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What's Up With All the Sheep?
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Objective: SWBAT compare and contrast familiar features of nursery rhymes. Student Objective: I can compare the nursery rhymes about sheep.
My plan for today is to teach or for some, reteach the nursery rhymes of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. Rather than just teaching memorization of nursery rhymes, we are going to analyze the information on a kindergarten level of comparing and contrasting. I want to first build understanding of the vocabulary of the rhymes since some of these were "written" hundreds of years ago, and the English Language has changed a bit.
If you would please join me on the rug, I would like to share three nursery rhyme posters with you: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. As I read these posters, I would like you to read along with me.
Why do you think these are the posters that I chose to share today? It is because each of these rhymes have sheep in them.
Raise your hand if you have seen real sheep. What do you know about real sheep? Who takes care of sheep? Sometimes they are farmers, sometimes they are shepherds. Take a look at this picture. Do you see the shepherd's crook? This let's us know that Little Bo Peep was a shepherd. A girl shepherd is called a shepherdess.
Because nursery rhymes are fun and involve everyday activities, Kindergarten children can relate to them. Making a personal connection through nursery rhymes helps children become better readers. Many authors assume that children know nursery rhymes. These rhymes that have survived since the time of Shakespeare, and because the Common Core Standards include critical types of content for all students, including classic stories and the writings of Shakespeare, these memorizations and comparisons are the perfect venue for five-year-olds.
On the board, I have put a comparing and contrasting chart for us to fill in. Who can remember what it means to compare something? When we compare, we are looking at what is the same. So, when we compared these three rhymes earlier, we recognized that there was sheep in each rhyme. What does it mean to contrast? If compare means the same, contrast probably means...different.
Our chart has room for three nursery rhymes. We will be comparing and contrasting the three rhymes we heard today: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. I will be asking you some questions about the rhymes and then when you answer them, I will write your responses on the chart.
Let's talk about how these lists compare. (Two had girls, all of the sheep caused some problem, etc.) Now let's compare. (The black sheep was sharing his wool, but the others weren't, Baa Baa Black sheep didn't show his owner, etc.)
The children need to now take what they've learned and share it with the adults in the room. They will take their Nursery Rhyme booklets around to the adults and read the rhymes. The adults have been prompted to ask the children comparative questions, like "Who did a better job caring for her sheep?" "What did Mary do differently than the boy in Baa Baa Black Sheep?" "Which rhyme did you like best, and why?"
Because we have been working with nursery rhymes all week, I have made you a booklet of the nursery rhymes we have read so that you can take it home to read to your families. Won't they be surprised at how much you know?
Since we have some other adults in the room (parapro, Special Education teacher consultant, high school and parent volunteers, Title One teacher--not all at the same time, but throughout our day, we have "push-in" programs), we are going to walk from table to table and ask you to read to us. This will give you extra practice and we can listen to see if you need more help.


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Attached objects to a task will appear as links in the decision task workitem display. I find this way is easier and more flexible then using the SOFM attachments for adding data to workitems.and you can easily test the method by testing the object and do not have to use a task to create it.
let's say we what to add a link to a url, doing so in the task description will be difficult the same as adding it as an attachment, however calling a url in a method is easy for example by using cl_gui_frontend_services=>execute. Calling an adobi form Example: Calling Forms in an Application Program (SAP Library – SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe) or a DMS document using CVAPI_DOC_VIEW and attaching a new object to the task is not difficult as well.
Here is an example for a DMS document, but this should work the same for all types of attachments.
Create a z-object (do not delegate this object to the original one if you created it as a sub-object) in the example it's a sub-object of DRAW
In the new object create a method calling the DMS document. Pay attention that this method does not have an importing parameter
BEGIN_METHOD DISPLAYEASYDMS CHANGING CONTAINER.
CALL FUNCTION 'CVAPI_DOC_VIEW'
pf_dokar = object-key-DOCUMENTTYPE
pf_doknr = object-key-DOCUMENTNUMBER
pf_dokvr = object-key-DOCUMENTVERSION
pf_doktl = obejct-key-DOCUMENTPART
ERROR = 1
NOT_FOUND = 2
NO_AUTH = 3
NO_ORIGINAL = 4
OTHERS = 5.
Define this new method as the default object method
Now you can create this object as an attribute of the main workflow object (by delegation)
GET_PROPERTY DMSDOCUMENT CHANGING CONTAINER.
DATA: lo_dms_doc TYPE swc_object,
lv_dms_key TYPE sww_wi2obj-instid.
lv_dms_key =
swc_create_object lo_dms_doc 'ZEASYDMSD' lv_dms_key.
swc_set_element container 'DMSDocument' lo_dms_doc.
And in the decision task add the new object and transfer if to the task from the original object attribute.
The decision task will look like this:
And the added object will be a link to displaying the url/link/DMS etc.

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comDCGLplot: Visualization of common DCGs and DCLs
Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples
Description
Graphical Representation of common DCLs with regulation information.
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comDCGLplot(comDCGL.res, FigName = "comDCGL.pdf", tf2target,
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comDCGL.res
Result of comDCGL function.
FigName
A character string of graph name.
tf2target
a data frame or matrix for TF-to-target interaction pairs.
vsize
A numeric of node size.
asize
A numeric of arrow size.
lcex
a numeric of lable size.
ewidth
a numeric of edge width.
Details
We built a function comDCGLplot to display combined information of common DCGs and DCLs with regulation information. In this graph, we display DCLs networks, and we rely on different node shapes differentiate TFs and non-TFs (square for TFs, circle for non-TFs), different node colors to categorize genes (pink for DCGs, blue for non-DCGs, and different edge types to express different relations of DCLs (solid for DCLs, edges with arrow indicate TF-to-target relations).
Value
One graph as users' wish have been saved in currently working directory
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Jing Yang
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## computate DCEA results for three disease, Allergic asthma (AA),
## Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).
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data(exprs1)
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## the default value of cutoff in DCEA is 0.25,
## here cutoff is set to 1 for saving time when demonstrating the examples.
DCEA.AA.res<-DCEA(exprs1[1:200,1:5],exprs1[1:200,6:10],link.method="percent",
 cutoff=1,N=0,nbins=20,p=0.1)
DCEA.CKD.res<-DCEA(exprs2[1:300,1:25],exprs2[1:300,26:31],link.method="percent",
 cutoff=1,N=0,nbins=20,p=0.1)
DCEA.T2D.res<-DCEA(exprs3[1:200,1:12],exprs3[1:200,13:35],link.method="percent",
 cutoff=1,N=0,nbins=20,p=0.1)
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## sort out common DCGs and DCLs in AA, CKD and T2D.
data(tf2target)
comDCGL.res<-comDCGL(Ndis = 3,
 DCEA.disn = list(dis1 = DCEA.AA.res, dis2 = DCEA.CKD.res, dis3 = DCEA.T2D.res),
 DisNames = c("AA", "CKD", "T2D"),
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## plot common DCGs and common DCLs with regulation information.
#comDCGLplot.res<-comDCGLplot(comDCGL.res,FigName="comDCGL.pdf",tf2target,
# vsize=5,asize=0.25,lcex=0.3,ewidth=1.5)
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Jules Roy, a prolific and polemical French writer who sought inspiration for much of his work in the Algeria of his childhood and in his subsequent career as a French air force officer, died on June 15 at his home in the Burgundy town of Vezelay. He was 92.
Mr. Roy was first recognized as a writer in 1946 for ''La Vallee Heureuse,'' or ''The Happy Valley,'' his prize-winning account of participating in Britain's Royal Air Force bombing raids of the Ruhr Valley. Decades later he was again acclaimed for six novels published in the 1970's under the title ''Les Chevaux du Soleil,'' or ''Horses in the Sun,'' which recounted the history of Algeria from 1830 to its independence from France in 1962.
Many of his other novels, essays and ''recits,'' or semiautobiographical books, also span out his direct experiences in life, not only ''La Mort de Mao'' (''The Death of Mao''), which followed his travels in China, but also ''La Bataille de Dien Bien Phu,'' (''The Battle of Dien Bien Phu''), about France's defeat in the Indochinese war.
A friend of the pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who died in 1944, and of his fellow Algerian-born Frenchman Albert Camus, who died in 1960, Mr. Roy was -- like both men -- stubbornly nonconformist. In World War II, he showed early sympathy for the collaborationist Vichy regime before joining the Royal Air Force. Then, after 26 years in the French air force, he resigned his commission in 1953 to protest French involvement in the war in Indochina.
But more than anything, it was Algeria that dominated his life. In the late 1950's he expressed his fierce opposition to French efforts to smother Algeria's fight for independence in an essay called ''The Algerian War.'' And after completing ''Les Chevaux du Soleil'' in 1989 he published ''Memoires Barbares,'' about his upbringing in Algeria. Only five years ago he returned to an Algeria convulsed by civil war to visit his mother's grave at Sidi Moussa.
Born on Oct. 22, 1907, in Rovigo, now Bougara, in Algeria, he was reared by his mother and grandmother. Le Monde recounted that his mother's husband, Louis Roy, a policeman, evicted her from his home when he discovered that the baby's father was a local teacher, Leon Henri Dematons. Although his mother later married Dematons, Jules kept his surname.
The young boy's first calling was religious, and in 1918 he entered a Roman Catholic seminary, which, he later wrote, ''made me the man I am.'' But in 1927, after being called up for military service, he changed directions and became a career air force officer.
He married Mirande Grimal, from whom he later divorced. His survivors include their two children, Jean-Louis and Genevieve as well as his second wife, Tatiana Soukoroukoff, whom he married in 1965.
While sitting out the early part of World War II in Algeria, he read Camus's novel set in Algeria, ''L'Etranger'' (''The Stranger''), and discovered a vocation as a writer. In 1946 ''La Vallee Heureuse'' brought him the prestigious Renaudot Prize, but he remained in the air force, rising to the rank of colonel (the French air force uses army ranks) before resigning over the war in Indochina. From then on he dedicated his life to writing.
A lifelong Catholic, he moved in his later years to Vezelay, where he lived near the town's exquisite Romanesque basilica of Sainte-Madeleine and became a devotee of Mary Magdalene. He liked to explain his devotion in a typically subversive way. ''She was,'' he often said, ''one of the most beautiful whores in history.''

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Gene Davis (painter)
"Black Grey Beat," (1964), acrylic on canvas, collection:Smithsonian American Art Museum
August 22, 1920|
|Died||April 6, 1985
|Training||University of Maryland|
|Movement||Washington Color School, Color Field painting, Post-painterly Abstraction|
|Influenced by||Paul Klee|
Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985) was an American painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color, and was a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s, known as the Washington Color School.
Davis was born in Washington D.C. in 1920 and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in 1949, he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Redskins and other local teams. Working as a journalist in the late 1940s, he covered the Roosevelt and Truman presidential administrations, and was often President Truman's partner for poker games. His first art studio was in his apartment on Scott Circle; later he worked out of a studio on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Davis's first solo exhibition of drawings was at the Dupont Theater Gallery in 1952, and his first exhibition of paintings was at Catholic University in 1953. A decade later he participated in the "Washington Color Painters" exhibit at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in Washington, DC, which traveled to other venues around the US, and launched the recognition of the Washington Color School as a regional movement in which Davis was a central figure. The Washington painters were among the most prominent of the mid-century color field painters. Though he worked in a variety of media and styles, including ink, oil, acrylic, video, and collage, Davis is best known by far for his acrylic paintings (mostly on canvas) of colorful vertical stripes, which he began to paint in 1958. The paintings typically repeat particular colors to create a sense of rhythm and repetition with variations. One of the best-known of his paintings, "Black Grey Beat" (1964), owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum reinforces these musical comparisons in its title. The pairs of alternating black and grey stripes are repeated across the canvas, and recognizable even as other colors are substituted for black and grey, and returned to even as the repetition of dark and light pairs is here and there broken by sharply contrasting colors.
In 1972 Davis created Franklin's Footpath, which was at the time the world's largest artwork, by painting colorful stripes on the street in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the world's largest painting, Niagara (43,680 square feet), in a parking lot in Lewiston, NY. His "micro-paintings", at the other extreme, were as small as 3/8 of an inch square.
For a public work in a different medium altogether, he designed the color patterns of the "Solar Wall," a set of tubes filled with dyed water and backlit by fluorescent lights, at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Davis began teaching in 1966 at the Corcoran School of Art, where he became a permanent member of the faculty. His works are in the collections of, among others, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
He died on April 6, 1985 in his hometown of Washington, DC.
See also
- Color field painting
- Western painting
- History of painting
- Lyrical abstraction
- Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Washington Color School
Further reading
- G. Baro. 1982. Gene Davis Drawings. New York: Arts Publisher.
- S. W. Naifeh. Gene Davis. New York: Arts Publisher.
- D. Wall, ed. 1975. Gene Davis. New York: Praeger Publishers.
- J. D. Serwer. 1987. Gene Davis, A Memorial Exhibition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0-87474-854-2.
- Gallery of Gene Davis prints at the Smithsonian Institution
- Gene Davis works at the Smithsonian American Art Museum


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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds SCOTT SPURLOCK: Paleography is the study of old handwriting, which is of particular interest to students of history, genealogists, family historians, and those who are working on local history. Early modern Scotland produced some of the most detailed and robust records of any European nation. While their survival is not comprehensive, it's estimated that approximately 2 million pages of highly-detailed local records survive for the period 1560 to 1750, in the weekly Kirk Session meeting minutes alone. These records represent a wealth of detail pertaining to marriages, births, deaths, legal disputes, witch trials, famines, floods, and the list goes on.
Skip to 0 minutes and 50 seconds This level of detail and the robust nature of these records is pretty impressive when we consider that the population of Scotland during this period peaked out at about 1 million people. I'm Doctor Scott Spurlock. And in this course, my colleagues Doctor Lionel Glassey, Dr. Neil McIntyre, and myself will introduce to you the basics of paleography including letter shapes, common contractions, and the configuration and style of sources.
Skip to 1 minute and 16 seconds NEIL MCINTYRE: In addition to the practicalities of deciphering the handwriting itself, this course will also provide an overview of early modern Scottish history in order to describe the society and its structures that produced these invaluable records including church, court, and legal documents. Lionel has five decades of experience teaching paleography and has unlocked the secrets of older handwriting for undergraduate and post-graduate students and members of the general public. He is regularly called upon by scholars and archives to provide advice on particularly difficult documents. I am an early modern historian, and I have completed my doctorate on the early covenanters I've designed the Scottish history overview within the course.
Skip to 1 minute and 59 seconds Scott teaches Scottish church history in the theology and religious studies department here at the University of Glasgow. He has been teaching Scottish history for two decades, and like the rest of the team, with historical Scottish documents on a daily basis.
Skip to 2 minutes and 15 seconds SCOTT SPURLOCK: This course is brought to you in collaboration with the national records of Scotland. And we're grateful for their generosity in allowing us to use materials for the teaching of this programme. We hope you'll enjoy the course as much as we've enjoyed developing it.

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Kratom During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Need-to-Know Facts
Kratom can be purchased as a capsule or as a powder.
More and more, opium withdrawal is treated by using Kratom. And that's especially concerning if the user is pregnant or lactating. Pregnant women may think that if it's legal, it's safe, and providers may not have even heard of it. Whether you are a parent or a provider, here are the facts you need to know about using kratom during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Using kratom during pregnancy isn't as safe as it sounds
Native to southeast Asia, kratom is an herbal substance, derived from the leaves of a tree in the coffee plant family. Kratom is also known as Thang, Kakuam, Thom, Ketom, and Biak. Of course, kratom is all-natural, and in most US states, it's legal. Hence it can be purchased fairly easily as a capsule, or as a powder which can be made into a tea. But it's not harmless.
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate herbal products. Therefore, like any other herbal product that's for sale, the exact contents (or the amounts of the contents) in the package may not be what's on the label. So this means that you cannot assume the amount of active ingredient, and in some cases, the contents could be lethal. Also, remember, too, that the possibility of contamination poses yet another threat.
Reports of kratom contamination exist
Kratom products were linked to a recent Salmonella outbreak. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 199 kratom-users were infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella. Infections were reported in 41 states as a result of consuming kratom products; 38% percent of ill people were hospitalized, and no deaths were reported.
I can almost hear you saying, "Oh! So they'll do some recalls and we'll all be okay right?" Not so fast.
The CDC warns that "[c]ontaminated products may still be available for purchase because the investigation was not able to identify a single, common source of contaminated kratom. Illnesses could continue to occur if people consume contaminated kratom."
Kratom has a strong allure
In the medical literature, more and more reports are surfacing about pregnant mothers who have used kratom. No wonder!
Kratom acts at opioid receptors, so it helps a person who is trying to withdraw from an opioid product. Like morphine or any other opioid, kratom creates euphoria and analgesia in the user. It is different from morphine, however. It does not seem to depress respirations.
There's another motivator for using kratom during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Mothers may not want healthcare professionals to know they've been using it. Unlike true opioids, routine drug tests do not detect kratom. (It can, however, be confirmed with specialized urine testing with long turn-around times for results.)
Kratom has toxic effects on adults
In adults, kratom toxicity manifests as palpitations, tachycardia, hypertension, seizures, altered mental status, nausea, abdominal pain, syncope, and liver toxicity.
Kratom has deleterious effects on unborn and newborn babies
Because this is an opioid-like substance, infants born to mothers who use kratom during pregnancy exhibit withdrawal symptoms that mimic opioid withdrawal.
In my recent interview with Dr. Whitney Eldridge, she cautioned, "We cannot predict which babies will experience withdrawal, and it is independent of the maternal dose."
Dr. Eldridge's recent article described a case of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) due to maternal use of kratom. There's little in the existing literature to guide medical management of the infants exposed to kratom in utero. Eldridge and her colleagues relied primarily on reports from McKay and colleagues in Canada, and Cumpston and colleagues in Thailand to manage the infant's withdrawal symptoms.
Unanswered questions are worrisome
From the few existing reports, we can assume that using kratom during pregnancy and breastfeeding is risky. Further, we know a little information about the short-term effects of kratom exposure on the newborn. Dr. Eldridge acknowledges several unanswered questions:
 - What are short and long-term effects of kratom exposure on newborns?
 - Is kratom withdrawal among newborns underreported as it is not detected on routine drug screens and is it likely to increase?
 - Is kratom secreted in the mother's milk?
 - What is the optimal management of a newborn who experiences withdrawal from kratom?
That may take a while, but in the meantime, healthcare providers need to conduct respectful but thorough interviews with clients about possible usage of kratom during pregnancy and breastfeeding. And, that interview will be much more effective by using specialized listening techniques, often best learned through a course.
Have you heard of kratom? What are your thoughts on using kratom during pregnancy and breastfeeding? Share in the comments below!
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 1. L. Svor
 I have witnessed first hand the effects of kratom exposure through pregnancy and breastfeeding of my grandchildren whose mother is a high- dosage kratom abuser of 7 years. The children were exposed during pregnancy and through breastfeeding, and have become addicted to kratom. The 4 1/2 year old, continuously exposed her entire life to kratom, has had significant weight loss and eating problems. She has had difficulty eating, with sore throat and stomach problems. When removed for a week from kratom infused breastfeeding, she exhibited side effects of spasms and heartbreaking cravings for the drug with uncontrollable whimpering and crying for long periods of time. The 2 year old has exhibited similar symptoms, and also diarrhea and vomiting when removed from breastfeeding on his kratom addicted mother. It is unconscionable that this is allowed to continue and ignored by child services, the courts and medical professionals, as is their mother's continuance of marketing and advising pregnant and breastfeeding mothers to buy and use this drug through her 'tom mamas / kratom mamas' fb page.
 - Marie Biancuzzo
 Ohhhh……I hardly know what to say! Thank you for sharing this story. We really don't have much science to go on, but your story makes very real the warnings I was trying to give as I wrote the article. What a sad story for these children. And, not only for these children, but for the fact that their mother is selling the kratom to other breastfeeding (or pregnant) mothers. I'm stunned. Again, thank you for adding a valuable insight.
 2. Serina
 This article addresses the effects of kratom used for opiate withdrawal, which will always be large amounts, only. Opiate withdrawal and pain relief are not the only reasons for kratom use. Many people use it in extremely small amounts as a coffee substitute. In small amounts it has a stimulating effect but without the jitteryness of coffee. Whereas someone using it for major pain relief or opiate withdrawal might consume multiple grams a day, up to 28 grams a day in the most addicted individuals, many use less than one half of a gram a day and never go above that, which is not enough to cause withdrawal in any way. While there is not much research about it, I think it is safe to assume that in small amounts it has similar effects on mother and baby as coffee and may in fact be even less toxic than coffee or even sugar. I understand that some women avoid even small amounts of coffee or sugar in pregnancy and would also wish to avoid kratom as well, but if youre okay with coffee or sugar, then youre most likely okay with kratom too.
 As far as contamination, even heavily regulated products are often contaminated and the fda misses things. Lots of coffee is full of pesticide residue, for example, which is arguably more harmful than the coffee itself. Just like we might pay extra attention to where we source any product we consume, we can pay attention to where we source our kratom to reduce chances of contamination.
 One last note, on use as an opiate withdrawal aide or opiate substitute, while it is not ideal to be using that much while pregnant for sure, I would have to argue that it is far better than using or abusing opiates while pregnant, if those are the only two choices available.
 Thank you for listening and providing the space to comment our thoughts.
 - Marie Biancuzzo
 Although you did not cite any type of studies in your comments, you did point out some issues that we all need to acknowledge. (1) The dose of the substance (kratom or just about any other substance) is a factor to pay attention to; we often forget that. (2) There is good evidence and plenty of anecdotal evidence to show that the problem of contamination for multiple substances is absolutely a problem. (3) Consuming an opiate withdrawal aid is arguably better consuming the opiate "if those are the only two choices available." And that last part is important to remember.
 3. Heather Fixico
 I have been drinking kratom for a few years .Like anything in large quantities


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Prague, Czech Republic – After more than four years in the making, the Czech Republic's first permanent national film museum dedicated to cinema will open its doors in Prague in December, right on time to take part to the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia. The NaFilM museum will be located in Mozarteum, on Jungmannova street in the city centre.
The brainchild of Charles University cinema students, NaFilM was founded a couple of years ago but had no permanent exhibition ground until now. Its exhibitions were held in other venues and museums across the Czech capital, including the Museum Montanelli and the Chicago Palace in Prague 1.
"Why doesn't Czech cinema have its own museum? Hasn't Czech film heritage been hidden in archives and depositories for too long?". Considering the country's strong cinema tradition and bustling film-making scene, the absence of a cinema museum seemed like a careless oddity and critical oversight.
Prague film museum NaFilM wants to rectify this error. Designed in constant "dialogue with theorists, experts and curators to work on the concept of a National Film Museum for the past two years", the new cultural institution aims to answer those long-overdue questions and give the Czech Republic the cinema museum it deserves, in order to "examine, re-evaluate and publicly present the importance of the Czech Republic's national film heritage, not only to the Czech people, but also to visitors from all around the world".
The goal is to introduce the Czech film industry and history to a wide variety of visitors, from children to tourists and cinema professionals, shedding some light in an interactive and educational manner on the main technical aspects of filmmaking and provide an extensive overview of modern cinema history. After several months of scouting for a new location, the NaFilM crew, led by the trio Adéla Mrázová, Terezie Křížkovská and Jakub Jiřiště, recently announced they had found a permanent venue, thus bringing their project to a whole new level.
Earlier this year, NaFilM also organized, in cooperation with the Summer Film School, the first edition of the International Industry program dedicated to film and audiovisual education and hands-on training.
You can support this exciting endeavor here.
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text: The contact line is a special kind of power overhead line with multiple electrical connections of wires, which form a complex topology of the linear electrical circuit. Analytical models simplify the real topology of the contact line and it limits their functional application. It is possible to take into account the topology of contact line when using tools of computer simulation, but it entails complicating the computational algorithms of the model. The aim of this article is to determine the conditions for the application of current distribution models and the development prospects in this area. The article describes the existing models for calculating the current distribution in DC contact line: a model of natural current distribution, linear analytical models, model with an infinite number of droppers, a model with a direct application of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in matrix form, and a finite element model. The article contains the main provisions and calculation capabilities of each model. Contact line KS-250-3 acts as a calculation catenary for the comparison of current distribution models. You can use the results of the article to select the optimal design distribution model for the design of the contact line, thermal analysis, current-carrying capacity calculation, identification and elimination of «weak point».


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Precautions Of Glitter
Keep glitter away from open flames: Avoid using glitter near candles, stovetops, or any other source of open flames that could accidentally ignite the sparkly particles.
Choose flame-retardant glitter: When purchasing glitter, opt for products that are specifically labeled as flame-retardant or fireproof. These glitters have undergone additional safety measures to reduce their flammability.
Use glitter in a controlled environment: If you're working with glitter in a craft project, ensure you're in a well-ventilated area away from potential fire hazards. Avoid using glitter near heat sources or in a cluttered space that could increase the risk of accidents.
Store glitter safely: When not used, store glitter in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight or heat sources. This helps prevent the glitter from deteriorating and reduces the risk of accidental ignition.
Educate children about glitter safety: If glitter is part of a child's craft activities, supervise them and teach them about the potential flammability of glitter. Encourage responsible handling and ensure they understand the importance of using glitter safely.
Glitter, especially polyester glitter, is flammable and can melt, burn, and release toxic fumes when exposed to high heat or flames.
It is important to exercise caution and avoid exposing glitter to direct heat or flames to reduce the risk of fire or hazardous situations.
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I couldn't resist reviewing another amazing book written by Kathryn Otoshi. Just like many kids, Zero feels like she lacks value. All Zero sees is an empty hole…right in her center. She desperately wants to count like the other numbers. Zero attempts to be more like the other numbers by pushing and pulling, stretching and straightening, pinching and puckering, but no matter what she does she cannot change. Maybe she can gain value by impressing the other numbers with her fast rolling. She rolls faster…and faster…and FASTER! She rolls so fast that she soars into the air and knocks over the numbers. Just as she is about to give up, Seven points out, "It's what's inside that counts most." Zero decides she is not empty inside. Instead she is open! With the help of her new perspective, Zero discovers a clever way for both her and the numbers to have even more value by working together. The numbers and Zero explore and have fun, bringing more value to everyone.
1. What does it mean to have value?
2. Do you have value? What is your value?
3. Why do you think Zero only saw an empty hole inside?
4. Do you ever feel like a Zero?
5. Do you ever try to be more like other kids?
6. Why did Zero try to be like the other numbers?
7. Why wasn't she able to change her shape?
8. How did Seven help Zero find her value?
9. How did Zero bring more value to everyone?
10. How do you bring more value to other people?
What Is Your Value Activity
The following activity is perfect for group counseling or classroom guidance.
We all have value and add additional value to each other. Each student will get a coin handout. Write something valuable about the person on their coin. What is something great this student adds to our classroom, school, or community? Example: smart, funny, nice, helpful, understanding, responsible, etc.
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Admiralty Islands
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This article is about the Admiralty Islands of Papua New Guinea. For the Admiralty Island in Alaska, see Admiralty Island. For other uses, see Admiralty Island (disambiguation).
Admiralty Islands
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Map of Papua New Guinea. The Admiralty Islands are in the dark red area at the top of the map.
Coordinates 2°05′S 146°57′E / 2.083°S 146.950°E / -2.083; 146.950Coordinates: 2°05′S 146°57′E / 2.083°S 146.950°E / -2.083; 146.950
Province Manus Province
The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of eighteen islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, after the largest island.
These rainforest-covered islands form part of Manus Province, the smallest and least-populous province of Papua New Guinea, in its Islands Region. The total area is 2,100 km2 (810 sq mi). Many of the Admiralty Islands are atolls and uninhabited.
Manus is the largest of the Admiralty Islands.
The temperature of the Admiralty Islands varies little throughout the year, reaching daily highs of 30–32 °C (86–90 °F) and 20–24 °C (68–75 °F) at night. Average annual rainfall is 3,382 mm (133 in) and is somewhat seasonal, with June–August being the wettest months.
Manus reaches an elevation of 700 m (2,300 ft) and is volcanic in origin and probably broke through the ocean's surface in the late Miocene, 8–10 million years ago. The substrate of the island is either directly volcanic or from uplifted coral limestone.
The main town in the islands is Lorengau on Manus, connected by road to an airport on nearby Los Negros Island, otherwise transport around the islands is by boat. There is very little tourism although the seas are attractive to divers, including Jean-Michel Cousteau who spent time on nearby Wuvulu Island in the 1970s.
Due to the isolated location, the rain forests of the Admiralty Islands are home to rare and endemic species of birds, bats and other animals and are considered a separate ecoregion, the Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests. The majority of the forests on Manus still remain, but some of the smaller islands have been cleared for coconut farming. The typical tree species are various Calophyllum and Sararanga species.[1]
58.5 km2 (22.6 sq mi) Ndrolowa Wildlife Management Area was declared March 1985 south of Lorengau on Manus Island and contains both terrestrial and marine regions.[2] 240 km2 (93 sq mi) protected area has been established around the highest mountain on Manus, Mt. Dremsel, but the level of protection is still undetermined in UNEP World Database on Protected Areas.[3] Further study of this ecoregion is required.
Three of the bird species endemic to Admiralty Islands have been listed as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List: Manus fantail (Rhipidura semirubra), Superb pitta (Pitta superba) and Manus masked owl (Tyto manusi). Three other birds are endemic to Admiralty Islands but are classified as non-threatened or least concern: white-naped friarbird (Philemon albitorques), Manus monarch (Monarcha infelix) and Manus hawk owl (Ninox meeki). Birds found mainly but not exclusively on the Admiralty Islands include Melanesian megapode (Megapodius eremita), yellow-bibbed fruit-dove (Ptilinopus solomonensis), yellowish imperial-pigeon (Ducula subflavescens), pied cuckoo-dove (Reinwardtoena browni), Meek's pygmy parrot (Micropsitta meeki), black-headed white-eye (Zosterops hypoxanthus) and ebony myzomela (Myzomela pammelaena).
Mammals found only here or on nearby island groups include the large fruit bats, Admiralty flying-fox (Pteropus admiralitatum), Andersen's naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia anderseni) and Seri's sheathtail-bat (Emballonura serii) while the two pure-endemics are Admiralty Island cuscus (Spilocuscus kraemeri) and a local mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys matambuai).[1] The islands are home to two endemic Platymantis frogs (Platymantis admiraltiensis and Platymantis latro)[4] and four lizards, while the emerald green snail of Manus was the first terrestrial snail to be listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.
Along with New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands were first inhabited approximately 40,000 years[citation needed] ago, in the initial wave of migration out of Southeast Asia that also populated Australia. This early society appears to have cultivated taro, and to have deliberately introduced wild animals from New Guinea such as bandicoots and large rats. Obsidian was gathered and traded throughout the Admiralty Islands archipelago.[5]
The Lapita culture arose around 3,500 years ago, and its extent ranged from the Admiralty Islands to Tonga and Samoa. Its origins are contested, but it may well have been a product of another wave of migration from Southeast Asia. Lapita society featured renowned pottery, stilt houses, the introduction of domestic animals such as pigs, dogs, and chickens, and substantial developments in agriculture and boat technology, allowing long distance trade to develop. Lapita society, as a distinct culture and extended trade network, collapsed around 2,000 years ago.[5]
European and Japanese periods[edit]
The first European to visit the islands was the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Saavedra when trying to return from Tidore to New Spain in the summer of 1528.[6] Saavedra charted Manus as Urays la Grande.[7] Its visit was also reported in 1616 by the Dutch navigator Willem Schouten. The name 'Admiralty Islands' was devised by Captain Philip Carteret of the British Royal Navy in 1767.[8]
Between 1884 and 1914 the area was administered as a German colony. In November 1914, the islands were occupied by troops of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed from the SS Siar. A few shots fired from a machine gun on Siar over the heads of the tiny German garrison at Lorengau were the last shots fired in the battle. After the war, the islands were governed by the Commonwealth of Australia under a League of Nations mandate.[9]
Japanese troops landed on Manus Island on 7 April 1942.[10] In 1944, Japanese forces occupying the islands were attacked and defeated by Allied forces in Operation Brewer. Subsequently a large American airbase was built at Lombrum near Lorengau.[11]
Following Papuan independence in 1975, sovereignty of the Admiralty Islands was transferred from Australia to Papua New Guinea.
They became the Manus Province of the Islands Region in Papua New Guinea.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b "Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
 2. ^ UNEP World Database on Protected Areas: Ndrolowa
 3. ^ UNEP World Database on Protected Areas: Mt. Dremsel
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 5. ^ a b Spriggs, Matthew (1997). "Recent History (The Holocene)". In Denoon, Donald. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52–69.
 8. ^ Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier,. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Boston: Little, Brown and Company). p. 433. ISBN 0-7858-1307-1.
 9. ^ Mackenzie, S.S. (1927). Volume X – The Australians at Rabaul: The Capture and Administration of the German Possessions in the Southern Pacific. Australia in the War of _PHONE_ (Canberra: Australian War Memorial). pp. 2, 178, 345–366. ISBN 0-7022-1856-1.
 11. ^ Frierson, Major William C. (1990) [1946]. The Admiralties: Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division, 29 February - 18 May 1944. American Forces in Action. Washington, DC: United States Army Center of Military History.


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Comparison and Evaluation of Performance, Combustion and Particle Emissions of Diesel and Gasoline in a Military Heavy Duty 720 kW CIDI Engine Applying EGR 2020-01-2057
Investigating the impact of Gasoline fuel on diesel engine performance and emission is very important for military heavyduty combat vehicles. Gasoline has great potential as alternative fuel due to rapid depletion of petroleum reserves and stringent emission legislations, under multi fuel strategy program for military heavyduty combat vehicle. There is a known torque, horsepower and fuel economy penalty associated with the operation of a diesel engine with Gasoline fuel. On the other hand, experimental studies have suggested that Gasoline fuel has the potential for lowering exhaust emissions, especially NOx, CO, CO2, HC and particulate matter as compared to diesel fuel. Recent emission legislations also restrict the total number of nano particles emitted in addition to particulate matter, which has adverse health impact. In this research study, the effect of using Gasoline fuel was evaluated, in a heavyduty diesel engine, for performance, combustion and emissions of CO, CO2, UHC, NOx, along with smoke opacity, including particle size-numbers distribution characteristics. These were compared for Gasoline and diesel fuels by applying EGR with turbo charging at different load condition, in a 12- cylinders, 720 kW, 38.8 liters CIDI military heavyduty diesel engine. The experimental test results showed that engine performance with Gasoline fuel, was slightly lower than with diesel fuel. Gasoline fuel, with 5 % EGR rate, has produced lower exhaust emissions including 32 % lower NOx emission along with lower nano particles emission, as compared to diesel fuel with 0 % EGR rate at different load condition.
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Quantum communication theory sets the maximum rates at which information can be encoded and decoded reliably given the physical properties of the information carriers. Here we consider the problem of readout of a digital optical memory, where information is stored by means of the optical properties of the memory cells that are in turn probed by shining a laser beam on them. Interesting features arise in the regime in which the probing light has to be treated quantum mechanically. The maximum rate of reliable readout defines the quantum reading capacity, which is proven to overcome the classical reading capacity-obtained by probing with classical light-in several relevant settings. We consider a model of optical memory in which information is encoded in the (complex-valued) attenuation factor and study the effects on the reading rates of thermal and correlated noise. The latter type of noise arises when the effects of wave diffraction on the probing light beam are taken into account. We discuss the advantages of quantum reading over the classical one and show that the former is substantially more robust than the latter under thermal noise in the regime of low power per pulse.
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Cape Verde's smallest island is nestled between Sao Vincente and Sao Nicolau in the westward islands. Due to its lack of water sources no settlers have remained on the island for long, however it remains a welcome stop for local fishermen. Folklore has it-the only inhabitant on Santa Luzia is a lone wandering shepherd which can be heard tending to his flock, although this is yet to be proved!
Although the island itself does not welcome settlement, a charter boat can bring visitors to the island from the port Calhau on Sao Vincente. This usually brings keen spotters of native birds and reptiles which can sometimes be found along with a large variety of sub-aquatic species in its coastal waters.
Development on the island has always been very unlikely and now, with its status as a nature reserve, it would seem that this lost island is to be visited for its natural beauty alone.
Santa Luzia is an island of the Barlavento archipelago in Cape Verde located between São Nicolau and São Vicente, the channel of Santa Luzia separates the island of São Vicente and is 8 km long. The area is 35 km². Like all Cape Verdean islands, it island is of volcanic origin. The highest point is Monte Grande or Topona elevating 395 m, the second elevating 344 m and the third elevating 337 m, other mountain tops include Agua Doce or Agua Dolce (315 m) and the fifth tallest is Monte Espia located to the south elevating 294 m. Hills named Crioulo (also as Creoulo) is in the east and elevates 85 m and Topino da Praia elevating 19 m. Santa Luzia is 12.3 km long and 5.3 km wide.


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Grundomat pneumatic piercing tools have been providing accurate horizontal bores beneath roads, railways, and landscaping across North America and around the world for nearly 45 years. Water, gas, sewer and electrical industries have all benefited from this work horse of trenchless technology. Minimal operating space is required and the horizontal boring tool serves as a complement, and in many situations an economical alternative to, larger, more expensive directional drilling equipment.
The reciprocating stepped-cone chisel head action of the GrundomaT tool is unique because it hammers away at solid obstacles. This two-stroke action means that the piston's impact is concentrated on the reciprocating tool head for optimum boring performance.
Compressed air repeatedly propels the piston against the rear of the chisel head assembly. This first compresses the pre-tensioned steel spring which forces the chisel head assembly forward independently of the main casing to provide a pilot bore. Then, the same continuous force thrusts the main
- Chisel-tip performs pilot bore
- Stepped-conedesignandlongtoollength hold trajectory
The tool follows the pilot bore to the targeted exit, even through rocky soils and cobble. GrundomaT's stepped head design fractures and displaces rock, resulting in the directional stability of the tool. This provides for consistently on-target bores, from short to long-distance shots.


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Enrichment of catchment areas for store characterization
In this example we are going to characterize all Starbucks locations in the US by the total population covered by their catchment areas. We are going to define these catchment areas as a 3km buffer around each store.
First, let's start by visualizing all Starbucks locations in the US, extracted from Safegraph's Places dataset sample, freely available through Snowflake's Data Marketplace.
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Store locations.
To quickly explore this data, using the Analytics Toolbox, we can easily compute an aggregation of these locations using Quadkeys at resolution 15, which lets us visualize the result as a heatmap. Here is a close-up of the Manhattan area, where we can easily identify the areas of highest concentration of Starbucks stores.
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SELECT count(*) as num_stores, carto.QUADINT_BOUNDARY(qk) AS geom FROM qks GROUP BY qk
Store aggregations in quadkeys of resolution 15.
Now, let's enhance our analysis by computing a 3 km buffer around each store, using the geometry constructor module from the Analytics Toolbox:
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FROM CDA26920_STARBUCKS_CORE_PLACES_SAMPLE.PUBLIC.CORE_POI
Store locations and 3km buffers.
We can then deepen our analysis by computing the Quadkeys at resolution 15 that intersect with these buffers using the available polyfill function.
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SELECT carto.QUADINT_BOUNDARY(VALUE) AS geom
FROM qks, lateral FLATTEN(input => qk)
Quadkey polyfills of store buffers.
Next, we enrich the resulting Quadkeys with the total population and the population by gender using CARTO's Spatial Features dataset, available for free in the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Since this dataset is already delivered in Quadkeys at resolution 15, enrichment can be performed by a simple JOIN.
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SELECT carto.QUADINT_POLYFILL(
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geom_data AS(
SELECT carto.QUADINT_TOQUADKEY(VALUE::BIGINT) AS geoid, carto.QUADINT_BOUNDARY(VALUE) AS geom
FROM qks, lateral FLATTEN(input => qk)
GROUP BY VALUE
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SELECT t1.geom AS geom, population, t2.female, t2.male
FROM geom_data t1
INNER JOIN DATA_MARKETPLACE.CARTO.VIEW_DERIVED_SPATIALFEATURES_USA_QUADGRID15_V1_YEARLY_2020 t2
ON t1.geoid = t2.geoid;
By zooming into a particular area we can see the distribution of the total population (where darker colors represent higher population levels).
Enriched polyfill buffers.
Once we have this data ready, we can now calculate the total population that is within a 3km radius from each store location. This catchment analysis can be performed from start to finish with the following query:
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SELECT carto.QUADINT_POLYFILL(
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FROM CDA26920_STARBUCKS_CORE_PLACES_SAMPLE.PUBLIC.CORE_POI
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flat_qks AS(
SELECT t1.store_id, carto.QUADINT_TOQUADKEY(VALUE::BIGINT) AS geoid
FROM qks t1, lateral FLATTEN(input => qk)
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enriched_qks AS(
SELECT t1.store_id, t1.geoid, t2.population, t2.female, t2.male
FROM flat_qks t1
INNER JOIN DATA_MARKETPLACE.CARTO.VIEW_DERIVED_SPATIALFEATURES_USA_QUADGRID15_V1_YEARLY_2020 t2
ON t1.geoid = t2.geoid
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kpis_per_store AS(
SELECT store_id, SUM(population) as tot_pop, SUM(female) as tot_female, sum(male) as tot_male
FROM enriched_qks
GROUP BY store_id
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SELECT t1.store_id, t1.tot_pop, t1.tot_female, t1.tot_male, ST_POINT(LONGITUDE,LATITUDE) as geom
FROM kpis_per_store t1
INNER JOIN CDA26920_STARBUCKS_CORE_PLACES_SAMPLE.PUBLIC.CORE_POI t2
ON t1.store_id = t2.SAFEGRAPH_PLACE_ID
The result is a beautiful map visualization, where each Starbucks location is represented by a point and whose catchment is proportional to the total population within a 3km radius:
Store characterization by population covered by catchment area.


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Hi guys,
So, we are making a project where we use 3 UV sensors.
We want to get the readings of 3 sensors connected together but we want the serial monitor to show only the readings of the highest intensity of the sensors. So whenever one of the sensor is been directed towards the sun we want only that sensor's readings to show up. And we are not sure how to make the 3 sensors all in one code
This is the original code of one sensor
//Hardware pin definitions
int UVOUT = A0; //Output from the sensor
int REF_3V3 = A1; //3.3V power on the Arduino board
void setup()
 pinMode(UVOUT, INPUT);
 pinMode(REF_3V3, INPUT);
 Serial.println("ML8511 example");
void loop()
 int uvLevel = averageAnalogRead(UVOUT);
 int refLevel = averageAnalogRead(REF_3V3);
 //Use the 3.3V power pin as a reference to get a very accurate output value from sensor
 float outputVoltage = 3.3 / refLevel * uvLevel;
 float uvIntensity = mapfloat(outputVoltage, 0.99, 2.8, 0.0, 15.0); //Convert the voltage to a UV intensity level
 Serial.print("output: ");
 Serial.print("ML8511 output: ");
 Serial.print(" / ML8511 voltage: ");
 Serial.print(" / UV Intensity (mW/cm^2): ");
//Takes an average of readings on a given pin
//Returns the average
int averageAnalogRead(int pinToRead)
 byte numberOfReadings = 8;
 unsigned int runningValue = 0;
 for(int x = 0 ; x < numberOfReadings ; x++)
 runningValue += analogRead(pinToRead);
 runningValue /= numberOfReadings;
//The Arduino Map function but for floats
//From: _URL_
This is the original code of the Sensor
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Feb. 24, 2011 Why, and when, do we learn to speak the way that we do? Research from North Carolina State University on African-American children presents an unexpected finding: language use can go on a roller-coaster ride during childhood as kids adopt and abandon vernacular language patterns.
"We found that there is a 'roller-coaster effect,' featuring an ebb and flow in a child's use of vernacular English over the course of his or her language development," says Dr. Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor of English Linguistics at NC State and co-author of several recent papers describing the research. "This was totally unanticipated." Vernacular English is defined here as culturally specific speech patterns that are distinct from standard English; in this case, the vernacular is African-American English (AAE).
One implication of the finding involves education, since teachers often advocate teaching standard English early in a childhood education. "This approach does seem to work at first," Wolfram says, "but it doesn't last." In other words, if a school system wants its students to graduate high school with a strong foundation in standard English, it may have to revisit standard English later in the education curriculum.
Specifically, the researchers found that children come to school speaking English with a relatively high number of vernacular features. Then, through the first four grades of elementary school, those features are reduced, as children adopt more standard English language patterns. As the children move toward middle school, the level of vernacular rises -- though many children often reduce their use of vernacular again as they enter high school.
"This finding reveals a cyclic pattern in the use of African-American vernacular English that no one expected to see during children's language development," says Janneke Van Hofwegen, a research associate at NC State and co-author of the study. "This wasn't even a hypothesis when we began the study."
The researchers note that, while their data looked solely at African-American children, the findings may be applicable more broadly to other groups.
The research stems from the longest, and largest, study ever to examine the longitudinal development of language in African-American children. The study began in 1990, following 88 African-American children from central North Carolina in order to track their language development. The study is ongoing, with 68 of the original participants still being tracked. The data is collected by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute in Chapel Hill, N. C.
The retention rate of the participants is remarkably high, particularly given that approximately 71 percent of the children were living below the poverty line in 1990. "It's incredible, and gives us a rare opportunity to study language development in children," Wolfram says.
The study also gives researchers an impressive array of data, providing them with access to school and test data, as well as the data collected through the study's own interviews and surveys.
Researchers are currently assessing how and whether dialect use is related to literacy skills, as well as the role that mothers play in their children's use of vernacular.
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- Wolfram, Walt, Janneke Van Hofwegen, Mary Kohn, Jennifer Renn. Trajectories of Development in AAE: The First 17 Years. Proceedings of the Conference on African American Language in Popular Culture, (in press)
- Janneke Van Hofwegen, Walt Wolfram. Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2010; 14 (4): 427 DOI: 10.1111/j._PHONE_.2010.00452.x
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The program can be downloaded here download. The BMEM manual can be download here Manual.
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Background
The program deals with a mediation model specified as <jsmath>M = iM + aX + e_1</jsmath> <jsmath>Y = iY + bM + cX + e_2</jsmath> where <jsm>X</jsm>, <jsm>M</jsm>, and <jsm>Y</jsm> are input, mediator, and output variables.
The unique feature of this program is to analyze the mediation effect with missing data. Data can miss on any of the three variables. However, for obvious reasons, we require the data
 1. for each case, at least one variable is observed, and
 2. at least 10 or more cases are complete for all the three variables.
BMEM implements two types of missing data handling techinques - the pairwise deletion and the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is used together the MLE estimation method. To assess the mediation effect, either the stratified bootstrap method or the direct bootstrap method can be used to calculate three types of confidence intervals - the percentile interval, the bias-corrected (BC) interval, and the bias corrected and accelerated interval (BCa).
Files
The following files are included in the download.
 1. BMEM.exe: the exectuable program
 2. Manual.pdf: the current file
 3. active1.txt: a subset of data from the ACTIVE study
 4. active2.txt: a subset of data from the ACTIVE study
 5. mar100.txt and mar1000.txt: simulated MAR data with sample sizes 100 and 1000 (a=b=.39 and c=0)
 6. mcar100.txt and mcar1000.txt: simulated MCAR data with sample sizes 100 and 1000 (a=b=.39 and c=0)
 7. batch.txt: an example batch file to run BMEM
Acknowledgment
The program is written in C++ to analyze the meditaion effects with missing data. Two libraries are used: Newmat and newran
 - Davies, R.B. (1994) Writing a matrix package in C++. In OON-SKI'94: The second annual object-oriented numerics conference, pp 207-213. Rogue Wave Software, Corvallis.
 - Eddelbuttel, Dirk (1996) Object-oriented econometrics: matrix programming in C++ using GCC and Newmat. Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol 11, No 2, pp 199-209.
How to use
There are two ways to use BMEM – the step by step method and the batch method. For both methods, we suggest to put the data file in the same folder the the program file.
3.1 Step by step method
After double clicking on the executable file, a DOS window will pop out and require the following 7 parameters to run the program.
1. The output file name: the name of the file in which one wants to save the analysis results.
2. The data file name: the name of the data file. The data file should be a text file with the following sequence of variables, <jsm>X</jsm> , <jsm>M</jsm> , and <jsm>Y</jsm>. The missing data are should be denoted by 99999, five 9s.
3. The <jsm>\alpha</jsm> level for confidence interval. It should be a number between 0 and 1. There is no difference to input .05 or .95. BMEM automatically recognize the level for CI.
4. The random number seed. It should also be between 0 and 1. The random number seeds determine the bootstrap samples. The same analysis can be replicated using the identical random number seed.
5. The bootstrap sample size. We suggest a bootstrap sample size no less than 1000.
6. The missing data handling method. 1 for EM algorithm and 2 for the pairwise deletion method.
7. The bootstrap method. 1 for the stratified bootstrap and 2 for the direct bootstrap.
Batch method
To use batch method, one can put the seven parameters in the step by step section into a file with each parameter on one line. An example can be to create a file called batch.txt with the following contents
output.txt
input.txt
.95
.5
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Then, open the DOS windows through start –> Run… –> cmd. In the DOS window, change the directory to where BMEM is located. Then using the command BMEM.ext < batch.txt to run the analysis. The batch file here is saved in the same directory as BMEM. The above batch file conducts the analysis using the EM algorithm and stratified bootstrap and constructs the 95% CIs. All the output is saved in the file output.txt.
4 Example output
The following output is from the analysis of the attached ACTIVE data (active2.txt). There are several important parts of the output.
The first part is the missing data patterns and sample size of each pattern.
The second part is the results from logistic regression on the test of missingness. For any pair of variable AB, it tests whether A can predict the missing of B. If an abosulte number obtained is larger than 2, one may say the missing data are not MCAR. However, one may not be able to conclude MAR. However, even all numbers are less than 2, one still cannot conlude MCAR.
The third part is the estiamted parameters when the mediator is not considered.
The fourth part is the estimated parameters when the mediator is included in the model.
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| Program name: BMEM.exe (V3.0) |
| See manual.pdf for more information |
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The BootMed program is run on Fri Mar 20 15:48:46 2009
The output file is: active2.txt
The data file is: active2.txt
The alpha level is: 0.95
The random number seed is: .5
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| Missing Data Pattern |
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Pattern X M Y Size
1 o o o 63
2 o o x 3
3 o x o 13
4 o x x 1
NOTE: o: observed; x: missing
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| Testing Missing Mechanism |
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 X M Y
X -1.06344 -0.933186
M N/A -0.469486
Y N/A 0.911532
NOTE: N/A means no missing data for B in the pair AB
 Magnitude larger than 2 can be considered as not MCAR
The bootstrap sample size is: 1000
The missing data are handled by EM algorithm.
The boostrap method is stratified bootstrap.
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| Estimated parameters and confidence interval |
| EM & STRATIFIED BOOTSTRAP |
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| Model without mediator |
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Are You Purchasing Wood Pellets? What Should You Consider?
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If you are going to buy wood pellets, then it is important to consider some essential things. Some people are making purchases on a random basis whereas others are paying proper attention to some vital factors. You should consider the brand of pellets as well as many other things that are playing a significant role. In the further post, you can easily read about these factors to get assistance for purchasing your buying process easier. With the help of this, you can buy the best wood pellets that burn cleanly and produce more heat.
1. Ash
You may all know the fact that various types of pellets produce different amounts of ash. It is also an important thing that should be considered while buying wood pellet. The amount of ash depends on the stuff that has been used in the manufacturing process of pellets. If the manufacturer is using the trees, bark, and sand into the process, then it may produce more ash. It can also create a lot of issues for you while emptying or cleaning the hopper.
2. Stove Adjustment
You should also consider the type of pellet stove that you are using while making purchases for the wood pellets. If you are using an expensive stove, then it will provide you good flexibility and efficiency. These expensive stoves do not burn lower grades of pellets, and it is one of the important things that you should take into account. After considering the stove adjustment, you can take your steps forward to buy wood pellets.
3. Moisture Content
The moisture content is also an important thing that you should look for while selecting the best wood pellets. Make sure the wood pellets that you are going to buy contain less moisture content. If you are still confused, then you should check whether the wood pellets have less than 6% moisture content or not. After paying attention to this factor, you can easily make your final purchases for the best wood pellets.
4. Quality
While going to buy wood pellets, you should also pay attention to its quality. In order to get an idea about the quality of the wood pellets, you can make a judgment on the basis of its appearance. If the wood pellet has the uniform length, then it is good for the stable pellet mill performance. The good quality wood pellet can be identified with its look. If the pellets are smooth and shining, then you can buy it without worrying about its quality.
5. Heat Output
Most of the people always avoid checking the heat output but is not good. You should try to focus on this factor for making final purchases. You should always buy the pellets that come with the higher heat output ratings. The heat output is mainly measured in BTU that is known as British thermal units. You can buy the best wood pellets from dkbrænde træpiller or other online sellers at reasonable rates.


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Global Snow Drought Hot Spots and Characteristics
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, with support from NIDIS, have developed a new framework for characterizing snow droughts around the world. Using the framework to analyze conditions from 1980 to 2018, the researchers found a 28 percent increase in the length of intensified snow-water deficits in the western United States during the second half of the study period. Analysis using the new framework shows prolonged snow droughts in California, Oregon, Washington and other Western states, and, to a lesser extent, Eastern Russia and Europe over the nearly four-decade term studied.
For more information, please contact Adam Lang (_EMAIL_).


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Mission Statement and Aims
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program's mission is to provide substantial clinical experience in all phases of recovery from addictive disorders across a variety of settings (academic, acute inpatient care, residential care, intensive outpatient care, office-based care, emergency care, and community care) and health-care systems.
The program aims for the fellows are as follows:
- Expert evaluation and management of both common and less common addictive disorders.
- Competent and effective consultations for non-specialist and non-psychiatry providers.
- Comfort using and citing primary sources for delivery of evidence-based care.
- Education of learners at various levels of training, including 3rd and 4th year Geisel medical students, DHMC and UVM psychiatry residents, internal medicine residents, pain medicine fellows, headache/neurology fellows, social work interns, psychology interns, and nursing students.
- Achieving competence at delivery of medication-assisted therapy including methadone at opioid treatment centers, office-based buprenorphine treatment, monthly injectable treatment including naltrexone and buprenorphine, and medications for treatment of alcohol use disorder.
- Managing withdrawal of addictive substances with both pharmacological and non-pharmacological support.
- Developing competence and confidence at diagnosis and treatment of co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
- Delivering evidence-based group therapy. Leading a multi-disciplinary team of providers in delivery of addiction services.
- Engaging in scholarly projects in coordination with the program director and appropriate faculty mentors.
- Developing confidence and competence in meeting the needs of adolescents with addictive disorders and co-occurring psychiatric illness.


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There are many kinds of hydropower plants and precision power generation systems, and the potential of hydropower generation is far from exhausted. Advanced turbine and control technology can precisely adjust stator, impeller or nozzle and deflector according to power requirements and water level. Magnetostrictive straight line Displacement sensor These technologies help to optimize processes reliably.
The turbine needs to run smoothly and evenly. In order to make the Kaplan turbine run smoothly and evenly, the position of the guide vane can be adjusted according to the need. Using germanjet magnetostrictive line Displacement sensor The 18 series controls the turbine reliably and safely.
■ extremely reliable
■ no reference operation after voltage interruption
■ durable, non-contact
Efficient power adaptation
In addition to adjusting the guide vanes, the turbine efficiency of the Kaplan turbine can also be adjusted by the runner blades for water flow. DMC integrated into axis magnetostrictive displacement sensor Provides optimal impeller regulation and efficient output control.
■ high protection level
It is installed in the hydraulic cylinder
In a Pelton turbine, the speed of the impeller and the resulting output are controlled by a nozzle in the nozzle. The pressure at some inlets is as high as 200 bar, so it must be adjusted quickly and reliably.
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In the steampunk genre, I was wondering if some kind of steam powered death ray could be done. After a couple of search on google, here's what I found. It seems astronomers observe natural masers in space. The article mention a 1.3cm wavelength with water vapour at 1000K:
Once we have a maser, perhaps we can pump a laser. Imagine: a steampunk laser powered by steam!
Applied to rockets, you'll have steampunk space exploration!
Maybe it's not practical, but it may inspire some good fiction.


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Highly efficient and multidimensional extraction of targets from complex matrices using aptamer-driven recognition
aptamer, adsorbent, selectivity, separation, extraction
ABSTRACT Adsorbents are widely employed in both fundamental and applied research areas such as separation technology, biotechnology, and environmental science. Selectivity and reusability are two most important requirements for adsorbents. Aptamers exhibit perfect selectivity and easy regeneration, which make them uniquely effective adsorption materials. Herein, we have rationally designed novel aptamer-based adsorbents and investigated their performance in extraction/ separation of targets from an aqueous solution. These adsorbents can selectively extract targets from complicated sample matrices containing background compounds. Moreover, they can also be easily recycled without a significant loss of adsorption capacity. Notably, the adsorbents did not affect the activity of isolated biological samples, revealing their potential for the purification/separation of biomolecules. Composite adsorbents were constructed using aptamer-based adsorbents and a porous polymer, displaying highly efficient target separation from aqueous solution. Finally, separation columns were constructed, and targets in the aqueous solution were efficiently separated by these columns. The aptamerbased adsorbents described here exhibit great promise for potential applications in separation technology, biotechnology, and environment-related areas.
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Life After Sepsis
Now that you or someone you care about has survived sepsis, you may have many questions about what comes next. According to statistics, there are more than 1.4 million sepsis survivors every year in the United States alone. Many who survive are left with life-changing challenges.
Some of the long-lasting effects of sepsis are obvious, such as missing limbs or organ dysfunction, like kidney failure. How long it takes for the body's organs to begin working properly again varies widely between people. Other after effects of sepsis are less obvious, such as memory loss or the inability to do simple arithmetic.
There is so much that we don't know yet about sepsis and we don't have many hard answers. But as sepsis becomes more present in the news and as more people ask and talk about it, using the word, it is being noticed. As attention increases, through efforts by the general public and by Sepsis Alliance, we will get more answers.
In September 2010, the Society of Critical Care Medicine in the United States held a conference to discuss issues relating to rehabilitation for patients recovering from severe illnesses, like sepsis. Dr. Carl Flatley, founder of Sepsis Alliance, participated. The rehabilitation – or after care – is needed not only in the hospital environment, but at home as part of community care.
Through conferences like this, experts are learning about how survivors need to be helped following critical illnesses. As medical technology improves and saves more lives, this issue will only continue to grow.
The conference participants concluded that there is an urgent need to address the long-term needs of survivors of severe illnesses, like sepsis, for both the patients and their families. This includes raising awareness and education, identifying barriers that may get in the way of post-intensive care rehabilitation, and identifying research gaps and resources that need to be addressed in order to improve long-term care for survivors.
Here are some of the more common issues and questions that are asked by people who have had sepsis or who know someone who had it.
Life After Sepsis - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Life After Sepsis - Amputations
Life After Sepsis FAQs


Using full-screen mode
This is an experimental technology
Because this technology's specification has not stabilized, check the compatibility table for the proper prefixes to use in various browsers. Also note that the syntax and behavior of an experimental technology is subject to change in future versions of browsers as the spec changes.
The fullscreen API provides an easy way for web content to be presented using the user's entire screen. This article provides information about using this API.
Note: This API is early in the standardization process. Although both Gecko and Google Chrome have implementations, they are not currently mutually-compatible, and neither implements the current draft of the specification. For that reason, at least in Firefox, it isn't enabled by default in Firefox 9, but is in Firefox 10. Because the specification is currently an extremely early draft, this documentation is subject to be entirely wrong, and is very preliminary. Once the specification has settled down a bit, the documentation will be cleaned up to be more browser-agnostic.
The API lets you easily direct the browser to make an element and its children, if any, occupy the fullscreen, eliminating all browser user interface and other applications from the screen for the duration.
Activating fullscreen mode
Given an element that you'd like to present in fullscreen mode (such as a <video>, for example), you can present it in fullscreen mode by simply calling its requestFullscreen() method; this method is implemented in Gecko as element.mozRequestFullScreen(), in Trident as element.msRequestFullscreen() and in WebKit as element.webkitRequestFullscreen().
Note: The specification uses the label, "Fullscreen" as in "requestFullscreen" or "fullscreenEnabled" - without a capital 's'. The implementation described here and other prefixed implementations may use a capital 'S'.
Let's consider this <video> element:
<video controls id="myvideo">
 <source src="somevideo.webm"></source>
 <source src="somevideo.mp4"></source>
</video>
We can put that video into fullscreen mode with script like this:
var elem = document.getElementById("myvideo");
if (elem.requestFullscreen) {
 elem.requestFullscreen();
} else if (elem.msRequestFullscreen) {
 elem.msRequestFullscreen();
} else if (elem.mozRequestFullScreen) {
 elem.mozRequestFullScreen();
} else if (elem.webkitRequestFullscreen) {
 elem.webkitRequestFullscreen();
}
Presentation differences
It's worth noting a key difference here between the Gecko and WebKit implementations at this time: Gecko automatically adds CSS rules to the element to stretch it to fill the screen: "width: 100%; height: 100%". WebKit doesn't do this; instead, it centers the fullscreen element at the same size in a screen that's otherwise black. To get the same fullscreen behavior in WebKit, you need to add your own "width: 100%; height: 100%;" CSS rules to the element yourself:
:-webkit-full-screen #myvideo {
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
}
On the other hand, if you're trying to emulate WebKit's behavior on Gecko, you need to place the element you want to present inside another element, which you'll make fullscreen instead, and use CSS rules to adjust the inner element to match the appearance you want.
Notification
When fullscreen mode is successfully engaged, the document which contains the document receives a mozfullscreenchange event. When fullscreen mode is exited, the document again receives a mozfullscreenchange event. Note that the mozfullscreenchange event doesn't provide any information itself as to whether the document is entering or exiting fullscreen mode, but if the document has a non null mozFullScreenElement, you know you're in fullscreen mode.
When a fullscreen request fails
It's not guaranteed that you'll be able to switch into fullscreen mode. For example, <iframe> elements have the mozallowfullscreen attribute (webkitallowfullscreen, etc) in order to opt-in to allowing their content to be displayed in fullscreen mode. In addition, certain kinds of content, such as windowed plug-ins, cannot be presented in fullscreen mode. Attempting to put an element which can't be displayed in fullscreen mode (or the parent or descendant of such an element) won't work. Instead, the element which requested fullscreen will receive a mozfullscreenerror event. When a fullscreen request fails Firefox will log an error message to the Web Console explaining why the request failed.
Getting out of full screen mode
The user always has the ability to exit fullscreen mode of their own accord; see Things your users want to know. You can also do so programmatically by calling the exitFullscreen() method; this is implemented in Gecko as mozCancelFullScreen(), WebKit as webkitExitFullscreen(), and Trident as msExitFullscreen().
Other information
The document provides some additional information that can be useful when developing fullscreen web applications:
fullscreenElement
The fullscreenElement attribute tells you the element that's currently being displayed fullscreen. If this is non-null, the document is in fullscreen mode. If this is null, the document is not in fullscreen mode.
fullscreenEnabled
The fullscreenEnabled attribute tells you whether or not the document is currently in a state that would allow fullscreen mode to be requested.
Things your users want to know
You'll want to be sure to let your users know that they can press the ESC key (or F11) to exit fullscreen mode.
In addition, navigating to another page, changing tabs, or switching to another application (using, for example, Alt-Tab) while in fullscreen mode exits fullscreen mode as well.
Example
In this example, a video is presented in a web page. Pressing the Return or Enter key lets the user toggle between windowed and fullscreen presentation of the video.
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Watching for the Enter key
When the page is loaded, this code is run to set up an event listener to watch for the 'enter' key.
document.addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
 if (e.keyCode == 13) {
 toggleFullScreen();
 }
}, false);
Toggling fullscreen mode
This code is called when the user hits the Enter key, as seen above.
function toggleFullScreen() {
 if (!document.fullscreenElement && // alternative standard method
 !document.mozFullScreenElement && !document.webkitFullscreenElement && !document.msFullscreenElement ) { // current working methods
 if (document.documentElement.requestFullscreen) {
 document.documentElement.requestFullscreen();
 } else if (document.documentElement.msRequestFullscreen) {
 document.documentElement.msRequestFullscreen();
 } else if (document.documentElement.mozRequestFullScreen) {
 document.documentElement.mozRequestFullScreen();
 } else if (document.documentElement.webkitRequestFullscreen) {
 document.documentElement.webkitRequestFullscreen(Element.ALLOW_KEYBOARD_INPUT);
 }
 } else {
 if (document.exitFullscreen) {
 document.exitFullscreen();
 } else if (document.msExitFullscreen) {
 document.msExitFullscreen();
 } else if (document.mozCancelFullScreen) {
 document.mozCancelFullScreen();
 } else if (document.webkitExitFullscreen) {
 document.webkitExitFullscreen();
 }
 }
}
This starts by looking at the value of the fullscreenElement attribute on the document (checking it prefixed with both moz, ms, and webkit). If it's null, the document is currently in windowed mode, so we need to switch to fullscreen mode. Switching to fullscreen mode is done by calling either element.mozRequestFullScreen() msRequestFullscreen()or webkitRequestFullscreen(), depending on which is available.
If fullscreen mode is already active (fullscreenElement is non-null), we call document.mozCancelFullScreen(), msExitFullscreen or webkitExitFullscreen(), again depending on which browser is in use.
Browser compatibility
Although Gecko , Trident, and WebKit implement a draft of this API, there are some subtle differences. This document doesn't necessarily try to call them all into focus. The article will


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1. Find a quiet location with as little background noise as possible.
2. Place the camera close to the person being recorded - about 2 - 3 feet away will give a good view of the face and upper body. This is important for or hand and body gestures, which are part of language too.
3. When recording two or more people having a conversation, try to place the camera in the middle, about 2 3 feet away. Make sure everybody being recorded is in the frame of the camera view.
4. Try not to move the camera around, or back and forth between people in a conversation. Rather, place the camera so everyone is in view.
5. Speakers try not to move around too much while being recorded. Some movement is okay, but you want to make sure you are always in the camera view so you can be seen and heard clearly.
6. If the person being recorded would like to demonstrate or point to something (like a wordless book), move the camera back so that both the speaker and object are in view. A view of what is in the speakers nearby environment is important information too!
7. Try to have the recording be in the native language as much as possible avoid going back and forth between languages if you can.
8. Please start all recordings with this script (read by each speaker):
9. Here are some ideas for things to talk about:
10. You can make and upload as many recordings as you like. Each video should be 5 10 minutes in length.
11. Dont edit the video upload it as is.
12. Last of all, remember to press the record button!
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AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
NAME
AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
SYNOPSIS
 autosplit($file, $dir, $keep, $check, $modtime);
 autosplit_lib_modules(@modules);
DESCRIPTION
This function will split up your program into files that the AutoLoader module can handle. It is used by both the standard perl libraries and by the MakeMaker utility, to automatically configure libraries for autoloading.
The autosplit interface splits the specified file into a hierarchy rooted at the directory $dir. It creates directories as needed to reflect class hierarchy, and creates the file autosplit.ix. This file acts as both forward declaration of all package routines, and as timestamp for the last update of the hierarchy.
The remaining three arguments to autosplit govern other options to the autosplitter.
$keep
If the third argument, $keep, is false, then any pre-existing *.al files in the autoload directory are removed if they are no longer part of the module (obsoleted functions). $keep defaults to 0.
$check
The fourth argument, $check, instructs autosplit to check the module currently being split to ensure that it does include a use specification for the AutoLoader module, and skips the module if AutoLoader is not detected. $check defaults to 1.
$modtime
Lastly, the $modtime argument specifies that autosplit is to check the modification time of the module against that of the autosplit.ix file, and only split the module if it is newer. $modtime defaults to 1.
Typical use of AutoSplit in the perl MakeMaker utility is via the command-line with:
 perl -e 'use AutoSplit; autosplit($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1], 0, 1, 1)'
Defined as a Make macro, it is invoked with file and directory arguments; autosplit will split the specified file into the specified directory and delete obsolete .al files, after checking first that the module does use the AutoLoader, and ensuring that the module is not already currently split in its current form (the modtime test).
The autosplit_lib_modules form is used in the building of perl. It takes as input a list of files (modules) that are assumed to reside in a directory lib relative to the current directory. Each file is sent to the autosplitter one at a time, to be split into the directory lib/auto.
In both usages of the autosplitter, only subroutines defined following the perl __END__ token are split out into separate files. Some routines may be placed prior to this marker to force their immediate loading and parsing.
Multiple packages
As of version 1.01 of the AutoSplit module it is possible to have multiple packages within a single file. Both of the following cases are supported:
 package NAME;
 __END__
 sub AAA { ... }
 package NAME::option1;
 sub BBB { ... }
 package NAME::option2;
 sub BBB { ... }
 package NAME;
 __END__
 sub AAA { ... }
 sub NAME::option1::BBB { ... }
 sub NAME::option2::BBB { ... }
DIAGNOSTICS
AutoSplit will inform the user if it is necessary to create the top-level directory specified in the invocation. It is preferred that the script or installation process that invokes AutoSplit have created the full directory path ahead of time. This warning may indicate that the module is being split into an incorrect path.
AutoSplit will warn the user of all subroutines whose name causes potential file naming conflicts on machines with drastically limited (8 characters or less) file name length. Since the subroutine name is used as the file name, these warnings can aid in portability to such systems.
Warnings are issued and the file skipped if AutoSplit cannot locate either the __END__ marker or a ''package Name;''-style specification.
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How to Write an Interior Design Concept Statement
What Is a Design Concept Statement?
Carefully consider your interior design concept statement.
Carefully consider your interior design concept statement.
Each designer has their own way of composing and formatting an interior design concept statement. Just make sure you include a few essential pieces of information. You will become more confident in your ability as you do more proposals. Follow these basic pointers and your concept statement will surely impress!
Keep It Simple
Address Client Requests
Tailor your interior design concept statement to meet specific client requests.
Tailor your interior design concept statement to meet specific client requests.
Things to Avoid
Helpful Resources
Questions & Answers
Question: How do I write an interior design concept statement?
Answer: Do an online search for concept statement samples that will help you create your own.
Question: What are the types of concepts in interior design?
Answer: Design concepts are the central ideas around all the elements of a design project. In a simpler way it is the cohesive thread that binds all the design elements, such as furniture, color, upholstery, architecture and other materials.
Question: What kinds of concepts are involved in interior design?
Answer: Interior design concepts communicate design ideas to a client, like utilizing a mood board. Concepts communicate a theme, personality or style that include color, materials, texture, depth, furnishings, lighting, accessories, etc.
Question: How can you write an interior design concept about merging natural and modern elements?
Answer: It is fairly easy because of today's modern organic trend. With roots in Scandinavian design, modern style concepts are extremely simplistic and minimal. Furnishings and decor focus on the use of natural materials, earthy colors and clean, modern lines with lack of fussy detail.
Question: What are the differences between interior design concepts and themes?
Answer: A concept is the inception of an interior design project. It consists of a plan that includes color, textiles, hard surfaces, furnishings, the overall style and particular feel of the client's space. On the other hand, a theme is a specific type of decor much like a room full of nautical items. Sometimes theme rooms are often tacky, but if it's done with a subtle hand, it can be quite tasteful.
Question: What are concept statement pointers?
Answer: The interior design concepts help to guide the designer through each stage of the design process. These concepts are a combination of trends and standard interior design principles that assist the designer to successfully complete the interior design project.
Question: Why do designers use concept statements?
Answer: Concept statements are one of the most important tools. That's the way you can win client bids by writing a strong design concept statement. It gives a prospective client the visual elements of your design ideas for the space and what needs to be changed or updated. that they want to be changed or upgraded. It also provides you the chance to detail your inspiration and vision in a way that differentiates your style from competing interior designers for the same project.
Question: How to explain a concept statement?
Answer: An interior design concept statement is a project proposal. It demonstrates what you are going to do and how you are going to design and complete the project. Some details have to change depending on the designer or client that were the ideas from the concept statement. The statement's purpose is how to persuade the client you are right for the project.
Question: What is a distinctive concept for an administrative office design?
Answer: There's nothing like being inspired by great design. Colors, decor, furniture and harmony design helps your mood and work. It's important to embrace the space you spend all day from 8 to 5.
Question: What kind of design concepts are involved for retirement age couples?
Answer: Designers and architects create concepts for the aging population with inventive ideas that aid in mobility and ease of use. Through proper lighting and designs that optimize mobility that remodeling house plans can make it functional for seniors to age in place during the retirement years.
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Linda Chechar (author) from Arizona on August 12, 2020:
Interior Mart, glad that you enjoyed the information in my article.
Linda Chechar (author) from Arizona on April 09, 2020:
Jyotish Sevak, these are ways to create concept statements. There are also several good Q&As.
Jyotish Sevak on April 09, 2020:
I like the article and Q & A page. However inclusion of few examples of written concept statements would have been better.
Linda Chechar (author) from Arizona on January 22, 2020:
Isla, glad you liked the article!
Isla Fanning on January 21, 2020:
Really good idea.
Linda Chechar (author) from Arizona on June 13, 2019:
Melissa J., so glad you enjoyed this article and helped with writing the design concepts.
Melissa J. on June 13, 2019:
As a professional Interior Designer I've always struggled to write design concepts. However, with practice I'm able to write them to clearly articulate the ideas my client and I have developed. Your suggestion to research online is spot on, that's how I've manage to write many of my design concepts. Lots of research! Thank you for writing this article, it's well written and I found it very helpful.
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hi!! I want to write a design and concept statement for bus stop shelter.my all design is regarding nature. plz help me to write the statement
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A small DB2 SQL quiz - why the SQL error?
I have been playing with some new DB2 10.1 features and thought that a small SQL quiz at the beginning of the week is appropriate. Consider the following SQL statements and the related output:
db2 => insert into ih values(1,'a')
DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a
valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it returned:
SQL0407N Assignment of a NULL value to a NOT NULL column "TBSPACEID=2,
TABLEID=257, COLNO=2" is not allowed. SQLSTATE=23502
db2 => select * from ih
ID S
 0 record(s) selected.
db2 => describe select * from ih
 Column Information
 Number of columns: 2
 SQL type Type length Column name Name length
 496 INTEGER 4 ID 2
 449 VARCHAR 30 S 1
How was the table defined or why is it giving an error? Any guesses? Post your answer and explanation as comment. I will post the solution in a couple days. [Edit: done and linked]