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Here you can find interesting sights in Baelen, Belgium. Click on a marker on the map to view details about the sight. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 12 sights are available in Baelen, Belgium.List of cities in Belgium Sightseeing Tours in Baelen
1. Kirche zur Unbefleckten Empfängnis (Klosterkirche)
Immaculate Conception Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Uben, Liege Province, Belgium. Therefore, in some sources and population and travel guides, it is simply called Eupen Abbey Church or Capuchinerkirche Eupen. Its French name is "St. Mary's" and it is the religious center of the French-speaking residents of the city. The present church building was built between 1773 and 1776 according to the plan of Milan architect Joseph Moretti who lived in Aachen. After secularization and the departure of capuchin monkeys in 1797, the former monastery building was handed over to the city and used as Uben's town hall in 1863. The church has been part of the Eupen-Kettenis Diocese Association of Parish 05 in the Diocese of Liege since the 1990s and has been listed as a historic monument along with the former monastery building since 1983.
2. Werthkapelle - Kapelle St. Lambertus
Lambertus Chapel, also known as Werthkapelle, in Uben, Liege, Belgium, is one of the oldest church buildings in the city. It was built in 1690 in Waite Square, Uben, and was taken over by St Nicholas Parish in Liege Parish in 1730. The chapel has been dedicated to the ascension of the Virgin since 1729 and was restored under the protection of saints around 1750. Lamberts. As early as 1949, the chapel, which has been modified and restored many times, gained the status of an object worthy of protection, and has been a simultaneous church of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox communities of Eupens since 2014. It has been part of the Diocese of Eupen-Kettenis in the Diocese of Liege since the 1990s.
3. Sankt Nikolaus Pfarrkirche
St. Nicholas Parish Church is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra. Today's church is close to Market Square, and its unique twin towers are considered one of the city's landmarks. Built between 1720 and 1726, it was designed in Renaissance style by Aachen city architect Laurenz Mefferdatis. The interior is decorated in the Baroque style of Liege and Aachen, and the most precious artwork is a huge high altar designed by John Joseph Coven between 1740 and 1744. It has been part of the Parish Association of Eupen-Kettenis in the Parish of Liege 05 since the 1990s and has been listed as a historic monument since 1939.
4. Haus Mennicken
Mennicken House, also known as Signon House and Grand Ry House, is a historic building in Werthplatz, the city of Eupen, Belgium. The former merchant's house was built in 1744, probably for the Grande Leigh family based on a design by John Joseph Coven, and its appearance has barely changed since then. In 1880, after countless owners, the house was finally passed from the Dali family to the Mennick family and named after them. Today, this building was built for this building. Signon House was declared a cultural monument on 15 March 1983, also known as Signon House. It can be traced back to the Signon family, its present owner.
5. Kloster Heidberg Bildungs- und Begegnungszentrum der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens
Heidberg Abbey is a Christian pedagogical educational institution in Eupen and the only testimony to monastic building culture of the 18th century in the German-speaking Community. The complex was built in several phases between 1700 and 1727 as a motherhouse by the Order of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Recollektinnen, founded in 1623, and from 1854 instead of the originally existing small chapel with the Sacred Heart Church in neo-Gothic style. In 1966, the site was abandoned as the mother house of the Order and the administration was moved to Ramersdorf near Bonn.
Eupen-Neu-Moresnet Church of Peace is a church in Eupen-Neu-Moresnet in the province of Liege, Belgium. It was built in neo-Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 according to the plan of architect Theodore August Stein. It was completed on December 6th, 1855. Friedenskirche, pulpit, fence and 22 historic tombstones were listed as historic monuments in 1987. In addition, the pneumatic organ manufactured in the workshop of organ builder Eberhard Friedrich Volcker in 1907 was also the first protected organ of its kind in Belgium in 1996.
7. Sitz des Ministerpräsidenten der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens
Haus Gospertstraße 42 is a former civic residence in Eupen, a German-speaking community (DG) in eastern Belgium. It was built in the first half of the 18th century. Built in the 19th century and in Baroque style, it was listed as a historical site in 1983. The complex has been home to the offices of Euregio Maas-Rhein and the Prime Minister of the German-speaking Community since 2009. The impressive community garden, numbered 40, was separately listed as a "protected landscape" in 1984.
8. Haus Grand Ry
Grand Ry House, also known as Alte Post, is the house of a former fabric maker at 32 Klötzerbahn in the city of Eupen, Belgium. The building, built between 1761 and 1763 by Nicholas Joseph von Grande Ri under the plan of John Joseph Coven, was owned by his family until the Imperial Post moved in 1893. The house was used as a post office until 1978, and after several years of extensive restoration work, it became the seat of government for the German-speaking community in 1984.
9. Österreichisches Konsulat
Haus Kaperberg 8, also known as Haus Sternickel, is a former town house in Eupen in the German-speaking Community (DG) of East Belgium. It was built in 1812 in the style of the Empire and placed under monument protection in 1983. The building complex was the seat of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community from 1973 to 2013 and has since housed the State Archives in Eupen.
Haus Marktplatz 8 is a former civic residence in Eupen, a German-speaking community in eastern Belgium. It was built in 1750 in Baroque style and was listed as a historical site in 1984. The headquarters of the daily Grenz-Echo has been there since 1950.
11. Kapelle St. Michael
St. Michael's Chapel is a small chapel built in 1727, located in Auburn, eastern Belgium. It was donated by the then Lord of Stockham Castle, Count Eugen Horn von Cotiers, and has been listed as a historic monument since 1975.
Eupen's war memorial was designed by Munich sculptor Rudolf Henn to commemorate soldiers killed in the German War of 1866 and the Franco-German War of 1870/1871. It was completed on September 1, 1912.
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Unveiled today (Jan 17), a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Estonia-based Elcogen, Uljin-County and Next Energy Corporation to install an electrolyser with a nuclear plant for hydrogen production.
Under the terms of the MoU, a 200MW solid oxide electrolysis stack will be developed and implemented into the Hanul Nuclear Plant, regarded as 'close to Korea's largest', with an estimated cost of around 75 MEUR, Elcogen said.
This could be used as an exhibit in showcasing the potential that nuclear power has in producing large quantities of hydrogen to support the increasing demand for hydrogen.
Whilst also growing demand for hydrogen, nuclear-based production will also enable more companies to transition to cleaner hydrogen practices with more entering the market.
Uljin-County has also signed an agreement with several organisations including Korea's Atomic Energy Research Institute, Hyundai Engineering, and Pohang Institute of Industrial Sciences, to create a large-scale hydrogen production complex utilising nuclear power.
Enn Õunpuu, founder and CEO of Elcogen, said, "The signing of an MoU with Uljin-County and Next Energy further endorses and demonstrates the confidence in our technology to deliver large-scale hydrogen production.
"The emergence of hydrogen as a means to produce clean energy aligns closely with Elcogen's mission – to enable efficient and emission-free distributed power generation and hydrogen production for a cleaner future.
"We are very proud that Uljin-County and Next Energy have selected Elcogen to supply the hydrogen- producing technology for the complex and we look forward to working with them in delivering this project."
With the breakthrough of hydrogen technology in various decarbonisation strategies across the world, nuclear reactors could be given a new lease of life by providing almost perfect conditions to produce green hydrogen on a massive scale.
It is not often you find two products that, ethically, are at opposite ends of the spectrum but complement each other so significantly. The reputational facelift that nuclear power has needed since it was first introduced in the last century could be realised with the introduction of technologies that utilise by-products of nuclear power to generate alternative fuel sources such as hydrogen.
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Four O'Clocks were one of my Grandfather's favorites. He enjoyed the bright
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Legislative circonscriptions (Luxembourg)
Electoral law in Luxembourg is dictated by Article 51, 52, and 53 of the constitution. The number of deputies is set at sixty, and boundaries of the circonscriptions are based on administrative, cantonal boundaries. As a result, the circonscriptions have greatly differing populations, so each elects a different number of deputies, dependent upon the share of the national population.
Suffrage is universal and compulsory amongst adult resident citizens not otherwise disqualified. Luxembourg's electoral system is a form of the Hagenbach-Bischoff System (a variant of the d'Hondt method), which allocates seats to party lists by proportion of the votes won in each circonscription. Under Luxembourg's system, each citizen may vote for as many candidates as there are deputies elected from that constituency. As a result, the national popular vote has no significance, as it reflects only the number of votes cast, and not the number of voters or the number of deputies elected.
There are four legislative circonscriptions in Luxembourg:
- Centre includes the cantons of Luxembourg and Mersch, both of which are in the district of Luxembourg. As of 2005[update], Centre has an estimated population of 151,166 and elects 21 deputies.
- Est (English: East) is coterminous with the district of Grevenmacher, and includes the cantons of Echternach, Grevenmacher and Remich. As of 2005[update], Est has an estimated population of 53,842 and elects 7 deputies.
- Nord (English: North) is coterminous with the district of Diekirch, and includes the cantons of Clervaux, Diekirch, Redange, Vianden, and Wiltz. As of 2005[update], Nord has an estimated population of 70,826 and elects 9 deputies.
- Sud (English: South) includes the cantons of Capellen and Esch-sur-Alzette, both of which are in the district of Luxembourg. As of 2005[update], Sud has an estimated population of 184,256 and elects 23 deputies.
- (French) Constitution et droits de l'homme. 25 November 2004. Service central de legislation. URL accessed 9 May 2006.
- Constitution, Article 51(3).
- Constitution, Article 51(6).
- Council of State, 15 July 1993.
- Constitution, Articles 52(1), 52(2).

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I have send an Encrypted email to Lotus notes in-box, If I access that email from my local Its giving true, If the same email is running different system Its giving false. Is it setting issue? My code look like logger.debug("This Email is encrypted? "+document.isEncrypted()); my Local logger is printing "This Email is encrypted? true" If i run the same email form some other system its printing "This Email is encrypted? false" This is the document properties. Field Name: Encrypt. Data Type: Text Data Length: 1 bytes Seq Num: 1 Dup Item ID: 0 Field Flags: SUMMARY
I don't know My code is behaving differently in different places.
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The isEncrypted() property is not related to the Encrypt field. That field is just a UI switch. The isEncrypted() property is based on the $Seal item, or on SMIME content if the message is in MIME format.
There are two questions that are probably related to what you are seeing:
 - Are you using two different Notes ID files to read the message?
 - Are you using the same version of Lotus Notes on both systems?
If you open an encrypted message in the Notes API, and your current Notes ID file contains the correct private key to decrypt the message, then the message is automatically decrypted. This happens in a layer down below the LotusScrpt and Java APIs, so these APIs see that the document is not encrypted and return false. But apparently IBM changed this in version 8.5.2. Here's a link that reports that in 8.5.2 the isEncrypted() will return true. It seems that IBM has fixed the code so that it now knows the right answer even though the automatic decryption was already done.
And of course, if you open an encrypted message in the Notes API using a Notes ID file that doesn't contain the correct private key to decrypt the message, IsEncrypted() will always return true.
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Thanks for replying Richard. I am using same notes id for reading the message. Yes there is two different versions. I am using lotus 8.5 and my testing system has lotus 8.0 on that. Is it version issue? – Sarma Oct 1 '12 at 16:55
This post on the IBM DeveloperWorks forum indicates that it is not a version problem until 8.5.2: www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/… – Richard Schwartz Oct 1 '12 at 19:22
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UGA graduate student wins Singularity University scholarship to grow food indoors
April 30, 2012Print
Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia doctoral student Erico Rolim de Mattos envisions a world where exploding human populations, global climate change and land overdevelopment has rendered mankind incapable of producing enough food to sustain humanity. This scenario is a very real possibility, and it has captured the minds of specialists from organizations like NASA and the United Nations.
Mattos has an idea that may help solve the problem, and it recently won him a $30,000 scholarship to an intensive 10-week graduate studies program at Singularity University, a Silicon Valley ideas incubator that seeks to solve the planet's most pressing challenges using advanced technologies.
He proposes the use of LED lights and advanced computer monitoring systems to provide artificial light in structures known as vertical farms. These immense greenhouse-like buildings are dedicated to the production of indoor food crops.
"The big problem with vertical farming is energy consumption," said Mattos, a doctoral candidate in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences department of crop and soil sciences. "Using this intelligent light system that we are developing here, we can make vertical farms feasible from the point of view of lights."
A large indoor farm using traditional grow lights would require massive amounts of electricity to operate. But Mattos' system works much more efficiently. An energy efficient LED array above crops provides the light. As the light shines, a device called a chlorophyll fluorometer measures the plant's energy use efficiency and sends that information to a computer. The computer runs a mathematical algorithm, which determines if the plants need more light, less light, or even light of different wavelengths, and it turns the appropriate LEDs on or off.
This process takes place in real time, and it ensures that the plants receive optimum lighting conditions without wasting power on traditional bulbs that burn constantly for set periods of time.
"It is like the plants and the lights are talking," he said. "If the plant is not using the light, the chlorophyll fluorometer can feel this and send a message to the computer."
Mattos discovered the usefulness of this system while working on the production of algae at the UGA Bioconversion Research and Education Center, where researchers study and test biomass fuel sources. He is presently testing the efficacy of the LED system as a method of increasing algae biomass.
Because it is not economically practical to implement vertical farms on a large scale currently, Mattos and his collaborators are working to reduce the cost and boost production of a system that may prove useful in the event of a global food crisis.
"You have to replace the sun, which is free," Mattos said. "It is a very hard competition."
As one of 80 students selected worldwide to attend Singularity University's program, Mattos will have the opportunity to meet with other researchers, entrepreneurs and inventors who will help him further develop his plan.
His adviser, K.C. Das, a UGA professor of biological and agricultural engineering and member of UGA's bioenergy Systems Research Institute, praised his drive and determination.
"Erico is a very energetic, hard-working and innovative person," said Das. "He has been quite successful both in his research and taking his ideas to the next level."
UGA is one of only two U.S. universities to hold competitions for the SU program. Mattos is the third UGA graduate student to attend the program; Kausar Samli, graduate student at the UGA Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, and Brinkley Warren, a graduate of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and recent Fulbright Scholar, were SU scholarship winners the previous two years.
"When all these people from different areas try to solve problems and combine all their knowledge, it is a huge experience for everybody," Mattos said. "I can come back to UGA with a lot of new ideas, new points of view and new approaches, and hopefully I can share these with faculty members and students to improve the community."


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Elmswell, Suffolk typically has a temperate climate with mild winters and warm summers. During the winter months (December to February), temperatures range from an average low of 2°C to an average high of 8°C. During the summer months (June to August), temperatures range from an average low of 13°C to an average high of 20°C.
Rainfall averages between 700 and 900 millimetres per year, with most of it occurring during the winter months. Snowfall is rare, but the occasional light dusting of snow is not unheard of.
On average, Elmswell receives between 1,200 and 1,400 hours of sunshine per year. Winds tend to be light, with average wind speeds ranging from 5 to 10 kilometres per hour.
As of 2020, the city population is 3950.
This map shows the current & 7-day weather forecast, weather alerts, and weather radar for Elmswell, Suffolk.


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When you are looking to "manage" deer, it is very helpful to collect information that clues you into understanding deer numbers in your area and their impact on their habitat. Trail cameras can help estimate numbers of deer, and browse impact studies can help determine the impact they are having on their food source. If deer are overeating their food source, even without knowing "how many" deer there are, you should know that more does need to be harvested for the sake of the health of the herd. The deer browse impact survey is a great tool that gets out into the woods and helps you evaluate the level of impact deer are having. Below we cover some of the basics, however, there are links to articles with more details at the end of this blog.
In an ideal situation, you would plan to run the survey on around 500 acres of forest after snowmelt, but before green-up. But… who has 500 acres of contiguous forest? Chances are if you live in Southern Michigan, you don't. If you live in Northern Michigan, you may, but chances are you don't own all of it. For the sake of conversation, we will use 500 acres to describe the process, but feel free to tweak the process for your situation. For example, on my 12 acres (long and skinny), I simply ran two transects along the long borders of my land.
If you have 500 acres, you would want to have 5 lines (transects) each 1,000 feet apart and 1 mile long. (If you were so lucky to have 1,000 acres, you would have two sets of 5 transects.) Along each mile-long transect, you want to stop every 100 feet (so that you have about 52 plots/line) and evaluate the browse impact within a 4 foot radius at each plot.
Suggested Equipment: Briar proof clothing, clipboard and pencil, data form (see below), compass (traditional, not your smartphone) and a walking stick with 4 feet marked on it
- Picking transect locations: Ideally, the transects should cover multiple cover types and be as straight as possible. Using an aerial map to plan your transects is recommended. You will want to avoid swamps, ponds, etc. Work with your neighbors if possible.
- Team up with crews of at least 2 people.
- Once you have your equipment and your team, you want to plan a day after the snow has melted, but before the leaves have popped out. At the beginning of one of your lines, make your first plot evaluation. Look at the plants within a 4 foot radius and determine the browse impact of the plants between 6 inches off the ground and 6 feet off the ground (the height deer eat at). Document how heavily the stems are browsed on your data form (link below). Once you have documented your observations, count about 30 paces, or 100 feet. Then evaluate the next plot.
- As you are going along your transect, keep your eyes open for pellet piles. Tally how many you see. Once you have collected all the data, there is an equation on the form that will allow you to estimate the deer density on the property based on the pellet numbers you have.
To view a seminar on Deer Browse Impact Surveys, select the links below.
To learn more about the Deer Browse Survey, check out the article below.
QDMA Article "Over the Limit" about conducting a deer browse study.


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When determining organic pollutants, most environmental labs aim to achieve lower detection limits. The sample preparation technique plays a very important role in this challenge. Although new extraction technologies have been developed in recent years, they have not entirely matched the needs of environmental labs. The ETHOS X with fastEX-24 rotor extracts up to 30 grams of sample with minimal solvent volume, helping analysts to accomplish their tasks. The Milestone fastEX-24 rotor uses disposable glass vials, eliminating the need for cleaning and the possibility of memory effect between different runs. The 100 mL vials can accommodate the extraction of a large sample amount. The easy to handle and affordable cost of the vials leads to high productivity at a very low running cost.
- High productivity, 24 samples in 40 minutes
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The US EPA Method 3546 is a procedure for extracting water insoluble or slightly water soluble organic compounds from soils, clays, sediments, sludges, and solid wastes. This method is applicable to the extraction of semivolatile organic compounds, organophosphorus pesticides, organochlorine pesticides, chlorinated herbicides, phenoxyacid herbicides, substituted phenols, PCBs, and PCDDs/PCDFs.
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|Oracle® Fusion Applications Extensibility Guide
11g Release 1 (126.96.36.199)
Part Number E16691-02
This chapter describes how you can customize or extend user assistance help in your Oracle Fusion application to match any customizations.
This chapter contains the following sections:
When you customize an Oracle Fusion application, you may find you also need to customize or extend the existing help to match your changes. Oracle Fusion applications provide two different types of help.
Oracle Fusion Applications Help
Embedded static page-level help
This type of help is displayed directly on a page, using attributes of a component. The help text is included in the application.
Tip:Help text is stored in resource bundles, and so can be translated. For more information, see Chapter 16, "Translating Custom Text."
Embedded help includes the following:
Static instruction text: displayed by panel components that normally contain forms or tables. This instruction guides the user in filling out the form or using the table, as shown in Figure 18-2.
In-field help note: displayed by input components and guides the user in entering data into the component. Figure 18-3 shows an in-field note.
Terminology definition: displayed by input components and defines terms used on the page, as shown in Figure 18-4.
Bubble help: displayed when the end user mouses over a button or link component, as shown in Figure 18-5.
Help window: displayed when a user clicks the help icon, as shown in Figure 18-6. This type of help is generally brief context-sensitive help, and can also provide links to help files in Oracle Fusion Applications Help.
In Oracle Fusion Applications Help, you can change the content in existing help windows or you can create new help windows. Within a page of an application, you can customize or create bubble help, static instructions, in-field notes, terminology definitions, and help windows. This help text is stored either as a value for an attribute, or in translatable resource bundles.
Before you customize help, you should be familiar with the Oracle Fusion application architecture that enables customization, as described in Chapter 1, "Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications." You should also understand the typical workflows for working with customizations, as described in Chapter 2, "Understanding the Customization Development Lifecycle."
You will also need to do the following before you can begin customizing help:
If you will be adding or customizing Oracle Fusion Applications Help, you will need the correct privileges. Please contact your security administrator for details.
Install JDeveloper and set up your development environment. For more information, see "Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Development Environment" of the Oracle Fusion Applications Developer's Guide.
Create a customization application workspace. For more information, see Chapter 10, "Using JDeveloper for Customizations."
Launch JDeveloper in the Oracle Fusion Applications Administrator Customization role.
Select a layer value. When customizing application artifacts in JDeveloper, you first need to select the layer and layer value to work in. You use the Customization Context window to make this selection. For more information about customization layers, see Section 1.2, "Understanding Customization Layers.""
You can customize existing help files in Oracle Fusion Applications Help, or you can extend Oracle Fusion Applications Help by adding custom topics.
Once created, custom help files are distinguished by an icon in search results, and they are displayed at the top of help listings when you navigate.
Task: Customize Oracle Fusion Applications Help Windows
When you have the correct privileges, help windows in Oracle Fusion Applications Help display a Manage Custom Help link, which allows you to change the content and specify in which help windows in the application your custom help will appear, and where it will appear in the help site navigators. For more information, see the "Define Help Configuration" section in the Oracle Fusion Applications Common Implementation Guide.
Task: Add Custom Help Files to Oracle Fusion Applications Help
You can add new custom help files to Oracle Fusion Applications Help. Custom help files will appear like standard help files and can be searched and included in help windows and navigators. For more information, see the "Define Help Configuration" section in the Oracle Fusion Applications Common Implementation Guide.
For bubble help, you can use CRM Application Composer or Oracle Composer to customize or create the help text.
The following components use bubble help.
Task: Customize or Add Bubble Help
The text displayed in bubble help is the value of the component's
shortDesc attribute. Normally, the value resolves to a key in a resource bundle. If your are customizing a CRM application, you can use CRM Application Composer to customize the value of the attribute. For more information, see Section 4.2, "Editing Objects." For other applications, you use Oracle Composer to customize the attribute. For more information, see Section 3.3, "Editing Component Properties in Oracle Composer."
Oracle Fusion Applications embedded help (aside from bubble help) uses two types of ADF Faces help: instruction and definition. Instruction-type help displays static text, either in a specified area on a component (like static instruction help, shown in Figure 18-2), or in a note window, as in-field notes do, shown in Figure 18-3. Definition-type help displays a help icon, and is what terminology definition embedded help uses, as shown in Figure 18-4. When the user mouses over the help icon, the help text displays in a message box. UI components display the instruction and definition help text using the
helpTopicId attribute. For more information about the ADF Faces help framework, see the "Displaying Help for Components" section of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Web User Interface Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.
It is important that for the type of help you want to add or customize, you understand which component actually displays the help, and which type of ADF Faces help is being used. Table 18-1 shows the different types of Oracle Fusion Applications embedded help, the corresponding ADF Faces help, and the components that display that type of help.
Table 18-1 Oracle Fusion Applications Help and Corresponding ADF Faces Help and UI Components
|Oracle Fusion Application Help Type||ADF Faces Help Type||Component|
You perform the following tasks in JDeveloper in the Oracle Fusion Applications Administrator Customization role.
Note:You cannot directly customize the existing help text strings. If you want to change text that currently appears, you need to create a new text string and associate the component with that new text.
Task: Add Help Strings to Resource Bundle
Add custom help text strings to an existing custom resource bundle or create a new resource bundle to hold your customized help text (Oracle Fusion applications use XLIFF files for resource bundles). If you create a new resource file, you must register that file with the project. For information about creating and using resource bundles for an Oracle Fusion application, see Section 11.10, "Customizing or Adding Resource Bundles."
The help text must use the following syntax:
: Enter the topic ID. This must contain a unique prefix, the topic name, and the help type, either INSTRUCTION or DEFINITION.
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J. H. L. Johnstone
John Hamilton Lane Johnstone was educated at Pictou Academy before before earning a B.Sc. (1912) and M.Sc. (1914) at Dalhousie University. He became a student instructor of mathematics in 1911 and received the University Medal in mathematics and physics in 1912. Johnstone went on to complete a Ph.D. at Yale in 1916, after which he joined the army and became captain of the Royal Canadian Engineers in France. He also fought with British forces in Salonika and was made a member of the Order of the British Empire. In 1919, Johnstone returned to Dalhousie to teach and was made a full professor in 1926. In 1925, he was sent by Dalhousie to Newfoundland to advise in the creation of Memorial College. During the Second World War, Johnstone was seconded to the National Research Council for naval research, along with fellow Dalhousie professor G. H. Henderson. The two professors researched magnetic mines that were used by the Germans and built an instrument to detect them. After the war, Johnstone returned to Dalhousie and became the head of the Physics Department. In 1949, he was appointed as the first Dean of Graduate Studies. Johnstone was involved in the construction of the Sir James Dunn Science Building and the Nova Scotia Research Foundation building. He passed away in the winter of 1972-73 at the age of 83 during a holiday in Mexico.


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May 24, 2012 Words charged with a positive emotional content are used more frequently, thus enhancing human communication.
Scientists at ETH Zurich have studied the use of language, finding that words with a positive emotional content are more frequently used in written communication. This result supports the theory that social relations are enhanced by a positive bias in human communication. The study by David Garcia and his colleagues from the Chair of Systems Design is published in the first issue of the new SpringerOpen journal EPJ Data Science.
Previous studies focused on word lengths and frequency. They demonstrated that frequency depends on the length of words used, as a result of the principle of least effort influencing the use of shorter words. In contrast, this study focused on how the emotions expressed in words relate to the word frequency and its information content. The authors focused on words used in written emotional expression in the three most popular European languages online: English, German and Spanish.
They exploited a dataset on human behavior on the Internet, which includes texts from blogs, chat rooms and forums, among other sources. After performing a quantitative analysis on this dataset, the authors found that positive words appeared more frequently than words associated with a negative emotion. This suggests that the emotional content affects the words' frequency, even though the overall emotional content of the studied words is neutral on average. These findings support existing theories that there is a positive bias in human expression to facilitate social interaction.
Going one step further, the authors also focused on words within their context and realized that positive words carried less information than negative ones. Therefore, because of the positive bias observed in human communication, positive words are more likely to be used whereas negative expressions could be reserved to transmit information about urgent threats and dangerous events.
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- David Garcia, Antonios Garas, Frank Schweitzer. Positive words carry less information than negative words. EPJ Data Science, 2012; 1 (1) DOI: 10.1140/epjds3
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Subject: Re: union fs changes
To: der Mouse
From: Bakul Shah <>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/30/1994 13:20:15
Der Mouse writes:
% You certainly could. It might even happen relatively often. As
% someone else already noted, if you modify a file, you then have the RO
% copy in the lower layer and the new copy in the upper layer. If you
% then rm it, the upper-layer copy is blown away and a whiteout created.
% Then when you unwhiteout() it, the lower-layer file reappears. I would
% expect undelete() to resurrect the upper-layer copy - ie, what was
% there before the unlink().
One more problem: having to use two steps to make the lower
layer file reappear seems counterintuitive. I'd expect
unlink() to just remove the upper layer file so that the
lower layer file instantly reappears. This is clean and
simple. Why not use whiteout() if you want whiteout?
There'd even be a symmetry between whiteout() and
Jan-Simon Pendry writes:
 operation remove create remove create
 name name whiteout whiteout
 unlink yes - - possibly
 rmdir yes - - possibly
 open(CREATE) - yes possibly -
 "undelete" - - yes -
 mknod(WHT) - - - yes
 rename yes possibly possibly possibly
I really really wish that unlink, rmdir, rename do not
automagically create whiteout. What happens if you have
*no* write access in the upper layer but *do have* write
access on the lower layer? (Assuming you can have more
layers), what happens if you have write access on one of
the intermediate layers? How does one remove a file from
a lower layer?
> suppose we have a filesystem which supports "unremove" - ie the total
> inverse to "remove". the real problem to be solved is how to name
> the file and how to get from the name to the flat-store representation.
More problems: what happens when you remove a file, then
create another file of the same name in the same directory
and now want to ''unremove'' the old file? What happens
when you create a new file of the same name and remove it?
Do you get back only one old copy back? Ideally you want
all old versions so that you can examine them and restore
the right one. But unlike under VMS, I don't normally want
to see all the old versions of a file.
Actually, instead of unremove I'd prefer transaction support
from the kernel (sort of like the way Tolerant Systems
implemented it). This would solve so many problems... (but
at some cost).
> go for approach #2. any file remove converts the file to
> "removed" status. some cleaner process would need to garbage
> collect whenever free disk space gets low.
I'd just leave the file in the same dir. and add a normally
illegal char in its name. A cleaner can periodically
remove or backup old versions. I'd also add an 'archive'
attribute that is ON by default but gets turned off for
files that you don't want to save.
This is useful but will open up a security hole.
Der Mouse writes:
> I've wished for flink multiple times already. (Another call that would
> into a fantasia on everything I've ever wanted in a filesystem :-)
This too is a security hole in that it defeats the purpose of
controlled access through path names.
There was some discussion of next generation filesystems on
one of the freebsd groups. May be we should setup a
separate mailing list for FS:NG that is not biased towards
any particular Unix-like system. Either that or
Bakul Shah


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BH1750 Light Sensor - STEMMA QT / Qwiic
£4.16 ex VAT
This is the BH1750 16-bit Ambient Light Sensor from Rohm. Because of how important it is to humans and most other living things, sensing the amount of light in an environment is a common place to get started when learning to work with microcontrollers and sensors. Should we turn up the brightness of our display or dim it to save power? Which direction should your robot move to stay in an area with the most light? Is it day or night? All of these questions can be answered with the help of the BH1750. It's a small, capable and inexpensive light sensor that you can include in your next project to add the detection and measurement of light.
The BH1750 provides 16-bit light measurements in lux, the SI unit for measuring light, making it easy to compare against other values like references and measurements from other sensors. The BH1750 can measure from 0 to 65K+ lux, but with some calibration and advanced adjustment of the measurement time, it can even be convinced to measure as much as 100,000 lux!
Sensors tend to come in small packages and the BH1750 is no different. Not much bigger than a grain of rice, this handy light-sensing friend needs some help to be used by folks experimenting and without the desire or tools to work with surface mount parts.
Packaged on a PCB in a STEMMA QT form factor, the BH1750 comes integrated with a voltage regulator and level shifting circuitry to allow it to be used with 3.3V devices, like a Feather M4 or Raspberry Pi, or 5V devices, such as an Arduino. Rather than working with the itty bitty little contacts on the sensor, the PCB it's packaged on breaks out all the pins to a standard 0.1 inch / 2.54mm pitch header.
To make things easier and a bit more flexible, they've also included SparkFun Qwiic compatible STEMMA QT connectors for the I2C bus so you don't even need to solder! Just plug in a compatible cable and attach it to your MCU of choice, and you're ready to load up some software and measure some light.
- Dimensions: 25.3mm x 17.7mm x 4.5mm / 1.0" x 0.7" x 0.2"


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Benefits of Ductility in TMT Iron Rods
Thermo-Mechanically-Treated (TMT) iron rods are known for their high yield strength and ductility which make them highly preferable and the most common building materials suitable for all kinds of construction. Ductility is as important as strength in TMT iron rods because of its impact in holding structures firm during earthquakes.
What Makes TMT Iron Rod Ductile
The ductility of TMT iron rods means that it can bend up to its maximum tensile strength without being brittle or losing its strength. It is the ability of the iron rod to easily deform and adapt as it is put under stress with tensile load within a construction unit. It is also known as the ability of the iron rod to be elongated. The ductility of TMT iron rod is therefore made possible through its elongation.
Ductility is formed in TMT iron rod as a result of the annealing process, in which the soft inner core cools under atmospheric temperature. This results in the formation of a ferrite-pearlite core that provides the ductility.
Importance of Ductility in TMT Iron Rods
- Aesthetic design
- Ability to withstand earthquake/shock wave
Ductility improves the overall safety of the structure after exceeding the permissible load values. Construction projects are designed with the expected load in mind. In the process of construction, the structure, a bridge for example, can carry extra load if the concrete is reinforced with TMT iron rod because of its ductility.
Ductility gives TMT iron rod easy and higher bendability. This ensures that it can be bent and shaped as one desires without breaking or cracking and can be used for various construction purposes. The bendability also ensures protection from natural disasters such as earthquake.
The ductility of TMT iron rod results in greater pliability which allows for aesthetic designing of a structure. As a result of its easy bendability, which enables it to be shaped according to one's need and structural specifications, TMT iron rod makes aesthetic design possible and easy while still ensuring the safety of the structure.
Any TMT iron rod with perfect ductility gives high level of flexibility to buildings and structures. This helps the building to maintain its structure during earthquake and other natural disasters.
Ductility gives TMT iron rod ability to stop any sudden failure caused by extra load. It also makes the iron rod take in tension force and withstand stronger shock waves. This gives the structure a longer lifespan and enables it to serve its purpose for many years. It also guides against the need for constant renovation and repairs caused by damage and collapse.
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Creates an Evaluator for evaluating metrics and plots.
eval_shared_model Shared model parameters for EvalSavedModel.
desired_batch_size Optional batch size for batching in Aggregate.
metrics_key Name to use for metrics key in Evaluation output.
plots_key Name to use for plots key in Evaluation output.
run_after Extractor to run after (None means before any extractors).
compute_confidence_intervals Whether or not to compute confidence intervals.
min_slice_size If the number of examples in a specific slice is less than min_slice_size, then an error will be returned for that slice. This will be useful to ensure privacy by not displaying the aggregated data for smaller number of examples.
serialize If true, serialize the metrics to protos as part of the evaluation as well.
random_seed_for_testing Provide for deterministic tests only.
Evaluator for evaluating metrics and plots. The output will be stored under'metrics' and 'plots' keys.


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to the Yancey County NC Gen Website providing online genealogical
information supplied by volunteers who are committed to sharing historical
information and data. Yancey County is located in the far western
part of North Carolina which borders Tennessee.
In December 1833,
Yancey County was established from sections of Burke and
Buncombe counties and named in honor of statesman
Bartlett Yancey. The county became smaller forming
Watauga [est. 1849], Madison [est. 1851], Mitchell [est. 1861], and Avery
[est. 1911], counties respectively. Since that time, Yancey's
boundaries are preserved.
Burnsville is the county seat, the only incorporated town, and named
after Privateer Captain
Otway Burns [pictured]. Bartlett Yancey and Otway Burns never
lived in Yancey Co. but were prominent political figures heads that
influenced the development of the area.
County is a mountainous region having the highest average of elevation of
any county in North Carolina with 19 peaks rising over 6,300 feet.
It's surrounded by the
Blue Ridge area of the
Appalachian Highlands. The
Black Mountain Range crosses the south end of the county, intersected
by the Blue Ridge and the
Unaka Ranges. Mt.
Mitchell [part of the Black Mountain chain] is the highest peak in
eastern North America with an elevation of 6,684. It was named after
Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University at Chapel Hill who
studied the area. The South Toe and Cane rivers are the
county's major waterways feeding most of the tributaries.
COUNTY FACTS AT A GLANCE:
--Established in 1833 from Burke and
--311 Square Miles / 200,704 Acres
--Mountainous region with a unique ecosystem
of flora and fauna
--County Seat: Burnsville
2012 Facts Sheet
--Population in 2000: 18,421 [per
US Census Bureau]
--Average Temp: 22-47 degrees winter /
80 degrees summer
--Average Annual Rainfall: 44 inches;
Average Annual Snow: 21 inches
--Historical Industries: agriculture,
mining, textile, lumber, pottery
--Historical Religions: Baptist, Presbyterian
--Primary Historical Ethnicity: Irish, Scottish, German, English,
Cherokee Native American


The national census as part of an integrated system
The new focus of the Federal population census has transformed it into the backbone of an integrated system for household and personal statistics (SHAPE), which combines the use of data from existing administrative registers and sample surveys on people and households. The content, method and organisation of the various surveys will be linked and coordinated with each other. SHAPE takes into account national and international requirements and lightens the burden on interviewees.
The different areas of the Federal population census are being linked to the following surveys which are already available to form a single system:
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1. Who is curator of the museum?
2. Where is the Museum located?
3. How is the museum alarm set off?
4. What is the last name of Jacques who dies in the beginning of the book?
5. Robert Langdon is awakened while sleeping where?
6. What is the albino's name?
7. What item does Silas take out of his dresser at the brownstone?
8. What is the person Silas works for referred to as?
9. Silas has received information about the location of something called what?
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Digital Shoe Design Kit by DaveMakesStuff
Regular price $ 0.00
Unit price per
This kit contains all the digital parts you need to design your own basic running shoe.
These files are not meant to be printed directly. First, you will need to import them into your favourite 3D design software to texture, size, and combine according to your creative preferences. Final designs can be printed as you wish.
All parts are for the left shoe, but most programs have an option to "mirror" the object to create the right shoe.
These files are optimized for use with nTopology but can be used with most 3D editing software.
To create a basic, non-textured shoe, simply import, combine, and print your choice of the following files: "Outsole", "Midsole", "Upper", "Toe Cup", "Heel Counter", "Heel Pull", "Tongue" and "Laces". If multicolor printing is an option, you may choose to print some parts in different colours.
This kit provides additional tools to customize three areas of the shoe: upper, the outer face of the midsole, and the outsole (or tread).
For the upper, surface texture can be applied directly to the "Upper" file. There are also two upper surfaces provided in Parasolid format. "Upper Surface" aligns with the outer surface of the upper and can be used to create conformal cell maps for "lightweighting" the upper volume with lattice or TPMS structures. "Upper Surface Mid" conforms to the middle of the 3mm thick upper volume and can be used to reference surface lattices and Voronoi structures.
The "Topline Edge Field" file is provided to facilitate field driven design approaches to thickening or modifying structures along the topline of the upper. The other shoe components can also be used to apply field driven design to other areas and boundaries of the upper.
The outer face of the midsole is the most common are for texturing or modifying, while the inner surfaces of the midsole are usually left smooth. "Inset Midsole" has an inset volume along the outer face of the midsole. It is 2mm deep, with a 2mm border. The midsole inset volume can be textured or modified separately and recombined with the "Inset Midsole" to create the final midsole.
For the midsole inset volume, surface texture can be applied directly to the "Midsole Inset Volume" file. There are also two midsole inset volume surfaces provided in Parasolid format. "Midsole Inset Outer Surface" conforms with the outer surface of the midsole and can be used to create conformal cell maps for "lightweighting" the upper volume with lattice or TPMS structures. "Midsole Inset Mid Surface" conforms with the middle of the 2mm deep midsole inset volume and can be used to create surface lattices and Voronoi structures.
For the outsole, texture can be applied directly to the "Outsole" file. The "Midsole" is also provided in Parasolid format to allow the bottom face to be used to create conformal cell maps or surface lattices.
The "Outsole Edge Field" file is provided to facilitate field driven design approaches to thickening or modifying structures along the edges of the outsole.
There are three sample shoes that demonstrate volume modification using surface texturing, conformal cell maps and surface lattices. To facilitate FDM printing, none of the sample shoes have outsole texturing.
"Shoe Example – Textured" demonstrate two types of surface texturing applied to the upper and midsole inset volume
"Shoe Example - Cell Map" demonstrates application of a conformal cell map define a gyroid TPMS structure in the upper, and a square honeycomb lattice structure in the midsole.
"Shoe Example – Lattice" uses the "mid surfaces" to demonstrate two different types of surface lattice applied to the upper and midsole.
Turn your shoes into playful vases, planters or pencil holders with these socks. To ensure that the socks fit onto the shoes, do not use the "Tongue" object in your shoe design.


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DAEMON(3) Linux Programmer's Manual DAEMON(3)
daemon - run in the background
_TAG_
int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose);
Since glibc 2.21:
In glibc 2.19 and 2.20:
Up to and including glibc 2.19:
If nochdir is zero, daemon() changes the process's current working directory to the root directory ("/"); otherwise, the current working directory is left unchanged.
If noclose is zero, daemon() redirects standard input, standard output, and standard error to /dev/null; otherwise, no changes are made to these file descriptors.
(This function forks, and if the fork(2) succeeds, the parent calls _exit(2), so that further errors are seen by the child only.) On success daemon() returns zero. If an error occurs, daemon() returns -1 and sets errno to any of the errors specified for the fork(2) and setsid(2).
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daemon () Thread safety MT-Safe
Not in POSIX.1. A similar function appears on the BSDs. The daemon() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
The glibc implementation can also return -1 when /dev/null exists but is not a character device with the expected major and minor numbers. In this case, errno need not be set.
The GNU C library implementation of this function was taken from BSD, and does not employ the double-fork technique (i.e., fork(2), setsid(2), fork(2)) that is necessary to ensure that the resulting daemon process is not a session leader. Instead, the resulting daemon is a session leader. On systems that follow System V semantics (e.g., Linux), this means that if the daemon opens a terminal that is not already a controlling terminal for another session, then that terminal will inadvertently become the controlling terminal for the daemon.
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Literature: The Bone Season
The Bone Season is the 2013 debut novel of author Samantha Shannon. Set in a Dystopian, Alternate History England, the story follows a magic-user (called "voyants", short for clairvoyant, in the book) named Paige Mahoney. Since 1859, when the voyant phenomenon first became public knowledge, England has operated under an oppressive and strongly anti-voyant government known as Scion. Paige belongs to a class of criminal voyants who use their contact with spirits and the spirit world (known as the aether) to commit crime while avoiding the government forces charged with rounding up any voyants. Paige herself is a special kind of voyant known as a "dreamwalker", capable of separating her spirit from her physical body and entering others' bodies through their "dreamscapes."
Paige is captured by the government after using her powers to kill several government agents. She is then transported to the city of Oxford, now a penal colony known as Sheol I. The penal colony is run by a magical race known as the Rephaim. In 1859 the Rephaim arrived on Earth through a rift in the aether, along with a man-eating race known as the Emim. In exchange for the Rephaim protecting Earth from the Emim, the Rephaim have required a tribute of young voyants each decade known as a "Bone Season." The voyants are held in the penal colony and are used a beacon to attract the Emim, as well as a makeshift army to fight the Emim incursions. Voyants are assigned to a Rephaite "keeper" and are kept essentially in slavery. Those who display cowardice or refuse to fight the Emim are forced to perform for the Rephaim as poor and mistreated "harlies."
Paige is chosen by the Rephaite Arcturus Mesarthim, known as the Warden, who has never previously chosen a human. She must learn from the Warden the basics of how to survive in her new environment, all while trying to escape back to her home in London.
The book has met with considerable success. Many media sources have compared the book to the Harry Potter series, due to the similarity of Shannon to J.K. Rowling, including sharing the same publisher. The book has also drawn comparisons with The Hunger Games series, due to its shared nature as a dystopian novel with a female protagonist. The film rights to the book have already been picked up by Andy Serkis' Imaginarium Studios. A sequel is also currently in the works.
This novel provides examples of:
 - Aura Vision: "Sighted" voyants can see the aura given off by other voyants.
 - Alternate History: Splits off with the main timeline around the Victorian Era. In 1859, the rift opens in the aether due to a build-up of dead spirits, allowing the Rephaim and Emim to enter Earth. Edward VII is blamed for the Jack the Ripper murders and accused of being a voyant. He is deposed as King and the government of Scion is established.
 - Big Bad: Nashira.
 - Color-Coded Wizardry: Each voyant gives off an aura, which has a different color depending on the voyant's gift.
 - Eldritch Abomination: The Emim seem to be an example of this.
 - Fate Worse Than Death: Nashira's victims are forced to become "fallen angels," spirits which protect her and which grant her their former powers.
 - Future Slang: Played with, in that the book is set 50 years in the future but much of the slang comes from Victorian English.
 - Incompatible Orientation: Nick and Paige.
 - Mayfly-December Romance: the Warden and Paige.
 - Our Vampires Are Different: While the Warden explicitly states in-book that the Rephaim aren't vampires, there are still a number of similarities. They're nearly immortal, feed on human auras, and drinking human blood can heal them.
 - Oxbridge: Sheol I is what remains of Oxford.
 - Psychic Link: the Warden and Paige inadvertently form one because of their bad habit of saving each other's lives. Oops.
 - Psychic Nosebleed: Paige caused these in people she was angry at before she fully understood her gift.
 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Seven Seals are set up as a badass criminal gang, but they don't seem to do any actual crime aside from selling sketchy paintings.
 - United Europe: SCION controls nine European nations, not all of them named (Britain, Ireland, France, Greece, Serbia and Sweden are). How much autonomy the various countries governments have isn't really gotten into although Britain and Ireland are completely under its control.


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A tuber vegetable originating from Central America that is typically referred to as either a Sweet Potato or yam in the U.S. It is common for food stores to display and people to refer to the Sweet Potato as a yam, when it is actually a Sweet Potato.
Grilling is a cooking method that uses a dry heat that quickly cooks the surface and then slowly moves to the middle of the meat. When grilled properly, the meat will have a crisp flavorful outside coating with a moist center. Grilling infuses the pork with a smoky flavor from the meat juices that drip during the grilling process.
Potato Preparation | Grilling Potatoes | Grilling Tips
Preparing Potatoes for Grilling
Skins On | Skins Off
The skin of a potato is edible, so the potato can be prepared with the skins on or with the skins off.
Pork cooking times and temperatures are extremely important when cooking pork. The optimum flavor and tenderness of various cuts of pork can be consistently achieved when care is taken to follow the recommended pork cooking time and temperature guidelines.
Tools for Preparation | Potato Preparation | Potato Cooking | Tips
The most popular tuber vegetable in the world. It is available in hundreds of varieties, which vary in size, shape, taste, color, and starch content.
A small potato blend made from a mixture of ingredients that are formed into various shapes such as stars, baskets, crowns, roses, leaves, or uniquely shaped patties to be served as a garnish to accompany meats and poultry.


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Information on the village of Stichill, near Kelso in Scotland.
The earliest records of Nenthorn are when, with Newton, the land was in the keeping of the De Morvilles in the 12th century.
Nenthorn Spittal is recorded as one of the places laid waste by the English in 1542, but its whereabouts are unknown.
The Old Church at Nenthorn was abandoned in 1802, but the graveyard continued in use until about 60 years ago. Little remains of the building, and it would appear that graves have been dug into what was the area covered by the old church. The oldest gravestone seems to be dated 1606.
The old villages of Nenthorn and Newton have disappeared, probably having been demolished because of their proximity to the mansions, Nenthorn House and Newton Don House. This practice was fashionable in the late 18th century, when landowners were intent on extending and upgrading their houses, with landscaping of the grounds being all the rage.
A new church for the parish was built in 1802, with two galleries - one for the laird of Nenthorn and the other for the laird of Newton Don. This building was closed in 1972, after which it was converted into a house.
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Learn how Herbal baths have immmense benefits on the body, mind and soul. This workshop will discuss the various kinds of herbs used in baths since time immemorial. Learn how Herbal baths can help you embark on a spiritual journey.
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 - During her college days, Anamika Goyal was often drawn towards the unknown world - the supernatural powers of the cosmic energies.
 Curious, she tried to gather knowledge several times on her own and through her close ones. Anamika felt the need to learn more about the powers of the occult field, wherein, reiki attracted her towards itself.
 Her journey from being curious to becoming a healer
 Her journey as a healer began when she felt attracted towards Reiki healing. Her fondness for Reiki prompted her to learn crystal therapy, Angel therapy, tarot card reading and inference, and several other modalities of healing.
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Noun: sousing saw-sing
 1. The act of making something completely wet
 - drenching, soaking, souse
Verb: souse saws
 1. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
 "souse water on his hot face";
 - drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop
 2. Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
 "souse the garment into the cleaning solution";
 - dunk, dip, plunge, douse
 3. Become drunk or drink excessively
 - soak, inebriate, hit it up
 4. (cooking) cook in a marinade
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Alert: Potentially toxic levels of blue-green algae detected in Emigrant Creek Dam. Keep up to date here...
Emigrant Creek Dam is located near Tintenbar, 11km north-west of Ballina. The water in Emigrant Creek Dam comes from a catchment that is an agricultural area with rural residential and some tourist development.
Water stored in the dam is used to supply drinking water to the Ballina and Lennox Head areas. It supplements the Rocky Creek Dam and Wilsons River supplies.
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Emigrant Creek Dam was constructed between 1967 and 1968 and at that time, it provided the major water supply to Lennox Head and Ballina. In 1998 these areas were connected to the Rous County Council supply system however Rous County Council continued to use Emigrant Creek Dam to supplement their other sources.
In 2002 the dam was upgraded to new design standards so that it would safely withstand the "Probable Maximum Flood" - this is the volume of water flowing into the catchment from the largest flood event likely to occur. This would theoretically create about 5.5 metres of water flowing over the spillway. The upgrade involved raising the embankments, reinforcing the spillway and anchoring it to bedrock about 30 metres below the creek bed.
Emigrant Creek Dam is used to supplement the Rocky Creek Dam and Wilsons River supplies. Rocky Creek Dam is used for preference as it has the lowest operating costs. The other sources are brought on-line as the storage level in Rocky Creek Dam drops to help secure our water supply and avoid water restrictions.
Emigrant Creek Dam has a capacity of 820 mega litres at full supply level. The dam wall is 13 metres high and 140 metres long and is made up of about 6,000 tonnes of rock, soil, concrete and steel. Water is released via an integrated spillway which is designed to discharge 950 cubic meters of water per second under probable maximum flood conditions. The highest observed level at the reservoir was two metres above the spillway on July 9, 1985, corresponding to an outflow of 280 cubic metres per second.
The dam also releases environmental flows through two valves in the base of the dam. These are intended to mimic the natural flow patterns of the creek and minimise the impact on water quality downstream of the dam.
Emigrant Creek Water Treatment Plant is located adjacent to the dam. The plant starts and stops based on demand from the reservoirs in the supply network. When required, water is pumped directly from the dam into the plant for treatment.
For safety reasons, and to protect our water quality, there is no public access to the dam structure or lake. You can view the dam from a lookout at the end of the Water Walk which is accessed from Killen Falls Drive. There is also a walk that takes you to Killen Falls as well as car-parking facilities and picnic facilities. There are no toilets at this site. Learn more about the walks at Emigrant Creek Dam here.
The dam has a de-stratification (aeration) system. This system mixes the water in the dam, preventing layers of different temperatures or oxygen levels from developing within the water column. De-stratification reduces conditions favoured by blue green algae and prevents the bottom of the dam becoming anaerobic. Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature are measured at various locations in the dam each week to ensure the water is properly aerated and mixed. Water samples are also tested for blue-green algae weekly with increased testing in the event of an algal bloom. If a medium to high level algal bloom occurs, affected residents will be notified by phone and warning signs erected around the dam and at Kirklands Crossing. Further information about blue-green algae management and current NSW alerts is available from the NSW Office of Water.


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A memo from the City of Edmonton obtained by Global News reveals information never publicly released that shows there may be negative impacts to city roads and infrastructure from calcium chloride, the controversial de-icing agent being tested on city roads.
The four-page document, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, contains preliminary results of research that show, for the first time, that the city is aware of the extent of damage that calcium chloride could have on roads and buildings.
The practice of using calcium chloride for de-icing has been contentious in Edmonton, with some city councillors saying they had received complaints from residents of rust and corrosion on vehicles. There has, so far, been no discussion about the impacts on infrastructure.
The study, done by the city in February 2018 with a calcium chloride brine, looked at the impacts of brine exposure to concrete and asphalt. It found a brine-exposed concrete sample was more prone to early degradation and that it was "roughly 20 per cent more detrimental than salt-exposed samples."
It also found there were more detrimental impacts to asphalt pavement treated with brine than when it was treated with sodium chloride.
The findings align with comments made by three experts Global News spoke with who say calcium chloride is more corrosive and more detrimental to concrete than sodium chloride.
David Darwin, the chair of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Kansas, researches the effects of de-icers on concrete deterioration. He reviewed the memo obtained by Global News.
"Calcium chloride is more detrimental to concrete under the regular cycles of wetting and drying than, for example… sodium chloride," he said.
"Because of the relatively more negative effects it has on concrete as a material, you will have increased costs of maintaining your concrete infrastructure because of the damage that it does."
The memo states brine-soaked asphalt samples had, on average, 12 per cent deeper ruts compared to sodium chloride-soaked samples, and had 1.5 times the mass loss compared to sodium chloride-soaked samples. In both situations, the sodium chloride-soaked samples fared worse than untreated samples.
Darwin said that although calcium chloride works better at lower temperatures, any city can expect increased infrastructure costs if no changes are made to the composition of the concrete.
He said he has seen firsthand that roads in his city of Lawrence, Kansas have damage associated with calcium chloride.
"The key thing is [the city] needs to be aware of the longer-term impact. The relatively better effectiveness of calcium chloride will have an effect on the concrete over a period of time and they need to plan for that, either by modifying the concrete they use… or planning an earlier degradation of the concrete."
The product, which is applied in a thin layer once per snowfall, prevents the snow from sticking to the pavement, the city has said in the past. The product, which has a lower freezing point than sodium chloride, is meant to make it easier for crews to remove snow from the streets.
Watch below: (From Oct. 9, 2018) After heated debate, Edmonton councillors voted to continue with the calcium chloride pilot project on wintry roads even as corrosion complaints roll in. Kendra Slugoski reports.
Edmonton is in the second year of a calcium chloride snow-removal pilot. The decision pitted councillors against one another over whether extending the pilot was a good idea. A city report from June 2018 found savings of $4.3 million from using the calcium chloride solution.
The city said it was adjusting the solution this winter to include a corrosion inhibitor, however, two civil engineers told Global News that would have no effect on concrete.
'That will become serious'
David Bastidas, a corrosion engineering professor at the National Center for Education and Research on Corrosion and Materials Performance at the University of Akron, said calcium chloride is more corrosive than sodium chloride, if equal concentrations are compared.
Bastidas, who also reviewed the memo, said the findings in it are concerning.
"That will become serious with time, that's for sure," he said.
Bastidas agreed city infrastructure can be vulnerable to corrosion when it comes to calcium chloride.
He said time is of the essence when it comes to the de-icing agent; he recommends consistent corrosion management and a better balance of using sodium chloride and calcium chloride.
"I won't wait until 10 years. That needs to be controlled, I think," Bastidas said.
Moh Boulfiza, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, estimates the detrimental effects of calcium chloride on concrete could be seen two to three times faster than using road salt or another anti-icing agent.
"It could lead to corrosion problems sooner than we want them to be."
Boulfiza said there is a cost-benefit analysis that must be done.
Response from the city
Janet Tecklenborg, director of infrastructure operations with the City of Edmonton, said the research cited in the memo was done in a lab and does not tell the whole story.
She said the city is doing in-house experiments, jurisdictional reviews of what other cities are using and also collecting field data to determine what is best for residents. She also reiterated several times that the chemical is only one tool in the city's toolbelt when it comes to snow removal.
"One of the reasons we're continuing the pilot this year is to understand the trade-offs," Tecklenborg said.
"The best option for infrastructure and the environment is to do nothing, to not put anything on the roads and not remove the snow — but that's not an option because we need to keep the roads safe.
"It can't just be looked at like one isolated component," Tecklenborg said when asked to respond to the comments that engineering experts made to Global News. "It has to be looked at in a broader perspective of, 'How — in a winter city — do we maintain mobility throughout the winter?'"
"Anything we do is going to have an impact on infrastructure. The question is, are the safety benefits going to outweigh the potential impacts on infrastructure, and what are those impacts?"
Calcium chloride not used on Edmonton river bridges except for Groat Road Bridge
Emails also obtained by Global News show the city does not use calcium chloride on bridges that cross the river. Rather, the calcium chloride brine is turned off 30 metres before the bridge deck, and crews use sand, salt and mechanical snow removal instead.
Tecklenborg said using the chemical on those bridges could potentially impact the environment, which is why it is not being used there.
However, she said calcium chloride is being piloted on the Groat Road Bridge to understand potential impacts to infrastructure.
Bastidas said the policy with bridges is a good strategy but he still has concerns.
"You will have chlorides also on the bridge because, if cars are crossing, they will probably move some of the chlorides through the bridge. It is impossible to avoid the chlorides on top of the bridges if they are using chlorides," he said.
COMING UP ON TUESDAY: City councillors react to the newly uncovered memo. That story is coming up on Global News' television newscasts and online at globalnews.ca
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- $30.00 this covers the cost of some craft materials, sewing notions and patterns during the course. The fabric for the pyjamas is purchased separately and is an additional cost.
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- Learn how to project manage an outcome by planning time and resource requirements.
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text: The piano is a complicated, subtle tone-producing device. Much work has been done toward understanding its physical and acoustical mechanisms. On the other hand, excellent results have been achieved in commercial sound synthesis, particularly through the sampling and processing of real piano sounds. The present work builds on digital waveguide string synthesis methods to develop physics-based synthesis algorithms of piano and percussion sounds through appropriate physical models chosen with an eye toward psychoacoustics-based simplifications and toward mathematical reformulation into efficient, physically calibratible digital filter structures. Recently developed physics-based sound synthesis algorithms include: a shared-loss string coupling structure modeling two-stage decay, and a simplified string stiffness filter design, both calibratible from recorded sound data; a time-varying wave digital piano hammer or mallet filter directly modeling nonlinear felt stiffness and hysteresis; membrane, plate, room, and piano soundboard models using a 2-D, or 3-D digital waveguide mesh designed for high-speed multiply-free parallel hardware implementation; and a highly simplified commuted piano synthesis method, which commutes the high-order soundboard filter backward through the strings and linearized hammer filter, replacing it with its own impulse response, which in turn is synthesized directly with enveloped noise.


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Princess Elizabeth of York Hostel
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In 1924, as the lease on its Centre in Trebovir Road was due to expire, the Mothercraft Training Society bought the freehold of Cromwell House, formerly the Convalescent Home of the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street.
In May the following year, after work had been done to alter and improve the property (electricity and central heating were installed), the Mothercraft Training Centre opened in Cromwell House. Its purpose was to train nurses and mothers in the basic principles of successful child-rearing.
The Centre had 25 cots. Only babies suffering from malnutrition and digestive problems were admitted from about 4 weeks old, as well as a few normal babies; each had its own nurse. Their mothers acted as maids, nursing their infants and staying for about 15 months. Parents paid according to their means, but, if they were very poor, the child was admitted free.
Its Matron was Mabel Liddiard, the founder of the Society. She had trained under Sir Truby King, the New Zealand paediatrician who was one of the pioneers of the child welfare movement.
The nursing staff consisted of qualified nurses, who stayed for about three months, those with a CMB qualification who came for four to six months, and unqualified students who remained for a year. The latter, once they had passed the Society's examination, could find employment as nursery nurses. Three Sisters were in charge of the nurses.
The Society encouraged innovative methods of baby-care. The mothers - both new and prospective - could stay at the Centre for a while to learn how to care for their babies. Resident nurses showed them the correct way to breastfeed, how to follow dietary plans and how to recognise the symptoms of malnutrition and diarrhoea, the common causes of infant deaths.
In 1928 an Appeal was launched to build an annexe in the grounds of Cromwell House. This raised £25,000 and the new 4-storey building was officially opened on 26th November 1930 by its Royal patroness, the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother). It was named the Princess Elizabeth of York Hostel after her.
A teaching programme of lectures and open days on the principles of baby care was held for nurses from other establishments.
Because of the high demand, the Society also ran a Health Clinic and a Day Centre.
The Centre presumably closed in 1950.
Present status (September 2013)
In 1951 the Hostel was sold to the Metropolitan Police and became accommodation for police cadets. It was renamed Elizabeth House.
By the late 1980s the building was in private ownership. Plans to demolish it in 2005 were unsuccessful and instead it was Grade II listed.
In 2009 it was converted into student accommodation. It has been renamed Greenview Court.
The first site of the Mothercraft Training Centre at Nos. 29-31 Trebovir Road is now the William Temple House, managed by the International Students' Club (Church of England) Ltd.
The Neo-Georgian building in Winchester Place is now known as Greenview Court. It has 84 bedrooms.
The Mothercraft Training Society
At the beginning of the 20th century the infant mortality rate (that is, those dying within one year of birth) was 160 per 1,000 live births. Anxieties about the declining population of Britain encouraged the early infant welfare movement. Gradually, Infant Welfare Centres began to be established.www.bbc.co.uk
The main causes of infant death were diarrhoea and enteritis. The convenience of tube bottle feeding had led to a decline in breast feeding by the end of the 19th century. However, the equipment used was difficult to clean, while the cow's milk itself might well be contaminated by faecal matter or bovine tuberculosis. The milk was sometimes watered down, providing poor nutrition and resulting in marasmus. To add to this, the mothers lived in insanitary, overcrowded conditions and possessed poor mothering skills.
As the century progressed, local authorities employed Health Visitors, who encouraged mothers to breastfeed, as did the local Medical Officers of Health, and gradually the decline in breastfeeding was halted.
The regime instituted by the Babies of the Empire Society was based on the tenets of Sir Frederic Truby King, a New Zealand paediatrician who had dramatically reduced the infant mortality rate by nearly half in his own country. He had been invited by the Society in 1917 to advise on the training to be given at its Mothercraft Training Centre at Nos. 29-31 Trebovir Road, which would later be officially opened by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr W.F. Massey, on 9th July 1918.
According to King's methods, which emphasized discipline and detachment, babies had to be breastfed every four hours, but not at night and never in between feeding times. After feeding, babies were returned to their own rooms immediately; cuddling the infant was restricted to 10 minutes a day. King believed that the early months of the child's life were for eating, sleeping and developing, not for bonding with its mother. To toughen them up, babies were to be left outdoors in the fresh air for as long as possible (at Cromwell House, babies were left out in their cots on the balconies overnight).
References (Accessed 15th December 2014)
(Author unstated) 1918 Babies of the Empire. The Midwife, 20th July, 56.
(Author unstated) 1918 Babies of the Empire Society. Ottawa Citizen, 26th October, 14.
(Author unstated) 1918 Babies of the Empire. British Journal of Nursing Supplement, 28th December, 408.
(Author unstated) 1923 The Mothercraft Training Society. The Midwife, 21st July, 48.
Wrench JE 1935 Chapter 18: The Babies of the Empire. In: Struggle _PHONE_. London, I. Nicholson and Watson.
|References (Accessed 15th December 2014)
(Author unstated) 1925 Untitled. British Journal of Nursing (May), 92.
(Author unstated) 1927 Plunket System. Reception to Miss Liddiard. Sydney Morning Herald, 28th January, 5.
(Author unstated) 1930 Outside the gates. British Journal of Nursing (December), 334.
(Author unstated) 1932 Unique gathering. The Mercury, 27th July.
(Author unstated) 1938 Nursing echoes. British Journal of Nursing (July), 171.
Hygeia 1924 Our babies. Cromwell House. Mount Ida Chronicle 45, 1.
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