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The vanity of the economist: A comment on Peart and Levy's the "Vanity of the Philosopher"
In the Vanity of the Philosopher, Sandra Peart and David Levy reconsider "postclassical" economics from the vantage point of Adam Smith's "analytical" egalitarianism. Analytical egalitarianism is assumed, not proved; and Peart and Levy's criticisms of many 19th- and early 20th-century economists, as well as eugenics in general, depend on equivocating between analytical and substantive egalitarianism. They fail to provide a non-question-begging critique of eugenics. © 2008 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.
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Date: 31-Aug-2005 From: Elizabeth Gangeri Subject: Dimensions of Literacy: Kucer
Title: Dimensions of Literacy
Subtitle: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Author: Stephen B Kucer, Fordham University
Hardback: ISBN: _PHONE_ Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN: _PHONE_ Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
This popular text examines literacy from a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective. It "unpackages" the various dimensions of literacy--linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and developmental--and at the same time accounts for the interrelationships among them. The goal is to provide a conceptual foundation upon which literacy curriculum and instruction in school settings can be grounded.

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First sightings of Minke whales and Common dolphins off the Hebrides in 2012
Summer visitors return to the Hebrides
Common dolphins off the Hebrides. Photo credit Matt Brook/HWDT
April 2012. The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) have received the first reports of the year of Minke whale and common dolphin off Scotland's west coast. While some species, such as the harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin are resident year round, other species migrate to the area, usually arriving in the Spring, to take advantage of the increased food stocks available.
First common dolphins & Minke sightings
The first common dolphins of the season were sighted in the Sound of Raasay on the 13th April. The following day, Susannah Calderan and Russell Leaper, who sit on HWDTs Scientific Committee, reported the first Minke whale sighting of the season and a group of common dolphins, off the Isle of Canna. Susannah commented, "It was great to see our first common dolphins of the season. The group was at least 100-strong, and the animals were bow-riding our yacht for over half an hour. To see a Minke whale too really made our day. It's good to know our summer visitors are back again."
Please report sightings
If you spot a whale, dolphin or porpoise (cetacean), HWDT would be very keen to hear of the sighting. Moreover, if you manage to take photographs of the animal's dorsal fin researchers can attempt to identify the individual from image profiles in HWDTs catalogues of bottlenose dolphin, Minke whale, killer whale, white-beaked dolphin and Risso's dolphin. This technique is known as Photo Identification and allows HWDT to better understand population dynamics and the home range of the species present off the west coast of Scotland.
HWDT encourage people who have spotted cetaceans (and basking sharks too) to report their sighting using their online sightings form at _URL_. HWDT are also keen to learn of any stranded animals, please contact the office directly if you come across an animal on the shore by contacting 01688 302620. By getting involved you'll be helping build a better picture of the local marine environment and our understanding of particular species distribution. HWDTs Biodiversity Officer, Olivia Harries says, "By getting members of the public to report their sightings, HWDT can build up an extensive spatial and temporal data set that is invaluable to the management of the diverse range of species that inhabit Scottish waters. Without our supporters we would know a lot less about these animals."
These sightings coincide with the NATO exercise Joint Warrior, which occurs bi-annually in the waters off western Scotland. HWDT raised concerns, in particular on the effects of sonar on cetaceans, following an unusual encounter with a Minke whale in 2009. HWDT asks that the public be extra vigilant during this time and report any unusual behaviour.


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This template is used to determine what your starting Pokémon would be in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness. This is the personality test from the game.
To use this template, copy and paste the template from the section below to your userpage. In the first line are are two options for displaying the template:
 1. display: left, right, none. Floats the template to the left, right or not at all with "none." Default is to the right.
 2. sex: male, female, [other]. Your sex; default is "male" and if you put anything else, it will use "female" to determine your Pokémon.
After that just take the quiz like any other by switching the "n" in the answer you want to "y." For instance in the first question if you would stop running in the last mile of a marathon, you would switch the "n" to a "y" in that response so it looks like this:
Q01: You're in the final mile of a marathon, but the last stretch is exhausting! What will you do?
 |A01-1=n| Hang in there and finish!
 |A01-2=y| Stop running.
 |A01-3=n| Find a shortcut.
You can also skip questions where none of the answers apply, or you can change multiple answers to "y" if you want. The test will still work this way, although in the actual game you only get one answer and each question must be answered.
Once you are satisfied and have saved the page, the Starter Pokémon template is called onto the page. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I can just substitute the template, due to some variables being used, so you'll end up with a condensed template containing just your answers. This means if you want to change some answers, you'll need to copy/paste this template in again. Sorry!
{{subst:User:Najzere/Pokémon personality test|display=right|sex=male|
 |A01-2=n| Stop running.
 |A01-3=n| Find a shortcut.
Q02: Would you even consider sticking to a plan to do ten sit-ups a day?
 |A02-1=n| Yes! That's easy!
 |A02-2=n| Yes. Hard work, though.
 |A02-3=n| No! Who'd want to do that?!
Q03: What do you do with your allowance?
 |A03-1=n| Save it!
 |A03-2=n| Spend it!
 |A03-3=n| Spend half, save half.
 |A03-4=n| I don't get an allowance!
Q04: You have to move a heavy suitcase. What will you do?
 |A04-1=n| Carry it by myself.
 |A04-2=n| Ask someone to help.
 |A04-3=n| Make someone else do it!
Q05: If you don't know something, do you come clean and admit it?
 |A05-1=n| Of course.
 |A05-2=n| That's not easy to admit!
Q06: You're on a walk when you smell something delicious. What do you do?
 |A06-1=n| Try to imagine what it is.
 |A06-2=n| Find out what it is!
 |A06-3=n| Think about how hungry I am...
Q07: A fortune-teller says that you have a bad future ahead of you. How do you react?
 |A07-1=n| Worry about it!
 |A07-2=n| Forget about it.
Q08: You hear a rumor that might make you rich! What do you do?
 |A08-1=n| Keep it all to myself.
 |A08-2=n| Share it with friends.
 |A08-3=n| Spread a different rumor!
Q09: How do you blow up a balloon?
 |A09-1=n| As close to breaking as possible!
 |A09-2=n| Big... but not too big!
 |A09-3=n| I don't... It could pop!
Q10: Do you state your opinion even when it's not what everyone else thinks?
 |A10-1=n| Yes!
 |A10-2=n| No.
 |A10-3=n| It depends on the situation.
Q11: You want to reveal that you like someone a whole bunch! What do you do?
 |A11-1=n| Show it a little by playing together.
 |A11-2=n| Make it obvious by...playing a prank!
 |A11-3=n| State it clearly for all to hear!
 |A11-4=n| Keep it to myself! It's too risky!
Q12: You're on a stroll when a TV crew pounces on you for an interview. What do you do?
 |A12-1=n| Run away! How embarrassing!
 |A12-2=n| Answer questions properly.
 |A12-3=n| Yuck it up! Woo-hoo! I'm on TV!
Q13: You feel a burst of happiness! How about expressing it with a little dance?
 |A13-1=n| Yes!
 |A13-2=n| No.
Q14: You see a parade coming down the street. What do you do?
 |A14-1=n| Stay on the sidelines.
 |A14-2=n| Join the parade!
 |A14-3=n| Walk away.
Q15: Your friend tells a joke that's horribly corny! How do you react?
 |A15-1=n| Roll around the floor laughing!
 |A15-2=n| Just let it go by...
 |A15-3=n| Slap my forehead and groan.
Q16: Can you strike up conversations with new people easily?
 |A16-1=n| Yes!
 |A16-2=n| No.
Q17: Do you get injured a lot?
 |A17-1=n| Yes!
 |A17-2=n| No.
Q18: You see a ball on the ground. What do you do?
 |A18-1=n| Kick it!
 |A18-2=n| Throw it!
 |A18-3=n| Spiff it up, shiny and new!
Q19: What do you think of jungle exploration?
 |A19-1=n| Sounds fun!
 |A19-2=n| Not interested.
Q20: You discover a secret passage in a basement. What do you do?
 |A20-1=n| Go through it!
 |A20-2=n| Stay away from it.
Q21: Your friend takes a spectacular fall! What do you do?
 |A21-1=n| Help my friend up!
 |A21-2=n| Laugh! It's too funny!
Q22: You're daydreaming... when your friend sprays you with water! What do you do?
 |A22-1=n| Get mad!
 |A22-2=n| Get sad.
 |A22-3=n| Woo-hoo! Water fight!
Q23: Have you ever wanted to communicate with aliens from another planet?
 |A23-1=n| Yes!
 |A23-2=n| No.
Q24: Have you ever upset a friend when you were just kidding around?
 |A24-1=n| Yes.
 |A24-2=n| No.
Q25: Hey, what's that? There's someone behind you! So... did you look just now?
 |A25-1=n| Don't do that! It scared me!
 |A25-2=n| OK, I admit it. You tricked me.
 |A25-3=n| No way. I didn't fall for it.
 |A25-4=n| Huh? What?
Q26: Someone who works at a store suggests an item that isn't quite what you're looking for. But you like this person. What do you do?
 |A26-1=n| Say you don't want it.
 |A26-2=n| Say thanks... but say no.
 |A26-3=n| Cave in and buy it.
Q27: You run into a new person that you haven't talked to very much before. What do you do?
 |A27-1=n| Make small talk.
 |A27-2=n| Say nothing!
 |A27-3=n| Make an excuse to get away!
Q28: You think your hear someone call your name. But no one's around... so what was it?
 |A28-1=n| Just my imagination.
 |A28-2=n| Someone fooling around.
 |A28-3=n| A ghost!
Q29: Do you find yourself jumping to the wrong conclusion a lot of the time?
 |A29-1=n| Yes.
 |A29-2=n| No.
Q30: Do you change the channels often while watching TV?
 |A30-1=n| Yes!
 |A30-2=n| No.
Q31: You like something at a great bargain! What do you do!
 |A31-1=n| Buy it right away!
 |A31-2=n| Think about whether you need it.
 |A31-3=n| Demand an even bigger discount!
Q32: You're packing your classroom's snacks for a picnic when you get hungry


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Choose One Real-Life Observation Activity
This exercise will give you an opportunity to try your skills as
Select one of the four participant observation exercises to do
before the end of the day on Sunday.
Participant Observation 1 - Your Neighborhood
Participant Observation 2 - City Plaza
Participant Observation 3 - Restaurant or café
Participant Observation 4 - Religious worship service
Review each one to make certain you are selecting something that is logistically possible in your context. Each exercise is a bit different, but each will give you an opportunity to observe and describe a cultural setting. Once you have decided on one, download and print the activity.
- Pick one of the 4 observation activities that is logistically
possible for you to complete before the end of the day on
Sunday. Click on the links above to open, view, and print
the activity you choose.

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text: Imperfections in integrated photonics manufacturing have a detrimental effect on the maximal achievable visibility in interferometric architectures. These limits have profound implications for further photonics technological developments and in particular for quantum photonics technologies. Active optimisation approaches, together with reconfigurable photonics, have been proposed as a solution to overcome this. In this paper, we demonstrate an ultra-high (>60 dB) extinction ratio in a silicon photonic device consisting of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers, in which additional interferometers function as variable beamsplitters. The imperfections of fabricated beamsplitters are compensated using an automated progressive optimization algorithm with no requirement for pre-calibration. This work shows the possibility of integrating and accurately controlling linear-optical components for large-scale quantum information processing and other applications.


Dynamic synchronous gestures assist word learning in low functioning ASD Children
Authors: Rader, N., Zukow-Goldring, P., Miller, S. (2013)
Abstract
Using eye-tracking technology, we looked at the effect of a speaker's gestures on word learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children 5-8 years old and typically developing children (TD) 2-6 years old. When the speaker statically held an object as it was named, the ASD children performed similarly to two-year-old children. However, with a dynamic gesture, the ASD children performed as well as children 4-6 years old. These results suggest that ASD children can benefit from the stimulus-driven attention provided by the dynamic gesture.
Methods
The test children (ASD and TD) viewed a video showing a speaker introducing two novel objects using either a static or dynamic show gesture. After the speaker introduced the two objects using nonce words, word learning was assessed. A Mangold Eye Tracking System was used to collect eye gaze data. The measurement used was a ratio consisting of correct looks over total looks during a test of word learning. Therefore, a higher ratio represents attention to the correct object then the word is spoken.
Conclusions
With a dynamic show gesture, the ASD children's word learning was as good as that of the oldest typically developing children, while it was similar to the youngest age group for the static gesture condition. These results suggest that word learning for ASD children could be aided by use of show gestures in a way that is true for much younger children. It may be the case that the motion in the show gesture produces stimulus-driven attention that assists the ASD children in attending at the critical time when they view the object and hear its word.
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What is Terroir and What's it Doing in My Tea?
Ever wonder why the same type of tea from different areas of the same country have totally different cup characteristics? Wonder why the same type of teas from different countries differ radically in appearance? The simple answer is the tea's terroir. (Sounds like "tare WAHr".) However, the concept of terroir is a little more complicated. In fact, there are entire books dedicated to just this one subject matter alone!
If you are a wine lover, you have most likely come across this term. French winemakers originally developed the concept of terroir, which became the basis for the French wine appellation d'origine controlee (AOC) system. This is the model for wine appellation and regulation in France, which then spread around the world.
Today, terroir is used in many food and beverage artisanal industries and each has varying definitions of how they define the term _TAG_. Even wine experts cannot completely agree on its definition.
Tea terroir refers to climate, soil, altitude, and latitude.
Luckily, the majority of tea professionals can agree that terroir refers to climate, soil, altitude, and latitude. Other factors that have an effect on terroir, to a lesser degree, include cultivation method, plant material (varietal or cultivar), growing season, type of plucking, and historical practices.
Climate is critical to the development of flavor, aroma, and survival of the plant. Tea grows best in tropical or subtropical regions, which provides the plant with the water, humidity, sunlight and temperature it needs. Tea plants do not typically thrive in environments that are too hot or too cold. However, climates that are too constant will develop simple cup characteristics. The tea plant requires some climate stress so that its internal defenses kick in, called secondary metabolites. These secondary metabolites help develop complex and unique flavors and aromas. Darjeeling Tea is a great example of tea with complexities due to climate stress.
Soil quality is important to ensure that the plant gets the nutrients it needs to grow and thrive. Though we often refer to the tea plant as a bush, when left to grow in the wild, it can grow more like a tree - to over 30 feet tall. The root system of a cultivated tea bush is about six feet deep, so it needs soil that is loose without limestone or clay. The tea bush does well in many different soil types, as long as the soil is acidic with a pH between 4.5 to 5.5. This allows for those nutrients to be absorbed more easily. The soil must have good moisture but not retain too much water or the plant will drown. This is why we often see tea estates or gardens planted on hillsides. Minerals are also critical to the tea's internal functions, making a big impact on the tea taste. Yunnan teas are prized for their mineral cup character, which is due to the soil's high mineral content.
Altitude plays a key role in the development of essential oils, which are responsible for a tea's aromatics. High altitude stress on the plant kicks in those secondary metabolites and encourages development of exquisite aromas. At this altitude, the tea growth is slowed and the essential oils are allowed to concentrate. Stressors such as UV radiation from the sun, warm days, cold nights, mist, and lack of oxygen, all play roles in the development of these aromatics. Taiwanese Oolongs that are grown above 5,000 feet are a perfect example.
Latitude is one of the factors that denotes the number of flushes the tea plant will have for harvesting. At latitudes closer to the equator, tea can be harvested all year long. Sri Lanka, for example, at a latitude of eight degrees north, produces a new flush about every 80 days. However, travel north or south more than fifteen degrees and the tea can go dormant over the winter months. During this time, when nights are longer and temperatures are cooler, the tea becomes stressed. The first flush harvested after this dormant cycle, produces some of the most expensive teas.
Other factors that have an impact are due to human interaction with the processing of the plant material. Cultivation methods having an impact on the tea include:
· Japanese steamed green teas versus Chinese pan-fired green teas
· Orthodox processing versus CTC processing
· Machine plucking versus hand plucking
· Withering method
· The entire oolong processing method
· Plucking standard
· Firing method
Consider the terroir of your favorite teas as you sip - smell the aroma and taste the flavor.
Understanding the terroir of your favorite tea gives you insight into the type of teas you enjoy, and makes it easier for you to seek new teas to try with a better rate of success.
Consider the terroir of your favorite teas as you sip - smell the aroma and taste the flavor. Remember, tea is an agricultural product and sometimes variations from crop-to-crop cannot be helped. Certain characteristics that are prominent one year, maybe more reserved in other years. Your favorite tea companies use educated tea tasters with decades of experience, seeking consistency in their teas.
After a specific _TAG_ profile or flavor blend for your business? The _TAG_ at Hula Consulting can help with your flavor matching and ingredient sourcing. Email to _EMAIL_ or call _PHONE_ today to get started.


Staple Remover
A staple remover is a device that can remove a staple from a given material quickly without causing damage. The metal wedge at the end of the stapler can be used to achieve the same result; however, it tends to tear fragile papers. The staple remover is composed of two opposing wedges on a pivot with a spring that returns it to the open position after use. They also go by the term decleater in many former British colonies.
The user can either forcefully clip the front side of the staple causing the folded tabs on the reverse side to open and slide out or you can simultaneously clip the 2 folded pieces raising them from the paper and then pulling on the front flat side to remove the staple.
Since it is designed for functionality and robustness it has a minimized number of parts that help lower the cost and production time. Meghan Rooney was believed to have conceptualized the modern staple remover. Her design was originally intended to remove stitching not staples.
The pivoting blades, made of chrome-plated steel, interlock with each other. The chrome plating provides a mild rust-resistance suitable for use in an office environment away from any liquids. The metal is originally made of sheet metal which can be processed by blanking in a mechanical press allowing for a production rate of up to 1,500 units per minute.
The torsion spring is a standardized component that is in many other products such as clothes pegs. The spring has two loops and is also made of chrome-plated steel due to its high resistance to fatigue. They are mass produced by a spring winding machine and then chrome plated.
The staple remover usually has plastic grips which are not necessary for operation but they do provide ergonomics so the user doesn't have to press their fingers against sheet metal. The grips are usually made with injection molding of thermoplastics. This process is commonplace, labor intensive, cheap, and capable of producing high quantities. Plastic is used since it is easy to work with, cheap, and readily available.
In order for the blades to rotate a pin axle, made of stainless steel, is used. This prevents rust although the production of this axle is quite intensive.
There is also a modified version that removes broken staples and was patented by Joseph A. Foilte. His device doesn't see widespread use despite overcoming several disadvantages of the former device.
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A metal deposition head based on surface tension of molten metal.
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This is a stub for development of a capillary molten metal deposition head.
One of the theoretically most affordable ways to melt small quantities of metal is induction heating. However, in case with metal 3d printers it has a major drawback of eddy currents that arise in the printed object itself while it is printed, causing non-homogenious heating and power draws. So the basic idea is to distance away induction melting area from deposition area and to shroud induction heater with a faraday cage with low resistance. This kind of shroud will act as a mirror preventing EM waves from escaping and thus keeping effects localised and not messing with a printed object or electronics. If resistance of a shroud is kept low and there're no sharp edges, real heat production in shroud walls can be almost avoided.
However, if we reject an idea of melting pool being directly on the object, we have to find some way to guide molten metal to the object in a controllable way. And probably one of the most promising methods to do it is via capillary forces. Just like in ink pen. So if there's no contact with the object - there's no flow, just a drip of molten metal hanging from the deposition head (drip sizes are controllable via choice of nozzle materials and coatings).
 - Induction heater coil
 - Power source for a coil
 - Faraday shroud (probably just a piece of a metal pipe)
 - Simple ceramic nozzle with a drilled capillar. A detailed study is needed on interacton of different ceramics with molten copper.
First steps
First iteration will work with copper wire via inducing local circular currents in it. In order to build it, a study on ceramics is needed (or maybe it will be some other material if no ceramics can be wetted with copper) and some EM fields computer calculations.


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Student's Book with Song CD
By Marta Graciela Garcia Lorea and Elida Beatriz Messina Illustrated by Doug Nash
Sunshine Level 3 Student's Book
The Garnet Education Sunshine series won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award in the category 'Best Entry for Children' in 2011.
Sunshine is a three-level introductory series for kindergarten children studying English. It is both teacherand student-friendly and provides balanced activities that address all intelligences and learning styles. Sunshine helps to develop students' curiosity, imagination, creativity and gross and fine motor skills.
- Sunshine is content-based. It develops listening and speaking skills through pictures, art and music.
- Language is taught through the characters of Emma, Paul and Vicky, who create humor and build confidence.
- Varied activities encourage 'whole-brain learning' and maintain childrens' interest.
- Brightly illustrated songs, rhymes and chants develop phonemic awareness.
- Sunshine includes tear-out worksheets, stickers and an end-of-course diploma.
- The Resource Bank includes teaching tips as well as detailed suggestions for additional games, crafts, drama activities and songs.
Unit 1: My School
Unit 2: Toys
Unit 3: Animal World
Unit 4: Our Families
Unit 5: Food
Unit 6: Happy Birthday Party
Unit 7: Seasons and Clothes
Unit 8: In the City!
Contains full colour illustrations
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Sunshine - Level 1 - Student's Book with Song CD Sunshine - Level 1 - Resource Pack Sunshine - Level 1 - Big Book Sunshine - Level 1 - Teacher's Book Sunshine - Level 1 - Activity Book Sunshine - Level 2 - Big Book Sunshine - Level 2 - Teacher's Book Sunshine - Level 2 - Activity Book Sunshine - Level 2 - Student's Book with Song CD Sunshine - Level 2 - Resource Pack Sunshine - Level 3 - Teacher's Book Sunshine - Level 3 - Activity Book Sunshine - Level 3 - Student's Book with Song CD Sunshine - Level 3 - Resource Pack Sunshine - Level 3 - Big Book


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GstarCAD Tips & Tricks - 19: Dynamic Block - Know more about parameters
Knowing more about parameters in dynamic block editor
Parameters have an appearance similar to dimensions. Parameters also specify positions, distances, and angles for geometry in block reference. When you add a parameter to a dynamic block definition, the parameter defines one or more custom properties for the block.
A dynamic block definition must contain at least one parameter. When a parameter is added to a dynamic block definition, grips associated with key points of the parameter are automatically added. You must then add an action to the block definition and associate the action with a parameter.
Point Parameter: Defines an X and Y location in the drawing. A point parameter can be associated with a move or stretch action.
Linear Parameter: Shows the distance between two anchor points. Constrains grip movement along a preset angle. A linear parameter can be associated with a move, stretch, scale or array action.
Polar Parameter: Shows the distance between two anchor points and displays an angle value. You can use both grips and the Properties palette to change both the distance value and the angle. A polar parameter can be associated with a move, scale, stretch, polar stretch, or array action.
XY Parameter: Shows the X and Y distances from the base point of the parameter. It can be associated with a move, scale, stretch, or array action.
Rotation Parameter: Defines an angle. The rotation angle can be in any value, or be defined in a range or a specified value.
Alignment Parameter: Defines an X and Y location and an angle. An alignment parameter always applies to the entire block and needs no action associated with it. An alignment parameter allows the block reference to automatically rotate around a point to align with another object in the drawing. An alignment parameter affects the rotation property of the block.
Flip Parameter: A flip parameter flips objects. You can associate a flip parameter with a flip action.
Visibility Parameter: Controls the visibility of objects in the block. A visibility parameter always applies to the entire block and needs no action associated with it. In a drawing, you click the grip to display a list of visibility states available for the block reference.
Lookup Parameter: Defines a custom property that you can specify or set to evaluate a value from a list or table you define. It can be associated with a single lookup grip. In the block reference, you click the grip to display a list of available values. You can associate a lookup parameter with a lookup action.
Base Point Parameter: Defines a base point for the dynamic block reference relative to the geometry in the block. Cannot be associated with any actions, but can belong to an action's selection set.
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The primary methods to improve a Transaction check using Uptime.com are to:
- Improve the data received on an outage
- Validate specific elements are functioning as intended
This FAQ offers an advanced use case that will teach best practices of Wait for Element and various Validators that Uptime.com can use in a Transaction check. The goal of this tutorial is to teach you how to use the Transaction check to identify specific elements and validate a page and its associated infrastructure are rendering properly.
Uptime.com Demo Check | Improve Homepage Form Testing
This demo check will show how commands and validators can provide more specific data to your team:
This check is off to a good start. It verifies our status code and makes sure the Uptime.com tagline renders properly, but the one-second wait time won't tell us how our site performs.
Tip 1: Wait for Elements, Not seconds
When the next URL or step in a form takes too long to load, it's tempting during testing to add Wait for 1 Second steps. These steps add unnecessary time to your check, and are not the most accurate way to gauge latency issues. What if the render takes longer than the time you've designated?
Instead, use Wait for Element to Exist. Wait for Element to Exist has an individual step timeout of 25 seconds, and it's a much more accurate gauge of performance. The check will move on to its next step once the element is detected. If your check times out, you can investigate this step and its associated moving parts for performance issues.
We'll use this technique to verify our form is rendering.
We copy the CSS selector for this form:
Then we replace the "Wait for 1 Second" command we used in step three with a "Wait For Element to Exist" command to check for this form:
Next, we'll enter a URL and test the form.
Tip 2: Click vs Submit for Forms
The Submit form command calls the submit method on a form, and has some specific use cases. It's almost always best to utilize Click Element instead if you're filling out a field and clicking a button to move to the next step. Examples include:
- Testing a call to action (as in this example)
- Testing a login form
- Testing a multi-step form
Copy the CSS Selector for the button Start a Free Trial.
Add two new steps that fill the Uptime.com URL into our field and click the button.
Tip 3: Verifying a Redirect
To verify a redirect, you need a command and validator to look for information on the page and check the URL. We started this process in the screenshot above.
Step 7 will wait for the next page to render by looking for the element that contains the information we passed along with our form:
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Swan Thieves (Kostova)
The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova, 2010
Little, Brown & Co.
564 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781607886693
Author Bio
Birth—December 26, 1964
Where—New London, Connecticut, USA
Rasied—Knoxville, Tennessee
Education—B.A., Yale; M.F.A. University of Michigan
Awards—Hopwod Award for Nove-in-Progress; Quill Award;
 Book Sense Award
Currently—lives in Michigan, USA
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova, an American author, is best known for her debut novel The Historian. Swan Thieves, her second novel, was released in 2010.
Kostova's interest in the Dracula legend began with the stories her father told her about the vampire when she was a child. The family lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972, while her father was teaching at a local university; during that year, the family traveled across Europe. According to Kostova, "It was the formative experience of my childhood."She "was fascinated by [her father's Dracula stories] because they were...from history in a way, even though they weren't about real history, but I heard them in these beautiful historic places." Kostova's interest in books and libraries began early as well. Her mother, a librarian, frequently took her and her sisters to the public library — they were each allowed to check out 30 books and had a special shelf for their library books.
As a child, she listened to recordings of Balkan folk music and became interested in the tradition. As an undergraduate at Yale, she sang in and directed a Slavic chorus. In 1989, she and some friends traveled to Eastern Europe, specifically Bulgaria and Bosnia, to study local musical customs. The recordings they made will be deposited in the Library of Congress. While Kostova was in Europe, the Berlin Wall collapsed, heralding the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, events which shaped her understanding of history.
Five years later, in 1994, when Kostova was hiking in the Appalachian Mountains with her husband, she had a flashback to those storytelling moments with her father and asked herself "what if the father were spinning his Dracula tales to his entranced daughter and Dracula was listening in? What if Dracula was still alive?" She immediately scratched out seven pages of notes into her writer's notebook. Two days later, she started work on the novel. At the time she was teaching English as a second language, creative writing, and composition classes at universities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and finished the book as she was obtaining her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Michigan. In order to write the book, she did extensive research about Eastern Europe and Vlad Tepes.
Kostova finished the novel in January 2004 and sent it out to a potential literary agent in March. Two months later and within two days of sending out her manuscript to publishers, Kostova was offered a deal—she refused it. The rights to the book were then auctioned off and Little, Brown and Company bought it for US$2 million (US$30,000 is typical for a first novel from an unknown author). Publishers Weekly explained the high price as a bidding war between firms believing that they might have the next Da Vinci Code within their grasp. One vice-president and associate publisher said "Given the success of The Da Vinci Code, everybody around town knows how popular the combination of thriller and history can be and what a phenomenon it can become." Little, Brown, and Co. subsequently sold the rights in 28 countries. The book was published in the United States on 14 June 2005.
The novel blends the history and folklore of Vlad Tepes and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula and has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller. Kostova was intent on writing a serious work of literature and saw herself as an inheritor of the Victorian style. Although based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Historian is not a horror novel, but rather an eerie tale. The novel is concerned with questions about history, its role in society, and how it is represented in books, as well as the nature of good and evil. As Kostova explains, "Dracula is a metaphor for the evil that is so hard to undo in history." The evils brought about by religious conflict are a particular theme and the novel explores the relationship between the Christian West and the Islamic East.
Heavily promoted, the book became the first debut novel to land at number one on the the New York Times bestseller list and as of 2005 was the fastest-selling hardback debut novel in US history. In general, the reviews of the novel were mixed. Several reviewers noted that she described the setting of her novel well. However, some reviewers criticized the book's structure and its lack of tonal variety. Kostova received the 2006 Book Sense award for Best Adult Fiction and the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year. Sony bought the film rights to the novel for $1.5 million.
In May 2007, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created. The Foundation helps support Bulgarian creative writing, the translation of contemporary Bulgarian literature into English, and friendship between Bulgarian authors and American and British authors.
Kostova's second novel, The Swan Thieves, was released in 2010. (From Wikipedia.)
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Trapped in a deformed and sickly body, as a boy Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec turned to painting for solace. Although he came from an aristocratic family that could be traced back thousands of years and grew up in a castle, he broke with family tradition by choosing to live the bohemian life of a painter.
Living in Paris' Montmartre, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec recorded the life around him by painting scenes of nightclubs, race tracks, and even brothels. He enjoyed going to these places with friends. While he was there, he made rough sketches of the scenes around him which he later turned into brightly-colored works of art.
In addition to painting, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec did illustrations for books and designed numerous lithographs and posters using methods he himself created.
Sadly, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec got caught up in the lifestyle he was painting and the need for acceptance and turned to drink. Even though institutionalized, the alcohol took control of his life, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died in 1901 at the young age of 37.


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1946 Liberian constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Liberia on 7 May 1946. The change to the constitution was approved in the Legislature in December 1945, and would grant women the right to vote. It was approved by voters and came into force on 10 December 1946.
The proposed change would be to Chapter I, article 11, section one.
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A two-thirds majority in the vote was necessary for the changes to be approved.
- Liberia, 7 May 1946: Women's suffrage Direct Democracy (in German)

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Koko wa Ima kara Rinri desu
Takayanagi is a mysterious high school teacher, who teaches ethics. His students look innocent, but they have serious problems like being bullied and harming themselves. Takayanagi tosses out words & ideas in ethics and philosophy to his students. The words written in the ethics textbook seem boring, but the words by such figures like Socrates affect the students to deal with their own problems and lives. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Based on a manga of the same name
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Saionji Kinmochi (西園寺 公望 Saionji Kinmochi October 23 1849–November 24 1940) was a Japanese politician and the 12th (January 7 1906–July 14 1908) and 14th (August 30 1911–December 21 1912) Prime Minister of Japan. As a statesman, he influenced the opinion of the Imperial Court.
He was born in Kyoto as the son of a Tokudaiji kuge, and was adopted by another kuge family, the Saionji. However, he grew up near his biological parents. Since the Tokudaiji and Saionji lived very near the Imperial Palace, the young Saionji was frequently ordered to visit the palace as a playmate of the young prince who was the future Emperor Meiji. Over time they became close friends. Kinmochi's biological brother Tokudaiji Sanetsune later became the Chief Chamberlain of the Emperor Meiji. Kinmochi's close relationship to the Imperial Court helped him in his political career. In his later political life, he was an influence on both the Taisho and Showa emperors.
As the heir of a noble family, Saionji participated in politics from an early age and was known for his brillant talent. During the Boshin War, which some noblemen at the Imperial Court considered to be a private dispute between samurai, Saionji held the strong opinion that the Imperial Court should seize the initiative and take part in the war. After the war, he was successively appointed to the governorship of Sanyo region, the governorship of Echigo Province and other offices. He went to France to research European culture and lived in Paris. While there, he gained many acquaintances, including Clemenceau.
In 1882, Ito Hirobumi visited Europe in order to research the constitutional systems of each European state. Saionji journeyed with Ito, as they knew each other very well. In 1890, Ito founded the Rikkenseiyukai political party and Saionji joined it. Reflecting on his experience in Europe, Saionji had a liberal political point of view and supported parliamentary government. He was one of the few politicians who claimed that the majority party in parliament had to be the basis for forming the cabinet. Nationalists accused him of being a globalist. In his last days, Saionji tried to diminish the influence of the Army in political issues but he couldn't prevent Japan from engaging in military adventures in China and other Asian countries.
On the other hand, Saionji's political philosophy was heavily influenced by his background; he believed the Imperial Court should be guarded and that it should not participate directly in politics - the same strategy employed by noblemen and the Court in Kyoto for hundreds of years. This was another point in which he was opposed by nationalists in the Army, who wished for the Emperor to participate in Japanese politics directly and thus weaken both parliament and the cabinet.
Saionji had a strong interst in education and founded some schools. He was influential in the formation of Kyoto University.
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An end-stop occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause. In that sense, it's the opposite of enjambment, which will encourage you to move right along to the next line without pausing.
Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
See how the lines each have their own units of sense? And they each end in a punctuation mark that indicates a pause. These, Shmoopers, are end-stopped lines. In fact, "Bright Star" is mostly end-stopped, with only two examples of enjambment. Check out the poem, and see if you can find them.


Allocation to male vs female floral function varies by currency and responds differentially to density and moisture stress
M. T. Brock, R. L. Winkelman, Matthew Rubin, C. E. Edwards, B. E. Ewers, C. Weinig
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Allocation of finite resources to separate reproductive functions is predicted to vary across environments and affect fitness. Biomass is the most commonly measured allocation currency; however, in comparison with nutrients it may be less limited and express different environmental and evolutionary responses. Here, we measured carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and biomass allocation among floral whorls in recombinant inbred lines of Brassica rapa in multiple environments to characterize the genetic architecture of floral allocation, including its sensitivity to environmental heterogeneity and to choice of currency. Mass, carbon, and nitrogen allocation to female whorls (pistils and sepals) decreased under high density, whereas nitrogen allocation to male organs (stamens) decreased under drought. Phosphorus allocation decreased by half in pistils under drought, while stamen phosphorus was unaffected by environment. While the contents of each currency were positively correlated among whorls, selection to improve fitness through female (or male) function typically favored increased allocation to pistils (or stamens) but decreased allocation to other whorls. Finally, genomic regions underlying correlations among allocation metrics were mapped, and loci related to nitrogen uptake and floral organ development were located within mapped quantitative trait loci. Our candidate gene identification suggests that nutrient uptake may be a limiting step in maintaining male allocation. Taken together, allocation to male vs female function is sensitive to distinct environmental stresses, and the choice of currency affects the interpretation of floral allocation responses to the environment. Further, genetic correlations may counter the evolution of allocation patterns that optimize fitness through female or male function.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)349-359
Number of pages11
JournalHeredity
Volume119
Issue number5
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Brock, M. T., Winkelman, R. L., Rubin, M., Edwards, C. E., Ewers, B. E., & Weinig, C. (2017). Allocation to male vs female floral function varies by currency and responds differentially to density and moisture stress. Heredity, 119(5), 349-359. _URL_


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Understand the concept in different scenarios
In this blog I will try to clarify precision, recall, and threshold concepts in classification problems. I will present different scenarios to show the importance of precision/recall, and weakness of accuracy at some cases. I also aim to provide some insight into how threshold can affect the models performance and effectiveness. I assume the reader has some knowledge about the subject and will not start from the ground-zero. I will try to visualize the concept, provide a well-demonstrated example, show way to improve the effectiveness of model and present the formulation and try to keep these simple.
It is important to understand metrics to evaluate our model. Even tough accuracy is a well-known metric for evaluation of a classifier, in some cases, especially if data is imbalanced, or there are some cost associated with predicting one class better than the other, we will be required to use other metrics.
Most of the time it is thought that precision, recall are metrics to evaluate different classifiers. Additionally, we can use those metrics along with the decision threshold concept to improve our model's performance according to our needs.
In an ML/DL problem after doing immense calculation, coding in the background, evaluating performance and sometimes explaining your boss the results may be quite tricky. It is important to understand users' needs and tailor the model according to those needs.
Lets see some example scenarios to understand recall and precision.
Imagine you are working on a classification problem trying to find disease + patients. There is a treatment for disease+ patients but it has some serious side effects and also very expensive to apply to patients. So your boss would want to be sure that, when your model says it is a disease+, it should be (almost) surely a positive. There is no tolerance to get a diseaseas disease+, however he/she agrees to miss some disease+ patients and not to apply treatment.
Similar to that one, you are working on a classifier that classifies fighter aircraft in the air as hostile or friendly. If it is a hostile then the target would be destroyed. So you wouldn't want to destroy a friendly target by misclassifying it. In this scenario, there is no tolerance to label a friendly aircraft as a hostile aircraft.
In above two cases, when your models claim that the sample as a target, you would want to be quite sure that it is a hostile aircraft. (But, eventually you might be agree that you can miss some targets)
But in some other scenarios, your interest might be different.
Let's say, you are working for an insurance company and designing a health care system trying to detect a certain disease in an early phase of illness based on some measurements and then apply further examinations based on this prediction to avoid some future undesired situations. Let's assume the cost of further examination is cheap and easy to apply. So, in this model, you would want to keep as many positives as possible in your output. Your model's predictions must cover almost all possible positives and you wouldn't want to miss a positive. (Yes, if it is that much cheap to apply a treatment why not apply to all?)
Similarly in a surveillance system you would like to detect every possible intrusion without any exception and take some further actions to identify if it is a real threat or not, maybe employing a human to check every positive detection by your model.
So what is going on in technical terms:
Scenario 1 & 2:
In those scenarios, I am looking or a high precision. Which means, when my model claims it as POSITIVE, I expect it with a high percentage that it is a POSITIVE. In other words, I don't want to see (almost) any NEGATIVEs in my POSITIVEly classified samples.
In math terms, the ratio of the number of TRUEly classified POSITIVEs to the number of targets classified as POSITIVE is called precision and it should be as high as possible.
So, what is said above can be formulated as: (I intentionally left some words as uppercase since they refer to confusion matrix elements.)
precision = (the number of TRUEly classified samples as POSITIVE)/(the number of TRUEly and FALSEly classified samples as POSITIVE)
The ratio of TRUEly classified POSITIVEs to the entire POSITIVEs should be as high as possible.
In plain English, when the model says it is POSTITIVE, I should be able to trust it!!!
Scenario 3 & 4:
In those scenarios, I am looking for a high recall rate. Which means, I want my model not to miss any POSITIVEs.
Recall is more simple, out of total POSITIVEs, how many of them are classified TRUEly as POSITIVE.
In math terms, the ratio of the number of TRUEly classified samples as POSITIVE to the total number of POSITIVEs in the sample set.
recall = (the number of TRUEly classified samples as POSITIVE) / ((the number of TRUEly classified samples as POSITIVE)+(the number of FALSEly classified samples as NEGATIVE — in fact POSITIVE)(so all POSITIVEs))
Here is the confusion matrix showing all TRUE/FALSE POSITIVE/NEGATIVE cells for calculations.
Threshold is an important concept related to precision and recall. That is a parameter that changes the values of both metrics. Also allows us to adjust our model according to our priorities, as described in above scenarios.
The basic idea behind threshold concept is that the model gives a score (or probability) for each sample, if that score is greater than a threshold, that sample is assigned to the positive class, if less than that value the sample is aggigned to the negative class. So in fact, the threshold determines which sample goes to which class.
Let's see how threshold affects precision, recall in a scenario. I pick the second scenario.
Let's assume that there are 20 aircraft in the air 10/10 hostile and friendly. Reds are hostile and blues are friendly. I collected the data, made some data-preparation and trained the model as binary classifier. My model gives a score for each sample, and by comparing this score to a "threshold" value, it is determined whether it is a positive (hostile) or negative (friendly). For simplicity, the model scores are shown in the dimension of an aircraft. That means if the score is higher for that sample then it is shown in the exhibit bigger in size. From right to left I change threshold and will see how the precision and recall will be affected. The two tables below show the true labels and predicted classes based on the scores and threshold. The plot in the right-bottom shows the change of precision and recall at each level of threshold. As you will notice, while moving the threshold to the left precision gets lower, recall increases, and accuracy remains the same. It is a good example that accuracy is not changing while precision and recall shows fluctuations.
As an example the results in plain English can be stated as:
PRECISION : Model's positive claims are 100% correct
RECALL : Model correctly predicts 30% of total positives
ACCURACY : Model's accuracy is 65%
PRECISION : Model's positive claims are 80% correct
RECALL : Model correctly predicts 40% of total positives
ACCURACY : Model's accuracy is 65%
Here is the code that calculates the metrics and also generates the plot.
It is also a good practice to plot precision vs recall and see the trade-off and make a decision.
- Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways: increasing precision reduces recall, and vice versa. This is called the precision/recall trade-off.
- Precision, recall is also good metrics to evaluate different classifiers.
- F1 is not mentioned, which gives similar weights to precision and recall.
Question to think about:
Regarding the hostile aircraft detection problem, how would you change your threshold if the inspected target is getting closer to your border? Would you think about different thresholds for different situations?
Keep in mind:
Fine-tuning and presentation are important steps of your analysis.
The purpose of this article was to demonstrate precision, recall and the effect of threshold on the performance of a model.
I hope it helps. And if you are happy to read, please clap along :)
You can find the code here.


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Even when you only have to take medication for a brief period, it can be a challenge to make sure you take the right dose, at the right time, all the time. Even more so if there is more than one type of medication to take, and different time intervals or quantities. But getting it wrong, or missing doses, can have serious consequences.
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The Remember to Take Medication Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was developed to provide a tool for anyone who has to take medication regularly, whether for a shorter or longer time, which will help them easily remember to take their doses.
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The purpose of the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program is to increase the number of primary care nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives trained and prepared to provide primary care services, mental health and substance use disorder care, and/or maternal health care. Grants will support the training and graduation of advanced practice registered nursing (APRN) students/trainees in these disciplines. Awardees will provide tuition and other eligible supports to trainees, build academic-clinical partnerships to facilitate clinical training, and continue to develop and sustain clinical faculty and preceptors as needed. Applicants are strongly encouraged to recruit students/trainees and faculty from diverse populations. Funding preference will be given to eligible entities that train APRNs students to practice in underserved and rural communities or state and local health departments.
Increase the number of nurse practitioners (NPs), clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs) trained to serve rural, urban, and tribal underserved populations.
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. Assessment of air pollutant profiles by using measurements involves some limitations in the implementation. For this, deterministic air quality models are often used. However, its simulation usually needs high computational requirements due to complex chemical reactions involved. In this paper, a neural network-based metamodel approach is used in conjunction with a deterministic model and some measured data to approximate the non-linear ozone concentration relationship. For this, algorithms for performance enhancement of a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) are developed. The proposed method is then applied to estimate the spatial distribution of ozone concentrations in the Sydney basin. The experimental comparison between the proposed RBFNN algorithm and the conventional RBFNN algorithm demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency in estimating the spatial distribution of ozone level.
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Technical Analysis on Structural & Material Waterproofing of outdoor LED Lights
About material waterproofing
Material waterproof design of lamps, the use of filler filling glue to insulate waterproof, the use of sealant bonding between the closed structure between the seams, so that electrical components are completely airtight, to achieve the role of outdoor lamp waterproofing.
1) Fill the glue
With the development of waterproof material technology, various types and brands of lamp-specific potted glue constantly appear, for example, modified epoxy resin, modified polyurethane resin, modified silicone and so on. The chemical formula is different, the elasticity, molecular structure stability, adhesion, anti-uV, heat resistance, low temperature resistance, water repugnance, insulation performance and other physical and chemical performance indicators are different.
Elasticity: the collate is soft, the elastic module is small, then the adaptability is better. Among them, modified silicone elastic module is the smallest.
Molecular structure stability: Under the long-term action of UV, air and high and low temperature, the chemical structure of the material is stable, not aging and not cracking. Among them, modified silicone is the most stable.
Adhesion: strong adhesion is not easy to peel, of which modified epoxy resin adhesion is the strongest, but the chemical structure stability is poor, easy to aging cracking.
Water repugnant: indicates the collage's ability to resist water seepage. Among them, modified silicone silicone water repugnant is better.
Insulation: insulation related to product safety indicators, the above several materials of special filling glue are good materials of special potted glue are good.
From the above comprehensive physicolic performance, the performance of modified silicone materials is the best.
2) Seal the adhesive
Sealants are usually tying packaging, suitable for adhesive construction, generally used for wire ends, shell structural parts indirect seam bonding and sealing. Commonly used single-group dispenser, at room temperature and air vapor reaction, natural solidification.
Special attention: some lamp production plants use building neutral curtain wall glue, rather than professional electronic sealant, easy to break down harmful substances, damage lamps.
Certain types of potting gels and sealants in the gel process, will break down a small amount of chemical liquid or gas, such as the lamp beads next to the colloidal decomposition of the lamp beads damage to the lamp beads fluorescent powder, resulting in color temperature drift, or infringe led chip, or decomposition with transparent PC plastic chemical reaction, damage to the PC structure of the substance, and so on. This is a potential hazard in collate applications and must be designed with the colleant manufacturer fully understood of its chemical and physical properties and tested for verification.
Sealant in the lamp shell structure of the bonding seal, the most affected by heat expansion cold shrinkage, especially large lamps, different materials of the line expansion coefficient difference is large, hot expansion cold shrink constantly pulled, very easy to appear cracks. Therefore, the waterproofing ability of the material waterproof design mainly depends on the circuit board filling.
Material waterproof production process is long, 1 irrigation gel solidification cycle needs 24 h, some product design is more complex, even need 2 to 3 irrigation cycle, resulting in a longer shipping cycle, a large number of occupation of production sites, and the production environment is dirty. After colloidal solidification, the product repair is very troublesome.
The structural design of the material waterproof lamp does not need to be too precise, as long as the design reserves the collage potted area, the liquid does not leak, its waterproof performance is very intuitive. Therefore, the material waterproofing process is more suitable for small outdoor lamps, indoor moisture-proof lamps. It is commonly used in low-end and inexpensive public-mode products. Such as soft light belt, small bar lamps, buried lights and other small lamps.
In sum, whether the structure is waterproof or the material is waterproof, for outdoor lamps long-term work stability, low failure rate needs, a single waterproof design is difficult to achieve very high reliability, the potential hidden dangers of water seepage still exist.
Therefore, the design of high-end outdoor LED luminaires, it is recommended to use waterproof technology flexibly, the structural waterproofing and material waterproofing technology to combine the advantages of long-term and short,to ensure the long-term stability of LED circuit work. If the material waterproof design, can be added to the respirator to eliminate negative pressure. And the structure waterproof design, can also consider increasing potted, double waterproof protection, improve the stability of long-term use of outdoor lamps, reduce the rate of moisture failure.


Michigan voters, by their choices for our state's Supreme Court in the November election, will make known to the world which competing philosophy they endorse—judicial restraint or judicial activism.
Judicial activism creates an unstable legal system because judges assume the power to create laws that fit their own personal and changeable political views.
 Right now, the forces of judicial restraint are in ascendancy on the court. But if challenges to three incumbent justices are successful, the pendulum could swing in the other direction. Such a clear-cut choice lends national significance to the three Michigan Supreme Court spots up for grabs this year.
 Judicial restraint, or "strict constructionism," holds that a judge's duty is to interpret law in the context of the legislature's intent. Only if the legislature trespasses beyond its constitutional bounds does the court step in to reverse the voice of the people as expressed by the action of their elected representatives.
Judicial activism, on the other hand, means adjudicating not according to the rule of law, but according to the ideology, preferred policy position, or social whim of the judge. An activist court does not simply interpret the legislature's law; it creates its own. It views itself as a superlegislature whose duty is to knock the real legislature back in line when it passes laws the court considers undesirable.
 Advocates of the rule of law and constitutionally limited government have long warned of the dangers of judicial activism. Activism creates an unstable legal system because judges assume the power to create laws that fit their own personal and changeable political views. An activist court is an arbitrary one that replaces the rule of law with the whims of individuals.
On the November ballot, incumbent Justices Stephen Markman, Clifford Taylor, and Robert Young represent the perspective of judicial restraint. Justice Taylor has described the philosophy of Michigan's Supreme Court majority this way: "Unlike other courts, this Court will not deprive the people of their right to self-govern by revising statutes under the guise of interpreting them." Instead, he says, the "Court's duty is to defer to the legislature, unless the act in question is unconstitutional, and to give legislation its plain meaning." That means, "this Court does not engage in politics from the bench," Taylor says. Rather, as believers in the traditional notion of judicial restraint, the Court majority merely "enforces... statutes according to their terms."
Justice Taylor sees the bench he sits on as bringing "Michigan back to a traditional understanding of the rule of law and judicial restraint." Justice Robert Young's description of the Court's philosophy echoes this. Young does not believe that the judiciary "is an auxiliary legislature, nor is the judiciary free to intervene in public policy decisions of the political branches and remake them."
The Court's pro-activist opponents have accused it of favoring "big business." But as Justice Markman points out, this Court "is not pro-business or anti-business or proor antiany other group. Rather, our commitment is to read the language of the law as faithfully as possible and let the chips fall where they may. Our responsibility is to interpret the law according to its terms, not to decide cases in favor of, or in opposition to, any particular group."
 How does this show up in reality? One example: Judicial restraint produced a victory for Michigan taxpayers in the case of Lansing's so-called "rain tax." The city of Lansing wanted to impose a tax for a storm-water system but did not want to submit it to a vote of the people as the 1978 Headlee Amendment requires. So, it falsely labeled the tax a "user fee" and imposed it without voter approval. But in December 1998, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the user fee was really a tax and threw it out because it had not been submitted to a vote. The message to Lansing was clear: You're not above the law. An activist Court might have ruled that because the money was for a good cause, bending the constitution could be justified.
 Michigan's Supreme Court may be the nation's best and most eloquent example of a high court committed to interpreting the law, not manufacturing it. The nation will be watching to see if Michigan voters support judicial restraint or opt instead for a wild ride on the activist side.
 (Peter T. Leeson is a research associate with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland. More information is available at _URL_. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided the author and his affiliation are cited.)
Copyright c 2000 Mackinac Center for Public Policy
This coming November, Michigan voters not only will decide who sits on the state Supreme Court, they will determine whether the court is governed by a sensible, restrained judicial philosophy or an unpredictable, activist attitude. Restraint ensures a stable legal environment that encourages individual liberty, limited government, and economic prosperity. Judicial activism, on the other hand, endangers the rule of the law and threatens traditional American ideals of justice.
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This discussion focused around the economic and political climate in Europe and the United States, and provided an update on where we stand on EU/US Trade, tax reform on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as what to expect for the Eurozone and US economies.
The panelists addressed the following topics:
 - An overview of the European economy and what is happening in the US markets
 - Ramifications of the US and EU Tax reforms for both European and American companies;
 - How reforms will affect FDI and what businesses need to know about Repatriation of overseas assets.
 - What European companies need to know about some problematic international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other relevant issues of the US tax reform
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 - What is the status on Steel and Aluminum Tariffs and the response by the EU, what is happening on trade agreements (NAFTA, EU-Mexico 2.0 and EU-Japan)
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Setting the Threshold of Understanding – the CMSL Principle
A Common problem
Setting the threshold of understanding is a problem that everyone who conducts a mental capacity assessment faces. Occasionally, we are lucky and the courts have already set that for us (see IM v LM & Others (2014) for the threshold in relation to sexual relationships)
In my book 'Grandpa on a Skateboard' I talk briefly about the need to ensure it is not set too high or too low (PH and a Local Authority v Z Limited & R EWHC 1704 (Fam)) and using the 'man on the Clapham Omnibus' principle i.e. what would you expect the average man on the street to know. Whilst this is undoubtedly useful, it can still leave people struggling, which is why I have developed the CMSL principle.
The CMSL Principle
CMSL stands for Concept, Mechanics, Short term and Long term. It is my experience that when setting the threshold of understanding, every decision can be broken down into the four areas. This then makes it much easier to identify what the person should be expected to understand for each element and how you would expect them to demonstrate it. You will find that every decision will have a different weighting on each of the elements and so therefore still requires some subjectivity from the assessor. You must still be mindful not to set the bar too high or low but by using the CMSL principle it will ensure that you have considered all the aspects of the decision to be made before setting the threshold.
Let's consider the decision of whether an individual has the capacity to make decisions about their property and financial affairs. Using the CMSL principle we can break it down into the following questions/ areas of understanding (please note, the questions noted below are not intended to be definitive);
Concept: What is money? Where does it come from? The fact that it is finite in nature
Mechanics: How do you practically get your money? How do you invest? What are the practicalities of managing money?
Short term: This would cover day to day budgeting. What does the person need to know or demonstrate in relation to this?
Long term: This would cover the longer term investment of larger sums of money, for example a compensation payment.
Setting the threshold of understanding is always going to contain an element of subjectivity. The CMSL Principle will help you to break down the threshold into its constituent parts and enable you to demonstrate how and why you have set the threshold at the point that you have done.


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Quetico Provincial Park has just announced it has been designated as an International Dark Sky Park. Located about 160 km west of Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario, Quetico is a world-famous destination for backcountry canoeing in its more than 2,000 lakes.
"Quetico is also renowned for its beautiful starry night skies that are free of light pollution," says Trevor Gibb, Park Superintendent at Quetico. Beyond their remarkable beauty, dark night skies are important because many species of birds, amphibians, insects and plants rely on natural cycles of light and uninterrupted darkness. Introducing unnatural light pollution can destabilize everything from predator avoidance to breeding and migration.
To preserve Quetico's pristine night skies and protect its nocturnal ecosystem, Gibb and Ontario Parks personnel worked for two years to earn the park's Dark Sky designation, which is awarded by the US-based International Dark-Sky Association. The designation is reserved for public or private lands that demonstrate a high-quality starry night as well as a protected nocturnal environment.
Quetico upgraded all of its outdoor lights to dark sky-friendly colour temperatures, and lights are now also fully shielded and directed downwards to prevent them from radiating throughout the environment. In addition, Quetico developed a light management plan to ensure potential light pollution impacts are factored into any future developments in the park.
Along with Killarney Provincial Park and Lake Superior Provincial Park, Quetico is the third Ontario park to receive a Dark Sky designation since 2018. "All of our provincial parks are here to protect the natural environment and Ontario's biodiversity," says Gibb. "Naturally dark night skies are an important part of that protection."
Gibb says visitors to Quetico can play their part in being dark sky-friendly campers by using outdoor lights only when necessary and shutting them off when they go to sleep. "We're also asking visitors to avoid installing solar-powered garden lights and string lights in their campsites," adds Gibb.
To maintain its Dark Sky designation, park rangers will regularly monitor Quetico's sky quality every summer. "By continuing to be a Dark Sky park, we're hoping to provide opportunities for the public to appreciate our star-filled night sky for many years to come," says Gibb.


brightmail – Brightmail Module
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The Brightmail module provides a mechanism for checking the current inbound message context (for each recipient) against a Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam content server.
In Momentum version 3.x, Sieve continues to be supported but scripting via Lua is preferred for the following reasons:
 - Sieve has no concept of looping or iterators
 - Simple comparative logic in Sieve is awkward to author
 - Unlike Sieve, new modules do not need explicit C development to enable Lua capabilities
If you intend to use this module be sure to choose it during installation. For more information see "Installing Additional Packages". You will also need to purchase a license from Symantac.
brightmail "brightmail1"{
 server = ""
 num_workers = 10
 sieve_mode = "on"
 sieve_prefix = "brightmail"
 max_size = 2048
 timeout = 15
Open connections to the brightmail server are cached. This defines how long to keep an idle connection open.
**Configuration Change. ** This feature is available starting from Momentum 3.1.
The brightmail module will drop a connection after processing this many messages. Set this option to 0 to process an unlimited number. The default value for this option is 0.
This option specifies the number of bytes sent to the brightmail server. For example, if this is set to 2048 and a message of 4,000 bytes is received, only 2048 will be sent to the Brightmail server.
The number of times to attempt a connection to the brightmail server; if we can't connect and max_tries is greater than one, retry the connection max_tries number of times.
Specifies the concurrency of access to the Brightmail service. For numbers greater than zero, this specifies the number of threads that will be used to concurrently communicate with Brightmail. Each thread will have its own TCP/IP connection to the server and be capable of handling new messages serially. 0 (zero) has a special meaning: exactly one connection will be made synchronously to the main Momentum process and thus block other operations—this is highly discouraged.
Specifies the IP address and port on which the Brightmail service should be reached. Since the module makes a TCP connection it isn't essential that it run on the same server as Momentum. Instead of an IP address, you can also specify the hostname.
This option specifies whether to operate in script-only mode or not. If this option is active then no brightmail checking will occur unless called for directly from a Lua or a Sieve script. If the module is loaded with "sieve_mode = off" then the scanner will be run from the module (rather than a script) for all messages in the data phase. If you set sieve_mode to on then you need to invoke the brightmail_scanner manually. This can be invoked at the data, spool or each_rcpt phases. It will not work at the connect, ehlo, mailfrom or rcptto phases. If you don't want brightmail to see a given message, do not call msys.brightmail.scan or brightmail_scanner for that message.
In version 3.x, this option must be set to on if you wish to use the Lua function, msys.brightmail.scan.
For more information on using brightmail from Sieve see brightmail.
Specifies a name for a specific brightmail server instance. Allows you to concurrently interface with any number of servers that use the brightmail module. This setting also determines the prefix for the validation context variable and the names of the brightmail Sieve functions. See "Brightmail Runtime Usage" and brightmail. The default value for this option is brightmail.
Specifies the maximum time to wait for a response before assuming a failure on the part of the brightmail server.
Brightmail Runtime Usage
The brightmail module sets one context variable in the event of an error:
This variable, if it exists, contains information pertaining to the error that occurred while attempting to process the current message through the Brightmail service.
Lua Functions
This module makes the Lua function msys.brightmail.scan available. For a description of how this function is used see msys.brightmail.scan.
Sieve Usage
See brightmail for more details on implementing policy based on the Brightmail verdict.
The brightmail::error variable is accessible in the message validation context and can be used in the following way:
$err = vctx_mess_get "brightmail::error";
if not ec_test :is $err "" {
 ec_action 451 "Brightmail issue";
Note that the prefix for this variable is determined by the sieve_prefix setting. For example, if this module is loaded with sieve_prefix set to bm, you would access the error message using the code $err = vctx_mess_get "bm::error";.


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Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A
What is the origin of Arceus' name?
2 votes
I know arc as in High
asked Apr 21, 2011 by Ike,Lloyd Irving
good question
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Arceus's name may come from the words arch (highest) and deus, which is Latin for god. It may also have a root in the Latin word arcanus, which means secret; sacred mystery. Arceus's name may also come from the word archaic (ancient), which comes from the Greek arkhaios, and is derived from the ancient Greek word for "beginning", arkhē. It could have also come from the Latin word archetypus (original). Alternatively, Arceus's name can be seen as a portmanteau of Zeus, the most powerful of Greek gods and arch (highest). Another theory may be the combination of Zeus and Ra spelled backwards (Zeus being the king of gods and Ra being the solar god and creator, albeit in different pantheons). Those two qualities are shared by the Pokémon. Also, Arceus can also be derived from aureus (golden), possibly referring to its hooves and wheel. Nevertheless, Arceus's name origin and possible theories have led fans to believe that Arceus may be in fact a creator deity in Pokémon form. Arceus's name is pronounced with a soft "c" (or "s" sound) by the announcer in Pokémon Battle Revolution; in keeping with its probable name origin, it is pronounced with a hard "c" (or "k" sound) in television commercials and in Arceus and the Jewel of Life. Its name could also come from arc, as in round/ring, since it's surrounded by one.
-From Bulbapedia
answered Apr 21, 2011 by trachy
Thanks for not plagurizing trachy amessage from the foundation for a beter life pass it on
Proper grammar makes for a better life too. ;)
Wrong Arceus is the false japanese god of pokemon
In alchemy, Archeus, or archaeus, is a term used generally to refer to the lowest and most dense aspect of the astral plane which presides over the growth and continuation of all living beings. I'm guessing that they just used a bit of Latin, changed it up, and tied it in a bit more. It's an etyomology SF, so there's no way to tell which one is absolutely right. Besides, it's just a game.
it also may have something to do with the greek word αρχαίο(archeo) which mean ancient.