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Science Advisory Report 2011/082
Assessment of the Fate of Emamectin Benzoate, the Active Ingredient in SLICE®, near Aquaculture Facilities in British Columbia and its Effect on Spot Prawns (Pandalus platyceros)
- Sea lice infections at salmon farms in British Columbia are monitored and controlled to minimize impacts on farmed fish and reduce the risk of infecting fish that live outside the farm. The chemotherapeutant used to control sea lice on B.C. salmon farms is SLICE®, an in-feed treatment in which the active ingredient is emamectin benzoate (EB).
- A Regional Science Advisory Process was undertaken to review the results of DFO research to determine the environmental concentrations of EB near two B.C. salmon farms following the application of SLICE®, and to assess the uptake and potential toxicological impacts of EB in the Pacific spot prawn (Pandalus platyceros) under laboratory and field conditions.
- Using a new and very sensitive analytical method, concentrations of EB and its main conversion product 4'-deoxy-4'-epi-amino avermectin B1a (AB) were measured in water, sediment and spot prawns collected at two salmon farm sites with differing hydrodynamic and biophysical characteristics before, during, and after the application of SLICE®.
- Low levels of EB were detected in the sub-surface water beneath each farm during SLICE® treatment. EB released into the water column dissipated quickly and was undetectable 4 to 5 weeks after treatment.
- The amount of EB measured in surface sediments varied between the two sites. At one site EB in sediment remained close to the limit of quantification (LOQ) of the analytical method. Most of the EB reaching the sediment at the other site remained localized, with levels falling to below the LOQ within 150 m of the farm. EB was detected in sediment from this site over 1.5 years after SLICE® treatment. AB concentrations were less than 30% of the concentration of EB in all sediments.
- The amount of EB estimated in sediment accounts for a small fraction of the EB applied during a full-cycle SLICE® treatment. It was not possible to generate a complete mass balance for EB with the available data.
- EB measured in the tissues of spot prawns collected within 150 m of each salmon farm increased over a period of 100 days following the application of SLICE®. The level and duration of exposure in the field differed from those used in the laboratory exposure experiments that formed part of the same study, so it was not possible to correlate directly the results of the lab experiments with field measurements of EB.
- Laboratory experiments suggest that short-term (8-day) exposure of spot prawns to sediment containing EB at concentrations significantly greater than those measured in the field can alter the expression of certain genes in muscle tissue. No clear dose-response relationship could be established for the mortality or differential gene expression observed during these experiments. Additional studies involving standard toxicological measurements, different life-cycle stages, and environmentally relevant EB concentrations are recommended, along with further gene expression studies under both laboratory and field conditions.
- Studies that include a broader range of salmon farm sites in B.C. are also recommended. Information regarding SLICE® usage, site conditions, and local prawn fisheries is available from a number of government and industry sources and can be used when planning and interpreting the results of future studies.
- Current research shows that the spatial and temporal distribution of EB near salmon farms varies from site to site and that, under certain conditions, EB can remain and so potentially build up in sediments close to salmon farms, depending on the extent and frequency of SLICE® usage. EB is also bioavailable and can be measured in the muscle tissues of spot prawns near salmon farms treated with SLICE®. More research is needed to assess the potential biological impacts of low concentrations of EB and its metabolites on spot prawns and other non-target organisms.
This Science Advisory Report has resulted from a Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) regional advisory process (RAP) meeting held on October 18-19, 2011 to assess the Environmental Impact of the Treatment of Sea Lice with SLICE® at Aquaculture Facilities in British Columbia. Additional publications from this process will be posted as they become available on the DFO Science Advisory Schedule.
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One of the most important strategic decisions that affects the success of an organization, is to locate the facility in an appropriate place. Facilities are characterized on a continuum spectrum from manufacturing facilities at one end and service facilities at the other end. In terms of trends in enterprise turn-over and gross domestic products (GDP) of nations, service industries play an increasingly more important role than their manufacturing counterparts. This article presents a bi-objective non-linear integer mathematical model for reliable facility location problem with stochastic demand. The concentration of this article is to present a new mathematical model in reliable facility location problem with immobile servers with congested facilities. The goal is to determine the location of both inexpensive and reliable facilities. Therefore, a bi-objective mathematical programming model is presented in which total cost and reliability of system are simultaneously optimized. There are many real life applications of the proposed model such as: automated teller machines, communication networks, vending machines, local clinics, hospitals and medical centers, relief distribution centers and reconstruction center locations, kinds of education systems, police stations, truck terminals, hotels, city logistics terminals, parks, bus stops, press delivery networks, locating post boxes, and the like. Since the proposed model is NP-Hard, a multi-objective water flow-like algorithm (MOWFLA) is presented to solve the model. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm, different test problems are first generated. Then, multi-objective genetic algorithm as best-developed algorithm in the literature and GAMS software, integrating the objectives with LP-metric method, are applied to justify the performance of proposed MOWFLA. According to objective function value (OFV) and computational time (CPUT) metrics, the results show that the proposed algorithm are capable to solve proposed congested facility location problem in large size problems.

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Inxpect for a safe Sylva
"Sylva" represents an autonomous, immersive landscape built by Tiziano Derme and Daniela Mitterberger to honour the relationship between women, education, and technology. The constructed landscape is understood as synchronization of different parts of the ecosystem: the growth of plants, the movement of two robots, and a real-time soundscape and visualization.
Being an event open to the public, safety is one of the key aspects of the installation, which is why the innovative Inxpect safety radars were used: people and machines, together, safely in the same area.
The project follows the topicality of Magic Queen, an autonomous garden that is currently presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 in collaboration with ABB and Inxpect and is part of the Artificial Ecologies series.
A project by MAEID (Büro für Architektur und transmediale Kunst) in collaboration with the Princess of Asturias Foundation on the occasion of the 2021 Princess of Asturias Awards.

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Sometimes individuals are charged in Arizona with "DUI in the slightest". DUI in the slightest can mean many things. First, a DUI is always charged one of two ways. The first way is for having a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of.08 or higher. The second is for being "impaired to the slightest degree". Both charges carry the same mandatory minimum punishments.
"Impaired to the slightest" can mean many things, but basically the prosecutor must show only that you were impaired in some way, shape or form. They may do this if they can:
- Get expert testimony that if an individual has over a.08 BAC, that individual is impaired to drive.
- Describe your driving behavior (swerve, weave, drove too slow, etc.).
- Describe your demeanor and reactions in the car.
- Describe what you did when you parked or exited the car.
- Describe your speech.
- Show how you performed on the field sobriety tests.
A lot of times officers confuse impairment with other things such as injury, medical problems, and lack of sleep. If you have been charged with a DUI in Arizona you should not fight it alone. Retain an DUI defense attorney who understands DUI defense and how to protect your rights. Contact Charlie Naegle, for a free DUI consultation where you will go over the facts of your Arizona DUI case. Call the Naegle Law Firm now at _PHONE_ or use the webform below to request a free, anytime, anywhere consultation.


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The first census to report on how well people were housed was that of 1891, but the only
statistics gathered were on the number of rooms and the number of people in each household.
From 1951 onwards, more questions were asked about 'amenities', meaning specific facilities
that households either possessed or had shared access to.
One interesting measure of progress is the change in the amenities covered by the census. In 1951, these were piped water, a cooking stove, a kitchen sink, a 'water closet' meaning a flush toilet, and a 'fixed bath', as distinct from a tin bath hung on the wall between uses. In 2001, the list of key amenities was shorter: central heating, and'sole use of bath/shower and toilet'. Differences in what information was recorded by each census complicate comparisons over time, and none of our three measures are entirely consistent.
Our detailed statistics are held in structures called nCubes, which you can think of as tables with one dimension, or with two... or with twenty. Their dimensions are defined by the variables each nCube combines, and each variable is made up of categories. These nCubes are available at national level for this theme:
|Available nCubes||Period covered||Variables
(number of categories)
|Total Households||1931 to 2001||
|Housing Density, redistricted||1931 to 2001||
Persons per Room
|Housing Amenity, redistricted||1951 to 2001||
Housing amenities, simplified

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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A decent rule of thumb when investigating the naming of things is that when a species' common name is capitalized then it's usually named after either a person or a place. So, in the case of the Hector's and Maui's dolphins this seems like an open and shut case: Some scientist named Hector discovered the Hector's dolphin and Maui's dolphins swim in Hawaii right? Wrong. At least partially.
Let's start with Hector's dolphins because they were, in fact, named after a guy named Hector – Sir James Hector to be exact. As it turns out, Sir Hector has lent his name to over 50 plants and animals! He was a Scottish naturalist who had a long and prestigious career as a New Zealand government scientist, and he examined the very first Hector's dolphin specimen.
Hector's dolphins are the smallest species in the dolphin family and are only found in New Zealand waters. Sir James doesn't only find his name in the dolphin's common name, he's part of the scientific name too, Cephalorhynchus hectori. To confuse this naming story just a bit though, there is not just one kind of Hector's dolphin. The species is divided into two subspecies, Cephalorhynchus hectori hectori (so inventive) and Cephalorhynchus hectori maui – also known as the Maui's dolphin.
Given that BOTH subspecies of Hector's dolphin are endemic to New Zealand you may be confused, as I was, as to why one subspecies is named after a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean. Or maybe you're not, because if you're familiar with New Zealand you may know that the indigenous Maori people refer to New Zealand's North Island as te Ika-a-Māui and Maui's dolphins are only found off the west coast of said North Island. So, you see, they really are named after a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean! 😉
Since we've uncovered the origins of their species and subspecies names let's take one moment to translate their genus name. Cephalorhynchus most likely comes from the Greek words "kephale" and "rhunkhos" which mean "head" and "snout." Hector's dolphins have a very smooth slope from their blowhole to their rostrum and lack any sort of distinct melon so this is likely what their genus refers to.
I hope you've enjoyed this deep dive into the naming of New Zealand dolphins as much as I have. You can read all our dolphin stories here and as always, feel free to share your encounters with any cetaceans here.


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Robert S. Kraemer, NASA's former director of planetary exploration who was also an expert in rocket engines, died Aug. 20 at an assisted living home in Catonsville, Md., of complications from a fall, his family said. He was 84.
Kraemer joined NASA in 1967 and, in one of his early assignments, managed the development of a Mars surface laboratory mission at NASA's headquarters in Washington.
After the project was canceled because of congressional concerns, he was appointed manager of advanced planetary programs and technology and in 1970 was named director of planetary programs.
"In this position he oversaw the successful completion of 12 missions to launch spacecraft into the solar system to study its planets, moons and more," Brian Compere, assistant managing editor of the Diamondback newspaper at the University of Maryland, wrote in a profile of his grandfather. "He faced political, financial and technical challenges in managing an unprecedented burst of planetary exploration" that produced groundbreaking results.
The son of a citrus rancher and a homemaker, Robert Samuel Kraemer was born Oct. 21, 1928, in Fullerton and raised in Placentia. He received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1950.
After receiving a master's degree in aeronautics and rocket propulsion from Caltech in 1951, he worked for North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division in Canoga Park on rocket propulsion for a secret intercontinental cruise missile called Navaho.
"By 1961, he was head of all advanced projects for the NAA rocket team, also called Rocketdyne. His work with high-performance launch engines during this time led him to determine they had all the rocket technology the U.S. would use for the next two decades," Compere wrote.
Kraemer then became chief engineer for space systems at Ford Aeronutronic in Newport Beach, where he worked until he joined NASA. A Maryland resident since 1967, he retired in 1990.
Kraemer wrote several books, including "Rocketdyne: Powering Humans Into Space" and "Beyond the Moon: A Golden Age of Planetary Exploration _PHONE_." He received the Distinguished Service Medal, NASA's highest honor.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Anne Park Kraemer; sons David, Timothy and Stephen; daughters Anita Kraemer, Kathryn McCoy and Joan Compere; brothers Larry of Yorba Linda and Don of Riverside; sister Karen of Santa Fe, N.M.; and 11 grandchildren.
Rasmussen writes for the Baltimore Sun.


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Four MapReduce Design Patterns
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Last article, I wrote about creating a simple word count program in MapReduce along with a tutorial to run the program using Hadoop. Please go through it if you are not aware of how to write a program in MapReduce.
To solve any problem in MapReduce, we need to think in terms of MapReduce. It is not necessarily true that every time we have both a map and reduce job.
MapReduce Design Pattern
 - Input-Map-Reduce-Output
 - Input-Map-Output
 - Input-Multiple Maps-Reduce-Output
 - Input-Map-Combiner-Reduce-Output
Following is a real time scenario to understand when to use which design pattern.
 - Input-Map-Reduce-Output
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If we want to do some aggregation then this pattern is used:
Scenario
Counting gender total/ average salary of employees
Map (Key, Value)
Key: Gender
Value: Their Salary
Reduce
Group by Gender
And Take Total of salary for each group
 - Input-Map-Output
Input-Map-Output
If we want to change only the format of data then this pattern is used:
Scenario
Some employees have gender entry as "Female", "F","f",0
Map (Key, Value)
Key : Employee Id
Value : Gender ->
 if Gender is Female/ F/ f/ 0 then converted to F
else if Gender is Male/M/m/1 then convert to M
 - Input-Multiple Maps-Reduce-Output
Input-Multiple Maps-Reduce-Output
In this design pattern, our input is taken from two files which have a different schema:
Scenario
We have to find the total of gender-wide salary. But he have 2 files with different schema.
Input File 1
Gender is given as a prefix to Name
Eg. Ms. Shital Katkar
 Mr. Krishna Katkar
Input File 2
There is a different column for gender. However, the format is mixed.
Eg. Female/Male, 0/1, F/M
Map (Key, Value)
Map 1 (For input 1)
We need to write a program to split prefix from Name and, according to the prefix, determine the gender.
Then prepare the Key value pair (Gender,Salary).
Map 2 (For input 2)
Here the program will be straightforward. Resolve the mixed format and make a key value pair (Gender,Salary).
Reduce
Group by Gender
And Take Total of salary for each group
 - Input-Map-Combiner-Reduce-Output
4. Input-Map-Combiner-Reduce-Output
A Combiner, also known as a semi-reducer, is an optional class that operates by accepting the inputs from the Map class and thereafter passing the output key-value pairs to the Reducer class. Purpose of the combiner is to reduce workload of Reducer.
In MapReduce program, 20% of the work is done in the Map Stage, which is also known as the data preparation stage, which works in parallel.
80% of the work is done in Reduce stage which is known as the calculation stage, and it is not parallel. Therefore it is slower than the Map phase. To reduce time, some work in the Reduce phase can be done in the combiner phase.
Scenario
There are 5 departments. And we have to calculate the gender-wide total salary. However, there are certain rules to calculate the total. After calculating gender wise total for each department, if the salary is greater than 200K, add 20K in total, if the salary is greater than 100K, add 10K in total
Input Files (for each department there is 1 file)
Map
(Parallel)
(, Value = Salary)
Combiner
(Parallel)
Reducer
(Not Parallel)
Output
Dept 1
Male<10,20,25,45,15,45,25,20>
Female <10,30,20,25,35>
Male <250,20>
Female <120,10>
Male
< 250,20,155,
10,90,90,30>
Female
<120,10,175,10,135,
10,110,10,130,10>
Male
<645>
Female
<720>
Dept 2
Male<15,30,40,25,45>
Female <20,35,25,35,40>
Male <155,10>
Female <175,10>
Dept 3
Male<10,20,20,40>
Female <10,30,25,70>
Male <90,00>
Female <135,10>
Dept 4
Male<45,25,20>
Female <30,20,25,35>
Male <90,00>
Female <110,10>
Dept 5
Male<10,20>
Female <10,30,20,25,35>
Male <30,00>
Female <130,10>
 - The points mentioned above are basic patterns. You can make you own as per requirement of the problem.
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Optical Mapping System
Our optical mapping system is optimised with high-speed and high quantum efficiency scientific cameras and a closed up optical path to ensure a low noise to signal ratio and a high spatiotemporal resolution. It is particularly designed to record fluorescent changes on the epicardial surface of isolated Langendorff-perfused hearts (loaded with voltage and (or) calcium sensitive dyes) for understanding of cardiac electrophysiology and the mechanisms of complex arrhythmias.
MappingLab Ltd provides standard OMS-PCIE-1001, OMS-PCIE-1002 and OMSPCIE-2002 system as well as tailor-made systems. Dual signal optical mapping systems are suitable to record cardiac membrane potential and calcium imaging simultaneously. Our latest optical mapping system is equipped with the back Illuminated scientific CMOS cameras with 95% quantum efficiency (QE) and pixel size of 6.5 μm x 6.5 μm to 11 μm x 11 μm. It has a high speed and low noise acquisition with a dynamic range up to 50,000:1(94 dB). The optical axis can be constructed either vertically or horizontally. There are various I/O connectors for helping researchers to set up the communication system. A 8-channel TTL controller is designed for synchronizing devices such as camera, LED light controller, stimulator, ECG, MAP, pressure and temperature probe with the optical mapping system. The OMapRecord/Scope is an advanced data acquisition and analysis software which has an user-friendly intuitive interface and highly efficient data management.
Key Imaging Features
- Detect area: 5 to 30 cm
- Maximum resolution: 512*512 pixels.
- Dynamic range up to 50,000:1(94 dB)
- Sampling rate up 3.5 kHz with resolution 32*32 pixels.
- ROI frame rate: up to 3.5 kHz.
- 12 bit depth per pixel.
- TTL synchronization precision: higher than 100μs.
- Time-lapse imaging.
- Customized ancillary devices
- USB 3.0 or PCIE
- OMapRecord: An advanced optical data recording software. Its distinctive features are particularly programmed to help researchers smoothly and independently run experiments.
- OMapScope: An advanced user-friendly software for optical data analysis. It is designed for researchers to free from manual tasks, save time and easily deal with large amounts of qualitative data, so only one click is needed for the most analyzing functions. It also supports RSH and RHD data file formats for researchers using different optical mapping system.
- Windows 7, 8, 10 and Mac OS X
OMS-PCIE-1001, OMS-PCIE-1002 and OMS-PCIE-2002: There is one CMOS camera fitted in OMS-PCIE-1001 and OMS-PCIE-1002. The difference between them is that the former can only acquire a single fluorescent signal，i.e. calcium or membrane potential whereas the latter can acquire two fluorescent signals simultaneously. However, OMS-PCIE-2002 has two CMOS cameras in the system to record calcium and membrane potential respectively and simultaneously. In principle, OMS-PCIE-2002 is the better choice for the dual signal recording due to higher resolution and less signal attenuation.


Editorial: Professor sued over casual touch
Marta Sanchez, a student at the University of Virginia Law School, is claiming that an incident of personal contact between herself and Professor Kenneth Abraham during one of his lectures caused her severe mental anguish and is seeking $35,000 in damages. This lawsuit should not be allowed to continue. There must be a reasonable agreement made before university professors are left defenseless in their classrooms.
During a lecture, Abraham was explaining a legal issue and to demonstrate his point (adding that he probably shouldn't do what he was about to do) proceeded to lay his hand on the shoulder of the student closest to him. That student happened to be Marta Sanchez.
At age 11, Sanchez, who is from Panama, became a victim of repeated physical, mental and sexual abuse and, as a result, experiences great difficulty with personal contact. The incident made Sanchez very uncomfortable, and she took her concerns to university counselors. Sanchez found the outcome of a meeting with Abraham unsatisfying and decided to bring a civil lawsuit against Abraham.
There is no doubt that Sanchez was affected by the incident because of her sensitivity to personal contact, but there is no way that Abraham could have known that. Holding him accountable for this action is setting a precedent that will cause any friendly relations between professor and student to be grounds for litigation.
Professors cannot know the history of each student, and though Abraham's actions were harmless, it is best if they keep their hands to themselves. It should also be understood that personal contact is not always avoidable. Furthermore, Sanchez's suit should be thrown out when it reaches circuit court because, by all accounts, she had no reason to believe that Abraham would make any kind of inappropriate advance toward her, and he made the context of his actions quite clear.


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A Rework Loop is a situation where a step in a process is repeated in order to correct a defect; also known as backtracking. Rework Loops are work that must be done over and over. They often become an accepted part of the process as people get used to them over time. To find Rework Loops, look for places where large amount of work move back in the process to be fixed.
Rework Loops are Non-Value Adding Activities and are undesirable, as they add to cost and cycle time.


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If you are a committed bird watcher or nature lover who is keen to explore the birds and nature of Coorg, then sign up for an outing with Ganesh. It is an experience you will always remember for its originality, education, adventure, novelty and fun
Bird Watching session is a great way to learn about different bird species, appreciate their beauty, and enjoy the outdoors.
Before the session, the guide or leader will typically plan the route and choose a location that is known to have a good variety of bird species. They may also provide recommendations for what to bring, such as binoculars, a bird identification guide, and comfortable walking shoes.
The group will typically travel to the location by car or other transportation, depending on the distance.
Once the group arrives at the location, they will usually spend some time hiking or walking through the area to reach the best birding spots.
Using binoculars and a bird identification guide, the group will observe and try to identify the different bird species they see. The guide may provide information about the birds' behavior, habitat, and other interesting facts.
Depending on the length of the session, the group may take a break for lunch. This is a good opportunity to rest and refuel before continuing the bird watching.
After the lunch break, the group will typically continue bird watching for the remainder of the session.
At the end of the session, the group will typically return to the starting point and debrief about the birds they saw and the highlights of the session.
Morning 6:30am to 9:30am
Evening 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Select Coffee plantations of Coorg, Forests and water bodies (lakes, ponds and streams) around Coorg known for their distinct bird and aquatic life..


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2,500 U.S. military analysts to increase intelligence-gathering capabilities to enhance the air
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WASHINGTON, July 6 (Xinhua reporter Wang Wei Yang, Riverside) U.S. Air Force said Sunday as the ability to strengthen the U.S. intelligence-gathering part of the air, U.S. Air Force is developing a new system of air video of intelligence gathering, and for this purpose an additional 2500 intelligence analyst positions.
U.S. Air Force said in a statement, called the "Banshee gaze," the new system early next year trial run. It will be installed in unmanned aircraft can be collected about 6.47 square kilometers within the video screen. This new system can be returned from 12 different angles of the screen, and the current U.S. military reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system that returns only a point of view of the screen.
Thanks to this new system, a great amount of data sent back to the U.S. Air Force will add 2,500 analysts, specialized in analysis of the information it returns in order to analyze the results quickly back to the front-line troops.
U.S. intelligence gathering in recent years increasingly focused on the air. In the development of new technologies related to the same time, the U.S. military has greatly increased in Iraq and Afghanistan, unmanned aircraft for intelligence gathering out the number of times.


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Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography
By Susan Fisher Stering and Kathryn A. Wat
Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark
In our image‑conscious world, photography is one of the most powerful mediators of our sense of self; it is a truism of contemporary life that we view ourselves through the camera's eye. Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography explores the ways in which female identity is constructed through the art of photography. The exhibition features seventy works by eighteen artists from two generations whose portraiture, self‑portraiture, and narrative photographs have indelibly inflected our understanding of gender and identity over the past twenty-five years.
The First Generation
In the 1980s, American photography experienced a remarkable sea change as women such as postmodern artist Cindy
Sherman (b. 1954) and documentary photographer Nan Goldin (b. 1953) re‑envisioned how identity and gender could be defined by the camera. In her Untitled Film Stills of 1977‑80, Sherman simulated feminine roles as expressed through magazines, television, and film. She worked in a performative mode, serving as her own model and using makeup and props to develop a number of identities.
Goldin was intent on closely documenting her own life's story. Her photographs of friends, lovers, and herself in the intimate spaces of their homes and hangouts are gritty and unsparing. The images from Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1981‑96, are so relentlessly personal that they have both a decadence and an allure that confounds their journalistic premise. Sherman's and Goldin's photographs established a new and much larger arena for women's self representation in contemporary photography. As complementary approaches, their work stands at the center of Role Models. The first‑generation artists in the exhibition amplified photography's ability to weave a story and express truth, often simultaneously.
In the 1980s many women artists and photographers realized that they could be the creator and the subject of their work. Liberated by the feminist and civil rights movements of the 1970s, the first generation photographers in Role Models avidly explored how gender and identity reflected the changing social order. They took on roles and acted out a feminine masquerade for the camera, using staged setups, stand‑ins, and synecdoche. Documentary photography also was being recalibrated as artists drew upon the special bond of kinship or friendship to create photographs of and about children,
families, acquaintances, and/or themselves. They regularly depicted the varied roles that girls and young women "tried on" as part of the internal, subjective struggle to find a gendered identity that fit.
Like Sherman, Laurie Simmons (b. 1949) critiqued women's roles in modern society in her photographs. She centered on the narrow ideals of 1950s‑ and '60s‑style feminine domesticity by photographing dolls in tiny kitchens, living rooms, and yards that she had constructed. Simmons's images are frankly staged and sometimes eerie, but their humble content also makes them comfortingly familiar. Her art is about the seductive quality of memories and stereotypes.
Below: Sally Mann, Lithe and the Birthday Cake, 19B3‑B5; Gelatin silver print; B x 10 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York
Conceptual artist Eleanor Antin (b. 1935) documented her performances exploring the mutability of female identity in photographs and videos. In the late 1970s, Antin assumed the roles of the "King" of a beach in southern California, a ballerina, and a nurse. She felt that the mythologies that defined historical characters such as Florence Nightingale fueled the outsider status of women in the twentieth century. To more fully inhabit—and transform these characters, Antin dressed in historically accurate costumes and even printed her photographs in period formats.
Lorna Simpson's (b. 1960) evocative imagery often paired with allusive texts—makes powerful reference to a history of racial and sexual oppression. She created carefully posed photographs in which her black female models' faces are covered, cropped out of the frame of vision, or turned away from the viewer. Some models are dressed in plain white shifts, others in men's suits.
Other first‑generation photographers sought the immediacy of documentary‑style photography to explore the complicated state of contemporary womanhood. Mary Ellen Mark (b. 1940) preferred a quirkiness and on‑the‑run style of shooting that give her images a distinctly raw quality that exposes the plight of the disenfranchised. In the 1980s, Mark photographed female prostitutes, women confined in a hospital for the mentally ill, and, with a commission in 1983 from Life magazine, street children in Seattle. Her images of "Tiny" drinking, despairing over a boyfriend, fighting with her mother, and bathing her children—paint the picture of a life that is fraught, complex, and unresolved. Similarly, in her expansive body of work depicting children, Sally Mann (b. 1951) recorded the wildly varied identities that her models expressed for her. Her preteen sitters are alternately worldly and disinterested, or ladylike and ingratiating.
Tina Barney (b. 1945) shared Mark's goal of revealing a world (on the opposite end of the economic spectrum) that is foreign to most of us: affluent subjects ensconced in lavish interiors that signify their identity as much as their clothing, posture, or expression. At Barney's direction, the women stand in doorways and at windows, perch on beds, and repeat unconscious gestures that allude to underlying emotional discomfiture. Barney acknowledges the tension in her photographs between what seems real and spontaneous and what
appears to be fictional and affected.
In Untitled (Kitchen Table Series), 1999, Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) combined fictional texts and staged photographs (in which she herself is the central figure) to tell the story of a woman's relationship to her man, their child, and her friends within a domestic setting. In 1995‑96, she represented nineteenth‑century ethnographic daguerreotypes of enslaved African, and African Americans, printing them on a large scale and overlaying them with text that alludes to their original degrading purpose. Weems's works expose the abuses of "straight" photography while expanding on its capacity for deeper meaning, demonstrating how often and powerfully political ideologies shape our notions and visions of truth.
Above: Detail: Carrie Mae Weems, From Here I Saw What Happened and
I Cried(House/Field/Yard/Kitchen), 1995‑96; Four monochromatic chromogenic prints with sandblasted text on glass; 26 ½ x 22 ¾ in. each.; Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Left: Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny in Her Halloween Costume, Seattle, 1983; Gelatin silver print: 11 x 14 in.; courtesy of the artist and the Mary Ellen Mark Library/Studio


Sign the ISATEA Petition
We, the undersigned, representing both government, industry and civil society, petition the US Congress to not reauthorize the transportation efficiency act, but to authorize a new transportation efficiency act, called the Intermodal Surface and Air Transportation Efficiency Act(ISATEA). This act would integrate air and surface transportation funding, planning and implementation. For this purpose we petition that a supplemental $300 billion be authorized for the IITS (integrated intermodal transportation system) Initiative which over a period of some 15 year program would result in a US Sustainable Transportation Master Plan. The Plan would reinvigorate the US economy and substantially reduce the GHG emissions by transportation in these troubling times of the climate crisis.
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Sri Lanka Ship Causes Environmental Disaster
A burning ship off the coast off Sri Lanka has leaked hazardous chemicals into the eco system, causing an environmental disaster. The ship in question, the X-Press Pearl, has been branded 'the toxic ship' by the BBC due to the devastating impact that the incident has caused.
Why is the Sri Lanka ship disaster so harmful?
This environmental disaster has been regarded one of the worst in Sri Lankan history, and now most of the ship has settled at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. This makes matters worse, as the ship's cargo contained 25 tonnes of many harmful chemicals, such as methanol, nitric acid and sodium methoxide. The ship was also carrying 28 containers of raw materials that can be used to make plastic bags. These chemicals and other materials can be incredibly harmful to both humans and wildlife, and many fish and other marine animals have been found lifeless on the beaches of Sri Lanka.
The impact on marine life
The impact that this event has had on marine wildlife has been catastrophic. Fish, birds and turtles have been found on the beaches with microplastics in their systems. The plastic pellets that are used to make plastic bags are reportedly the most harmful to the marine life, as they can be fatal.
A coordinator at the Pearl Protectors, which is an organisation dedicated to protecting marine life in Sri Lanka, Muditha Katuwawala, has said that what happened here was very close to a "nuclear disaster", thus illustrating just how devastating this disaster is. It has been reported that the country may not recover from this for years, or even decades to come.
Loss of livelihood
Fisherman have also been banned from going any closer than a 50-mile radius of the incident. This has negatively impacted their lives as their livelihood and income have disappeared almost overnight.
Fishing has been banned despite the huge clean-up operation that is underway, as well as the many law enforcement officers and firemen that have been tackling Sri Lanka's biggest environmental disaster.
Could it have been avoided?
It is said that the fire was caused by a leak of nitric acid, a substance that the ship was carrying. This has been argued to have been caused by the nitric acid not being stored correctly, or not handled correctly. This leak was discovered at Qatar's Hamad Port, and the ship in question, X-Press Pearl, had requested to discharge the dangerous container, but Hamad Port denied this request, claiming that it didn't have the manpower, which is hard to believe as this port is state-of-the-art and well-resourced.
The X-Press Pearl later also requested to discharge of the leaking container at Hazira Port in Gujarat. This request was also denied due to the same reasons.
Had either one of these ports allowed the X-Press Pearl permission to unload, then this environmental disaster may never had happened.
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Transfers control from your current process (which then hibernates) to the specified process.
The ATTACH and SPAWN commands cannot be used if your terminal has an associated mailbox.
ATTACH [process-name]
Specifies the name of a parent process or spawned subprocess to which control passes. The process must already exist, be part of your current job, and share the same input stream as your current process. However, the process cannot be your current process or a subprocess created with the /NOWAIT qualifier.
Process names can contain from 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters. If a connection to the specified process cannot be made, an error message is displayed.
The process-name parameter is incompatible with the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier.
The ATTACH command allows you to connect your input stream to another process. You can use the ATTACH command to change control from one subprocess to another subprocess or to the parent process.
When you enter the ATTACH command, the parent or "source" process is put into hibernation, and your input stream is connected to the specified destination process. You can use the ATTACH command to connect to a subprocess that is part of a current job left hibernating as a result of the SPAWN/WAIT command or another ATTACH command as long as the connection is valid. (No connection can be made to the current process, to a process that is not part of the current job, or to a process that does not exist. If any of these connections are attempted, an error message is displayed.)
You can also use the ATTACH command in conjunction with the SPAWN/WAIT command to return to a parent process without terminating the created subprocess. See the description of the SPAWN command for more details.
Specifies the process identification (PID) of the process to which terminal control will be transferred. Leading zeros can be omitted. The /IDENTIFICATION qualifier is incompatible with the process-name parameter.
If you omit the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier, you must specify a process name.
The ATTACH command transfers the terminal's control to the subprocess JONES_2.
The ATTACH command switches control from the current process to a process having the PID 30019. Notice that because the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier is specified, the process-name parameter is omitted.
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public string Path { get; set; }
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A String that contains the current path, not including the file name.
The value of the Path property is a string indicating a path, such as C:\Ob or C:\Windows\System. For a FileListBox control, the default is the current path when the control is created at run time.
Use this property when you are building an application's file-browsing and manipulation capabilities. Setting the Path property has effects similar to the MS-DOS chdir command; relative paths are allowed with or without a drive specification. Specifying only a drive with a colon (:) selects the current directory on that drive.
The Path property can also be set to a qualified network path without a drive connection using the following syntax:
Changing the value of Path for a FileListBox control generates an PathChange event.
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A Register article takes a look at the Carbon and Cocoa programming APIs, quoting Apple sources who debunk the common assumption that Carbon is less powerful than the fully OS X-native Cocoa. The article also discusses why rewriting OS X's Finder, which is a Carbon application, would not necessarily help anything.


Out of Bounds (OOB)
The out of bounds (OOB) effect is a way of editing the photo in an image editor program to make the subject stand out and give the impression of a 3D image. It can be done with just one photo or with several images that are composed into one.
The goal of this Photoshop tutorial is to take the plain photo of the lion seen on the left and transform it into the one seen on the right, where the lion head pops out of the frame. It was done using just one photo with its original background and without any distortions.
before and after
Icon/Shortcut Function
icon brush B Brush
icon marquee tool M Rectangular marquee tool
icon new layer Layer icon
icon layer mask Layer mask icon
icon layer visibility eye Layer visibility
icon adjustment layer Adjustment layer icon
Alt+Backspace Fill the layer with the current foreground color
Ctrl+Backspace Fill the layer with the current background color
Ctrl+D Deselect the current selection
Ctrl+I Invert the mask (invert in general)
D Reset the foreand background color to black & white
X Swap the foreground with the background color
Getting Started
 1. Open the image you want to use or download my original lion photo if you would like to work along. Selecting a suitable photo helps a lot to create a convincing OOB effect.
 2. Before you do anything else, make all the adjustments like levels, cloning, saturation and such to improve the overall quality of the image.
 3. Press D on your keyboard to set the background and foreground colors to default (black and white).
 4. Set up the required layers, in order to make it is easier once you start to work. Double click on the layer thumbnail of your background (see Layers palette) to create a layer and name it something meaningful, in my case "lion".
 layer thumbnail
 5. Create a new layer by clicking on the layer icon at the bottom of your layers palette. Rename it to "white background" and press Ctrl+Backspace to fill it with white.
 6. Create another layer, rename it to "black background" and press Alt+Backspace to fill it with black.
 7. Move the black and white layers (click and drag the layers) beneath the lion layer.
 Since Photoshop CS2, you can Ctrl click on multiple layers and then move them all at the same time.
 8. Create one more empty layer above the lion and call it "frame". You should now have something like this:
 lion setup
Creating the Frame
 1. Make sure the frame layer is selected (click on the frame layer in the layers palette once to highlight it).
 2. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), then click and drag to create a rectangle with the size and shape of your desired frame. Don't worry about the exact size, we are going to adjust it again later.
 3. Press Ctrl+Backspace to fill the selection with white.
 4. With the selection still active, go to Select/Modify/Contract… and type in a suitable number. In my case, I chose 15. Click OK and then delete the area in the middle (press the delete key on your keyboard), leaving only a white frame.
 5. Press Ctrl+D to deselect or go to Select/Deselect. You should now have something like the example below.
 create frame
Distorting the Frame
 1. To make the frame look 3 dimensional, we are now going to distort it. With the frame layer active, go to Edit/Free Transform or click Ctrl+T.
 2. Right click in the middle of the frame and select Perspective.
 3. You can now drag the corners up and down to create a 3 dimensional frame. Right click and select Distort, if you need to adjust the frame in a different direction.
 4. You should end up with something like this:
 lion 3d frame
Extracting the Subject
 1. It's time to delete or better hide everything except the main subject outside of the frame.
 2. Make sure the lion layer is selected and click on the layer mask icon (located at the bottom of your layers palette) to create a mask for the lion.
 The black layer mask hides the parts we don't want and the white layer mask reveals what needs to be visible. By using a mask, nothing will be deleted, so you can edit it anytime you want.
 3. Select a medium soft brush (B) and make sure that your foreground color is set to black.
 4. Paint over the parts you want to hide. Use a hard brush around the frame and use a softer brush for the edge of the lion and the napkin.
 When working on the layer mask, always make sure the layer mask is selected on not the layer itself!
 5. If you go too far, simply swap the foreground color to white and paint over the bits you want to reveal. Use the X key on your keyboard to quickly swap between black and white.
 6. In my example, using the brush was quick and easy but if you use a different image, you might have to make a selection with a different tool.
 7. Remember those white and black backgrounds we have created at the beginning? Now they come in handy, making it easy to see how well your masking is done. Simply click on the icon looking like an eye on the left side of the black or white background to see the different background colors.
 8. You should now have something like this:
 lion mask
Completing the Frame
 1. In the next step, we are going to create a drop shadow for the frame, so if you need a bit more space around the frame, resize the canvas now.
 2. Double click on the layer thumbnail of the frame layer to open the Layer Style dialog. Click on Drop Shadow and dial in the numbers you like. I kept it fairly low in this example but you can adjust it anyway you like.
 3. After you are done, go to Layer/Layer Style/Create Layer. This will put your shadow on a separate layer, so that we can work on it and mask it separately from the frame.
 4. Select the frame layer, create a layer mask and use a black brush (B) to hide the parts where the head and the napkin overlaps the frame.
 5. Do the same once more for the shadow and you should have something like this:
 frame done
Adding a Shadow
 1. As you can see, it starts to look more like the finished version but something is still missing. The shadows are what makes or breaks the OOB effect. For the lion, I decided that the napkin, the head and the leg needed some additional shadow.
 2. Select the lion layer, double click on the layer thumbnail and add a drop shadow. I've used a soft shadow and for the position, rather than dialing in the numbers, I used the mouse and moved the shadow on the image itself. Simply click and drag on the photo to move the shadow in position.
 3. After you are done, go to Layer/Layer Style/Create Layer and move the shadow layer to the top of your layers palette.
 4. Create a layer mask and invert it (Ctrl+I). You can use a black brush to hide the parts you don't need but I find it easier to invert the mask, in order to hide everything and then use a white brush to paint the shadow only where it's needed.
 5. If necessary, adjust the opacity and move its location if it doesn't look right.
 layer options
 6. Create one more layer on top and use a black brush to paint the additional shadow beneath the front leg. Use a low opacity brush (around 5%) and slowly paint the shadow. Don't worry when you paint the leg itself, simply add a layer mask and hide it.
 7. At this stage, it should look like this:
 shadow done
Final Tweaks
 1. I wanted to enhance the effect and make it look like it really comes out of the photo. To do that, I decided to lower the saturation and the contrast of the parts which are supposed to be a flat image.
 2. Select the lion layer. Press and hold the Alt key and click on the Adjustment Layer icon (at the bottom of the layers palette). Select Hue/Saturation.
 3. In the New Layer dialog, enable Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask and click OK. I used -20 for Saturation in the Master channel.
 4. Select the lion layer once more, press and hold the Alt key but this time select the Adjustment Layer called Brightness/Contrast.
 5. Use the previous layer to create a clipping mask and in my case, I used Brightness +10, Contrast -15.
 6. The clipping masks are used so that the background doesn't change and only the lion image is affected.
 7. We don't need these adjustments to affect the lion head and the napkin, so use a layer mask (the layer mask has already been created automatically) for each adjustment layer and hide the parts which should pop out. Use the softest possible black brush and paint over the head, the napkin and the front leg.
 8. Add some sharpening to the 3D parts and your are done.


possible to obtain a mean value of the loss as well as a std dev *across the duration of the trace*, but because we have a measurement ensemble, it is also possible to obtain an ensemble averaged mean and a statistical uncertainty estimate *across the independent cycle realizations*. While the mean values don't change much, in the latter estimate we find a much smaller statistical uncertainty. We obtain an XARM loss of 37.6 \pm 2.6 ppm and a YARM loss of 38.9 \pm 0.6 ppm. To make the distinction more clear, Attachment 2 and Attachment 3 the YARM and XARM loss measurement ensembles respectively with single realization (time-series) standard deviations as vertical error bars, and the 1 sigma statistical uncertainty estimate filled color band. Note that the XARM loss drifts across different realizations (which happen to be ordered in time), which we think arise from inconsistent ASS dither alignment convergence. This is yet to be tested.
For budgeting the excessive uncertainties from a single locked/misaligned cycle, we could look at beam pointing, angular drift, power, and systematic differences in the paths from both reflection signals. We should be able to estimate the power fluctuations by looking at the recorded arm transmissions, the recorded MC transmission, PD technical noise, etc... and we might be able to correlate recorded oplev signals with the reflection data to identify angular drift. We have not done this yet.
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Jordan has made 1/4" tap holes in the lower EQ stop holders (attachment). The 1/4" stops (schematics) fit nicely in them. Also, they are about the same length as the small EQ stops, so they can be used.
However, counting all the 1/4"-3/4" vented screws we have shows that we are missing 2 screws to cover all the 7 SOSs. We can either:
1. Order new vented screws.
2. Use 2 old (stained but clean) EQ stops.
3. Screw holes into existing 1/4"-3/4" screws and clean them.
4. Use small EQ stops for one SOS.
etc.
Also, I found a mistake in the schematics of the SOS tower. The 4-40 screws used to hold the lower EQ stop holders should be SS and not silver plated as noted. I'll have to find some (28) spares in the cleanroom or order new ones.

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1 or 2. The stained ones are just fine. If you find the vented 1/4-20 screws in the clean room, you can use them.
For the 28 screws, yeah find some spares in the clean room (faster), otherwise just order.
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Laporan Kasus: Penatalaksanaan Gingivitis Gravidarum pada Ibu Hamil di RSGM Universitas Jenderal Soedirman
Gingivitis gravidarum is a pathological process that occurs during pregnancy on the supporting tissues of the teeth where there is gingival enlargement which causes discomfort due to increased estrogen and progesterone hormones. The etiology of gingival gravidarum originates from plaque in the oral cavity triggered by systemic factors such as hormones in pregnancy that cause inflammation and enlargement of the gingiva. The purpose of this case report is to find out about the management of gingivitis gravidarum that occurs in pregnant women. A 23-year-old female patient came with complaints of swelling of the anterior upper and lower gingival regions. These complaints have increased since entering the fourth week of pregnancy and spontaneous bleeding gums when brushing teeth. Intraoral examination revealed gingival swelling in the maxillary anterior region and mandibular interdental area extending to the gingival margin. Bleeding on probing showed positive results, while the O'leary score showed 28.28% and OHI-s showed 2.9 results. The treatment that will be carried out is USS scaling and patient education to always maintain oral hygiene. Gingivitis gravidarum often occurs in the area of the interdental gingival margin, which looks red and swollen. Periodontal treatment in pregnant women is more focused on controlling periodontal disease and eliminating the causative factors and treatments such as scaling can be carried out, while periodontal surgical treatment for pregnant women such as gingivectomy should be postponed until the delivery period is complete.


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A multi-university team led by Materials Science and Engineering Associate Professor Dane Morgan has received an NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation award to develop tools for high-throughput generation of materials data for materials design. The five-year, $1.05 million grant will fund new tools to enable users to quickly determine diffusion and defect properties in existing and new materials. The research will enable rapid development of critical materials data underlying technologies from lithium-ion batteries to nuclear reactions to computer chips.
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Basically all on farm mixers must participate in the feed monitoring. On farm mixers are all livestock farmers growing certain feed by themselves or buying it. These feed include agricultural raw products, which can be used unchanged (e.g. hay, silage, grain, rape).
Cattle farmers are usually on farm mixers because they feed self-produced roughage. Pig and poultry farmers, who refine self-produced grain or rapeseed meal, are on farm mixers.
If you use your own or purchased primary products for animal feeding, you have to report this to your responsible coordinators. The coordinator prepares a sampling plan (random sample control plan) for all bundled locations and organizes the sampling for your location.
Plant managers who are QS-certified for crop farming/forage production/grassland production are excluded from the obligatory feed monitoring. They are free to participate in the feed monitoring.
As a livestock farmer you must not participate in the feed monitoring, if you only use complete feed in your company (complete feed satisfy all the nutritional needs of an animal, because they are, due to their composition, enough as a daily ration). The same applies also for companies which are QS-certified for crop farming/forage production/grassland production.
Your participation in the feed monitoring is organized through your coordinator. He selects the locations on which samples are to be taken. The coordinator also instructs the sampling and informs the locations about the analysis results.
As a livestock farmer you have to give your coordinator information about which feed are used and how much is fed per year or how many animals are kept on your farm. Please also remember to contact your coordinator as soon as this will change.
The old bread must come from a bakery, which is officially registered as a feed producer and has a QS approval. Whether your supplier fulfills the necessary conditions and is eligible to deliver, you can see in the QS database on _URL_. For questions, particularly when no feed registration is available, please contact your coordinator.


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The high pressure oil output from the electric oil pump is sent into the working cylinder through the high pressure oil pipe. The high pressure oil pushes the plunger inside the working cylinder, generating thrust and bending the pipe through the bending parts.
1, pipe bender using touch screen plus CNC module, dialog operation, easy to set the program.
2, the bed structure is solid, not easy to deform.
3, each file can set 16 bending angle, the memory can be stored in 16 groups of files.
4, the slow positioning function, bending angle stability, repeat accuracy of ± 0.1 °.
5, error messages are displayed on the screen to help the operator to eliminate immediately.
6, to provide self-developed coordinates to convert the bend processing value, the software can be installed in the desktop computer optional editing calculations.


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25 April 2010 – The Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN) launched an educational manual titled, "Manual on Climate Change and Health" on 25th His Excellency Lyonpo Zangley Dukpa, the Minister for Health graced as the Guest of Honour for the event. In his key note address to about one hundred fifteen participants from various sectors, he said that it was timely for RSPN to launch the book coinciding with the 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit with the theme on Climate Change.
He also applauded the RSPN's efforts in supplementing the Royal Government in creating awareness on conservational issues in the country and urged to continue such initiatives. "The publication will be more useful for common people to understand some basic terms of climate change", he said. He added that it will also benefit young people in knowing the climate change better which will culminate in adopting environmentally friendly practices. The Executive Director of the RSPN, Dr. Lam Dorji said that the publication hopes to promote the level of awareness on cause and effects of the rapidly changing impacts of climate as it relates to the people's health more directly. The publication, aimed for young adults, hopes to have greater impact on everyday lives of common people since it highlights the effects of climate change and global warming in a simpler terms and relates to one's own activities that would affect the global climate. April 2010 at Taj Tashi, Thimphu. It also identifies some alternatives that would reduce global warming with personal responsibilities and initiatives. The six chapters in the book introduces our youths to the basics of climate science, global warming and to the linkages between climate change and human health. The manual was developed with financial support from World Health Organization (WHO) and will be distributed to schools and institutions.


Development Team/Low-level Activity API
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Sugar activities are usually written in Python using the Python Activity API. This page documents the underlying mechanism that all activities need to conform to. Activities can be written in any language, as long as it can connect to D-Bus and provide an X11 interface. The discussion below tries to be language-agnostic.
This documentation effort was started by Bert on the OLPC wiki while implementing the Squeak-based Etoys activity. Please fill in missing pieces and correct mistakes!
See olpc:Activity Development Alternatives for an overview of various ways to develop activities.
As Sugar evolves to become compatible with ordinary X11 programs, and as services like collaboration migrate into generic X11 desktops, this document will become less and less relevant. All the special rules for "Sugar Activities" will fall by the wayside, because any X11 program will be usable with Sugar. This will greatly simplify both the job of Activity authors, and the usefulness of Sugar-based computers (which will have access to thousands of X "applications" that have never heard of Sugar and never will).
An Activity is basically a regular X11 program which communicates with the special Sugar services via D-Bus.
The Activity bundle specifies an executable. For each activity instance, that executable is run with arguments specifying the bundle id (taken from the bundle) and activity id (generated by Sugar). The instance opens an X window, putting these ids into window properties. It also needs to provide a D-Bus service to receive messages from Sugar. An activity must retrieve and store its state in the datastore, implement sharing on the mesh network, and be security compliant.
Activity Life Cycle
Please see Activity Basics for the user's point of view. The programmer's point of view is outlined here, and detailed in the following sections:
Start Up
 1. The activity is executed.
 2. It creates a D-Bus service to receive method calls from the Sugar shell.
 3. It creates an X11 window with special properties so the Sugar shell can associate an activity with its window.
 4. If an object id was passed on the command line, the activity loads that object from the Datastore. Otherwise, it creates a new Datastore object.
 5. The activity asks the Presence Service to find out if it is shared. If so, it joins the shared activity.
 1. The activity continuously handles X11 user input, as well as D-Bus messages from the Sugar shell, or signals from other sources like the Presence Service.
 2. Whenever the state of the activity was altered significantly, it should update its Datastore object to prevent data loss on an unexpected shutdown.
 3. If the user indicates wanting to share the activity, it has to announce this to the Presence Service.
 4. If the view-source key is pressed, some meta-action about the activity should be invoked, like showing its source code.
Shut Down
 1. When the activity window is closed, it updates its Datastore object with its current state.
 2. It leaves the shared activity (if shared),
 3. and then quits.
Activity Instance
When the activity instance is executed, the current working directory will be set to the bundle directory (e.g., ~/Activities/MyActivity.activity) so resource files can be accessed using relative paths. Also, its "bin" subdirectory is added to the PATH.
Command Line Arguments
The following arguments are passed to the executable:
-b, --bundle-id
Identifier of the activity bundle. Must be made available as window property.
-a, --activity-id
Unique identifier of the activity instance. Must be made available as window property, and is used to create the D-Bus service.
-o, --object-id
(optional) Identity of the journal object associated with the activity instance. When you resume an activity from the journal the object id will be passed in (see datastore).
-u, --uri
(optional) URI associated with the activity. Used when opening an external file or resource in the activity, rather than a journal object (downloads stored on the file system for example or web pages).
Environment Variables
Some environment variables are setup before the activity is launched:
Writable space for the activity, see security. Activities are prohibited from writing anywhere else in the file system.
Path to the current activity bundle (e.g., /usr/share/activities/MyActivity.activity or ~/Activities/MyActivity.activity). This is also the current working directory when the activity is started, so relative paths can be used to access files inside the bundle, rather than constructing absolute paths using this variable.
X Properties
The activity instance needs to set some properties on its top-level window, before the window is shown on the screen (see #5271):
The bundle id (e.g., my.organization.MyActivity) of type STRING as passed on the command line.
The activity id (e.g., 6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f) of type STRING as passed on the command line.
The above properties need to be on the window before it pops up. This is easy when programming with raw libX11, but often difficult with high-level toolkits. E.g., in GTK you can use the "realize" event. The toolkit is likely to create and pop up the window in one operation, so you don't get a chance to set the properties. A workable solution is to piggyback on a function within the toolkit. For example, you can implement XChangeProperty in your activity. Using dlsym() with the RTLD_NEXT flag, you can obtain a function pointer to the normal XChangeProperty function in libX11. Your implementation normally just calls that. The first time your implementation is called though, it also sets up the sugar-specific properties. Essentially you are supplying a callback function to a toolkit that was never intended to call one. Once #5271 is settled, this hack is not necessary anymore
Also, some Window Manager hints need to be set:
should be set to the current activity title. It usually corresponds to the title which is displayed in the journal and advertised on the network for shared activities. See Freedesktop specification.
must be set to the activity's process id so the shell can associate memory usage with an activity. See Freedesktop specification.
D-Bus Methods
An activity instance needs to create a D-Bus service:
Service name: org.laptop.Activity6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f # no dot after Activity!
Object path: /org/laptop/Activity/6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f
Interface: org.laptop.Activity
(where 6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f is the activity id as passed on the cmd line)
It must support the following methods:
org.laptop.Activity.SetActive(b: active)
org.laptop.Activity.Invite(s: buddy_key)
If not yet shared, share this activity privately because the user chose "invite" from the mesh view. Then, invite the buddy (see below).
The following methods are optional:
The user wants to view the source. If this method does not answer an error, the activity will handle viewing the source code itself, otherwise Sugar will show the source.
Answer the path of a document source file to view, in addition to the activity bundle itself. Sugar will delete that document when the view-source interface is closed. This method is only called when Sugar handles the source viewing.
To communicate to an activity when it needs to save data and quit, we use the X Session management protocol. The part of the protocol which deals with application restarting is not used and we don't plan to implement it.
In the Glucose 0.84 release cycle we are planning do add support for a D-Bus based protocol which is currently being developed for the GNOME desktop. You can read about it on this bugzilla report.
An Activity instance must store its complete state in the central datastore so it appears in the Journal and can be resumed later. It needs to connect to the datastore service:
Service name: org.laptop.sugar.DataStore
Object path: /org/laptop/sugar/DataStore
Interface: org.laptop.sugar.DataStore
Meta Data
An item in the datastore is referenced by an object_id, it has a dictionary of properties, and possibly a file. The properties have String keys but Variant values. Here are a few properties:
'activity': 'my.organization.MyActivity' # bundle id (determines icon and default activity)
'activity_id': '6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f'
'title': 'My new project' # as shown in journal
'title_set_by_user': '0' # '1' if not default title
'keep': '0' # '1' if marked as "favorite" (star)
'ctime': '1972-05-12T18:41:08' # created (local time)
'mtime': '2007-06-16T03:42:33' # modified (local time), deprecated but still used internally so must be present
'timestamp': _PHONE_ # modified (UTC), in seconds since the UNIX epoch, must be present
'preview': ByteArray(png file data, 300x225


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Date of Award
Master of Science (MS)
Nacir M. Tit
Well logging technique is used to determine the physical and chemical properties of borehole formation, by using neutron porosity oil well logging tools. The present study simplifies logging tool design in order to reduce the time spent on obtaining well logging. We have combined both carbon/oxygen (C/O) tool and thermal neutron porosity tool. This has been done by adding boron lining on the detectors in C/O tool, where the boron lining acts as a thermal neutron porosity tool while maintaining C/O functions simultaneously. The Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) Transport Code, which was originally developed in Los Alamos National Laboratory, is used to investigate the combined tool response. The combined tool is employed to detect the effect of porosity. The effects of several factors, such as (i) the source-to-detector spacing, (ii) borehole salinity, (iii) capture cross section, (iv) boron lining thickness, (v) formation salinity, (vi) borehole salinity, (vii) temperature, and (viii) the casing on the detection sensitivity are investigated. The results show that the number of detected gamma rays is proportional to the porosity. Furthermore, a sensitivity measure (i.e., the sensitivity ratio) is defined and used to characterize the detectors sensitivity to the porosity. The effects of various factors on the sensitivity are studied and the response function is found to be very sensitive to the porosity especially in the domain of low values of it. The temperature factor was only examined to assess its effect on the nucleus speed. However, the results of our simulations showed that the temperature has very little minor effect. Evidently, the tool is sensitive to the porosity while maintaining all the functions of the C/O tool, which suggests that the boron lining can efficiently serve as a replacement of the porosity tool.
Al Muraikhi, Entisar Ali, "Optimization of A Combined Carbon/Oxygen And Neutron Porosity Oil Well Logging Tool" (2017). Theses. 624.


October 22, 2009
"Savage" isn't a negative word?!
My two cents worth--Recorder Herald, Salmon, IdahoDear Editor:
I'd like to put in my own "two cents" on Ms. Ungaretti's column in last week's The Recorder Herald.
She advocates the return of the portrait of a Native American as the "emblem" of the Salmon Savages, and insists that the word "savage" has no negative connotations, merely meaning "not domesticated or under human control, untamed."
Ms. Ungaretti, if it's inconvenient for you to wrestle with a heavy old dictionary when you're right in the middle of a biased rant, just go to _URL_.
Read carefully and you'll find that your definition of "untamed" refers to the use of the word when describing animals.
Since even you would be forced to admit, if you were cornered on it, that Native Americans are human beings, you'll see that the word means "uncivilized, fierce, brutal, cruel, unpolished, rude, boorish," etc., when describing people.
You probably have a thicker hide than I do, Ms. Ungaretti, but personally I feel a little insulted when foreigners use these terms to describe my people, the oft-misunderstood American race.
Peter McNevin
The same page helpfully provides Dictionary.com's definitions:Dictionary.com :: [Definition of sav-age ] Show Spelled Pronunciation [sav-ij] Show IPA adjective, noun, verb, -aged, -ag-ing. Use savage in a Sentence –adjective 1. fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts. 2. uncivilized; barbarous: savage tribes. 3. enraged or furiously angry, as a person. 4. unpolished; rude: savage manners. 5. wild or rugged, as country or scenery: savage wilderness. 6. Archaic. uncultivated; growing wild. –noun 7. an uncivilized human being. 8. a fierce, brutal, or cruel person. 9. a rude, boorish person. 10. a member of a preliterate society. –verb (used with object) 11. to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate: numerous sheep savaged by dogs. 12. to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate: a play savaged by the critics. Origin: 1250–1300; ME savage, sauvage (adj.) < MF sauvage, salvage < ML salvāticus, for L silvāticus, equiv. to silv(a) woods + -āticus adj. suffix Related forms: sav-age-ly, adverb sav-age-ness, noun Synonyms: 1. wild, feral, fell; bloodthirsty. See cruel. 2. wild. 3. infuriated. 5. rough, uncultivated. 9. churl, oaf. Antonyms: 1. mild. 2, 4. cultured. 5. cultivated.Comment: Ungaretti is almost literally 100% wrong. Every definition has negative connotations except maybe no. 5--and that's only because it refers to land, not people. Oops.
The stupidity of people trying to justify their stupid stereotypes never ceases to amaze me.
Judging by another posting, the Salmon Savages have gone a decade without their Indian mascot. Has the school lost its accreditation or crumbled into dust? Have the students dropped out, turned to drugs, or committed suicide? Has eliminating the mascot has caused any tangible harm whatsoever?
For more on the subject, see Team Names and Mascots.
Below: Naturally, Salmon's mascot was a stereotypical Indian chief from outside the region.
1 comment:
dmarks said...
Another negative connotation:
....association with a crazy talk radio personality, Michael Weiner, who calls himself "Savage".


Higher National Certificate and Diplomas
If you have a specific career path in mind and want to receive practical training for it, then a HNC or HND could be the qualification for you.
What are Higher National Diplomas and Certificates?
HNCs (Higher National Certificates) and HNDs (Higher National Diplomas) are vocational higher education qualifications.
How long do HNCs and HNDs take to complete?
HNCs can take one year to complete full time and two years part time (or through distance learning).
HNDs take two years full time and can also be taken part time, which means it will take longer to complete.
What are the different levels for HNCs and HNDs?
What HNC and HND subjects are available?
What are the entry requirements for HND and HNC qualifications?
Most HND courses require one A level (or equivalent). Check UCAS.com for full details on the entry requirements for a particular course.
How will I be assessed during my HND or HNC?
HNCs and HNDs are mainly assessed through projects and practical assignments that you complete throughout the course.
If you successfully complete an HNC or HND, the grades in each subject unit are shown as:
 - pass
 - merit
 - distinction
If you are not happy with how you did in a particular task, don't worry - you will have the chance to improve your performance. We recommend you speak to your teacher or tutor if this is the case.
If you are still not happy with the mark or grade you have been awarded, there are appeals procedures you can follow.
Again, you should speak to your tutor for more advice.
What can I do after my HND or HNC?
Since HNCs and HNDs are designed to give you the skills for a particular field of work, they can lead straight to your chosen career.
Further information
For more about course options after your GCSEs, please see:


I suggest the new leadership be needed.
I learned subjunctive mood recently and now I know you could parse this as such, "I suggest the new leadership should be needed." However, now I got confused all the more for the present tense like this one below.
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I suggest the new leadership is needed.
It's like, to me, the whole sentence should have subjunctive mood according to the situation in which the speaker is. But still, it's just in the normal and present tense... how? What could be the differences between the sentences each above?
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 "I suggest new leadership is needed" is not subjunctive. It's a passive form. And both should be needed and be needed are a mistake here. Also, I would suggest removing the "the". "Subjunctive" would be: I suggest he leave now. This is only relevant in the third person singular, present tense. – Lambie Dec 3 '18 at 19:06
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 You clearly haven't noticed that the original form doesn't have a definite article (you've erroneously transcribed it as the new leadership). If you're still at the stage of not noticing significant details like that (and presumably not being aware of the difference it makes), you definitely shouldn't be wasting time trying to understand subjunctive usages. – FumbleFingers Dec 3 '18 at 19:13
 - _USER_ apparently some people feel differently, as the Wikipedia article gives "She suggests that he speak English" as an example of the subjunctive, although it's not clear why. – Andrew Dec 3 '18 at 20:08
 - _USER_: That's got nothing to do with my point, which is that the significantly affects the meaning. So OP's example could only be "grammatically" understood as referring to a specific new leadership (already contextually identified). In which case it would be syntactically identical if we changed the new leadership to any other "specific" identifier, such as a proper noun. But "subjunctive" I think John be needed is clearly ungrammatical/nonsensical with or without should, outside of non-standard dialectal contexts. And it's no different with OP's example. – FumbleFingers Dec 4 '18 at 14:21
 - _USER_ Er... my mistake? I addressed the comment to the wrong person. It should have been directed at Lambie's comment. – Andrew Dec 4 '18 at 16:50
The so-called subjunctive (which is identical to the base form for every verb in the language, so I don't understand why some grammarians insist on giving it a different name) is used by some people after verbs like insist, decide, suggest, command, but not by everybody.
It is used more in formal contexts (like committee meetings), and I think more by American than British speakers.
As you say, forms with "should" are a common alternative. But the simple present is also used, especially in British English.
The verb to suggest can take a subjunctive object, but it also can take an indicative object. The difference can be meaningful.
I suggest that something is true.
I suggest that something be done.
In the indicative case, we are quite naturally describing things as they are. Here, the something is true -- whether I make the suggestion or not. No one needs to follow my suggestion in order to make that thing be true. In the subjunctive case, we are describing things as they are not. The something isn't done -- not yet, not until someone follows the suggestion. At the very least, I don't assume that this something is already done when I make such a suggestion, even if I happen to be mistaken.
? I suggest that new leadership be needed.
This just seems strange. Am I suggesting that someone should create the need, or that we can't know whether new leadership is needed?
The subjunctive doesn't make sense here. She's not presenting a hypothetical or contra-factual idea in this clause. Assuming that the if-clause is true (and, in this context, we should), she's describing her world as it is.
I can't say whether or not this sentence would actually be subjunctive, as there seem to be different opinions. However I can say that using "should" in combination with requests, opinions, or commands, reduces its intensity. This can be deliberate way to make the request more formal and polite, but possibly also a bit old-fashioned:
I ask that you (should) call me by my first name.
I'm not British, so I defer to Colin Fine's nationality, but to me this sounds more like something a posh British person would say, but few Americans. Over here in the U.S. it would be far more common to say:
Please call me by my first name.
In a different context (such as a committee meeting) "should" is a relatively benign added layer of politeness. It's not necessary, but it might sound nice and avoid "ruffling feathers". Example:
I motion that we (should) vote on this immediately.
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text: The proposed Union Pacific Red Rock Classification Yard will be predominantly placed on already developed land. In the map below you will notice that the vast majority of the proposed Classification Yard and industrial park area is in existing farm land. Farmland poses more hazards to desert wildlife through pesticides, fertilizers and run-off. Compared to the land's historical use as farmland, the Classification Yard will actually reduce chemical hazards to wildlife. The Classification Yard will not be displacing wildlife or introducing foreign chemicals into the environment in the same way agricultural fields would.


text:
bed of coals forms. A cast iron bean pot (holds about eleven pounds of dried beans) is lowered into the pit, covered over with dirt and allowed to cook, usually overnight. Several bean pits could keep beans cooking at all times.
It is generally believed that the loggers learned to make bean hole beans form the Indians; others learned from the loggers. The tradition continued after the logging camps declined. Bean holes can be found not only at large community suppers, but also at summer vacation camps throughout Maine.
For more on Maine's bean hole beans visit our exhibits page.


text: An important consequence of recent dynamical theories of tunneling is that, because of large curvature of the reaction path in a typical H, H+, or H- transfer, light-isotope transfer occurs in more extended nuclear frameworks than heavy-isotope transfer. This is incorporated here into a modified version of the Marcus phenomenological theory relating reaction rate constants to equilibrium constants. It leads to Brønsted slope parameters that depend on the isotope transferred. The new theoretical formulation is tested on experimental data for hydride and deuteride transfer between nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide analogues and on computational data for hydrogen-atom and deuterium-atom transfer between pseudoatoms. The experimental kinetic isotope effects (KIE's) are shown to vary with reaction equilibrium constant (Kij) in a way that is quantitatively consistent with the theory. The critical configurations generated by the calculations vary from the saddle point and from each other in the way anticipated by theory. However, the calculated KIE values are a rather scattered function of Kij because the tunneling corrections are large and somewhat system specific. Overall, we believe that this combination of experimental and calculated results provides considerable support for the idea that large-curvature tunneling needs to be considered in hydrogen-transfer reactions.


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Lower Wisconsin State Riverway
Water Levels and River Flow
River flow can change overnight with excessive rain or through water level management of Lake Wisconsin that is through the Alliant Energy/Wisconsin Power and Light Company-Prairie du Sac Hydroelectric Project. Learning what the water levels are doing can help you determine if your trip will be difficult in low water times or hazardous if the water is high. Taking note of the river conditions using these services will help you in planning future river trips. Always secure your canoe and equipment well.
- Check levels and flow rate at the Prairie du Sac dam
- Call to find out the water flow rate at the Prairie du Sac dam _PHONE_
- Check the U.S. Weather Service water data in Muscoda
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traced_cell(x, h)
Mixing Scripting and Tracing
Some situations call for using tracing rather than scripting (e.g. a module has many architectural decisions that are made based on constant Python values that we would like to not appear in TorchScript). In this case, scripting can be composed with tracing: torch.jit.script will inline the code for a traced module, and tracing will inline the code for a scripted module.
An example of the first case:
class MyRNNLoop(torch.nn.Module):
 def __init__(self):
 super(MyRNNLoop, self).__init__()
 self.cell = torch.jit.trace(MyCell(scripted_gate), (x, h))
 def forward(self, xs):
 h, y = torch.zeros(3, 4), torch.zeros(3, 4)
 for i in range(xs.size(0)):
 y, h = self.cell(xs[i], h)
 return y, h
rnn_loop = torch.jit.script(MyRNNLoop())
print(rnn_loop.code)
Out:
def forward(self,
 xs: Tensor) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
 h = torch.zeros([3, 4], dtype=None, layout=None, device=None, pin_memory=None)
 y = torch.zeros([3, 4], dtype=None, layout=None, device=None, pin_memory=None)
 y0 = y
 h0 = h
 for i in range(torch.size(xs, 0)):
 _0 = (self.cell).forward(torch.select(xs, 0, i), h0, )
 y1, h1, = _0
 y0, h0 = y1, h1
 return (y0, h0)
And an example of the second case:
class WrapRNN(torch.nn.Module):
 def __init__(self):
 super(WrapRNN, self).__init__()
 self.loop = torch.jit.script(MyRNNLoop())
 def forward(self, xs):
 y, h = self.loop(xs)
 return torch.relu(y)
traced = torch.jit.trace(WrapRNN(), (torch.rand(10, 3, 4)))
print(traced.code)
Out:
def forward(self,
 argument_1: Tensor) -> Tensor:
 _0, h, = (self.loop).forward(argument_1, )
 return torch.relu(h)
This way, scripting and tracing can be used when the situation calls for each of them and used together.
Saving and Loading models
We provide APIs to save and load TorchScript modules to/from disk in an archive format. This format includes code, parameters, attributes, and debug information, meaning that the archive is a freestanding representation of the model that can be loaded in an entirely separate process. Let's save and load our wrapped RNN module:
traced.save('wrapped_rnn.pt')
loaded = torch.jit.load('wrapped_rnn.pt')
print(loaded)
print(loaded.code)
Out:
RecursiveScriptModule(
 original_name=WrapRNN
 (loop): RecursiveScriptModule(
 original_name=MyRNNLoop
 (cell): RecursiveScriptModule(
 original_name=MyCell
 (dg): RecursiveScriptModule(original_name=MyDecisionGate)
 (linear): RecursiveScriptModule(original_name=Linear)
 )
 )
)
def forward(self,
 argument_1: Tensor) -> Tensor:
 _0, h, = (self.loop).forward(argument_1, )
 return torch.relu(h)
As you can see, serialization preserves the module hierarchy and the code we've been examining throughout. The model can also be loaded, for example, into C++ for python-free execution.
Further Reading
We've completed our tutorial! For a more involved demonstration, check out the NeurIPS demo for converting machine translation models using TorchScript: _URL_
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