Mirepoix (pronounced as Mir-pwa) is a French (if I'm not mistaken!) term to describe a combination of onions, carrots and celery. It is commonly used as a base ingredients to add flavour to soups, stews, and sauces, either used raw, buttered or roasted.
The other combination consisting of capsicum, celery and onions is known as Trinity. It is not so common in comparison to Mirepoix.
For both cases, you can use any types of onions but I chose red onions over others because it has a stronger taste and mildly sweet unlike yellow onions which are too sweet but good for onion soups. Celeriac could be used in place of celery and there is of course no substitute for carrots.
As for proportions, many said that it is a 1:1:1 ratio but I have always use a 2:1:1 ratio. As simple as it might sound, all you need is a food processor or a blender to make this. Believe it or not, 1 celery and 1 carrot each is half the weight of one red onion!
So, in my opinion, the 1:1:1 ratio is not referring to weight, but the number of each of them is used.
That's just my two cents and now everyone knows what's mirepoix :)
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I put up a question to the R list on using VBA macros from within excel. It seems you can use R from within Excel and can customize it so that the end user doesnot know R. It is called RExcel (what else !) Quoting Erich from R archives " There is […]
I put up a question to the R list on using VBA macros from within excel. It seems you can use R from within Excel and can customize it so that the end user doesnot know R. It is called RExcel (what else !)
Quoting Erich from R archives "
There is RExcel (available by downloading the CRAN package RExcelInstaller. It allows to transfer data between R and Excel, and run R code from within Excel. So you can start with your data in Excel, let R do an analysis, and transfer the results back to Excel. You can write VBA macros which do this, but "hidden from exposure",
so the Excel user does not even notice that R is doing the hard work.
It also has an Excel worksheet function RApply which allows to call an R function from an Excel cell formula. =RApply("rfun",A1)
would apply the R function rfun to the value in cell A1.
If the value in A1 changes, Excel will force R to recalculate the formula.
There is a (half hour long) video demo about RExcel
at _URL_
_URL_ has more information about the project

This can help save a huge number of costs as Excel is the least expensive analytical software and is present on all analytics companies.

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text: Lex Fridman is a research scientist working on computer vision and deep learning approaches in the context of semi-autonomous vehicles and more generally human-centered artificial intelligence systems. His work focuses on learning-based methods that leverage large-scale, real-world data. Lex received his BS, MS, and PhD from Drexel University where he worked on applications of machine learning, computer vision, and decision fusion techniques in a number of fields including robotics, active authentication, and activity recognition. Before joining MIT, Lex was at Google working on deep learning approaches to large-scale behavior-based authentication. Lex is a recipient of a CHI-17 best paper award and a CHI-18 best paper honorable mention award.

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Imagine receiving for Christmas—or the holiday of your choice—a gift that you could then use to scan the tree or other holiday items. Thanks to METIS, you could scan your Christmas tree and then reproduce its texture using any of a variety of analog or digital print processes.
One of the fastest-growing applications in wide-format and industrial printing is textures. Particularly in the area of décor, items like laminate flooring can be printed to simulate the feel of wood. While a lot has been written about how these kinds of materials are printed, typically using UV flatbed wide-format printers, not much has been said about the front end of the process. How exactly are these textures created?
Based in Rome, METIS manufactures high-quality, multi configuration scanners specifically designed for the décor industry. They can capture a photorealistic reproduction of an existing surface such as a fine-art painting, wood, or ceramic/stone flooring, a solid panel or a wallcovering.
Step one is to gather those surface attributes, which include RGB color, 3D surface texture, and glossiness, which is what METIS scanners are uniquely designed to do.
The METIS technology was used in the design of this flooring and to generate surface data in this computer-generated room scene displaying the product.
"METIS scanners are considered to have the highest level of color accuracy across the largest area and over the course of time of any commercially available RGB scanner in the world today," said Rob Lawrence, business development manager for Metis scanners at CGS ORIS. "Additionally, METIS is wholly unique in the image acquisition process, and brings an exceptional level of objectivity to the imaging process which is one of the key reasons it was brought into the product offering at CGS ORIS."
CGS ORIS is the official dealer for METIS scanners in the U.S.
High-Res Image Capture
METIS scanners are different from traditional flatbed scanners, because they scan the surface with a 16,300-pixel CMOS sensor and temperature-controlled LEDs up to eight times, each with tightly controlled angle and distance.
The captured data is saved into a proprietary file format. Once captured, METIS's Light Inspector software acts like a virtual photography studio where the operator views, in real time, a virtually unlimited number of lighting combinations to select the view of the surface that best represents the original.
Specialty texture mapping offers various possibilities.
In addition, because of these known lighting angles, distances and temperatures, the METIS software will isolate and calculate the 3D surface depth and surface roughness/ glossiness variance. This data can be then exported as grayscale TIFFs (16-bit, 8-bit, 8-bit layers, 1-bit, and/or 1-bit slices) which can be used for laser and chemical etch engraving of press plates and gravure cylinders or single-pass and/or multi-pass UV inkjet printing and embellishment applications.
Hardware also needs software, and each METIS scanner comes bundled with METIS's ScanDirector, which controls the scanning process with all the controls needed for the most advanced photography requirements. Both applications share the same user interface and work interchangeably. METIS also offers additional licenses of Light Inspector for remote computers, which can be a tremendous benefit to a designer in a different location who wishes to select the lighting angle intensities to capture the nature/essence the surface they chose for a specific design.
Everything—Including the Kitchen Sink
METIS scanners are also unique in the variety of the surfaces they can capture.
"With heavy-duty powder-coated steel scanning tables, the scanners can hold over 500 pounds," Lawrence said. "But with integrated sensors, the scanners can be adjusted to detect the slightest weight change and resistance allowing the most delicate originals to be scanned without danger of being damaged by the scanner."
Some examples of materials scanned at METIS's demo center include a whole kitchen sink, 500-pound granite slabs, barn doors, white glazed tiles, oiled asphalt, oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, grand-format maps, denim and a host of other kinds of textiles.
And we had to ask: what is the coolest thing anyone has scanned and developed with a METIS scanner?
"A fashion house in Milan scanned the wings of a preserved falcon and used the pattern to emboss the shoulders and sleeves of a leather jacket," Lawrence said. "We had one client lay mud on the table for a textile design."
Got mud? No problem with the METIS DRS 2000 DCS Large Format Scanner.
Given the variety of materials and surfaces the scanners can digitize, they are well-suited for a wide range of markets. The three primary markets that the company specifically serves are décor (flooring, wall panels, wall coverings and ceramic tiles), fine-art reproduction and archival services (libraries and museums). Naturally, each of these markets has different imaging requirements.
"Depending on the market, the desired resolution, and if they plan to reproduce texture and glossiness will determine the kind of output required from the scanner," Lawrence said.
Pattern texture mapping to enhance wallpaper printing.
Market Dynamics
All markets have their own dynamics. "Decor is undergoing a transformation to a digital workflow," Lawrence said. "With digital will come a huge demand for more depth. The METIS scanner is a high throughput scanning technology equipped to deliver all of the needed data and files for the latest digital printing technologies, which include the ability to generate surface texture and glossiness for embellishment or texture builds."
For the fine-art market, some of the benefits that the METIS scanner offer are similar, but there are some unique requirements for this market.
"The ability to capture and reproduce an original work of art with a printing process requires not only an ability to accurately reproduce a painting, but also an adept understanding of the artists they serve," Lawrence said. "The METIS gives the fine-art professional a tool to start off with the most complete and accurate capture, and combines it with a scanning methodology and software tool to work with the artist side-by-side to capture the true essence of the original in real time."
The scanner can also export accurate surface texture and glossiness details in formats unique to each printer's capabilities, such as ink thickness per pass, as well as the ability for the RIP to lay down individual layers to build up the surface height.
For archival services, it's all about capturing detail and consistency.
"The METIS scanners were designed to provide the highest level of light uniformity and detail for the most challenging originals," Lawrence said. "METIS flatbed scanners are among the rare elite scanners capable of achieving a FADGI 4-Star designation, the highest quality standard in the archival industry."
Some specific METIS customers and the kinds of tasks to which they are putting the scanner include:
 - The world's best-known tile manufacturers and retailers use the METIS to generate original designs and to create their marketing imagery for catalog and online content.
 - The décor manufacturers in the U.S. are using the METIS to reduce time, costs, and ultimately product returns by generating more effective sample materials.
 - Fine-art reproduction houses are using the METIS to produce higher-quality images for 2D giclées, as well as 3D-textured fine-art reproductions produced on a flatbed UV printer.
 - Colorimetry for hard-to-color-manage printed media such as ceramics, wood, concrete, and carpeting.
Opportunities for Print Service Providers
METIS scanning technology can also provide opportunities for graphic arts firms and print service providers.
"With advancements in 3D and 3D-like technologies, there is a need for realistic surface data, and the METIS's ability to capture and deliver graphics of the surface attributes of color, texture and glossiness will mean greater realism with these technologies," Lawrence said.
The METIS technology scans materials from a topical level. This approach also benefits colorimetry creation for materials which would be impossible to profile by traditional methods. When accurately reproducing hard-to-replicate detail, proper color management is just as important as the images color data. METIS has partnered with ColorGate Digital Output Solutions, GmbH to prepare colorimetry for accurate color management. What traditionally took hours now takes just minutes.
Multi-use METIS Surf 3D ColorGate Edition creates textured scans and colorimetry.
The benefits go beyond print. The METIS scanner can bring new revenue sources to graphic arts firms by "being able to reproduce 3D texture reproductions with existing UV printing equipment or providing scanning services for CGI/PBR (computer-generated imagery/physical based rendering) applications," Lawrence said.
METIS scanners could help expand offerings for print service providers' clients in that they can provide their clients with extremely color accurate photorealistic and/ or tactile realistic reproductions, and the scanners can deliver image data in whatever format is needed for a given print manufacturing method. And scanning surfaces are required for a host of needs beyond print, such as virtual/augmented reality, CGI, and PBR. Computer-generated room scenes, product displays, video game environments, and movies are increasingly calling for more photorealistic surface textures.
Think Outside the Box—and Then Scan the Box
What advice would Lawrence give creative designers when thinking about doing custom scanning for their production process?
"First of all, think outside the box," he said, "but remember that the scanner's job is to give you an absolutely faithful capture of the original. So, before you send a surface to be scanned, be sure it is as close as possible to how you wish the final output to appear. This includes gloss/sheen levels. But don't just get stuck on one option, the METIS software enables real-time lighting perspective changes post-scan to allow for virtually unlimited perspectives that would take other scanning technologies days to try to create. It is easily adjustable to scan multiple scan mapping options


Ordering of Steps
In the recipes package, there are no constraints on the order in which steps are added to the recipe; you as a user are free to apply steps in the order appropriate to your data preprocessing needs. However, the order of steps matters and there are some general suggestions that you should consider.
Transforming a variable
Handling levels in categorical data
The order of steps for handling categorical levels is important, because each step sets levels for the next step to use as input. These steps create factor output, even if the input is of character type.
Dummy variables
Recipes do not automatically create dummy variables (unlike most formula methods).
Recommended preprocessing outline
While every individual project's needs are different, here is a suggested order of potential steps that should work for most problems:
 1. Impute
 2. Handle factor levels
 3. Individual transformations for skewness and other issues
 4. Discretize (if needed and if you have no other choice)
 5. Create dummy variables
 6. Create interactions
 7. Normalization steps (center, scale, range, etc)
 8. Multivariate transformation (e.g. PCA, spatial sign, etc)
Again, your mileage may vary for your particular problem.
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Resources for Tutors
Adult Education Tutor Resources
Detailed lesson ideas and other useful tips for reading and writing tutoring sessions with adult learners.
An archive of short lessons organized according to subject are perfect for tutoring sessions.
Offers great lessons in reading, spelling comprehension, math and more.
Literacy Organizations and Advocacy Groups
A group of library literacy programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. This group strengthens some of the efforts to raise awareness throughout the Bay Area while saving costs.
The California State Library
Has been involved in adult literacy through local libraries since 1985. Visit this website to find out more about what is going on in adult literacy programs in every part of California.
An umbrella organization for library-based, adult school, community based, and community college literacy programs. Contains facts about literacy rates, worldwide and in the U. S., and information about exciting activities that are going on all over the country to make the U. S. more literate.
The National Center for Family Literacy
Promotes family literacy to break the cycle of families that do not read.
National Assessment of Adult Literacy
State and county estimates of low literacy.
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Research focused on improving practice in educational programs that serve adults with limited literacy and English language skills, and those without a high school diploma.

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To establish a new relation (which is the foreign key in terms of database management):
- press the Create relation button on the New object toolbar;
- click the entity where the referential constraint should be created;
- click the referred entity;
- specify new foreign key properties using Foreign key Editor.
Hint: To create a relation, you can also use the corresponding item of the context menu.
Once the relation is created, it is displayed as a line between two entities in the diagram area. The style the line is drawn is determined by the diagram notation.


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Researchers at King's College London have identified a gene linked to age-related degeneration of the intervertebral discs, a common cause of lower back pain.
Back pain costs the United Kingdom an estimated £7billion ($11 billion in US dollars) a year due to sick leave and treatment costs. Lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) is inherited in 65%-80% of people with the condition, suggesting that genes play a key role. Until now, the genetic cause of lower back pain associated with LDD was unknown, says King's.
For this study, scientists compared MRI images of the spine in 4,600 individuals with genome-wide association data, which mapped the genes of all the volunteers. They identified that the gene PARK2 was implicated in people with degenerate discs and could affect the speed at which they deteriorate.
The researchers say the results show that the gene may be switched off in people with LDD. Although it is still unclear how this might happen, it is thought that environmental factors, such as lifestyle and diet, could trigger this switch by making changes known as epigenetic modifications to the gene.
was published online September 19 in Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.


Washington, July 1 IANS | 1 year ago
In what may hold lessons for modern society, scientists have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long "growth blip" among south-western Native Americans between 500 and 1300 A.D.
It was a time when the early features of civilization, including farming and food storage, had matured to a level where birth rates likely exceeded the highest in the world today, said the researchers.
"Then a crash followed, offering a warning sign to the modern world about the dangers of overpopulation," said Tim Kohler, an anthropologist at Washington State University (WSU) in the US.
"We can learn lessons from these people," he said.
At first, populations were slow to respond, probably because of low productivity, said Kohler, but by 400 B.C. the crop provided 80 percent of the region's calories.
Crude birth rates were by then on the rise, mounting steadily until about 500 A.D.
The mid-1100s A.D. saw one of the largest known droughts in the southwest. The region likely hit its carrying capacity.
"They didn't slow down. Birth rates were expanding right up to the depopulation. Why not limit growth? Maybe groups needed to be big to protect their villages and fields," said Kohler.
It was a trap, however.
The northern southwest had as many as 40,000 people in the mid-1200s, but within 30 years it was empty, leaving a mystery.
"Whatever the reason, the ancient Puebloans show that population growth has clear consequences," Kohler noted.
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What EUCYS is about?
The European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists, an initiative of the European Commission, was set up to promote the ideals of co-operation and interchange between young scientists. The event is held in a different European city every year. At the end of September 2011 it will take place in Helsinki, Finland.
The young scientists also have the chance to meet others with similar abilities and interests and to be guided by some of the most prominent scientists in Europe. In this way, the Commission seeks to strengthen the efforts made in each participating country to attract young people to careers in science and technology.
The EU Contest gives students the opportunity to compete with the best of their contemporaries at European level. The Contest is the annual showcase of the best of European student scientific achievement and as such attracts widespread media interest.
Who can participate?
Only young scientists who have been designated by their respective national jury can participate in the EU Contest. In each country, the National Organizer is responsible for nominating the projects, and therefore the contestants, which are entered for the EU Contest.
Further information about
The contestants compete on the basis of their work and interviews with the Jury for nine Core Prizes.
- Three First Prizes worth €7000 each
- Three Second Prizes worth €5000 each
- Three Third Prizes worth €3500 each
In addition to this, a limited number of Honorary Awards and Special Donated Prizes are also awarded to the contestants where, in the judgement of the jury, they would benefit from the specific experiences that these prizes offer.
Further information about the prizes
History of EUCYS
EUCYS event was established in 1989. After that it has been in 19 countries and 21 cities. The idea is that the message about youth in science is wide spread and therefore the location is different in every year.
The National Organisers are responsible for selecting projects, submitting applications, and for all communication with the Commission.
Further information about EUCYS National Organiser on Commissions web site.
List of National Organisers on Commissions web site (list is updated yearly by EU Commission).


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The first Post Office in South Wellfleet was established in 1829 when Reuben Arey, Jr. was named the first postmaster. Naming a separate post office from Wellfleet's, along with the establishment of the South Wharf and the Second Congregational Church just a few years later, indicated the growth of the South Wellfleet community. The first post office not located in the postmaster's home was William Ward's, starting in 1873, when he opened the office at the railroad depot.
The Deyo History mentions that there may have been very early stores in South Wellfleet: one at Aunt Lydia's tavern; another at Reuben Arey's home where he kept the first South Wellfleet post office; and still another at Daniel Higgins' home, just after the War of 1812. This is the only mention of merchant activity prior to the Cole store described below.
For over 150 years, there has been a store near the head of Blackfish Creek. The first merchant to set up his business there was Collins Smith Cole, who became a respected South Wellfleet citizen over the course of his career, earning the title "Squire Cole". He was born in 1797, the son of Ebenezer and Sarah Cole. Six generations before him was Daniel Cole, an original 1644 settler of Eastham, and part of the group of settlers that sought to expand Plymouth Colony for the next generation.
We know that Collins S. Cole's house — still there, and facing Lecount Hollow Road — was there in 1828, because when the Town voted to spend $30 to build the footbridge over Blackfish Creek that year, the record places the bridge "nearly south of Collins S. Cole's house". The house faced the Old King's Highway, but later, as the County Road became the focus of the community later, it turned its back to the owner's merchant activity.
The Hurd history of Barnstable dates the building of Collins Cole's store to 1844. The building referred to was the two-story frame building pictured here. The door was in the middle with a sign over it and there are two windows on either side of its door. The Deyo History mentions Collins S. Cole first in 1844, when he and Alvin Paine bought the South Wharf and Cole "took the store." We know there was a fire that partially destroyed the South Wharf about that time. While the store was originally at the Wharf to supply the mackerel boats, it appears that either a separate store was developed over at the head of Blackfish Creek or the Wharf store was moved. The record is not clear.
The building of the County Road in 1846 certainly improved the situation for the owner. Now the road came right to the store. One account says you could get whatever you needed there, from a paper of pins to a gallon of molasses. The farmers brought their butter and eggs to sell there.
Collins S. Cole married twice, first to Mary Jenkins Holbrook, whom he married in 1824. Their first son, William Henry Cole, was born in 1825, and was the grandfather of Charles Cole, whose memory book I have been using to document the history of South Wellfleet. A second son, Collins Smith Cole, died as an infant. Mary died in 1828 and is buried in South Wellfleet Cemetery.
In 1831, Collins Cole married Ann Gibbs Hapgood, and, in 1832, they had a daughter, Julia Ann Cole. In 1833, Mr. Cole purchased a pew in the new Second Congregational Church being built in South Wellfleet.
Until he became one of the owners of the South Wharf, Collins Cole was a mariner. After he became a merchant, he also became a Justice of the Peace, according to an 1850 listing which notes both he and Reuben Arey held this title in South Wellfleet. He appears to have funded the sale of a house in South Wellfleet from Reuben Arey to Captain Scotto Foster and Jonathan Doane, a house that still stands today. In the 1850s he gave a mortgage to Captain Foster on his home; perhaps the fishing had been less than optimal that year. Captain Foster named his second son Collins Cole Foster, honoring his neighbor. In 1861, Mr. Cole was listed as a County Commissioner in a news article.
Collins Cole died in 1868 at age 70, and the South Wellfleet Cemetery has an obelisk making his grave, those of his two wives (Ann Cole died in 1882), and his infant son. In Charles Cole's memory piece, he remembers that Collins Cole left his family an estate valued between fifty and sixty thousand dollars.
Initially, the Cole family ran the store. One source indicates that William Cole built a house next door to his father's — that would be today a second historic property on (now) Lecount Hollow Road. But in Charles Cole's memory piece, he notes that his father, William H. Cole, built a carriage house, which his daughter Mary Ann and her husband Isaac R. Paine later converted into a dwelling house. It should be noted that this Isaac Paine is Captain Isaac R. Paine, not the Isaac Paine mentioned below. In 1871, before he turned fifty, William Henry Cole died of typhus that infected the family when Isaac R. Paine brought it back from a trip to the south to "freight oysters." Despite their father's death, the family was well taken care of with the grandfather's legacy.
In 1872, the South Wharf Company took over the Cole store. They built the ell on the south side that became the separate post office. In 1880, they sold it to Alvin Paine, and the sign over the door changed again, and a north ell was added for his grain business. Of course, by this time, there was another building in the "South Wellfleet business center" – the Old Colony Railroad depot.
Alvin Paine was one of the influential South Wellfleet Paines. He was the grandson of Thomas Paine, the Wellfleet family founder who started out in Truro and then came to Wellfleet. Alvin Paine, born in 1837, was married to Eliza, the daughter of Captain Scotto Foster.
He purchased the Reuben Arey, Jr. home from the heirs of Reuben (3) in 1877 – the Areys having moved their lives to many other places off-Cape by that time. For a while longer, however, Oliver Arey kept the first Arey home.
A Barnstable Patriotarticle in 1884 announced that Alvin Paine was "having the grounds graded and sodded in front of his store" and noting that this work would make a great improvement.
Alvin Paine died in 1889 or 1890 and left his store to his son, Isaac Paine (born in 1867) who over his lifetime became known as "Ikey Paine." One of the famous stories about Ikey Paine is that he would not sell the locally bottled Pilgrim Spring beverages because he did not want children to learn to drink out of bottles, perhaps teaching them about drinking liquor!
Another property became a store in the "South Wellfleet Business District". Amos Rideout transferred the "property opposite the Alvin Paine store" to Jeremiah Rich in 1904 and discharged their mortgage in 1907. But when the property was sold to David Buitekan in 1914, it was Mr. Rideout who made the sale. This is what became known as "The Little Store" that appears in several early 20thcentury photographs. Initially, there are horses and wagons in the photos, and later there are gas pumps here. In 1914, Buitekan became the postmaster for South Wellfleet. In a 1916 photograph, the post office sign is hanging above the door.
There's one mystery about the stores that I have not solved. In an undated photograph, pictured here, with the Marconi Towers in the background, there is another building behind the Paine store but I have not figured out what this is. We know at some point the Little Store disappeared, and one person has remembered "another store up the hill". Is this that store?
In 1923, Isaac Paine transferred the General Store to David Buitekan. Ikey Paine lived in South Wellfleet in the Reuben Arey Jr. house until 1943, when he died fighting a fire in his barn.
In a memoir by Holman Spence that appeared in The Cape Codder in the 1970's, he describes life in South Wellfleet when his parents bought land and built a cottage on Indian Neck. By this time, Spence describes the "Little Store' and its old gas Socony pumps as belonging to Emanuel J. Davis, while Buitekan owns the (former Paine) store and runs the post office, with his wife Annie Buitekan.
The Buitekans are in the 1920 Federal census for Wellfleet; Annie is 52 years old, with parents born in Scotland; he is 47 years old, with parents born in Holland. Her maiden name "Ross" appears in one of the deeds; Monroe Ross, presumably her brother, is living with them in 1920.
Holman Spence, in his 1970s' memory piece of South Wellfleet, describes the Little Store as carrying "every need of the whole little community down to items that were called for once in every three or four years. In the glass cases on the counters was everything from rubberized gloves to mousetraps, harness parts, candy, 3-in-1 oil, lamp wicks, shoe laces, Beeman's pills, scythe stones, boat caulking and "Never Leak." The walls were hung with more items; sometimes a customer really had to search for an item, and then left the store in even more disarray.
Spence describes the almost-ceremonial moment of the day

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- Types of Frames
- Creating Basic Shapes
- Selecting Objects
- Moving Objects
- Replicating Objects
- Resizing Objects
- Using the Transform Tools
- Using the Transform Panel
- Using the Transform Commands
- Using the Arrange Commands
- Aligning Objects
- Smart Dimensions; Smart Spacing
- Grouping and Pasting Into Objects
- Using the Control Panel for Objects
- Using the Measure Tool
- Using the Info Panel with Objects
- Locking Objects
- Selecting Frames
Using the Info Panel with Objects
The Info panel also gives you information about the document, text, and placed images.
To see the document information:
- Location of the file on the computer.
- Last Modification date and time.
- Author as entered in the File Info (File > File Info) dialog box.
- File size.
To see the text information:
Place your insertion point inside a text frame.
- Characters in the frame or selection.
- Words in the frame or selection.
- Lines in the frame or selection.
- Paragraphs in the frame or selection.
To see the placed object information:
- Type of placed image.
- Actual ppi (points per inch) resolution of the image.
- Effective ppi resolution of the image if you have scaled the image in InDesign.
- Color Space of the image.
- ICC Profile (if applicable) may also be shown.


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A project known as the gTar is creating a buzz surrounding its implementation of traditional musical learning with the use of Apple's iPhone.
Users embed an iPhone into the guitar's dock, and with the help of an accompanying app, the neck of the guitar will light up with interactive LED's along the fretboard.
The illuminated lights represent the sequence of notes required to play a particular song of choice, and the app features three different difficulty levels to suit the user's knowledge and skill.
The app also features a wide range of existing tracks, allowing players to select songs that they are more familiar with.
The instrument aims to simplify the steep learning curve of learning guitar, and is using a Kickstarter page to promote the project. The retail price for the guitar is $450 (R3,714.50*).


text: Classification of neutrophils with differing nuclear lobes. Percentages in normal blood smear 1 lobe, 5%; 2 lobes, 35%; 3 lobes, 41%; 4 lobes, 17%; 5 lobes, 2%. ÒShift to leftÓ involves higher percentage of 1-lobed nuclei and usu. represents bacterial infection. ÒShift to rightÓ involves higher percentage of multilobed nuclear and indicates folic acid or vitamin B12 deficiency.


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Degenerated oligo synthesis - mixed bases
Standard "wobbles" or "mixed bases" are mixtures of two or more different bases at a given position within the sequence. Wobbles are often incorporated into oligonucleotide probes designed to hybridize to an unknown gene that encodes a known amino acid sequence. Since the genetic code is degenerate, the probe is prepared with wobbles at the degenerate sites.
The use of mixed base additions in the design of a degenerated oligo is optimal when the number of degenerate sites are small. The wobbles, except for the ones at the 3'-site are synthesized with no extra costs.
Use the standard code letters for equally mixed base ratios in your sequence to incorporate a wobble into your oligo.
Standard code letters:
|R = A/G||Y = C/T|
|M = A/C||K = G/T|
|S = C/G||W = A/T|
|B = C/G/T||D = A/G/T|
|H = A/C/T||V = A/C/G|
|N = A/C/G/T||I = Inosin|


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NASA Science Research Mentoring Program
The NASA Science Research Mentoring Program (NASA SRMP) is an established mentoring program that presents the wonders of space exploration and planetary sciences to underserved high school students from New York City through cutting-edge, research-based courses and authentic research opportunities, using the rich resources of the American Museum of Natural History. NASA SRMP consists of a year of Earth and Planetary Science (EPS) and Astrophysics electives offered through the Museum's After School Program, year-long mentorship placements with Museum research scientists, and summer programming through our education partners at City College of New York and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The primary goals of the project are: 1) to motivate and prepare high school students, especially those underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, to pursue STEM careers related to EPS and astrophysics; 2) to develop a model and strategies that can enrich the informal education field; and 3) to engage research scientists in education and outreach programs. The program features five in-depth elective courses, offered twice per year (for a total of 250 student slots per year). Students pursue these preparatory courses during the 10th or 11th grade, and a select number of those who successfully complete three of the courses are chosen the next year to conduct research with a Museum scientist. In addition to providing courses and mentoring placements, the program has produced curricula for the elective courses, an interactive student and instructor website for each course, and teacher and mentor training outlines.
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Quick Answer: Can I Withdraw All The Money From A Joint Account?
Can one person take all the money out of a joint account?
So if a relationship sours, one owner could legally take all the money out..
Can my husband take me off our joint account?
Can my wife withdraw money from my account?
As long as you are alive, your spouse will not be able to withdraw funds from that account. … There are benefits to adding your spouse to your bank account, even though it offers full rights to withdraw the money without your permission. A joint account means your spouse can deposit and withdraw money for you.
Does a joint account need both signatures?
Who owns the money in a joint bank account UK?
What are the disadvantages of joint account?
Who owns the money in a joint bank account when one dies?
Can my husband close our joint account?
Can my husband freeze my joint bank account?
Couples usually freeze a joint account when they go through a marital dispute. However, they also freeze their account for other reasons, such as irresponsible spending by one or both people. Freezing joint accounts is simple and fast. … Ask them either over the phone or in person to freeze your joint account.
Are joint accounts a good idea?
Can you take money out of joint account before divorce?
You can legally withdraw up to half of the money in a joint bank account before the divorce is filed. It is extremely important that this is done before the divorce is filed; otherwise you are violating the law. Once divorced, all of your joint bank accounts must be liquidated and split between the two parties.
Who owns the funds in a joint account?
The actual ownership of the money in a joint account is determined by the doctrine of resulting trusts. The doctrine of resulting trusts holds that where one person deposits money into the name of a joint account with another person, the person who deposits the money remains the owner of the funds in the joint account.
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ArtContracts: On-Chain Art via Tezos Smart Contracts
ArtContracts is a project facilitating storage of art directly on the Tezos blockchain.
A prototype was built (OBJKT#112092) which displays on-chain static image data within an "HTML NFT" frame on HicEtNunc.
Any arbitrary data can be stored on-chain, specifically in hexadecimal form (as a bytestring). The type of art stored is limited only by the ability for that data to be translated back and forth between its original form and the hexadecimal form.
In the future, it's likely that this project will support not only static images but also animations, videos, text, audio, and even generative & interactive artworks.
Beyond simply supporting a variety of media types, the primary goal of this project is to explore the applications of on-chain art technology, and to build utilities that other developers and artists can implement into their own projects. This includes compression tools to lower the storage costs for deployment.
Some exciting possible utilities include collaborative art (multiple people editing on-chain data) and art that evolves over time without human intervention (changes in on-chain data facilitated purely by smart contract interactions). There are also many applications in the world of "collectibles", due to the permanence lent by blockchain storage.
This decentralized application seeks to create tools, standards, and interfaces enabling users to:
0. (Optionally) compress artwork in order to save on storage costs
 1. Encode artwork in a format which can be readily stored on-chain
 2. Deploy that data to the Tezos blockchain, stored within one or more smart contracts
 3. View these artworks with "interpreter" software, which queries the relevant on-chain data and decodes it into the original artwork form
 4. (Optionally) monetize their on-chain data through token creation, whether on an established NFT platform like HicEtNunc or through custom minter and marketplace contracts.
Much of this post (and surrounding documentation) uses words like "art" and "artwork". Notably, this same approach could also be used for storage of data unrelated to artwork. One survey respondent suggested the option of a "blockchain notarization tool". I am certainly interested in exploring these non-artistic applications as well.
So far, I am writing all contracts in SmartPy. The interpreter code (which can be seen as the NFT prototype on HicEtNunc) is written in JavaScript and can be embedded into HEN's "HTML NFT" template.
Currently, the steps of compressing data and encoding it in hexadecimal form are done with Python. The speed of execution for these steps could be greatly improved using a compiled language like C++.
The first prototype on-chain artwork was originally deployed on 3 June 2021, but has since received an update. This update modified the pixel data of parts of the image in order to add text asking the viewer to vote in my platform survey.
This "upgradable" aspect of on-chain storage has many interesting implications in the world of interactive art, and is one of the project attributes which I am most excited about in the long-term.
I have released a survey allowing the public to express interest in the project and vote about which features they find to be most important.
You can take that survey here.
The results of this survey will be used to prioritize user preferences when determining which project features should be developed first.
The "survey governance" model is as follows:
 - Users who do not own any copies of OBJKT#112092 will have a weight of 1 applied to their response (each vote counts as 1)
 - Users who own one copy of OBJKT#112092 will have a weight of 5 applied to their response (each vote counts as 5)
 - Users who own multiple copies of OBJKT#112092 will have a weight of 5 multiplied by the square root of the number of copies owned. This mechanism is called Quadratic Weighting. It provides some marginal benefit to project supporters who purchase multiple copies of the prototype NFT, but simultaneously ensures that no single individual holds too much power in the vote.
NOTE: The use of OBJKT#112092 to weight votes is not planned as an indefinite feature, and will likely only apply to the first survey. Future surveys will use an actual governance token, distributed to community members who participate and demonstrate interest in the project. The first copies of this governance token will be distributed to users who fill out the above survey.
All users who provide a valid survey response will receive the same number of governance tokens, whether they hold OBJKT#112092 or not. Ownership of the prototype NFT will determine weight of votes when assessing public opinion in this first survey, but such ownership will not lead to any outsized share of future voting power.
Along with this survey, I have written some introductory documentation, which can be viewed as a PDF here. Among other things this includes an FAQ, diagrams, an outline of potential future features of the project, and discussion of topics like governance, royalties, and open-sourcing.
If you would like to stay up-to-date about this project, the best way to do so is to follow the _USER_ account on Twitter.
You can also find me on twitter at _USER_. This pinned Tweet links to a variety of information about the project, both on and off Twitter.
This project is still very much in its infancy. This is my first attempt at creating a DApp. I began this project primarily for learning purposes, and I still have a significant amount of learning to do.
At this stage, there are many directions that development could go. It will likely be a long time before any full public release with user-friendly interface.
My main goal in creating this post is to solicit feedback from the community, both through survey responses and external replies.
Any feedback, including criticism, is highly appreciated.
I am happy to answer any questions you may have in the replies as well. Thank you for taking the time to read about my project!
Here's something you may be able to pick up, since you are interested in on-chain storage. I was doing some experiments a couple months ago with optimizing on-chain storage from the contract side and stumbled upon a process to make the storage alot cheaper. I call it paramdata abuse.
The idea is to use the parameter data (or calldata on ethereum) to store the actual payload/bytes of the file or art. It's still stored on-chain, but you will need to rely on an archive node or indexer to fetch the data because it's not actually in storage. That's the biggest drawback, but the biggest plus is much cheaper storage data.
That's my experiment. If you scroll down to where I'm using the "abyss" endpoint you'll see me send some base64 strings in parameter data but I don't actually store anything in the contract. I was able to get some ~9.5kB taco gifs in for around 0.01 fees each time, far cheaper than 0.25/kB.
Just something to explore if you are interested. I was able to integrate these NFTs into a dApp for sending/auctioning/etc as they are backed by FA2 standard. You just have to index the data a little differently.
But I do think you have something here with on-chain data. I stopped my experiments because I couldn't figure out the "why?" of what I was using it for, and I think you have that "why". Combining your compression expertise with on-chain storage is a great selling point, since you can get more data on-chain.
Otherwise, I think you should figure out whether this is a compression software project, or on-chain NFT marketplace project. Imo you could get the compression to a workable state then build the NFT, DAO, and community to fund further enhancements to the compression software, further benefiting the community.
On the other hand, the compression software on its own with all the planned enhancements could probably be used across marketplaces and even chains. Everyone needs compression on blockchain, and creating an all-in-one service for on-chain storage could lead to integrations in multiple places.
:+1: hope to see more!
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Wow! This is fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I will absolutely take a deeper look into this.
And thanks for your feedback on the project as well.
This is a very insightful point. I do think the compression-related aspects are the most interesting and innovative, versus more generic marketplace stuff that has been done before.
Especially given that this is my first smart contract project, I'd rather explore novel concepts versus building a mediocre version of something that's already been done better by others (art marketplaces).
Greatly appreciate all your input, it has given me a lot of things to think about. Cheers!
If I understand correctly, you want to build a new art NFT platform that features interactive artworks (that change over time either automatically or based on collaborative edition). If so I strongly encourage you to contribute to existing platforms such as HicEtNunc instead of building everything from scratch. It is likely that HicEtNunc developers have already thought about developing something similar and they are very open to contributions.
Storing large amounts of data in the storage of smart contracts is generally a bad idea because on-chain storage is super expensive (0.25 tez / KB) because it is duplicated on all the nodes of the network. That's why NFT platform usually don't store artworks onchain but rely on other decentralized storage solutions like IPFS instead and only store the hash of the artwork onchain. Storing a hash however only makes sense for totally immutable data; if you want to store mutable data that can be mutated by a well-


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not disturbed. In addition, the extraction site is only minimally affected.
- Prevention of rim effects between the soil monolith and the lysimeter vessel using special soil-adapted instruments (chisel and shearing lamellas)
- No disturbance of the monolithic soil structure, like compression (no deformation) or changes of the microstructure of the soil through the application of the excavator shovel
- Axial guidance of the leveled lysimeter vessel down to the extraction depth, prevention of soil fractions
- Operation with extreme light and movable excavation tools, for the use in rough terrain, the rise of the productivity and cost savings
- Detecon of hindrance, e.g. stones, inclusions, or others under the use of online observation (with recording) and manual interaction in the chink
- Easy movable excavation tool, e.g. eases to react on detection of hindrance, which will detract the quality of the monolith (stones, inclusions etc.)
- Well visible soil profile, as the excavation pit is not damaged
- Possibility of soil mapping after lifting the monolith out of the pit (it is visible which soil horizons or soil layers are in the vessel)
- Minimal damage to the surrounding area by using the excavation tools and no need to dig out the area around the vessel
The UGT GmbH adapted this excavation technique to provide you solutions for all sizes of monoliths and for all kinds of soil. Standard sizes are soil columns with surface areas of 0,03 m2, 0,5 m2, 1 m2, and 2 m2. The most challenging task of the extraction procedure is the horizontal sliding of the lysimeter vessel through the natural fen. A modified cutting tool in front of the vessel assists in carving the soil monolith out of the peat, vertically on both sides and horizontally at the base. The unfilled lysimeter vessel is inserted at the extraction site into an already prepared starting pit and aligned to a guiding system (guide tracks) adjustable in three axes. During the cung process, this control device keeps the lysimeter vessel in its given position. The peat is sawed by cutting tools moving in opposite directions. Depending on local conditions, the guide tracks can be mounted on excavator mattresses to achieve additional stability. At the end of the lysimeter vessel, a hydraulic plunger supports the cutting procedure. Once the vessel is filled, the lysimeter is lied out of the extraction pit, the cutting tools are removed and the soil monolith is sealed with flange plates. The flanging is carried out in a slightly tangential position at the front of the lysimeter container to avoid any possible dislocation of the monolith. After this final step, the monolith is prepared for transport to its installation site.
The lysimeter vessel is box-shaped with the following dimensions: length 4,0 m, width 1,0 m, and depth 1,5 m, which is regarded as the maximum size considering the technical feasibility. The most challenging task of the extraction procedure is the horizontal sliding of the lysimeter vessel through the natural fen. A modified cutting tool in front of the vessel assists in carving the soil monolith out of the peat, vertically on both sides and horizontally at the base. The unfilled lysimeter vessel is inserted at the extraction site into an already prepared starting pit and aligned to a guiding system (guide tracks) adjustable in three axes. During the cutting process, this control device keeps the lysimeter vessel in its given position. The peat is sawed by cutting tools moving in opposite directions. Depending on local conditions, the guide tracks can be mounted on excavator mattresses to achieve additional stability. At the end of the lysimeter vessel, a hydraulic plunger supports the cutting procedure. Once the vessel is filled, the lysimeter is lied out of the extraction pit, the cutting tools are removed and the soil monolith is sealed with flange plates. The flanging is carried out in a slightly tangential position at the front of the lysimeter container to avoid any possible dislocation of the monolith. After this final step, the monolith is prepared for transport to its installation site
Additional to the horizontal retrieval technology UGT developed a vertical retrieval technique, particularly for hydromorphone and sub-hydro morphe soils. The lysimeter vessel is placed horizontally in the soil and encased by two cuttng tools, which move relatively against each other to apply a linear shear force to the soil. Together with the vacuum source at the top edge of the cutting tool, the cuttng edge prevents the unstable soil structure from overshooting and makes it possible to retrieve a stabilized soil column inside the lysimeter vessel. The vacuum can be adapted to the cutting depth.
LY-ATOM uses the dependency of sound speed on temperature and flows properties along the propagation path of acoustic signals to estimate these parameters. For this purpose, the speed of sound is calculated from travel me measurements along exactly known distances between sound sources and receivers. By measuring the speed of sound along different sound paths over a lysimeter surface and by using tomographic reconstruction techniques it is possible to estimate spatially resolved distributions of temperature and flow properties. From these data, components of the energy balance 'Lysimeter – Atmosphere' can be derived. The aim is to calculate components of the energy balance 'Lysimeter – Atmosphere'. The main advantage is that no sensors on the surface of the lysimeter.
Lysimeters are very suitable for monitoring the migration and chemical reactions of soil contaminants. Especially in combination with innovative measuring equipment like the Mullyzer for online detection of contaminants in soil water and the Lysimeter Soil Retriever. Therefore the UGT GmbH holds many examples for lysimeters on contaminated sites like Homécourt or Böhlen. In 2005 and 2006 the UGT GmbH provided the DOW Chemicals in Böhlen within the major ecological project „SOW-Böhlen" with four specialized lysimeters. Each with a surface area of 1m² and a length of 2 m. To survey the influence of the different soil layers the lysimeters were cut and put together out of different soil layers from up to 5 m depth. The monoliths were cut up to the desired depth of the first layer then the soil above the next designated layer was excavated, the surface of the new soil layer and the bottom of the monolith were prepared to provide a natural connection between the two soil layers and then the next layer was cut to the designated depth. This way four completely different soil models with naturally structured soils could be realized in the four lysimeters (see scheme below). Monolith 1 shows the natural sequence of soil layers just in smaller dimensions. For monolith 2 the clay layer was le out to survey the influence of this layer. For monoliths 3 and 4 the natural top layer was replaced by a gravel layer to test the influence of the top layer and vegetation. And again one of the two monoliths is cut with the clay layer and for the other one, the clay layer was le out.
- comparison of chemical and biological soil functions, which are affected after long-term experiments
- clarifying the lysimeter vessel effect on the soil (e.g. side effects)
- changes on the topsoil, e.g. packing, root distribution, aeration, water conductance, biological actives
- quantifying changes in soil physical parameters in long-term experiments
In the course of the studies, the lysimeters act more or less as a "black box". Usually, the soil material is identified and analyzed at the beginning of the experiments. But there is also a strong need to analyze the soil without disturbance of the soil structure after the experiments in order to obtain information about spatial and structural changes within the soil profile. The new technique of the Lysimeter Soil Retriever for the first me enables studies on the heterogeneous migration of percolating water, changes of soil structure as well as soil organic maer (SOM), and biomass distribution, as well as the distribution of mycorrhiza and microbes in different depths on intact soil profiles. The main target of using the LSR is the preparation of an intact soil monolith from the field lysimeter and the immediate dissection into slices to enable direct sampling of its soil environment at several depths. Distribution and composition of SOM, values, soil porosity, as well as degradation of PAH, were only a few parameters, which are determined at the different soil depths.
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Researchers have developed a method for monitoring river water levels around the clock. The low-cost sensor, for example, is appropriate for area-wide flood warning systems. Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a method for monitoring river water levels around the clock. The low-cost sensor, for example, is appropriate for area-wide flood warning systems. The findings of the study were published in the journal Water Resources Research.
There are numerous methods for determining the level of a watercourse, ranging from very simple ones to advanced radar solutions. But there is a catch: most measuring devices can be damaged by direct exposure to high water levels, many do not allow continuous monitoring, remote reading is difficult, or they are simply too expensive.
However, in Wesel on the Lower Rhine, a measuring device that does not have these drawbacks has already been in use for two years: It is inexpensive, dependable, and capable of continuously transmitting the water level to an evaluation center via mobile communication. In theory, this means that such a sensor is suitable for providing a densely distributed network for flood and drought warning systems.
The core of our device is a low-cost GNSS receiver and antenna. This is a sensor that can conventionally determine the position of its location with several meter accuracy. However, satellite signals can also be used to measure the height of the GNSS antenna above the river surface.Dr. Makan Karegar
"The core of our device is a low-cost GNSS receiver and antenna," explains Dr. Makan Karegar of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn. This is a sensor that can conventionally determine the position of its location with several meter accuracy. It does this using the US GPS satellites and their Russian counterparts, GLONASS. "However, satellite signals can also be used to measure the height of the GNSS antenna above the river surface," Karegar says.
Reflected signals provide information on the water level
This is because the waves transmitted by the satellites are partially picked up directly by the antenna. The rest is reflected from the nearby environment (in this case the water surface) and reaches the receiver via detour. This reflected part therefore travels longer. When superimposed on the directly received signal, it forms certain patterns called interference. These can be used to calculate the distance between the antenna and the water level.
"We can attach the GNSS antenna to any structure, whether it's a bridge, a building, or a tree or fence next to the river," Karegar explains. "From there, it can measure the river level around the clock without contact – to within around 1.5 centimeters on average. And yet it is less likely to be damaged during extreme flooding events." The accuracy of the method does not match that of a radar-based sensor. However, it is completely sufficient for the intended use. At just under 150 euros, the device is also considerably cheaper than its advanced counterpart.
The GNSS antenna is linked to a microcomputer known as a Raspberry Pi. "The device is about the size of a small smartphone, but it has enough power to calculate water levels from raw data," says Prof. Dr. Kristine Larson of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation. The microcomputer is very popular among hobbyists because of its flexibility and low power consumption. It can be powered by solar cells and then run completely on its own. It can also transmit data over a mobile network.
Reproduction information on the Internet
"We wrote open source software," Larson says. "As a result, anyone can use it for free." The researchers also make all project information available on the Internet. As a result, interested parties can easily replicate the measuring device.
The process, however, has one drawback: it is only suitable for rivers with a width of at least 40 meters. Karegar explains, "This is the smallest radius from which the antenna can receive the reflected satellite signal. The majority of the reflected signals come from the land if the watercourse is too narrow."
However, those involved intend to improve their evaluation code. They hope that this will enable them to obtain reliable results for smaller rivers such as the Ahr in Germany, which experienced severe flooding in 2021.


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Prof. Chen Huaiyu (Arizona State University), The animal turn in the study of global history: a religious perspective
Juli 5, 2018, 12:00 - 14:00
This talk will examine some key issues that concern scholars who attempt to figure out the historical roots of our contemporary problems. One the one hand, some scholars have been debating the intellectual and religious cause of the ecological crisis and the extinction of animal species across the global village. For instance, Lynn White Jr. noted that the Christian dogma in the West contributed to the dominance of humans over animals and nature. On the other hand, the development of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering might have profoundly changed the non-human animals in the technology-assisted farm industry. The modern state of biotechnology has ended the traditional contract between humans and nature. Numerous plants and animals are cultivated and reared in the human-created or modified environment. Animals are no longer aware of nature's changes when they do not witness the Sunrise and Sunset. Some ethicists and religious scholars are concerned that the animality of these technology-assisted reared animals is deprived because these animals now live in a human-made environment, which cannot even be called an ecological system. The human-animal relations have entered a new phase. This talk hopes to offer some observations about how the roles of major religions have been redefined and reshaped in the global ecological crisis and farm industry.
CHEN Huaiyu received his MA in history from Peking University, China and his Ph.D in religious studies from Princeton University, USA. Currently he is an associate professor at Arizona State University where he teaches Buddhism and Chinese Religions. He has published several monographs and numerous articles on Buddhist rituals and monastic culture, the interactions among Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism, animals in Chinese religions, Western missionaries in China, and modern Chinese intellectual history. This summer, as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, he is finishing up his English book on animals in medieval Chinese religions.


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 1. Holding the microphone connector in one hand and the microphone base in the other, line up the screw in the connector with the hole in the middle of the microphone.
 - Holding the microphone connector in one hand and the microphone base in the other, line up the screw in the connector with the hole in the middle of the microphone.
 - Also, align the ridge on the microphone connector (located near the top of the connector) with the slot in the base of the microphone.
 2. With those parts aligned, push the connector back into the microphone until the screw lines up with hole in the side of the microphone.
 - With those parts aligned, push the connector back into the microphone until the screw lines up with hole in the side of the microphone.
 - Do not push the microphone past this point or the connector may become stuck.
 3. Using a small flat head screw driver, turn the screw in the side of the microphone clockwise until it is tight.
 - Using a small flat head screw driver, turn the screw in the side of the microphone clockwise until it is tight.
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After installing the connector back into the microphone, it should be ready to connect to any XLR cable.
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Hi. I have followed the steps to #3. "Using a small flat head screw driver, turn the screw in the side of the microphone clockwise until it is tight. " However, the connector does not stay in place. It is still loose where the connector moves inside the microphone. I cannot get it to sit tight .
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Hi. I followed up to step #3. However, the connector does not stay tight. It keeps on moving inside with a little push.
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Hi. I followed up to step #3. But, the connect is still loose… Moves inside the microphone.
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Are the threads on your screw stripped?
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Hi I have lost the screw in the side of the mic. Can you tell me the size of a replacement or where I can get one. Thank you
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developers, as is often the case. But the problem can very well be on Nox's side, of course, and in that case we want to fix it! Also bear in mind that Nox's developers have limited resources and no way to test all the possible server combinations, so you'll have to do most of the testing.
Commands and keybindings
Here's a summary of available commands:
 - M-x nox
 , as described above;
 - M-x nox-reconnect
 reconnects to the server;
 - M-x nox-shutdown
 says bye-bye to the server;
 - M-x nox-rename
 ask the server to rename the symbol at point, if rename work, please use command
 nox-stderr-buffer
 , must something rename tool not install, sch as python need
 rope
 for rename operation;
 - M-x nox-format
 asks the server to format buffer or the active region;
 - M-x nox-show-doc
 show documentation for symbol at point.
 - M-x nox-events-buffer
 jumps to the events buffer for debugging communication with the server.
 - M-x nox-stderr-buffer
 if the LSP server is printing useful debug information in stderr, jumps to a buffer with these contents.
 - M-x nox-signal-didChangeConfiguration
 updates the LSP server configuration according to the value of the variable
 nox-workspace-configuration
 , which you may be set in a
 .dir-locals
 file, for example.
 - M-x xref-find-definitions
 find the definition of the identifier at point.
 - M-x xref-find-definitions-other-window
 find the definition of the identifier at point in other window.
 - M-x xref-pop-marker-stack
 pop bck to where xref-find-definitions last invoked.
 - M-x xref-find-references
 find references to the identifier at point.
Customization
Here's a quick summary of the customization options. In Nox's customization group (
M-x customize-group
) there is more documentation on what these do.
 - nox-doc-tooltip-font
 : The font for documentation tooltip, font format follow rule
 fontname-fontsize
 .
 - nox-doc-tooltip-border-width
 : The border width of documentation tooltip.
 - nox-doc-tooltip-timeout
 : The timeout of documentation tooltip show time, default is 30 seconds, tooltip will hide after you change cursor point.
 - nox-doc-name
 : The name of documentation tooltip.
 - nox-candidate-annotation-limit
 : The width limit of candidate annotation.
 - nox-autoreconnect
 : Control ability to reconnect automatically to the LSP server;
 - nox-connect-timeout
 : Number of seconds before timing out LSP connection attempts;
 - nox-sync-connect
 : Control blocking of LSP connection attempts;
 - nox-events-buffer-size
 : Control the size of the Nox events buffer;
 - nox-ignored-server-capabilites
 : LSP server capabilities that Nox could use, but won't;
 - nox-confirm-server-initiated-edits
 : If non-nil, ask for confirmation before allowing server to edit the source buffer's text;
There are a couple more variables that you can customize via Emacs lisp:
 - nox-server-programs
 : as described above;
 - nox-strict-mode
 : Set to
 nil
 by default, meaning Nox is generally lenient about non-conforming servers. Set this to
 (disallow-non-standard-keys enforce-required-keys)
 when debugging servers.
 - nox-server-initialized-hook
 : Hook run after server is successfully initialized;
 - nox-managed-mode-hook
 : Hook run after Nox started or stopped managing a buffer. Use
 nox-managed-p
 to tell if current buffer is still being managed.
 - nox-php-server
 : Language server for PHP, default is
 intelephense
 , you can set with other value:
 php-language-server
 - nox-omni-sharp-path
 : Language server path for OmniSharp, default is
 ~/.emacs.d/.cache/omnisharp/server/v1.34.5/OmniSharp.exe
 , you can set with other value.
 - nox-python-server
 : Language server for Python, default is
 mspyls
 , you can set with other value:
 pyls
 or
 pyright
 .
If you choose
mspyls
: 1. Execute command
nox-print-mspyls-download-url
get download url of mspyls. 2. Then extract to the directory ~/.emacs.d/nox/mspyls/ 3. Permission: '''sudo chmod -R +x ~/.emacs.d/nox/mspyls/
Note mspyls need index file before respond completion request, so please don't test single file under HOME directory, that will cost few minutes to index file, and
pyls
haven't this problem.
 - nox-optimization-p
 : Improve performance by adjust GC limit and disable
 bidi-display-reordering
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Life Science: Bottle Biology
Bottle Basics: Stringing Bottles
Bottle columns do not have to be strung and hung up but there are several advantages to doing so. By stringing bottles, you can:
- access different segments of your system more easily;
- stabilize your system and hold joints together better;
- transport your system more easily; and
- increase the chances that kids and/or pets will not knock your system over.
- Use a soldering iron (a hole punch works too, but holes are more
prone to ripping out) to make holes on each side of the bottle above
and below each joint.
- String nylon craft cord (string works too but is prone to decaying if it stays wet a long time) up one side and down the other, alternating between from outside in and from inside out.
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Includes 5 Laboratories:
- Textile Metrology Laboratory
- Polymer Metrology & Technology Laboratory
- Fire & Explosion Protection Laboratory
- Reference Materials Laboratory
- Nano Metrology & Technology Laboratory
Textile Metrology Laboratory (TML)
Textile Metrology Lab., National Institute for Standards (TML-NIS) was established to be the National Textile Laboratory of Egypt. Actually, the TML lab satisfies the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 for the textile testing activities. It performs various tests and measurements required for human safety; hazardous and environmental impacts in textile industries (eco-label and ecotex); evaluates indoor environmental monitoring (Hospital and clean rooms, microbiological and calibration labs and sterilized areas).
TML also performs a wide range of calibrations most of the chemical analysis equipment such as: air, liquid and gases velocity, flow meters, particulate counters, beside, training and consultancy services to our customers.
Polymer Metrology & Technology Laboratory (PMTL)
PMTL provides various industrial sectors with calibration and testing activities and conducting scientific research that offers practical solutions to industrial problems according to international standards. This is in addition to training and consultancy services related to these fields. Our laboratory is accredited by Egyptian Accreditation Council (EGAC) in measuring tensile strength for plastics and rubbers.
Calibration: Calibration of Hardness Tester (Shore A & Shore D).
Testing: Measurement of physical and chemical properties of polymers (Plastics, Rubber, Foam, Paints… etc.).
Training and consultancy: PMTL provides technical consultancy for the Egyptian industry, universities and research centers.PMTL conducts workshops and training sessions for polymer metrology & applications.
Providing practical solutions to industrial problems based on advanced scientific research
Examples of some instruments exist in PMTL
- Tensile testing machine
- Testing of tensile strength, elongation, compression, bending, tear for different types of materials
- High Temperature Gel Permeation Chromatography (HT-GPC)
- Measurement of molecular weights viscosity and branching of polymers, at temperature range (30:2200 C)
- Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis
- Measures different polymer properties such as: storageand loss modulus, glass transition temperature (Tg) …. etc.
Fire & Explosion Protection Laboratory
The laboratory represents the main gate for protection for fire and explosion in Egypt.
The FEP performs varieties of tests, calibrations, consultants and training for all sectors in Egypt in the field of fire and explosion protection. All these services performed based on the international standards in these fields. This is in addition to doing advanced scientific research in synthesis, characterization and application of new flame retardant materials. This in conjunction to preparation and characterization of reference material in the field of fire and explosion protection.
Reference Materials Laboratory
Quality of chemical measurements is an important issue in today's world influencing quality of life, border-cross trade and commerce. On an international scale, the world of chemical measurements is undergoing major changes. Since a decade initiatives have been taken at an international level and across the measurement sectors to ensure that the measurement science issues are applied in a systematic way. This is done to improve the quality of chemical measurement results and thus make them acceptable everywhere.
Reference materials Laboratory is primary metrology laboratory (Metrology in Chemistry), it develops national measurement standards (CRM).
Development and improvement of certification, harmonization and compatibility of reference materials with international standards.
Dissemination of traceability to the national system and through it to the international system.
Cooperation with international and regional metrology organizations [RMOs] for transferring knowledge to national system.
RM Lab. offers technical support to industry in everything related to measurements, reference materials and data to establish traceability of their measurements.
Nano Metrology & Technology Laboratory
The Laboratory is under construction.


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Introduced in 1931, the C-3 featured room for a passenger seated next to the pilot. Powered by a new 36hp Aeronca E-113 engine, the seating configuration made flight training much easier and many Aeronca owners often took to the skies with only five hours of instruction, largely because of the C-3's predictable flying characteristics. Both the C-2 and C-3 are often described as 'powered gliders' because of their gliding ability and gentle landing speeds.
The Museum's C-3 was imported into Canada in 1931 and bought by WJ Morgan of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1936. We acquired the fuselage from John Campbell in 1991 and plans are in place to restore the aircraft in the future.


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Principal Stresses and Mohr's Circle for Plane Stress
This Demonstration generates Mohr's circle for plain stress. The input is stress values for at the and orthogonal positive faces oriented at zero angle. The Demonstration calculates Mohr's circle and generates other plots to illustrate how stress changes at different orientations as the angle of the plane is changed. Planar stress is assumed, therefore stresses in the direction are assumed to be zero. The principal stresses (value of maximum normal and shear stresses found as the plane is rotated) are shown as red dots on the circle. The current value of the normal and shear stresses on the positive and opposite side of the plane are also shown at the end of the dashed red line (the first value is the normal stress and the second value is the shear stress). These are updated as you rotate the plane. The black dots on the edge of the circle are the locations of the stresses at zero degree and these do not move as the plane is rotated.
In plane stress, components vanish and the 3D stress tensor reduces to. Assuming,, and are given at 0°, the stresses at a different angle θ are found from.
The angles and at which the maximum and minimum normal principal stress occurs are given by and, respectively. The maximum and minimum normal principal stresses are given by, where is taken as the larger of the two principal stresses in absolute terms. The maximum shear stress is at ° from the principal plane and is given by. At the principal planes the shear stress is always zero. Mohr's circle for plain stress can be viewed from the pulldown menu. You can view polar plots that show how the normal and shear stress change with angle. You can select the angle to view the stresses by using the slider or select specific planes using the pulldown menu. All units are assumed to be in SI.
 A. C. Ugural, S. K. Fenster, Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity, New York: Elsevier, 1987.
 REA's Problem Solver's Strength of Materials & Mechanics of Solids, New Jersey: Research and Education Association, 1996.
 Irving H. Shames, Mechanics of Deformable Solids, Prentice-Hall, Inc. N.J. 1964.


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Description
Starts a job to import a resource to Amazon Lex.
See also: AWS API Documentation
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
Synopsis
 start-import
--payload <value>
--resource-type <value>
--merge-strategy <value>
[--tags <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
Options
--payload (blob)
A zip archive in binary format. The archive should contain one file, a JSON file containing the resource to import. The resource should match the type specified in the resourceType field.
--resource-type (string)
Specifies the type of resource to export. Each resource also exports any resources that it depends on.
 - A bot exports dependent intents.
 - An intent exports dependent slot types.
Possible values:
 - BOT
 - INTENT
 - SLOT_TYPE
--merge-strategy (string)
Specifies the action that the StartImport operation should take when there is an existing resource with the same name.
 - FAIL_ON_CONFLICT - The import operation is stopped on the first conflict between a resource in the import file and an existing resource. The name of the resource causing the conflict is in the failureReason field of the response to the GetImport operation. OVERWRITE_LATEST - The import operation proceeds even if there is a conflict with an existing resource. The $LASTEST version of the existing resource is overwritten with the data from the import file.
Possible values:
 - OVERWRITE_LATEST
 - FAIL_ON_CONFLICT
--tags (list)
A list of tags to add to the imported bot. You can only add tags when you import a bot, you can't add tags to an intent or slot type.
Shorthand Syntax:
key=string,value=string ...
JSON Syntax:
[
 {
 "key": "string",
 "value": "string"
 }
 ...
]
--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.
--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
Output
name -> (string)
The name given to the import job.
resourceType -> (string)
The type of resource to import.
mergeStrategy -> (string)
The action to take when there is a merge conflict.
importId -> (string)
The identifier for the specific import job.
importStatus -> (string)
The status of the import job. If the status is FAILED , you can get the reason for the failure using the GetImport operation.
tags -> (list)
A list of tags added to the imported bot.
(structure)
A list of key/value pairs that identify a bot, bot alias, or bot channel. Tag keys and values can consist of Unicode letters, digits, white space, and any of the following symbols: _ . : / = + - @.
key -> (string)
The key for the tag. Keys are not case-sensitive and must be unique.
value -> (string)
The value associated with a key. The value may be an empty string but it can't be null.
createdDate -> (timestamp)
A timestamp for the date and time that the import job was requested.


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The authors of this study published in The Harvard Business Review analyze the six most common mistakes made by executive teams when encouraging corporate innovation.
Scott Anthony, David Duncan, and Pontus M.A. Siren believe these are the most common innovation-related missteps:
- Asking employees to generate ideas without creating mechanisms to do something with them.
- Pushing for answers without defining the problems worth solving.
- Urging risk-taking while punishing commercial failure.
- Failing to provide access to a well-stocked laboratory.
- Expecting breakthroughs without allocating A-team resources.
- Demanding disruptive ideas, without dedicating resources for them.
The authors advise leaders seeking to increase their ability to grow their companies through innovation to "simultaneously direct it strategically, pursue it rigorously, resource it intensively, monitor it methodically, and nurture it carefully."
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The Temple in Salt Lake has several inverted pentagrams as decorations. (To see a few, just google "lds temple salt lake inverted pentagrams" and click on images. Or click here)
According to Wikipedia, the inverted pentagram symbol is used in Neo-Paganism, Satanism, and magick, as well as Freemasonry.
How exactly did it become a symbol of the LDS church? (It seems like an odd symbol to use, given how it's used by others.) What does it represent according to LDS teaching?
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Freemasonry does not use the inverted pentagram. However Eastern Star does. I think this would be a great question for this SE. However, this may be an interesting read for you. With that said, some symbols have been around longer than Christianity. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that a 5 pointed star (no matter its direction) is bad. This is a newer taboo – user1054 Sep 5 '12 at 20:19
Symbol interpretation is always a fun subject because the meaning is so subjective. For example, what is the true meaning of the swastika? There is single answer, due to how many cultures have used it separately, and how many times it has occurred simply as a pleasing geometric shape without actually needing any special meaning. – Marc Gravell Sep 5 '12 at 21:52
_USER_: Did you mean no single answer...? – Caleb Sep 6 '12 at 12:02
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The symbol has no specific meaning within LDS theology, and there are no teachings regarding it. According to an article found among the Wikipedia page's sources, the pentagram symbol actually has a long history in Christian and Jewish art and architecture, and only first began to be associated with Satanism and the occult in the 1850s. By this point, the design for the Salt Lake temple had already been drafted.
The star symbolism in the temple was included, along with carved depictions of other celestial bodies, as symbolic of heavenly glory, which is described in the Doctrine and Covenants, section 76, as being similar to the brightness of the sun, the moon and the stars.
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_USER_: Have a look at the linked article. It's got several examples, including a Jewish one going back all the way to BC times. – Mason Wheeler Sep 5 '12 at 19:52
+1 Matthew B. Brown's book Symbols in Stone talks about this too, and declares the inverted star to be symbolic of the Morning Star (Venus) and thus a symbol of Jesus Christ. (He declares Himself the "bright and morning star") – Dave DeLong Sep 5 '12 at 21:02
Accepted answere, but it seems odd that it is used so often without there being any specific meaning or teaching regarding it. – Narnian Sep 7 '12 at 14:18
_USER_: One possible explanation: They just wanted stars. There are two stars that are geometrically very easy to create: a five-pointed star, and a six-pointed star. And the six-pointed star already had a well-known meaning as a piece of religious symbolism at the time the temple was being built: it's the Star of David, associated as strongly with Judaism as the cross is with Christianity. The five-pointed star did not have any such meaning at that time, so it was quite convenient to use. It's worth noting that temples built later have not included the pentagram in their ornamentation. – Mason Wheeler Sep 7 '12 at 14:51
I'll second _USER_'s thoughts -- "they just wanted stars". Sounds creepy when you say "inverted pentagram". – Jake Toronto Jun 11 '14 at 23:07
The inverted star represents the second coming of Jesus Christ. This symbol is also on the Nauvoo Temple and this is what I was told when I asked around about it.
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How exactly does that represent the second coming of Jesus? It had long before been a symbol of Freemasonry. – Narnian Jun 11 '14 at 13:03
Joseph Smith was a freemason and many of the symbols on the temple are also used in freemasonry. As Mason noted, this doesn't give any meaning to the symbol (unless you have conspiracy theories regarding freemasonry,) but simply seems to be one possibility for the architectural influence.
Some have also suggested that there are also some influences between some of the garments used in the LDS temple and the robes of the Freemasons and also having members-only ceremonies, though these may be more coincidental.
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The Aberfoyle Park Primary School Campus is located in the Adelaide hills 18 kilometres south of the city. The concept of the Campus with State School (Thiele), Catholic Education Office (Nativity) and the Uniting Church System (Pilgrim) sharing facilities was new to South Australia and probably Australia when it was first developed.
After years of preliminary planning the joint project came to fruition at the beginning of the 1982 school year when the schools admitted their first students. The Shared facilities include an activity hall, resource centre, gymnasium and Campus staff room. Shared programs include Physical Education, Music, and Resource Based Learning. In 2001 the Aberfoyle Park Campus Preschool was opened by the Minister of Education and Children's Services. This relocated facility has a capacity of 45 children per session and is located in the grounds of the Campus. There is a strong vision and spirit of cooperation and collaboration between the four schools. Having the three schools on one site provides the following educational advantages:
- A degreeof choice for parents when deciding what kind of school they want their children to attend.
- Resources available for all three schools that could not be financed by three separate schools.
- Sharing staff expertise between the three schools
- Promoting tolerance and cooperation between the school community of children, parents and staff
The shared schools resources of the Campus community includes:
- the Central Administration
- an excellent gymnasium
- a large staff and community meeting room
- central resource area
- activity hall and canteen
- two ovals
- hard play areas
- a large central courtyard
Parents sharing on the Campus is at many levels
The parents cooperate and work together in these areas:
- Campus Conference
- Sports Teams
- Resource Centre
Parents are encouraged to be involved in decision making in the individual schools and to work with the teachers in the classroom situation. The children are encouraged to develop a sense of belonging to the Campus.
This is achieved by:
|• Wearing the same uniform
(Varied in the State Schools)
- Playing together in the playground
- Participating in Campus sports Teams
- Sharing organised activities such as Book Week,
an Arts Festival and a Science Exposition.
- Across Campus Educational Programs:
- Language other than English (LOTE)
There are many activities of an informal nature across schools:
- Going on excursions together
- School camps
- Classes working together on a shared project


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Mexico scrambles to cope with egg shortage
A city worker sells eggs at government subsidized prices as people line up outside the city truck in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on earth. About 11 million chickens were slaughtered after a June outbreak of bird flu. / AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini
(AP) MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on Earth.
A summer epidemic of bird flu in the heart of Mexico's egg industry has doubled the cost of a kilo (2.2 pounds), or about 13 eggs, to more than 40 pesos ($3), a major blow to workingand middle-class consumers in a country that consumes more than 350 eggs per person each year. That's 100 more eggs per person than in the United States.
Egg prices have dominated the headlines here for a week, spurring Mexico City's mayor to ship tons of cheap eggs to poor neighborhoods and the federal government to announce emergency programs to get fresh chickens to farms hit by bird flu and to restock supermarket shelves with eggs imported from the U.S. and Central America.
The national dismay over egg prices has revealed the unappreciated importance of a cheap, easy source of protein that's nearly as important to Mexican kitchens as tortillas, rice and beans. Added boiled to stewed chicken, raw to a fruit-juice hangover cure and in every other conceivable form to hundreds of other foods, the once-ubiquitous egg has disappeared from many street-side food stands and middle-class kitchens in recent days.
"Eggs, as you know, are one of Mexicans' most important foods and make up a core part of their diet, especially in the poorest regions of the country," President Felipe Calderon said Friday as he announced about $227 million in emergency financing and commercial measures to restore production and replace about 11 million chickens slaughtered after the June outbreak of bird flu.
Calderon said he was sending inspectors to stop speculation that he blamed for high egg prices, which have almost single-handedly driven up the national rate of inflation.
He said that the government had already begun large-scale importation of eggs and that about 3 million hens were being sent to farms hit by the flu outbreak.
The Mexico City government has sent a refrigerated trailer-truck of eggs into working-class neighborhoods over the last three days, selling kilo packets for less than half the current market price. Several thousand people lined up for about two hours Friday morning to buy eggs from the truck in southeastern Mexico City's Iztacalco neighborhood.
Isidro Vasquez Gonzalez, an unemployed 43-year-old cook, waited with his niece and nephew to buy three kilos of eggs that they said they would eat almost immediately in a lunch of meatballs with chopped eggs.
"You can make eggs with anything scrambled eggs, with pork rinds, eggs with beans, green chiles, poached eggs, green beans with eggs, eggs with tomato sauce, " Vazquez said, with a wistful look in his eyes. "People here eat a lot of eggs. They were the cheapest, but now they're the most expensive. They're more expensive than meat."
The crisis began with the June detection of bird flu in the western state of Michoacan, which produces roughly half of Mexico's eggs. Some 11 million birds were killed to prevent the spread of the disease, sharply cutting into the national supply of more than 2 million tons of eggs a year.
Government officials blame speculators in the wholesale egg business for driving up prices beyond the hike resulting from bird flu.
After existing stocks of eggs ran out, prices rose sharply in August.
"Eggs are what we eat the most these days," said Gertrudis Rodriguez, 68. But with the higher prices, she said, "if we eat beans, we don't eat eggs, or if we eat eggs, we don't eat beans with them."
Mexico City's public Food Supply Center, which provides government-subsidized fresh food to low-income residents, dropped other ingredients from its truck this week in favor of eggs, and will distribute 18 tons by the time its current stocks run out Monday, director-general Raymundo Collins said.
Calderon said more than 150 tons of eggs had already crossed the border from the U.S. and 100 trailers carrying 500 more tons would arrive in the country over the weekend.
"The federal government will keep using every tool in its power to keep family's quality of life from being eroded by unfair increases in the price of eggs," the president said.
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pageant, modern dramatic spectacle or procession celebrating a special occasion or an event in the history of a locality. In medieval times the word pageant had meant the wagon or the movable stage on which one scene of a mystery or miracle play was performed. The pageant was built on wheels and consisted of two rooms, the lower one being used as a dressing room and the upper used as a stage. The word also referred to the complex wooden machine-structures built for the Tudor masque. The modern form of the pageant came into general use in England and America since the production, in 1905, of L. N. Parker's Sherborne pageant in England. Pageants include such celebrations as the Mardi Gras and annual local festivals.
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During our research for these posters, we realised that people from rural and rural-urban setups have a distinct relationship with films and their characters and catch phrases. This poster highlights the goodness of mothers milk. And the hand gesture was from a regional kannada film then. It meant "super" - hence cueing, "mothers milk is super".
Since it was important to highlight the role of family during a womans pregnancy, we illustrated other characters who could feature on these posters. The names were picked based on the region these posters were meant for.


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The population development of Dea as well as related information and services (Wikipedia, Google, images).
Source: Statistics Sierra Leone (web).
Explanation: Boundaries of districts and chiefdoms according to the administrative reorganization of 2017. The 2021 census is a mid-term census. The reasons for the significant differences between the 2015 and 2021 figures are unclear. Area figures are derived from geospatial data.
Further information about the population structure:
|Gender (C 2021)|