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The second book in Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy, this book follows three members of a later generation of the Akinya family.
Chiku Akinya, the niece of Blue Remembered Earth's protagonist Geoffrey Akinya, has herself cloned twice, then "synchronized" in such a way that she and her clones are identical on a physiological and psychological level, with no way of knowing who the "original" was. Chiku Red is sent out to rendezvous with Winter Queen, Eunice Akinya's interstellar ship; Chiku Green boards a Generation Ship intent on colonizing Crucible, the mysterious world discovered in Blue Remembered Earth; Chiku Yellow stays on earth.
Tropes within On the Steel Breeze:
 - As You Know: Much of the early conversations between Mecufi en Chiku Yellow serves to set up Chiku's backstory.
 - And I Must Scream: When Chiku Yellow's body is being controlled by Arachne, she's still aware of everything.
 - Ambiguous Gender: Travertine is consistently addressed with non-standard pronouns such as "ve". This is never explained, though a comment from Word of God says they're intended to be gender-neutral.
 - Arbitrary Maximum Range: Arachne' weapons are mentioned to have some sort of threshold the holoships need to cross for them to be within range. This despite the fact that it can easily accelerate slugs to enough speed to escape the planet's gravity, and the trajectory of the holoships is known.
 - A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played straight in some cases, but there are other examples of AI that are more benign.
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 - Alien Abduction: Chiku and Arachne are beamed up into a Watchkeeper at some point, and will stay with them in exchange for the other colonists' safety.
 - Alien Arts Are Appreciated: It's still unclear what the Mandala is, much less if it is art, but its beauty is repeatedly mentioned by the novel's characters.
 - Brain Transplant: June Wing has a collection of bodies and has herself transplanted into whichever is more convenient for the task at hand.
 - Clone by Conversion: The three Chikus are partly the result of this. The original Chiku cloned herself the old-fashioned way, but for perfect duplicity all three clones were then given identical mental imprints.
 - Colony Drop: Crucible is at the receiving end of those.
 - Colony Ship: The holoships are mostly self-sufficient, though there is an exchange of more advanced technology and manufacturing capacity between them.
 - Contagious A.I.: Arachne is everywhere.
 - Curse of Babel: The aug, which supplies instantaneous translation to people who don't speak the language, stops working near the end of the book
 - Cyborg: Most humans have cybernetic implants. Also the Tantors.
 - Descriptively-Named Species: The Watchkeepers are pretty much that, though they get a bit more active near the end.
 - Digital Avatar: A standard method of communication is through a projected avatar.
 - Emotion Bomb: A non-violent example. People formulate "motes", which take a specific emotional imprint and release it to the user upon breaking. This is used to convince people of sincere intents.
 - Family Business: While the Akinya empire no longer seems to be as omnipresent as in the first book, their involvement in many early space exploration technologies still makes them a powerful family.
 - Generation Ship: The holoships, though due to medical advances very few people actually die, and most who originally boarded are expected to still be alive when the ships reach Crucible.
 - Gone Horribly Right: The Evolvarium on Mars. Set up as a secluded area to research Mechanical Evolution, the robots evolved a bit too well and soon took over the whole planet.
 - Grew Beyond Their Programming: Arachne is an artilect that controls the vast array of telescopes and sensors that eventually discovered Crucible and the Mandala. She captures signals indicating that, as an AI, she is at risk of being snuffed out by humans, and goes to extraordinary lengths to prevent that.
 - Human Popsicle: The skipover procedure.
 - Ignored Expert: Travertine is this to most colonists, but is also being used for behind-the-scenes research that would be forbidden under the Pemba accord.
 - Immortal Procreation Clause: Averted. People are practically immortal but there seems to be no problem with reproduction. Of course, people can now easily migrate beyond the earth if it becomes crowded.
 - Immune to Mind Control: Chiku Red, after she is revived by the aquatics, due to her not having aug implants.
 - Imported Alien Phlebotinum: (Post-)Chiseba Physics. It's not really mentioned in this novel, but the first book in the series makes it clear that it's based on some kind of ancient alien technology.
 - Meanwhile, in the Future…: Sort of. The story cuts from Chiku Green to Chiku Yellow. Chiku Green's messages took decades to arrive on earth due to the vast distance between the holoships and the planet, so events appear to naturally follow each other even though there are huge time gaps.
 - Mechanical Evolution: The Evolvarium on Mars.
 - Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness: Mostly Physics Plus: Chibesa Physics (and Post-Chibesa Physics, later) are needed for less-than-light-speed propulsion, but most other technology is an extrapolation of what exists in the beginning of the 21st century. Then again, Chibesa Physics are left vague enough that it skirts World of Phlebotinum at times.
 - Neural Implanting: Semi-ubiquitous, though the aquatics are less enthusiastic about it, as it makes people susceptible to and dependent on intervention by the Mechanism.
 - Neo-Africa: Less pronounced than in the first book of the series, but it's still there in the background.
 - People Puppets: The Mechanism has the ability to take over someone's body through their implants (or euthanize them). Through this functionality, Arachne takes over Chiku Yellow's body at the end of the story.
 - Perfect Pacifist People: Humanity likes to think of itself as this. It's subverted bit by bit as the story progresses.
 - Pronoun Trouble: Travertine, who is the only character to be addressed with non-standard pronouns.
 - Robotic Reveal: Eunice. Less of a reveal for those who read the first book.
 - Sapient Ship: The Watchkeepers are certainly big enough to play the part, and apparently it is possible to travel in them.
 - Starfish Aliens: The Watchkeepers are thousands of kilometres long and experience 5000 years as "a short while". They're also synthetic, but sentient.
 - Stay with the Aliens: Chiku Green and Eunice go with the Watchkeepers, at the end.
 - Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: It's not clear what exactly the Watchkeepers are, but they seem to be this.
 - Sunken City: Venice is mentioned to be this in an offhand comment, due to global warming.
 - Talking Animal: The Tantors, although they're not so much talking as texting.
 - The Ageless: It's said that the prolongation process doesn't make people immortal, but death has become exceedingly rare since its introduction.
 - Time Abyss: The Watchkeepers are mentioned to possibly be millions of years old.
 - Translator Microbes: Many depend on the "aug" to communicate with others who don't know their language. Becomes problematic towards the end of the book, when the aug stops working.
 - Virtual Ghost: Chiku Green isn't dead, but her memory imprints take this form when they can't integrate into Chiku Yellow's. The same happens vice versa when Chiku Yellow sends her imprint to the holoship.
 - We Are as Mayflies: Humans can live for centuries, but they still can't hold a candle to the Watchkeepers, who operate on another level of time altogether.
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- » Key resources and services
- » Organisations
- » Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA)
Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA)
The Council membership comprises State, Territory, Australian Government and New Zealand Ministers with responsibility for the portfolios of education, employment, training and youth affairs.
Functions of the Council include:
- coordination of strategic policy at the national level
- negotiation and development of national agreements on shared objectives and interests (including principles for Australian Government/State relations) in the Council's areas of responsibility
- negotiations on scope and format of national reporting on areas of responsibility
- sharing of information and collaborative use of resources towards agreed objectives and priorities
- coordination of communication with, and collaboration between, related national structures.
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Ph: (03) 9639 0588
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Purpose: This study aimed to describe the periodontal condition of children, adolescents and young Saudi adults and to investigate its relationship with salivary variables and oral hygiene status. Materials and Methods: A sample of 114 children, 99 adolescents and 99 young adults were randomly selected from patients attending dental clinics at the school of dentistry. Clinical examination of oral health status included using WHO Community Periodontal Index and Green and Vermillion oral hygiene index. In addition, salivary flow rate, pH, buffering capacity and microbial flora were measured. Results: A healthy periodontal condition was found in 6.7% of the sample. Calculus was the most frequently encountered periodontal disease. Children had better periodontal condition than adolescents and adults. Males had higher plaque and gingival scores than females. The salivary flow rate and pH were significantly higher in individuals with good periodontal condition. The salivary level of fluoride and buffering capacity was not related to the periodontal condition. Yeast was the only microorganism related to periodontal condition. The relationship between poor periodontal condition and high plaque score was highly significant. Conclusions: Periodontal disease increased with age and was strongly related to salivary flow rate, pH value and yeast level, as well as plaque accumulation. Preventive efforts must be increased in order to achieve the WHO goal for the year 2010 of no more than one sextant showing bleeding or calculus at the age of 15.
Keywords: community periodontal index, microbial flora, oral hygiene, saliva


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The more hours an IT employee works, the more productivity – up to a certain point. For tasks that require significant judgement and attention to detail, like IT, working additional hours results in additional stress, loss of sleep, and other work life balance issues. This drawback gets works as additional hours increase, and further productivity issues arise.
We can model this loss of productivity as a drawback as an exponential function:
Bringing productivity into the model we can see productivity eventually declines as the amount of mistakes made result in productivity loss. After a certain point, accumulated mistakes result in a net loss of productivity as these mistakes need resolved with more labor. This is modeled as:
Extrapolating to a team of full time IT employees, the combined productivity of the team under a constant high workload is not linear as the team size grows. Rather, initial productivity jumps greatly for additional employees, then tapers off. This is modeled as:
In the case of the modeled tram, we can view the productivity versus team size versus a standard model (where doubling team size doubles productivity).
How does the productivity of your team fit in?
Constants and variables used in model:
Drawback Constant: 1.1
Productivity Constant: 10
Workload Constant: 270


Calculating different Vegetation Indices in Google Earth Engine (Sentinel -2 images)
Calculating different Vegetation Indices in Google Earth Engine (Sentinel -2 images)
In previous post, I have published the article for EVI and NDVI calculation from sentinel 2 image on Google earth engine (GEE) platform. In this article, I will be showing how various vegetation indices can be computed on GEE platforms and can be added to image collection. So, let's dive into various vegatation indices directly.
Greenness (Green Leaf Index)
The Green Leaf Index, also known as the Greenness Index, shows how the reflectance in the green channel compares to the other two visible wavelengths (red and blue).
The formula for calculation of GLI is:
 GLI = (2*GRN-RED-BLU)/(RED+GRN+BLU)
 - GRN pixel values from the GREEN band
 - RED pixel values from the RED band
 - BLU pixel values from the BLUE band
The lower the greenness index, the higher the green reflection relative to the other wavelengths. A result of -1 indicates that the green channel is fully reflected, but the remaining two wavelengths (red and blue) are not.
# GLI (Green Leaf Index)
def getGLI(image):
 # Compute the GLI using an expression.
 GLI = image.expression ('(((GREEN - RED) + (GREEN - BLUE)) / ((2 * GREEN) + RED + BLUE))', {
 'GREEN': image.select ('B3'),
 'RED': image.select ('B4'),
 'BLUE': image.select ('B2')
 }).rename("GLI")
 image = image.addBands(GLI)
 return(image)

Leaf Area Index (LAI)
The leaf area index (LAI), equal to half of the total green leaf area per unit of the horizontal ground surface, is a crucial structural feature of vegetation. Canopy interception, evapotranspiration, and gross photosynthesis are directly related to LAI since leaf surfaces constitute the primary frontier of energy and mass exchange.
This index is used to forecast crop growth and yield and estimate foliage cover. ENVI calculates green LAI using the empirical formula developed by Boegh et al. (2002):
LAI = (3.618*EVI - 0.118)
 - EVI is Enhanced Vegetation Index value. Details for calculation of EVI is here in my previous post
LAI values in the high range typically vary from 0 to 3.5. The LAI values can approach 3.5 when the scene comprises clouds and other bright objects that cause saturated pixels. Before making an LAI image, you should mask clouds and bright features from your scene.
Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI):
In places with little vegetative cover, SAVI is used to compensate for the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) due to the influence of soil brightness. Using a soil-brightness adjustment factor, SAVI seeks to reduce soil brightness impacts. It produces values between -1.0 to 1.0. SAVI is commonly used in arid locations with little vegetative cover. SAVI obtained from surface reflectance is calculated as a ratio of R and NIR values with a soil brightness correction factor (L) of 0.5 to account for most land cover types.
SAVI = ((NIR - Red) / (NIR + Red + L)) x (1 + L)
 - NIR = pixel values from the NEAR INFRARED band
 - Red = pixel values from the RED band
 - L = amount of green vegetation cover
# SAVI (Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index)
def getSAVI(image):
 # Compute the SAVI using an expression.
 SAVI = image.expression ('(((NIR - RED) / (NIR + RED + L))* (1+L))',{
 'L': 0.5, # Cobertura vegetation 0-1
 'NIR': image.select ('B8'),
 'RED': image.select ('B4')
 }).rename("SAVI")

 image = image.addBands(SAVI)
 return(image)
Green Chlorophyll Index (GCI )
Based on near-infrared and green bands, the GCI (Green Chlorophyll Index) quantifies leaf chlorophyll concentration in plants. The chlorophyll value, in general, reflects the vegetation.
 the formula for the GCI:
GCI = NIR / GRN – 1
 - GRN = pixel values from the green band
 - NIR = pixel values from the near infrared band
# GCI (Green Chlorophyll Index)
def getGCI(image):
 # Compute the GCI using an expression.
 GCI = image.expression ('(((NIR) / (GREEN)) - 1)', {
 'NIR': image.select ('B8'),
 'GREEN': image.select ('B3')
 }).rename("GCI")

 image = image.addBands(GCI)
 return(image)

SIPI (Structure Insensitive Pigment Index)
The SIPI index maximizes sensitivity to the bulk carotenoids to chlorophyll ratio while reducing the impact of canopy structural variation. It's especially effective in locations where the canopy structure, or leaf area index, is highly variable.
SIPI readings vary from 0 to 2, with healthy green vegetation falling between 0.8 and 1.8.
# SIPI (Structure Insensitive Pigment Index)
def getSIPI(image):
 # Compute the SIPI using an expression.
 SIPI = image.expression ('((NIR - BLUE) / (NIR - RED))',{
 'NIR': image.select ('B8'),
 'BLUE': image.select ('B2'),
 'RED': image.select ('B4')
 }).rename("SIPI")

 image = image.addBands(SIPI)
 return(image)
ARVI (Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index)
ARVI is especially useful in areas with high levels of atmospheric aerosols. It corrects for air scattering phenomena that affect red light reflectance using blue light reflectance data.

The formula in general:
ARVI = (NIR - RED - y * (RED - BLUE))/ (NIR + RED - y*(RED-BLUE))
 - NIR = pixel values from the NEAR INFRARED band
 - RED = pixel values from the RED band
 - BLUE = pixel values from the BLUE band

ARVI values vary from -1 to 1, with green vegetation typically falling between 0.20 and 0.80.
# ARVI (Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index)
def getARVI(image):
 # Compute the ARVI using an expression.
 ARVI = image.expression ('((NIR - (2 * RED) + BLUE) / (NIR + (2 * RED) + BLUE))',{
 'NIR': image.select ('B8'),
 'BLUE': image.select ('B2'),
 'RED': image.select ('B4')
 }).rename("ARVI")

 image = image.addBands(ARVI)
 return(image)
NBRI (Normalized Burned Ratio Index)
NBR is used to determine burn intensity and identify burned areas. It is traditionally calculated as a ratio between the NIR and SWIR values.
Given that vegetation reflects significantly in the NIR portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Still, poorly in the SWIR, the NIR and SWIR parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are a powerful combination of bands to utilize for this index. A fire scar that incorporates scarred woody plant and ground, on the other hand, has been demonstrated to reflect more strongly in the SWIR region of the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond.
# NBRI (Normalized Burned Ratio Index)
def getNBRI(image):
 # Compute the NBRI using an expression.
 NBRI = image.expression ('(NIR - SWIR) / (NIR + SWIR)', {
 'NIR': image.select ('B8'),
 'SWIR': image.select ('B12')
 }).rename("NBRI")

 image = image.addBands(NBRI)
 return(image)

These indices are created as a functions in python. Now we will move on to implement this in jupyter-lab environment and apply for image collections.
Sentinel_data = ee.ImageCollection('COPERNICUS/S2') \
 .filterDate("2022-03-01","2022-03-31").filterBounds(aoi) \
 .map(getNBRI).median()
In this case i have calculated NBRI (Normalized Burned Ratio Index) but you can change the function as per your required indices or you can add multiple calculation by adding .map(getARVI) in above expression. We now add visulaization parameters and add layers to map as follow:
color = ['FFFFFF', 'CE7E45', 'DF923D', 'F1B555', 'FCD163', '99B718',
 '74A901', '66A000'


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- Digester systems
- Digester equipment
- Gas storage
- Hygienisation system
- Activated carbon filter
- Gravel filter
- Condensate trap
- Project studies
- Project design
- Project management
Pressureless pasteurisation 70°C and pressure sterilisation 133°C.
The AAT hygienisation system is used for (EU conforming) heat treatment of organic waste products which are further processed in biogas plants.
Depending on the use as well as type and quantity of the substrate, a multitude of tried and tested plant configurations are available,
They comprise from the most simple configurations with a double-jackted tank to three-tank plant with seperate heating, hygienisation and cooling.
Depending on the local conditions and the requested performance, the plant can be heated by water, thermal oil or direct stream.
The heath exchangers used have a very high heat transfer performance and large cross-sections for high efficiency.
The agitators are extremely robust and maintenance friendly.
- Hygienisation temperature: 70°C or 133°C
- Material: Stainless steel
- Heating by double shell or heat exchanger
- Heat transfer through direct stream, water or thermal oil
- Several filler and relief pipe ends
- Several Measuring socket
- Heat recovery
- Construction from 1 to 500 m³ per day
- Reliable agitators
Upon request we supply individual controls with a data logger for authorities.

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What is the main idea of the interlopers?
The theme of The interlopers is about hatred and it may lead to tragedy. The story is a example of the feud between the two families. If the two families could have compromised over the ownership of the forest. Ulrich and Georg wouldn't make themselves into crisis or even lost their life in the end.
What is the main lesson of the interlopers?
The moral of the story is to lay aside feuds or arguments because they could lead down the path of destruction.
What is the conclusion of the interlopers?
Conclusion is when you summarize the story you have just read. In the story "The Interlopers" Georg and Ulrich, the two enemies are trapped in the forest caused by a branch. As they screamed for help the decided it would be best to become allies. Wile screaming for survival their death sentence arrived.
What caused the feud in the interlopers?
The feud is caused by an old land dispute between the Gradwitz and Znaeym families. As the other educator pointed out, the feud is inherited by the succeeding generations of both families. The land in dispute is only a "narrow strip of precipitous woodland" on the outskirts of the Gradwitz property.
Who owns the land in the interlopers?
What is the main conflict in the interlopers?
The central conflict in the story is between Ulrich and Georg over a virtually worthless piece of land. It is an example of a man versus man conflict. Their conflict with each other is as a result of a family feud that reaches back through generations over this boundary line between each man's land.
What are two main conflicts?
All conflict falls into two categories: internal and external. Internal conflict is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character.
What is the climax of the story the interlopers?
Man, the climax comes when the two enemies, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, reconcile their differences. Then, once they are friends, they are yet engaged in another conflict: Man vs. Nature. The climax of this conflict comes as the two men shout to beckon what they think are their hunters.
What is ironic about the ending of the interlopers?
What is unexpected and ironic about the ending is that the men are fighting each other, but they both end up fighting wolves. This is situational irony. "The Interlopers" is a fable about two men who are battling with each other.
What does the tree symbolize in the interlopers?
The Beech Tree Symbol Analysis. Despite Ulrich and Georg both being armed with the intent to shoot, a huge, falling beech tree is what nearly kills them when they finally come face-to-face. The tree immobilizes the men, and in pinning them, prevents either man from using his rifle to murder the other.
What is the irony in the interlopers?
Topic Sentence: The ending of "The Interlopers" is an example of situational irony because both the reader and the two main characters believe they will be rescued but in the end they are attacked by wolves.
Who are the true interlopers?
The interlopers in the story are two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz and George Znaeym. The two are involved in a feud that has spanned three generations, all resulting from a lawsuit Gradwitz' family placed against Znaeym for the land. The courts granted them the land, however the Gradwitz' family refused to give it up.
Do Ulrich and Georg seem to meet by chance or by design?
Do Ulrich and Georg seem to meet by chance or by design? They meet by design because they were both looking for the other to kill him.
What means interloper?
noun. a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of others: He was an atheist who felt like an interloper in this religious gathering. an intruder; trespasser. a person who intrudes into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
Where is the word interloper used in the story?
"Wolves." 1. Georg is an "interloper" on Ulrich's land, but Georg feels as though the land is really his family's and Ulrich is the "interloper."
What does the wild weather foreshadow?
Another example of foreshadowing in the story is when the falling beech tree pins both Georg and Ulrich down. Since weather is a natural phenomenon neither man can control, the incident foreshadows Ulrich and Georg's final ambiguous fate at the hands of wolves (another element of the wild that neither man can control).
What is Ulrich's state of mind at the beginning of the story?
How would you describe the mood, or atmosphere, at the beginning of "The Interlopers"? He is angry and hopes to find his enemy. What inference can you make about Ulrich at the beginning of the story? He suspects that Georg is poaching in the forest.
What is the mood of the interlopers?
So, the mood of the story is one of eeriness, darkness, and suspense. Our sensitivity to evil is heightened by Saki's use of details about both nature and man which create a sense of foreboding about some kind of danger to come, and it is an appropriate mood for this story.
What is a metaphor in the interlopers?
However, the greatest metaphor in Saki's story is the title: "The Interlopers," the forces of Nature that interfere with the settlement of the men's feud. For, when the two enemies encounter each other suddenly, vis-a-vis, their civilized natures do not allow them to react immediately.
What literary devices are used in the interlopers?
Literary Devices in The Interlopers by SakiLiterary Devices in The Interlopers by Saki. Ethan Lex.Theme Statement.Foreshadowing.Symbolism.Character Types.Dramatic Irony.Climax.Allusion.


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In this Windows 10 guide, I'll show you how to disable the password prompt when your Windows 10 computer resumes from sleep. There are three ways you can use to accomplish this:
- By using Settings.
- By using a Group Policy.
- By using the Command Prompt.
Skipping Password Prompt After Sleep Using Settings
Step 1: Open Settings.
Step 2: Click on Accounts.
Step 3: Click on Sign-in options.
Step 4: Choose Never from Require sign-in drop down menu.
Skipping Password Prompt After Sleep Using Group Policy
Step 1: Use Windows key + R to open the run command window.
Step 2: Type in gpedit.msc and press enter to open the local policy editor.
Step 3: Go to the following path:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Sleep Settings
Step 4: Double click either "Require a password when a computer wakes (on battery)" or "Require a password when a computer wakes (Plugged in)".
Step 5: Choose the Disabled option.
Step 6: Click on Apply.
Step 7: Click OK.
Skipping Password Prompt After Sleep Using the Command Prompt
Step 1: Use the windows key + x keyboard shortcut to open the menu. Scroll to Command Prompt (admin) and click it.
Step 2: If you want to disable the sign-in option while your device is running on battery, type in the following command and press Enter:
powercfg /SETDCVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_NONE CONSOLELOCK 0
Step 3: If you want to disable the sign-in option while your device is plugged in, type in this command and press Enter:
powercfg /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_NONE CONSOLELOCK 0


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Linux user group
A Linux User Group or Linux Users' Group (LUG) or GNU/Linux User Group (GLUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. The term commonly refers to local groups that meet in person, but is also used to refer to online support groups that may have members spread over a very wide area and which do not organize, or which are not based around, physical meetings. Many LUGs encompass FreeBSD and other free Unix-based operating systems.
Local LUGs
Local Linux User Groups meet (typically weekly to monthly) to provide support and/or arrange and host presentations for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. Given that Linux is not dominated by any specific corporate or institutional entity, LUG meetings typically encompass a broader range of topics than the meetings of other users' groups. Linux is predominantly user supported and some support is vastly easier via phone or in person than over e-mail or USENET. LUGs are still primarily focused on hobbyist users and professionals who are engaged in self-directed study.
SVLUG is among the oldest and largest LUGs. It was originally formed as a Special Interest Group for the Silicon Valley Computer Society, founded by Daniel Kionka to support Xenix and "low cost PC UNIX systems" (which later became focused on Linux as the dominant free implementation of Unix).
According to the Linux User Group HOWTO:
Computer user groups are not new. In fact, they were central to the personal computer's history: Microcomputers arose in large part to satisfy demand for affordable, personal access to computing resources from electronics, ham radio, and other hobbyist user groups. Giants like IBM eventually discovered the PC to be a good and profitable thing, but initial impetus came from the grassroots.
To give just one indication of how LUGs differ from traditional user groups: Traditional groups must closely monitor what software users redistribute at meetings. While illegal copying of restricted proprietary software certainly occurred, it was officially discouraged—for good reason. At LUG meetings, however, that entire mindset simply does not apply: Far from being forbidden, unrestricted copying of Linux should be among a LUG's primary goals. In fact, there is anecdotal evidence of traditional user groups having difficulty adapting to Linux's ability to be lawfully copied at will.
Typical activities
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LUGs typically meet once per month in facilities freely provided by universities, colleges, community centers, private corporations, or banquet rooms in restaurants. For example, the SVLUG of the Silicon Valley met for about 10 years in the back of a Carl's Jr. restaurant, and has met for the last several years in meeting rooms at Cisco Systems and, more recently, Symantec. Similarly, the BALUG (SF Bay Area LUG) has always met in a banquet room above the Four Seas Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Most LUGs are free, requiring no monthly or annual dues. In many cases the participants are encouraged to patronize the hosts (esp. in restaurant meetings, by buying dinner).
Some LUGs are informal conferences or round table discussions; members simply sit around and chat about Linux related topics. Some provide formal presentations. For example Linus Torvalds has occasionally talked to SVLUG or BALUG (which are close to his former home in Silicon Valley), and Hans Reiser (creator of ReiserFS) presented his early design plans at an SVLUG meeting. Presenters might be anyone in the community with something interesting to say. Occasionally, corporations will sponsor or encourage their employees to speak at users' groups to promote their products. LUGs generally require that these presentations provide technically interesting content rather than overt sales pitches. Often, LUG meetings provide an opportunity for members and guests to make announcements, especially for jobs offered and/or wanted, pleas for assistance (free or professional consulting), and hardware for sale or to be given away "to a good home".
LUGs in close geographic location would get together to hold conferences and share knowledge among peers. Like in Central America, in 2009, the first Encuentro Centro Americano de Software Libre was held in Nicaragua. Where LUGs from the region, from Belize to Panama attended. Groups from other countries are also invited. In 2010, it was held in Punta Renas, Nicaragua; where there were members from the region, including from Germany and Mexico. In 2011, it will be held in El Salvador. These events usually take place in summer, as most of the LUG members are students.
Many LUGs also organize installfests (FreeBSD groups tend to refer to them as "installathons") which are opportunities for experienced Linux users to help others, especially novices with installation and configuration of Linux systems. Installfests may also have break out sessions for teaching new tips and tricks—performance tuning, security hardening, etc.
A few LUGs have developed projects of regional or even international stature. For example, the Uganda Linux User Group operates in 3 major cities and frequently coordinates national and international events which have featured guests as high-profile as Tim Berners-Lee. The Bellingham Linux Users Group (BLUG), in Bellingham, Washington, holds the annual Linuxfest Northwest, which attracts large numbers of participants from throughout the region, including Western Canada. Likewise, Bellevue Linux Users Group (BELUG), which meets in a bookstore in Bellevue, Washington, has developed The Linux Information Project (LINFO), a comprehensive online resource that receives hundreds of thousands of hits monthly from around the world.
LUGs sometimes are gifted with surplus books, back issues of Linux magazines, copies of CDs and other promotional items to give away to their members.
Other than these "official" LUG activities the meetings provide opportunities for users to socialize. Members often exchange e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone numbers and provide technical support or collaborate on study or development projects together. Some local LUGs share characteristics of online LUGs, meeting on IRC or hosting support mailing lists in addition to the physical meetings. LUGs may also have an online blog presence, an example is the OSU LUG or the Nottingham LUG whose Planet NottsLUG is an aggregation of various members' blogs.
LUGs can also be a natural place for local organizations to find Linux expertise. Professors for Unix classes at San Jose State University came to SVLUG in the early days of Linux to find guest lecturers for their classes; some LUGs provide computer help to schools and non-profit organizations, and perform other community outreach services.
An Installfest (a portmanteau of installation and festival) is an event, generally sponsored by a local Linux User Group, university or LAN party, at which people get together to do mass installations of computer operating systems or software, most often Linux and other open source software.
It is generally an advocacy and community-building event, where novices bring their computers along with their preferred operating system installation disks to the location of the installfest, and experienced users help them in getting started and troubleshooting problems. Sometimes a Linux distribution and informative flyers are given for free to the attendees. Some events ask for participants to bring power strips and network switches if available.
Installfests welcome all skill levels from complete novice to expert. An installfest will range from an informal get together to festivals involving music. The tone and scope of a specific event will depend on the organization sponsoring it. Writing in the BBC's Internet Blog in 2008, George Wright described a mini-installfest as being "as painless as [he]'d imagined" and "[with] a bit of luck, it can be straightforward".
The Ubuntu Global Jam includes installfests.
A Hackfest (a portmanteau of hack and festival) is an event, generally sponsored by a local Linux User Group, university or LAN party, at which people get together to demonstrate security issues or reverse engineer computer operating systems or software, most often Linux and other open source software.
Local LUGs celebrate Software Freedom Day by going out and promoting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Free Ubuntu CDs are given out along with brochures and any information about FOSS. This event is commonly held on the third Saturday of September.
Online LUGs
Not all online Linux support groups refer to themselves as "a LUG", and the use of the word is sometimes (as in the Linux User Group HOWTO) intended to specifically refer to groups of Linux users which organize regular meetings. However, the LUG indexes list groups with members over a large geographical area, and over time, organizations like the EU LUG, for Linux users throughout the European Union (as of 2005[update], apparently defunct) use the term LUG to refer to themselves.
Online LUGs use mailing lists, bulletin boards and IRC as their primary method of communication, with members meeting physically seldom or not at all. As with local LUGs, some groups are limited to technical discussions and others seek to form social bonds between Linux users by having "chat" or "off topic" forums.
Reasons for forming or joining an online LUG vary. Some members of online LUGs may be relatively isolated without a local LUG accessible or with only a few other Linux users in their area.
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Some Linux users are dissatisfied with their local LUG for reasons that might include its size, insularity or atmosphere: the online group LinuxChix, which is a worldwide LUG and social group for women Linux users, was founded due to the perceived aggression and rud

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Every woman is different and they do have different skin tones. Some women long for a fairer skin tone while some women wish that their skin was bit more tanned. Mostly it depends on the type of environment and the type of genes that you have. Like in a hot country you won't have to worry about getting tanned while in a colder region where there is less sun, you won't have to worry about getting fairer skin tone. There are ways though which can help you to lighten or darken your skin tone. Some dresses and some makeup does suits a particular skin type only. In this article, tips on how to get fair complexion are mentioned which will help you to get fairer by simply following some easy steps.
- Diet affects a lot on how you look. For having fair complexion, you should eat green vegetables and fruits a lot. Food which is rich in antioxidants should be taken as it helps in maintaining the complexion.
- Keep your body hydrated. It is necessary that you drink water in excess amount per day. At least 8 glasses of water should be consumed. Water helps in keeping skin smooth and fair.
- You should stay away from sun as far as possible. Sun rays can discolor the skin's complexion. So it is advisable to wear gloves in hands and scarf to cover your face whenever you going out. You should also apply a sun screen lotion whenever you go out.
- Cleaning your face is a must thing. You should use a mild soap or mild face-wash to clean the face twice a day. This will remove the dead skin cells from the face and will help to make the skin glow.
- Use of tomato for getting fair skin is very much recommended. You can simply massage the skin of tomato over the face and body. You can also make a mixture of tomato and lemon juice by blending them together and applying it on face and whole body. You should keep this mask for at least 20 minutes and then wash it off with cold water. This helps to make the complexion fairer than before.
- Sandalwood too is recognized as a good thing in making the skin whiter. You should add up sandalwood powder, rose water and little bit milk to make a paste. Apply this paste on the face and after some time wash your face with water. This paste will help in increasing glow of the skin. You can use sandalwood in another way too. Like mix sandalwood powder and almond oil and apply it over whole body. After some time remove it by using cold water. Thus, sandalwood is very useful in making the skin glow and fairer.
- Orange peels and papaya are also very helpful in making the skin fair. Massage the face and body with papaya early morning and see its effect with regular usage. Your skin is intended to glow.
- Honey mixed with raw milk paste is also considered to be very effective in increasing the skin tone. Apply this paste on face, neck and body and keep it for around 15-20 minutes. Wash it off with cold water or wash cloth. Regular use of this technique helps in brightening the complexion and also makes the skin soft.
Women with dark complexion or mild dark complexion seek tips and advices for making the skin fair. These tips will be helpful as the skin will become fairer, softer and smoother. These tips are not only for women with dark complexion, women who already have fair complexion but want to maintain it they can also use these tips.


How to use Security Filters to allow multiple companies to use the same app
Let's say you've got an app, and you want to allow multiple companies to access and use the same app.
 - The primary benefit here is that, as a developer, you only have one app to support.
 - If you were to create a copy of said app, one for each additional company that wanted to use it, then you'd have to support all those apps.
Any changes made to functionality (column structure, views, actions, automation, etc.) will need to be duplicated on each additional app.
 - This then translates to hours of "extra" work you'll need to do.
Instead, use Security Filters to filter the data based on the company the user belongs to.
 - This keeps everything inside one app, so as a developer you only need to support that one.
 - Also, each company that suggests an improvement to the system is benefiting everyone.
You'll need:
 1. a "Companies" table
 2. a "Users" table - that's a child to the Companies
 3. other tables that then filter based on data from tables "higher" in the database
 - Like a "Clients" table being filtered to only show the "User_Assigned_Clients"
 - Or a "Projects" table being filtered to only show records based on the "Project_Client_Link" being present inside the "Clients" table
The process involves:
 - Creating a [Company_Master_Email_List]
 - Creating an automation to keep that list updated (based on changes to the user table)
 - Applying cascading security filters (Companies filters first, then Users, then everything else is based on those two)
Here's a video that shows the process
—| Table of Contents |—
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Benefits of single-app vs. multi-apps
01:14 - Required tables
01:44 - Key to how it all works
02:28 - Adding [Company_Master_Email_List]
02:57 - Creating an action to set the master list
04:15 - Running the action
05:22 - Creating a REF action
07:11 - Creating a BOT to keep things updated
08:31 - Bot condition for when it should run
09:06 - Creating a new task for the bot
09:55 - Actually implementing the Security Filters
10:40 - Companies table
11:02 - Users table
12:01 - Where to get more info (
12:57 - Wrap up


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NuGet Package NServiceBus (7.2 - 7.3)
Child containers are a snapshot of the main container providing an additional instance lifetime scope.
Child container scope in NServiceBus
NServiceBus creates a child container for each transport message that is received. During message processing, all InstancePerUnitOfWork scoped instances that are created are resolved as singletons within the context of the same message. This is helpful to support the sharing of database sessions and other resources with lifetimes specific to the processed message.
Objects can be configured in a child container scope using the InstancePerUnitOfWork lifetime:
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Deterministic disposal
Child containers automatically dispose all IDisposable instances created with InstancePerUnitOfWork lifetime once the message is processed. This is useful for managing things like database sessions which must be disposed of properly.
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William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.
Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women.
The characterization he portrayed in films and on radio was so strong it was generally identified with Fields himself. It was maintained by the publicity departments at Fields' studios (Paramount and Universal) and was further established by Robert Lewis Taylor's biography, W.C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes (1949). Beginning in 1973, with the publication of Fields' letters, photos, and personal notes in grandson Ronald Fields' book W.C. Fields by Himself, it was shown that Fields was married (and subsequently estranged from his wife), and financially supported their son and loved his grandchildren.


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I want to implement a script that runs through each feature of a feature class, zooms to the extent of the feature, sets the scale to 1:5.000 and adjacent takes a picture of the scene. The steps are in general very easy. My idea is to use the following code lines:
import arcpy.mapping
myMXD = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(myMXD)[0]
layer = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(myMXD, "", df)
# Zoom and Scale
df.zoomToSelectedFeatures()
df.scale = 5000
My Question is: How can I run through the whole list of features so that the script will zoom on each feature, set the scale back to 1:5000 and takes a picture? My first idea was to use the Search Cursor to run through the attribute table, but how can I than declare that the feature that is actually "visited" by the cursour is the selected one?
Thanks for any help and suggestions.
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You may want to look into Data Driven Pages. You can include Data Driven Pages in your Python script and give a static scale (like 5000) as you go to each feature. It can export each zoomed to feature as a separate image. The limitation is that Data Driven Pages only exports as a pdf file. You need ArcGIS 10 to use Data Driven Pages. – Baltok Feb 4 '13 at 22:16

The problem is that I have in real several DFs in my document and my collegue told me, that it is not possible to use Daten Driven Pages on several DFs. So my solution would be to implement an own python script... – Sven Feb 4 '13 at 22:20

It's true that Data Driven Pages can only be applied to one Data Frame at a time. So, you want your Python script to use SearchCursor to iterate through features and update on multiple Data Frames at the same time? – Baltok Feb 4 '13 at 22:31

That would be the preferred solution. – Sven Feb 5 '13 at 8:09
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I would use a two step process:
 1. Create a Python list of every unique ID by running a SearchCursor through it (preferably arcpy.da.SearchCursor but this requires ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 or higher)
 2. Iterate through that list to use the ID to make and use a SQL expression that lets you Select By Attribute (and zoom to) or apply a Definition Query (and zoom to) to each in succession - I suspect the Definition Query method will provide significantly better performance.
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Make a quine. Simple enough, except it has to be a palindrome and accept input.
Now, any side of a palindromic quine is one half of it. For example, one side of the hypothetical quine AAAA is AA. One side of AAAAA is AA (the center symbol is ignored).
Your job is to make a quine like this that accepts input. If the input is the whole quine, then the quine prints the left side of itself. If the input is either side of the quine then the quine prints itself. Of course, with quines with an odd number of symbols the center symbol is ignored. If the input is anything other than the cases specified, the program must do nothing.
This is code golf, so the shortest submission wins.
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Javascript, 224 200 bytes
Prompts for input. I shaved off some bytes by using ES6 features. Still can probably be golfed a lot more.
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Edit: -8 bytes thanks to Ørjan Johansen! Also changed to a version which does not need (<>).
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Do you know how to quickly convert your anilox rolls linescreen and volume values between metric and imperial unit measurements?
cm³/m² = BCM/in² x 1,55 (*)
BCM/in² = cm³/m² ÷ 1,55
(*) 1,54899999999999 rounded to 1,55
l/cm = lpi ÷ 2,54
lpi = l/cm x 2,54
BCM/in² = Billion Cubic Microns per square inch
cm³/m² = cubic centimeters per square meter
lpi = lines per inch
l/cm = lines per centimeter
Abbreviations and habits:
Volume in imperial expression (BCM/in²) is usually indicated only with the acronym BCM.
Volume in metric expression (cm³/m²) is also indicated as cc/m², or just cc, or -less properlyas grams/m² or even just (and still inproperly) grams, referring to the weight of the dry ink that was transferred, but that's a different thing.


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This free course concerns the calculus of variations. Section 1 introduces some key ingredients by solving a seemingly simple problem – finding the shortest distance between two points in a plane. The section also introduces the notions of a functional and of a stationary path. Section 2 describes basic problems that can be formulated in terms of functionals. Section 3 looks at partial and total derivatives. Section 4 contains a derivation of the Euler-Lagrange equation. In Section 5 the Euler-Lagrange equation is used to solve some of the earlier problems, as well as one arising from a new topic, Fermat's principle.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
understand what functionals are, and have some appreciation of their applications
apply the formula that determines stationary paths of a functional to deduce the differential equations for stationary paths in simple cases
use the Euler-Lagrange equation or its first integral to find differential equations for stationary paths
solve differential equations for stationary paths, subject to boundary conditions, in straightforward cases.
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During this fall term, students in Professor Marsha Weisiger's HIST 466 course, The American West, were assigned to read original diaries documenting journeys to the Pacific Northwest in the nineteenth century, housed in Special Collections and University Archives.
Special Collections and University Archives is the repository for over 100 overland trail journals and several sea journeys to the Pacific Northwest, many of which are original documents. Professor Weisiger's students are to read three journals and compare their differences and similarities among the three experiences, with particular focus on issues such as class, race, gender, and ethnicity.
The diaries documenting journeys to the Pacific Northwest (the Oregon Trail is the predominate route represented among the diaries) are described in the Special Collections and University Archives' subject guides here.
To the left is the first page of Abigail Scott Duniway's diary written in 1852 to document her family's migration over the Oregon Trail (Abigail Scott Duniway Papers, Coll. 232B). The finding aid to the Duniway Papers can be found here and the fully digitized diary can be found here.


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If your child is under three, please consult with their paediatrician before using the Oto-Tip. If you use the Oto-Tip with your child, ensure that either that they can communicate discomfort, or they can do it themselves under supervision of an adult, like you would if they were brushing their teeth.
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Because the Oto-Tip goes into your ear canal, we designed it so that it was quiet and soothing, and have actively dampened the sound of the motor to a soft whir. Most people would listen to their music louder than the Oto-Tip
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Premotor attention nudges saccades
Saccades often exhibit curvature. Consonant with the premotor theory of attention, modulating covert premotor attention influences the subsequent saccade trajectory. This saccade curvature can be induced through distractors. This finding is compatible with the model of attention itself as being based on a salience map. Eye movement would seek to navigate towards a salience optimum, while being nudged along the way.


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In this letter, a novel radial velocity estimation and range shift compensation algorithm is proposed for high-range resolution profiling of moving targets in stepped-frequency (SF) radar. Compared to traditional methods, this algorithm is based on a more precise signal model, and can therefore achieve much higher estimation accuracy. Furthermore, the range shift problem caused by target motion can be resolved without alterations to the radar waveform. The performance of this algorithm is demonstrated using simulated and experimental results.
Date of Publication: Oct. 2010


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(in Russian, podpora), a slender pole, 3 to 6 m long, having tines or splits at the upper end and made of hardwood (oak, beech, hornbean, ash). Props are placed under the branches of fruit trees at harvest time to prevent the branches from breaking and bending and to prevent the shedding of fruits during winds. The vertical installment of props and the umbrella-like attachment of branches to props are common.


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Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.
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Although a large amount of work has been done on Tree of heaven globally, very little is known of the species in South Africa. The extent of planting, naturalization and invasion is unknown, making the implementation of a suitable management plan a difficult task. Studies have shown that the species exists in all but one of South Africa's seven biomes (the forest biome being the only exception). Records show that the highest levels of invasion are seen in Gauteng, Free State and the Western Cape. The true extent of tree of heaven invasion in South Africa is however unknown.
The species is an incredibly hardy and adaptable plant, capable of withstanding adverse weather conditions like drought and flooding, as well as high levels of atmospheric pollution. Vigorous growth coupled with the plants' ability to produce an allelopathic chemical known as ailanthone may result in drastic alterations to natural habitats. Allelopathic chemicals are effectively herbicides released by some plants which inhibit the growth of (or even kill) neighbouring plants. The release of this chemical can drastically alter your garden landscape turning a beautiful set-up into a rather desolate scene.
No plant, regardless of type, has the ability to withstand the effects of ailanthone. As such, in order to ensure that a beautiful garden landscape is maintained, all Tree of heaven individuals or stands should be removed from your garden immediately. In addition to the natural damage, the tree's ability to grow and thrive in an urban environment makes the species a threat to infrastructure. Capable of growing through cracks in sidewalks as well as through gutters or even cracks in walls, this plant could ultimately weaken the structural stability and integrity of a building. A case has been reported in which the root system of a Tree of heaven, growing on an adjacent property, has spread far enough to crush the boundary wall and crack the lining of the neighbour's swimming pool.


Pro Tip: Cold extrusion can increase the emulsification abilities of plant-based proteins and produce functional ingredients.
The double-digit growth in the plant-based food market has slowed in the past year. According to MarketsandMarkets, however, the now $13.3 billion market is expected to grow to $19.2 billion over the next five years, representing a compound annual growth rate of 7.7%.
This outpaces other food industry categories and is driven by an increasing number of consumers, particularly younger consumers, demanding high-protein environmentally sustainable products that meet their expectations of flavor and texture.
Plant-based proteins such as peas, lentils and soy meet consumer demand regarding environmental sustainability and protein supplementation. Still, they often lack in terms of texture when compared to animal-based proteins.
In baked goods, plant-based proteins can cause chewy or dense textures from decreases in loaf volume or collapsing cakes. These issues have led to a body of research over the past several years centered on improving the functionality of plant-based proteins.
One processing methodology that may aid in improving texture is cold extrusion, due to its ability to increase the emulsification abilities of plant-based proteins and produce functional ingredients.
Figure 1: Top - Depiction of emulsion coalescence. When oil droplets are present in water without emulsifiers, the droplets come together to form larger droplets, in part, through coalescence. Using emulsifiers can reduce oil droplet coalescence, leading to more stable and texturally appealing baked goods; Bottom - Depiction of pea protein monomers, the assumed state of cold denatured pea protein, coating an oil droplet. The protein's hydrophobic surface area adheres to the oil droplets, leading to a stable protein layer on the oil droplet. This protein layer is positively charged at pH 3, which prevents the coated droplets from coalescing.
In cakes, muffins and other batter-based baked goods, one of the drivers of collapsing products when adding plant-based protein is poor emulsification.
For the batter to remain stable during the baking process, a homogenous blend of small oil particles must be coated by an emulsifier and evenly dispersed throughout the batter.
This is traditionally accomplished by mixing eggs, oil and sugar before adding other ingredients, where the mixing action separates the oil into small droplets that are coated by the phospholipid lecithin that is naturally present in egg yolks.
If supplementing with plant-based protein at this step, the protein competes with lecithin for interactions at the oil interface. Lecithin and the protein can also interact, decreasing the amount of functional emulsifier available in the batter. This leads to the coalescence of oil droplets and unstable products during processing.
Cold denaturation is a counter-intuitive method of protein unfolding that occurs due to a weakening of hydrophobic forces at low temperatures, leading to denaturation and the exposure of hydrophobic surface area.
This increases the attraction between oil droplets and proteins, leading to more stable emulsions along with increases in the electrostatic repulsive forces of the protein.
In a comparison of emulsions prepared with 1% pea protein solutions at pH 3 and similar solutions that had been stirred at 0.5°C for 30 minutes before emulsifying, the cold-treated protein led to significantly more stable emulsions.
Based on this data, pea protein was tempered to 60% moisture with acidified water and extruded at a barrel temperature of -20°C. It was found that in cold extrusion, pea protein could bind significantly more oil than in hot extrusion conditions; cold-extruded products could also bind more water after grinding into a powder.
These extruded protein-oil conjugates may make an interesting functional ingredient in overcoming some of the textural issues in baked goods formulated with plant-based protein.
If using "pre-emulsified" protein powders with high levels of added lipids, it may be possible to develop plant-based protein products that allow for a distribution of lipids and proteins into batters without the need to emulsify to the same extent during mixing, leading to tender textures in cakes or muffins that are less prone to collapse.
These ingredients could also be useful in formulating high-protein cream-like fillings that retain smooth and creamy textures.
While there is still much research that needs to be done to establish whether cold extrusion could help the baking industry, the preliminary results indicate this technology aids in producing stable emulsions and may find usage in high-protein baked goods or fillings that retain desirable textures that come from using fats in product formulas.
Harrison Helmick is a PhD candidate at Purdue University. You can connect with him on LinkedIn .
His research is conducted with the support of Jozef Kokini, Andrea Liceaga, and Arun Bhunia .


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by Staff Writers
Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 23, 2013
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) together with researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), have developed a special treatment for cotton fabric that allows the cotton to absorb exceptional amounts of water from misty air: 340 % of its own weight.
What makes this 'coated cotton' so interesting is that the cotton releases the collected water by itself, as it gets warmer. This property makes of the coated cotton materials a potential solution to provide water to the desert regions, for example for agricultural purposes. The results of this research will be published next month in the scientific journal Advanced Materials.
The researchers applied a coating of PNIPAAm, a polymer, to the cotton fabric. At lower temperatures, this cotton has a sponge-like structure at microscopic level.
Up to a temperature of 34C it is highly hydrophilic, in other words it absorbs water strongly. Through this property the cotton can absorb 340 % of its own weight of water from misty air - compared with only 18% without the PNIPAAm coating.
In contrast, once the temperature raises the material becomes hydrophobic or water-repellant, and above 34C the structure of the PNIPAAm-coated Beetles in desert areas can collect and drink water from fogs, by capturing water droplets on their bodies, which roll into their mouths.
Similarly, some spiders capture humidity on their silk network. This was the inspiration for this new coated-cotton material, which collects and releases water from misty environments simply as the temperature changes throughout the day.
This property implies that the material may potentially be suitable for providing water in deserts or mountain regions, where the air is often misty at night. According to TU/e researcher dr.
Catarina Esteves a further advantage is that the basic material - cotton fabric - is cheap and can be easily and locally produced. The polymer coating increases the cost slightly, but with the current conditions the amount required is only about 12%. In addition, the polymer used is not particularly costly.
Fine-mesh 'fog harvesting nets' are already being used in some mountains and dry coastal areas, but these use a different principle: they collect water from misty air, by droplets that gradually form on the nets and fall to the ground or a suitable recipient. But this system depends on a strong air flow, wind. The coated cotton developed the research team can also work without wind.
In addition, cotton fibers coated with this polymer can be laid directly where the water is needed, for example on cultivated soil. The researchers are also considering completely different applications such as camping tents that collect water at night, or sportswear that keeps perspiring athletes dry.
The research was led by professor John Xin at PolyU and dr. Catarina Esteves at TU/e. They now intend to investigate further how they can optimize the quality of the new material.
For example they hope to increase the amount of water absorbed by the coated-cotton. Moreover they also expect to be able to adjust the temperature at which the material changes from water-collecting to the water-releasing state, towards lower temperatures.
Eindhoven University of Technology
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How to configure SonicWall VPN using LDAP
You can secure access to SonicWall VPNs using LDAP. Users can sign in using either the mobile app or by receiving a voice call on their phone. If using the mobile app, the will provide their username and a blank password. When signin in, a user will need to approve the signin on their mobile phone before the signin completes. If using a voice call, users will provide their account PIN in the password box. They will receive a phone call directing them to press the number one on their phone keypad to complete the sign in process.
 1. In your console (e.g. navigate to Apps.
 2. Create a new LDAP application. Note the Server Address, Server Port, Root Binding DN.
 3. Click Activate
Configuring SonicWall
 1. From the SonicWall console, choose Users then Settings.
 2. In the User Authentication method drop-down menu, select either LDAP or LDAP + Local Users.
 3. Click Configure LDAP
 4. For Name or IP Address provide the value give in the console, something like
 5. For Port Number, choose 636.
 6. For Server Timeout choose 300 seconds.
 7. Select Give bind distinguished name
 8. For the Bind distinguished name provide the value from the console. For Login Password type anything.
 9. Check Use TLS.
 10. Check Require valid certificate from server.
 11. Do not check Force PAP to MSCHAPv2.
 12. Click Apply.
Schema Tab
 1. Click the Schema tab.
 2. LDAP Schema choose Microsoft Active Directory.
 3. In the Directory tab, note the value of Trees containing users is something like Turn this into a LDAP DN, something like cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com. Put this value into the User Suffix field in the console.
 1. Choose the Test tab.
 2. Enter a valid username or email address for User.
 3. If you have the mobile app set up, enter anything at all for the password. If you are using voice call authentication, enter your account PIN or password.
 4. Press test.
 5. You will receive a notification or voice call. When you approve, your signin will complete.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small cup-shaped structure or organ, such as the cup at the base of an acorn or one of the suckers on the feet of certain flies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small cup-shaped depression, as in rock.
- n. In botany: A form of involucre, occurring in the oak, beech, chestnut, and hazel, consisting of bracts which in fruit cohere into a kind of cup. In fungi, a receptacle shaped like the cup of an acorn, as in Peziza.
- n. In entomology, a little cup-shaped organ; specifically, one of the sucking-disks on the lower surface of the tarsi of certain aquatic beetles.
- n. Also cupula.
- n. Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
- n. (Zoöl.) A sucker or acetabulum.
- n. cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
- n. a sucker on the feet of certain flies
- Late Latin cūpula, little cask, diminutive of Latin cūpa, tub. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"6D: Nut with a cupule (ACORN) - remembered this feature from some earlier discussion we had about the word "cupule"
"A common form of prehistoric rock-art here in California is the cupule."
"Each girl ground a cupule at the completion of the rite and families had their own special rock faces where this was done."
"Cohesion of the bracts by their edges, so as to form a tubular involucre, or by their surfaces, so as to form a cupule, is not of uncommon occurrence, under natural conditions, and may be met with in plants which ordinarily do not exhibit this appearance."
"PS (2008) Molecular phylogenetics and cupule evolution in Fagaceae as inferred from nuclear CRABS CLAW sequences."
"[Dr. Johnson again.] acorn... the nut of the oak usu. seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts."
These user-created lists contain the word 'cupule'.
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Crustaceans and insects have multi-purpose appendages. to name a few:
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Thu October 4, 2012
The Accountant Who Changed The World
Originally published on Fri October 5, 2012 4:04 pm
The story of the birth of accounting begins with numbers. In the 1400s, much of Europe was still using Roman numerals, and finding it really hard to easily add or subtract. (Try adding MCVI to XCIV.)
But fortunately, Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) started catching on, and with those numbers, merchants in Venice developed a revolutionary system we now call "double-entry" bookkeeping. This is how it works:
Every transaction gets entered twice in financial records. If one day you sold three gold coins' worth of pepper, you would write that the amount of cash you had went up by three gold coins. You would also write in that the amount of pepper you had went down by three gold coins' worth.
Before double-entry, people just kept diaries and counted their money at the end of the day. This innovation allowed merchants to see every aspect of their business in neat little rows.
Jane Gleeson-White wrote the new book Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance. She explains how significant this new accounting was:
"You could itemize the profits in each account, so you knew which products you were doing well in and which you weren't. Then you could start to think about how you would change your business activities. It was just a whole revolution in the way of thinking about business and trade."
Luca Pacioli was a monk, magician and lover of numbers. He discovered this special bookkeeping in Venice and was intrigued by it. In 1494, he wrote a huge math encyclopedia and included an instructional section on double-entry bookkeeping.
Thanks to the newly invented printing press, his book was mass produced and became a big hit. One of the first readers was Leonardo da Vinci, who at the time was painting The Last Supper. Pacioli's encyclopedia had a section on the mathematics of perspective painting which fascinated da Vinci.
"They were hanging out together....I think they were probably lovers. They certainly spent a lot of time together, and definitely Luca Pacioli was there in the church when Leonardo da Vinci was there in the actual church when Leonardo da Vinci was painting The Last Supper," said Gleeson-White.
What Pacioli is known for today, though, is that tiny section of the book about accounting. Today, every country and every business uses double-entry bookkeeping.
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
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And I'm Melissa Block.
We don't do too many stories about accounting, for good reason - even accountants admit it's boring. But that wasn't always the case.
David Kestenbaum, with our Planet Money Team, has this story about an accounting trick that rocked the world some 500 years ago. It involves a man who was a magician, a mathematician, and possibly the boyfriend of Leonardo Da Vinci.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: This is the story of the birth of accounting. And if you think about it, before you can have accounting, you really need something else. You need numbers. And in the 1400s, much of Europe was still using Roman numerals.
JANE GLEESON WHITE: I thought Roman numerals must have gone out with Roman Empire. But no, they lasted well into the Renaissance.
KESTENBAUM: This is Jane Gleeson White, author of the new book "Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance."
WHITE: The problem with Roman numerals is, as any school child knows if they tried to work with them, is you can't add or subtract with them. You have to...
WHITE: They're like a written language for recording numerals. I mean, you might as well carve them into rock, that's how useful they are. Well, we still do that, don't we?
KESTENBAUM: Fortunately Arabic numerals: 1,2,3,4,5, those are catching on in Europe. And with those numbers, merchants in Venice are keeping very detailed financial records, using a revolutionary system we now call double entry bookkeeping. It's what students learn in Accounting 101. It's unclear who invented it but it works like this.
Every transaction gets entered twice in your financial records. If one day you sold, say, three gold coins worth of pepper, you would write that the amount of cash you had went up by three gold coins and the amount of pepper you had went down by three gold coins worth. Before this, people just kept diaries and counted their money at the end of the day. Now you could see every aspect of your business in neat little rows.
WHITE: It just became, for want of a better word, much more scientific. You could itemize the profits in each account. So you knew which products you were doing well in and which you weren't. And then you could think about how you would change your business activities. It was just a whole revolution in the way of thinking about business and trade.
KESTENBAUM: This great idea, though, it needed a way to get out to the world, which is where the accidental hero of our story appears - a man named Luca Pacioli. And Pacioli's great role in history is just that he wrote it down. He writes down how to do this.
Pacioli is a monk and a magician but really, his love is numbers. In 1494, he writes this huge encyclopedia of math, which today would be over a thousand pages long. And tucked inside, he includes a little instructional section on double-entry bookkeeping. Thanks to the newly invented printing press, the book can be mass-produced and it's a big hit.
WHITE: One of first readers of Luca Pacioli's encyclopedia was Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo reads the book and thinks it's the coolest, latest thing. It is the coolest, latest thing in mathematics.
KESTENBAUM: Da Vinci at the time is painting "The Last Supper." And conveniently, Pacioli's book has a section on the mathematics of perspective painting. The two men became friends. It is possible, Jane Gleeson White says, that Pacioli, and his book helped Leonardo Da Vinci complete "The Last Supper."
WHITE: They were hanging out together. You know, they lived together after they left Milan. I think that they were probably lovers, they certainly spent a lot of time together. And definitely, Luca Pacioli, he was there in the church when Leonardo Da Vinci was painting "The Last Supper."
KESTENBAUM: What Pacioli is known for today, though, is that tiny section of his book about accounting. Today, every business uses double-entry bookkeeping, every country. It's how we keep track of GDP and all that stuff. If Luca Pacioli were alive today...
WHITE: I think he'd be absolutely astonished. I mean, to think that that had gone on to become the governing system of every economy on Earth, and every corporation, every business, he would be astonished, wouldn't he? He'd fall over backwards, I think.
KESTENBAUM: Luca Pacioli today is sometimes called the Father of Accounting.
David Kestenbaum NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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Tabebuia serratifolia is an arboreal species, widely distributed in Brazil, with high economical and ornamental value. Its propagation is made by seeds dispersion and little is known about the methodology to evaluate its seeds physiological quality. Therefore, this work studied types of appropriate substrate and temperatures for running the germination test of Tabebuia serratifolia under laboratory condition. The germination test was carried out using two seed lots (harvest of 1998 and 1999), two types of substrates(blotter and sand) under different temperature regimes (ranging from 15 to 35oC on a termogradient table, and an oscillating regime 20-30oC in a BOD incubator) with photoperiod of 12 hours. The evaluation was made daily and the results expressed as percentage and index of germination speed.The results showed that the seed germination was higher at temperatures in the 25 to 35oC range, being quicker at 30oC. Under temperature oscillating from 20 to 30oC, germination was not favored. Regarding to the substrate both sand and blotter were promising to be used in the germination test in the optimal range of temperature.


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How can the WFD cost categories made more feasible? (by Ingo Heinz) - ABSTRACT: One of the key challenges laid down in the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is to evaluate water services in such a way that the charges for such services reflect all their costs. The prices for water supply and other services have to capture the costs incurred by the provision of these services. However, in practice there are different views on this cost-recovery principle. One of them confines it to the costs of the equipment needed to ensure the provision of the services the so-called financial costs. Another approach incorporates the environmental costs, which are usually not taken sufficiently into account in cost calculations of water users. They are related to environmental damage caused, for instance, by overuse of waters or excessive water pollution. The economic evaluation of environmental damage is sometimes difficult or not possible at all. The costs of preventing and mitigating such damage are therefore often used as a proxy.
A third cost definition refers to the resource costs. This category can be interpreted as those costs that are caused by a failure to use water resources optimally. A typical example is an inefficient water allocation among different water users due to a 'wrong' assignment of water rights. By changing such an allocation additional benefits from water use may be obtained. Another example is insufficient investment in installations to ensure water supply in the future. From a long-term perspective, the future benefits can exceed the present costs. The WFD has recognised these three cost categories. However, there are some uncertainties regarding the definitions and calculation methods. In particular, the definition of resource costs may cause confusion in distinguishing them from the environmental costs. For instance, an excessive depletion of water resources can cause both environmental damage (e.g. impaired forests) and resource costs. However, the resource costs should be understood as the additional economic value of water that is required to reach an optimal or sustainable use of water. There are several tools, such as the cost-effectiveness analysis, the cost benefit analysis or even hydro-economic models (such as developed in the Jucar river basin, Spain) which can help to determine the forgone economic benefits and the corresponding charges. With regard to the term financial costs, further clarifications also appear to be necessary, even though this type of cost calculation causes less methodological problems. There are various cost calculation methods, which can lead to considerable differences in the computed costs. For instance, discount rates in calculating the annual capital costs can differ (interest rates on capital markets versus social discount rates). The financial costs of water services can be very sensitive to changes in the value of the discount rate applied. Even a small increase in this value can make a project 'too expensive'. A further clarification may be needed with regard to the depreciation method for calculating the annual capital costs (usually the main component of the financial costs of water services). Should they be calculated on the basis of current or future replacement values? Should they include additional investments needed in the future? In the following, the possibilities for and the limitations of the application of the ambitious WFD cost and water pricing approach will be analysed. Recommendations will also be made with regard to a clearer definition of each of the three cost categories.


OpenAI Whisper tutorial: Updating our Whisper API with GPT-3
2022-10-13T13:02:46.841Z by Flafi
OpenAI Whisper tutorial: Updating our Whisper API with GPT-3
What is Whisper?
Whisper is an automatic State-of-the-Art speech recognition system from OpenAI that has been trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. This large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness to accents, background noise and technical language. In addition, it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into English. OpenAI released the models and code to serve as a foundation for building useful applications that leverage speech recognition.
What is GPT-3?
GPT-3 is a language model from OpenAI that can generate text. It is trained on a large dataset of text from the web.
How to start?
This tutorial is an upgrade of the previous tutorial Whisper API with Flask and Docker.
So please first check that out :) If you already did that you can continue here.
OpenAI API key
If you don't have it already please go to OpenAI and create an account. And create your API key. Never share your API key in public repository!
Updates to requirement.txt
We are adding openai package to our file
Creating file for gpt3 function
We will create a new file called gpt3.py and add the following code to it. In the prompt I was using the summary option to summarize the text, but you can use anything you want. And you can tweak the parameters as well.
import openai
def gpt3complete(speech):
 # Completion function call engine: text-davinci-002
 Platformresponse = openai.Completion.create(
 engine="text-davinci-002",
 prompt="Write a short summary of this text: {}".format(speech),
 temperature=0.7,
 max_tokens=1500,
 top_p=1,
 frequency_penalty=0,
 presence_penalty=0,
 )
 return Platformresponse.choices[0].text
Update app.py
On the top we will update our imports. Instead of "MY_API_KEY" please insert the API key you created earlier.
import openai
import gpt3
# GPT-3 API Key
openai.api_key = "MY_API_KEY"
Update the /whisper route
We will integrate our new GPT3 function into the route. So when we are getting the result from whisper we will pass it to the gpt3 function and return the result.
@app.route('/whisper', methods=['POST'])
def handler():
 if not request.files:
 # If the user didn't submit any files, return a 400 (Bad Request) error.
 abort(400)
 # For each file, let's store the results in a list of dictionaries.
 results = []
 # Loop over every file that the user submitted.
 for filename, handle in request.files.items():
 # Create a temporary file.
 # The location of the temporary file is available in 'temp.name'.
 temp = NamedTemporaryFile()
 # Write the user's uploaded file to the temporary file.
 # The file will get deleted when it drops out of scope.
 handle.save(temp)
 # Let's get the transcript of the temporary file.
 result = model.transcribe(temp.name)
 text = result['text']
 # Let's get the summary of the soundfile
 summary = gpt3.gpt3complete(text)
 # Now we can store the result object for this file.
 results.append({
 'filename': filename,
 'transcript': text.strip(),
 'summary': summary.strip(),
 })
 # This will be automatically converted to JSON.
 return {'results': results}
How to run the container?
 1. Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you created the files.
 2. Run the following command to build the container:
docker build -t whisper-api .
 1. When built is ready, run the following command to run the container:
docker run -p 5000:5000 whisper-api
How to test the API?
 1. You can test the API by sending a POST request to the route http://localhost:5000/whisper with a file in it. Body should be form-data.
 2. You can use the following curl command to test the API:
curl -F "file=@/path/to/file" http://localhost:5000/whisper
 1. In result you should get a JSON object with the transcript and summary in it.
How to deploy the API?
This API can be deployed anywhere where Docker can be used. Just keep in mind that this setup currently using CPU for processing the audio files. If you want to use GPU you need to change Dockerfile and share the GPU. I won't go into this deeper as this is an introduction. Docker GPU
You can find the whole code here
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Does Running Make Your Butt Bigger or Smaller?
How you fit in blue jeans largely depends on your genes. However, running can help to sculpt your backside. Depending on the type of running you do -- loaded sprints or long endurance runs -- you can make your butt either bigger or smaller. For weight loss, you need to combine an exercise regimen with a sensible diet to achieve a calorie deficit.
Hills and Your Backside
Speed training employs a technique called sprint loading, in which you increase the resistance in a running workout. Various ways to load a sprint include running hills or stairs and pulling a weighted shed, tire or parachute. When you do uphill sprints, the demand on your glutes equates to an Olympic lift, according to coach Brad Hudson in "Run Faster: 6 Adaptive Running Methods" in "Running Times." Because you're lifting your body weight up a slope, uphill sprints are designed to build muscle mass and power, making your glutes bigger. Using a 6- to 10-percent grade hill, perform one or two 10-second sprints at the end of an easy run. Walk downhill to recover from the sprint, minimizing the impact on your knees. Add one repeat on a weekly basis until you can do a set of eight sprints.
Bigger Buttocks on a Beach
Running on sand is similar to running with ankle weights. You can boost the load of a run and build your glutes. According to a 1998 study published in "The Journal of Experimental Biology," Belgium-based researchers found that running on sand requires 1.6 times more energy than running on a hard surface, such as pavement. Your butt has to work harder to plant your feet, displace sand and then lift your feet back up. Sand also poses an unstable surface, which increases the intensity of the workout and activates your core musculature.
Long Runs and the Vanishing Butt
To maintain your health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that an adult do either 150 minutes of moderately intense activity, such as brisk walking, or 75 minutes of rigorous cardio, such as running, per week. Performing longer runs of up to 60 minutes on a daily basis or at least double the centers' weekly recommendation of cardiovascular activity can help to burn excess fat all over your body, which can include your buttocks. Spot-reducing is a myth. You can't target a particular region of your body for weight loss. In concert with endurance runs, you'll need to follow a balanced nutritional plan that induces a calorie deficit. Losing a pound per week requires a 500-calorie deficit per day.
Brief Bursts for Rocket Burn
A training method in which you perform short bursts of high-intensity exercise followed by periods of active rest can crank up your metabolism and burn more calories. For example, a high-intensity interval workout can consist of 20 to 30 minutes of 15-second sprints on a treadmill at an intensity level of 8, according to the "Men's Health Natural Bodybuilding Bible" by Tyler English. Follow each sprint with a 30-second recovery period of leisurely running at an intensity level of 4 or 5. Do five to 10 minutes of light cardio to warm-up and prevent injury. While this type of training can help to trim your butt and requires less time, avoid it if you have any heart issues or are just starting a fitness regimen.
- Runner's World: Quick Ascent
- Running Times: Run Faster: 6 Adaptive Running Methods
- The Journal of Experimental Biology: Mechanics and Energetics of Human Location on Sand; T. M. Lejeune et al.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: How Much Physical Activity Do Adults Need?
- Men's Health Natural Bodybuilding Bible: A Complete 24-Week Program for Sculpting Muscles That Show; Tyler English
Kay Tang is a journalist who has been writing since 1990. She previously covered developments in theater for the "Dramatists Guild Quarterly." Tang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from Yale University and completed a Master of Professional Studies in interactive telecommunications at New York University.


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