of my screen, while opening the generated log file on the right (don't pay too much attention to the colors, the discoloration is due to how the alpha channel is being dumped):
It is then usually a rather straightforward task to find a suitable hash code by following these steps:
 - Find the point in the image dump where the first HUD elements appear. In our case, this happens when going from "dump113" to "dump114".
 - Use text search to find the corresponding line in the log file.
 - Continue on downwards to the first call of "SetPixelShader." The second parameter to this call is the hash code we are looking for.
One complication you might notice is that the HUD is already displayed in "dump111". This can happen in many games if a framebuffer used in a previous frame is not cleared. A more solid guideline for (1) in such cases would be "find the last point in the frame dump where no HUD elements are visible", but a bit of experimentation might be required even so.
Creating a Game Profile
In order to use our newly gained hash code, all that remains is creating a game profile for Mass Effect 3. This means creating a subdirectory in the "config" path of the GeDoSaTo installation named after the game executable—that is, as we figured out for the whitelist entry in the beginning, "MassEffect3"—and putting a "GeDoSaTo.ini" file into it. We can then use the built-in editor of GeDoSaToTool to edit it and add the hash code, like so:
We could also add more settings which we only want to apply for Mass Effect 3. Additionally, by placing a "post.fx" shader file in the same directory we can arbitrarily change the post-processing shader used for the game. As a small demonstration that our targeted injection is working, I created a shader which turns the image into a grayscale rendering:
As you can see, only the 3D rendered parts of the game are affected, while the HUD elements still retain their color. In addition to targeted postprocessing, we can now also use the "takeHUDlessScreenshot" keybinding in Mass Effect 3.
While its main purpose is still high-quality downsampling, the current version of GeDoSaTo can also be used as an alternative to SweetFX for the injection of post-processing effects. It goes beyond the scope of similar tools as, with a bit more effort, it can be tuned to apply only where you really want it to, without affecting HUD or UI elements.
If you find some hashes or create good profiles for games which are not yet supported, please do take a moment to contribute them to the project at Github, so that all users of GeDoSaTo can benefit from your efforts. Github offers an easy to use interface and plenty of documentation for how to set up pull requests, which are the best way to contribute—and of course your contribution will be immortalized in the GeDoSaTo version history!


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What Is the Definition of a Consumer Culture?
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A consumer culture is focused on the buying and selling of goods. The goods consumed in a consumer culture are not necessarily goods that are needed so much as goods that are wanted. The United States is an example of a consumer culture.

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Cyclotactor: Towards a Tactile Platform for Musical Interaction
This paper reports on work in progress on a finger-based tactile I/O device for musical interaction. The improvements made to the device since the previous report are discussed, and its increased capability to support audio-tactile synthesis is illustrated by an example interaction. Central to the device is the ability to set up cyclical relationships between tactile input and output. A direct practical application of this to musical interaction is given, using the idea to multiplex two degrees of freedom on a single tactile loop.
Staas de Jong, The Cyclotactor: Towards a Tactile Platform for Musical Interaction. In: Proceedings 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2008), June 2008, Genova (Italy)


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Netzob is an opensource tool for reverse engineering, traffic generation and fuzzing of communication protocols. This tool allows to infer the message format (vocabulary) and the state machine (grammar) of a protocol through passive and active processes. Its objective is to bring state of art academic researches to the operational field, by leveraging bio-informatic and grammatical inferring algorithms in a semi-automatic manner. Netzob is suitable for reversing network protocols, structured files and system and process flows (IPC and communication with drivers and devices). Dedicated modules are provided to capture and import data in multiple contexts (network, file and process data acquisition). Once inferred, a protocol model can afterward be exported to third party tools (Peach, Scapy, Wireshark, etc.) or used in the traffic generation engine, to allow simulation of realistic and controllable communication endpoints and flows. Netzob handles different types of protocols: text protocols (like HTTP and IRC), delimiter-based protocols, fixed fields protocols (like IP and TCP) and variable-length fields protocols (like TLV-based protocols).
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text: Hand pumps are one of the best ways to access underground water sources. Boreholes are drilled into the ground in places with access to underwater reservoirs. After the piping is fitted as well as the hand pump, the motion of the pump creates suction in the pipe and the mechanism forces the water up to the surface. When water sources are really deep, electrical pumps are used. Ground water is often clean and the housing on the pump protects the water from contamination. The Aqua Initiative has funded hand pumps in Rwanda, Kenya and Afghanistan.


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Olive oil based polyurethanamide/ZnO biocomposites were prepared by energy efficient microwave irradiation
technique. The biocomposites showed good coating properties: scratch resistance, impact resistance, adhesion and
flexibility retention. The corrosion studies carried out by potentiodynamic polarization measurements exhibit inhibition
efficiency of 99.99% in 5% NaCl, 99.99% in 3.5% HCl, and 99.94% tap water, respectively. The overall approach is
significant as it focuses on the utilization of vegetable oil, a sustainable material, polyurethanamide, synthesized through
an energy efficient technique, at lower temperature, in lower reaction time, promoting value addition through simple
chemistry. The coatings provide corrosion protection by barrier action.


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Editorial: The harm of patronage
It should come as no surprise to anyone that at the federal level, people are appointed to positions based in large part on who they know and how much money they contributed to a candidate. We see that at the state and local levels as well.
A Vanderbilt University professor says that although the patronage system of political appointees shows no signs of weakening, anything that can be done to corral it would help the federal government operate more efficiently. That should go without saying, but sometimes it takes a little research to prove the point.
"Current presidents have between 3,000 and 4,000 positions at their disposal to fill throughout the federal government, which suggests that citizens should be concerned about how patronage appointments affect government performance," said David Lewis, professor of Political Science and co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University. "If the victors get the spoils, what do the citizens get?"
Using the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), a measuring system devised during the George W. Bush administration by the Office of Management and Budget, Lewis and Vanderbilt alumnus and former Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions affiliate Nick Gallo found that citizens get "lower quality management of federal government programs because of patronage."
Career managers perform better than appointees, and those appointees from the campaign perform the worst," Lewis said. On the positive side, presidents try to avoid placing patronage appointments in positions where a lot of damage can be done, such as managing key federal programs, Lewis and Gallo note.
"Presidents try to place patronage appointees in positions where they are qualified to perform their jobs, or at the very least, where they can cause relatively little harm," Lewis said.
When you don't appoint the best people to positions, you risk getting the kind of problems generated by ineffective and irresponsible people. Think Mike Brown, head of FEMA under President George W. Bush, who famously mishandled the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina.
To the victor belong the spoils, but that doesn't mean you have to reward incompetency.


text: ELA lab courses are designed with the focus of assisting students in developing ELA skills to support their English class development. Each lab course is aligned with the PA assessment anchors, and utilizes technology and online resources to enhance student learning. Study Island plays an integral part in lab class. Lab class is differentiated and has parts to help students who are deficient in skills catch up and learn the necessary skills for them to succeed. Enrichment opportunities are also available for students in this class. Differentiated instruction plays a large part of instruction.


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Mace4 is a finite domain constraint solver. The constraints are given as statements in first-order logic with equality.
Mace4 is used primarily for two purposes:
Here is a Mace4 job that solves a particular Sudoku puzzle.
mace4 -m -1 -f example.in > example.outSee the input and output files (the solution is in "function(f(_,_)...").
Our Web interface simply constructs an input file similar to example.in and runs Mace4 on it.
Colors in the answers.
Ok, let's do Sudoku!
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things that change its behavior in a peculiar way.
You may have heard many people express their dislike for Turbolinks and/or Spring. I happen to like both of these technologies, but if you don't know what they do for you, they may lead even the most experienced JavaScript developers scratching their heads.
Let's have a brief description of these two libraries.
Turbolinks is a tool that loads pages more quickly and provides a few quick-load UJS features for forms and some CRUD actions. The introduction of Turbolinks does change the JavaScript page ready hook you would normally use to "turbolinks:load". Using the standard JavaScript page ready hook causes issues when Turbolinks is in use.
Spring is a preloader for code in your application. It will load both Ruby code and frontend assets in its own process and cache what's loaded to be available by the next request. If you don't know how JavaScript handles errors, this can lead you to try to track down a bug for many days, as Spring will have things work after the first navigation from the first page load. So when the site loads, some things may seem not to work, but then you click a link and it starts working.
Let's take a look first at how JavaScript handles bad code before delving in to Spring's role in it.
When JavaScript comes across some bad code, or anything that evaluates to something it shouldn't, JavaScript stops what it's doing and produces some output in your browser's console indicating that something is wrong. So when you introduce a new JavaScript library to your application and it has some bad code, then anything that follows it in your code, whether it's more libraries or your own code, won't run. This is the normal JavaScript behavior, to stop code execution at a point of bad code evaluation.
But when you add in Spring, which will load your assets in to a cache (with Turbolinks), Spring doesn't avoid JavaScript code after bad JavaScript code evaluation. So you load the first page and Spring/Turbolinks caches your assets and libraries for faster load.
By the time you navigate through the first link, you may not see that anything is wrong because Spring produces the good JavaScript code after the bad. If a JavaScript feature isn't needed on the first page load, then unless you're looking for a problem in the console, you may not know anything is wrong. And when you go to publish your work, all of a sudden the site is partially down and not behaving as you expected even though "it works on my machine."
This kind of thing has likely led many people to pull their hair out over not getting the same results on their machine as in production.
A good tip for JavaScript developers is that any time you add a new library or new JavaScript code to your application, put a simple console.log("Seems okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"); right after it. Then in your browser console, make sure that the code gets that far. Once you see the console log the output, you know that your JavaScript code didn't come across any bad evaluation of code when loading.
I had tried a version of the Bootstrap 4 library, which has some bad JavaScript code evaluation in it, and I had placed it before the other JavaScript libraries were required in one of my applications. This caused all of the JavaScript related code not to work on the first page load but then appear to work on refresh and after the first link navigation. Because I had put it before Turbolinks that code was also behaving in this manner. To get it to work with Spring on the first page load, I put together this little hack in CoffeeScript:
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Turbolinks.dispatch("turbolinks:load")
This of course makes it work on my machine but won't work in production. Developers in Rails often run into situations where the "turbolinks:load" trigger isn't called the first time the website's first page loads.
The Turbolinks.dispatch("turbolinks:load") is the way to instantly trigger that web hook as soon as that line of JavaScript is evaluated. This will come in handy for anyone who needs to get this to occur on first page load of their JavaScript/CoffeeScript scripts.
Triggering CoffeeScript on page load normally requires a little extra work since all CoffeeScript code is wrapped in a function and its scope is protected. Using the Turbolinks.dispatch("turoblinks:load") method makes this not so complicated.
if !Turbolinks?; location.reload is only a useful hack for when Spring is in use. It's only needed to load JavaScript code in your development environment despite some bad JavaScript code evaluation occurring. Instead of using it, just use the console.log technique to see how far your JavaScript code has successfully executed. Then remedy the bad code evaluation situation.
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Capybara is a nice library for simple-to-write tests that work with your full frontend experience. Rails generates most of the proper Capybara tests for you so you can read the tests that are there and continue writing similar tests with what you learned from there. Rails does the heavy lifting of configuration and defaults so it's very easy to get started with frontend testing.
Another additional nicety in Rails 5 is that whenever there is an exception raised in a system test, it captures a screenshot of the browser window's contents and saves it to tmp/screenshots/. Now you can see what's on the screen and compare it to your test to better determine what's wrong with it.
With an understanding of how JavaScript behaves with Rails' libraries, we can prevent lots of debugging time we would otherwise get stuck with. This further increases our ability to use these powerful tools that have jaded others. Turbolinks and Spring make for a wonderful experience once you understand their effects and how to take advantage of them.
It feels good to be a Rails developer these days. Enjoy frontend testing!
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For an app to function at its best, every part of the application stack needs to be optimized and modernized. Technologies like containers and container orchestration tools have brought this kind of modernization to the infrastructure layer of the stack. The way code is deployed is changing as applications are built and deployed in a more distributed manner. Microservices architecture has ushered in this type of decentralized approach to software delivery.
However, between the infrastructure and the code, the layer that needs to function seamlessly is the networking layer. In modern containerized applications, a lot of focus is on the infrastructure and packaging and deployment of code, but traditionally not as much on networking.
This has been changing recently with the advent of the service mesh.
"Containerized app development focuses on infrastructure and code but not as much on networking."
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What Is a Service Mesh?
Network communication was pretty simple back in the day. The network relayed messages from client to server and back. You could easily trace the route messages take, the few touch points across the network, and easily debug latency issues and errors. It took just a single monitoring tool like Nagios.
In a containerized app, each application is made up of loosely coupled microservices. Each microservice is made up of multiple containers, or pods in the case of Kubernetes. Every request now touches multiple services, and to make things worse, each of these services are dynamic. Containers are created and destroyed automatically as the system changes and as deployments are made.
Still, communication between these services needs to be happen seamlessly, and this is the job of the service mesh.
A service mesh is a communication layer between services that handles east-west traffic between microservices. The reason the service mesh is important in microservices is that communication between distributed apps is more complex than with monoliths.
Despite its complexity, microservices architecture brings advantages in performance, control over each service, capability of the system to adapt to changes, and visibility across the network. These advantages make it worthwhile to endure the management overhead of a more complex system.
A service mesh makes it easier to manage networking for microservices.
The Role of a Service Mesh
The most basic responsibility of a service mesh is to handle core networking tasks like load balancing and service discovery. Apart from this, a service mesh introduces advanced tactics like circuit breaking and failure-inducing, which help provide network performance that a cloud native application needs.
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Definition of source code in English:
A text listing of commands to be compiled or assembled into an executable computer program.
- If you bought a mainframe, it came with an operating system complete with source code.
- The intruder found some of their proprietary source code, but did not download any of it, the company claims.
- It lives up to its name by making both source code and file formats completely open.
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European Standards for Clinical Legal Education
Since 2018, ENCLE is engaged in an open process to create a common set of Standards for Clinical Legal Education (CLE) in Europe. The main aim is to provide some guiding principles on CLE to law clinics in Europe. While this process is still very much open and under discussions, some specific outcomes have been achieved so far:
- The concrete idea to develop a common set of European CLE standards were launched after the ENCLE Conference in Turin in 2018, where a plenary sessions (see the video and the summary of the Turin plenary session) took place on CLE standards.
- After this, a first workshop was held in Valencia in January 2019 where a number of European clinicians met to discuss the development of European CLE standards (see summary of the Valencia roundtable).
- In the meantime and in the frame of the STARS project (Skill Transfers in Academia: a Renewed Strategy - an Erasmus+ project), the law clinics engaged in the STARS project developed a draft set of CLE standards/guidelines, which served as an example for the ENCLE discussions on standards.
- A second ENCLE standards workshop was then held in Bratislava in July 2019 (see the summary of the Bratislava workshop), which comprised a plenary sessions and discussions in thematic groups.
- The Standards had been further discussed at a virtual Workshop hosted by the Letterkenny Institute of Technology in October 2020. It was generally considered that the Standards produced as a consequence of the STARS project could largely be adopted by ENCLE.
ENCLE aims to finalise the discussion about a European document on CLE standards in 2021-22. Please do not hesitate to share your comments and suggestions related to the "ENCLE Project on European Standards for Clinical Legal Education" (regarding the general objectives, the process used so far and/or content) by sending an email to: _EMAIL_.
For this reason, ENCLE is organising a round table discussion on standards on Friday November 5th @ 9am GMT/10am CET. This round table discussion (duration of ca. 2h) will allow national Clinical Legal Education networks to address their opinion on the ENCLE Project on European Standards for Clinical Legal Education. Interested persons need to register by filling in the registration form.


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Bore Repair Systems is an indispensable tool for any drilling contractor or company. They are used worldwide to repair many different types of drilling equipment and machinery. They will perform a wide range of services to make your drilling operation reliable and efficient. There are many benefits associated with using the right equipment to repair the damage caused by drilling. They can reduce your downtime and save you money that would usually be spent on new equipment.
When you find yourself needing a borehole to repair the performance of a drilling tool, there are some things to consider. The first is how damaged the equipment is, and what type of damage is it experiencing? The type of damage and the location of the damaged part are two things that will influence the cost of repair. For example, if the damaged component is underground, this will increase the cost of the repair job. The type of drilling holes that are used will also impact the repair price.
Different types of drilling equipment will need different repair methods. The type of drilling equipment will dictate what methods are used. Some equipment is better suited to repairing sandstone, whereas other equipment is better suited to repairing concrete. It is important to choose the correct method for the task at hand. This will ensure that the job is completed in the shortest period of time, and this is essential in today's world.
There are many different tools used for drilling. These tools include core rigs, which are used to test drilling holes and to determine if the hole has been effectively penetrated and is complete. Core rigs are used mainly in larger holes and will test out if drilling holes is successful and will give an indication of the costs involved in repairing the site. Drilling mud tubes are another type of drilling equipment. These mud tubes are used for testing the diameter of drilled holes and are good for completing some precision holes.
If the casing of a drilling machine has become damaged, it can sometimes be repaired using specialised drilling equipment. It is important to have proper safety procedures in place when operating this machinery, so that you can get the most out of the drilling process. If an operator does not follow safety procedures it could cause serious damage and injury to itself or others, so make sure you have a proper training program to perform this type of repair work.
One type of equipment that can be used for drilling is a mud trencher. These machines are normally used to dig holes for foundations, and can also be used for extracting soil and rock samples. They are also known as a digging trencher and they are operated via hydraulic pressure. Mud trenchers are a bit more complicated than the standard equipment, and it is vital that operators know how to use them properly and safely. When repairing a damaged mud trencher, it is vital that it is repaired in the safest way possible, to avoid further damage to the environment.
Once drilling has begun, the area needs to be sealed off from the outside world in order to protect it from any damage. This can usually be achieved by erecting a fence, either on the surface of the ground or within an underground mine. To protect the fence from being damaged by falling drilling equipment, concrete may need to be poured into the hole. To help maintain the integrity of the fence, steel may also need to be added. Maintainers also need to check that all bolts and screws are tightened, and that the machinery is kept in good working order.
If an operator suspects that a drilling operation may have an impact on the environment, there are some options to minimise this risk. It is important to keep the drilling equipment in good condition and clean it after each use. It is also important to remember to recycle any drill bit that has fallen to the earth. By carefully following these simple safety procedures, it can help to ensure that a bore repair can be carried out with minimal disruption to the local area. If you feel that you are unable to carry out the bore repair yourself, then it may be a wise decision to consult a professional.


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tool for early identification of the elderly gait asymmetry in the clinical diagnosis.
Wu, Jianning; Wu, Bin
The accurate identification of gait asymmetry is very beneficial to the assessment of at-risk gait in the clinical applications. This paper investigated the application of classification method based on statistical learning algorithm to quantify gait symmetry based on the assumption that the degree of intrinsic change in dynamical system of gait is associated with the different statistical distributions between gait variables from left-right side of lower limbs; that is, the discrimination of small difference of similarity between lower limbs is considered the reorganization of their different probability distribution. The kinetic gait data of 60 participants were recorded using a strain gauge force platform during normal walking. The classification method is designed based on advanced statistical learning algorithm such as support vector machine algorithm for binary classification and is adopted to quantitatively evaluate gait symmetry. The experiment results showed that the proposed method could capture more intrinsic dynamic information hidden in gait variables and recognize the right-left gait patterns with superior generalization performance. Moreover, our proposed techniques could identify the small significant difference between lower limbs when compared to the traditional symmetry index method for gait. The proposed algorithm would become an effective tool for early identification of the elderly gait asymmetry in the clinical diagnosis.
We obtain the relaxation time for the shear viscous stress for various geometries using the'membrane paradigm' formula proposed recently. We consider the generic Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black holes (SAdS), the generic Dp-brane, the Klebanov-Tseytlin (KT) geometry, and the N=2* theory. The formula is the'shear mode' result and is not fully trustable, but it may be helpful to learn some generic behaviors about the relaxation time. For example, a simple formula summarizes all known results for SAdS, and a single expression summarizes the results for the Dp-brane and the KT geometry.
Lu, Kai; Vicario, David S
Auditory neurophysiology has demonstrated how basic acoustic features are mapped in the brain, but it is still not clear how multiple sound components are integrated over time and recognized as an object. We investigated the role of statistical learning in encoding the sequential features of complex sounds by recording neuronal responses bilaterally in the auditory forebrain of awake songbirds that were passively exposed to long sound streams. These streams contained sequential regularities, and were similar to streams used in human infants to demonstrate statistical learning for speech sounds. For stimulus patterns with contiguous transitions and with nonadjacent elements, single and multiunit responses reflected neuronal discrimination of the familiar patterns from novel patterns. In addition, discrimination of nonadjacent patterns was stronger in the right hemisphere than in the left, and may reflect an effect of top-down modulation that is lateralized. Responses to recurring patterns showed stimulus-specific adaptation, a sparsening of neural activity that may contribute to encoding invariants in the sound stream and that appears to increase coding efficiency for the familiar stimuli across the population of neurons recorded. As auditory information about the world must be received serially over time, recognition of complex auditory objects may depend on this type of mnemonic process to create and differentiate representations of recently heard sounds.
Noor, Ahmed K.
The accelerating pace of the computing technology development shows no signs of abating. Computing power reaching 100 Tflop/s is likely to be reached by 2004 and Pflop/s (10(exp 15) Flop/s) by 2007. The fundamental physical limits of computation, including information storage limits, communication limits and computation rate limits will likely be reached by the middle of the present millennium. To overcome these limits, novel technologies and new computing paradigms will be developed. An attempt is made in this overview to put the diverse activities related to new computing-paradigms in perspective and to set the stage for the succeeding presentations. The presentation is divided into five parts. In the first part, a brief historical account is given of development of computer and networking technologies. The second part provides brief overviews of the three emerging computing paradigms grid, ubiquitous and autonomic computing. The third part lists future computing alternatives and the characteristics of future computing environment. The fourth part describes future aerospace workforce research, learning and design environments. The fifth part lists the objectives of the workshop and some of the sources of information on future computing paradigms.
Yu, Shimeng; Gao, Bin; Fang, Zheng; Yu, Hongyu; Kang, Jinfeng; Wong, H-S Philip
Hardware implementation of neuromorphic computing is attractive as a computing paradigm beyond the conventional digital computing. In this work, we show that the SET (off-to-on) transition of metal oxide resistive switching memory becomes probabilistic under a weak programming condition. The switching variability of the binary synaptic device implements a stochastic learning rule. Such stochastic SET transition was statistically measured and modeled for a simulation of a winner-take-all network for competitive learning. The simulation illustrates that with such stochastic learning, the orientation classification function of input patterns can be effectively realized. The system performance metrics were compared between the conventional approach using the analog synapse and the approach in this work that employs the binary synapse utilizing the stochastic learning. The feasibility of using binary synapse in the neurormorphic computing may relax the constraints to engineer continuous multilevel intermediate states and widens the material choice for the synaptic device design.
Reza Karimi, RPh, PhD
Full Text Available Purpose: An Integrative Student Learning (ISL activity was developed with the intent to enhance the dynamic of student teamwork and enhance student learning by fostering critical-thinking skills, self-directed learning skills, and active learning. Case Study: The ISL activity consists of three portions: teambuilding, teamwork, and a facilitator driven "closing the loop" feedback discussion. For teambuilding, a set of clue sheets or manufacturer's drug containers were distributed among student pairs who applied their pharmaceutical knowledge to identify two more student pairs with similar clues or drugs, thus building a team of six. For teamwork, each team completed online exams, composed of integrated pharmaceutical science questions with clinical correlates, using only selected online library resources. For the feedback discussion, facilitators evaluated student impressions, opened a discussion about the ISL activity, and provided feedback to teams' impressions and questions. This study describes three different ISL activities developed and implemented over three days with first year pharmacy students. Facilitators' interactions with students and three surveys indicated a majority of students preferred ISL over traditional team activities and over 90% agreed ISL activities promoted active learning, critical-thinking, self-directed learning, teamwork, and student confidence in online library searches. Conclusions: The ISL activity has proven to be an effective learning activity that promotes teamwork and integration of didactic pharmaceutical sciences to enhance student learning of didactic materials and confidence in searching online library resources. It was found that all of this can be accomplished in a short amount of class time with a very reasonable amount of preparation.
Full Text Available Purpose: An Integrative Student Learning (ISL activity was developed with the intent to enhance the dynamic of student teamwork and enhance student learning by fostering critical-thinking skills, self-directed learning skills, and active learning. Case Study: The ISL activity consists of three portions: teambuilding, teamwork, and a facilitator driven "closing the loop" feedback discussion. For teambuilding, a set of clue sheets or manufacturer's drug containers were distributed among student pairs who applied their pharmaceutical knowledge to identify two more student pairs with similar clues or drugs, thus building a team of six. For teamwork, each team completed online exams, composed of integrated pharmaceutical science questions with clinical correlates, using only selected online library resources. For the feedback discussion, facilitators evaluated student impressions, opened a discussion about the ISL activity, and provided feedback to teams' impressions and questions. This study describes three different ISL activities developed and implemented over three days with first year pharmacy students. Facilitators' interactions with students and three surveys indicated a majority of students preferred ISL over traditional team activities and over 90% agreed ISL activities promoted active learning, critical-thinking, self-directed learning, teamwork, and student confidence in online library searches. Conclusions: The ISL activity has proven to be an effective learning activity that promotes teamwork and integration of didactic pharmaceutical sciences to enhance student learning of didactic materials and confidence in searching online library resources. It was found that all of this can be accomplished in a short amount of class time with a very reasonable amount of preparation. Type: Case Study
El Naqa, Issam; Bradley, Jeffrey D; Deasy, Joseph O; Lindsay, Patricia E; Hope, Andrew J
Radiotherapy outcomes are determined by complex interactions between treatment, anatomical and patient-related variables. A common obstacle to building maximally predictive outcome models for clinical practice is the failure to capture potential complexity of heterogeneous variable interactions and applicability beyond institutional data. We describe a statistical learning methodology that can automatically screen for nonlinear relations among prognostic variables and generalize to unseen data before. In this work, several types of linear and nonlinear kernels to generate interaction terms and approximate the treatment-response function are evaluated. Examples of institutional datasets of esophagitis, pneumonitis and xerostomia endpoints were used. Furthermore, an independent RTOG dataset was used for 'generalizabilty' validation. We formulated the discrimination between risk groups as a supervised learning problem. The distribution of patient groups was initially analyzed using principle components analysis (PCA) to uncover potential nonlinear behavior. The performance of the different methods was evaluated using bivariate correlations and actuarial analysis. Over-fitting was controlled via cross-validation resampling. Our results suggest that a modified support vector machine (SVM) kernel method provided superior performance on leave-one-out testing compared to logistic


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Whole-field subsidence and gravity monitoring is a well-proven, cost-efficient technology, with many field cases demonstrating both the high accuracies obtained and the value of the data for improved reservoir management. Seafloor subsidence and 4D gravimetric data are acquired with a small cost compared to seismic data. However, workflows for properly taking advantage of the information that lies in these data and their range of applicability are in general less widely known that for more conventional datasets. This abstract introduces first the principles behind offshore subsidence and 4D gravity monitoring. It then describes some field cases from the Norwegian Continental shelf (NCS) in which subsidence and 4D gravity data have been integrated into the field management workflow for production optimization and enhanced recovery. Finally, new developments towards making the technology even more cost efficient and the added value that can be expected as a consequence of these improvements are discussed.
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Our friends from Fundacja Artystyczna PERFORM send us this self-care, reflection and community participation toolkit created thanks to the ideas and contributions of all the projects participating in CORE.
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When you are facing a Charleston felony gun crime it is important to understand that both State and Federal law cover gun crimes in South Carolina. Understanding this is critical to your case which is why you need to consult an experienced Charleston Felony Gun Crimes Lawyer that is familiar with both forums when seeking legal guidance in your South Carolina firearm arrest.
What is a Felony Gun Crimes Crime?
This charge differs from "Unlawful Carrying" in two important ways. First, it is a felony gun charge and second, you can be charged with this offense even if you had the gun stored in a lawful place. For example, the gun was in a closed glove compartment of your vehicle but the serial number is obliterated or it is a stolen. What does the state have to prove?
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The TLC system composes the smart bed with an OLED screen and a TLC application which is used in a laptop or a tablet at the nurse station. The TLC smart bed is made of smart fabric which records temperature , BP, sleep pattern and moisture levels. This data is sent via radio frequency to the nurse tablet providing continuous monitoring and helps save a lot of staff hours. Patients can control their mattress temperatures and bed position with the intuitive GUI OLED screen without having to call the nurse.
The TLC interface at the nurse station shows and alerts any changes in parameters such as patient body temperature, blood pressure, sleep pattern and moisture levels. This interface can also be assessed by the doctor to view patient history and make changes in the drug dosages.https://www.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=33677


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February 25, 2011
Conserving Energy While Creating Jobs
An overview of how Oregon has benefited from 2009 Recovery Act weatherization funds
By Andrew Cleland*
The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("Recovery Act"), enacted in response to the most severe downturn since the Great Depression, employed a host of strategies to revive economic activity and put people back to work. One of those approaches sought to bolster existing weatherization programs in the states. This fact sheet provides an overview of how the Recovery Act's weatherization program has helped Oregon families save on energy costs, pumped millions of dollars into the state's economy and created good jobs.
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Weatherization Program Helps Low-Income Families Save on Energy Costs
Oregon's Weatherization Assistance Program helps low-income families save money by making their homes more energy efficient. Weatherization can take a number of forms, including improved insulation, installation of compact fluorescent lighting, air leak reduction and installation of more energy efficient furnaces or appliances. The program cuts the energy bills of participating households by an estimated $50 to $160 per year, depending on the type of home and heating system. Renters' homes, as well as owner-occupied homes, can be improved.
The program, dating back to 1979, is a joint state and federal effort. Oregon's weatherization program receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the federally administered Bonneville Power Authority and state public purpose funds originating from fees paid by PGE and Pacific Power customers.
The program is administered at the local level. Community-based organizations, usually Community Action Agencies, promote the program among eligible households and assess how participants' homes can be made more energy efficient. The organizations either perform the weatherization work or hire a local contractor do so. The community-based organizations report to the Oregon Housing and Community Services department (OHCS), which manages and distributes the funds in Oregon.
Recovery Act Dollars Have Helped Oregon Reach More Households
Oregon's weatherization program historically has had more eligible applicants than it can serve given available resources. Eligible families in Oregon often endure long waiting periods — anywhere from eight months to five years — before their homes are weatherized. Local agencies typically honor a waiting list, with priority given to households with seniors, young children and people with disabilities.
Fortunately, the Recovery Act has bolstered Oregon's weatherization program in several ways. First, funding for the program expanded significantly. Nationally, the Recovery Act provided $5 billion in grants for weatherization activities to be spent over a three-year timeframe. Of this amount, Oregon has received $38.5 million. This represents more than a 90 percent increase in funds that typically goes to Oregon's weatherization program.
These funds have benefited thousands families across the state. According to OHCS, as of February 7, 2011, 3,124 more homes were improved as a result of the extra dollars. The table below shows how many more homes Oregon weatherized in each county or service area of the state due to the additional Recovery Act funds. Oregon has until March 31, 2012 to use its entire Recovery Act weatherization allotment.
Recovery Act's Weatherization Progress in Oregon by Location
|Location||Homes Weatherized as of Feb. 7, 2011|
|Lincoln, Benton, Linn|
|Hood River, Wasco, Sherman|
|Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook|
|Tillamook, Clatsop, Columbia|
|Gilliam, Wheler, Morrow, Umatilla|
|Grant, Union, Baker, Wallowa|
|Klamath, Warm Springs Tribes|
Additionally, the Recovery Act made it easier for families to qualify for services. Oregon's program was previously limited to households with incomes at or below 150 percent of the poverty line. The Recovery Act, however, changed the federal eligibility rule to 200 percent of poverty, enabling more Oregon families to qualify. For example, under the new rule a family of four qualifies if their annual income does not exceed $44,700. The old rule excluded households of four making more than $33,525.
Recovery Act's Weatherization Funds Bolster Economy and Create Good Jobs
The additional weatherization funds have furthered the goal of the Recovery Act: to bolster an economy hammered by the deepest and longest recession since the Great Depression.
The program has injected millions of additional dollars into Oregon's economy. As of December 31, 2010, the Recovery Act's weatherization program alone had funneled $19.1 million into the state's economy. Assuming Oregon spends its entire Recovery Act weatherization allotment by the deadline, over the next year-and-a-half, the weatherization program will put an additional $19.4 million into Oregon's economy. These numbers represent only the direct dollar impact on Oregon's economy. They do not include the indirect impact, or "multiplier effect," on Oregon's economy — the chain reaction of economic activity generated by the original investment.
The Recovery Act's weatherization funds have also put people to work. The funds have created jobs in every calendar quarter since April 2009, when the dollars started flowing to the state. Because jobs can vary by number of hours per week and duration, simply counting heads can result in over-reporting in the number of jobs. Accordingly, consistent with federal Recovery Act reporting requirements, OHCS calculates the "full-time equivalent" (FTE) of a job by summing the total hours worked in the state in a calendar quarter and dividing by the number of hours that would need to be worked if someone worked full time during the period. By that measure, in the four quarters of 2010 — a period in which the program was fully up and running — the Recovery Act's weatherization program in Oregon supported between 95 and 116 jobs in each of those quarters.
By design, the jobs created by Recovery Act dollars are good jobs. They must meet minimum quality standards as set by the federal Davis-Bacon Act. Contractors and subcontractors must earn no less than the local prevailing wages and fringe benefits received for corresponding work on similar projects in the area. These standards ensure that the jobs generated by the new weatherization funds are good for workers and help prevent poverty while at the same time helping to expand the economy.
In an effort to bolster the recession-battered economy, the Recovery Act channeled money through existing state weatherization programs. Data show that in Oregon, these funds have helped more low-income families save on energy costs, pumped millions of dollars into the state's economy and created good jobs.
*Andrew Cleland worked as an intern at OCPP in the winter of 2010-11.
 H.G. Peach, M. Thompson, and U. Mengelberg, Evaluation of the 2003/2005 Oregon Weatherization Assistance Program. Beaverton, Oregon: H. Gil Peach & Associates, 2008, Monograph 11-2008-1, p. 45.
 Gail Kinsey Hill, "Wait Long for Help in Home Insulation," The Oregonian, October 14, 2005.
 Calculation based on data supplied by Oregon Housing and Community Services for funding received by the weatherization program from all sources from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2010.
 Department of Energy, Weatherization Notice 09-1B, "Grant Guidance to Administer the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Funding," March 12, 2009. Income eligibility figures for a family of four reflect 2011 federal poverty levels.
 Source: Oregon Housing and Community Services.

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Chlorbutol is an antiseptic, anesthetic, anti-irritant, and emollient agent. It works as local anesthetic by providing a quick relief from pain; bacteriostatic reinforcing the activity of chlorhexidine. It also produces a mild irritant effect on the respiratory tract, possibly via a nasal/pulmonary arc.
Nausea, Noisy breathing, Oral peeling, Parotid gland swelling, Abdominal cramp, Allergic reaction, Anaphylactic reaction, Burning sensation of tongue, Cough, Diarrhoea, Discoloration of teeth, Altered taste, Shortness of breath, Itching, Flushing, Skin reaction, Erythema, Sneezing, Subcutaneous swelling, Tongue discolouration, Vomiting, Burning sensation
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Q. What is chlorobutanol used for?
Chlorbutol is used in different formulations such as cream, mouthwash and decongestant capsules.Cream: to treat mild pain caused by minor skin cuts, scratches and grazes (chapping) and soreness caused by detergents, soaps, deodorants and jewellery and bites and stings.Mouthwash solution: to inhibit dental plaque formation, as an aid in the treatment and prevention of irritation, redness, and swelling of gums (gingivitis), and in maintaining oral hygiene. It is important in the management of mouth ulceration and oral infections due to fungus candida and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for minor infections of the throat. It is also used as a disinfectant solution for cleansing of removable dentures.Capsule: for the symptomatic relief of colds and the symptomatic rapid relief of nasal congestion.


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The General Assembly of 1933 created the State School Commission to be the fiscal agency for the state's public school fund, succeeding the State Board of Equalization. Membership on the commission was composed of the governor as ex officio chairman, the lieutenant governor, the state treasurer, the state superintendent of public instruction, and one member appointed by the governor from each of what were then North Carolina's 11 congressional districts-for a total of 15 persons. The commission was given broad and plenary powers over the administration of the public schools and the distribution of state funds to schools. The State School Commission continued until 1943, when the General Assembly abolished it and reassigned its powers and duties to the State Board of Education.
E. Michael Latta, The Constitutional and Statutory Development of the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (1989).
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A semi-arid climate or steppe climate describes climatic regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not extremely. A more precise definition is given by the Köppen climate classification that treats steppe climates (BSk and BSh) as intermediates between desert climates (BW) and humid climates in ecological characteristics and agricultural potential. Semi-arid climates tend to support short or scrubby vegetation, with semi-arid areas usually are dominated by either grasses or shrubs.
To determine if a location has a semi-arid climate, the precipitation threshold must first be determined. Finding the precipitation threshold (in millimeters) involves first multiplying the average annual temperature in °C by 20, then adding 280 if 70% or more of the total precipitation is in the high-sun half of the year (April through September in the Northern Hemisphere, or October through March in the Southern), or 140 if 30%–70% of the total precipitation is received during the applicable period, or 0 if less than 30% of the total precipitation is so received. If the area's annual precipitation is less than the threshold but more than half the threshold, it is classified as a BS (steppe climate).
Furthermore, to delineate "hot semi-arid climates" from "cold semi-arid climates", there are three widely used isotherms: Either a mean annual temperature of 18°C, or a mean temperature of 0°C or −3°C in the coldest month, so that a location with a "BS" type climate with the appropriate temperature above whichever isotherm is being used is classified as "hot semi-arid" (BSh), and a location with the appropriate temperature below the given isotherm is classified as "cold semi-arid" (BSk).
Hot semi-arid climates
Hot semi-arid climates (type "BSh") tend to be located in the tropics and subtropics. These climates tend to have hot, sometimes extremely hot, summers and mild to warm winters. Snow rarely (if ever) falls in these regions. Hot semi-arid climates are most commonly found around the fringes of subtropical deserts. The most common variant of a hot semi-arid climate, found in regions such as West Africa, India, parts of Mexico and small parts of Pakistan experiences the seasonal effects of monsoons and has a short but well-defined wet season, but is not sufficiently wet overall to qualify as a tropical savanna climate. In Australia, a large portion of the Outback, surrounding the central desert regions, lies within the hot semi-arid climate regime. Hot semi-arid climates can also be found in sections of South America such as the sertão and on the poleward side of the arid deserts where they typically feature a Mediterranean precipitation pattern, with generally rainless summers and wetter winters.
Cold semi-arid climates
Cold semi-arid climates (type "BSk") tend to be located in temperate zones. They are typically found in continental interiors some distance from large bodies of water. Cold semi-arid climates usually feature hot and dry (often exceptionally hot) summers, though their summers are typically not quite as hot as those of hot semi-arid climates. Unlike hot semi-arid climates, areas with cold semi-arid climates tend to have cold winters. These areas usually see some snowfall during the winter, though snowfall is much lower than at locations at similar latitudes with more humid climates. Areas featuring cold semi-arid climates tend to have higher elevations than areas with hot semi-arid climates, and are sometimes subject to major temperature swings between day and night, sometimes by as much as 15℃/27℉ or more in that time frame. These temperature swings are seldom seen in hot semi-arid climates. Cold semi-arid climates at higher latitudes tend to have dry winters and wetter summers, while cold semi-arid climates at lower latitudes tend to have precipitation patterns more akin to Mediterranean climates, with dry summers, relatively wet winters, and even wetter springs and autumns. Cold semi-arid climates are most commonly found in Asia and North America. However, it can also be found in Northern Africa, South Africa, Europe, (primarily in Spain) sections of South America and sections of interior southern Australia.
Regions of varying classification
Three isotherms means that delineate between hot and cold semi-arid climates -- the 18°C average annual temperature or that of the coldest month (0°C or −3°C), the warm side of the isotherm of choice defining a BSh climate from the BSk on the cooler side. As a result of this, some areas can have climates that are classified as hot or cold semi-arid depending on the isotherm used. One such location is San Diego, California (at its main airport), which has cool summers for the latitude due to prevailing winds off the ocean (so the average annual temperature is below 18°C) but mild winters (average temperature in January, 14°C, and closer to the 18.0°C isotherm that separates tropical and subtropical climates than to the 0°C or −3°C isotherm for the coldest month that separates temperate and continental climates).
See also
- Continental climate
- Dust Bowl (an era of devastating dust storms, mostly in the 1930s, in semi-arid areas on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada)
- Goyder's Line (a boundary marking the limit of semi-arid climates in the Australian state of South Australia)
- Palliser's Triangle (semi-arid area of Canada)
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A few more plant pictures today from our walks around Benidorm and the Sierra Gelada. The first was to be found growing on the cliffs of the Placa del Castell and is called White Henbane (Hyoscyamus albus). A highly poisonous plant as are all of the Henbane family, it has been used in antiquity as a psycho-stimulant in 'magic brews' to bring on hallucinations.
Coronilla juncea) and is widely and commonly seen around the Mediterranean coasts. It makes a good show with it's golden flowers.
Lobularia maritima). A diminutive member of the cabbage family, it almost carpets some places along the coast.
Viola arborescens and is simply gorgeous close-up.
Helianthemum apenninum) which, again grows, seemingly everywhere around the dry, rocky slopes in these parts.


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He has ascended the highest peaks on all seven continents and walked to both the North and South Poles. He has also led expeditions to 15 unmapped, unexplored mountains in Greenland and also in Patagonia, Mountains of the Moon, the Sahara Desert, and the Thar Desert of India.
Cross has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 30 years. He manages his diabetes in the most extreme conditions, while facing challenges such as irregular meals; extreme temperatures; unusual sleeping patterns; physical exertion; high risks of frostbite and dehydration; and other less than ideal conditions in which to monitor glucose levels and administer insulin. He also works as a motivational speaker and seeks to get out the message that if he can control his diabetes in the most unlikely conditions, no one should feel hindered by diabetes.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Allegheny College, a Master of Science in Education from Duquesne University, and Secondary Principal's Certification from the University of Pittsburgh, where he specialized in educational programs for troubled teens. Will, his wife Amy, and their 6 children live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He is a member of the American Alpine Club, Royal Geographical Society, Explorers Club, and the American Mountain Guides Association. He received a Gold Congressional Award for exemplary service to the United States, granted for his initiative, achievement, and service.
He made headlines for attempting to summit Everest in 2005 despite having to deal with Type one diabetes, and he had also tried to summit in 2004. However, on these first two expeditions he did not reach the summit even though he did learn about mountaineering and Mount Everest.
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3D printing: Is the construction sector catching up?
Originally published in Gulf Business by Aarti Nagraj (link below)
Place like Dubai are leading the adoption of 3D printing in construction
A yellow-colour one-storey house in Russia generated news headlines across the world in March this year for two reasons. First, the house was 3D printed, and second – more interestingly – the builders said the walls of the building were printed and painted in just 24 hours.
Dubai too gained global attention in May last year when it opened what it claimed was the world's first 3D printed office. Located adjacent to Emirates Towers, the building is spread across 250 square metres and was constructed using a special mixture of cement and a set of building materials designed and made in the UAE and the United States.
Later in the year, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) also awarded a contract for the design and construction of the UAE's first building to be fully printed on-site and the first 3D printed laboratory in the world.
The laboratory, part of the Research & Development Centre at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, will be used to conduct research on drones and 3D printing technology.


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If you've ever dropped your mobile phone in dishwater, you can now claim you were testing the water for bacterial contamination. It seems liquid crystals, ubiquitous in electronic displays, are the best way to detect water-borne toxins.
When suspended in water, the molecules in a liquid crystal droplet normally form chains that wrap around the droplet like the lines of longitude on a globe. But in the presence of endotoxins, disease-causing molecules produced by Escherichia coli bacteria, they rearrange to form a pattern that radiates from the drop's centre.
Previously, coating a droplet's entire surface with toxins was thought to be necessary to produce the change, called an "ordering transition".
Now Nicholas Abbott at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues have shown that only the "poles" of the droplet, where the longitudinal chains of its molecules meet up, need to contact the toxins to produce the realignment.
That suggests liquid crystals can detect endotoxins at concentrations 10 times as low as currently possible, Abbott says. "The surprise was that we could trigger this ordering transition with such a small number of molecules," says Abbott.
"It's a wonderful piece of work," says Oleg Lavrentovich at Kent State University in Ohio, who was not involved in the research. "In order to trigger the ordering transition, one needs a much smaller amount of stimuli than one might normally think."
Liquid crystal droplets could one day help ensure the safety of saline and other injectable medical fluids.
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In user testing, I've seen users discover bookmarks/Saved filters. But no one seems to have discovered the 'Set as default' function of Saved filters. And at least one user expressed confusion about defaults. Users get frustrated when the system does not present as they'd like it to. Some expressed interest in just having all settings persist when they leave the page. That solution is not compatible with our current one (Set default). To make Set defaults succeed, we need to make it more discoverable. Here is my fairly simple proposal for doing that:
Add'make this my default' to the bookmark action menu
- Clicking the bookmark produces the 'Save current filter settings' menu. The user is invited to enter the new filter's name in a text box.
- Under the text box, we put a checkbox for 'Make this the default'.
- If the user clicks the box, that filter becomes the "Create filter" button becomes the "Create default filter" button, with a pushpin icon.
- When the user clicks the Create default filter button, the filter is saved as the Default in the menu, with the pushpin.
- Maybe more importantly, the user learns about this function. And because she knows it exists, she will almost certainly be able to find it again when she needs it next.


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Het dorp Rincon, Te Rincon, Rincón: Rinon (Papamientu)
Meaning of Rincón, Spanish for corner/nook, may refer to:
A "Rincon" is also a place where you can have activities, such as a restaurant ("ex: the corner of the good food") or a shop ("the corner of hot sales"). It means as well a remote settlement, a group of houses. A Rincon can be built inland or by the sea.
Is Rincon protected from the pirate attacks?
1/Rincon is sheltered in the North by the Brandaris (240 m) and Seru Mangel (144,6 m), in the West by Seru Dos Pos (125,6 m) and Montagne (143 m), and, in the South by Seru Largu (133 m). Rincon is almost invisible from the sea and far less exposed than Palu di Lechi.
2/ Rincon is protected by a very shallow sand bank on the east side of Bonaire, right in front of the town.
3/ Even inland, sheltered and protected, the Rincon has been raided several times, cf Laurens Prins in 1665.
Rincon Village is the oldest village on Bonaire. Additionally, it is the oldest in continual existence within the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
In 1527, the Spaniards came back from Hispaniola to Bonaire and then founded the first settlement on Bonaire: Rincon. On their return they brought Indians and various types of livestock along. Rincon's location was chosen because it is in a fertile valley and has an always blowing trade wind and it was out of the eye of passing (pirate)ships and beyond the reach of their raids. In 1636 the West India Company, which has long been established on Curacao, decided to Bonaire add to their possessions. The Dutch exploited Bonaire mainly for its salt and paint timber. Brasil Wood (Palu di Brasil) was used as red pigment for paint. When the Dutch saw that they needed more labor, they imported slaves from Africa, who then had to settle in Rincon. The slaves worked on plantations in the area of Rincon and on salt pans on the opposite side of the island. Because the walk from Rincon to the salt pans took about 10 hours the slaves build themselves small huts to sleep in. The slaves worked the salt pans and stayed in their huts during the week, on saterday they were allowed to go back to their homes in Rincon. In 1850, these shacks were replaced by stone houses. These stone houses are still standing along the salt pans. After the abolition of slavery on July 1st of 1863, the former slaves stayed in Rincon, they maintained their culture and to this date many of the current residents of Rincon are descendants of the slaves.
1 Altamira Unjo – Panorama Rincon
2 Cadushy Distillery & Heritage Center
3 Polar Bar (closed)
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6 Kos Bon So Grill restaurant
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10 Lourdes Grotto – Replica of Lourdes Cave
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18 San Luis Bertran school
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20 Traditional cottage – Kas Krioyo (closed)
21 Kanta Orchidia
22 Soccer Stadium
23 Kununu's (farming grounds) West
24 Kunuku's (farming grounds) East
25 Statue of Julio Abraham
26 Memorial stone founding of Rincon
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The Rev. Nico Smith dies at 81; white South African pastor who fought apartheid
Smith and his wife were the first whites officially permitted to live in a black township in the '80s. He left the Dutch Reformed Church because it refused to oppose racial separation.
June 21, 2010
The Rev. Nico Smith, a white pastor who challenged South Africa's apartheid system by moving with his wife into a black township in the 1980s, has died. He was 81.
Smith collapsed Saturday while attending a friend's birthday party in Pretoria and died before he could be taken to a hospital, said Marita Laubscher, the eldest of his three daughters.
Smith was one of a few clerics in the 1980s who left the white Dutch Reformed Church — the largest denomination among the Afrikaners who then held political power — because of the church's refusal to actively oppose apartheid.
Smith had been a missionary in the far north of South Africa and later a theology professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He began preaching in Mamelodi, the main black township outside Pretoria, in 1982.
He moved there a few years later, along with his wife, Ellen, a child psychiatrist. They were the first whites officially permitted by the government to live in a black township in an era where apartheid laws rigorously segregated residential areas, schools, hospitals and public amenities. Their home was financed by foreign donations, including $20,000 from the Bel-Air Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles.
" 'Aren't you afraid?' is the first question whites ask," Smith told The Times in 1986. "White fear is one of the great barriers to understanding and progress in this country.... But over the past two years there has been an increasing realization by whites of the depth and the degree of black anger."
In 1988, Smith was one of the principal organizers of what at the time was an unprecedented experiment in trading places. About 170 whites lived in Mamelodi for four days, sharing cornmeal dinners, outside toilets and middle-of-the-night visits from the police.
Few whites knew firsthand how blacks lived because they seldom ventured into the townships on the periphery of the cities.
They moved back to a white area in 1989.
Laubscher said her father was dedicated to the goal of racial reconciliation in South Africa, which dismantled apartheid in the early 1990s. He helped build a multiracial congregation in Pretoria.
"His sense of justice was what drove him to feel that all people should have access to opportunities," she said. "He felt, as a Christian, how could he be part of a church if not all people could be considered human."
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How to Delete Macros in Excel | Step-by-Step Guide on Removing Macros
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Macros can be incredibly useful for automating repetitive or complex tasks in Excel. However, over time as you create new macros or no longer need certain ones, you may want to delete them to clean up your files.
Knowing how to properly remove Excel macros gives you better control and organization over the code powering your workbooks. This guide will cover multiple methods for deleting macros from Excel depending on your specific needs.
Understand How Excel Stores Macros
Before diving into the steps for removal, it helps to understand precisely how and where Excel stores macros. When you create a macro, either by recording your actions or writing code manually, that macro is saved into a module. Modules contain the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code powering your macros. Those modules live within the Visual Basic Editor accessible through the Developer tab.
Personal Workbook Modules
When you create macros directly in an open workbook, they are typically stored in that specific workbook's module. Personal workbook modules contain macros only available to that particular workbook. If you delete the macro from the module, it will no longer be accessible when using that file.
Global Personal Macro Workbook
Alternatively, you can choose to store your macros in the Personal Macro Workbook. This is a hidden workbook that opens whenever you launch Excel. Macros saved here become globally available macros that can be accessed across any of your Excel workbooks. It's useful for reusable macros you rely on frequently.
Other Types of Modules
There are a couple of other module types that can contain macros as well. Class modules hold macros intended for users to instantiate as objects. And code modules are more generic modules for code not intended for direct use.
Delete Macros from the Module
If there are macros inside a personal workbook module that you want to completely delete, follow these steps:
Open the Visual Basic Editor
First, make sure the workbook containing those macros is open. Then go to the Developer tab and click on Visual Basic to launch the Visual Basic Editor. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut ALT+F11.
Navigate to the Module
On the left side, you will see the Project Explorer pane listing all components in your file. Expand the tree until you can see the list of Modules.
Locate the specific Module containing the macro you want to delete.
Delete the Entire Module
Right-click on the Module and select Remove. This will delete the entire module and all macros contained within it.
This approach removes any chance of accidentally breaking connections with the remaining modules.
Save the Workbook
Finally, save your workbook file. Those macros are now permanently deleted.
Remove Specific Macros from the Macro Dialog Box
While the previous method would remove all macros, this alternative allows for a more targeted approach, enabling you to specify the exact macros you wish to exclude.
Additionally, if the need arises to delete all macros, you can seamlessly execute that action as well.
Let's consider a scenario where you have a file named Example.xlsm that houses various macros.
Follow these steps to surgically remove a macro from this workbook:
 - Access the Developer tab (if the Developer tab is not visible, refer to the note highlighted in yellow after the steps).
 - Click on the Developer tab.
 - Select the Macros button, initiating the Macro dialog box, which provides a comprehensive overview of all macros within the workbook.
 - In the 'Macros in' drop-down, ensure that 'This Workbook' is the selected option.
 - Choose the specific macro name from the list that you intend to exclude.
 - Execute the removal by clicking on the Delete button, effectively eliminating the targeted macro.
Disable Macros Completely
Rather than outright deleting macros immediately, another option is to simply disable them across Excel. This removes their functionality without deleting the underlying modules and code. To disable all macros:
Open Macro Security Settings
On the Developer tab, click on Macro Security and then select Trust Center Settings. This opens up configuration options related to macros.
Check Disable All Macros
Look in the left pane for Macro Settings, click that, and check the box for Disable all macros without notification. This turns off all macros automatically without prompts.
Save Settings
Make sure to click OK to save those new settings. Now no macros will run at all in any workbook, eliminating issues without removal.
If you ever do need to re-enable macros, simply come back here and uncheck that box to restore macro usage.
Check Macro Connections Before Deleting
It's worth noting to be cautious when deleting macros with potential connections to other parts of your workbook. For example, you may have an input field that uses a macro to manipulate the data. Simply deleting that macro could cause issues or broken connections going forward if not updated properly.
Before removing macros:
 - Review any ranges or cells involved to check for connections
 - Look for references to the macro in other modules
 - Test the workbook after removal to confirm no disruptions
 - This helps avoid accidentally breaking functionality in other places that rely on that macro.
When Is Deleting Macros Useful?
Here are some common use cases where removing Excel macros can be helpful:
Simplifying Files with Too Many Macros: Over time it's easy for workbooks to accumulate lots of macros adding complexity. If you only regularly use a subset, deleting outdated ones simplifies your file.
Removing Broken or Buggy Macros: It's frustrating when a macro stops functioning properly. Deleting and remaking it is often easier than debugging code issues.
Sharing Workbooks with Others: If you need to share a workbook, deleting sensitive or unneeded macros protects privacy and reduces the chances of messing up functionality.
Troubleshooting Issues Caused by Macros: Occasionally macros themselves cause errors or crashes. Removing them isolates whether they are the root cause.
Conclusion
Excel provides different options for removing macros depending on whether you want to delete workbook-specific macros, global personal macros, or disable everything entirely. When cleaning up macros, be aware of any connections to other functionality first.
Also, recognize common scenarios where removal improves usability versus overly relying on macros unnecessarily. With the right approach, deleting unwanted Excel macros helps optimize your overall workflow.
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Noun: celiac trunk
 1. An artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery
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Unlike most parks in the city, Flushing Meadows Corona Park is subject to federal regulations that govern development more stringently than the state, although its oversight would apply to each of the three proposed projects in a different way.
The National Park Service, an arm of the U.S. Department of the Interior, became involved with Flushing Meadows in the late 1970s and '80s under a program called the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
The program has provided matching grants to states as part of a national effort to foster growth of public, outdoor recreational facilities and greenspaces and was used to help build a playground and later a baseball field in Flushing Meadows, according to the state Parks Department.
And once a park gets money from Uncle Sam, it is mapped into federal jurisdiction forever.
In the case of Flushing Meadows, almost the entire park was mapped, which means if the Bloomberg administration wants to sell, lease or give away some of that parkland to a non-public entity or change its use, the city will be subject to both state laws and stricter federal rules, according to a state handbook on the subject.
The state Parks Department strongly encourages a policy of no-net-loss of parkland, meaning if parkland is taken away for a project, it should be replaced somewhere else on an acre-for-acre basis. Federal regulations require it.
But oversight by the Park Service would affect three proposed projects in the park — a 0.68 acre expansion of the United States Tennis' Association's facility, a 13-acre soccer stadium and a 1.4-million-square-foot mall — if they are carried out.
Representatives from the National Park Service recently conducted a site visit to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and concluded that the land USTA is proposing to absorb into its 42-acre leased area — to accommodate one new stadium, rebuild another and conduct various adjustments to courts and buildings — does not need to be replaced, according to Jack Howard, manager for state and local assistance programs in the northeast region for the Park Service.
And according to city Parks Department testimony at numerous meetings, the USTA does not plan to.
When the tennis center was first built in 1978 and then expanded in 1997, sports facilities were considered public uses, and therefore not subject to the conversion process, according to Howard, who added the center's status will not change this time around.
The idea that the tennis center is public is being hotly debated in Queens. The USTA contends that its facilities are open to the public year round, except for the month of August when the US Open is played. According to Daniel Zausner, managing director of the National Tennis Center, the facility is in compliance with city, state and federal regulations.
Opposition groups like Save Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the Fairness Coalition of Queens contend that the center's 8-foot-high fence is designed to deter park-goers from entering and that the rates to play are higher than at other public park facilities in the city.
Geoffrey Croft, of New York City Park Advocates, is vehemently against any parkland being given away, leased or sold, but should the USTA proposal be approved by the city and state, he believes the tennis center should not be exempt from replacing the parkland.
Unlike the tennis center, many park advocacy groups in the borough believe Major League Soccer's proposed 13-acre soccer stadium on top of the Fountain of Industry will be subject to federal regulations, although opposition to this project is stronger.
Should the MLS plan be approved by the state Legislature, the feds would require that all reasonable alternatives have been considered and rejected on a sound basis, that replacement parkland be of equal or greater value than the lands being taken away, that the recreational usefulness of the lands be reasonably equivalent and that the location of the substitution property be comparable, according to the handbook on park alienation.
MLS has already pledged to replace the parkland, but it remains to be seen if that parkland can pass muster with the Park Service.
The league has eyed several areas, according to a confidential document provided to TimesLedger Newspapers in February, including city-owned land along the Flushing River and in Rego Park. But MLS has recently been floating the idea of using the old Flushing Airport, according to sources in government, which was closed in the '80s due to extensive flooding issues.
The Fairness Coalition of Queens, a park advocacy group, contends the airport replacement land may not be allowed under Park Service standards.
And in addition to the federal rules set out for parkland replacement, a federal executive order signed by former President Bill Clinton stipulates substitute land cannot adversely affect minority communities.
According to Will Sweeney, a member of the Fairness Coalition, taking parkland away from the Corona, East Elmhurst and Flushing neighborhoods and moving it to College Point may constitute a violation of this order, though the league disagrees.
"MLS is confident that its proposal for replacement parkland will provide meaningful benefits for the community which will be recognized by the City, State and Federal governments," it said in a statement.
On paper, it seems that the federal oversight would provide extra protections for Flushing Meadows, but Croft said the Park Service did not step in during a controversial parkland replacement process associated with Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
New York City Park Advocates were involved in opposing the development of the stadium in Macombs Dam Park, where Croft contends the Park Service signed off on replacement land that was misrepresented as newly acquired parkland and too far away from the original greenspace, he said.
"When we found out there was going to be a federal component, we mistakenly thought that the feds were going to protect their investment," he said.
Croft's group released a report that called into question the city's calculations of replacement parkland, later approved by the Park Service. But that account was disputed by then-city Parks Department Commissioner Adrian Benepe, according to a report in The New York Times.
The federal regulations of the National Park Service do not apply to the proposed mall as part of the Willets Point Redevelopment.
The area north of Roosevelt Avenue, currently home to Citi Field and its parking lot, is not included in the federally protected portion of the park, meaning the Park Service has no authority to demand parkland replacement should its use change, according to regulations.
The federal maps are not set in stone, though.
In 2011, a judge ruled that the Park Service acted outside of its authority when it de-mapped a warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park that was formerly considered federal parkland, though the structure eventually made it into a broad agreement to develop the park.
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AFFECT OF END-EFFECT ON OCFD
Or, Why is the OCFD NOT an exact Harmonic antenna?

We all know that the simple dipole antenna (mono-band) is cut shorter than a true physical length of a half wavelengeth dipole.
It is typically about 5% shorter than a true physical half wavelength.

Why?

As a result of capacitive loading of the unterminated wire ends against ground, known as "End-Effect", the dipole is cut about 3% shorter than a true physical half wavelength would be.

In addition, the Velocity Factor of the wire used in the antenna requires shortening the wires by 2%.

As a result, the dipole is actually 5% shorter than the true physical length...... 2% velocity factor plus 3% due to end effect.

Now the critical point to understand:
 - In an OCFD antenna, the Velocity Factor (shortening of about 2%) applies to ALL bands, fundamental and harmonic.
 - But the 3% "End Effect Shortening" only applies to the half-wavelength with unterminated ends.
 - On the fundamental frequency, there is only one half wavelength and it has unterminated ends. It has 3% shortening due to End Effect (plus 2% VF, total 5% shortening).
 - On the Harmonic Bands (i.e. 2nd harmonic, 3rd Harmonic, etc.) the affect of End Effect only applies to one of the multiple half-wavelengths.
 - EXAMPLE: An 80m Half-Wavelength Dipole
 - Is made of two unterminated quarter wavelength ends which have 3% End-Effect shortening plus 2% VF shortening.
 - That same dipole on 40 meters is made up of 4 quarter- wavelengths; two quarter-wavelengths on each side of the feedpoint. Or, we can view it as two half-wave dipoles.
 - The two quarter wavelengths in the center have their ends terminated (with wire or feedpoint) so they do not incur End-Effect. Therefore the inner dipole has 2% VF shortening but no End-Effect shortening.
 - However, we have made it the same length as the outer half wavelength (which was also shortened by 3% due to End-Effect) - so the inner dipole is 3% too short, and resonant 3% higher than the outer dipole.
 - This makes the overall antenna (on its second harmonic) about 1.5% too short. This raises its 40m resonance higher than twice the fundamental frequency.
 - It's 3rd harmonic is 2% too short.
 - It's 4th harmonic is 2.25% too short.
 - etc.

The higher we go up in harmonic frequency, the less the end effect plays a role in the equation.

Therefore the resonant frequency of the OCFD continues to increase higher and higher above the theoretical harmonic frequecy, as we move up the bands. Eventually it falls outside of the ham band.

The only way to have resonance inside of all of the higher harmonic bands is to place the fundamental frequency below the actual ham band.

An 80m OCFD with a correctly designed balun (i.e., my DJ0IP Hybrid Balun) normally has negligible Common Mode Current on the feedline, and as such, must be cut so that the frequency of minimum SWR is in the range of about 3.440 to 3.460 MHz.

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Hill, M., Bull, S., Funnell, R., Jones, C., Field, B
03 Sep 2012 to 03 Sep 2012
The better we understand what is beneath us, the better we can manage our geological resources responsibly. Three-dimensional models of geology allow us to make informed management decisions. They tell us how best we can extract resources such as hydrocarbons, geothermal energy and groundwater, and how we can use the rocks to support environmentally clean energy by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and banking surplus renewable energy.
We present two 3D digital models for parts of Taranaki Basin, and discuss their uses in order to illustrate how such models can help New Zealand assess its energy security, boost revenues from hydrocarbons, and mitigate climate change through the storage of CO2, or compressed air for the generation of electricity. The digital model for the Maui gas field will help assess its potential for carbon storage to reduce New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions. Maui's storage capacity is currently estimated as hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2, equivalent to several decades of our current major point source emissions. The digital model for the Kupe field area is based on 16 layers and includes 120 faults, many of which have been assessed for their ability to seal or leak fluids. These models can be used as the framework for developing even more detailed, cellular 3D models.
Digital models also allow the prediction of potential interactions between resource uses, for example, how hydrocarbon extraction and carbon dioxide, gas or air injection might overlap or affect groundwater resources. Models can be regional, broad-brush models, or be highly detailed and specific to one local structure, where they can be used to engineer maximum efficiency of extraction or storage. The development of 3D digital models of our sedimentary rocks will therefore allow better husbandry of existing resources, better prioritisation of resource usage where interactions might occur, and offer more opportunities for climate change mitigation.
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May 2, 2014
Sweden opens airspace to NATO AWACS aircraft
Citing the increased military activity in Sweden's immediate surroundings as a result of Russia's assault on Ukraine, the government is to allow AWACS aircraft to transit its airspace once every two days from 8 May to 31 May while routing between Norway and Poland.
The offer has been made specifically for NATO-operated AWACS aircraft, as opposed to AWACS aircraft operated by NATO member nations France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These nationally operated platforms have been patrolling the airspace bordering Ukraine since mid-March, but do not require routing via Swedish airspace.
The Swedish offer comes at a time of heightened air activity by NATO members in the face of the continuing crisis with Russia.
On 1 May the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission based in Lithuania formally transitioned from the US Air Force (USAF) and its reinforced contingent of 10 Boeing F-15C Eagle fighters to the Polish Air Force with its four MiG-29 fighters. These Polish MiGs are being supported by four UK (RAF)Typhoons, and four Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) F-16 Fighting Falcons flying out of Estonia (with two more on standby in Denmark).
Three days prior to this handover, on 28 April, four French Air Force Rafale fighters arrived in Poland , while on 29 April six Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Boeing CF-18 Hornet fighters departed for Romania, ostensibly for NATO training.
These further aircraft are in addition to the 18 USAF F-16s stationed in Poland and Romania, and the four Czech Gripens which have been offered to support countries bordering Ukraine.