products, such as soybean meal, are included in a study," said Dr. Juha Apajalahti, managing director at Alimetrics.
Data from the study indicate that the yeast-derived microbial protein was the most resistant of all three protein sources to being degraded in the rumen, with less than 15% of the amino acids of interest being converted to end products measured. Additionally, the study showed that the level of the protein breakdown product, ammonia, from yeast-derived microbial protein was able to be taken up by the rumen bacteria, reducing excess rumen ammonia accumulation. Evaluation of other parameters demonstrated that the yeast-derived microbial protein was able to extensively stimulate rumen fermentation to the same extent as soybean meal.
These data not only suggest that this novel method is suitable for assessing ruminal breakdown of protein feeds, but also that yeast-derived microbial protein could potentially provide a more sustainable, and equally suitable, alternative to products such as soybean meal.
"In terms of research methodology, this provides us with a robust model for screening products, both for fermentation effects and the ability to bypass protein through the rumen," said Matthew Smith, vice president at Alltech. "The findings from this study clearly demonstrate the value of our yeast-derived microbial protein in stimulating rumen fermentation and volatile fatty acid and microbial biomass production. The tool itself is one we can use in our own in vitro fermentation model, Alltech IFM™, to aid future development."
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Studs, Receptors & Pins: The Unsung Heroes of Design
In the vast realm of design, certain elements often go unnoticed, yet they play a pivotal role in the overall functionality and aesthetics of a product. Among these unsung heroes are studs, receptors, and pins. These tiny components, though seemingly insignificant, can make a world of difference in various applications.
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In conclusion, while they might be small, studs, receptors, and pins play a massive role in the world of design. They are the unsung heroes that ensure every product, be it a piece of clothing, an electronic device, or a piece of jewelry, is perfect in every sense.
Studs are versatile components used in various design applications. In fashion, they add aesthetic appeal to garments and accessories, giving them an edgy look. In electronics and machinery, studs serve as connectors, ensuring seamless functionality.
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