Sun Studio 12: Debugging a Program With dbx
Examining the Contents of Memory
Using addresses and the examine or x command, you can examine the content of memory locations as well as print the assembly language instruction at each address. Using a command derived from adb(1), the assembly language debugger, you can query for:
You can print the assembly commands using the dis command and the listi command. (See Using the dis Command and Using the listi Command.)
Using the examine or x Command
Use the examine command, or its alias x, to display memory contents or addresses.
Use the following syntax to display the contents of memory starting at address for count items in format format. The default address is the next one after the last address previously displayed. The default count is 1. The default format is the same as was used in the previous examine command, or X if this is the first command given.
The syntax for the examine command is:
examine [address] [/ [count] [format]]
To display the contents of memory from address1 through address2 inclusive, in format format, type:
examine address1, address2 [/ [format]]
Display the address, instead of the contents of the address in the given format by typing:
examine address = [format]
To print the value stored at the next address after the one last displayed by examine, type:
examine +/ i
To print the value of an expression, enter the expression as an address:
examine address=format
examine address=
The address is any expression resulting in or usable as an address. The address may be replaced with a + (plus sign), which displays the contents of the next address in the default format.
For example, the following are valid addresses.:
An absolute address
Address of a function
Offset from a function address
Address of a variable
A pointer-value variable pointing to a string
Symbolic addresses used to display memory are specified by preceding a name with an ampersand (&). Function names can be used without the ampersand; &main is equal to main. Registers are denoted by preceding a name with a dollar sign ($).
The format is the address display format in which dbx displays the results of a query. The output produced depends on the current display format. To change the display format, supply a different format code.
The default format set at the start of each dbx session is X, which displays an address or value as a 32-bit word in hexadecimal. The following memory display formats are legal.
Display as an assembly instruction.
Display as 16 bits (2 bytes) in decimal.
Display as 32 bits (4 bytes) in decimal.
Display as 16 bits (2 bytes) in octal.
Display as 32 bits (4 bytes) in octal.
Display as 16 bits (2 bytes) in hexadecimal.
Display as 32 bits (4 bytes) in hexadecimal. (default format)
Display as a byte in octal.
Display as a character.
Display as a wide character.
Display as a string of characters terminated by a null byte.
Display as a wide character.
Display as a single-precision floating point number.
F, g
Display as a double-precision floating point number.
Display as an extended-precision floating point number.
ld, lD
Display 32 bits (4 bytes) in decimal (same as D).
lo, lO
Display 32 bits (4 bytes) in octal (same as O).
lx, LX
Display 32 bits (4 bytes) in hexadecimal (same as X).
Ld, LD
Display 64 bits (8 bytes) in decimal.
Lo, LO
Display 64 bits (8 bytes) in octal.
Lx, LX
Display 64 bits (8 bytes) in hexadecimal.
The count is a repetition count in decimal. The increment size depends on the memory display format.
Examples of Using an Address
The following examples show how to use an address with count and format options to display five successive disassembled instructions starting from the current stopping point.
For SPARC based systems:
(dbx) stepi
stopped in main at 0x108bc
0x000108bc: main+0x000c: st %l0, [%fp - 0x14]
(dbx) x 0x108bc/5i
0x000108c0: main+0x0010: mov 0x1,%l0
0x000108c4: main+0x0014: or %l0,%g0, %o0
0x000108c8: main+0x0018: call 0x00020b90 [unresolved PLT 8: malloc]
0x000108cc: main+0x001c: nop
For x86 based systems:
(dbx) x &main/5i
0x08048988: main : pushl %ebp
0x08048989: main+0x0001: movl %esp,%ebp
0x0804898b: main+0x0003: subl $0x28,%esp
0x0804898e: main+0x0006: movl 0x8048ac0,%eax
0x08048993: main+0x000b: movl %eax,-8(%ebp)
Using the dis Command
The dis command is equivalent to the examine command with i as the default display format.
Here is the syntax for the dis command.
dis [address] [address1, address2] [/count]
The dis command:
Using the listi Command
To display source lines with their corresponding assembly instructions, use the listi command, which is equivalent to the command list -i. See the discussion of list -i in Printing a Source Listing.
For SPARC based systems:
(dbx) listi 13, 14
 13 i = atoi(argv[1]);
0x0001083c: main+0x0014: ld [%fp + 0x48], %l0
0x00010840: main+0x0018: add %l0, 0x4, %l0
0x00010844: main+0x001c: ld [%l0], %l0
0x00010848: main+0x0020: or %l0, %g0, %o0
0x0001084c: main+0x0024: call 0x000209e8 [unresolved PLT 7: atoi]
0x00010850: main+0x0028: nop
0x00010854: main+0x002c: or %o0, %g0, %l0
0x00010858: main+0x0030: st %l0, [%fp - 0x8]
 14 j = foo(i);
0x0001085c: main+0x0034: ld [%fp - 0x8], %l0
0x00010860: main+0x0038: or %l0, %g0, %o0
0x00010864: main+0x003c: call foo
0x00010868: main+0x0040: nop
0x0001086c: main+0x0044: or %o0, %g0, %l0
0x00010870: main+0x0048: st %l0, [%fp - 0xc]
For x86 based systems:
(dbx) listi 13, 14
 13 i = atoi(argv[1]);
0x080488fd: main+0x000d: movl 12(%ebp),%eax
0x08048900: main+0x0010: movl 4(%eax),%eax
0x08048903: main+0x0013: pushl %eax
0x08048904: main+0x0014: call atoi <0x8048798>
0x08048909: main+0x0019: addl $4,%esp
0x0804890c: main+0x001c: movl %eax,-8(%ebp)
 14 j = foo(i);
0x0804890f: main+0x001f: movl -8(%ebp),%eax
0x08048912: main+0x0022: pushl %eax
0x08048913: main+0x0023: call foo <0x80488c0>
0x08048918: main+0x0028: addl $4,%esp
0x0804891b: main+0x002b: movl %eax,-12(%ebp)


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Distance Calculator – How far is it?
The Distance Calculator can find distance between any two cities or locations available in The World Clock
The distance is calculated in kilometers, miles and nautical miles, and the initial compass bearing/heading from the origin to the destination. It will also display local time in each of the locations.
Help and example use
- See cities close to a location
- Day and Night World Map – See which parts of the Earth are currently illuminated by the Sun
- About the Distance Graph

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Hydration, Ions, Lipid Binding, and Inherent Electric Fields at the Air/Water Interface: Ocean and Aerosol Surfaces
Our oceans are the largest generators of highly saline and organic-rich atmospheric aerosol. Research in the Allen lab investigates ocean and sea spray aerosol systems to understand interfacial speciation and organization to then inform on atmospheric aerosol, cloud, and marine surface reactivity, correlating to climate change and its contributing uncertainties. Surface selective experiments reveal surface propensity of hydrated ions and ion pairs and generation of electric fields inherent to the ordering of electrical double layers at aqueous surfaces. Magnesium solvent shared ion pairing with sulfate is one example where relatively few ion pairs produce a significant electric field at an aqueous surface. In recent work, we investigate iron(III) hydration and speciation. Lipid and fatty acid – ion binding and surface domain formation is investigated to shed light on trace metal enrichment of the ocean's sea surface microlayer and of sea spray aerosol surfaces. The surface electric field is measured using a Kelvin probe technique and surface potentiometry using radioactive Americium, a new method being refined in our laboratory elucidating halide surface presence and lipid preorganization. Results from surface tensiometry, Brewster angle microscopy (BAM), and surface vibrational probes of sum frequency generation (SFG), and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS) are discussed.
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One example of what I'm struggling with. To efficiently delete an element from a linked list I need the pointer to the previous element; from an array, the element's index; from a set, the element itself; and so on. I was trying to design an iteration protocol that provides me such things uniformly from all classes, but I feel if it makes sense, it would have been done already. So perhaps I'm on the wrong path. – max May 1 '12 at 17:47
If you want to find the 17th element in a linked list, start at the head and follow the first 16 next links. Works fine but it's slow because a linked list is not an array. Want to insert an element at the beginning of an array? Move all the others up one spot first. Again, works fine but it's slow because an array is not a linked list. This is just what I was saying above: to impose a standard interface on these different structures is to lose the features which make them different and useful. – William Shakespeare May 1 '12 at 18:21
That's why I'm asking for an efficient common interface. If you already iterated through a list, and you want to delete the element you found, you need to be given, during the iteration, a pointer to the previous element. When you already iterated through an array, and you want to delete an element you found, you need to be given, during the iteration, the index of the element. Of course some operations would still take longer; e.g., removal from an array is slower than from a list - but at least I won't have to search for the element before I can remove it! – max May 1 '12 at 18:37
It sounds like you're looking for the strategy pattern. What you'll do is define your own interface (like find-nearest-neighbors(NumericCollection) or find-closest-value(NumericCollection, Integer)) and provide several implementations of it. Details of calling the various implementations are necessarily language-specific, but as long as each supports the defined interface, you should have a good basis for comparison.
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C++'s STL has something along these lines - all collections support iterators which you can use to access the members, and the iterator is a standard class itself, so has the operations you want.
So you can walk an array using begin() to end(), and you can swap the array for a list without any issues.
However, some collections support different operations - although you can sort both array, list and queue, you can't sort a map or set (they're already sorted). This just means some operations don't make sense for some collections.
Look at the algorithms section of the STL for a set of operations that apply to every different type of STL collection.
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You should research the Adapter Pattern. Using the Adapter Pattern, you'd define an interface, IContainer, that provides all the required operations, such as indexing, sorting, etc. You would then create different implementations of your IContainer interface, such as ArrayContainer, LinkedListContainer, and so on. Next, using a technique such as Dependency Injection, you could write your algorithms around your IContainer interface, thereby decoupling your code from any one particular container type. This would allow you to substitute and measure the performance of different kinds of containers.
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% cabal run
Package has never been configured. Configuring with default flags. If this fails, please run configure manually.
Resolving dependencies…
Configuring scotty-webapp-example-0.1.0.0…
Preprocessing executable 'scotty-webapp-example' for
scotty-webapp-example-0.1.0.0…
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( server/Main.hs, dist/build/scotty-webapp-example/scotty-webapp-example-tmp/Main.o )
Linking dist/build/scotty-webapp-example/scotty-webapp-example …
Running scotty-webapp-example…
Setting phasers to stun… (port 3000) (ctrl-c to quit)
The server will be running now on port 3000. Let's verify that:
% http delete :3000
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:44:57 GMT
Server: Warp/3.1.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
This was a DELETE request!
Great!
Handling more complex requests
Let's add a few more handlers to handle different kinds of requests. Add the following to server/Main.hs:
Encode/Decode JSON
Most web services these days interact via JSON. Haskell provides a type safe way to encode/decode JSON strings using theAeson library.
Defining the model
Let's create an Article data type that could represent a news article for example. An article consists of 3 fields: anInteger id, a Text title and a Text bodyText. By making Article an instance of FromJSON andToJSON typeclasses, we can use Aeson library for converting between JSON strings and Article objects. Add the following code to the file server/Article.hs:
We'll need to add a couple of routes to our Scotty router function to handle encoding and decoding Article types:
We'll also need to add a couple of dependencies to scotty-webapp-example.cabal file:
build-depends: base >=4.8 && <4.9
 , scotty
 , http-types
 , text
 , aeson
Test JSON encoding/decoding
Let's fire up Scotty and see if it can handle JSON properly:
GET /article
% http get :3000/article
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:51:17 GMT
Server: Warp/3.1.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{
 "bodyText": "content",
 "id": 13,
 "title": "caption"
}
POST /article
% http post :3000/article id:=23 title="new caption" bodyText="some content"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:56:57 GMT
Server: Warp/3.1.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{
 "bodyText": "some content",
 "id": 23,
 "title": "new caption"
}
Source
The complete source for this section is available on github: _URL_
Next…
We know how to build & run a basic web service in Haskell that can talk JSON. In the next section we'll dockerize it!
4. Dockerize your scotty-webapp
This section assumes that you have docker installed on your system. Please go to _URL_ if you need to install Docker on your machine.
Write a Dockerfile
We'll base our docker image on the official haskell image. The image has GHC and Cabal available so we'll copy our source files and use cabal install to build our executable.
Start Docker
I'm assuming you have docker installed and set up correctly. On OSX, you need to run the following two commands to get docker up and running:
% boot2docker up
Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start…
……………..ooooooooo
Started.
Writing /Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/ca.pem
Writing /Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/cert.pem
Writing /Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/key.pem
To connect the Docker client to the Docker daemon, please set:
 export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://192.168.59.103:2376
 export DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm
 export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1
Or run: 'eval "$(boot2docker shellinit)"'
% 'eval "$(boot2docker shellinit)"'
Writing /Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/ca.pem
Writing /Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/cert.pem
Writing /Users/psingh/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/key.pem
Build Docker Image
% docker build -t scotty-webapp-docker .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 136.6 MB
Step 0 : FROM haskell:7.10
…
…
Step 9 : CMD scotty-webapp-example
 — -> Running in 96b20daed3cc
 — -> cc46fe7ce920
Removing intermediate container 96b20daed3cc
Successfully built cc46fe7ce920
Run the Docker Image
% docker run -i -t -p 3000:3000 scotty-webapp-docker
Setting phasers to stun… (port 3000) (ctrl-c to quit)
So, our web app is running inside the docker container!
Let's test it now. On OSX, Docker runs inside a virtual machine. So, accessing localhost:3000 won't work. Use the following command instead:
% open http://$(boot2docker ip):3000
We can also test our web app using the httpie client:
% http $(boot2docker ip):3000
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:37:46 GMT
Server: Warp/3.1.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
This was a GET request!
% http $(boot2docker ip):3000/article
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:38:27 GMT
Server: Warp/3.1.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{
 "bodyText": "content",
 "id": 13,
 "title": "caption"
}
Source
The complete source for the final application is available on github: _URL_
Finally
I hope you found this tutorial useful. Please let me know if something didn't work for you or if I missed documenting any step.
Downloading sources for maven and sbt project dependencies
My experience with Intellij for downloading sources for the dependencies hasn't been good. It frequently fails to download the sources. I've tried a few (googled) suggestions but they haven't helped. However, there's an alternative way using the command line. The downside to this is that it will download the sources for all dependencies. But, I don't really mind that till I start running out of space on my laptop!
Maven
$ mvn dependency:sources
sbt
$ sbt updateClassifiers
Failing fast in bash scripts
If you want your bash script to stop execution as soon as any of the commands returns a non-zero exit status, invoke bash with the -e option.
For example, the following script will continue to run, even though the sub-shell exited with the status 1.
#!/bin/bash
( exit 1 ) # subshell that returns non-zero exit status
echo "This will be echoed"
However, if the script invokes bash with the -e option, the script ends as soon as the subshell returns 1.
#!/bin/bash -e
( exit 1 ) # subshell that returns non-zero exit status
echo "This will not be echoed"
Note: Although I've used the subshell as an example here, but the script will stop executing for any command failure e.g. wget, curl, etc.
Another way to enable bash scripts to stop execution on failure is by using the set -e option. This can be set at any point in the script.
#!/bin/bash
( exit 1 ) # subsh


Feeding leopard geckos
Feeding pet Leopard geckos
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Leopard geckos need to eat insects to survive. The correct principles and foods can make feeding time a pleasure for both the owner and pet Leopard geckos.
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Introduction to feeding pet Leopard geckos
Leopard geckos are considered entirely insectivorous(32)(49)(50), meaning they mainly eat and digest insects as food. Popular feeder insects for healthy Leopard geckos include correctly sized crickets(30)(32)(50) and mealworms(30)(50). Popular feeding times are during the evenings, dusk and dawn. The diet of Leopard geckos needs to be supplemented with vitamins and minerals.
A variety of gut-loaded insect prey should be offered(32).
Various feeding related items for Leopard geckos and other lizards are commercially available from places like Amazon.com, pet shops, reptile retailers and other online shops.
Feeder insects for Leopard geckos
Because of their quality, acceptability, size and availability, crickets and mealworms will often be the most commonly used feeder insects for Leopard geckos. It is important to offer a variety of insect sizes/ages and types. Commercially available insects should take preference over, more dangerous, wild-caught ones and it is preferable that they are obtained from trusted, reputable pet shops and/or insect farms.
Although some Leopard geckos will occasionally accept dead insects, feeder insects should be alive and fresh (i.e. gut-loaded). Commercial insects can either be obtained as-needed or can be bred in large or small quantities at home. Some insects such as mealworms are easy to store for longer periods, but Leopard gecko keepers typically buy enough feeder insects to last for about a week.
Other good commercial feeder insects include walking insects such as Dubia roaches(30)(50) and small locusts/grasshoppers(30)(50) and crawling insects like waxworms(30)(50), Phoenix worms, silkworms(30) and Trevo worms. The occasional pinky mouse can also be offered to adult Leopard geckos(30).
Food sizes for Leopard geckos
Whatever feeder insects are used, they should also be the correct size for Leopard geckos. The average size of the insects that are being fed to Leopard geckos should not exceed the width of the Leopard gecko's head. In other words, the length between the eyes of the Leopard gecko.
Feeder insects and pinky mice can often be ordered and bought according to their size. Although dependant on the type of insect, sizes are generally marked as (extra small), small, medium and large. Baby Leopard geckos will need small to medium-sized insects where adults will need larger sizes.
How much to feed Leopard geckos
The number of insects that will be consumed per feeding will depend on the feeding frequency, type and size of insects, availability of ad-lib food, environmental factors such as average heating, and the age, size of the personal preference of the Leopard gecko. Depending on these factors, anything between one and around ten insects can be considered normal.
Walking insects such as crickets can be offered one-by-one, or a few at a time until the Leopard gecko has lost interest. Some keepers prefer leaving walking insects in the enclosure for up to an hour. Excess (non-eaten) insects should be removed. Free-roaming insects become 'stale', can spread diseases, cause stress and possibly cause injuries to sleeping Leopard geckos.
Crawling insects such as mealworms can be offered ad libitum (always available) in a small shallow escape-proof dish. Although 'crawlies' should always be available, they must always be fresh. It is also a good idea to offer crawling insects in the same container as the powdered supplements are offered in (see below).
How often to feed Leopard geckos
The frequency of feeding depends on the age, reproductive status, body condition and health status of Leopard geckos.
It is generally accepted that baby and juvenile Leopard geckos should be fed every day until they are about 1 year of age. So should sick, pregnant females, debilitated and tailless Leopard geckos.
Depending on their body condition score, adult Leopard geckos can be fed every other day.
Supplementation for Leopard geckos
Probably the only disadvantage of feeding commercial feeder insects (vs. wild-caught insects) is that vitamin and mineral supplementation is required(50). For Leopard geckos, food supplementation is vital(30)(32).
Because it is not always advisable to supply ultraviolet (UV) lighting to Leopard geckos(30)(32), calcium and vitamin D3 supplementation plays an important role in maintaining bone mass and overall health.
Leopard gecko feeding on powdered mealworms
Lick supplementation is part of feeding Leopard geckos. In this image, a Leopard gecko is eating mealworms from a shallow dish also containing a powdered calcium/vitamin D3 supplement. Image by Renier Delport
Feeder insects should be gut-loaded with an appropriate mineral/vitamin supplement and should be dusted two to three times a week with a calcium/vitamin D3 combination powder. An ad-lib supply of powdered calcium/vitamin D3 supplement as 'lick', should be supplied in a small shallow dish or lid for additional calcium needs.
Where to feed
The best place to feed Leopard geckos is inside their enclosure — there where the temperature and lighting are more natural and preferable. To prevent accidental ingestion of particulate substrates, such as sand and gravel, food can be offered in shallow containers, on a feeding platform or, if it is tolerated, by hand.
It's feeding time!
Being crepuscular(50)(51)(59) to nocturnal(49)(69) and cathemeral, Leopard geckos will mostly come out to feed during dusk, dawn and the evenings. This makes early mornings and the evenings the best time to offer food to Leopard geckos.
Correct feeding will ensure that Leopard geckos grow strong and healthy. When using the correct food and principles, feeding Leopard geckos becomes less of a chore and more of a pleasure.
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Authors: Li-Ping Zhong
Addresses: School of Electrical and Automatic Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Suzhou Shi, Jiangsu Sheng, China
Abstract: The high-frequency signal injection method is an effective method to realise the sensorless detection of the rotor position of the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), which can estimate any position of the rotor in the whole speed range. When the frequency of the injected signal is high, the rotating high-frequency current injection method can obtain more significant signal with rotor position information for PMSM with small salient characteristics, so it can obtain higher position estimation accuracy. However, the traditional method of injecting high-frequency current needs current source inverter or complex control mode, which is difficult to apply in practice. The drive circuit based on LC resonant network can convert the resonant voltage signal into the current signal, thus the driving voltage and rotating high-frequency current signals can be simultaneously provided to the PMSM through the voltage source inverter, which greatly facilitates the extraction and processing of rotor position information and improves the sensorless detection accuracy of rotor position. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the circuit and method.
Keywords: LC resonant network; rotating high-frequency current injection; high-frequency negative sequence component; double PI regulator.
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2020 Vol.64 No.2, pp.143 - 150
Received: 01 May 2020
Accepted: 13 Jun 2020
Published online: 30 Nov 2020 *


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In reading Nancy Duarte's HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, Duarte refers to messages having STAR moments. The acronym STAR referring to "Something They Always Remember."
When preparing and delivering talks to young adult and teenage audiences, this piece of advice is even more crucial. Whether the STAR quality is an unforgettable visual, a story, or even a token they take home, it is vitally important for the "stickiness" of your message.
Recently, we did a message called "What's in Your Box?" where we focused on all of the various "stuff" that each of us carries around inside our little "box" and try to keep hidden from others. The message closed with James 5:16 (confess your sins and pray for each other) and the students were encouraged to come to the front, grab a small box, and find someone to open their box to and share what is hidden inside (sin, failure, mistakes, suffering, etc). Afterward, the students took their boxes home and were encouraged to put them in a prominent place in their room where they would be reminded to continue to live their lives "open" with one another.
Whereas many students (and most adults for that matter) walk away from a message and forget what they have heard fifteen minutes later, you want to leave them with something they will never forget. Not only will it reinforce the principle or scripture that you are trying to teach, but will be a STAR that they (or the Holy Spirit) can draw upon months, years, or even decades later.
Matt Maiberger is the High School Pastor at Southeast Christian Church. This is his first guest post of hopefully many more to come.


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The public will soon have an app with an emergency button that will enable their videos and photos of public incidents to be turned into real-time intelligence for first responders.
First responders to terror attacks, school shootings, and other public crimes such as child abductions, will have real-time information at their fingertips.
A national security platform and public app currently being developed by Australian software solutions company Citadel Group using Microsoft's new Azure Australia Central secure cloud region, is being touted as a game-changer.
The Citadel app allows the real-time upload and analysis of all data streams from smartphones near the scene of an incident, and uses AI technology to turn all of that video and audio content into vital intelligence for the first responders.
To work the system, the smartphone operator would press an emergency button which would turn on all the information-gathering components of the phone, such as the microphone and camera, as well as pinpoint the users' location.
"We're confident this will work because it's a natural reaction anyway," Citadel's general manager of national security Rob Hartley said.
"Like it or not people's instinctive reaction now in the event of an incident is to take out their phones and start streaming it, or take photos of it. What this does is channel that reaction somewhere more usable."
It will also help authorities to much more speedily and efficiently piece together the whole incident.
Where the FBI tasked about 150 agents with the job of combing through social media videos and photos to produce leads in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, the Citadel app would collate all of that information and analyse it in one place.
At the time, Boston Police commissioner Ed Davis was quoted as saying, the process involved going through "every frame of every video we have to determine who was in the area".
Citadel CEO Darren Stanley told News.com.au, the idea for the app came as its creators watched the Lindt Cafe siege unfold in Sydney in 2014.
"First responders didn't have the information they needed at the time to take out the perpetrator and we felt we could design a system that made all that information available to first responders to more accurately deal with that situation," Stanley said.
Managing director of Microsoft Australia Steven Worrall said the company was proud to work with Citadel on such an important cause.
"Public safety and security is of paramount importance to all Australians," he said.
"The opportunity to leverage Azure and work with Citadel on this world-first application is a great privilege for Microsoft and a clear signal that our investment in Azure Australia Central will have huge national impact."


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An Intelligent SQL Tutor on the Web
13 (2): "Part II of the Special Issue on Adaptive and Intelligent Web-Based Systems "
The paper presents SQLT-Web, a Web-enabled intelligent tutoring system for the SQL
database language. SQLT-Web is a Web-enabled version of an earlier, standalone ITS. In this paper we
describe how the components of the standalone system were reused to develop the Web-enabled system.
The system observes students' actions and adapts to their knowledge and learning abilities. We describe
the system's architecture in comparison to the architectures of other existing Web-enabled tutors. All
tutoring functions are performed on the server side, and we explain how SQLT-Web deals with multiple
students. The system has been open to outside users since March 2000. SQLT-Web has been evaluated in
the context of genuine teaching activities. We present the results of three evaluation studies with the
University of Canterbury students taking database courses, which show that SQLT-Web is an effective
system. The students have found the system a valuable asset to their learning.
Keywords. Web-based ITS, architectures for adaptive and intelligent Web-based educational systems,
intelligent problem solving support via the Web, student modelling and student model servers in the Web
context, empirical studies of Web-based adaptive and intelligent educational systems.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) offer the advantage of individualized instruction without the
expense of one-to-one human tutoring. Although numerous ITSs have been developed to date,
they are mostly used in research environments, and only a few have been used by large numbers
of students in real classrooms. The main cause of such limited use of existing systems is the
complexity of ITS development, and the difficulties with providing robust and flexible systems.
Despite the fact the area is not young, there are no well-established methodologies or
development tools. Furthermore, the hardware platforms available in most schools are not the
ones developers prefer, and porting systems between platforms is in no way a straightforward
task. Fortunately, Web-enabled versions of ITSs have the potential to reach a much wider
audience as they face significantly fewer problems with hardware and software requirements.
We have developed SQL-Tutor, a standalone system for teaching SQL (Structured Query
Language) (Mitrovic, 1998a). The system has been used by senior computer science students at
the University of Canterbury and has been found easy to use, effective and enjoyable (Mitrovic
& Ohlsson, 1999). The system has been developed in Allegro Common Lisp (Allegro, 1998) and
is available on MS Windows and Solaris. Besides local users, two thousand people worldwide


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VMware Workstation 5.5Features | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums
Power Off vs. Shut Down
You can configure the Power Off button to turn off a virtual machine or team in two ways:
Caution: If a virtual machine is writing to disk when it receives a Power Off command, data corruption may occur.
Note: Not all guest operating systems respond to a shut down signal from this button. If your operating system does not respond to a shut down signal, shut down from within the operating system, as you would with a physical machine.
For instructions on configuring the Power Off button, see Power Controls in the section Power.

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Bitmask Helper Function
Date Published: 31 August 2004
Bitmask Helper Function
I had a need recently to be able to determine if a given position of an integer bitmask was set or not (for example, given the bitmask 0101 which is 5 in decimal, how would you check if the 4 position is set? — this is less obvious for, say decimal 75 — is 16 set?). Here's the method I came up with, which could be done in one line but is broken into several for clarity and ease of debugging:
Updated (thanks to Scott Allen):
privateboolIsBitSetSmartWay(intbitmask,intbitpositionvalue)\
{\
// bitmask is an integer bitmask value (e.g. 1111 = 15)\
// bitpositionvalue is a power of 2 (e.g. 1,2,4,8,16)\
return(bitmask & bitpositionvalue) > 0;\
}
privateboolIsBitSetSillyWay(intbitmask,intbitpositionvalue)\
{\
// bitmask is an integer bitmask value (e.g. 1111 = 15)\
// bitpositionvalue is a power of 2 (e.g. 1,2,4,8,16)\
intposition = (int)Math.Round(System.Math.Log((double)bitpositionvalue, 2));\
intshiftedbitmask = bitmask >> position;\
return(shiftedbitmask % 2) == 1;\
}
The rounding is in there because the Math.Log of 8 was giving me 2._PHONE_ or something like that, which (int) was truncating to 2. The basic theory is to shift the bit we want to inspect to the right until it is in the 1s position, and then test to see if the new value is odd or even by MODing it by 2 and checking for a remainder of 1. Anyway, I couldn't find any built-in way to check a given position of a bitmask, so hopefully this will help somebody else who is looking for the same algorithm.
Steve Smith
About Ardalis
Software Architect
Steve is an experienced software architect and trainer, focusing on code quality and Domain-Driven Design with .NET.


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Pumps for Uranium Mines
Uranium is the element with the highest atomic weight of the periodic table. It is present in the nature in very low concentrations (a few parts per million) in rocks, soil and water. To be used uranium must be extracted and concentrated from minerals that contain it.
Uranium ore has traditionally been obtained in open or underground mines, while the most commonly used technique today is in situ leaching (ISL) or in situ recovery (ISR).
Leaching stage can be static or dynamic. ISL technique, is performed during the extraction phase. The resulting solution PLS (Pregnant leach solution) has a greater or lesser presence of solids depending upon the technique used to obtain and requires a clarification stage.
The next step is to refine and purify uranium dissolved in the aqueous medium using resins or organic solvents through ion exchange. Finally uranium salts are obtained by precipitation, usually with ammonia. Prior to packaging and sale, a drying process is made to remove moisture resulting in a concentrated powder with 80-85 wt% of U3O8.
Tecnium is regular supplier of uranium production plants using in situ leaching techniques (ILS) and has more than 150 pumps installed worldwide. In this technology, uranium is washed from the place where the ore is extracted by means of acidic or alkaline solutions injected into regularly spaced wells, and recovered from the leach solution in a surface plant.
Tecnium pumps are applied, usually in cases in which the leaching solution is based on sulfuric acid and precipitation is carried out with hydrogen peroxide.
Typical applications of Tecnium within this process are:
- H2SO4 transfer to the processing plant
- Feeding to the injection wells.
- Transfer of barren solutions from leaching process
- Transfer of PLS solutions to the filtering stage
- Transfer of resin solutions
- Pump for sand solution (Sand Pond pump)
- Thickeners feed
- NH4NO3 supply
- NH3 discharge pump.
- Transfer of acidic waste solutions
- Drainage pits on filtration steps
- Drainage pits on ion exchange areas
- Emergency pits on reagent storage area
- Emergency pits on elutions area
- Drainage pits on thickeners area
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How is a Reiki energy treatment session with a horse?
Reiki and horse sessions are quite different from those with humans, and at the same time similar. You must know that Reiki is only offered to the horse and never imposed. The practitioner will always adapt to the animal. There may be no physical contact if the horse shows some shyness, anxiety or simply does not want to make physical contact. This does not detract from the effectiveness of the Reiki treatment. The horse can approach, is free of his movements and then participate fully in the session. During the treatment, the horse may show some signs of energy such as drowsiness, deep breathing, sighing and/or staring eyes.
Where to practice the session?
It is possible to achieve the energy treatment by being close to him; in his meadow, box or stable; or behind: behind the door of the box or the fence of the meadow if he is more nervous, anxious, stressed and afraid. Just respect the animal and make it feel safe.
How long is a session?
The duration of the energy treatment varies. Some more suspicious horses will take longer to accept energy, while others will readily accept it from the beginning. Generally, the time of a session will be about 30min to 1h, not counting the time that the horse will put to accept the energy. Some will be more suspicious, others ignorant, or some will readily accept it from the start.
How many sessions are expected?
If the purpose of the energy session is only to bring relaxation, rebalance and the general condition of the horse, only one will be sufficient, to renew when you feel the need and desire, or to give a boost before a contest for example. Reiki energy treatments will intervene to favour the process of self-healing of the body and will support the follow-up and veterinary treatment on sessions.
If it is a chronic disease, skin problems or behaviour, for example, several sessions will be expected. Generally, at least 3 or 4 sessions are expected at about 1 session every 10 days.
Reiki energy care is only an additional aid to veterinary treatment and monitoring and does not replace it under any circumstances.


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Youth Apprenticeship Program
The Wisconsin Youth Apprenticeship program began with passage of 1993 Wisconsin Act 16 (the 1993-
1995 biennial budget) which appropriated funds to the Department of Workforce Development (then
known as the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations) to support: an Office of Workforce
Excellence, Career Counseling and Information Centers for Youth, Youth Apprenticeship Training
Grants, Youth Apprenticeship Curriculum Grants and Youth Apprenticeship Administration and Program
Approval authority within the department. This legislation was developed in collaboration with the
Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Workforce Development and the Wisconsin
Technical College System. The program was loosely fashioned after the European apprenticeship
concept, particularly the German model, which required intensive and long-term employer-sponsored,
industry-focused training, the completion of competency-based technical courses plus the additional
coursework necessary for high school graduation.
The Youth Apprenticeship Program was a critical component of the state's school-to-work planning and
implementation initiatives in 1993 and 1994. In addition, the federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act
of 1994 provided funds to the state to initiate the development of local school-to-work programs begun in
partnership with business, labor, secondary and postsecondary education agencies and local government
and community organizations. Wisconsin Act 9, the _PHONE_ Wisconsin state budget, created the
seventeen-member Governor's Work-Based Learning Board to administer and coordinate existing and
new work-based learning programs for youth including the Youth Apprenticeship Program. The Board is
an independent body, attached to the Department of Workforce Development for administrative purposes.
Some of the roles of the Board as they relate to the Youth Apprenticeship Program are:
· Establishing guidelines and standards for the program.
· Issuing requests for proposals to distribute funding.
· Working with trade and industry and labor leaders to develop new youth apprenticeship areas.
· Approving the statewide curricula for youth apprenticeship programs.
· Monitoring and providing technical assistance to local programs.
· Issuing certificates to youth apprentices who successfully complete the program.
The standard Youth Apprenticeship model is a two-year program for high school juniors and seniors
requiring a minimum of 900 hours of work experience and four semesters of related classroom instruction
based on statewide, industry-developed skill standards, using a state-developed curriculum
. The program
integrates school-based and work-based learning to provide the student with academic and technical skills
leading to a high school diploma and a Certificate of Occupational Proficiency issued by the Governor's
Work-Based Learning Board. The Youth Apprenticeship Program prepares students to enter the work
force directly after high school graduation, to begin a formal apprenticeship program or to begin a
postsecondary education in either a technical college or university in a technically oriented program.
Youth Apprenticeship programs are currently available in the following career interest areas:
· Agri Business
· Information Technology/Networking
· Auto Collision
Youth apprentices in a Level One program must complete a minimum of 450 hours of work-based learning while
they are enrolled in the program. At least 250 hours of the required minimum work-based learning time must take
place when related classes are being held, so that classroom instruction can be integrated with worksite training.
Students successfully completing a Level One program will receive a Certificate of Recognition


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The 20th National Tree Planting Day
Week number 76-13
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
More than 100.000 primary school students have been planting trees in more than 500 municipalities for the 20th National Tree Planting Day. On this day they're also given an explanation about the work of Staatbosbeheer. SHOTS: children digging holes and planting trees in Bilthoven; forester Polman gives an explanation about forests and planting; a horse pulls logs through the forest after they've been cut down; tree surgeon at work in an old tree.
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Publication date:
- 1 January 1976


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The Tusi-couple is a mathematical device in which a small circle rotates inside a larger circle twice the diameter of the smaller circle. Rotations of the circles cause a point on the circumference of the smaller circle to oscillate back and forth in linear motion along a diameter of the larger circle.
The couple was first proposed by the 13th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in his 1247 Tahrir al-Majisti (Commentary on the Almagest) as a solution for the latitudinal motion of the inferior planets, and later used extensively as a substitute for the equant introduced over a thousand years earlier in Ptolemy's Almagest.
Original description
Some modern commentators also call the Tusi couple a "rolling device" and describe it as a small circle rolling inside a large fixed circle. However, Tusi himself described it differently:
- if two coplanar circles, the diameter of one of which is equal to half the diameter of the other, are taken to be internally tangent at a point, and if a point is taken on the smaller circle—and let it be at the point of tangency—and if the two circles move with simple motions in opposite direction in such a way that the motion of the smaller [circle] is twice that of the larger so the smaller completes two rotations for each rotation of the larger, then that point will be seen to move on the diameter of the larger circle that initially passes through the point of tangency, oscillating between the endpoints.
Other sources
The term "Tusi couple" is a modern one, coined by Edward Kennedy in 1966. It is one of several late Islamic astronomical devices bearing a striking similarity to models in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, including his Mercury model and his theory of trepidation. Historians suspect that Copernicus or another European author had access to an Arab astronomical text, but an exact chain of transmission has not yet been identified, although the 16th century scientist and traveler Guillaume Postel has been suggested.
There are other sources for this mathematical model for converting circular motions to reciprocating linear motion. It is found in Proclus's Commentary on the First Book of Euclid and the concept was known in Paris by the middle of the 14th Century. In his questiones on the Sphere (written before 1362), Nicole Oresme described how to combine circular motions to produce a reciprocating linear motion. Oresme's description is unclear and it is not certain whether this represents an independent invention or an attempt to come to grips with a poorly understood Arabic text.
Since the Tusi-couple was used by Nicolaus Copernicus in his reformulation of mathematical astronomy, there is a growing consensus that he became aware of this idea in some way. It has been suggested both by a historian of Medieval European astronomy and by a historian of Arabic astronomy that the idea of the Tusi couple may have arrived in Europe leaving few manuscript traces, since it could have occurred without the translation of any Arabic text into Latin. One possible route of transmission may have been through Byzantine science, which translated some of al-Tusi's works from Arabic into Byzantine Greek. Several Byzantine Greek manuscripts containing the Tusi-couple are still extant in Italy.
- George Saliba (1995), 'A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam', pp.152-155
- "Late Medieval Planetary Theory", E. S. Kennedy, Isis 57, #3 (Autumn 1966), 365-378, JSTOR 228366.
- Craig G. Fraser, 'The cosmos: a historical perspective', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 p.39
- Vatican Library, Vat. ar. 319 fol. 28 verso math19 NS.15, fourteenth-century copy of a manuscript from Tusi
- Translated in F. J. Ragep, Memoir on Astronomy II.11, pp. 194, 196.
- E. S. Kennedy, "Late Medieval Planetary Theory," p. 370.
- E. S. Kennedy, "Late Medieval Planetary Theory," p. 377.
- Saliba, George (1996), "Writing the History of Arabic Astronomy: Problems and Differing Perspectives", Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (4): 709–18, JSTOR 605441, pp. 716-17.
- Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe? by George Saliba, Columbia University
- I. N. Veselovsky, "Copernicus and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 4 (1973): 128-30
- Claudia Kren, "The Rolling Device," pp. 490-2.
- Claudia Kren, "The Rolling Device," p. 497.
- George Saliba, "Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?"
- George Saliba (April 27, 2006). "Islamic Science and the Making of Renaissance Europe". Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- Di Bono, Mario. "Copernicus, Amico, Fracastoro and Tusi's Device: Observations on the Use and Transmission of a Model." Journal for the History of Astronomy 26 (1995):133-154.
- Kennedy, E. S. "Late Medieval Planetary Theory." Isis 57 (1966):365-378.
- Kren, Claudia. "The Rolling Device of Naṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in the De spera of Nicole Oresme." Isis 62 (1971): 490-498.
- Ragep, F. J. "The Two Versions of the Tusi Couple," in From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, ed. David King and George Saliba, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 500. New York Academy of Sciences, 1987. ISBN 0-89766-396-9 (pbk.)
- Ragep, F. J. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's "Memoir on Astronomy," Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,12. 2 vols. Berlin/New York: Springer, 1993. ISBN 3-540-94051-0 / ISBN 0-387-94051-0.
- Dennis W. Duke, Ancient Planetary Model Animations includes two links of interest:
- George Saliba, "Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?" Discusses the model of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the interactions of Arabic, Greek, and Latin astronomers.


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Family Tree DNA - Armenian DNA Project
Open to all Armenians. The Armenian DNA Project is an important resource for Armenians researching their family history as well as their deep ancestry through genetic testing. DNA testing can be a valuable tool for people with different surnames in determining whether they are genetic cousins, particularly considering the destruction of many Armenian genealogical records and the fact Armenian surnames were often based on the father's first name, his city of birth, his occupation, or a distinctive human characteristic. By reaching thousands of years into the past, this project also aims to find genetic traces of both the ancient peoples whose descendants make up the current Armenian population (Armens, Colchians, Hattians, Hayasa, Hayk, Hittites, Hurrians, Kaskians, Luwians, Mitanni, Mushkis, Pala, Phrygians, Urartians, etc.) and the ancient invaders who conquered or passed through the Armenian lands (Assyrians, Gamrik-Gimirri-Cimmerians, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Scythians, Macedonians, Medes, Persians, etc.) This project is open to individuals with direct paternal ancestors (Y-DNA) or direct maternal ancestors (mtDNA) of Armenian ancestry.


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June 17...
The S.S. Pretoria, in spite of its name, was a German vessel of the Hamburg-America Line. As the company name suggests, the ship plied the waves between those two countries, beginning in 1898. Over its travelling life the ship carried many German migrants to new lives in
On this day in 1911, some of the passengers sat down to the following bill of fare – written in two languages, not including the inevitable tortured French, and English, and Franglais phrases.
Suppe Magenta (Soup Magenta)
Gedämpfer Glattfisch (Braised Flounders in Parsley)
Boeuf à la Mode, deutsche Art (Boeuf à la Mode à l'Allemande)
Aprikosen-Kompott (Stewed Apricots)
Kabinett-Pudding (Cabinet Pudding)
Weinschaum-Sauce (Chaudeau Sauce)
Käse Frucht Kafee (Cheese Fruit Coffee)
One of the constantly amusing things about looking at old menus is the apparently random translation rules. The only thing that is consistent is the lack of consistency. The names of individual dishes often seem to be random derivations and amalgamations of several languages - of the country where the meal is held, of where the dish originates (or is believed to originate), of French (because that was the standard menu language).
Surely Suppe Magenta did not need translating to Soup Magenta? (why not Magenta Soup?).
Boeuf à la Mode, deutsche Art (on the 'German' side of the menu) translated into Boeuf à la Mode à l'Allemande for the 'English' side of the menu is almost a non-translation. Why not Beef, Fashionable German Style? Or Fashionable Beef, German style?
Aprikosen-Kompott sounds far more elegant than Stewed Apricots, which sounds very boarding school. Why not Apricot Compôte, which is closer in concept and would be understood in English, and is also elegant?
The Weinschaum-Sauce is wonderful. Apparently it is the German name for the (Italian) Zabaglione, which on the English side of the menu becomes Chaudeau Sauce, which is French-ish and means a sweet pudding sauce - so why is it not Sweet Pudding Sauce? (or is that custard?)
Surely Suppe Magenta is cherry soup? Or is it beet soup? Any German foodies out there that can shed some light?
Cherry Soup (
Trim and stone 1 pint of red cherries, add I pint of water, juice and grated rind of a lemon, cinnamon, sugar to taste, and 3 tablespoonfuls of wine or cordial, claret is the best. Cook until done and serve, hot or very cold, with a plate of buttered toast. It will take about half an hour to cook, mashing the fruit well. These fruit and wine soups are favorite hot weather fare in
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Announcement from the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has officially adopted a new strategic plan.
The strategic plan aims to guide the regional authority's strategic direction through 2030 and addresses key climate and air quality issues, including differences in air pollution between local communities. The agency's new vision is "healthy air, climate and environmental justice for the benefit of all people in the Puget Sound region." The agency's board officially approved the plan on January 26th .
The plan recognizes that the decade ahead has the potential to be transformative, with a growing regional population, advances in clean technology and accessibility, and new policy frameworks at the state and federal levels. The plan includes flexibility for the agency to adapt its actions to changing circumstances and opportunities while improving air quality and associated health outcomes for residents of the Puget Sound region.
"Our new strategic plan will serve as the foundation and blueprint for our organization for the next seven years," said Christine Cooley, executive director of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. "I am incredibly proud of the plan's focus on the equitable advancement of environmental justice in all aspects of the agency. With the growing need to combat climate change and the opportunities available due to new policies at the state and federal levels, we are excited to begin implementing this thoughtful and progressive plan."
The strategic plan outlines goals and objectives for the agency through 2030, including:
- Air pollution overall decreases by 20% from 2022 to 2030, and the annual economic impact of air pollution health effects decreases by at least $500 million
- Cancer risk from toxic air pollutants reduced by 50% from 2022 to 2030, especially in congested communities
- Socio-economic differences in exposure to air pollution are halved from 2022 to 2030
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Puget Sound region fall by 50% compared to 1990 levels
"This dynamic plan encompasses an impressive amount of engagement from the public, overburdened communities, a wide variety of stakeholders and all levels of agency staff," said Megan Dunn, chair of the agency's board of directors. "We look forward to ensuring that the impact of this plan can be seen and measured in each of the Puget Sound region's communities."
"We are pleased to see that the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency's 2030 Strategic Plan establishes bold climate goals and identifies specific actions to transition to clean energy, reduce harmful air pollution and protect frontline communities," said Deepa Sivarajan, Climate Solutions Washington Clean Buildings Policy. Boss. "We need strong regional leadership to make the transition to clean energy more accessible and build community resilience, and look forward to working with the agency on implementation to ensure the agency is doing everything it can to protect citizens from the harms of climate change and the health effects of a continued dependence on fossil fuels."
The agency will host a public information gathering from 17.30 to 18.30 on Wednesday 15 March to summarize the community input that was heard throughout 2022 and how this input has been incorporated into the new strategic plan.


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Community Assessments (Rates)
MWRA is a "wholesaler" to its member communities.
MWRA's charges ("community assessments ") typically represent about 45% of the amount that communities bill their customers. The proportion varies considerably among communities.
MWRA WATER AND SEWER RATE METHODOLOGY
How MWRA sets water and sewer assessments to for communities:
In setting water rates, MWRA first identifies through its budgeting process the total amount of revenue that must be raised to run the water system. Charges are calculated using a flat rate per million gallons – $3,032.39 for FY2013 – times the metered water use by a community in the last full calendar year.
Sewer charges are computed on a proportional allocation basis utilizing total flow, contributing population and census population for each community. The total amount of required revenue for the sewer system is allocated either to operating costs or capital costs. Operating costs are allocated to each community based on the average of the prior three calendar years' total flow, with adjustments for strength of flow.
Capital costs, including debt service, are allocated to each community based on a combination of (1) average of the prior three years' peak month wastewater flow and average concentrations of total suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand; (2) the proportion of the population of the community that is served by the local sewer system; and (3) the proportion of the community's U.S. census population to the total census population in the sewer system.
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If you live in an MWRA community, your water and sewer bills come from from your local water and/or sewer department. If you have questions or concerns about your water/sewer bill, you should contact your local water/sewer department. Click here for links to local departments.
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Britain to treble tree planting by 2024
Britain will treble its tree planting rates over the next three years to help reach its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and combat climate change.
George Eustice, UK environment secretary, is set to announce that more than 17,000 acres of woodlands would be planted per year.
His statement read:
But it gave no other details regarding how many trees would be planted or where, or how much the planting scheme would cost or how it would be funded.
The statement also did not give a comparison figure for how many acres of woodland had been planted previously.
Britain is due to host the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November.The UK government said it was focused on four goals: securing global net zero, protecting communities and natural habitats from the impacts of climate change, mobilizing finance, and nations working together to accelerate action.
Britain's climate tsar and COP26 President Alok Sharma warned that world leaders must agree to end coal use at the November summit to prevent a climate catastrophe.
"Human activity is damaging our Earth. It is imperilling this brilliant jewel. The greenhouse gases that we've been pumping into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution are altering nature's precious balance, disrupting the finely tuned and fantastically complex system that is the world's climate.''


Quick Answer: Can You Have Water With No Oxygen?
Does drinking water have oxygen?
Although water molecules contain an oxygen atom, this oxygen is not what is needed by aquatic organisms living in natural waters.
Can you boil oxygen out of water?
no, boiling water simply converts water into its gaseous state. The gas still has Hydrogen and Oxygen in it. If you want to remove Oxygen from water you have to use electrolysis to break the strong molecular bond between Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Does rain water have oxygen?
The water in a raindrop is one of the cleanest sources of water available. Rainwater can absorb gases such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide from the atmosphere. … Dissolved oxygen is present in all rainwater and surface supplies due to contact with the atmosphere.
How is water depleted oxygen?
The primary cause of oxygen depletion in a water body is from excessive algae and phytoplankton growth driven by high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen. … Additionally, as algae and phytoplankton die, the process of decomposition also requires significant amounts of dissolved oxygen.
Can humans breathe liquid oxygen?
Liquid breathing is a form of respiration in which a normally air-breathing organism breathes an oxygen-rich liquid (such as a perfluorocarbon), rather than breathing air. By selecting a liquid that is capable of holding large amounts of oxygen and CO2, gas exchange can occur.
How can water be split without electricity?
More than 352 thermochemical cycles have been described for water splitting or thermolysis., These cycles promise to produce hydrogen oxygen from water and heat without using electricity. Since all the input energy for such processes is heat, they can be more efficient than high-temperature electrolysis.
Can we drink water without oxygen?
Without oxygen, those tiny cells would die and your body would stop working. Water is also in lymph (say: limf), a fluid that is part of your immune system, which helps you fight off illness. Water helps keep your temperature normal.
Can you drink anoxic water?
The substance is unsafe at levels greater than 1 part per billion in drinking water (according to the World Health Organization). Consumption of the toxin results in headaches, nausea and vomiting.
Does water provide oxygen?
Air is about 20% oxygen, and so yes, there is dissolved oxygen in the water. This dissolved oxygen is what fish need to respirate, otherwise they would suffocate. So you can say that the water gives off oxygen.
How long does oxygen stay in tap water?
Within half an hour, oxygen levels are reduced – but still higher than before vitalization. If you prefer water with a maximum amount of oxygen, simply turn on the Vitalizer Plus for 20 seconds to re-oxygenate your water each time you pour a drink.
What is the first sign of hypoxia?
What is the largest dead zone in the world?
What happens if oxygen is removed from water?
Water is one third oxygen; without it, the hydrogen turns into gaseous state and expands in volume. The oceans would evaporate and bleed into space. As oxygen disappears from the oceans' water, the hydrogen component becomes an unbound free gas.
What is it called when there is no oxygen in the water?
In ocean and freshwater environments, the term "hypoxia" refers to low or depleted oxygen in a water body. Hypoxia is often associated with the overgrowth of certain species of algae, which can lead to oxygen depletion when they die, sink to the bottom, and decompose.
Would the earth run out of oxygen?
One billion years from now, Earth's atmosphere will contain very little oxygen, making it uninhabitable for complex aerobic life. Today, oxygen makes up around 21 per cent of Earth's atmosphere.
Will we run out of oxygen?
According to the new study, the atmosphere will run out of oxygen in about one billion years. The planet will then resemble the so-called Archaen period about 2.8 billion years ago when there was no oxygen gas on Earth – a time before the so-called Great Oxidation Event.
Is oxygen in water positive or negative?
Oxygen in water is negative because a negative charge, unlike a positive, can be stabilized using ground state ionic resonance structures.


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Our staff is trained in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and is trained in how to teach and convey those habits to the students in the classroom.
The Leader in Me is aligned with best-in-class content and concepts practiced by global education thought leaders. It provides a logical, sequential and balanced process to help schools proactively design the culture that reflects their vision of the ideal school.
Content from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a key component of the overall The Leader in Me process.The 7 Habits is a synthesis of universal, timeless principles of personal and interpersonal effectiveness, such as responsibility, vision, integrity, teamwork, collaboration and renewal, which are secular in nature and common to all people and cultures.
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Health promotion programs have become increasingly common in U.S. workplaces, yet little research has examined the unintended and potentially negative consequences of these initiatives. Overweight and obese employees face widespread prejudice and pervasive discrimination in employment settings, and this study investigates whether workplace health promotion may lead to more negative outcomes for these workers. Using an experimental design, the author finds that overweight and obese employees are rated more negatively and receive lower hiring recommendations when evaluated for companies with health promotion programs. These findings suggest that health promotion increases the salience and perceived legitimacy of negative fat stereotypes that facilitate weight-based discrimination.
This article examines employer choice in relation to job quality (JQ). Acknowledging the important role of market, institutional, and technological constraints, the authors highlight the role of employer agency in shaping JQ by reporting on an employer-led service redesign initiative in hospital pharmacy services in Scotland. This redesign initiative aimed at upskilling employees and redirecting their work effort toward high value-added, patient-facing work using robotics implementation. The article provides a critical assessment of the success of the initiative in enhancing JQ and explores a range of factors constraining and shaping employers' JQ choices.
Drawing from a unique dataset based on 146 in-depth, semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of ethnoracially and class diverse workers at one large public sector employer, the authors link job contacts' patterns of assistance to three distinct cultural logics of job-matching assistance—defensive individualism, particularism, and matchmaking—which differed along three dimensions: (a) the primary criteria upon which help was contingent, (b) the perceived risk faced, and (c) the screening practices contacts used. These findings contribute to a small but growing body of research highlighting the cultural logics that inform where, how much, and to whom job information and influence flows.
This study builds on recent work investigating the process of migration channeling between analogous sectors of the Mexican and U.S. labor markets. In this study, the authors take up the question of whether channeling between Mexico and the United States promotes immigrants' economic integration. Drawing on previous research on channeling, and using insights from human capital theory, the authors test the hypothesis that immigrants who are able to use their industry-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired in Mexico within the same industry in the United States achieve higher levels of economic integration. Using a sample of Mexican immigrants from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that industrially channeled immigrants experience a wage premium of over $5,000, on average, in the United States. Our study concludes with a discussion of what industrial channeling means for Mexican immigrants' broader integration into U.S. society.
In this study, the authors identify and analyze a distinct and understudied source of gender inequality: gender differences in violations of wage-related workplace laws. The authors find that women have significantly higher rates of minimum wage and overtime violations than men and also lose more of their earnings to wage theft than men. In the case of minimum wage violations, the authors also find that nativity and immigration status strongly mediate this gender difference. Multivariate analysis suggests that demand-side characteristics—occupation and measures of nonstandard work and informality—account for more of the gender difference in minimum wage violations than do worker characteristics.
Research on emotional labor has shown that workers who are required to feign emotions are more likely to suffer ill effects than those who are able to deep act their emotions. The authors argue that what may stand between surface and deep acting is workers' ability to claim the kind of socially valued role that makes their enactment of emotional display rules seem consistent with that role. The authors draw on observations and interviews with workers in the debt settlement industry to show that men who were agents were able to claim that they were educating clients rather than selling to them. This made it possible for them to avoid feeling that they were taking advantage of customers who might have been better off without the service they sold them. Men were able to help clients in a way that did not conflict with their role as salespeople. Women agents, by contrast, were not able to style themselves educators. Instead, clients and employers expected them to adopt a therapeutic role with their clients. However, this role conflicted sharply with the expectation that agents be effective salespeople and forced women agents to feign feelings of care and optimism. Clients, coworkers, and employers, the authors show, shaped workers' freedom to define their emotional labor in satisfying ways.
Youth unemployment reduces the capacity to achieve diverse markers of adulthood, potentially undermining the young adult's sense of confidence and independence. While parents often come to the aid of their unemployed young adult children, such support may also have negative psychological repercussions. Applying a hierarchical modeling strategy to longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study, the authors find that both unemployment and parental financial support have negative consequences for youth's self-efficacy. These common experiences may thus diminish youth's personal psychological resources as they make the increasingly lengthy and precarious transition to adulthood.
Learning at work is usually seen as beneficial for the professional and personal lives of workers. In this article, we propose that learning's relationship to worker well-being may be more complicated. We posit that learning can become a burden (instead of always being a benefit) in occupations that are learning intensive and tightly associated with the postindustrial economy. Results of analyses using data from the General Social Survey suggest that learning lessens work–family conflict by increasing job satisfaction, but at the same time, learning makes work–family conflict worse by leading people to work longer hours and exacerbating work-related stress.
Whether the public sector continues to offer African Americans an upwardly mobile "occupational niche" is unclear, especially in the face of contemporary reforms that run counter to workplace protections. In this article, and drawing on overtime data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we explore this question with a specific focus on the upward mobility of men into white-collar occupations. Findings suggest that the reform period of 2005–2010, characterized by increased employer discretion and an application of a "business model" to public sector work, undermined African American relative to White promotion prospects. What was once greater racial parity in the incidence, determinants, and timing of upward mobility during the pre-reform period (1985–1990) eroded during the reform period (2005–2010). Promotion-centered inequalities in the private sector, in contrast, while high, were more or less constant across the same time period. We conclude by discussing escalating public sector racial disadvantages, the processes undergirding them, and their implications for the likely contraction of the African American middle class.
Retail offers notoriously bad jobs that exist at the nexus of work and consumption. Previous brand-based retail studies assert that youth workers see the stores' coolness and the employee discount as compensating for the low pay and variable schedules. The authors use interviews with 55 former and current young clothing retail workers to examine how they experience retail work in relation to their consumer identities. The authors find that while some workers identify with the brand, all workers criticize the poor working conditions. Workers draw on their consumer identities to understand what good service entails and sometimes to resist managers' orders that they interpret as bad deals for shoppers. This article concludes that youth retail workers' consumer identities do not compensate for the low pay and poor work conditions but instead help them navigate the interactive aspects of service work and find fulfillment on the job.
How do contract professionals seek to control their working time? Here, the authors identify boundary work strategies through which contractors—both shift workers and project workers—maintain distinctions from employees with standard jobs. Drawing from interviews with contractors in three occupations, the authors identify sources of leverage for control of working time in payment systems, outsider status, and occupational networks. These structures allow contractors to reinforce boundaries between contract and standard employment and resist the overtime and overwork associated with standard jobs. Boundary work between contingent workers and employees may therefore generate inequalities of control, with implications for workers, managers, and organizations.
Over the past several decades, there has been a remarkable surge of economic justice organizing across the country. The goal of this article is to examine these efforts and provide a framework for understanding their potential, their limitations, and their future. In what follows, the authors first describe five distinct organizing movements focused on low-wage work that have flourished in recent years. The authors then develop a framework for thinking about these movements. They distinguish among these efforts along the two dimensions of goals and strategies, assessing relative strengths and weaknesses. With these distinctions in hand, they then take up the question of the scalability of the movements and analyze the challenges they face in terms of growth strategy, sustainability, constituencies, and cohesion. This overall framework yields a picture of significant promise in America's economic justice organizing—but one that will take equally significant resources and political power to realize.
Poor-quality jobs have significant costs for individual workers, their families, and the wider community. Drawing mainly on the Australian case, the authors' focus is on the structural challenges to work–life reconciliation and the multiple-level interventions necessary to create quality employment that supports workers to reconcile work and family over the life course. The authors argue that interventions are necessary in three domains: at the macrosocial and economic level, in the regulatory domain, and in the workplace domain. The nature and success of these interventions is also critical to gender equality and to responding to the changing gender and care composition of the workforce across OECD countries.
This article presents a counterpoint to a structuralist view of job quality and argues that it can be understood as an outcome of contested power dynamics of interest representation within institutions of labor market regulation. The article presents studies of unions in two sectors in the UK (health care and industrial cleaning) where bad jobs are common. It examines how unions have sought to regulate job quality through representing new interests within existing institutions and by extending institutional regulation to new groups. The evidence


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The effect of medium and thermal fluctuations on charge transport in two types of modified poly(dA)–poly(dT) DNA was studied by calculating the transmission probability and current–voltage (I–V) characteristics of a model DNA wire sandwiched between two metal electrodes. Modification was performed by randomly replacing several A–T base pairs with C–G or G–C base pairs along the DNA chain. The medium–DNA interaction was modeled as the backbone onsite energy disorder in the DNA tight-binding Hamiltonian. The helicity of the molecule was considered by incorporating twist-angle-dependent intrastrand hopping amplitude in the model. Thermal fluctuation was modeled by varying the twist angles of each base in the DNA wire. Twist-angle disorder was influenced by temperature and frequency. The I–V results obtained by modeling the backbone disorder effect showed that the current decreased and the threshold voltage generally increased as disorder strength increased to a critical value. The current increased and the threshold voltage decreased as the disorder strength exceeded this critical value. However, certain values of the backbone disorder reduced the threshold voltage before the critical value was reached because the transmission bands shifted toward the Fermi energy. The results of thermal fluctuation modeling indicated that increasing thermal fluctuation (increasing temperature and decreasing frequency) degraded the electrical properties of the DNA modified with C–G base pairs but enhanced those of the DNA modified by G–C base pairs. This trend, however, did not always hold for all frequency values for the latter DNA type.
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text: OBJECTIVE: To assess maternal, newborn, and obstetric risk factors associated with anal sphincter tear in multiparous women. METHODS: This case-control study identified 18,779 multiparous vaginal deliveries from 1992 to 2004 from an obstetric automated record database at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Two hundred eighty-four patients were selected, 145 cases and 139 controls. Variables from the index pregnancy and prior pregnancies were analyzed, and multivariable logistic regression models were constructed to determine significant predictor variables for anal sphincter tear in multiparous women. RESULTS: One hundred forty-five multiparous women with no history of cesarean delivery sustained a sphincter tear. Multivariable logistic regression showed a significant association with episiotomy (odds ratio [OR] 16.3, 95% confidence interval [CI] 7.7-34.4), shoulder dystocia (OR 7.9, CI 1.6-38), forceps delivery (OR 4.7, CI 2.0-11.2), and being married (OR 2.2, CI 1.1-4.6). A second exploratory model that included variables from previous pregnancies, showed that in addition to episiotomy (OR 34.6, CI 8.8-136), shoulder dystocia (OR 11.1, CI 1.3-95.2), forceps delivery (OR 6.1, CI 1.6-23.5), previous sphincter tear (OR 7.7, CI 1.2-48.7), and second stage of labor greater than 1 hour (OR 6.7, CI 1.1-42.5) were associated with tear. CONCLUSION: The strongest clinical risk factors for anal sphincter tear in multiparous women are episiotomy, shoulder dystocia, previous sphincter tear, prolonged second stage of labor, and forceps delivery. © 2006 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.


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I am using a Mac mini, 2012 model, without a UPS. My assumption is that Apple has designed a special adapter to rectify high voltage and low voltage. Is that right? If I use my Mac mini without a UPS and the power surges or is lost, will the hardware be affected by the high or low voltage? Should I use a UPS?
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Why would you assume Apple designed some kind of special adapter? And what do you mean by "low voltage"? Lower than normal input voltage? – David Schwartz Oct 2 '12 at 7:39
yes.. Lower than normal input voltage and also high input – Muthu Muthu Oct 2 '12 at 7:59
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The power supply of the Mac mini supports a range of voltages (100-240V AC), but surges or brown outs may still affect it.
As with any computer, if your local electricity supply is reliable, you don't need a UPS. If your local electricity supply is unreliable, you will benefit from installing a UPS. In this respect the Mac mini is no different from any other desktop computer.
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Change-aware scheduling for effectively updating linked open data caches
Akhtar, U and Razzaq, MA and Ur Rehman, U and Amin, MB and Khan, WA and Huh, E-N and Lee, S, Change-aware scheduling for effectively updating linked open data caches, IEEE Access, 6 pp. 65862-65873. ISSN 2169-3536 (2018) [Refereed Article]
The linked open data (LOD) cloud is a global information space with a wealth of structured facts, which are useful for a wide range of usage scenarios. The LOD cloud handles a large number of requests from applications consuming the data. However, the performance of retrieving data from LOD repositories is one of the major challenge. Overcome with this challenge, we argue that it is advantageous to maintain a local cache for efficient querying and processing. Due to the continuous evolution of the LOD cloud, local copies become outdated. In order to utilize the best resources, improvised scheduling is required to maintain the freshness of the local data cache. In this paper, we have proposed an approach to efficiently capture the changes and update the cache. Our proposed approach, called application-aware change prioritization (AACP), consists of a change metric that quantifies the changes in LOD, and a weight function that assigns importance to recent changes. We have also proposed a mechanism to update policies, called preference-aware source update (PASU), which incorporates the previous estimation of changes and establishes when the local data cache needs to be updated. In the experimental evaluation, several state-of-the-art strategies are compared against the proposed approach. The performance of each policy is measured by computing the precision and recall between the local data cache update using the policy under consideration and the data source, which is the ground truth. Both cases of a single update and iterative update are evaluated in this study. The proposed approach is reported to outperform all the other policies by achieving an F1-score of 88% and effectivity of 93.5%.


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Sandia's Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) team develops methodologies to identify hazards, understand risk drivers, and develop strategies to reduce risk in hydrogen infrastructure. The models, data, methods, and tools developed by Sandia facilitate the use of science and engineering to support the development of codes and standards that ensure the safe use of hydrogen. The Sandia QRA team focuses on two key activities: development of the technical basis for QRA and accumulation of the technical basis and other knowledge to support modification of relevant codes and standards. Development of the technical basis involves development of data and models for understanding hazards, developing accident scenarios, predicting physical effects, and characterizing the impact of hazards on people and structures. This entails ongoing collaboration with the behavior team, to develop and experimentally validate first-order predictive models for hydrogen physical phenomena. Accumulation of this technical basis and other knowledge puts the state-of-the-art science and engineering models in the hands of decision makers such as C&S developers and station designers. This approaches enables decision makers to analyze and optimize safe, economical hydrogen installations.
Through the development of high fidelity models, data, and tools for QRA, Sandia has introduced, and continues to advance, the application of risk-informed decision making within the hydrogen community. Sandia's H2 QRA research staff work collaboratively with DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies office, the hydrogen industry, vehicle manufacturers, codes and standards developers, and other government agencies, national laboratories, and researchers to increase the safety and remove technical barriers to the deployment of hydrogen systems.


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How do you tell if a room faces north or south?
In general it is said that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, but this is only partially correct. In fact, the inclination of the Earth's axis, together with the position of the Earth along its orbit, causes the position of the horizon where the Sun rises and sets to change throughout the year from season to season. To obtain the exposure, you can consult the map of the apartment released by the cadastre or you can consult the following:
- in spring and summer the Sun rises in the NORTH-EAST and sets in the NORTH-WEST;
- during the autumn equinox the Sun rises in the EAST and sets in the WEST;
- in autumn and winter the Sun rises in the SOUTH-EAST and sets in the SOUTH-WEST;
- During the vernal equinox the Sun rises in the EAST and sets in the WEST.
Alternatively you can use the following procedure:
- access Google Maps from any browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari);
- enter the address of your apartment;
- activate the "Street View" and position the view simulating that of your room;
- considering that the red needle of the compass indicates North, you can obtain the exposure of the room (taking into account that West is to the left of North while East is to its right).
Finally, in the following image you can see how, as the position varies, the trajectory of the Sun has a greater or lesser length with maximum and minimum respectively in the summer solstice and in the winter solstice.


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Pedestalped•es•tal (ped′ə stl),USA pronunciation n., v., -taled, -tal•ing or (esp. Brit.) -talled, -tal•ling.
- an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like. See diag. under column.
- a supporting structure or piece;
- a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other.
- a columnar support for a tabletop.
- a bulge cast at the bottom of a concrete pile.
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idealize: When we first became engaged each of us set the other on a pedestal.
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Ceilingceil•ing (sē′ling),USA pronunciation n.
- the overhead interior surface of a room.
- the top limit imposed by law on the amount of money that can be charged or spent or the quantity of goods that can be produced or sold.
- the maximum altitude from which the earth can be seen on a particular day, usually equal to the distance between the earth and the base of the lowest cloud bank.
- Also called absolute ceiling. the maximum altitude at which a particular aircraft can operate under specified conditions.
- the height above ground level of the lowest layer of clouds that cover more than half of the sky.
- a lining applied for structural reasons to a framework, esp. in the interior surfaces of a ship or boat.
- Also called ceil′ing piece′. [Theat.]the ceiling or top of an interior set, made of cloth, a flat, or two or more flats hinged together.
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- vaulting, as in a medieval church.
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Fanfan1 (fan),USA pronunciation n., v., fanned, fan•ning.
- any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- an implement of feathers, leaves, paper, cloth, etc., often in the shape of a long triangle or of a semicircle, for waving lightly in the hand to create a cooling current of air about a person: We sat on the veranda, cooling ourselves with palm-leaf fans.
- anything resembling such an implement, as the tail of a bird.
- any of various devices consisting essentially of a series of radiating vanes or blades attached to and revolving with a central hublike portion to produce a current of air: ceiling fan; wall fan.
- a series of revolving blades supplying air for winnowing or cleaning grain.
- [Horol.]fly1 (def. 34).
- a semicircular decoration of bunting.
- [Physical Geog.]an alluvial fan.
- hit the fan, [Slang.]to become suddenly more awkward, embarrassing, or troublesome: When news of the incident was leaked to the press, everything hit the fan at once.
- to move or agitate (the air) with or as if with a fan.
- to cause air to blow upon, as from a fan;
cool or refresh with or as if with a fan: He fanned his face with a newspaper.
- to stir to activity with or as if with a fan: to fan a flame; to fan emotions.
- (of a breeze, current of air, etc.) to blow upon, as if driven by a fan: A cool breeze fanned the shore.
- to spread out like a fan: The dealer fanned the cards.
- to move (oneself ) quickly: You'll fan your tail out of here if you know what's good for you.
- to winnow, esp. by an artificial current of air.
- [Baseball.](of a pitcher) to strike out (a batter).
- [Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.]to punish by spanking;
spank: Your mother will fan you good if you break that dish.
- to strike, swing, or brush lightly at something.
- [Western U.S.](chiefly cowboy use). to slap the flanks of (a horse or other animal) repeatedly with a hat to get it to move or move faster.
- to spread out like a fan (often fol. by out): The forest fire fanned out in all directions.
- [Baseball.](of a batter) to strike out, usually by swinging at and missing the pitch charged as the third strike.
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As a first-time broiler chicken owner, I had a lot to learn about raising these birds for meat production. From selecting the right breed to managing their housing and feeding, it was a challenging but rewarding experience. In this blog post, I'll share my experience raising broiler chickens for the first time.
1. Choosing the Right Breed: The first step in raising broiler chickens is selecting the right breed. I researched different breeds and chose one that was known for fast growth and good meat quality. I also made sure to select a breed that was well-suited to my climate and environment. I asked friends and family who had experience with raising meat birds for advice as well!
2. Housing: I built a chicken tractor that was large enough to accommodate my chickens and provided good shelter to keep them happy and healthy. We moved the chicken tractor daily which allowed the chickens to have access to fresh grass and a clean run every day.
3. Feeding: Feeding my broiler chickens was a critical part of their growth and development. I provided them with a high-protein feed that was specifically formulated for meat production. I also provided them with clean water at all times, and made sure to clean their waterers regularly.
4. Managing Health: Keeping my broiler chickens healthy was a top priority. I monitored their behavior and appearance daily to ensure they were thriving.
5. Harvesting: After 8 weeks of growth, it was time to harvest my broiler chickens. I carefully followed the process of slaughtering, cleaning, and processing the birds to ensure that the meat was safe and high-quality.
Overall, raising broiler chickens for the first time was a challenging but rewarding experience. It required a lot of work and attention to detail, but seeing my birds grow and develop was incredibly satisfying. If you're considering raising broiler chickens, I recommend doing your research, investing in good housing and feeding, and being prepared for the hard work that comes with raising healthy and happy birds.