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Red Fife was the baking and milling industries standard of 'wheat' in Canada from 1860 to 1900. The origin is a mystery. Sent to Peterborough Ontario farmer Fife in 1840, it took its name from the seed color and Fife's name.
Red Fife Wheat's origin is a mystery. Perhaps it originated in the Vistula delta of what is now Poland, then shipped from Danzig to Glasgow, where a friend of David Fife sent a sample to Canada. Fife then grew the variety in Ontario and shared it with other farmers, calling the wheat Red Fife after its distinctive color on his land. Red Fife wheat kernels are not always red in color. The Red Fife seed adapted to a great diversity of growing conditions across Canada and became the baking and milling industry standard for forty years, from the 1860s to the turn of the twentieth century.
Starting in the early 20teens Cornell university got a SARE grant to clean up the genetics to insure that the Red Fife is back to its original standards and quality because it was the land race wheat that people saved from generations to generations it had contaminations from modern verities. Under the supervision of Phillip Atkins who is a plant breeder from the NY seed improvement society. It was cleaned up with modern genetics removed and was taken back to the plant description of the 1800s.
2015 I was happy to be able to get some of this Red Fife and grow it out for the project and it was inspected with the green tag for quality insured seed. The project was wrapped up with the seed being called improved Red Fife. Since then we have expanded our seed crop and grow about 10-15 acres a year of Improved Red Fife. It makes the best tasting, moist bread! It is well saught after for its taste! It came from a time that farmers ate what they grew and cared about the flavor!
Also we have had people who cant normally eat gluten be able to eat this Red Fife.


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What is Opus(OPT)?
This is a question that many people are asking, and for good reason. Opus is a new cryptocurrency that has been generating a lot of buzz lately. It was created in 2017 by the company BitShares Munich. So far, it has proven to be quite successful, and there is a lot of excitement surrounding it. In this blog post, we will discuss what Opus is, how it works, and why you should consider investing in.
Who Are the Founders of Opus(OPT)?
The team behind OPUS(OPT) is quite impressive. It is led by serial entrepreneur andBitShares founder, Stan Larimer. Other notable members of the team include BitShares core developer, Fabian Schuh, and former Bitcoin Foundation director Peter Vessenes. With such a strong team in place, it is no wonder that OPT is one of the leading altcoins.
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What Makes Opus(OPT) unique?
There are a few things that make OPT unique. First, it is the first cryptocurrency to be built on the BitShares blockchain. This gives it a lot of potential because the BitShares blockchain is very robust and scalable. Additionally, OPUS is also the first cryptocurrency to use the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) consensus.

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Drone Hijacking? That's Just the Start of GPS TroublesJuly 8, 2012
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during a test organized by the Department of Homeland Security.
The drone, an Adaptive Flight Hornet Mini, was hovering at around 60 feet, locked into a predetermined position guided by GPS. Then, with a device that cost around $1,000 and the help of sophisticated software that took four years to develop, the researchers sent a radio signal from a hilltop one kilometer away. In security lingo, they carried out a spoofing attack.
"We fooled the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) into thinking that it was rising straight up," says Todd Humphreys, assistant professor at the Radionavigation Laboratory at the University of Texas.
Deceiving the drone's GPS receiver, they changed its perceived coordinates. To compensate, the small copter dove straight down, thinking it was returning to its programmed position. If not for a safety pilot intervening before the drone hit the ground, it would have crashed.
But for Humphreys playing the part of an evil genius in a thriller movie, everything worked exactly to plan. "It was beautiful," he tells Danger Room.

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LIVE OAK, FLA., NOV. 18, 2022 – The Suwannee River Water Management District (District) is expanding its algae monitoring program to include four additional priority springs in North Florida.
This program will assist the District in monitoring the occurrence of algae and aquatic vegetation to better understand ecological changes in local springs over time.
The expansion of the program includes Allen Mill Pond, Hornsby, Gilchrist Blue, and Little Fanning springs. This is in addition to Madison Blue Spring, which the District began monitoring last year as the pilot project for the program.
At these locations, staff collect data at multiple points along the spring run to assess the abundance of algae and aquatic vegetation. Data obtained from these efforts is expected to help establish spring-specific minimum flows and minimum water levels (MFLs). MFLs are a means to ensure water availability for the present and future, and to prevent significant harm to the area's natural resources.
"This monitoring program will allow the District to evaluate relationships between algae, aquatic vegetation, spring flows and other environmental variables to develop MFLs that protect our local springs," said Sean King, Chief of the Office of MFLs.
The mission of the Suwannee River Water Management District is to protect and manage water resources using science-based solutions to support natural systems and the needs of the public. The District holds true to the belief of water for nature, water for people. Headquartered in Live Oak, Florida, the District serves 15 surrounding north-central Florida counties.
For more information about the District, visit _URL_ or follow us on Facebook and Twitter, search @SRWMD.


"The Significance of Myth in Ceremony"
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The Significance of Myth in Ceremony
Many people in our culture misunderstand the function of myth. We typically assume that there are two kinds of narrative, completely distinct from one another: a journalistic compilation of facts, all literally true and verifiable, or stories spun by a fiction writer for the purpose of entertainment only. Myth, we assume, falls resoundingly into the latter group. While primitive and superstitious people may have once believed that the sun was pulled across the sky by a chariot, we in our infinite scientific wisdom know that is not the reason that the sun appears to move in the sky when viewed from earth. Therefore, the myth is written off purely as a work of fiction and fantasy.
Indigenous peoples throughout the world, however, look at their myths and folktales in quite another way. They recognize in them an explanation, not for the way physical science works or history occurred, but for the way their culture feels about itself.
Myths explain by analogy concepts that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to explain literally. They do so in a way that bypasses the conscious, analytical mind and heads straight for the heart (technically, the unconscious). The stories are thus both emotionally and psychologically satisfying, and can have a very therapeutic effect when an individual's spirit is sick. When he feels, in other words, out of sync with the group that gives him his ultimate identity.
This is the situation in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. The protagonist, Tayo, has suffered what we would consider a nervous breakdown as a result of traumas suffered in the war. The trauma actually occurred because he was ordered to shoot enemy soldiers, who seemed to him to bear the faces of his ancestors. He is first sent to...


What is Sandbox inspection?
What is Sandbox inspection?
Sandbox inspection is a network process that allows files to be sent to a separate device, such as FortiSandbox, to be inspected without risking network security. This allows the detection of threats capable of bypassing other security measures, including zero-day threats.
You can configure your FortiGate device to send suspicious files to FortiSandbox for inspection and analysis. The FortiGate queries scan results and retrieves scan details. The FortiGate can also download malware packages as a complementary AV signature database to block future intrusions by the same malware and download URL packages as complementary web-filtering black lists.
The FortiSandbox uses virtual machines (VMs) running different operating systems to test a file and to determine if it is malicious. If the file exhibits risky behavior, or is found to contain a virus, a new signature can be added to the FortiGuard AntiVirus signature database.
When a FortiGate learns from FortiSandbox that an endpoint is infected, the administrator can quarantine the host, if it is registered to a FortiClient.
FortiSandbox has a VM pool and processes multiple files simultaneously. The amount of time to process a file depends on hardware and the number of sandbox VMs used to scan the file. For example, it can take 60 seconds to five minutes to process a file. FortiSandbox has a robust prefiltering process that, if enabled, reduces the need to inspect every file and reduces processing time. For more information on enabling prefiltering, refer to the FortiSandbox documentation.
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You are viewing the documentation for the 2.4.4 release in the 2.4.x series of releases. The latest stable release series is 2.7.x.
§Understanding Play thread pools
Play framework is, from the bottom up, an asynchronous web framework. Streams are handled asynchronously using iteratees. Thread pools in Play are tuned to use fewer threads than in traditional web frameworks, since IO in play-core never blocks.
Because of this, if you plan to write blocking IO code, or code that could potentially do a lot of CPU intensive work, you need to know exactly which thread pool is bearing that workload, and you need to tune it accordingly. Doing blocking IO without taking this into account is likely to result in very poor performance from Play framework, for example, you may see only a few requests per second being handled, while CPU usage sits at 5%. In comparison, benchmarks on typical development hardware (eg, a MacBook Pro) have shown Play to be able to handle workloads in the hundreds or even thousands of requests per second without a sweat when tuned correctly.
§Knowing when you are blocking
The most common place where a typical Play application will block is when it's talking to a database. Unfortunately, none of the major databases provide asynchronous database drivers for the JVM, so for most databases, your only option is to using blocking IO. A notable exception to this is ReactiveMongo, a driver for MongoDB that uses Play's Iteratee library to talk to MongoDB.
Other cases when your code may block include:
In general, if the API you are using returns Futures, it is non-blocking, otherwise it is blocking.
Note that you may be tempted to therefore wrap your blocking code in Futures. This does not make it non-blocking, it just means the blocking will happen in a different thread. You still need to make sure that the thread pool that you are using has enough threads to handle the blocking.
In contrast, the following types of IO do not block:
§Play's thread pools
Play uses a number of different thread pools for different purposes:
Note that in Play 2.4 several thread pools were combined together into the Play default thread pool.
§Using the default thread pool
All actions in Play Framework use the default thread pool. When doing certain asynchronous operations, for example, calling map or flatMap on a future, you may need to provide an implicit execution context to execute the given functions in. An execution context is basically another name for a ThreadPool.
In most situations, the appropriate execution context to use will be the Play default thread pool. This can be used by importing it into your Scala source file:
import play.api.libs.concurrent.Execution.Implicits._
def someAsyncAction = Action.async {
 import play.api.Play.current
 WS.url("_URL_").get().map { response =>
 // This code block is executed in the imported default execution context
 // which happens to be the same thread pool in which the outer block of
 // code in this action will be executed.
 Results.Ok("The response code was " + response.status)
 }
}
§Configuring the Play default thread pool
The default thread pool can be configured using standard Akka configuration in application.conf under the akka namespace. Here is default configuration for Play's thread pool:
akka {
 fork-join-executor {
 # Settings this to 1 instead of 3 seems to improve performance.
 parallelism-factor = 1.0
 parallelism-max = 24
 # Setting this to LIFO changes the fork-join-executor
 # to use a stack discipline for task scheduling. This usually
 # improves throughput at the cost of possibly increasing
 # latency and risking task starvation (which should be rare).
 task-peeking-mode = LIFO
 }
}
This configuration instructs Akka to create 1 thread per available processor, with a maximum of 24 threads in the pool.
You can also try the default Akka configuration:
akka {
 fork-join-executor {
 # The parallelism factor is used to determine thread pool size using the
 # following formula: ceil(available processors * factor). Resulting size
 # is then bounded by the parallelism-min and parallelism-max values.
 parallelism-factor = 3.0
 # Min number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
 parallelism-min = 8
 # Max number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
 parallelism-max = 64
 }
}
The full configuration options available to you can be found here.
§Using other thread pools
In certain circumstances, you may wish to dispatch work to other thread pools. This may include CPU heavy work, or IO work, such as database access. To do this, you should first create a ThreadPool, this can be done easily in Scala:
object Contexts {
 implicit val myExecutionContext: ExecutionContext = Akka.system.dispatchers.lookup("my-context")
}
In this case, we are using Akka to create the ExecutionContext, but you could also easily create your own ExecutionContexts using Java executors, or the Scala fork join thread pool, for example. To configure this Akka execution context, you can add the following configuration to your application.conf:
my-context {
 fork-join-executor {
 parallelism-factor = 20.0
 parallelism-max = 200
 }
}
To use this execution context in Scala, you would simply use the scala Future companion object function:
Future {
 // Some blocking or expensive code here
}(Contexts.myExecutionContext)
or you could just use it implicitly:
import Contexts.myExecutionContext
Future {
 // Some blocking or expensive code here
}
§Class loaders and thread locals
Class loaders and thread locals need special handling in a multithreaded environment such as a Play program.
§Application class loader
In a Play application the thread context class loader may not always be able to load application classes. You should explicitly use the application class loader to load classes.
Java
Class myClass = Play.application().classloader().loadClass(myClassName);
Scala
val myClass = Play.current.classloader.loadClass(myClassName)
Being explicit about loading classes is most important when running Play in development mode (using run) rather than production mode. That's because Play's development mode uses multiple class loaders so that it can support automatic application reloading. Some of Play's threads might be bound to a class loader that only knows about a subset of your application's classes.
In some cases you may not be able to explicitly use the application classloader. This is sometimes the case when using third party libraries. In this case you may need to set the thread context class loader explicitly before you call the third party code. If you do, remember to restore the context class loader back to its previous value once you've finished calling the third party code.
§Java thread locals
Java code in Play uses a ThreadLocal to find out about contextual information such as the current HTTP request. Scala code doesn't need to use ThreadLocals because it can use implicit parameters to pass context instead. ThreadLocals are used in Java so that Java code can access contextual information without needing to pass context parameters everywhere.
Java ThreadLocals, along with the correct context ClassLoader, are propagated automatically by ExecutionContextExecutor objects provided through the HttpExecution class. (An ExecutionContextExecutor is both a Scala ExecutionContext and a Java Executor.) These special ExecutionContextExecutor objects are automatically created and used by Java actions and Java Promise methods. The default objects wrap the default user thread pool. If you want to do your own threading then you should use the HttpExecution class' helper methods to get an ExecutionContextExecutor object yourself.
In the example below, a user thread pool is wrapped to create a new ExecutionContext that propagates thread locals correctly.
import play.libs.HttpExecution;
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext;
public Promise<Result> index2() {
 // Wrap an existing thread pool, using the context from the current thread
 ExecutionContext myEc = HttpExecution.fromThread(myThreadPool);
 return Promise.promise(() -> intensiveComputation(), myEc)
 .map((Integer i) -> ok("Got result: " + i), myEc);
}
§Best practices
How you should best divide work in your application between different thread pools greatly depends on the types of work that your application is doing, and the control you want to have over how much of which work can be done in parallel. There is no one size fits all solution to the problem, and the best decision for you will come from understanding the blocking-IO requirements of your application and the implications they have on your thread pools. It may help to do load testing on your application to tune and verify your configuration.
Given the fact that JDBC is blocking thread pools can be sized to the # of connections available to a db pool assuming that the thread pool is used exclusively for database access. Any lesser amount of threads will


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Water Bubbles in Your Well Water Indicate Potential Problems
It is not unusual for homeowners to see a few air bubbles appear in a glass of water poured from the kitchen faucet. However, there are some instances where larger amounts of bubbles similar to effervescence will appear in the glass. There are both naturally occurring and mechanical reasons for these small white bubbles, many of which pose no health risks. There are some causes that could be problematic and may require water testing to rule out.
Naturally occurring bubbles
When you draw your water from the ground, especially if your home has a bedrock well, there is a likelihood these bubbles are dissolved gasses. A variety of natural reactions can cause gasses to dissolve in your well water. Some of these gasses include carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide or radon, a hazardous gas that is present in groundwater in some areas of New Hampshire.
Methane is also another dissolved gas that could be the cause of small bubbles in your well water. Methane gas is generated from decomposing organic matter in groundwater. It is odorless and colorless. At high concentrations, it can be explosive and is a fire hazard if large amounts of water with methane are used near an open flame in a closed space.
Temperature and pressure on the water located deep underground are the two main factors when it comes to dissolved gasses in water. If the pressure at the bottom of a bedrock well is high, or if the depth of water is great, a higher concentration of some gasses can be dissolved into the water. When the water is pumped up from the well into your home, the pressure is reduced, and the gasses can release into your water in the form of small bubbles.
Water at lower temperatures has a greater ability to hold dissolved gasses than warmer water. When you pump cold water from a bedrock well into a home, the water is warmed, and the gasses present will be released as a solution, again producing those bubbles.
In most of these cases, the bubbles are nothing to worry about, but if you live in an area that has higher rates of radon, you will want to have your water tested and discuss the options for removing this hazardous gas from your home water supply with water system professionals like Skillings & Sons.
Mechanical causes of air bubbles
Sometimes water bubbles occur when the water level inside a well is low, causing air to get into the pump. When water inside a well "draws down" drastically, it could indicate the pump is too large for the well. Drought conditions can also cause the water level to drop. One way to prevent this from happening in the short term is to reduce the amount of water used in the home. Homeowners can also install a drawdown cutoff device that prevents over-pumping. Repeated excessive drawdown of a well is something to watch carefully because it can lead to the pump motor overheating and damage the pump.
Some water treatment devices, especially those used to remove iron and manganese, pump air into the water as part of the process of removing impurities. Water should then be routed to a tank that removes the excess air. If excessive amounts of air bubbles remain, check to see the system is working properly and that it was sized correctly for your water usage. Homeowners can also adjust the air-to-water ratio setting.
The cause of the water bubbles could also be as simple as the type of faucets in the home. Some faucets create turbulence in the water that result in air bubbles. By replacing the faucets, it's a relatively easy way to rule out one of the causes for excessive air bubbles.
There are a number of other causes, which can easily be fixed with a few adjustments to a home's water system. Seeking the help of water system professionals will help you save time determining the cause.


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In this month's CE Stories, we are focusing on stories from those who are creating change in Fashion …
Circular Food: The Mandala Consortium
With the pressures on our food systems increasing, poor diet affecting many across the UK, and unsustainable, linear supply chain practices continuing to impact both the environment and consumers, a move towards a nourishing, circular food system is essential. The Mandala Consortium is a research programme focused on making these changes, and transforming urban food systems for planetary and population health. Centred on the city of Birmingham, the project is one of four funded by the £47.5 million Strategic Priorities Fund Programme, 'Transforming the UK Food System for Healthy People and a Healthy Environment'. To find out more about this programme, read our CE Story here.
Bringing together teams from the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Warwick, Exeter, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Mandala Consortium aims to transform the urban food system and its relationship with its regional economy in the West Midlands, eventually using their findings to implement change across the UK.
As part of the programme's launch, the Mandala Consortium has created a short video outlining the current issues in today's urban food systems, introducing the team and their visions for the project, and the programme's strategy. Watch the video below, or click here.
To find out more about how circular economy practices can be implemented to improve food systems, read our CE story on The Cop26 Roundtable On Food, Mobility, And The Circular Economy.
To find out more about the Transforming the UK Food System for Healthy People and a Healthy Environment' and the three other funded projects, read our CE Story here.


Re: Comments on SRFI-39
>>>>> "Olin" == Olin Shivers writes:
Olin> I know Mike S & Kelsey prefer to reset dynamic bindings to fresh
Olin> bindings with top-level values at thread-spawn boundaries. I think this
Olin> is completely broken.
Just for the record (not that I think this has any bearing on SRFI
39), let me point out a few things:
- For at least one parameter (the current exception handler), we know
 that duplicating the old binding is the wrong thing.
- Generally, this implicit copying of references to an object harbors
 the risk of creating space leaks. When you create a thread, you
 hang on to all to its parents' parameters---even those you don't
 know about.
Olin> Spawning a thread, calling a function -- it's a dynamic nesting.
- This sentence sounds nice on the surface, but you provide no
 arguments to support it. In fact, I'd say that spawning a thread is
 obviously *not* a dynamic nesting.
 In Scheme 48 and scsh, spawning a thread means handing a thunk to
 the scheduler. The *scheduler* calls that thunk, not the process
 parent. Most certainly, the continuation of the thunk of the
 spawned thread isn't the continuation of the spawning expression in
 the parent in any thread system that's like SRFI 18.
 This "dynamic nesting" aspect only appeals to our intuition because
 the visual structure of the program text suggests it---it's still
 wrong. (Maybe this suggests that the program text should look
 different, I don't know.)
- Richard would point out that it's necessary to clarify the
 relationship of parameters with DELAY: if parameters get inherited
 for child threads, why don't they get inherited for the code wrapped
 in a DELAY? (Or do they?)
- With this inheritance, you duplicate functionality provided by
 lexical scoping. This goes against the design spirit of Scheme.
- It's easy implement inheritance on top of a non-inheriting
 implementation of parameters (which is what Scheme 48/scsh do), but
 harder and more awkward to do the reverse. (Note that I never said
 that there shouldn't *be* a parameter mechanism with inheritance---I
 only said that the *primitive* mechanism shouldn't have it.)
Cheers =8-} Mike
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Che. He is killed by Chen. Max McCoy's prequel novel Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs detailed Wu first met Indiana in 1914, during his trip to China with his father. Years later, he is studying political science when his parents and sister die in an influenza outbreak. Their ashes wind up in the possession of Che, who uses the promise of a proper burial to force Wu into servitude. In 1933, Indiana meets Wu in Shanghai on his way to Mongolia, and steals his family's ashes from Che, securing his old friend's freedom. Indiana inspires him to study archaeology upon his return to school.[2] Wu also aids Indiana in the 2003 video game Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, set just before Temple of Doom. He regularly arranges Jones's transportation.[41]
Short Round[edit]
Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) An eleven-year old taxicab driver in Shanghai, Short Round was orphaned when the Japanese bombed Shanghai in 1932; he helps Indiana escape from Lao Che.
He is essential in freeing Indiana and Pankot's Maharaja from Mola Ram's psychic control. The novelization details that Short Round was born Wan Li (Chinese: 萬麗) in 1927. Despite attending a Christian school, he respects Chinese mythology, and believes that the baby elephant that transports him in India is a reincarnation of his brother Chu. He immigrates to the United States with Jones following his adventure.[38] In the film, Short Round is frequently heard speaking the Cantonese dialect of Chinese (despite being born in Wu dialect-speaking Shanghai), as well as English.
Short Round was named after Temple of Doom screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's dog.[18] Lucas's initial idea for Indiana's sidekick was a virginal young princess, but Huyck, Katz and Spielberg disliked the idea.[42] The character's name may also have been a homage to the early Samuel Fuller film The Steel Helmet, in which a young Korean boy of the same name acts as a guide for the protagonist. Around 6,000 actors auditioned worldwide for the part: Quan was cast after his brother auditioned for the role. Spielberg liked his personality, so he and Ford improvised the scene where Short Round accuses Indiana of cheating during a card game.[6] Quan had a martial arts instructor to help him on set.[18]
The character cameoed in an issue of Marvel Comics' The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, rescuing Indiana from a pirate attack in the Caribbean, before he returns to boarding school.[43] The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones, published in 2008, detailed Short Round became an archaeologist and tracked down the Peacock's Eye (the diamond from Doom's opening sequence) to Niihau.[44]
He also appeared in the non-canonical crossover story in Star Wars Tales, where he and Indiana discover the remains of Han Solo in the crashed Millennium Falcon in the Pacific Northwest.[45] A Short Round action figure was planned by LJN in 1984, but was never released.[40] However, an unpainted metal miniature of him was released by TSR that year.[12] He appears in the 2009 Lego sets Shanghai Chase and The Temple of Doom.
Empire named Short Round as their sixteenth favorite element of the films, explaining "you could argue that Shortie is the real hero of Temple of Doom — while the titular relic hunter is off searching for fortune and glory, it's Short Round's moral compass that keeps the adventure on the right track".[46] In 2008 a poll conducted by to coincide with the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, named Short Round "favorite Indy sidekick".[47] However, various other articles have named him as one of the "most annoying" characters in film history, citing his being "a walking stereotype",[48] "insufferable" and "terribly stereotypical and a little offensive"[49] and the fact that he "embodies several dozen of the Bad Child Character traits"[50] and does nothing more than "whine, scream, spout dopey one-liners and generally get in the way."[51]
Chattar Lal[edit]
Chattar Lal (Roshan Seth) is the Prime Minister of Pankot and personal representative and chief advisor of Maharaja Zalim Singh. He graduated from Oxford and speaks English with a pronounced accent as a result, and also knows well Indiana's reputation. Like Indiana he was apparently forced to drink the Blood of Kali by Mola Ram, controlling him, and the young Maharaja. During the attempted sacrifice of Willie Scott, Lal is injured by Indiana when he gets caught in the wheel used to lower victims into the lava pit. He is last seen crawling away and collapsing, but disappears after this. It is unknown if he escaped. In the novelization, Chattar Lal is thrown into the lava pit while in the film he is injured but he doesn't die, whereas in Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, he is blown apart by a blast of heat caused by Indy and Short Round.
Zalim Singh[edit]
Maharaja Zalim Singh (Raj Singh) is the ruler of Pankot Palace. He is a young boy, probably a year or two older than Short Round. Despite considering the Thuggee an evil cult and vowing that they would never return, it is revealed that Singh is an unwilling member, having been forced to drink the Blood of Kali. During Indiana's fight against the chief Thuggee guard, Singh hinders Indiana by using a voodoo doll. He is stopped by Short Round, who burns him with a torch, releasing him from the Black Sleep of Kali. He atones for his crimes by telling Short Round how he, Indiana, and Willie can escape from the mines. He also apparently alerts British troops about the recent events, as he is seen among them when they arrive to battle the Thuggee after Mola Ram's death.
Mola Ram[edit]
Mola Ram holding a human heart
Mola Ram (Amrish Puri) is the main antagonist and the Thuggee high priest. He has made Pankot Palace his lair and wants to use the five Sankara Stones to set up the reign of Kali. To that end, Mola Ram enslaves the children of a village that had one of the Stones (the taking of it bringing his total to three). They mine for the other two and for gems to fund his cause in catacombs underneath the palace. He also brainwashes people, including local politicians and royalty, with the "blood of Kālī Ma"—a magic potion—to make them devout followers (unless they are exposed to extreme pain, such as a burn). Indiana eventually confronts Mola Ram over a nearby gorge, calling on the power of Shiva to use the Stones against the evil cleric, who is burned by them and falls into the river where he is devoured by crocodiles. In the novelization, Ram's death is the same but he returns to normal when he burns his hand on the stone; Indy tries to pull him to safety but Ram falls to his death.
Mola Ram is named after an 18th-century Indian painter.[citation needed] Lucas wanted Mola Ram to be terrifying, so Huyck and Katz added elements of Aztec and Hawaiian human sacrificers, and European devil worship, to the character.[42] To create his headdress, make-up artist Tom Smith based the skull on a cow (as this would be sacrilegious) with a latex shrunken head. Puri was chosen as Spielberg and Lucas did not want to cast a European actor and apply dark make-up.[39] In the role, Puri resembles Eduardo Ciannelli, who played the cult leader in Gunga Din, an inspiration on the film.[52]
A 6-inch action figure and an unpainted metal miniature of Mola Ram was released in 1984.[12][40] In 2008, Hasbro released several Mola Ram items as part of their Indiana Jones toy line, including a 3 34-inch action figure, an Adventure Heroes figure, and a Mighty Muggs figure.[53] A "One Coin" (caricature) figure of Mola, standing 1.97" (5 cm.) was released in Japan in 2008.[54]
Captain Phillip Blumburtt[edit]
Captain Phillip Blumburtt (Philip Stone) is a British Indian Army officer who commands troops of the 11th Poona Rifles, is frequently sent to inspect Pankot Palace on behalf of the British government. He is alerted to the evil of Pankot Palace apparently by Little Maharajah to deal with the remaining Thuggees, his men kill them so Indy and Willie can escape. David Niven was considered to play the role but died before production, so Philip Stone from The Shining, then Delbert Grady, caught Spielberg's eye and was cast instead.
Introduced in The Last Crusade[edit]
Herman Mueller[edit]
Herman Mueller (J. J. Hardy) is Indiana's fellow Boy Scout in the 1912 prologue, who brings Indiana to the Sheriff's attention after his battle with outlaws for the Cross of Coronado. He reappears as Indiana's sidekick in the English and French Young Indiana Jones novels, which introduces his archaeologist father Herman Senior.[55][56][57][58]
Garth AKA Fedora, is a treasure hunter who appears in the 1912 prologue. Garth is the leader of a treasure hunter gang who find the


text: Just like the adult book,The Prayer Covenant, The Power of the Prayer Covenant for Kids provides an explanation of each line of the Kid s Prayer Covenant. Just like the adult book, it provides a wonderful and engaging handbook on prayer and discipleship. Each line of the prayer has rich colorful illustrations that kids will love. The first half of the book is just for kids. The second half is written as a teaching guide for parents and teachers.

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Snake Trap is a hunter trap ability learned at level 66. Like other hunter traps, this can be launched with.
- Glyph of Snake Trap
- Item Level
- Major Glyph
- Classes: Hunter
- Requires Level 25
- Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
Your Ice Trap is replaced with Snake Trap.
Venomous snakes released by the trap will poison nearby enemies with a Crippling Poison that reduces movement speed by 50% for 12 sec.
- Sell Price: 1
The snakes apply 3 rogue-style poisons to enemies:
- Crippling Poison: Movement slowed by 50%.
- Mind-Numbing Poison: Casting speed slowed by 30%.
- Deadly Poison: Nature damage inflicted every 2 sec.
Snakes apply poisons with spit, not a melee attack (about 2.6 yard range). Also, if there are unpoisoned targets nearby, snakes will not melee, but will instead spit more poisons on that target, making snakes an excellent AoE boost. For example, if the hunter knows where a mage's AoE will be, they can place a snake trap there and most mobs at this location will get poisoned.
When the trap is activated, snakes start to attack the nearest targets. It is possible that some snakes will attack one target and some will attack another. After the target is dead, snakes attack the next target in range.
Out of the snakes, four vipers appear, hitting for approximately twice as much as the venomous snakes. The melee damage of the snakes being very low, the poisons are the main intent of the ability.
Tips and tactics
- It is possible to use the Snake Trap to gain distance while kiting. Place the trap as you are kiting a mob, then as the snakes release and begin to hit the mob, you can. This allows you to gain distance from the mob as it kills your snakes. Be aware of the speed that the mob kills your snakes, since if you haven't landed a dot or damaging ability on the mob before the snakes all die, you will lose aggro on the mob.
- Place the trap where a Mage or Warlock will do their AoE to add some damage and to slow targets (thanks to Crippling Poison).
- If two or more targets are tanked at the same time, place a trap under the tank.
- For Survival hunters, Snake Trap triggers.
- Snakes have their own aggro, therefore this trap has no effect on the hunter's aggro rating.
- The snakes are very easy to kill with a normal AoE (frost nova for example). Moreover, they can be feared.
- Snakes have a surprisingly large aggro radius and should generally only be used when you know that either their 15 second effect will not outlast the target mob(s) or when you have a lot of room to work. If there are any snakes left after you kill your primary target, and there is another valid target within ~23 feet, they will run off and attack them for you.
- If the hunter is killed while the snakes are active the snakes will also die.
- It appears that if the snake trap is triggered by a mob, the snakes will attack members of the opposite faction if they are within the snakes' attack range, whether or not either character is marked for PvP. Furthermore, the snakes will force that player's PvP flags up if they fight back regardless of what their flags are set to, allowing other players to force PvP on unwilling members of the opposite faction, in essence, a loophole. This is supposedly fixed in patch 2.4.0
- Can be useful in situations in PvP against people who target using the Tab key instead of clicking.
- Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): The Mind-numbing Poison effect has been reduced to a 30% increase in casting time, down from 50% to match similar effects.


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Bird Nest (ush-el-bul-bul)
What is Bird's Nest?
Very fine stringy dough wrapped around pistachios or cashews and lightly fried to boldness.
Pistachios or cashews, ghee, wheat flour, sugar, corn starch.
Bird's Nest is a very light dessert. It is so light, one can eat a few dozen pieces before noticing. It is the lightest among all Middle Eastern sweets and pastries.
Meaning and Pronunciation
In Arabic, Bird's Nest is called Osh El Bulbul and pronounced [ush-el-bul-bul],. Its circular shape and filamentary structure resemble closely that of a bird's nest.
How is Bird's Nest Made?
To make Bird's Nest, first the stringy Knafeh dough and the sugar syrup are prepared, then the dough is formed into circular shapes resembling bird's nests, filled with nuts, and baked.
Preparation of Strings of Knafeh Dough
Preparation of Bird's Nest
For each Bird's Nest piece, a few strings of the freshly made Knafeh dough are formed into a circular shape resembling a bird's nest and filled with pistachios or Cashews.
The bird's nest shaped pieces are the left to dry for about 12 hours.
Ghee is added on top of the Bird's Nest pieces which are then baked for one hour on medium temperature. After baking, the remaining ghee is drained and sugar syrup is added.
Serving Suggestions
Bird's Nest is offered as a dessert. It is however so light and so small in size, make sure you offer at least a dozen pieces for each person.
It is most popular in Syria. It is also popular in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.
It is one of the assorted Baklava pastries that are made with knafeh dough.
Assorted baklava pastries are made of two forms of dough: Paper thin sheets of phyllo dough and thin strings of dough called knafeh dough. While many types require the knafeh strings of dough to be shredded, Bird's Nest takes advantage of the stringy shape of the dough to give it a unique texture.
Where to buy Baklava?


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This Rulemaking Task (RMT) addresses the following issues:
- The turbine engine endurance test conditions that are required by the Certification Spefications for Engines (CS-E) are very hard, if not impossible, to achieve with modern engines.
- An initial maintenance inspection (IMI) test for turbine engines is required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations for many years, but not by the European (Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)) certification specifications (CSs).
- CS-E does not contain a specification for applicants to demonstrate the time between overhauls (TBO) interval. A safety recommendation on this matter was addressed to EASA.
The specific objective of this RMT is to modernise the engine certification test requirements to:
- upgrade the turbine engine endurance test specifications to take into account modern engine design characteristics;
- improve the level of confidence in the robustness of turbine engine designs prior to entry into service, as well as, in some cases, the definition of initial maintenance inspection (IMI) intervals;
- ensure that EASA exercises oversight of the IMI tests and benefits from the resulting knowledge;
- ensure the robust and harmonised substantiation of the TBO and of the maintenance programmes for piston engines; and
- ensure the greatest possible harmonisation with the related FAA regulations and certification policies.


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Mayors of major European cities have demonstrated their commitment to create a Europe where people come first.
At the EUROCITIES conference, attended by more than 500 participants, the mayors of Edinburgh, Ghent and Stockholm were the first to sign EUROCITIES Declaration on Citizens' Engagement, pledging to:
- involve citizens in a dialogue about our common future
- inspire all levels of government to create societies where people come first
- impact the way decisions are taken in Europe
As the closest level of government to citizens, cities are crucial in shaping the future of Europe. More than 90 cities have taken part in EUROCITIES 'Cities4Europe – Europe for citizens' campaign this year, which has highlighted positive examples of citizen engagement around Europe, and set examples for other cities and levels of government. 10 top citizens' messages, collected from hundreds, were also shared with delegates.
Cities have been experimenting and innovating with new forms of participatory democracy, to support traditional representative democracy. This is central to successfully respond to pressing public concerns such as climate change, social cohesion, housing and employment.


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A variety of extra curricular activities are offered to students of Kamiakin Middle School. Participation in one or more of these activities will help to enrich your middle school experience. You are encouraged to listen carefully to the daily bulletin announcements regarding athletic teams, intramurals, dances, dress up days, special contests and club meetings. We invite you to join in any of the activities for which you qualify and that interest you.Student Government
- The students of Kamiakin are governed by an Executive Board made up of five members and a Student Representative Council (SRC) comprised of an elected student from each grade level.
- Through these groups students have input into the administration of school policies and procedures. These groups work to promote leadership, initiative and change through the student body.
- Elections for Executive Board are held in the spring for the following school year. It has a three member board of directors and a secretary and treasurer. This group has the authority to make decisions on behalf of the ASB by means of voting at Executive Board meetings.
Special Activities and Clubs
During the year a variety of special activities is sponsored by ASB and various groups and clubs representing our students. These include our miscellaneous fund drives, paper and aluminum recycling activities, dress-up days, talent show, assemblies, to name a few. Listen to the daily bulletin for details announcing these special events and give your ideas for others to your SRC representatives.
- GRANT CHRISTENSEN
- Vice President:
- MARCOS HILARIO BELTRAN
- SAANVI TIWARI
- ANTHONY CHAN
- Public Relations:
- NORAH LACEY
- 6th Grade Engagement Officer:
- ISABELA CEZAROTTO
- Spirit Crew Commissioner:
- BEN JUDY
- Advisor: Ms. Kyllingmark
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INPUT 2018
Forest Creatures Foundation is producing INPUT 2018, to be held in Brooklyn, NY. This is the first time the conference will be held anyplace in New York State.
INPUT is the International Public Television Conference, also known as the International Public Television Screening Conference. Its primary event is an annual global conference for public broadcasting professionals centered on three screening rooms simultaneously presenting some of the best and most innovative public television programming from around the world. The programs cover a variety of genres and must have been broadcast on public television. In any given year there will be sixty to one hundred countries represented at INPUT.
INPUT was founded on the principle that every culture is valuable and deserves respect and recognition. It stimulates an increased awareness of cultural, societal, and national sensibilities as it relates to public television programming from around the world.
Sometimes there is debate and disagreement regarding the merits of the program. There can be controversy, especially with programs that examine religious beliefs, cultural norms, and accepted or unaccepted behaviors. For example, INPUT has screened a program about "honor killings" that had been banned from broadcast in its country of origin.
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text: During 1978-79, the Bureau of Mines surveyed the mineral potential of the west portion of Western Chichagof Island as part of the examination of the Western Chichagof and Yakobi Islands Wilderness Study Area, Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska. The study included literature and claims records searches; field examinations of the reported mines, prospects, or claims; and field evaluation of geochemical anomalies noted by the U.S. Geological survey during concurrent investigations. Two mineralized areas were found. One, called the slocum arm molybdenum area, is estimated to have moderate potential for the development of porphyry or vein-type molybdenum deposits. The other, called the west coast gold area, is estimated to have moderate potential for the development of fault controlled gold-silver lode deposits.


If the range of a song is good for you, you're much more likely to enjoy and find ease in singing it.
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Bryan Nichols, Pennsylvania State University
Some friends and I recently went to karaoke. You can likely picture the scene: a restaurant adjacent to a bowling alley with a cheerful crowd and enthusiastic DJ aiming lights at a small stage. We sang a popular duet, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow," to the room's applause, and I remembered how good it felt to sing into a microphone.
It brought me back to my time as a music teacher in the late 2000s in my home state of Kentucky. Like all of us, my students had their own preferences in terms of the styles and genres they liked to sing, but of course there were the mainstays that we all had to learn – for example, the national anthem, which we practiced as soloists and as a multi-part choir. We often sang spontaneously, too, belting out "Happy Birthday" if someone was celebrating theirs on a rehearsal day.
Without a doubt, some of the students, no matter their singing ability, had a tough time hitting some of the notes in these two familiar songs. Teaching those students and others later eventually led me to wonder, why is it that some of the songs we know the best are the hardest ones to sing?
The Happy Birthday Club
As a professor, choir director and researcher at Penn State University, I'm trying to answer this question with my colleagues, in what we affectionately named the "Happy Birthday Club," by investigating the conditions that elicit the best singing from individuals.
So far it seems that any emphasis on singing perfectly in tune can be detrimental to the idea that everyone can sing because it suggests that people should sing only if they sing exceptionally well. This is problematic for several reasons, but especially because self-concept – or one's beliefs about oneself – turns out to be really important for participation in the arts. Our preliminary findings also tell us that we shouldn't make judgments about singing based on familiar tunes that happen to be really hard.
Ciara Newman, a Penn State music student, sings 'Happy Birthday.'
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As part of our work, our colleague Peter Pfordresher, of the University at Buffalo, shared some data with us on college students singing "Happy Birthday." Some of the students started the song high in their vocal range, more started lower in their vocal range, but many of them failed when it came to the big ascending leap: the third "happy birthday."
This is what makes this universal song so difficult for people around the world to sing. The third "happy birthday" has an octave leap, meaning a seven-note jump in the musical scale. It can be hard for people to manage, especially if you started too high in the beginning and have already topped out your range. Fun fact: "Happy Birthday" happens to have originated in Kentucky in the 1890s as a simpler song called "Good Morning to All."
The arrow points to the highest note of 'Happy Birthday,' which is the hardest note for many people to hit.
Douglas McCall and Bryan Nichols/Penn State University
Another notoriously tough song to sing is the "Star-Spangled Banner." Most Americans have heard it and likely even sung it. You may have seen singer Demi Lovato perform it earlier this month at the Super Bowl, singing it well in the common key of A-flat. At last year's Super Bowl, Gladys Knight sang it beautifully and much lower, in a range that seemed to fit her voice perfectly.
No matter the key, like "Happy Birthday," the national anthem is just plain difficult. That's because it has a huge range; you have to sing high, low and everything in between. It has small intervals, or notes that are near each other on the musical scale, but it also has big skips upward – sometimes several in a row, such as the fourth, fifth and sixth notes in the song. And if you start the song with notes that are too high, well, often there's just no hope in hitting them all perfectly.
The arrows show the third, fourth, fifth and sixth notes in 'Happy Birthday.' Little steps upward and downward like these are generally easier to manage than the big leaps of the national anthem's beginning.
Douglas McCall and Bryan Nichols/Penn State University
The social influence of singing
In a recent lab meeting, one research assistant asked, "What if the reason we sing 'Happy Birthday' wrong is because we hear it sung poorly so often?"
We don't yet know the answer to whether people learn songs incorrectly to begin with and if that's part of what makes the songs so hard. Add to this that the research says some children seem to sing better alone while others seem to sing better with other voices. This means that singing a more difficult song like "Happy Birthday" is actually a complex task with multiple variables, including what part of the range you try to sing it in and whether you or someone else has chosen the starting note for you.
Interestingly, people don't think they sing as well as they actually do. Children in one study who formed a "poor singer" experimental group were actually determined to be quite accurate pitch-wise once the researcher identified a good range for their singing voice and heard them sing alone. For adults who aren't sure about their own singing ability, chances are you're quite normal. Very few people have amusia, which means they can't hear changes in pitches and can't know if they're singing the right note or not. Likely, you're not one of them.
So what should we sing?
Thinking back to the karaoke room, I chose that duet because I was confident Bradley Cooper's part fit my range. (I even tried it at home first.)
So here is some advice from the researchers of the Happy Birthday Club: Don't judge your singing skills on familiar cultural songs; they're just not good measures of our singing abilities. Instead, target the songs and the artists that you like, and then try to identify the music that fits your range the best. If the range is good for you, you're much more likely to enjoy and find ease in singing it.
Nearly all pop songs have a very small range, so that may be a good place to start. Find the notes that fit you best, and give them a try at home or the next time you find yourself on a karaoke stage.
Bryan Nichols, Assistant Professor of Music, Pennsylvania State University


Evaluation of available techniques for the recovery of latent fingerprints from untreated plywood surfaces
Niamh Nic Daéid, Hilary A. S. Buchanan, Kenny Laing
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Abstract
An evaluation of several current techniques available for the detection of fingerprints was undertaken to identify the technique(s) most suitable for recovering fingerprints from untreated plywood surfaces. This substrate is often encountered operationally, particularly in doors of local authority premises. This study evaluated the abilities of 13 fingerprint development techniques to enhance marks deposited on untreated plywood surfaces. Each detection technique was applied to fingerprints that had been deliberately planted on pieces of plywood by three donors who had been evaluated as "good", "average", and "poor" donors. The most successful fingerprint development techniques were then more rigorously tested on prints of varying ages, and effort was made to determine the most effective sequence for recovering prints from simulated casework. Of the techniques examined, both ninhydrin and physical developer were found to recover prints up to 28 days old. (Prints older than 28 days were not tested.) A dilution of household bleach was found to successfully darken prints weakly developed with physical developer, and the best recovery of fingerprints was achieved through the application of physical developer only, rather than with a sequence of techniques.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)441-465
Number of pages25
JournalJournal of Forensic Identification
Volume59
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2009
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Study: Identity Theft Continues To Yoke E-commerce
Challenging the notion that an informed consumer is a happy consumer, 61 percent of respondents said they feel more informed about identity theft issues, and 23 percent noted that they feel more vulnerable than they did a year ago.
Twenty-one percent of consumers still refuse to use online banking, the survey found--sad news for a financial industry attempting to cut operational costs by converting customers to online banking.
The third annual study asked more than 1,000 U.S. consumers about how their attitudes regarding identity theft, computer attacks, and other security issues had changed over the past two years. The results were released to coincide with the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco this week.


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Jon Kneeling Original Painting Portrait Made With Ink And AcrylicHarry Simmonds
Jon Kneeling Original Painting Portrait by Harry Simmonds
A beautiful painting that really shows artist Harry Simmonds expressing himself and using his preferred methods to create a more abstract art style of painting. It is one of the artists more famous monochrome paintings partly because of the freedom it allows the viewer to interpret the subject and painting themselves.
It is affordable large abstract art that gives little away holding on to a feeling of mystery for the viewer to enjoy, among monochrome abstract paintings it really stands out with the figure of Jon so present and dominant in the image. It is a large monochrome abstract painting that hints of grey around the figure itself. 'Jon Kneeling' has large dimensions which can make it a striking centrepiece as wall art to hang on your wall. The inner feelings of subject Jon are relatively obscured by the brushwork, the hidden facial expressions in this monochrome portrait painting leave the character of Jon a mystery while being recognisable as a male figure kneeling down.
Paintings in this series were executed quickly while working with a model, often a friend of the artist. As a pose is struck, a quick sketch is drawn of it to aid the final selection process.
When a particular pose resonates with artist Harry Simmonds he will ask the model to recreate it for a longer period. Harry Simmonds acknowledges the influence of figurative artist Euan Uglow who liked to create geometrical shapes using his model's bodies and the negative space that surrounded them.
Dimensions: : 84 x 59 cm
Material : Ink and Acrylic on Paper
Frame type : Glazed box frame
Lead Time: 1 - 7 days


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Configuration
An object defining configuration options for the Popup widget.
See Also
accessKey
Specifies the shortcut key that sets focus on the widget.
Type:
String
Default Value: null
The value of this option will be passed to the accesskey attribute of the HTML element that underlies the widget.
animation
Configures widget visibility animations. This object contains two fields: show and hide.
Type:
Object
Default Value: { show: { type: 'pop', duration: 300, from: { scale: 0.55 } }, hide: { type: 'pop', duration: 300, to: { opacity: 0, scale: 0.55 }, from: { opacity: 1, scale: 1 } } }, { show: { type: 'fade', duration: 400 }, hide: { type: 'fade', duration: 400, to: { opacity: 0 }, from: { opacity: 1 } }} (Android below version 4.2), { show: { type: 'slide', duration: 400, from: { position: { my: 'top', at: 'bottom', of: window } }, to: { position: { my: 'center', at: 'center', of: window } } }, hide: { type: 'slide', duration: 400, from: { position: { my: 'center', at: 'center', of: window } }, to: { position: { my: 'top', at: 'bottom', of: window } } }} (iOS)
Use the position option to specify the position in which the widget is shown and from which it is hidden.
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Specifies whether to close the widget if a user clicks outside it.
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event:
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The event that caused widget closing. It is a dxEvent or a jQuery.Event when you use jQuery.
Return Value:
Boolean
true if the widget should be closed; otherwise false.
Default Value: false
The function passed to this option enables you to specify a custom condition for widget closing. For instance, you can prevent closing until a user clicks a certain element.
JavaScript
var widgetOptions = {
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}
The closeOnOutsideClick function is called when a user clicks the widget or outside it.
container
Specifies the container in which to place the widget.
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String
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DOM Node
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jQuery
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An alias for the contentTemplate option specified in React. Accepts a custom component. Refer to Using a Custom Component for more information.
contentRender
An alias for the contentTemplate option specified in React. Accepts a rendering function. Refer to Using a Rendering Function for more information.
contentTemplate
Specifies a custom template for the widget content.
Type:
template
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contentElement:
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The widget content's container. It is an HTML Element or a jQuery Element when you use jQuery.
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String
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DOM Node
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jQuery
A template name or container.
Default Value: 'content'
deferRendering
Specifies whether to render the widget's content when it is displayed. If false, the content is rendered immediately.
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Boolean
Default Value: true
disabled
Specifies whether the widget responds to user interaction.
Type:
Boolean
Default Value: false
dragEnabled
Specifies whether or not to allow a user to drag the popup window.
Type:
Boolean
Default Value: false, false, true (desktop)
A user can drag the popup window by the title. Therefore, this option makes sense if the showTitle option is set to true.
NOTE
Dragging is possible only if the "height: 100%" style setting is applied to the html element and "min-height: 100%" - to the body element.
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 <body style="min-height: 100%;">
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</html>
elementAttr
Specifies the attributes to be attached to the widget's root element.
Type:
Object
Default Value: {}
jQuery
$(function(){
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 // ...
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 id: "elementId",
 class: "class-name"
 }
 });
});
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HTML
TypeScript
<dx-popup ...
 [elementAttr]="{ id: 'elementId', class: 'class-name' }">
</dx-popup>
import { DxPopupModule } from "devextreme-angular";
// ...
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 // ...
}
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 imports: [
 // ...
 DxPopupModule
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})
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focusStateEnabled
Specifies whether the widget can be focused using keyboard navigation.
Type:
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Default Value: false, true (desktop)
fullScreen
A Boolean value specifying whether or not to display the widget in full-screen mode.
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height
Specifies the widget's height in pixels.
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String
The widget's height.
Default Value: undefined, function() { return $(window).height() * 0.8 }
Raised Events: resize
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 - Number
 The height in pixels.
 - String
 A CSS-accepted measurement of height. For example, "55px", "80%", "inherit".
 - Function
 A function returning either of the above. For example:
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 height: function() {
 return window.innerHeight / 1.5;
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hint
Specifies text for a hint that appears when a user pauses on the widget.
Type:
String
Default Value: undefined
hoverStateEnabled
Specifies whether the widget changes its state when a user pauses on it.
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Default Value: false
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Specifies the maximum height the widget can reach while resizing.
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The maximum height.
Default Value: null
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 The height in pixels.
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 A CSS-accepted measurement of height. For example, "55px", "80%", "inherit".
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 A function returning either of the above. For example:
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The maximum width.
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Title: The rate of quasiparticle recombination probes the onset of coherence in cuprate superconductors
In the underdoped copper-oxides, high-temperature superconductivity condenses from a nonconventional metallic "pseudogap" phase that exhibits a variety of non-Fermi liquid properties. Recently, it has become clear that a charge density wave (CDW) phase exists within the pseudogap regime. This CDW coexists and competes with superconductivity (SC) below the transition temperature Tc, suggesting that these two orders are intimately related. Here we show that the condensation of the superfluid from this unconventional precursor is reflected in deviations from the predictions of BSC theory regarding the recombination rate of quasiparticles. We report a detailed investigation of the quasiparticle (QP) recombination lifetime, τqp, as a function of temperature and magnetic field in underdoped HgBa2CuO4+δ (Hg-1201) and YBa2Cu3O6+x (YBCO) single crystals by ultrafast time-resolved reflectivity. We find that τqp(T) exhibits a local maximum in a small temperature window near Tc that is prominent in underdoped samples with coexisting charge order and vanishes with application of a small magnetic field. We explain this unusual, non-BCS behavior by positing that Tc marks a transition from phase-fluctuating SC/CDW composite order above to a SC/CDW condensate below. Lastly, our results suggest that the superfluid in underdoped cuprates is a condensate of coherently-mixed particle-particle and particle-hole pairs.
Authors:
 [1] ; [2] ; [3] ; [3] ; [4] ; [5] ; [5] ; [5] ; [5] ; [6] ; [7] ; [7] ; [7] ; [3] ; [5] ; [8] ; [8]
 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
 2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
 3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
 4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
 5. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
 6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
 7. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada); Canadian Inst. Adv. Res., Toronto, ON (Canada)
 8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Research Org:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
superconducting properties and materials
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You may have heard the expression 'until the cows come home', meaning 'for a very long time': If the manager wants perfection, she'll be waiting till the cows come home. But it is till or until the cows come home? And what's the difference?
Macmillan Dictionary's entry for the phrase shows that either word is fine – in this context they are perfectly interchangeable. Both till and until can be used as a preposition or as a conjunction. As a preposition, they're followed by a noun: I'll be around till Sunday; We can live here until 2025. As a conjunction, they connect two clauses: She kept painting till she was happy with it; He ran until he could run no more.
In these examples, till and until can be swopped around. This is not always possible or appropriate. As Liz Potter wrote in a Language Tip post, till is less formal; until is more formal. So if you're writing a business report or other serious text, until is probably the better choice. If you want to convey a more casual tone, till will do this. Until is also more common at the start of a sentence – though till is found here too.
The difference in register is not huge, and in many contexts, as we've seen, you can use whichever word you prefer or whichever one sounds better to you. Sometimes metre is a factor: if you're writing poetry – even something playful, like a limerick – then the difference between one syllable and two is significant.
Till and until are both very old words. People often assume that till is simply an abbreviation of until, but in fact till is a few centuries older. It shows up in the runic inscription on the ancient Ruthwell Cross in Scotland, where its original sense was the same as 'to'.
There is an abbreviation of until: 'til. Some critics reject it, because we already have till. They may even call it incorrect. 'Till is still more disparaged, because the apostrophe is superfluous, and although this form was used by George Washington, of all people, I can't recommend it. Apostrophe-less til is occasionally used, but spelling-wise it falls between the two stools of till and 'til.
TIL, which appears in the title of this post, is short for today I learned, and is in popular use online. Finally, till has another use in Irish English, where it means something like 'in order that': 'Come here till I tell you a story' means 'Come here so that I can tell you a story.' Maybe it's a story about till.Email this Post


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bastardize (third-person singular simple present bastardizes, present participle bastardizing, simple past and past participle bastardized)
 1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
 The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. — Blackstone.
 2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.
 The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program.
 3. To introduce debased elements into.
 4. To beget out of wedlock.


Cockatiel vs Cockatoo - How To Tell Them Apart & Key Differences in Appearance, Size & Behavior
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Cockatiels are among the most popular pet birds in the world and are relatively easy to breed. These adorable little birds are often mistaken for cockatoos by most people.
If you fall into this category of people, then this article should give you a second thought…
...and maybe even a handy trivia fact or two to impress your friends.
There is a difference between cockatoos and cockatiels with the easily spotted one being their size. Cockatiels are smaller and known as miniature cockatoos.
More on this in a bit...
I'll even get into more details on the size, appearance, life span and other aspects where there is a difference to make things crystal clear.
Cockatoo and Cockatiel Bio Datalarge white cockatoo
Like you might have guessed, cockatoos and cockatiels are all under the same classification. Just like with English and American budgerigars (parakeets).
Specifically, they are all birds in the Cacatuidae family, with cockatiels being the only birds in the Nymphicus genera. And 'tiels are also the smallest in the family which consists of 21 birds.
As stated earlier, the first difference you will spot between an adult cockatoo and a cockatiel is their size. It's no surprise since they are the smallest among cockatoos, with sizes ranging from 12-13 inches.
Cockatiels are like babies when you compare their size to that of full-grown cockatoos which is between 12-24 inches. At this measurement, a cockatiel is only about a quarter or half the size of cockatoos.
But in the case a younger cockatoo hasn't reached its full size, you can know which is which by assessing their appearance...
yellow cockatiel
First off, the feather colors of cockatoos are most times solid or plain, with only a few patches of other colors. Most times, the predominant colors are either white or black while you may also find a gray or pink color on rare occasions.
On the flip side, cockatiels are brightly coloured and have different shades.
However, wild cockatiels are usually gray with patches of white on their wings and green or yellow on their tails.
But cockatiels kept in captivity have a color mutation that is on a whole new level compared to that of cockatoos or wild cockatiels. Some of them are white face pied, cinnamon pearl, pearl pied, and white face gray.
Another difference in appearance between a cockatoo and a cockatiel is their physique:
Cockatiels have a much smaller beak than cockatoos which is quite logical since they are smaller.
But cockatiels have a longer tail-type which makes up about half of their body, while the cockatoos have a shorter tail.
Cockatoos live longer than cockatiels in the wild or captivity. Some species, like the sulphur-crested cockatoo, can live longer than 100 years.
However, wild cockatiels only live for up to 25 years, and those in captivity live for an average of 14 years.
But they can reach 20+ years if they are well taken care of by their owners, as explained here.
large white cockatoo sitting on floor
In terms of personality, cockatoos are far more social than cockatiels and are more affectionate to their owners.
Unlike cockatiels, a cockatoo will need much more time out its cage with its owner and might become depressed if left alone for too long. But cockatiels, though good with people, can cope with being left alone.
Also, cockatoos are very noisy compared to cockatiels. I'll talk about that in detail in the next section.
In general, cockatiels are much calmer birds than cockatoos.
Vocal Ability
As said earlier, cockatoos are louder birds and also mimic their owner's words better than cockatiels.
'Tiels have a softer voice and make more bird sounds rather than talk. Even when they talk, their words are harder to understand than that of cockatoos.
On the other hand, cockatiels are more likely to imitate household sounds than cockatoos.
Of all the 21 species of cockatoos, cockatiels are easily the most popular pet bird.
Thanks to their small size and calm personality, they are easier to care which makes a great choice for both the old and young bird owner.
On the other hand, larger cockatoos are less common with the sulphur-crested cockatoo and umbrella cockatoo being the most popular among them.
two cockatiels perched together
Without a doubt, cockatoos are way more expensive than cockatiels.
'Toos are also more expensive to care for and shelter for than cockatiels because they are larger birds.
A cockatoo can cost from $1,000 to $25,000 depending on the species. Perhaps another reason why they are less popular as pet birds since they can cost a fortune. Plus, their cages need to be larger too.
On the other hand, cockatiels cost a more economical price of $80 to $250 compared to cockatoos. Their cages are smaller and more affordable as well.
Can A Cockatoo And A Cockatiel Be Kept Together?
Keeping a cockatoo and a cockatiel together isn't the best of ideas in my opinion.
Yes, they can stay together as long as the cockatoo isn't aggressive to the smaller bird.
But cockatoos can be territorial, which means that sooner or later, they might harm the cockatiel or even kill the other bird.
Wrapping Up
Hopefully you learned something new today about these wonderful parrots, whether their telltale appearance differences or drastically different prices.
What is your experience with 'tiels & 'toos? Let us know which one you have had as a pet in the comments below!
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 - My mom and sister had an umbrella cockatoo (my sister still owns the bird, but she's moved out) and the hand raised him. He attacked my face when I was about 6, and he did it while I was sleeping on the couch (I think my room was being renovated at the time), and from what I heard from my mom, he also attacked my baby nephew. I still have a scar on my face to remind me why not to get a larger bird, especially unpredictable ones. My experience with 'tiels is very limited because the last one my parents owned was when I was maybe 4. I don't really have many memories of her, I just remember that she existed, and I'm getting my own 'tiel here soon
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What is »OneNote«? – Thorsten Donig Mar 11 '11 at 9:12
_USER_: Microsoft OneNote, the note-taking application that is part of Microsoft Office. – Martin Tapankov Mar 11 '11 at 9:48
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No, there's no way to include LaTeX (and I assume you mean the mathematics typeset with it) in OneNote.
One workaround that is sort-of-kinda-working (with severe caveats), so go ahead, if you absolutely need to. This applies to OneNote 2007, so if you have more recent version, it could be somewhat different.
 1. Install the MathType Equation editor (Wikipedia description). It's commercial, but you can continue to use the evaluation version sans LaTeX editing and other goodies for free after the trial period is over.
 2. Typeset your mathematics with it (with the registered version, it understands TeX mathmode), and drag-and-drop your equations to your OneNote notebooks.
Now, the caveats:
 - Formulas are read-only, and appear as images. You cannot edit them once they are in place. At least, they scale properly.
 - The expressions are not lined with the text, so if you want to include them in a free-running text, be prepared for a major pain.
That being said, if you'd like to have a note-taking application together with LaTeX mathematics, I suggest turning to a wiki software that supports advanced typeset mathematics. I personally use Confluence, but free alternatives are available (the example that first comes to mind is MediaWiki, which powers Wikipedia, and it has comprehensive LaTeX support).
You will need to set up and administer a web server (and most likely a database server as well) in order to use wiki software, but in the long term, and especially if you are serious about having a space to collect your stuff, this is a superior solution.
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In OneNote 2010, at least (which is the only version I have), you can enter at least some LaTeX directly in math mode. I say at least some because I am discovering it by experimentation rather than reading about it in OneNote documentation (if any such documentation exists).
Here are a few examples (after first selecting the type tool and entering math mode via cmd-=):
\int_0^2\pi x cos(kx)dx
The trick with actually getting it to typeset is to hit the space bar at certain places. For instance, above, I'd hit the space bar after the \pi a few times, each time you'll see your equation so far getting typeset incrementally, first the integral sign then the integration bounds.
There is a lot more to discover (and I am only showing a few things I have found, but I am very pleased with what I have found so far. Oh, one other item that is helpful is that you can get textbook style fraction formatting and paren or bracket resizing by hitting space after them.
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Welcome to TeX.SX! – Papiro Jun 5 '13 at 23:04
Another nice thing about this setup is that you can copy the resulting typeset equations in OneNote and paste them directly into Microsoft Math and hit enter to solve. It is a nice quick way to check things when desired. – Joe Jun 6 '13 at 18:15
This is a great feature, horribly documented. The best documentation is this pdf (I also put the link in a separate answer): _URL_-help/redir/XT101864188.aspx – user21952-is-a-great-name Apr 14 at 16:54
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then type your equation and hit the Enter key. Right click on the automatically generated image and copy it into my OneNote file.
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To expand on Joe's answer, while there is no support for actual LaTeX, the LaTeX like language Joe describes is very powerful and convenient. It supports most things you'd want: matrices, subscripts, superscripts, blackboard bold, etc. The only thing I haven't been able to do are commutative diagrams with too many arrows.
Try typing this while editing text (what you'll see happening might feel confusing the first time):
 [\matrix(\doubleZ&\scriptC@\alpha_(0,1)&1/(2\pi))]
It is pretty quick to learn, but does suffer from very obscure documentation and configuration. The best documentation I found is the pdf titled "Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics" (linked to from a somewhat helpful OneNote help page). The name Microsoft uses is "Math AutoCorrect", and the (limited) configuration is in Options -> Proofing -> AutoCorrect Options -> Math AutoCorrect tab.
Unfortunately, this type of equations is not at all supported by the online, Android or iOS OneNote.
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Sowing the seeds of synergy between aviation skills and business education, MDI Gurgaon has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Aviation Academy. Together, MDI and IAA will design, develop and deliver joint management development programmes in aviation management.
Talking about the collaboration, Pawan Kumar Singh, Director, MDI Gurgaon, said, "Through this partnership, MDI Gurgaon will foster a culture of experiential learning with training activities in the field of aviation. The institute envisions the holistic development of the students, and this programme will help knowledge transfer, improving overall upliftment of aspirants, and moulding their career in the aviation industry. This partnership will not only benefit youth taking up high-quality training but will also allow the industry to meet its requirements for trained manpower."
The five-year collaboration of MDI Gurgaon and IAA will bring academia and industry on a common platform. Both the institutions will work towards promoting joint research, case studies, publications, and so on. and collaborate with International Summer University for superior outreach and experiential learning of participants from various global institutions in the future.
Hareendranathan EP, Executive Director, IAA said, "Aviation is a complex, volatile and dynamic industry employing highly skilled and enriched human resource. Bridging the gap between learning outcomes and industry requirements by innovative, quality courses will be the greatest enabler of aviation resurgence. This collaboration is a testimony of our resolve to nurture a robust, sustained aviation ecosystem.
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The Liwerant Center for the Study of Latin America, Spain, Portugal and their Jewish Communities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is situated at the intersection between Humanities and Social Sciences, thus promoting disciplinary convergences and theoretical and methodological pluralism.
Main Fields of Research and Activities:
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- Ibero-America, culture and literature: Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American literature, the intersection and dialogue between Iberoamerican literature and Jewish culture.
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LOCATION Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea between Romania and Turkey
POLITICAL STATUS A parliamentary representative democratic
POPULATION 7,144,653
SIZE 110,879 sq. km.
LANGUAGE Bulgarian (official): 76.8%, Turkish: 8.2%, Roma: 3.8%, Other: 0.7%, Unspecified: 10.5%
CURRENCY Bulgarian lev (BGN), tied to the euro
TIME Eastern European Standard Time
DATE OF INDEPENDENCE 22 September, 1908
GOVERNMENT TYPE Parliamentary republic
LEGAL SYSTEM There is a separation of powers in Bulgaria. The power of the State shall be divided between legislative, judicial and executive branches.
Bulgaria. Officially known as the Republic of Bulgaria, and Sofia is the capital and the political center of the country.
Bulgaria is one of the oldest countries in Europe, where it was founded in the seventh century. It has a historically intersected with important routes from the northern and eastern Europe to the Mediterranean, from Western and Central Europe to the Middle East.
It gained independence from Ottoman rule in the late 19th century after suffering from many disturbances due to World War II, in 2004 Bulgaria became a member of NATO and a member of the European Union in 2007.
Bulgaria is characterized by its diverse cultural landscape and diverse environments, the rugged mountains, and the Black Sea resorts that attract many visitors. Moreover, Bulgaria has a clear mix of Eastern and Western cultures and is characterized by its attractive architecture and religious heritage.
Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria) has more than one million inhabitants, three times the population of Varna and the city of Plovdiv. The capital is marked by two major cross-border routes: the historic Silk Road connecting China with the West, and the Great Aristotle Road, a natural route for migratory birds.
Investment criteria:
Applicants under Bulgarian Citizenship by Investment Programme must choose one of the potential routes to citizenship:
 - Full investment, by deposit an amount in a government bond portfolio for five-years investment period; or
 - Financial investment, paying a reduced amount that will be used to finance a closed 5.5-year loan from a Bulgarian chartered bank.
 - There is also a fast track that allows investors to apply for citizenship faster by doubling their investments.
Application criteria
 1. Applicant must be at least 18 years
 2. Valid passport.
 3. A non-EU citizen.
 4. Make the minimum legal trips to Bulgaria
 5. Good Health, applicants should have excellent health and must show that they do not suffer from any contagious diseases.
 7. Able to provide proof of source of funds.
 8. Must have maintained permanent resident status and a valid residential address for the past five years.
 9. Must have never been sentenced by a Bulgarian court for a capital offense or accused in criminal proceedings for such a crime (unless he/she has been rehabilitated).
Benefits of Bulgaria citizenship program:
 1. Visa-free travel or visa-on-arrival travel to more than 140 countries.
 2. Free movement within the Schengen countries after Bulgaria becomes a member state.
 3. Conditional tax exemption on world income.
 4. The ability to pass one's citizenship to future generations by descent.
 5. The ability to Include the spouse and children under the age of 18 in the main applicant application.
 6. First class citizenship.
 7. Obtain the citizenship and second passport in a short time.
 8. Dual Nationality.
 9. Full confidentiality in carrying out the procedures.
 10. Ownership of the 9th ranked passport in the world.
Benefits of the program:
 1. Fast processing within 6 – 9 months.
 2. Fast-track option allowing for citizenship within two years.
 3. Obtain the citizenship and second passport in a short time.
 4. Minimal processing fees.
 5. No interview, education, or management experience required.
 6. No language requirements for residence or citizenship.
 7. No requirements for residence.
 8. Lowest tax rates and free trade environment within the EU.
The Features of Bulgaria passport:
 - Good visa – free travel:
Currently, Bulgaria citizens can travel to more than 140 countries without the need to follow a cumber some visa application process. A vast majority of these countries allow Bulgaria citizens to stay 30 to 90 days without any visa requirement while some countries grant visas upon arrival or issue electronic visas upon online application.
Steps to obtain Bulgarian citizenship by investment under the ordinary process or under the fast-track:
 1. Opening of a personal bank account, deposition the amount to be invested in government bonds and preparation of the set of documents for Investor D visa application.
 2. Applying for Bulgarian Investor visa.
 3. Applying for permanent residence.
 4. Holding the permanent residence for five years, we can initiate the Bulgarian citizenship by investment application with the Ministry of Justice
 5. The applicant does not need to hold the permanent residence for five years but he/ she can apply for Bulgarian citizenship after holding the permanent residence for 12 months only. This allows the applicant to obtain Bulgarian passport in two years.
 - Full investment
Full investment is one of the secured investments. The applicants who choose this option must deposit € 511,292 in a government bond portfolio for five years investment period, without the need for any further payments. At the end of the five years period, the full amount will be returned to the investor without any interest due.
 - Doubling the investment
There is also a fast track that allows investors to apply for citizenship faster by doubling their investments. With the requirements as follows:
 1. Have at least one year of permanent residence.
 2. Second additional investments for two years.
 3. Funding options are available to eligible applicants.
 4. Fast Track applications are scanned under the explicit procedure.
Financial investment
There is a possibility to finance the due amount of the bonds through a non-refundable bank loan of 5.5 years at a financing bank.
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