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Some examples of positive phrases are, "Every day I find things to appreciate," "It is easy for me to focus on what makes me feel good" and "I have all I need when I need it." These phrases are commonly used as daily mantras or affirmations. They help the mind focus on the positive qualities of life instead of the negative ones.Continue Reading
Many famous people also have positive and uplifting quotes. One example of this is, "Every moment is a fresh beginning" by T.S. Eliot. This quote is about how every moment can serve as a new start for anything a person wants to do. It encourages one to let go of past mistakes and move forward with hope. T.S. Eliot was an author and a literary and social critic in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Notable poems of his include "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land."
Another uplifting quote by a well-known person is, "Believe you can and you're halfway there" by Theodore Roosevelt. This quote is about how belief is a large part of succeeding at anything. Roosevelt was the 26th president on the United States. He is remembered for his corporate reforms and ecological movements.Learn more about Education


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[Use of essential oil of peppermint (Mentha piperita) in the complex treatment of patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis].
Virol J. 2009 Jan 20;6:8. PMID: _PHONE_
The paper describes the effects of peppermint (Mentha piperita) essential oil inhaled by patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in the penitentiary system. This procedure is shown to be most effective in infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in the phase of resorption of infiltrates and/or closure of decay cavities. The efficiency is determined by the rapid positive changes in a tuberculous process, which appear as a rapider regression of tuberculous inflammation, causing small residual changes. This procedure may be used to prevent recurrences and exacerbations of pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Water Supply in South East Kosovo (WSSEK)
High-quality water and sanitation services and improved governance of water and energy resources contribute to the living condition of the population, higher resilience to climate change and an improved state of the environment.
The former reservoir on Popovica Hill was dilapidated and of minimal capacity (500 m3) to accommodate the functions of a balancing reservoir in the water supply system of Gjilan. The new reservoir with a capacity of 3'000m3 increases the resistance of the water supply system.
The drinking water supply and the water quality in Ferizaj was improved in two central neighborhoods through network rehabilitation and network extension. The methods of District Network Management were applied to attain sustainable results.
Construction of a new drinking water reservoir (3'000 m3) Popovica in Gjilan and drinking water network rehabilitation and extension in Ferizaj.
2012 - 2014
Gjilan and Ferizaj, Kosovo
Gjilan - Reservoir Popovica
Turn-key construction of reservoir with 3'000 m3
Mechanical and electro technical equipment
Automation and Telecontrol System and Process Instrumentation
3 connecting pipes to distribution network (PE and Steel)
Main pipelines and house connections for drinking water network in Ferizaj
Installation of 2'500 water meters
Equipment for remote reading of water meters
14.2 km of HDPE/RC pipes from OD32 to OD280 PN10

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Introduction: The Psychoacoustic Bucket From Hell
Picture of The Psychoacoustic Bucket From Hell
Hi!!
What is this you are probably asking yourself from the title (and the fact that the bucket in question looks just plain normal) ?
Most certainly, you were expecting some kind of mega Halloween hell bound caldron or at least a mean looking trick or treat bucket that produced some kind of light show.
Well, kind of.
This is without doubt, one of the scariest props that you can build, not because it in itself is scary, but because it will induce anxiety, uneasiness, fear, chills down the spine in about 30% of the people who are in the same room as the bucket.
Yeah, right.....
How does it do that?
Well, with...
Science!!!
Inside the lid of this bucket is a DIY infrasound driver that can produce high pressure sound waves up to some 18hz.
From Wikipedia:
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the psychological and physiological responses associated with sound (including speech and music). It can be further categorized as a branch of psychophysics
It turns out that while we can't actually hear infrasound, we can still feel it, and some frequencies cause some odd (and some creepy) reactions to our body.
For example, 4hz very high pressure transducers are banded from sales, because at 4hz, the air in our lungs starts to resonate and you can't breath.
Some people experience nausea at 10hz.
And some, about 30% according to some of the only papers I have found of the subject, feel afraid or "a presence" at around 17Hz.
Between 17hz and 18hz some people's eyes start to resonate, and a slight visual hallucination is produced, like the light you see if you press you eyes with your fingers.
This, combined with the strange unease and your killer Halloween murder ghost story, and you will have some very scared guests.
If you're curios, and want to know more about the science behind this phenomena, download the papers included in this Instructable.
Now, this actually took some 6 months of research to come up with, while the build in itself will take only some 6 hrs.
The first build question is the most obvious: Why not use a subwoofer and amp?
Well.....it turns out that few woofers can go safely down to 15hz, and they are EXPENSIVE. Add to that an amp capable of driving it, and you are looking at close to $500 specially if you need (as we do) high sound pressure levels.
ouch... back to the drawing board.
Next I researched into subsonic whistles (driven by compressed air) but the tube length needed made it both expensive and impractical.
I finally came to an old sub woofer design called the ServoDrive, that used a servomotor coupled to the cones.
This was perfect since the old ServoDrives were close to 80% efficiency due to the servomotor's high efficiency (95%) and the direct mechanical coupling.
And I could cheaply build a simple single frequency version.
Something I learned while doing this project is how inefficient voice coil speakers are. Most commercial woofers are 1% to 2% efficient, meaning that the 300 watt woofer and amp are giving you some 3 to 6 watts of equivalent sound level pressure (over simplified but its close)
I'm feeding my driver some 20watts (at 50% efficiency) so maybe I builded the equivalent of a 500 to 1000 watt woofer and amp.
Now, my design is limited to a single output frequency.
Step 1: What You Need
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You will need:
Parts:
 - One plastic 19L bucket (I bought mine at HomeDepot, so it would be a Halloween orange :D )
 - One cheap 12 volt car portable air compressor (that you will destroy)
 - Some scrap plywood strips
 - JB Weld or Liquid Nails
 - 4 wood screws
 - 1 wire hanger
 - Variable DC power supply
Tools:
 - Handsaw
 - Screwdriver
 - Pliers.
Step 2: Prepare the Lid
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Saw a hole in the bucket lid one inch from the inside lip.
Save the left over, since it will be your "cone"
Step 3: Disasemble Air Compresor.
Picture of Disasemble Air Compresor.
Once you remove all the screws from your pump housing, you will find something very much like what you see in the picture; a motor plus cylinder.
Remove the cylinder, and the piston head, so you are left with the motor, the crank and the piston arm (like in the last pic)
Step 4: Start Building the Spider.
Picture of Start Building the Spider.
Use the plywood scraps to build the spider that will hold the motor and crank.
The piston arm must be dead center in the lid. Use little plywood blocks to lift the spider 1" to 1.5" from the lid bottom so that your "cone" will move only on the inside of the lid.
Now be careful with the blocks, since they must be parallel to each other. (see pic and next steps)
Step 5: The "cone"
Picture of The "cone"
I glued some plywood to the leftover lid to give it rigidity.
The distance between the two parallel sticks is the same as the thickness of the spider legs (the small plywood blocks). This is important because I glued some bits of wire hanger on the sides that inhibit the cone from spinning inside the spider. Please see next step so this will be clearer .
Step 6: Assemble the Driver.
Picture of Assemble the Driver.
Drill a hole dead center in the cone.
Attach a piece of 4" wire hanger to the piston arm.
Place the cone inside the lid as in the picture. The parallel pieces of plywood on the cone will line up to the spider's wood blocks. Glue the 2" pieces of wire hanger to the cone's plywood. This will avoid the cone from moving sideways.
Turn the driver upside down and clip the extra wire coming from the piston arm, fold it and glue it.
Drill a small hole in the lid and pass the motor's wires to the other side of the lid.
Place a screw through the lid in each of the spider's blocks to firmly secure them in place (see picture)
Place driver on bucket.
Step 7: Turn It on and Calibrate.
Picture of Turn It on and Calibrate.
Since room acoustics are really important in sub sonic drivers, I put the bucket, a variable DC power supply and myself into a small bathroom and closed the door and bathroom window.
I hooked up the bucket to the DC power supply and started to experiment with different voltage settings.
Since the DC voltage is more or less proportional to motor speed, the higher the voltage, the higher to output frequency.
At 2 volts, the prototype driver is not completely noiseless, as the motor makes noise and the cone rubbing the sides, but it really moves air!!
At 6.1 volts, I had to turn it off, as I got really nauseated.
At 9.4 volts, Success!! I managed to creep myself out!! I could "feel" someone in there with me, it was a really odd sensation, not pleasant at all and even tough I knew what was going on, the creepy factor was there.
I can't wait for Halloween next year!!
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If you don't want to keep your DC power supply connected to the bucket, you can use a DC power wall supply and the appropriate resistor network to supply the correct voltage, or if your a bit handy in the electronics department, build a regulated DC power supply using a LM317 or similar.

Comments
KyrtinA (author)2015-12-13
This is definitely one of the more innovative ideas I've come across for infrasonics. I've had a few ideas for new infrasonic speaker designs occur to me in my research, but finding a capable engineer who can put them to the test has been the challenge for me. What I'd really like to design is a mobile infrasonic system compact enough to be worn. There are a lot of documented positive effects besides all of the strange ones when you manage to hit the right frequencies and Decibel levels, but most of the equipment has to be custom built.
ke7ofi (author)2015-09-29
Did you try it in larger rooms? Would the perceived intensity be inversely correlated with room volume?
newbeatle (author)2015-04-12
so interesting not for a creeping experience intead a way to make subsonic sounds. i have a question about the motor , which kind of power supply you have used ? and how do you make to avoid or eliinate the noise of the motor? i know that you use low RPM and so there is no much noise as when you drive it at a normal speed , but how do you make it spin quietly ? regards from mexico
urant (author)newbeatle2015-04-13
Hi,
I used a desktop 12VDC power supply. Since the motor is DC, it makes virtually no noise.
Now, if you want to dig a little deeper, it turns out that some of the first commercially avaliable high power sub woofers actually used servo motors as the "moving coil"


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Helper API Security
This topic describes security issues associated with XMLHTTP and ServerXMLHTTP. In addition, it provides some guidance for mitigating security exposure.
The following sections provide information about Helper API security, with an emphasis on XMLHTTP.
Use XMLHTTP Only on the Client
XMLHTTP should only be used on the client. Because XMLHTTP is marked safe for scripting, you call XMLHTTP from a script that is executed in the client-side Internet browser. Remember, you can use XMLHTTP and ServerXMLHTTP in any arbitrary script, inside or outside the browser. XMLHTTP is not safe for server-side implementation. Using XMLHTTP on the server means that you would use XMLHTTP via JScript, VBScript, C++, ASP, or ASP.NET. XMLHTTP is not thread-safe - it doesn't work for multi-threaded scenarios. If you use XMLHTTP, you will not receive an error, but your script may not perform properly. If you need XMLHTTP functionality on the server, you should use ServerXMLHTTP, not XMLHTTP.
XMLHTTP Uses Cached Credentials
XMLHTTP uses cached credentials if the user does not provide new credentials for every open method call in scenarios where specific credentials are used. Kiosk-style applications using XMLHTTP for multiple users that share a single login should always ensure that they terminate the Internet Explorer process when a user finishes a session. Furthermore, kiosk-style applications should never display the address bar as part of the application.
Set the Site Object to Prevent Cross-Site and Cross-Domain Attacks
When using XMLHTTP outside of Internet Explorer, it is important to set the Site object to prevent cross-site and cross-domain access on calls to the open Method (IXMLHTTPRequest). If the Site object is set, on redirects the redirect target is automatically checked against the initial Open request, and the standard cross-zone and cross-domain checks are applied.
In Internet Explorer scripting scenarios, the Site is set by Internet Explorer.
Validate the URL Before Calling Open in XMLHTTP
You should not accept untrusted data to construct a URL when calling the Open method. You should validate the data first, making sure that the user is allowed to enter only approved addresses. This is particularly important in scenarios outside of Internet Explorer when the Site object is not set, where it is up to you to prevent cross-domain and cross-site attacks.
Spoofing and Best-Fit Character Attacks
In spoofing attacks, an attacker attempts to craft information that dupes software to accept the information, such as an HTTP request, as coming from a trusted third party. One approach is for the attacker to construct a URL, perhaps using escaped characters, so that it looks like a URL to a trusted site, when in fact it is a URL to a site that has been set up with malicious intent. Another method is to use best-fit character attacks, where higher order characters in a string resource are mapped to lower order characters by certain programming interfaces, either by accident or deliberately. For example, an attacker might submit a URL to a site micrõsoft.com, with the intent that it be interpreted as microsoft.com.
Both types of attacks might be used by an attacker to dupe host identity, probe for string processing vulnerabilities in a system, or as part of a phishing attack. A phishing attack is one where an attacker pretends to be from a trusted source. Typically, it involves an attempt to fool the user into entering user names, passwords, and other private information.
XMLHTTP and ServerXMLHTTP do not validate string input, including the HTTP Verb and URL, submitted in the Open() method call. If your application completely controls the URLs which are passed to XMLHTTP or ServerXMLHTTP methods, including request headers and query string, you might not be vulnerable to this class of attacks. You are vulnerable if you permit URLs or portions of URLs from an untrusted source, including user input.
The ServerXMLHTTP and XMLHTTP components follow strict rules to permit or deny redirects. Note that the general behaviors described below might change with Internet Explorer or Windows security settings. The principle rules are the following:
For ServerXMLHTTP, there is no zone redirect checking when in asynchronous mode.
To mitigate Redirect-based DoS attacks, XMLHTTP and ServerXMLHTTP components implement redirect limits.
Redirects are typically permitted from zones of greater security to zones of equal and lesser security. For example, a redirect from a resource in the Intranet zone to Internet zone should succeed.
Redirects are not permitted from zones of lesser security to zones of greater security. For example, a redirect from a resource in the Internet zone to the My Computer zone should fail.
Redirects are not permitted across networking protocols.
Redirects are not permitted across network domains.
Strictness in MSXML 6.0 May Prevent Some Applications from Working
IE defines five zones - MyComputer, Trusted Sites, Local intranet, Internet, and Restricted Sites. There are a number of rules regarding how a site in one zone can reference a site in another zone. For example, a site on the Internet can't reference a document on the Local intranet. In IE, and for applications that set the site explicitly, MSXML 6.0 is strict about URL redirection, and may prevent some user scenarios. In order to work around the security restrictions, the user can add the machine doing the redirection to the list of trusted sites on the machine where the redirection is taking place.
Error Messages May Reveal Data
The description of an error may reveal data. Error messages should not be exposed to callers that are not trusted. You should catch all errors and report errors with your own custom error messages.
The following sections provide information specific to ServerXMLHTTP.
Use ServerXMLHTTP Only on the Server
ServerXMLHTTP should not be hosted in the browser; it is not marked safe for scripting.
Use HTTPS to Provide Encryption for Sensitive Data
ServerXMLHTTP does not provide any encryption by default. You should use HTTPS connections to encrypt sensitive data during transmission.
Response Packages Are Insecure
Response packages are generally not secure (responseXML Property (ServerXMLHTTP/IServerXMLHTTPRequest), responseBody Property (ServerXMLHTTPRequest/IServerXMLHTTPRequest), and responseText Property (ServerXMLHTTP/IServerXMLHTTPRequest)). ServerXMLHTTP is used to retrieve information from other sites on the internet. When you retrieve data using it, you should know that the source of your information is trustworthy. Further, after using a response package, you should check for malicious data (both size and content). The ServerXMLHTTP object does not check for denial of service threats or bad data returned from response packages. ServerXMLHTTP should not be used to load untrusted XML in applications where denial of service is a concern.
No Secure-Base-URL Checking for Redirects
ServerXMLHTTP does not provide secure-base-URL checking for redirects. You should be aware that, when accessing untrusted locations with MSXML 6.0 ServerXMLHTTP or MSXML 3.0 ServerXMLHTTP in asynchronous mode, there are no checks on redirects. There are checks on the initial Open (both for the Open call and for any external references within the instance).
Spoofing and Best-Fit Character Attacks
ServerXMLHTTP is vulnerable to both spoofing attacks and best-fit character attacks. For more details, see the discussion under XMLHTTP, earlier in this topic.

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word boundary as well. For more information on the specification of these boundaries, see [UAX29].
By using grapheme-complete conditions, contractions and combining sequences are not interrupted except in edge cases. This also avoids the need to present visually discontiguous selections to the user (except for BIDI text).
Suppose there is a collation C, a pattern string P and a target string Q, and a boundary condition B. C has some particular set of attributes, such as a strength setting, and choice of variable weighting.
DS2. The pattern string P has a match at Q[s,e] according to collation C if C generates the same sort key for P as for Q[s,e], and the offsets s and e meet the boundary condition B. One can also say P has a match in Q according to C.
DS3. The pattern string P has a canonical match at Q[s,e] according to collation C if there is some Q' that is canonically equivalent to Q[s,e], and P has a match in Q'.
For example, suppose that P is "Å", and Q is "...A◌̥◌̊...". There would not be a match for P in Q, but there would be a canonical match, because P does have a match in "A◌̊◌̥", which is canonically equivalent to "A◌̥◌̊". However, it is not commonly necessary to use canonical matches, so this definition is only supplied for completeness.
Each of the following definitions is a qualification of DS2 or DS3:
DS3a. The match is grapheme-complete if B requires that the offset be at a grapheme cluster boundary. Note that Whole Word Search as defined in [UAX29] is grapheme complete.
DS4. The match is minimal if there is no match at Q[s+i,e-j] for any i and j such that i ≥ 0, j ≥ 0, and i + j > 0. In such a case, one can also say that P has a minimal match at Q[s,e].
DS4a. A medial match is determined in the following way:
 1. Determine the minimal match for P at Q[s,e]
 2. Determine the "minimal" pattern P[m,n], by finding:
 1. the largest m such that P[m,len(P)] matches P, then
 2. the smallest n such that P[m,n] matches P.
 3. Find the smallest s' ≤ s such that Q[s',s] is canonically equivalent to P[m',m] for some m'.
 4. Find the largest e' ≥ e such that Q[e',e'] is canonically equivalent to P[n', n'] for some n'.
 5. The medial match is Q[s', e'].
DS4b. The match is maximal if there is no match at Q[s-i,e+j] for any i and j such that i ≥ 0, j ≥ 0, and i + j > 0. In such a case, one can also say that P has a maximal match at Q[s,e].
Figure 5 illustrates the differences between these type of matches, where the collation strength is set to ignore punctuation and case, and format indicates the match.
Figure 5. Minimal, Medial, and Maximal Matches
 Text Description
Pattern *!abc!* Notice that the *! and !* are ignored in matching.
Target Text def$!Abc%$ghi
Minimal Match def$!Abc%$ghi The minimal match is the tightest one, because $! and %$ are ignored in the target.
Medial Match def$!Abc%$ghi The medial one includes those characters that are binary equal.
Maximal Match def$!Abc%$ghi The maximal match is the loosest one, including the surrounding ignored characters.
By using minimal, maximal, or medial matches, the issue with ignorables is avoided. Medial matches tend to match user expectations the best.
When an additional condition is set on the match, the types (minimal, maximal, medial) are based on the matches that meet that condition. Consider the example in Figure 6.
Figure 6. Alternate End Points for Matches
 Value Notes
Pattern abc
Strength primary thus ignoring combining marks, punctuation
Text abc◌̧-◌̊d two combining marks, cedilla and ring
Matches |abc|◌̧|-|◌̊|d four possible end points, indicated by |
If, for example, the condition is Whole Grapheme, then the matches are restricted to "abc◌̧|-◌̊|d", thus discarding match positions that would not be on a grapheme cluster boundary. In this case the minimal match would be "abc◌̧|-◌̊d"
DS6. The first forward match for P in Q starting at b is the least offset s greater than or equal to b such that for some e, P matches within Q[s,e].
DS7. The first backward match for P in Q starting at b is the greatest offset s less than or equal to b such that for some e, P matches within Q[s,e].
In DS6 and DS7, matches can be minimal, medial, or maximal; the only requirement is that the combination in use in DS6 and DS7 be specified. Of course, a possible match can also be rejected on the basis of other conditions, such as being grapheme-complete or applying Whole Word Search, as described in [UAX29]).
The choice of medial or minimal matches for the "starts with" or "ends with" operations only affects the positioning information for the end of the match or start of the match, respectively.
Special Cases. Ideally, the UCA at a secondary level would be compatible with the standard Unicode case folding and removal of compatibility differences, especially for the purpose of matching. For the vast majority of characters, it is compatible, but there are the following exceptions:
 1. The UCA maintains compatibility with the DIN standard for sorting German by having the German sharp-s (U+00DF (ß) LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S) sort as a secondary difference with "SS", instead of having ß and SS match at the secondary level.
 2. Compatibility normalization (NFKC) folds stand-alone accents to a combination of space + combining accent. This was not the best approach, but for backwards compatibility cannot be changed in NFKC. UCA takes a better approach to weighting stand-alone accents, but as a result does not weight them exactly the same as their compatibility decompositions.
 3. Case folding maps iota-subscript (U+0345 (ͅ) COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI) to an iota, due to the special behavior of iota-subscript, while the UCA treats iota-subscript as a regular combining mark (secondary collation element).
 4. When compared to their case and compatibility folded values, UCA compares the following as different at a secondary level, whereas other compatibility differences are at a tertiary level.
 - U+017F (ſ) LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S (and precomposed characters containing it)
 - U+1D4C (ᵌ) MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED OPEN E
 - U+2D6F (ⵯ) TIFINAGH MODIFIER LETTER LABIALIZATION MARK
In practice, most of these differences are not important for modern text, with one exception: the German ß. Implementations should consider tailoring ß to have a tertiary difference from SS, at least when collation tables are used for matching. Where full compatibility with case and compatibility folding are required, either the text can be preprocessed, or the UCA tables can be tailored to handle the outlying cases.
11.1 Collation Folding
Matching can be done by using the collation elements, directly, as discussed above. However, because matching does not use any of the ordering information, the same result can be achieved by a folding. That is, two strings would fold to the same string if and only if they would match according to the (tailored) collation. For example, a folding for a Danish collation would map both "Gård" and "gaard" to the same value. A folding for a primary-strength folding would map "Resume" and "résumé" to the same value. That folded value is typically a lowercase string, such as "resume".
A comparison between folded strings cannot be used for an ordering of strings, but it can be applied to searching and matching quite effectively. The data for the folding can be smaller, because the ordering information does not need to be included. The folded strings are typically much shorter than a sort key, and are human-readable, unlike the sort key. The processing necessary to produce the folding string can also be faster than that used to create the sort key.
The following is an example of the mappings used for such a folding using to the [CLDR] tailoring of UCA:
Parameters:
{locale=da_DK, strength=secondary, alternate=shifted}
Mapping:
...
ª a Map compatibility (tertiary) equivalents, such as full-width and superscript characters, to representative character(s)
a
A a
a
...
å aa Map contractions (a + ring above) to equivalent values
Å aa
...
Once the table of such mappings is generated, the folding process is a simple longest-first match-and-replace: a string to be folded is first converted to NFD, then at each point in


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The Center for Workplace Productivity at Orchid is a unique and innovative approach to working with businesses. Our core belief is that strong executive function roots grow a flourishing company, from startups to the established company. By getting to know the internal working habits of our clients, we help them identify the potential pitfalls for failure in the early stages and expansion phase of their company's development, and teach them more effective habits to build their business. Using a curriculum based on sound psychological and executive function principles, we build relationships with our clients from the infancy stages, infusing expertise in executive functions into their DNA. Our approach is:
Consultation: Assessing the needs of the organization and the individuals that comprise the team using norm-referenced, reliable and valid measurement tools. Additionally, we conduct interviews and spend 1-1 time within the organization to learn the environment.
Education: Curriculum based interventions to address areas of need identified through the consultation phase.
Training: Group and individual sessions focused on the unique executive function needs and how to infuse them into the inner workings of the organizational group


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Live response systems allow a presenter to electronically solicit opinions and ideas from an audience in real time. For instance, you might want a breakdown on the participants' favorite hobbies—gardening, hiking, reading, and so on. Instead of trying to glean an estimate from a show of hands for each hobby, you can ask the audience to choose the appropriate response using clickers you provide. Members of your audience point their clickers at the screen and the software captures their responses. These systems have been around for a while, but they're limited by location and hardware.
Now, thanks to an add-in, members of your audience can use their mobile devices to respond to live polls, either by internet or text. The premise is the same, but setup is easy and you don't have to provide clickers for your audience.
I'm using PowerPoint 2016 on a Windows 10 64-bit system. There's no downloadable demonstration file.
There are a few add-ins you could choose, but I opted for Poll Everywhere because it's easy to use and has a free version so you can work through this example without making a purchase. The free plan includes live PowerPoint polls, web response, widgets, Twitter, and downloadable results, so you may never need more than the free version. However, it limits each poll to 25 responses.
Using Poll Everywhere, you can solicit real-time responses from your audience. It works as you might expect:
- You display a poll in your presentation.
- The poll slide displays a graphic representation of your poll and instructions for responding by text, Twitter, or a URL.
- All responses are directed to a web server where they are counted and displayed onscreen in real time.
To use Poll Everywhere, you need an account and the software. Then in PowerPoint, you create the poll and when it's ready, activate it. You can reuse the same poll in a presentation, but you must clear each session's results.
To get started, open PowerPoint 2016 and add Poll Everywhere as follows:
- Click the Insert tab.
- Click Store in the Add-ins group.
- In the resulting dialog, enter Poll Everywhere in the Search tool (Figure A).
- Click Add and Poll Everywhere will display the Insert Poll slide (Figure B).
- For this example, click Multiple Choice. There are several to choose from and you'll want to explore all those options later.
- Enter the information required to create an account (Figure C) and click Create Account. Once you have an account, simply log in.
Search for Poll Everywhere.
Getting Poll Everywhere is easy.
Create an account.
At this point, Poll Everywhere will display a generic poll slide. Replace the generic question and options with your own, as shown in Figure D. Notice the option at the bottom that lets you limit each participant to a single vote by default. Click Insert New Poll when you're ready.
Create a poll.
To access the poll's settings, mouse over the top-right corner and click the Settings icon shown in Figure E. We won't spend any time on the visual settings, but you'll definitely want to explore them on your own.
Customize your poll.
The other icons activate and deactivate the poll, lock it, and clear it. Before running the presentation and activating the poll, you can resize the poll to fit the slide, or not. If the poll covers the entire slide, a click won't advance to the next slide because you're clicking the embedded poll. Keep this in mind when sizing a poll. On the other hand, the navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen still work as expected, so losing that click advance might not matter to you.
When you're ready to run the presentation, press [F5]. Accessing the poll slide will activate it, as shown in Figure F. The instructions for participating are at the top of the slide. For this example, I sent a text and used the website by accessing the displayed URL shown in Figure G. Figure H shows the poll after I voted twice.
Your poll is activated and ready for responses.
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, which nodes are involved, and which execution method Citus is using for each query. Citus records query statistics in a metadata view called citus_stat_statements, named analogously to Postgres' pg_stat_statments. Whereas pg_stat_statements stores info about query duration and I/O, citus_stat_statements stores info about Citus execution methods and shard partition keys (when applicable).
Citus requires the pg_stat_statements extension to be installed in order to track query statistics. On Citus Cloud this extension will be pre-activated, but on a self-hosted Postgres instance you must load the extension in postgresql.conf via shared_preload_libraries, then create the extension in SQL:
CREATE EXTENSION pg_stat_statements;
Let's see how this works. Assume we have a table called foo that is hash-distributed by its id column.
-- create and populate distributed table
create table foo ( id int );
select create_distributed_table('foo', 'id');
insert into foo select generate_series(1,100);
We'll run two more queries, and citus_stat_statements will show how Citus chooses to execute them.
-- counting all rows executes on all nodes, and sums
-- the results on the coordinator
SELECT count(*) FROM foo;
-- specifying a row by the distribution column routes
-- execution to an individual node
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id = 42;
To find how these queries were executed, ask the stats table:
SELECT * FROM citus_stat_statements;
Results:
-[ RECORD 1 ]-+----------------------------------------------
queryid | -6844578505338488014
userid | 10
dbid | 13340
query | SELECT count(*) FROM foo;
executor | adaptive
partition_key |
calls | 1
-[ RECORD 2 ]-+----------------------------------------------
queryid | 185453597994293667
userid | 10
dbid | 13340
query | insert into foo select generate_series($1,$2)
executor | insert-select
partition_key |
calls | 1
-[ RECORD 3 ]-+----------------------------------------------
queryid | 1301170733886649828
userid | 10
dbid | 13340
query | SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id = $1
executor | adaptive
partition_key | 42
calls | 1
We can see that Citus uses the adaptive executor most commonly to run queries. This executor fragments the query into constituent queries to run on relevant nodes, and combines the results on the coordinator node. In the case of the second query (filtering by the distribution column id = $1), Citus determined that it needed the data from just one node. Lastly, we can see that the insert into foo select… statement ran with the insert-select executor which provides flexibility to run these kind of queries.
So far the information in this view doesn't give us anything we couldn't already learn by running the EXPLAIN command for a given query. However, in addition to getting information about individual queries, the citus_stat_statements view allows us to answer questions such as "what percentage of queries in the cluster are scoped to a single tenant?"
SELECT sum(calls),
 partition_key IS NOT NULL AS single_tenant
FROM citus_stat_statements
GROUP BY 2;
.
 sum | single_tenant
-----+---------------
 2 | f
 1 | t
In a multi-tenant database, for instance, we would expect the vast majority of queries to be single tenant. Seeing too many multi-tenant queries may indicate that queries do not have the proper filters to match a tenant, and are using unnecessary resources.
We can also find which partition_ids are the most frequent targets. In a multi-tenant application these would be the busiest tenants.
SELECT partition_key, sum(calls) as total_queries
FROM citus_stat_statements
WHERE coalesce(partition_key, '') <> ''
GROUP BY partition_key
ORDER BY total_queries desc
LIMIT 10;
┌───────────────┬───────────────┐
│ partition_key │ total_queries │
├───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ 42 │ 1 │
└───────────────┴───────────────┘
Statistics Expiration
The pg_stat_statements view limits the number of statements it tracks, and the duration of its records. Because citus_stat_statements tracks a strict subset of the queries in pg_stat_statements, a choice of equal limits for the two views would cause a mismatch in their data retention. Mismatched records can cause joins between the views to behave unpredictably.
There are three ways to help synchronize the views, and all three can be used together.
 1. Have the maintenance daemon periodically sync the citus and pg stats. The GUC citus.stat_statements_purge_interval sets time in seconds for the sync. A value of 0 disables periodic syncs.
 2. Adjust the number of entries in citus_stat_statements. The citus.stat_statements_max GUC removes old entries when new ones cross the threshold. The default value is 50K, and the highest allowable value is 10M. Note that each entry costs about 140 bytes in shared memory so set the value wisely.
 3. Increase pg_stat_statements.max. Its default value is 5000, and could be increased to 10K, 20K or even 50K without much overhead. This is most beneficial when there is more local (i.e. coordinator) query workload.
Note
Changing pg_stat_statements.max or citus.stat_statements_max requires restarting the PostgreSQL service. Changing citus.stat_statements_purge_interval, on the other hand, will come into effect with a call to pg_reload_conf().
Resource Conservation
Limiting Long-Running Queries
Long running queries can hold locks, queue up WAL, or just consume a lot of system resources, so in a production environment it's good to prevent them from running too long. You can set the statement_timeout parameter on the coordinator and workers to cancel queries that run too long.
-- limit queries to five minutes
ALTER DATABASE citus
 SET statement_timeout TO 300000;
SELECT run_command_on_workers($cmd$
 ALTER DATABASE citus
 SET statement_timeout TO 300000;
$cmd$);
The timeout is specified in milliseconds.
To customize the timeout per query, use SET LOCAL in a transaction:
BEGIN;
-- this limit applies to just the current transaction
SET LOCAL statement_timeout TO 300000;
-- ...
COMMIT;
Security
Connection Management
Note
Since Citus version 8.1.0 (released 2018-12-17) the traffic between the different nodes in the cluster is encrypted for NEW installations. This is done by using TLS with self-signed certificates. This means that this does not protect against Man-In-The-Middle attacks. This only protects against passive eavesdropping on the network.
Clusters originally created with a Citus version before 8.1.0 do not have any network encryption enabled between nodes (even if upgraded later). To set up self-signed TLS on on this type of installation follow the steps in official postgres documentation together with the citus specific settings described here, i.e. changing citus.node_conninfo to sslmode=require. This setup should be done on coordinator and workers.
When Citus nodes communicate with one another they consult a GUC for connection parameters and, in the Enterprise Edition of Citus, a table with connection credentials. This gives the database administrator flexibility to adjust parameters for security and efficiency.
To set non-sensitive libpq connection parameters to be used for all node connections, update the citus.node_conninfo GUC:
-- key=value pairs separated by spaces.
-- For example, ssl options:
ALTER SYSTEM SET citus.node_conninfo =
 'sslrootcert=/path/to/citus-ca.crt sslcrl=/path/to/citus-ca.crl sslmode=verify-full';
There is a whitelist of parameters that the GUC accepts, see the node_conninfo reference for details. As of Citus 8.1, the default value for node_conninfo is sslmode=require, which prevents unencrypted communication between nodes. If your cluster was originally created before Citus 8.1 the value will be sslmode=prefer. After setting up self-signed certificates on all nodes it's recommended to change this setting to


text:
By Leah Clark
The Activity Theory
The benefits of this theory are:
- They are more happy
- They are more sociable
- They remain physically interactive longer
- They are engaged in doing activities
- They are independent
The theorist for the activity theory is Robert Havighurst which developed this theory in the 1960's.
The Disengagement Theory
This can lead to elderly people becoming depressed, lonely and this could lead to elderly losing their communications skills.
With this theory, you need to encourage and inspire elderly people to become more active (which then leads to these people being involved in the activity theory).
This theory was developed by Cummings and Henry in the late 1950's.


Edit (Add/Remove/Modify) ARP Table
Introduction
This is a tool to display and modify the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), such as Windows command-line arp.exe. This tool will do two things. It displays ARP tables' entries and adds/modifies/removes ARP entries, the two things done by requesting an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) extension library.
Access IP and MAC Addresses Through SNM
You can read and modify an ARP table through SNMP, by requesting SNMP to get/set object information. SNMP does requests and responses through MIB (Management Information Base). MIB is like a tree; MIB has all the manageable objects you will use. For more information, see RFC1213; also, check the files at %SystemRoot%\system32\*.mib. The file that has entries you will use is %SystemRoot%\system32\ mib_ii.mib; you can open and see it by using notepad.exe. Here is an MIB ipNetToMediaEntry entry:
ipNetToMediaEntry OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX IpNetToMediaEntry
 ACCESS not-accessible
 STATUS mandatory
 DESCRIPTION
 "Each entry contains one IpAddress to 'physical'
 address equivalence."
 INDEX { ipNetToMediaIfIndex,
 ipNetToMediaNetAddress }
 ::= { ipNetToMediaTable 1 }
MIB accesses the objects by OID (Object Identifier) number. Every object has a number; also, child objects have both the parent object number and its number. The numbers are separated by a dot ".". For example, if the parent object has the number "1" and the child object has the number "3", the child object's OID number is "1.3", and the child of a child may be "1.3.6", ... "1.3.6.1.2.1", and so on.
Here is simple sketch for the nodes tree:
Initialize the Class
I used the SnmpExtensionQuery function to resolve SNMP requests, but before using it, you must call the SnmpExtensionInit function to initialize the SNMP extension agent DLL. The two functions exist in the Microsoft library inetmib1.dll, so at the class construction, I will load the this library and get the addresses of these functions, then call SnmpExtensionInit to initialize the SNMP extension agent DLL.
Here is a construction of a CARP class:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Construction/Destruction
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
CARP::CARP()
{
 // Load dynamic library: inetmib1.dll
 hMIBLibrary = LoadLibrary(TEXT("inetmib1.dll"));
 // If library loaded, get addresses of (SnmpExtensionInit,
 // pfnSnmpExtensionQuery) functions
 if (hMIBLibrary)
 {
 pfnSnmpExtensionInit = (PFNSNMPEXTENSIONINIT)
 GetProcAddress(hMIBLibrary, "SnmpExtensionInit");
 pfnSnmpExtensionQuery = (PFNSNMPEXTENSIONQUERY)
 GetProcAddress(hMIBLibrary, "SnmpExtensionQuery");
 // If success get addresses and initialize SNMP,
 // bInitialized = true
 if (pfnSnmpExtensionInit && pfnSnmpExtensionQuery)
 {
 HANDLE hPollForTrapEvent;
 AsnObjectIdentifier aoiSupportedView;
 bInitialized = pfnSnmpExtensionInit(0,
 &hPollForTrapEvent, &aoiSupportedView);
 }
 }
 else
 {
 // If fail to get addresses, bInitialized = false
 bInitialized = FALSE;
 AfxMessageBox(_T("Load library fail"));
 }
}
Get ARP Entries
The GetEntries function gets ARP entries such as arp.exe -a. It takes three Parameters: pTable Pointer to array of arpTable struct that will filled by IP and MAC addresses TableLength Length of the array AdapterIndex NIC Adapter index number I'm used three OIDs to get ARP table entries: OID[0] = "1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.1", to get the interface index of the entry, and compare it with AdapterIndex parameter OID[1] = "1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.2", to get the IP and MAC addresses OID[2] = "1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.4", to get the entry type (Static or Dynamic).
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
// Function: GetEntries: Read ARP table for specific NIC interface.
//
// Parameters:
// pTable Pointer to array of arpTable struct
// TableLength Length of the array
// AdapterIndex NIC Adapter index number
//
// Returns:
// Number of read ARP entries
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
int CARP::GetEntries(arpTable* pTable, int TableLength,
 int AdapterIndex)
{
 // Be sure initialize SNMP true
 if (!bInitialized)
 return 0;
 SnmpVarBindList SVBList[3];
 SnmpVarBind SVBVars[3];
 UINT OID[3][10];
 AsnInteger32 aiErrorStatus[3], aiErrorIndex[3];
 AsnObjectIdentifier AsnOID0 = {sizeof(OID[0])/sizeof(UINT),
 OID[0]};
 AsnObjectIdentifier AsnOID1 = {sizeof(OID[1])/sizeof(UINT),
 OID[1]};
 AsnObjectIdentifier AsnOID2 = {sizeof(OID[2])/sizeof(UINT),
 OID[2]};
 unsigned long pIPAddress;
 unsigned long pMACAddress;
 int iEntries;
 //--------------------------------------------------------------
 // Fill array of 3 OIDs
 //
 // OID[0] : "1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.1", ipNetToMediaIfIndex
 // The interface on which this entry's
 // equivalence is effective
 //
 // OID[1] : "1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.2",
 // ipNetToMediaPhysAddress
 // The media-dependent 'physical' address
 //
 // OID[2] : "1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.4", ipNetToMediaType
 // Entry type: 1:Other,
 // 2:Invalid(Remove),
 // 3:Dynamic,
 // 4:Static
 //
 for (int count=0; count<3; count++)
 {
 OID[count][0] = 1;
 OID[count][1] = 3;
 OID[count][2] = 6;
 OID[count][3] = 1;
 OID[count][4] = 2;
 OID[count][5] = 1;
 OID[count]


text:
Conference Room 2, North Lawn Building, UN Headquarters, New York
On the occasion of the first International Widows' Day, UN Women and the Government of Gabon have organized a conference to draw attention to the situation of widows around the world and to mobilize the international community, government decision makers and civil society to address the social climate that perpetuates discrimination against widows and explore how to provide opportunities for widows in their societies. The discussions of this conference will initiate dialogue through which to better understand the situation of widows worldwide and to develop support mechanisms and strategies that respond to the needs of widows.
The conference will be webcast live on this page (tune in at 10:00 EDT on 23 June 2011) or on UN webcast (Channel 5).
About International Widows' Day:
Widows are everywhere. They are adults — our mothers, our sisters and our friends — but they are also young — women in the prime of their lives. They are an integral part of every society. Yet, little is known about who they are and the challenges they face. Seldom captured in statistics, unnoticed by researchers, often neglected by laws and development strategies — the situation of widows is, in effect, invisible.
To give special recognition to the situation of widows across all regions, the United Nations General Assembly on 21 December 2010 adopted resolution 65/189 and declared 23 June as International Widows' Day. Adopted by consensus, the resolution had been initiated by the Government of Gabon and was jointly sponsored by 56 countries. The commemoration of the very first International Widows' Day on 23 June 2011 provides an opportunity to raise awareness of not only the discrimination and challenges faced by widows around the world, but also pay attention to the valuable contributions they make to their communities.


text: A new device containing three circular electrodes and where very small quantities of a weakly electrically conductive liquid are propelled and mixed by chaotic advection is designed and constructed. The liquid, a copper sulfate solution, is propelled by the Lorentz body force, i.e., a magnetic field perpendicular to an electrical current. When the potentials of the electrodes are constant and the Lorentz force is small enough so that at the free surface the vertical velocity is practically zero, the flow field exhibits there a saddle point when the three circular electrodes are not in a concentric position. By modulating the electrical potential between the electrodes, the position of the saddle point changes. This slowly varying system is far from integrable and exhibits large-scale chaos, the non-integrability is due to the slow continuous modulation of the position of the saddle stagnation point and the two streamlines stagnating on it. Dye advection experiments are compared successfully to a numerical solution of the 3D equations of motion under these assumptions. We have also defined a potential mixing zone to predict the location of the chaotic region and calculated Poincare sections. These two tools give results which are in excellent agreement, they are used, with others, to adjust the mixing protocol parameters and the geometry in order to improve mixing.


text:
Visual object tracking using Gaussian process and sparse representation Online publication date: Fri, 22-May-2015
by Samira Ghareh Gozlou; Morteza Ghareh Gozlou
International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition (IJAPR), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015
Abstract: In this paper, we present a new method to solve the object tracking problem in video sequences based on the combination of sparse representation and Gaussian process. Most of sparse representation based trackers only consider the holistic representation and do not make full use of motion information of the target, and hence may fail with more possibility when there is similar object or occlusion in the scene. In this paper we develop a simple yet robust probabilistic tracking model in which the motion information of the target object in the previous frames (this information is captured by Gaussian process) is used to define a prior distribution on the object location in the current frame. Then, by using an appropriate likelihood distribution model (this is done via sparse representation), we can compute the posterior distribution of the object location on the current frame. Experimental results on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed object tracking algorithm.
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Local Parks grants help protect these symbols of vibrant communities, providing places for families to gather and play and promoting a healthy and active lifestyle in an era when people spend increasing amounts of their time inside. The WWRP is the largest source of local parks funding in Washington, helping communities fund the acquisition, development, and renovation of vital recreation areas and green spaces.
Mount Vernon will use this grant to develop Kiwanis Park. The park will include an extensive wetland trails system around a basketball court, a Little League field, a multi-purpose field, as well as a restroom, barbecue area, and picnic shelter. The park is in the center of the residential area of the city.


text:
Introduction: Exercise not only benefits physical and cardiovascular function in older adults with multiple chronic conditions but may also improve cognitive function. Peak HR, a physiological indicator for maximal effort, is the most common and practical means of establishing and monitoring exercise intensity. In particular, in the absence of graded maximal exercise test (GXT) results, age-predicted maximal HR values are typically used. Using individuals with stroke as a model for examining older adults with coexisting cardiovascular and neuromotor conditions, the purpose of this article was to examine the determinants associated with achieving age-predicted maximal HR on a GXT, with respect to neurological, cognitive, and lower limb function.
Methods: Forty-seven participants with stroke (age, 67 ± 7 yr; 4 ± 3 yr poststroke (mean ± SD)) performed GXT. The peak values for gas exchange, HR, and RPE were noted. Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine determinants (neurological impairment, leg motor impairment, Montreal Cognitive Assessment score, and walking ability) associated with the ability to achieve age-predicted maximal HR on the GXT.
Results: V˙O2peak was 16.5 ± 6 mL·kg−1·min−1. Fourteen (30%) participants achieved ≥100% of age-predicted maximal HR. Logistic regression modeling revealed that the ability to achieve this threshold was associated with less leg motor impairment (P = 0.02; odds ratio, 2.3) and higher cognitive scores (P = 0.048; odds ratio, 1.3).
Conclusions: These results suggest that noncardiopulmonary factors such as leg motor impairment and cognitive function are important contributors to achieving maximal effort during exercise tests. This study has important implications for poststroke exercise prescription, whereby training intensities that are based on peak HR from GXT may be underestimated among individuals with cognitive and physical impairments.


text:
A33. propagation along a channel
The purpose of this test is to verify the influence of diffraction for waves propagating along a channel. The amplitude of the waves decays in axial direction due to loss of energy in lateral direction. The waves computed by Swan are Compared with an analytical solution taken from Booij (1981). This analytical solution was validated by measurements, see Booij (1981). The axis of the channel is in N-S direction.
At the Southern boundary an incident wave field is assumed which propagates from the Southern boundary in N direction. The peak period is 10 s.
In the analytical solution the amplitude along the axis is constant. Computed values for Hs along the axis are compared with the analytical results.
3 cases are considered:
The highest panel shows the decay of Hs along the channel.
It is seen that diffraction enhances the decay. Diffraction in Swan
does not give enough decay if compared with the analytical solution.


How to identify parent without child
06-10-2019 12:48 PM
Occasional Contributor III
Hello everyone,
In a RelationshipClass between a FC (Parent) and a Table (child) How can I identify the aren't that do not have a child, or features in the Fc that do not have records associated in the table.
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Hi Jose,
You could do this using Python. Ex:
import arcpy
from arcpy import env
env.workspace = r"C:\temp\python\test.gdb"
parentLayer = 'Airports'
childLayer = 'Districts'
# Get list of foreign keys
foreignKey = [row[0] for row in arcpy.da.SearchCursor(childLayer, ["FCC"])]
# Convert list to tuple
primaryKey = ()
for id in foreignKey:
primaryKey += (str(id),)
# Search for primary keys that are not in foreignKey tuple and print OBJECTID
query = "NOT FCC IN {0}".format(primaryKey)
noChildIds = [row[0] for row in arcpy.da.SearchCursor(parentLayer, ["OBJECTID"], query)]


text:
Once the bodies of water have receded, construction dryers in flood plains spring into action. Not only do they consume a lot of power, they also make a lot of noise. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) in Stuttgart have now solved both problems. FastDry doesn't just run silently, so it can work 24/7 in shared apartments and offices, and it's also extremely modest when it comes to electricity. Plus, success comes faster.
Thermal energy stays in the wall
The drying module consists of a rectangular insulation board laminated on both sides. It is attached directly to the damp wall and heats it with integrated heating wires. The resulting water vapor passes through the permeable materials in the panel and escapes unobstructed through the rear. The thermal energy, in turn, remains in the wall thanks to the insulation. The drying module therefore only needs a small amount of electricity to maintain the temperature and the room is not heated up unnecessarily. For the insulation layer, project manager Andreas Zegowitz, group manager for thermal parameters, climate simulation in the hygrothermal department, and his team use commercially available mineral wool. It is non-combustible and therefore also complies with strict fire safety regulations.
Hot enough but not too hot
The Fraunhofer technology also outperforms infrared heating plates. FastDry uses only about 15 percent of the energy that standard infrared devices use. The working temperature is usually around 55 degrees Celsius. "We chose a temperature that even sensitive building materials can easily withstand," says Zegowitz. "Hot enough to allow moisture to escape quickly, but not so hot that the user could accidentally burn their hand.
Sensors monitor the drying process
But how does the FastDry module know that the wall is dry? The wall temperature and power consumption of the module are measured continuously. The more moisture the wall has already given off, the less energy is needed to maintain the defined temperature. "If the temperature and energy consumption remain the same over a 24-hour period, the wall can be considered dry," says Zegowitz. Then it will be turned off automatically.
FastDry is also for historic buildings
The modules can also be used in building shells or in the renovation of historic buildings. "Due to the feared increase in heavy rainfall, the need for efficient drying technology will also increase," said Professor Hartwig Künzel, head of the hygrothermal department at IBP. "The technology is market-ready and ready for series production."


Modern Physics
Schrodinger time dependent wave equation
Schrodinger time-dependent wave equation is a partial linear differential equation that describes the state function or wave function of a quantum mechanics system. It is a very important result in quantum mechanics or modern physics. This equation was presented by Ervin Schrodinger in 1925 and published in 1926.
Schrodinger time-dependent wave equation derivation
Consider a particle of mass "m" with velocity "v" and under the influence of potential energy (P.E) which is represented by V(r) . The total energy of the particle is the sum of potential energy (P.E) and kinetic energy (K.E) which is given by:
schrodinger time dependent Wave equation
Schrodinger equation time dependent
This is the Schrodinger time-dependent wave equation formula.
The factor hamiltonian operator=H is known as a Hamiltonian operator which gives the energy of the particle. Now equation (7) can be written as:
See also: Schrodinger time-independent wave equation
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Family: Soricidae, Shrews view all from this family
Description Large, velvety, brownish-grayish dark shrew with relatively uniform belly and back. Similar to American Water Shrew, but without stiff hairs on hind toes. Olympic Peninsula subspecies (S. b. albiventer) has white belly.
Dimensions 128-174mm, 58-80mm, 7-21g
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Swamps, marshes & bogs, Beaches, shorelines & estuaries, Lakes, ponds, rivers & streams
Range California, Northwest, Western Canada
Discussion Forages both on land and in water, but eats prey on land. Occupies coastal forests, typically associated with skunk cabbage marshes, riparian alder, small streams, and beach debris. May temporarily move into new habitats during rainy times.


Drone On by Winnie Czulinski
Celtic Music Quiz
Drone On by Winnie Czulinski
Drone On by Winnie Czulinski
Author Winnie Czulinski invites you to test your knowledge of Celtic culture.
The quiz is an except from "Drone On! The High History of Celtic Music", a humorous new book by Winnie Czulinski.
Test your knowledge of Celtic culture and music. Grab a pen and a piece of paper and don't cheat – the answers are at the bottom of the page!
1) What are the seven "Celtic nations"?
2) What was the most important fish in Celtic mythology?
3) Maewyn Succat became a famous Irish religious figure under what name?
4) What kind of specialised Celtic song-form was urine used in?
5) What is a "Strathspey"?
6) What's the name of the Irish bellows-blown bagpipe, and what does the name mean?
7) Why is the mountain dulcimer sometimes called a stringed bagpipe?
8) What does the Gaelic word "craic" (pronounced "crack") mean?
9) Which 18th-century blind Irish harper created many "planxties" — and just what is a planxty?
10) Which historical "lady a la moan" wrote the Scottish song "Will Ye No Come Back Again"?
11) What 19th-century American scholar collected so many Celtic folk songs he just had to number them all?
12) a) Who wrote the lyrics of the famous song "Danny Boy"?
12) b) Where was the author when he composed "Danny Boy"?
13) When he was almost Baroque, what famous classical composer churned out dozens of arrangements of Celtic folksongs for a big publisher?
14) What Irish rock group had a name that means "kiss my a—" (i.e. posterior)?
15) How many taps per second can famous Irish-American dancer Michael Flatley do?
Winnie Czulinski's "Drone on! The High History of Celtic Music" is available to buy from Amazon.co.uk. Read a review at Rambles.net
1) Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany (NW France) and Galicia/Asturias (NW Spain).
2) The Salmon of Knowledge (or Wisdom)
3) St. Patrick, in fifth-century Ireland
4) The "waulking" song, sung by a group of people pounding/kneading wet wool treated with urine, to shrink and "full" the fabric. The ammonia in stale urine also helped intensify the colour of the cloth.
5) A distinctive Scottish tune and dance, named for the strath or valley of the Highlands' Spey River.
6) The uillean bagpipes, and it means "elbow," as they're squeezed under the arm.
7) Traditionally played, it has a "drone" – an underlying note that remains the same.
8) Fun, a good time, a certain "spirit" (and often in the bottle)
9) Turlough O'Carolan. A "planxty" was a song composed specifically for a patron.
10) Lady Caroline Nairne (_PHONE_), a staunch Stuart supporter.
11) Francis Child. (Child #65, Child #66 and so on)
12) English barrister Fred Weatherly, in 1910 (apparently while on a commuter train)
13) Ludwig van Beethoven, for Scottish publisher George Thomson. And actually, Joseph Haydn and Ignaz Joseph Pleyel also did folksong "arrangements" for publishers.
14) Pogue Mahone — the phonetic spelling of this rather cheeky Gaelic phrase. (Later, the band shortened its name to "The Pogues.")
15) 35 taps per second.
What did you get? Less than half? Me too, best buy the book! Not only does it give a comical overview of Celtic music it begins with a unique historical and cultural introduction to the Celtic nations.


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Media Sifter is a platform to consume media critically, it helps people to filter their news and get multiple opinions on specific topics.
Media sifter is a platform for people to critically consume media. Why? Have you ever yourself found it hard to believe something you have read or heard from the news media? If the answer was yes would you like a way, a tool perhaps that can give you a filter to that confusion and help you to make better sense of the actual current events?
The service is called 'Media Sifter' and it is a tool and a news aggregator that aids you in your interpretation of the news.
1 – Discover – Aggregating and sorting media sources
(Contextualising stories by history and geography not just by the author)
2 – Dissect – Providing tools above the actual article to allow for language and source analysis (Utilising natural language processing and machine learning)
3 – Disclose & Discuss – Flag words and statements in any given article (Utilising crowdsourced intelligence)


Small Conveyor Chains Technical Information and facts
Calculation of Chain Tension
Normally, to start with, tentatively determine the chain dimension to become utilised referring to "Tentative determination of chain size". Then, obtain "Theoretical chain tension (T)" (P213) to the tentatively established chain, and multiply the worth by "Speed coefficient (K)", to obtain "Substantial chain tension (Ta)". For safety, the substantial chain tension needs to be decrease compared to the "maximum allowable tension" stated while in the table of dimensions of respective chains. Consequently, the condition under should be satisfied.
Safety condition of chain stress
Substantial chain stress (Ta) ＝Theoretical chain tension (T) ×Speed coefficient (K)
Substantial chain tension (Ta) ＜Maximum allowable tension
If this situation is not happy, pick a larger chain by one dimension and re-calculate.
Tentative determination of chain dimension
qDetermine the mass (excess weight) per unit length of parts this kind of as chain and attachment ωc (kg/m or kgf/m) assuming that it's ten % of your mass (fat) in the conveyed object ω1 (kg/m or kgf/m).
wIn reference towards the calculation formulas on, obtain "Theoretical chain tension (T)" (kN or kgf) and "Speed coefficient (K)", and calculate "Substantial chain tension (Ta)" (kN or kgf).
eIn reference to your table of dimensions of chains,identify the minimal chain, whose "maximum allowable tension" is increased compared to the "Substantial chain stress (Ta)", and regard it as "tentatively decided chain".
Value of velocity coefficient (K)
The velocity coefficient (K) expresses the severity of operation ailment according to the traveling pace of chain because the situation turns into severer as the traveling velocity of chain turns into greater.
Multiply "Theoretical chain tension (T)" by "Speed coefficient (K)" to get "Substantial chain tension (Ta)".
If you style various conveyor methods applying small conveyor chains, the following simple situations have to be happy.
a. Chain stress: The actual tensile strength in operation need to be considerably reduce compared to the specified strength in the chain.
b. Strength of loaded parts of chain: The real loads applied to attachments, this kind of as rollers of base chain, leading rollers, side rollers, etc. in operation have to be appreciably smaller sized compared to the strength of these components.
c. Wear lifestyle of chain: Lubrication ailments to make sure the put on lifestyle of chain need to be fulfilled.
d. Sag adjustment of chain: The sag with the chain must be stored optimum by tension adjusters, take-up products, guides, and so forth.
e. Others: Suitable measures are taken to stop rail wear, machine vibration together with other complications.
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Survey on FPGA-Based Pipelined Architecture for RC5 Encryption
In current scenario, electronic devices handling confidential information. In these devices encryption algorithm proposed have been satisfy to protect the confidential information and known for their cryptographic applications. The extensively use of reconfigurable processor like FPGA for cryptographic application which have reduced the time to market of hardware logic. In this survey presented that the FPGA-based hardware architecture is best approach for high performance of circuit, it reduces the response time and resources. This hardware architecture work on Verilog as well as VHDL language.
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- 1 How do I adopt a baby in Georgia?
- 2 Is it hard to adopt a baby in Georgia?
- 3 How long does it take to adopt in GA?
- 4 Why is adoption so expensive?
- 5 Can you adopt newborns?
- 6 Is adopting a baby hard?
- 7 How long do you have to be married to adopt in Georgia?
- 8 What is the quickest way to adopt a child?
- 9 Do you get a monthly check when you adopt a child?
- 10 Why is adopting a child so difficult?
- 11 How long does it take to adopt a newborn?
- 12 Is it cheaper to adopt from foster care?
How do I adopt a baby in Georgia?
Process for Families Adopting an Infant in Georgia
- Step 1: Determine what type of adoption you desire.
- Step 2: Choose an adoption professional wisely.
- Step 3: Create your adoptive family profile and complete your home study.
- Step 4: Patiently Waiting and Meeting Potential Birth Mother/s.
- Step 5: Post-Placement Contact.
Is it hard to adopt a baby in Georgia?
Becoming a foster or adoptive parent is not a complicated process. You have already taken the first and most challenging step by seeking information about making a child a part of your family.
How long does it take to adopt in GA?
Uncontested adoptions, where the rights of the parents have been surrendered or terminated, move through the Georgia courts quickly, and it is not unusual to finalize the adoption within 30-45 days from the filing of the petition for adoption, and in some case earlier.
Why is adoption so expensive?
The reason that infant, embryo, and international adoption is so expensive is that (unlike foster care), the cost is not paid for by tax payers. In addition, adoption is expensive because several costs are incurred along the way. The agency must cover its own expenses of staff and other overhead.
Can you adopt newborns?
Dually authorised carers may adopt a child in NSW where the Children's Court has determined the child cannot live with their family.
Is adopting a baby hard?
Adoption is so much more difficult and complicated than people think it is. Domestic infant adoption is actually rather rare, with only roughly 10 percent of hopeful parents being placed with a baby. The wait is often long and full of disappointment and heartbreak. Even after adopting a baby, adoption is hard.
How long do you have to be married to adopt in Georgia?
In the traditional adoption program, American Adoptions requires that adoptive parents be married for a minimum of two years, have no more than two children already, and be between the ages of 25 and 50. However, exceptions can and have been made.
What is the quickest way to adopt a child?
The easiest way to adopt child, and do it quickly is private placement adoption with lawyer though it can be costly. The other way is foster a child and let the agency now that is giving you the foster child you are looking to foster a child to adopt.
Do you get a monthly check when you adopt a child?
As a foster parent, you will receive a check each month to cover the cost of caring for the child, and the child will also receive medical assistance. If you adopt that child, you will continue to receive financial and medical assistance. Remember that for a U.S. waiting child you should not be asked to pay high fees.
Why is adopting a child so difficult?
Adopting babies out of the foster care system is typically difficult, because of a high demand, and children in the foster care system often have very specific emotional and physical needs that some families may not feel equipped to handle. There's always a way to adopt if that's what you're determined to do.
How long does it take to adopt a newborn?
Adopting a foster child can take 6 to 18 months. Adopting a newborn can take 2 to 7 years. International adoptions can take six or more years. Being flexible in your requirements for a child can decrease the time required.
Is it cheaper to adopt from foster care?
Adopting a child from foster care is often funded by the state, and in most cases there are few or no fees. According to Child Welfare Information Gateway, working with a private agency to adopt a healthy newborn or baby or to adopt from another country can cost $5,000 to $40,000.


field that determines the minimum value in the "rec_num" field. While the summary field has the same value on every record when placed in the body part, it is context sensitive in the subsummary by region part and displays a minimum record number for the subsummary grouping. Pay attention to how the "rec_num" and "rec_num_min" field equal each other in the subsummary parts. That's because the subsummary part grabs the "rec_num" value from the first record in the subsummary grouping which is the same as the minimum.
However, on the second page, the record number and minimum record number do not equal each other. While you can't see the subsummary part on the second page, it does exist and is the same as the value from the last subsummary on the previous page. If you want to see the value, create the following formula in a calculation field and place it in the header part next to the "rec_num" field for comparison:
GetSummary(rec_num_min; region)
In order for a calculation containing a summary field to be context sensitive to a part, you must use the GetSummary function. Otherwise, the calculation will return the same value as if the summary field were located in the body part. In this example, the value would always be "1" since the minimum record number will always be the first in the found set.
Once you understand how values are stored in FileMaker depending on their context, a simple formula like the following will repeat the subsummary content when a subsummary part breaks across two pages:
Case(
rec_num <> GetSummary(rec_num_min; region);
region & " (Continued)"
)
Since the subsummary part doesn't actually display on the second page, the calculation must be placed in the header part. This requires a little smoke and mirrors to get it to look seamless but isn't too hard. Just make the header part a little bigger and place the calculation field at the very bottom of the part. The header contents won't show up in the exact same spot as the subsummary part contents but it's close enough.
Performance
You might be concerned that the "rec_num" unstored calculation will slow down your report, especially since another calculation calls it making it unstored as well. On top of that, the formula also includes a reference to a summary field which is also unstored. And, you'd be right to be concerned. However, in my experience, it performs well. It's only when you start multiplying the number of unstored calculations on a single layout that performance issues can occur.
And, it's not just about the number of unstored calculations, it's also about their complexity. The calculations in this technique are not very complicated. Maybe complicated is a bad word to use. Sure, complicated formulas can be slow to process but it's more about relationships than complexity. The biggest culprit are aggregate functions like Sum and Count. If you include a lot of these functions to aggregate related records or even refer to lots of different relationships, things could slow down.
Last but not least, consider how many records are displaying on a single screen. A single record of unstored calculations will obviously display more quickly than a found set of twenty. The point is, it's not unstored calculations that are slow, it's the amount of them that display on the screen at one time and their complexity. Don't stop using unstored calculations, just be wary when adding them. If you test properly, you won't get that call from an angry customer when the solution slows to a halt once a bunch of records are entered.
Considerations
One drawback of this technique is that header parts do not support all sliding features. Whenever the calculations in the header part return a blank result, it would be nice to reduce the size of the header part. Unfortunately, reducing the size of the enclosing part is not possible in a header or footer part. The result is a blank space at the bottom of the header which is noticeable when you compare a page that displays results for these calculations versus a page that doesn't. This may or may not affect your decision to implement this solution. That doesn't mean you shouldn't study the technique. You never know how you can apply the knowledge from one technique to another solution. Learn as much as you can about FileMaker and you will be rewarded in the long run.
Conclusion
I've passed this tip onto a couple developer friends and their first reaction is, "it's going to be slow". I said try it and they were pleasantly surprised at the performance.
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Keith Currie, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, says while the agricultural sector has a long history of learning and adapting to the variability of Canada's weather and climate, global warming and climate change present a much more formidable challenge to agricultural production because of more frequent extreme weather events and changes to regional water cycles.
April 16, 2018 By Trudy Kelly Forsythe
"The uncertainty and variability resulting from climate change presents significant increased risk to food production and rural livelihoods," Currie says.
To protect their livelihoods, farmers can access a number of programs that offer coverage in the case of extreme weather. In Ontario, Agricorp delivers a variety of programs and payments on behalf of the federal and provincial governments to help protect Ontario producers against many of the business and agricultural risks they face every day.
"Right now happens to be renewal and enrolment time for most business risk management programs," says Stephanie Charest, AgriCorp's customer communications manager. "Having the right risk management coverage to meet the unique needs of a farm is important, and application and renewal season is a good time for producers to make sure their coverage is a good match to what their farms look like today."
"As a farm evolves and the industry changes, so can coverage needs," Charest says, explaining that the federal and provincial governments provide a comprehensive suite of business risk management programs to help mitigate risks. "Producers can maximize their coverage by enrolling in these programs."
It is important to note that different programs cover different risks.
Production insurance guarantees producers a level of production in case they experience challenges beyond their control, such as hail, excessive rainfall and drought. Plans are available for more than 100 commodities based on yield, dollar value or acreage loss with producers receiving a payment when an insured peril, such as hail, excessive rainfall and drought, causes their yield to fall below their guaranteed production.
"Final production losses are known after harvest when we have the full picture of crop results," Charest says. "Generally, our customers report their final harvested yields from late November to early December. Producers also report crop damage as soon as it occurs."
Most production insurance plans offer the following types of claim payments:
- Reseeding claims cover the costs of replanting some or all of a crop that experiences damage because of an insured peril, such as hail, excess rainfall or drought
- The unseeded acreage benefit helps offset the financial burden when a farmer is unable to plant a crop due to an insured peril, except drought
- Production claims are determined at the end of the growing season (late fall) when actual yield is known.
There is also a forage rainfall plan with excess rainfall and insufficient rainfall options. It uses measured rainfall as an indicator of forage quality.
Application and renewal time for most production insurance plans is May 1, 2018.
Wildfires are not an insured natural weather peril so they are not eligible for production insurance, which covers weather risks that are beyond a producer's control, such as drought, hail and wind. That said, there are options to buy private insurance coverage for fire due to third party liability, such as machinery breakdown, which is typically more common. If this occurs, Agricorp would make sure any crop losses do not affect their yield averages that are used for future coverage.
Producers who experience production losses due to wildfires can access coverage through business risk management programs with AgriStability, protecting the farm income as a whole; AgriInvest helping producers recover from small income shortfalls; and Ontario's SDRM: Edible Horticulture, helping producers mitigate general risks associated with their farm business.
AgriStability helps protect against risks like unexpected, large declines in income. It protects the farm income as a whole instead of one commodity at a time.
"AgriStability is an affordable option and producers can get coverage for a low fee of $315 for every $100,000 of their reference margin," says Charest. "Producers receive a payment if their farming income falls below 70 per cent of their farm's recent average income."
April 30 is the last day to apply and renew for the 2018 tax year. Producers submit claim forms by June 30, 2019 to determine if they qualify for a payment.
Risk Management Program
The risk management program (RMP) helps producers offset losses caused by low commodity prices and rising production costs. RMP is available for grains and oilseeds, as well as cattle, hogs, sheep and veal. Producers receive payments if the market prices fall below their chosen support level. There are three payment periods for RMP for livestock and two for RMP for grains and oilseeds.
The application and renewal dates are April 1 for RMP for livestock and May 1 for RMP for grains and oilseeds.
SDRM: Edible Horticulture
SDRM: Edible Horticulture is part of RMP and helps edible horticulture producers mitigate general risks associated with their farm business. Producers receive a government contribution based on their annual deposit into an SDRM account. Their maximum deposit is a percentage of their allowable net sales and is set in September.
A withdrawal request can be submitted at any time after a deposit has been made.
AgriInvest helps producers recover from small income shortfalls or make investments to reduce their farm's risk. Producers receive a matching government contribution based on their annual deposits into an AgriInvest account. Their deposit is a percentage of their allowable net sales.
The application and renewal date for AgriInvest is Sept. 30, 2018.
There is also an AgriRecovery Framework, which may respond when natural disasters occur.


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Personal Branding is identifying your assets, characteristics, strengths, and skills as an individual. Understanding Personal Branding will provide advantages in your personal and professional life. Branding is a mix of how you present yourself and how others see you. It is important to be aware of how you are viewed.
With our Personal Branding course you will be able to share your vision and passions with others in your company. Utilize this knowledge through Social Media to define and influence how others see you. You are your brand so protect it. Live it.
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Define your image.
- Control your image.
- Understand how to sharpen your brand.
- Use social media appropriately.
- Manage your brand in a crisis.
- Develop a professional appearance.


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Expression statements are used (mostly interactively) to compute and
write a value, or (usually) to call a procedure (a function that
returns no meaningful result; in Python, procedures return the value
None). Other uses of expression statements are allowed and
occasionally useful. The syntax for an expression statement is:
An expression statement evaluates the expression list (which may be a single expression).
In interactive mode, if the value is not
None, it is converted
to a string using the built-in repr()function and the resulting string is written to standard output (see
section 6.6) on a line by itself. (Expression statements
None are not written, so that procedure calls do not
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I want to generate 3D triangulated models of optical lenses, circular in shape. I can create the meshes for the front and back surface. I'm having trouble creating the triangles for the sides of the lenses (as the front surface is a certain distance from the backside, also on the sides). I want the vertices of the front and back surfaces to be on a rectangular grid (z=f(x,y) where (x,y) are on the grid). That means the sides will have to deal with the "staircasing" that exists because of clipping the front and back on the rectangles of the grid.
How do I select which vertices (on/near the edge) of the front and back surfaces to use for the lens sides?
That appears to be not as easy as I thought. For instance, taking the vertices that are within "lens radius" and "lens radius minus sqrt(grid spacing)" from the center doesn't work. Similar other tries didn't work out either.
To be a little more clear: the front and back surface are perfectly aligned and share the same grid for their x and y coordinates. Therefore the sides are always vertical.


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5777 Angel Number – Meaning and Symbolism
Today's modern world is not familiar with many mysteries and many phenomena that exist.
But there are also people who have encountered certain phenomena and who have relayed their experiences throughout our history.
Our topic today will talk about one such phenomenon.
This phenomenon is unknown to many and they do not believe in it, but we can say that this is one of the things that every man would like to experience.
This phenomenon is called Angel Numbers and anyone who has encountered it has said that his life has changed and that he has become happier.
In our world every man has a certain destiny and a certain life path and these numbers can tell us some things about our lives or show us what our future will look like.
Angel Numbers help us to communicate with the angels who have been with us throughout our lives.
They have certain plans and messages that speak to us through these numbers.
Each man has his own number and if it happened to meet with Angel Numbers then we have to understand the message of these numbers and change some life habits or decisions.
Many people have misunderstood this phenomenon and did not want to continue researching these numbers.
We can say that it was a mistake because this phenomenon is a sign that we have something special that can affect our better future.
That is why it is very important for us to understand the signs that these numbers send us because it will help us to be better people and shape our future in the way that we want.
Today we will try to describe to you what Angel Number 5777 says about your present life and your future.
This number carries some hidden messages that you will need to interpret to find your happiness and to create the future that you dreamed of.
What Does Angel Number 5777 Mean?
Angel Number 5777 has specific characteristics and positive vibes that send people a sense of security, ambition, positivity and a desire to move forward.
This number brings a certain dose of happiness that gives people the charisma and confidence that helps them successfully complete each task and gain the necessary experience.
Angel Number 5777 has great power that must be used in the right way.
This number is created from the influence of number 5 and from the triple energy and vibration of number 7.
Number 7 sends a great influence and power to this Angel Number and this number mainly determines how the people in this number will create a life path.
Number 5 does not have too much influence on this number but it does have some impacts. This number may provide some characteristics that are important, but they are not in very large quantities.
For this number we can say that it is a very positive number and therefore describes people who have a strong character and a strong will to achieve great success in life.
They are very good friends, parents and they will always be there to help you and give you different life advice.
Number 5 also describes people who are loyal and sincere and who will always express love for their partners.
This number also influences on life decisions and if you decide to start a new business this number tells you that you will have a good start.
Number 7 represents experience, charisma, talent, creativity and courage. This number helps us to be successful in various areas of life.
Number 7 represents a large number of successful people who have managed to gain fame and a good financial life.
This number also gives a certain amount of courage that helps us to overcome many of life's obstacles.
Number 7 helps us to forget the ugly things of the past and helps us to keep going and think about our future.
This number has a good impact on our mental and physical strength and describes people who have the strong will and desire to thrive in all areas of life.
This number, combined with other numbers, gives a great deal of luck in future periods.
Number 7 appears 3 times in Angel Number 5777, so we can say that it exerts a triple impact and gives triple energy.
Therefore, the influence of this number is very strong and it is the main one in the creation of human character.
Angel Number 5777 is also closely related to Number 26 because the sum of its numbers gives Number 26.
Number 26 brings additional motivation and courage.
The Secret Meaning and Symbolism
Angel Number 5777 is a number associated with people who have been able to show their creative side to other people and to make financial success from it.
This Angel Number gives people a great deal of motivation and desire to move forward, which is why they are always at the top of society.
People in this number are never satisfied with the results that they achieved and they feel that they can always achieve more.
Their motive for life is work and progress, which is why they rarely take a break.
Sometimes they neglect family and friends, but this is not a sign that they do not like them.
Angel Number 5777 has many hidden symbols and messages and one of them is that sometimes you have to take a break and dedicate yourself to other things in life.
You are a person who is full of ambition and it is certain that you will continue to succeed in the future.
The people in this issue are also humanists, and they often want to help other people.
Angel Number 5777 also symbolizes physicians, professors, scientists and people who contribute to society.
This number has a strong and specific energy and that is why these people are generally successful in different fields of life.
They are very loyal and sincere friends and they would never fail to meet your expectations.
Love and Number 5777
Angel Number 5777 has a loving energy that must be used on the right partner.
The people in this number are free spirited and they are great adventurers who like to experiment.
If you try to deprive these people of their freedom, they will not allow you.
They want to find a partner who will have the same thinking and qualities as them.
These individuals possess charisma, positivity and therefore it is not difficult for them to make a good impression on other people.
Angel Number 5777 also describes people who, when married, often spend a lot of time at work.
This number advises that you sometimes take the time for your partner and go on a joint trip and take a vacation.
Angel Number 5777 says that there is only one life and that you must take the maximum of it.
Interesting Facts about Number 5777
5777 is the name of a sci-fi movie that has gained popularity in Germany.
5777 is the name of a weapon used in World War II.
5777 is the name of a Japanese video game.
What To Do When You See Angel Number 5777?
The most important thing is to continue with your plans, but also to take a short break from your business life.
Remember that life is one and that you have to create beautiful periods in it.
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