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One thing that separates Discord from other instant messaging platforms is the use of text formatting. You can format text in many ways on Discord, but knowing how to format it as code is a great skill for developers.
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Line Display Code
 1. 1
 Use line display code if you're using Discord to share an example of single-line code. For example, if you're defining a variable in PHP, you can set it to use less room by using line display code blocks.
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 Type one backtick (').
 - Unlike block-display code, highlighting can't be used for single-line code. You can use block-display code for a single line of code, however, if you want highlighting.
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 Write your code. Paste or write your code into Discord.
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 End the code. Using one backtick ('), close the code.
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 Send your message. Your message will now show as a display code block in Discord.
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Block Display Code
 1. 1
 Choose Block display code when your code runs over many lines. It has a standard line end, instead of wrapping over.
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 Type three backticks ('). Backticks indicate to Discord that everything following is code, until the next backtick. The backtick symbol is found above Tab , below Esc.
 - If you want language highlighting, immediately after the third backtick, put the language name in lowercase. Discord accepts several languages, including (but not limited to):[1]
 - markdown
 - ruby
 - php
 - perl
 - python
 - css
 - json
 - javascript
 - java
 - cpp - C++
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 Write your code. Paste or write your code into Discord, using Shift to start a new line.
 - Discord may recognize that you're writing in a block display, and therefore create line breaks when hitting Enter (making Shift unnecessary), but this may not occur on all devices or all versions of Discord.
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 End the code. Using three backticks ('), close the code.
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 Send your message. Your message will now show as a display code block in Discord.
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Merging two answers together
Answer ID 2414 | Last Review Date 03/18/2019
Can I merge two or more answers together into a single answer?
Answers, Merging similar answers
You can use the Smart Merge feature to search for similar answers and merge the content of each field together. You can also use the Search button on the Answer Text page to manually search for a specific answer of interest and then append the link or the text of the answer to the answer you are editing. The Search feature works similar to the Search option in the Support Console.
For more information on the Smart Merge feature, refer to the 'Merge similar answers' section in online documentation for the version your site is currently running. To access Oracle B2C Service manuals and documentation online, refer to the Documentation for Oracle B2C Service Products.
Smart Merge Feature
The Smart Merge feature allows you to find similar answers based on content of other answers in your knowledge base. Smart Merge performs a search to compare the answer that is open for editing with other answers in your knowledge base. You can choose to compare answer content based on the Summary, Keyword, Question and / or Answer fields. You can also restrict the comparison to only published answers that are visible to your end-user pages or compare the answer to all other answers in your knowledge base.
Based on your criteria, Smart Merge returns answers that have some shared content with the edited answer. Answers with higher weights indicate a stronger match in comparing the content between the answers. This allows you to review which answers are most closely related and should be considered to merge. This also allows you to reduce and eliminate redundancy in your answers.
To use the Smart Merge feature, use the steps below:
 1. Open an answer for editing.
 2. From either the Question or Answer field, click the Content tab and the toolbox will be displayed.
 3. Click Smart Merge from the toolbox. The system searches and weights answers compared to the content of the Summary, Keywords, Question, and Answer fields.
 4. In the pop-up window, you can disable specific fields or check End User Visible and then click Refresh to re-execute the comparison.
 5. Click Action and select a merge option or select Show to view the answer.
 6. When finished, click Close to close the pop-up window.
 7. In the open answer, review the content and edit accordingly and save the answer.
When you merge an answer into another answer, the content of the merged answer is appended at the bottom of the primary answer. The content of the two answers is separated by a row of asterisks. When the content is appended, it is still your responsibility to edit the answer to remove any redundancy between the two sets of content and to make the content easy to read and comprehend.
Available Actions: In the merging process, when you highlight an answer and right click, you have the following options:
Merge: This action appends the content of the highlighted answer to the end of the open answer.
Merge and Delete: Select this option to merge the answer with the answer you are editing and then delete the answer once it has been merged. Caution! Selecting this option will permanently delete the selected answer from the knowledge base. This action appends the content of the highlighted answer to the open answer and then deletes the highlighted answer. Use this option sparingly and ONLY if you do not want to retain the highlighted answer for historical purposes or future reference. End-user statistics related to the deleted answer do not carry over to the answer it is being merged to.
Merge and Make Private: Select this option to merge the answer with the answer you are editing and then sets the status of the highlighted answer to the Private answer status so that it is no longer visible on the end-user pages. A warning will prompt you to verify the action.
Show: Select this option to view the answer in a separate window before you merge it with the answer you are editing. This action does not merge the content of the highlighted answer.
Cancel: Select this option to cancel the current selection.
Search Feature
If you wish to search for an answer by specific words or by the Answer ID, you can search the knowledge base for answers of interest.
The Search Knowledgebase feature in the Toolbox allows you to search for specific answers based on status type, products, categories and phrases. After performing a search, you can select Add as Text to copy the content into the existing answer, Add as Link to append a link to the answer, or Print to display the answer in a pop-up window with the option of printing the page.
Similarly, when you click Search... in the Answer Console, use the pop-up window to search your answers based on the words, phrases, and criteria available in the pop-up. From the search results, right click on an answer to either append the content of the answer, append a link to the answer or preview the answer. You can then continue to edit and save the answer that you were editing.


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 - Knowledge-based temporal abstraction in diabetes therapy. Medinfo. MEDINFO Shahar, Y., Das, A. K., Tu, S. W., Kraemer, F. B., Basso, L. V., Musen, M. A. 1995; 8: 852-856
 Abstract:
 We suggest a general framework for solving the task of creating abstract, interval-based concepts from time-stamped clinical data. We refer to this problem-solving framework as the knowledge-based temporal-abstraction (KBTA) method. The KBTA method emphasizes explicit representation, acquisition, maintenance, reuse, and the sharing of knowledge required for abstraction of time-oriented clinical data. We describe the subtasks into which the KBTA method decomposes its task, the problem-solving mechanisms that solve these subtasks, and the knowledge necessary for instantiating these mechanisms in a particular clinical domain. We have implemented the KBTA method in the RESUME system and have applied it to the task of monitoring the care of insulin-dependent diabetics.
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Emergent Urbanism
Rediscovering Urban Complexity
The patterns of place
Leon Krier's lesson in architecture
Principles published
Design, configuration and natural form
When did human creations stop being natural? We look at a tower block, a subdivision or a shopping mall parking lot and see the worst of industrial civilization translated into form. We tolerate them as necessary to achieve the material wealth of our civilization. Those human settlements that are still natural we grant special protections through UNESCO and historical preservation laws. We do not have a law that promotes the creation of new historic settlements because we are not quite sure how they are made.
Complex geometry and structured chaos part II
How does the way we build arrive at complex solutions to complex problems without driving the builders to madness? How can we solve problems which exist at every scale in space, but also exist at every scale in time? Let's take a look at St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.
Fake Complexity - CCTV Headquarters
Engineering firm ARUP provided the complexity for this project.
Architecture without design
Architecture should be abolished
Complex geometry and structured chaos
Fractal geometry has infiltrated popular culture since it was formalized in the early 80's from the works of Benoit Mandelbrot. While it has been used to study the form of cities by researchers such as Pierre Frankhauser and Michael Batty, the insights to be drawn from this field of mathematics have not yet penetrated the field of urbanism, defined as the construction of cities.
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The American Chemical Society chartered its first ACS international student chapter in April 2014 at the Technical University of Munich. Now, the society has 26 international student chapters in 17 countries: Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.
These chapters are growing in parallel with ACS International Chemical Sciences Chapters, which now number 16 (C&EN, June 22, 2015, page 43). To remain active, student chapters need to maintain a minimum of six paid ACS members and submit a report at least once every three years.
The student chapters give international student members of ACS an opportunity to learn more about the society and its resources, build a community around chemistry, and stay engaged with ACS, says Nicole Di Fabio, manager of undergraduate programs at ACS. It's also an opportunity for students to gain cross-cultural experiences. Some of the student chapter members, for example, have attended ACS national meetings in the U.S., where they've presented their research.
Here is a look at what some of these international student chapters have been up to since their formation.

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Hi, I'm Andrea at the Canadian Women's Foundation.
Misogynoir is an important term coined by Moya Bailey to describe the unique form of anti-Black sexism faced by Black women. It's also a key topic explored in the documentary Subjects of Desire written, directed and produced by Jennifer Holness and Hungry Eyes Media. We're talking about it today as we recognize and mark Black History Month as well as look forward to International Women's Day on March 8.
Welcome to Alright, Now What?, a podcast of the Canadian Women's Foundation. We put an intersectional feminist lens on stories that make you wonder "Why is this still happening?" We explore systemic roots and strategies for change that will move us closer to the goal of gender justice.
The work of the Canadian Women's Foundation and our partners takes place on traditional First Nations, Métis, and Inuit territories. We are grateful for the opportunity to meet and work on this land. However, we recognize that land acknowledgements are not enough. We need to pursue truth, reconciliation, decolonization, and allyship in an ongoing effort to make right with all our relations.
Paulette Senior, President and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation, joins me to talk about Black women and beauty standards and interrelated issues like misogynoir and gender-based violence.
The film shows that though some might argue that Black women are having a beauty moment, Black women themselves speak to traditional black features and attributes being seen as more desirable when they're on white women. Can you address this contradiction? What do you think it means, what it's rooted in and its impact on Black women and girls today?
That's a very deep question on so many levels, and it's hard to know where to begin, but you know, Subjects of Desire to me is a necessary film. It's really taking an in-depth look at the dynamic that's created around beauty to begin with, what's seen as beautiful and who kind of inhabits the skin of that beauty.
We know that for so long, particularly since colonialism, beauty has been defined by the colonizer and those standards of beauty have shifted with fashion, with seasons and somehow those standards of beauty have never really been attributed to Black bodies, and in particular Black women.
What I see, that's been happening for decades, you know, I'm now of a certain age that I can actually look back and look at my own sort of childhood, growing up and ideas of beauty and desire. And it's been a struggle for generations for Black women to actually be seen and viewed as beautiful, but also be able to understand what that beauty is and make our own sort of defined standards of beauty.
So, we have never been at the forefront of it, despite winning all kinds of beauty contests, but somehow we set the trend and the way we know we set the trend is because we're copied, time and again. Right, so our own creation of beauty and empowerment is copied time and again in terms of our looks, in terms of our fashion, in terms of our bodies, where at one moment we're not desired because our butts may be too big. And there was a moment in time when as young girls, some of us used to wear clothes that would de-enhance our butts so that it didn't show up too much because it wasn't in style. And then we started to embrace that and lo, behold, that's what's in style today.
I'm just amazed by how the shifting happens and the co-option of Black culture, of Black images, Black beauty becomes commodified by dominant culture, in this case white women. And they then become who we haven't been appreciated to be. At a time when social media has really put these messages in their faces every single day, girls, young girls, young women, all of us are seeing these images and trying to come to terms with how did that happen? When did that happen?
Then if you kind of step back and look at it through sort of systems of oppression, whether that be gender and race and class all sort of mixed in, then you know you can actually see the trend in a different way, because really this is where the term misogynoir fits in perfectly because it is anti-Black, anti-woman and it is really exposing the falseness about what beauty is. Actually brings me back to my own childhood a little bit, and you know my teenage years and being a still fairly new immigrant in Canada and trying to find my own way towards what growing up and being beautiful or desired is and trying to find my path through that. And I remember in my early teens I got into the whole makeup thing and it was so difficult to find makeup that would actually fit your skin. Thinking that that's where my power lies is in me being able to portray that beauty and decades later, there's sort of a coming to terms and understanding that beauty, you know you've heard the term that beauty is skin deep, well beauty is from the inside. But as a society, whether we're Black or white or Indigenous or disabled or whatever, our identities, multiples of identities are, it seems to have taken us lifetimes to realize that beauty is not externally defined, but internally expressed. And until we get that beneath our skin, I think we'll continue to have to have these conversations.
I'm really appreciative of the fact that you named misogynoir, let's dig into that a little bit more.
It's a term that was coined by Moya Bailey and she's a professor at the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. It's really insightful because it combines the idea of misogyny and noir to describe the unique anti-Black sexism that's faced by Black women. Subjects of Desire really touches on how misogynoir is connected to experiences of gender-based violence. That's a real concern for us at the Canadian Women's Foundation, and is a concern, period, in our world.
Tell us more about how this plays out in Canada right now. What changes you think needs to happen to ensure the rights and safety of Black women, girls and gender diverse people?
You know, I do think we're at a critical point of being able to change that understanding and dynamic with Black, Indigenous and racialized folks and gender nonbinary folks. That point that I think we're at is being able to embrace our differences in a way that is empowering and defies, I will say, man-made standards.
Our differences have made us vulnerable to many things, including gender-based violence.
Our differences have made us susceptible to messages that have dehumanized us.
What I'm trying to do, in my own sort of leadership and work at the Foundation and life, is to reverse that trend and to engage in work and conversations and public policy dialogue around recognizing the inadequacy of current dynamics to actually address gender-based violence. The increased vulnerabilities, especially when you're looking at the impact of the pandemic that is now un-ignorable on racialized and Indigenous, and all kinds of folks that are seen as different and not the norm- that impact has made us so susceptible to so many systems of oppression that we have to be able to see through that and reshape our interventions, our programs, our initiatives to center folks like that. And if you look at the work within the charitable sector or even in the woman sector, we've been at this work for a long time, but we have become adept at leaving folks in their vulnerability and living with what that has meant, which is increased violence, increased oppression., you know, leaving folks on the margins and keep doing the work we're doing, which has been entirely ineffective. And I think the pandemic is now saying that we have failed to actually make an impact on those who are most vulnerable.
And so now it is time to look at that work in a very different way, to assess ourselves honestly and with transparency and re-center our work to be much more honest and focused and effective to transform our leadership and our organisations into ones that are responsive to these issues. Our strategic plans, our boards, our staff, our communities need to take a real look at those who are living on the margins and assess ourselves in a way to say OK, so what do we need to do differently for the voices and faces and identities that are missing from our conversations, in order to actually make this change?
I'm actually excited about what's possible, whether it's financial investments in this work, as well as public policy focus on the work that needs to be done, as well as measuring our impact through the lens of where are we investing our resources, our dollars, our time, our energy, in order to save the lives of those who have been most vulnerable.
It's not just in the gender equality space, but it really shows up there most pronounced because when I think of young people, Black and racialized and Indigenous youth, when I think of their realities, for example, it is so clear that those who are most vulnerable among us are being ostracized, being killed, being left without homes are suffering from many kinds of discrimination whether it's in education or in health care. I think the pandemic has revealed the significant cavern, not just gap, but cavern that needs to be seen and addressed and can't be stepped over. You know gaps we've been able to step over but caverns we


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Birdie Meaning
What does Birdie mean?
The name Birdie is of English and American origin.
The meaning of Birdie is "little bird, birdlike".
Birdie is generally used as a girl's name.
The Given Name Birdie
A simple name, Birdie possesses great character.
A creative name, that may be just right for you.
Birdie falls into the bird name category.
Birdie Popularity
In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 2,761 in baby name popularity for girls with 63 occurrences. Less than 5 boys were given the name.
In contrast, the year before it ranked 3,714 in baby name popularity for girls with 41 occurrences. Less than 5 boys were given the name.
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Variants of the name Birdie include Birdena, Birdine.
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How to send a Mailout
Use Mailouts to send targeted communication direct to clinicians phones with engagement tracking
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Written by Duncan Paradice
Updated over a week ago
Mailouts are personalized messages sent directly to clinicians' phones, providing you with engagement tracking. They are primarily used for onboarding, rotations & quality improvement projects.
This article will show you two methods of sending your Mailout templates to clinicians:
 1. When inviting users to Med App - Users are not on the platform yet and you want to provide orientation
 2. From the Mailouts feature - Users are on the platform already
💡 Before sending a Mailout, ensure you've created a template!
Click here to learn more.
Sending messages Ad-Hoc from the Mailout feature
You can watch a quick video of the process or see below for the steps.
Steps to sending a message from Mailouts feature
 1. Open the Communications feature and select Mailouts
 2. Click 'Send New Mailout' & select users using Cohorts, role or a list
 3. Select your Mailout template
 4. Review, edit and preview before sending
Using Mailout for orientation during user invitation process
Mailouts are most commonly used during orientation & rotations to provide onboarding to the hospital, department or services. The below process will show how you can attach your Mailout template to provide tracking for engagement and accreditation.
Steps to sending a Mailout during user invitations
 1. Open 'users' feature and select the 'invite users button'
 2. Add user details, configuring role, cohort, and access duration
 3. Select your Mailout template and send it!
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.__widget__.int_param0: slider.5
By setting as above, the step width of the slider can be set to 5. At this time, this step size can not be decimals. However, there is a possibility that it will be improved by future upgrading.
 - When spin button (spin) is set
 conf.__widget__.int_param1: spin
The step width of the spin button is always 1 increment. It is recommended that it be used only for integer value parameters such as int.
 - When radio button (radio) is set
 conf__widget__str_param0: radio
 - When text (text) is set
 conf__widget__.str_param1: text
If these conf._widget_ parameters are set, the conf._ constraints_ parameter must also be set.
(G)conf._constraints_ setting
The conf._constraints_ parameter is a special parameter for setting a range of values. An example of setting is shown below. Be careful when setting invalid parameters because the widget will not be displayed properly.
 - If you set a slider (slider), use the equal sign and inequality signs for the temporary variable x as shown below.
 conf.__constraints__.int_param0: 0<=x<=150
 - When you set the spin button (spin), specify it using the equal sign and the inequality sign of the temporary variable x like the slider.
 conf.__constraints__.int_param0: 0<=x<=1000
 - If you set the radio button (radio), separate the button names in parentheses with commas. Multiple button names can be specified.
 conf.__constraints__.str_param0: (default,mode0,mode1)
 - If you set text (text), specify the character you want to display.
 conf.__constraints__.str_param1: AIST
Below is an example of display in RTSystemEditor according to the above setting.
configuration_constraints_ja.png
display example of conf._constraints_
(G)Conversion function
For C++ and others, you do not need to specify conversion functions, especially for built-in types such as int and double. Meanwhile, we used user-specific types such as structure and STL container There are also cases. In this case, it is necessary to give bindParameter () as a function how to convert from a character string to each type.
Regarding conversion functions, there are rules for each language as follows. The method for each language will be described below.
(G)Conversion function for C++
In C++, the prototype declaration of bindParameter is
 template <typename VarType>
 bool bindParameter(const char* param_name, VarType& var,
 const char* def_val,
 bool (*trans)(VarType&, const char*) = coil::stringTo)

The conversion from the character string to the relevant type is done by giving appropriate function pointer to the trans of the fourth argument. By default, the coil library function stringTo () function is given. You can write a conversion function equivalent to this stringTo () yourself, but you can also give a function pointer, but the coil :: stringTo () function itself is also a function template, and operator >> ( )function
 std::istream& operator>>(std::istream&, T)
If it is defined, it will automatically be used to convert from a string to a specific type.
That is, if std :: cin >> <variable of one type> can be written, operator >> () is defined for that type, and in particular as a configuration parameter without writing a conversion function You can use it.
If there is no conversion function, for example, a comma-separated numeric string
 0.0,1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0
To convert to std :: vector <double>
 #include <istream>
 #include <ostream>
 #include <vector>
 #include <string>
 #include <coil/stringutil.h>

 template<typename T>
 std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& is, std::vector<T>& v)
 {
 std::string s;
 std::vector<std::string> sv;
 is >> s;
 sv = coil::split(s ,",");
 v.resize(sv.size());
 for (int i(0), len(sv.size()); i < len; ++i)
 {
 T tv;
 if (coil::stringTo(tv, sv[i].c_str()))
 {
 v[i] = tv;
 }
 }
 return is;
 }
It can be implemented in this way. This is VectorConvert.h included in the source of the OpenRTM-aist C++ version, ConfigSample component.
If we include this in the source called bindParameter () (eg ConfigSample.cpp if it is a ConfigSample component), usually in the implementation source of the component, the compiler will decide at compile time and the appropriate conversion function will be used .
(G)Conversion function for Java
In the case of Java, instead of giving a conversion function separately, describe the conversion from character string to actual type in the stringFrom () method defined in the holder class of the configuration variable.
Below is the conversion function for converting a comma-separated numeric string to Vector type defined in ConfigSampole of OpenRTM-aist Java version.
 package RTMExamples.ConfigSample;

 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.Vector;

 import jp.go.aist.rtm.RTC.util.ValueHolder;

 public class VectorHolder implements ValueHolder, Serializable {

 /**
 * Vector type data setting value
 */
 public Vector value = null;

 /**
 * Default constructor
 *
 */
 public VectorHolder() {
 }

 /**
 * constructor
 *
 * @param initialValue initial value
 *
 */
 public VectorHolder(Vector initialValue) {
 value = new Vector(initialValue);
 }

 /**
 * Convert from character string to Vector type and set
 *
 * @param def_val Set value string representation
 *
 */
 public void stringFrom(String def_val) throws Exception {
 value = new Vector();
 String values[] = def_val.split(",");
 for( int intIdx=0;intIdx<values.length;intIdx++ ) {
 value.add(values[intIdx]);
 }
 }
 /**
 * Acquire setting value
 *
 * @return Setting value
 *
 */
 public Vector getValue(){
 return value;
 }
 /**
 * Convert setting value to character string
 *
 * @return Conversion string
 *
 */
 public String toString(){
 StringBuffer retVal = new StringBuffer();
 while(value.iterator().hasNext()) {
 retVal.append(value.iterator().next());
 if(value.iterator().hasNext()) retVal.append("'");
 }
 return retVal.toString();
 }
 }
(G)Conversion function for Python
In Python version OpenRTM - aist, by default, it corresponds to the basic type and its list, and if other conversion is necessary, define a function such as bool stringTo (type, string) and call the first of bindParameter () 4 Pass the function object as an argument.
(G)What to make as a parameter?
Let's think about what you need to make as a configuration parameter to create an RT component.
There are certain parameters, and there are several ways to change this externally. How to change using the data port, change by using the service port, and change using the configuration.
The configuration function is used to change the parameters inside the component. Therefore, parameters in the logic should be externally changeable as configuration parameters. However, I think that there are cases where it is in doubt whether a certain variable should be used as a configuration parameter or not. Here I will think about a case like that.
(G)Update Frequency
Configuration parameters are usually used to give parameters externally only once the system is running or only when configuration changes are required. If the update frequency is about once or several times on the system life cycle, it is a good idea to use the configuration.
Also as mentioned above, the configuration is given as a string from the tool or application, and it is converted into each type in the component. It takes time to convert to some extent (although it is about several us to several hundreds of us in recent PCs), it is not suitable for use in sending data in 1 ms cycle, for example. How about changing the parameter at that frequency? When actually using it, although it depends on the number of parameters and


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By far the more common word and the one you should use if you are in doubt is "systematic." It refers to things that are arranged or dealt with according to some system or organized method. "Gerry systematically sorts his socks into piles: those that are still wearable and those that are too smelly."
Often "systematic" and "systematically" are used metaphorically to imply that something is done so consistently that it almost seems there must be a system behind it: "Tom systematically leaves the toilet seat up." If you need a synonym for "consistent," the word you need is "systematic."
"Systemic" is a much rarer scientific and technical term referring to parts of a body or system. It is frequently used in medicine and biology. A systemic disease affects many parts of the body. A systemic herbicide may be sprayed on the leaves of a weed, but it spreads down to its roots to kill the whole plant. A systemic problem in banking affects many parts of the banking system.
If you're talking about how something is done according to a system, the word you want is "systematic."
If you're talking about something happening to or inside of a system, the word you want is "systemic."
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By Yankuba Jallow and Hatab Nyang
On 20th May, 2017 protesters at Kartong wrote a letter to the Minister of Fisheries on matters concerning the fisheries sector which they claim is causing coastal pollution.
According to them, the letter was written to the Minister to avoid the environmental pollution that is happening in Gunjur which is said to be caused by Golden Lead Import and Export Company.
They said Kartong in the year 2009 was gazetted as an Eco-Tourism village where the village will conserve the natural environment and protect the Eco-System from physical damage by construction of low impact facilities. They argued that the concept of Eco-Tourism in Kartong is to build environmental and cultural awareness and recognise the rights and sacred beliefs of indigenous people in the community and provide direct financial benefits for conservation of the environment.
"The principles of Eco-Tourism in Kartong are to provide positive experience for both tourist visitors and their hosts in order to generate financial benefits for local people and their businesses" they said.
According to them, Kartong is the first and only Eco-Tourism village in The Gambia and the community in conjunction with the Gambia Tourism Board, UNDP and other International Organisations pledge their untiring efforts to protect the natural heritage of the remaining flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) in Kartong and its people. The place has a long lagoon called Halahin Bolong and its situated in Kartong and hundreds of local people's livelihood depend on this Bolong coupled with Eco friendly beaches, bars, restaurants and lodges employing hundreds of people.
They claim that an undesirable and dangerous scent is released from a factory and every living in the lagoon is dying including fish and the water turns red. They further claim that a pipeline runs from the factory into the ocean discharging untreated waste, thus killing marine lives and causing skin diseases to unsuspecting swimmers and other sea users.
"Swimming in the Sea in Gunjur is to swim at your own peril" they said. The letter contains 21 issues that the petitioners raise for the minister to look into and help to quell the situation.
The issues raised are: Is Kartong as Eco-Tourism village finished, how will the authorities protect the Kartong River and Ocean from toxic pollution, where there any Environmental Impact Assessment been done before allowing the construction of the Factory in Kartong, how will the Factory co-exist with tourism, how will the bad and dangerous odour nuisance to the people living in the area be controlled, how will the factory control air pollution in the area, how will the mangrove eco-system be protected, how will the fish population be protected from depletion due to over fishing, how will the women working in the oyster industry on the Kartong River be prevented from pollution and environmental hazards, who will clean up the mess generated by this factory after closure, how did they acquire the land on which they are building the Factory, why was the community not consulted before building the Factory, what type of production will be taking place in this Factory, what type of chemicals would the Factory be using in their production, how harmful are these chemicals, what type of fish will they be processing, what value will this Factory add to the conservation of the environment, how will the National Environmental Agency monitor this Factory to ensure that the waste products are not dumped into our River or Ocean, how will this factory be supervised and monitored by the community to report any violations, will this Factory be using fishing trawlers from China and or use local fishing boats and how many tonnes of fish will this factory be using a day and how will this be monitored?


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The article presents the results achieved while researching a distance measuring method belonging to Depth From Defocus techniques. The method has been developed to determine the shape of a flaccid diaphragm used in the Ventricular Assist Device (VAD). The shape is determined on the basis of distance measured between the CCD sensor plate of a camera and the markers located on the flaccid diaphragm. The goal of this paper is to present the influence of marker size on distance range measureddoi:10.4302/plp.2016.2.07 fatcat:phnx77wvjrdopo76lrs4kuvb7e


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How RFID Has Aided Rental Companies During the Pandemic
There is always pressure, from customers, owners and competitors, to streamline operations, reduce labor costs and improve data accuracy. The coronavirus pandemic has added more pressure to get personnel out of processes that may now endanger their health. Here are three ways the industry is using RFID to adapt.
For several years, the industry has been shifting towards more cost-effective processes. But this has accelerated in the last year as businesses work to reduce on-site staff to comply with health and safety guidance. This is made particularly important as research by the Federal Reserve has shown that automatable jobs pose a high risk of COVID-19 transmission.
Reducing Transmission Risk
The process of assembling rental kits and getting them out the door can be very labor-intensive. Locating the assets with barcodes or serial numbers is a time-consuming process that requires a number of employees to manipulate items so that these identifying marks can be read.
To meet this challenge, rental companies are turning to RFID. RFID enables the rapid identification of assets without touching them. This drastically reduces the labor needed to identify the correct items, get them into the staging area, and then verifying the contents of the rental kit. This reduces the number of people in facilities, making employees safer and reducing the risk to your business.
Lower Labor Costs
Having fewer employees involved in the process has the additional benefit of reducing labor costs. With RFID the time spent finding and identifying assets is dramatically reduced.
In addition, quality processes are expedited, and these workflows can be monitored without the time intensive step of recording asset ID's as the items move through these processes. Finally, cycle counts and inventory audits can be done quickly using very few people equipped with RFID readers.
Improved Asset Utilization
RFID improves the quality of data you have on your assets. With timely, accurate data, you can get a better understanding of asset usage levels.
Inventory visibility is an essential tool for asset rental companies. Only by having accurate inventory data can a rental company determine what assets are available to supply to a customer.
With timely, high quality data, analysis of utilization levels, seasonal usage patterns and rental time frames becomes more accurate and reliable. This enables data-driven decisions about how to invest in additional assets to provide the most revenue and the highest return.
Rental companies that had implemented RFID systems prior to the pandemic reaped a significant return, as their operations were not nearly as severely impacted by the personnel issues related to the pandemic. Firms that did not have RFID in place accelerated their adoption of the technology, as they observed the benefits, both COVID related and the more general business benefits, of RFID. RFID provides a significant competitive advantage in the rental equipment industry, both in times of COVID and beyond.
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The Kruskal-Wallis Test is a non-parametric test that examines whether a sample originates from a particular distribution. Much like the ANOVA Test, it is a one-way analysis of variance by ranks. The actual test does not aim to detect the differences between populations being tested, but rather aims to quantify the degree of deviation between the two sets of sample populations – thus, generating a p-value statistic to test for significance.
Much like the Friedman Test, and unlike the ANOVA test, the Kruskal-Wallis Test does not assume a normal distribution of the sample population. However, it does assume that the two groups being tested have the same type of distribution.
The Kruskal-Wallis Test Statistic is commonly written in the following form:
K = (N-1)[( ∑_g_n_i(r_i-r)^2/∑_g∑_n_(r_ij-r)^2)
n_i is the number of observations in group i
r_ij is the rank of observation j from group I
N is the total number of observations
r_i = ∑r_ij/n_i
r = 1/2(N+1)
After deriving the value of K, one can look at distribution tables of the K-statistic to obtain the p-value. If the p-value is smaller than 0.05, the null hypothesis of equal population medians can be rejected. However, if the p-value is higher than 0.05, then one would fail to reject the null hypothesis at the 5% significance level. Thus, understanding the Kruskal-Wallis Test is crucial for examining differences in two sets of sample populations.


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- to analyze economic growth and business cycles
Preferences and sense of well-being
- to clarify the relationship between people's preferential characteristics such as time preference, risk aversion and altruism and their sense of well-being and the economic environment
- to add a psychological perspective to analyses of household consumption and labor supply behavior
- to analyze corporate investment activities, fundraising activities as well as investor behavior
- to efficiently design a market system and economic organization
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The long awaited and insightful PWC report "Skies Without Limits v2.0" into drone technology has been published, and as always, makes very interesting reading for any drone organisation or organisation wanting to introduce the benefits of drone technology into their workflow.
Some key points and note worthy information contained in the report.
- Reduction in carbon emissions
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Non-sufficient funds
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 - The check writer may be charged a fee by his/her own financial institution. This fee may vary, depending on the bank's policies.
 - If paying the item puts the account holder in a negative status by a relatively small amount, the bank may choose to honor the check. When this occurs, the account will be overdrawn, and the fees charged by the bank will place an extra burden on the account until the overdraft is covered. This is a civil matter with the holder's bank and not likely to be subject to outside reporting if settled quickly enough.
 - If the paying of the item would place the account quite deep in the hole, the bank will likely choose not to honor the check. The item will be returned to the depositor's bank, and ultimately to the depositor. The amount of the check plus the depositor's bank's fee will be debited from the depositor's account. The depositor then may choose to re-submit the check, hoping it will clear on a second attempt, or else proceed immediately with collection activities, civil or criminal.
 - If the dishonored check has been scanned and replaced by a substitute check, the original check is not returned to the depositor, but instead the substitute check will be marked "not sufficient funds" and returned to the depositor.[1]
 - The recipient may choose not to accept checks in the future from the writer (typically recorded on a paper or electronic "Do not accept checks from..." list), or may suspend the check-writer's privileges until the check-writer has made good on the debt.
 - The recipient may choose to report the writer to a database service. This may lead to other merchants in the future refusing to accept checks from the writer or a joint account holder, or the writer having trouble obtaining a checking account at another bank for several years.
 - If a merchant or other place of business (particularly small businesses) receives too many bad checks from customers, it may simply decide to not accept any cheques at all from anyone.[2]
Reasons for bad checks[edit]
The reasons for receipt of bad cheques mostly has to do with the party issuing the cheque not having enough funds available in the withdrawal or checking-account. But apart from this reason there are many other more minor reasons that cheques may not be honored. They include:
 1. Account holder canceling the cheque i.e. deliberately dishonoring the payment.
 2. Account is closed. In such a case a fraudulent action might have been taken.
 3. No Authority to debit. The party owning said account might be under curatorship.
 4. Account under investigation. Issuing-party may have been involved in previous fraudulent action.
 5. Account holder deceased. Party issuing cheque might have passed-on before cheque is honored.
 6. Account frozen. Or effects frozen. Usually happens in divorce when estate is evaluated.
 7. Authorization cancelled. The issuing-bank took action.
 8. No such account. Party issuing cheque gave a false instrument or committed a fraudulent act.
Collection on bad cheque[edit]
When a bad cheque is negotiated, the recipient of the check may choose to take action against the writer. The action that is taken may be civil or criminal, depending on the amount of the check and the laws in the jurisdiction where the check is written.
In many jurisdictions in the United States, a Bad Check Restitution Program exists that allows recipients of bad checks to collect the funds from the local district attorney's office, regardless of the amount. An agency run by the district attorney will pursue the writer of the check by attempting to collect the funds in exchange for avoiding criminal prosecution. The check writer will be responsible to cover the amount of the check, plus all fees to which the recipient is legally entitled, plus a program fee. The writer will also be required to take a course designed to improve check-writing habits. These programs are controversial and in recent years, have come under fire in lawsuits. Normally, if check writer can cover up their bad credits in 60 days, all charges will be dropped.
Note that in some places, for a criminal prosecution on a bad check, there must be "fraud" involved. In some U.S. states, if the check writer informs the party they are uttering the check to that it will not clear at the current time (such as asking someone to "hold" a check for a few days), if the check bounces, they can still be sued for the value of the check, but warning the recipient before acceptance that the check will not clear immediately negates the element of fraud and prevents criminal prosecution.
Steps that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of a bad cheque include:
 - Carrying a higher balance in the checking account; that is to always have a "buffer" amount just in case an unexpected cheque does clear.
 - Better balancing techniques
 - Overdraft Protection - This may be in the form of a link to a savings account for which funds will be automatically transferred, a credit card, or a line of credit designed specially for this purpose.
 - Using a credit/debit card or cash instead of cheques.
Despite consumer interest rates being at, historically, an all time low, many banks have moved from a community-investment based profit model to a customer fee based profit model. Many banks do not utilize a readily accessible technology that verifies available funds before accepting a debit or cheque charge. If a charge exceeds the available funds, most banks prefer to charge a fee that typically exceeds 10,000% of the cost of simply denying the charge. Ex. Alliance Bank raised the fee from $28.00 to $35.00 in 2009; This markup has recently caught the attention of consumer advocates and regulators alike; however, it is important to note that many banks charge the same fee for 'nonsufficient funds' as 'over-drafting', whether or not such 'protection' is enabled. The difference between either fee schedule is purely semantic; the same amount of money may be deducted from the customers account per incident, whether or not overdraft protection is enabled; thus, the only remaining distinction from the end-user's perspective is whether or not the 'bad transaction' is honored.
A customer's ability to dispute/reconcile such fees is heavily restricted, with some banks (such as PNC Bank), limiting customers to one dispute per year. Once this limit has been reached, it is typically the banks policy to deny any form of restitution, even in cases where the banks' fault is clearly demonstrable.
Banks, as trustees of their customers money, are also in the semi-unique position of being able to deduct fees from a customer's account directly, without permission from the account owner. In many cases, this deduction may cause further pending transactions to fail, creating an 'overdraft cascade' - a situation in which the fees charged may be several magnitudes greater than would have been charged had the pending transactions been processed before the fees. The instant, and often retroactive, nature of the fees lowers the account balance at the time the pending transactions are processed, creating an additional fee for each instance in which a transaction is attempted. It is not unusual for a dozen or more fees to be applied before a customer realizes that an account is 'empty.'
Legal issues[edit]
In England and Wales and Australia, such cheques are typically returned marked "Refer to Drawer" - an instruction to contact the person issuing the cheque for an explanation as to why the cheque was not honoured. This wording was brought in after a bank was successfully sued for libel after returning a cheque with the phrase "Insufficient Funds" after making an error - the court ruled that as there were sufficient funds the statement was demonstrably false and damaging to the reputation of the person issuing the cheque. Despite the use of this revised phrase, successful libel lawsuits brought against banks by individuals remained for similar errors.[3][4]
In India, a bounced cheque is a criminal offence, punishable by fines and/or jail term, under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.[5][6] Until January 2013, a bounced cheque in United Arab Emirates is a criminal offense that led to imprisonment of the person who wrote it.[7]
Metaphorical use[edit]
Martin Luther King used the concept as a metaphor in his speech I have a dream. He compared the Declaration of Independence to a bad cheque.[8]
An another example is the phrase "Don't let your mouth write a cheque your ass can't cash." (alternatively, "cheques" or "body" (instead of "ass")) is used to mean "Don't make brash boasts you can't back up", and originates in Black English, being attested since the 1960s,[9] though it is today found more generally, as in the 1993 movie Dazed and Confused.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Substitute check marked "not sufficient funds"
 2. ^ Wood, Leslie (2005-06-29). "DA explains consequences of writing bad checks in Gallup". Independent. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
 3. ^ "Bounced cheques yield libel damages". The Independent. 21 July 1992. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
 4. ^ Ackland, Richard (6 August 2010). "Cheques and free speech get bounced - Aktas v. Westpac". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 June 2014.


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Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards were established by the New York Southern Society in 1925 in memory of Mr. Sullivan, a southerner who became a prominent lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist in New York in the late nineteenth century. The Society and carefully selected colleges and universities jointly arrange for the issue of Medallions, which are to be perpetual reminders of Algernon Sydney Sullivan, the memory of whose life has been handed down with loving and grateful admiration as one that was a continuous expression of those high qualities which ennoble and beautify living and bind man to man in mutual love and helpfulness. Such lives must ever be encouraging and inspiring; they justify our highest ideals and hopes.
Algernon Sydney Sullivan, born in Indiana in 1826, rose to success in New York City as a respected lawyer and a man who "reached out both hands in constant helpfulness" to others. After his death in 1887, the Society sought to honor him and the award bearing his name was established in 1925 by the Sullivan Memorial Committee and the New York Southern Society, which Mr. Sullivan had served as its first president. The award seeks to perpetuate the excellence of character and humanitarian service of Algernon Sydney Sullivan by recognizing and honoring such qualities in others. It was first presented in June 1925 at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, now a part of Vanderbilt University.
Funded by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation and administered by the New York Southern Society the awards stem from the Society's wish to establish a permanent reminder of the "noblest human qualities as expressed and followed in the life of its first president, Algernon Sydney Sullivan; and to do so in a manner which will perpetuate the influence of such a man, not so much as an individual but as a type." The prestigious awards are given only by selected "representative institutions." After the New York Southern Society closed its doors, the awards were continued by the Sullivan Foundation and grew to include more and more institutions throughout the South. The University of Kentucky has been recognizing Sullivan Award winners since 1927.
Mary Mildred Sullivan, Algernon Sullivan's wife, a Virginian, was likewise a person imbued with humanitarian spirit. In 1940, the New York Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which Mrs. Sullivan had helped establish and which she had been the first president, created the Mary Mildred Sullivan Award. It honors persons who demonstrate the "spirit of helpfulness and an awareness of the beauty and value of the intangible elements of life." In 1949, the Southern Society agreed to administer the award and did so until the Society went out of existence in 1973.
Since 1973 the Sullivan Foundation, formalized in the late 1920s by Mary Mildred Sullivan and son George, has administered both the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards and the Mary Mildred Sullivan Awards.
The University of Kentucky is one of several southern universities that present the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award -- sponsored by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation -- to recognize those faculty, staff or students who exhibit Sullivan's ideals of heart, mind, and conduct as evince a spirit of love for and helpfulness to other men and women." In addition, the non-student must have a connection with the University as an employee, alumnus or friend.


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Solnechnoye Water Temperature
7°C / 45°F
The measurements for the water temperature in Solnechnoye, St.-Petersburg are provided by the daily satellite readings provided by the NOAA. The temperatures given are the sea surface temperature (SST) which is most relevant to recreational users.
Monthly average water temp
Monthly average max / min water temperatures
The graph below shows the range of monthly Solnechnoye water temperature derived from many years of historical sea surface temperature data.
The warmest water temperature is in July with an average around 64.8°F / 18.2°C. The coldest month is February with an average water temperature of 31.1°F / -0.5°C.
7 day tide forecast for Solnechnoye
*These tide times are estimates based on the nearest accurate location (Port Kem, Russia) and may differ by up to half an hour depending on distance. Please note, the tide times given are not suitable for navigational purposes.


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Sensor de cor TCS3200 - WS
Sensor cores, detector de cores completa
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- Sensor Chip: TCS3200 (RGB color detector)
- Detects static color, the output is a square wave with frequency directly proportional to incident light intensity
- Supports fill-light by onboard LEDs
- Power: 2.7V ~ 5.5V
- Ideal detection distance: 10mm
- Dimension: 36.0mm * 20.6mm
- Mounting holes size: 2.0mm
- Sorting by color
- Ambient light sensing and calibration
- Test strip reading
- Color matching
How to Use
In the case of working with a MCU:
- VCC ↔ 2.7V ~ 5.5V
- GND ↔ power supply ground
- LED ↔ MCU.IO (controlling the 4 white LEDs)
- OUT ↔ MCU.IO (RGB color output frequency)
- S0/S1 ↔ MCU.IO (Output frequency scaling selection inputs)
- S2/S3 ↔ MCU.IO (Photodiode type selection inputs)
S0/S1 selects the output frequency scaling factor, S2/S3 selects the color filter of red, green, blue, then OUT outputs a square wave with frequency proportional to the selected color intensity. The detected color can be determined by the ratio of the intensity of red, green and blue.
- Avoids environment light noise
- White balance is required when the first time using the module, reseting the module, or changing the light source
Development resources: demo codes, schematic, datasheets, etc.
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Nearly 2/3 of traditional fertilizer goes to waste. This means your $15-$20 bottle of fertilizer is actually costing you $45-$60. You need a fertilizer that can actually utilize all the nutrients you are paying for.
A true living soil creates a secondary root system using fungi. This is called the mycorrhizae. It allows up to 20-30x the nutrient uptake compared to the normal plant's root system.
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Scatter plot DNA extract purity (A260/A280 nm vs. A260/A230 nm). Only samples with DNA concentrations greater than 17.5 ng/μL were included in the analysis. Graphs are separated by extraction method. Cell types are indicated by the data point shape, color, and rug plot color: B. cereus spores (n = 1 extracts), Red ●, S. cerevisiae (n = 9 extracts), blue ▲, B. cereus vegetative (n = 12 extracts), green ■, B. thailandensis (n = 15 extracts), purple +, and E. coli (n = 11 extracts), yellow ⊠. Dotted lines indicate the upper limits of community accepted purity ratios; light grey areas show the lower limits of community accepted purity ratios
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Until February 11, 2020, the Government had regulated or notified 37 categories of medical devices as drugs,
On February 11, 2020, the government exercised its powers to notify one or more categories of medical devices as "drug" to actually notify a new definition of medical devices. As per the notification, effective April 1, 2020, the medical devices that fall under the following definition will be regulated as "drug" under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Medical Devices Rules, 2017:
 1. Diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of any disease or disorder;
 2. Diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation or assistance for, any injury or disability;
 3. Investigation, replacement or modification or support of the anatomy or of a physiological process;
 4. Supporting or sustaining life;
 5. Disinfection of medical devices; and
 6. Control of conception.
The above new definition is intended to cover all medical devices, as per technical discussions that preceded the notification of the above definition. Thus, by virtue of this definition, all medical devices sold in India will come to be regulated by DCA and MDR from April 1, 2020, when the definition takes effect.


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Jenna Crowder examines Aliza Shvarts's extensive retrospective at Artspace New Haven, considering how the artist manipulates the language of rage in order to lift it from the margins.
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Temporary continent. maps the unstable tributaries of contributions, reflections, and media arising from Mississippi. An Anthropocene River and its research procession. The project is a collaboration between two experimental publishing collectives, continent. and Temporary Art Review, both concerned with the amplification, modulation, and circulation of community voices on both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond.


Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Skrewt
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Type Animal
Features Stingers or suckers, and apparent explosive propulsion
First Appearance Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Overview[edit | edit source]
Blast-Ended Skrewts are creatures that look like deformed, shell-less lobsters, with no visible head, that periodically boost themselves forwards with an explosion in their tail.
Extended Description[edit | edit source]
Hagrid has somehow secured several hundred of these creatures just after they hatch, and proposes to have Harry's class look after them as they grow. And they do grow through the course of the book, developing shells and bad tempers, though it seems that we never discover what exactly they eat, apart possibly from each other – though we started the year in early September with several hundred, by the end of October they have started killing each other (by Hallowe'en there are only twenty left, in individual boxes), and only three grow to maturity. Of these three, at least one is in the Third Task maze, where it is reportedly over six feet long. One of them evidently does not survive its time in the maze, as later Hagrid asks the Trio if they want to visit the two remaining Skrewts.
The Skrewts come in two varieties: one with an apparent stinger, which Hagrid presumes is male, and one with suckers which might be for sucking blood, which is presumed female.
They have caused many injuries to the students who look after them.
Rita Skeeter describes the Skrewts as "highly dangerous crosses between manticores and fire crabs."
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It is difficult to say exactly what the purpose of Blast-Ended Skrewts is in our story. Largely they seem to be used to highlight the character differences between the Trio, who assist Hagrid in caring for these creatures even as they grow and become more dangerous, and the rest of the class, who cower in Hagrid's hut while Hagrid and the Trio round up escaped Skrewts. They are also used to show Hagrid's continuing child-like enthusiasm for the more dangerous of magical creatures. They provide some insight into the sorts of effort required to determine the characteristics of newly-discovered or newly-created magical species. On a smaller scale, they provide a hook which Rita Skeeter can use to schedule an interview with Hagrid, and also a dangerous creature for Harry to face in the Third Task maze. Of all of these, it seems that the illumination of character is the only one that can be considered useful to our story; Rita could have hung her interview request on pretty much anything Hagrid chose to do, and there were already large numbers of dangerous creatures available to the Tournament organizers.
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 1. Did Blast-Ended Skrewts actually exist as a species, or were they the result of cross-breeding by Hagrid alone (as Rita Skeeter seems to imply)?
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On July 30, 2012, the Indiana State Archives was presented with a hand-carved piece of Bedford limestone commemorating Tartan Day and the heritage of Scottish-Americans. California Stone Carver Frank Maurer has traveled the United States, providing numerous states archives with hand-carved stones specific to their state.
The Indiana Tartan Stone was the 23rd stone presented and features several symbols of Indiana including the Peony, Cardinal and Tulip Tree. In addition, the stone says "FII" denoting its carver and reads "Tartan Day _PHONE_." The top of the stone depicts the Wabash River and a Celtic Knot, which symbolizes eternity. The rear of the stone has the following inscription: "FII VI 2012" with a line under the "VI." This signifies that the stone was carved by Frank Maurer Jr. in June of 2012. The line under the "VI" indicates the use of a carbide chisel.
Tartan Day was first declared by the United States Senate as a Resolution in 1998 and later as a national day of recognition in 2008. April 6th was chosen as Tartan Day because the Declaration of Arbroath was written in Arbroath Abbey on that date in 1320, asking for the freedom of Scotland from England. Thomas Jefferson later used this document as a model for the Declaration of Independence.
The Indiana Tartan Stone will be available for use at events. Interested parties shall complete and submit State Form 54681 - Publish or Exhibit Materials from the Indiana State Archives.


Exports Overview
Data Exports provide administrators with a tool to extract data from the system. It is a tool that exports data, it is not a report building tool, formatting for the overall report, headers, etc, are not included with the functionality. This tool is also used to create carrier files in the requested format, either HIPAA 834 or proprietary layout.
Data Exports allow administrators to quickly get data into an Excel spreadsheet, then Excel functionality can be used to format the data as desired. Data Exports can be grouped into Categories, which can help keep similar exports together, keep important exports separated (which helps reduce the risk of accidental changes or deletion), and keep test exports separated from production exports. Categories can easily be created by the administrator and exports can easily be assigned to categories, including changing the assigned category.
There are also some pre-configured exports, which provide the administrator a starting point with a single click of the mouse. These are called Quick Excel Exports. There are examples provided in the Appendices at the end of this document.
**Users that have access to the Enterprise Portal are able to copy exports across accounts reducing the need to re-build the same export in a different account.**
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Previous assessments of digital games for the older adult market have focused on their use as a tool to promote aspects of well-being – e.g., fostering social interaction and providing cognitive and physical stimulation. This perspective suggests that the primary means of these games are to encourage older adults to better themselves, which introduces an overly functionalist perspective on play. In this workshop, we aim to shift this perspectives on games for older adults by highlighting the hedonic and eudaimonic (i.e., meaningful) value that they offer. To do so, we will explore challenges and opportunities in the design and development of market-specific games to create empowering and engaging experiences.
In this full-day workshop to be held on Monday, August 1st in Dundee, Scotland, we invite submissions from a range of fields, and to promote the value of hedonic and eudaimonic aspects within the context of game design for older populations.
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the first joint international conference of DiGRA and FDG.


Some of my data's features have large values, while other features have much smaller values.
Is it necessary to center+scale data before applying t-SNE to prevent bias towards the larger values?
I use Python's sklearn.manifold.TSNE implementation with the default euclidean distance metric.
Centering shouldn't matter since the algorithm only operates on distances between points, however rescaling is necessary if you want the different dimensions to be treated with equal importance, since the 2-norm will be more heavily influenced by dimensions with large variance.
 - $\begingroup$ By "rescaling" do you mean Min-Max scaling or Standardization? $\endgroup$ Dec 6 '20 at 7:42
 - $\begingroup$ Standardization $\endgroup$
 – jon_simon
 Dec 6 '20 at 9:22
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Immutable types
Nikhil Purushe edited this page May 24, 2016 · 17 revisions
You can combine requery annotations (and even JPA annotations) for use with immutable types. However there are some limitations to consider when using immutable types:
 - Immutable types cannot contain relational links (however you can have foreign keys)
 - Immutable types cannot have lazy loading or change tracking
 - Immutable types must have a static create method or be buildable via a builder class
Example using Google AutoValue defining a mapping:
@Entity
@AutoValue
public abstract class Person {
 @AutoValue.Builder
 static abstract class Builder {
 abstract Builder setId(int id);
 abstract Builder setName(String name);
 abstract Builder setBirthday(Date date);
 abstract Builder setAge(int age);
 abstract Person build();
 }
 static Builder builder() {
 return new AutoValue_Person.Builder().setId(-1);
 }
 @Key @Generated
 public abstract int getId();
 public abstract String getName();
 public abstract Date getBirthday();
 public abstract int getAge();
}
The processor will generate a PersonType class contain the attributes of Person which is used to construct and create instances of Person by the library when needed.
Example of an entity with a foreign key reference to the previously defined Person type:
@Entity
@AutoValue
public abstract class Phone {
 public static Phone create(int id, String phoneNumber, boolean normalized, int ownerId) {
 return new AutoValue_Phone(id, phoneNumber, normalized, ownerId);
 }
 @Key @Generated
 public abstract int getId();
 public abstract String getPhoneNumber();
 public abstract boolean isNormalized();
 @ForeignKey(references = Person.class)
 public abstract int getOwnerId();
}
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Configuring the Nickname Database
Every instance of Legal Server comes with a nickname database that the searches use to help find related names. There are two lists: a list of names and a list of nicknames. Both can be edited to add more examples.
For example, clicking on the name Robert will show the following screen:
You can add a new nickname for Robert, or edit any of the existing nicknames by clicking on the Edit this Name link on the right.


Mount St. Helens top Washington polluter
Eruption Watch Continues At Mt. Saint Helens
Photo taken October 11, by the U.S. Geological Survey shows Mount St. Helens' crater, dome, and uplift from the northeast. Getty Images / Getty Images file
/ Source: The Associated Press
Washington state's top polluter isn't a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It's the newly awakened Mount St. Helens. Since the volcano began erupting in early October, it has been pumping out 50 to 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze.
Those emissions are so high that if the volcano were a new factory, it probably couldn't get a permit, Clint Bowman, an atmospheric physicist for the Washington Department of Ecology, told The Seattle Times.
All of the state's industries combined produce about 120 tons a day of the noxious gas. Normally, the state's No. 1 polluter is a coal-fired power plant near Centralia owned by the Canadian firm TransAlta. The plant churned out 200 tons a day of sulfur dioxide until regulators demanded $250 million worth of renovations, bringing the level down to 27 tons a day. Tough to get those kind of results from a volcano.
Because the area around St. Helens is so sparsely populated, officials say they haven't heard complaints about respiratory problems linked to the emissions. But persons with sensitive breathing ailments probably would feel the effects if they lived close to it, said Bob Elliott, executive director of the Southwest Clean Air Agency in Vancouver.
"We are very fortunate, in terms of the impact on human health, that Mount St. Helens is pretty remote," Elliott said.
Not smog, but vog
Italy's Mount Etna can produce 100 times more sulfur dioxide than Mount St. Helens, and it sits in the middle of a heavily populated area. The volcano spawns acid rain and a type of bluish smog that volcanologists call vog, which can affect large swaths of Europe, said Terry Gerlach, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist.
Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island churns out 2,000 tons a day of sulfur dioxide when it's erupting, creating an acid fog that damages local crops.
The impact from St. Helens hasn't been as noticeable, but, Gerlach said, "If you were to go and collect rainwater just downwind of the volcano, I suspect you would see some acid rain."
Worldwide, sulfur dioxide emissions from volcanoes add up to about 15 million tons a year, compared to the 200 million tons produced by power plants and other human activities.
Volcanic gases bubble out of magma as it rises to the surface, and the amount and type of emissions depend on the chemical makeup of the molten rock. In addition to sulfur dioxide, volcanoes also release smaller amounts of other noxious gases, including hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen chloride.
They also release carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that's primarily blamed for global warming. Mount St. Helens produces between 500 and 1,000 tons a day of carbon dioxide, Gerlach estimates.
Worldwide, people and their activities pump 26 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere, he said. The total from volcanoes is about 200 million tons a year — or less than 1 percent of the man-made emissions.


Natural Atracctions
Whale watching
The tropical climate of Costa Rica and its warm waters are ideal for these marine mammals that enjoy specific areas along the coast.
The best place to observe whales in Costa Rica is on the Pacific Coast, where humpback whales migrate between July and November and then again between December and March.
The Osa Peninsula is visited by humpback whales that migrate from both the northern and southern hemispheres, meaning that whale populations are concentrated more here than in any other part of the country. Additionally, this large group of whales remains close to the peninsula for a long time, giving Costa Rica one of the longest whale watching seasons in the world.
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connection will try to reconnect to a server ten times, waiting 2 seconds between reconnect attempts. If the maximum number of retries is reached, the client will close() the connection.
// Keep trying to reconnect forever, and attempt to reconnect every 250ms
let nc22 = await connect({maxReconnectAttempts: -1, reconnectTimeWait: 250});

Notifications
The nats client is an EventEmitter, and thus emits various notifications:
Event Argument Description
close Emitted when the client closes. A closed client is finished, and cannot be reused.
connect Client, url (string), ServerInfo Emitted when the client first connects to a NATS server. Only happens once.
disconnect url Emitted when the client disconnects from a server.
error NatsError Emitted when the client receives an error. If an error handler is not set, the node process will exit.
permissionError NatsError Emitted when the server emits a permission error when subscribing or publishing to a subject that the client is not allowed to.
reconnect Client, url (string) Emitted when the server connects to a different server
reconnecting url (string) Emitted when the server attempts to reconnect to a different server
serversChanged ServersChangedEvent Emitted when the server gossips a list of other servers in the cluster. Only servers not specified in a connect list are deleted if they disapear.
subscribe SubEvent Emitted when a subscription is created on the client
unsubscribe SubEvent Emitted when a subscription is auto-unsubscribed
yield Emitted when the client's processing took longer than the specified yield option, and the client yielded.
See examples for more information.
Connect Options
The following is the list of connection options and default values.
Option Default Description
encoding "utf8" Encoding specified by the client to encode/decode data
maxPingOut 2 Max number of pings the client will allow unanswered before rasing a stale connection error
maxReconnectAttempts 10 Sets the maximum number of reconnect attempts. The value of -1 specifies no limit
name Optional client name (useful for debugging a client on the server output -DV)
nkey The public NKey identifying the client
nkeyCreds Path to a file containing seed nkey for the client. This property sets a nonceSigner and nkey automatically.
noEcho false If set, the client's matching subscriptions won't receive messages published by the client. Requires server support 1.2.0+.
nonceSigner A NonceSigner function that signs the server challenge.
noRandomize false If set, the order of user-specified servers is randomized.
pass Sets the password for a connection
payload Payload.STRING Sets the payload type [Payload.STRING, Payload.BINARY, or Payload.JSON].
pedantic false Turns on strict subject format checks
pingInterval 120000 Number of milliseconds between client-sent pings
reconnect true If false server will not attempt reconnecting
reconnectJitter 100 Number of millis to randomize after reconnectTimeWait. See jitter.
reconnectJitterTLS 1000 Number of millis to randomize after reconnectTimeWait when TLS options are specified. See jitter.
reconnectDelayHandler Generated function A function that returns the number of millis to wait before the next connection to a server it connected to. See jitter.
reconnectTimeWait 2000 If disconnected, the client will wait the specified number of milliseconds between reconnect attempts
servers Array of connection urls
timeout 0 Number of milliseconds to wait before timing out the initial connection. Must be greater than 0. Note that waitOnFirst must be specified, and reconnectTimeWait and maxReconnectAttempts must have sensible values supporting the desired timeout.
tls undefined This property can be a boolean or an Object. If true the client requires a TLS connection. If false a non-tls connection is required. undefined allows connecting to either secure or non-secured. The value can also be an object specifying TLS certificate data, which will implicitly require a secured connection. The properties ca, key, cert should contain the certificate file data. ca should be provided for self-signed certificates. key and cert are required for client provided certificates. rejectUnauthorized if true validates server's credentials
token Sets a authorization token for a connection
url "nats://localhost:4222" Connection url
user Sets the username for a connection
userCreds Path to a properly formatted user credentials file containing the client's JWT and seed key for the client. This property sets a nonceSigner automatically.
userJWT A string or a JWTProvider function which provides a JWT specifying the client's permissions
verbose false Turns on +OK protocol acknowledgements
waitOnFirstConnect false If true the server will fall back to a reconnect mode if it fails its first connection attempt.
yieldTime If set and processing exceeds yieldTime, client will yield to IO callbacks before processing additional inbound messages
Jitter
The settings reconnectTimeWait, reconnectJitter, reconnectJitterTLS, reconnectDelayHandler are all related. They control how long before the NATS client attempts to reconnect to a server it has previously connected.
The intention of the settings is to spread out the number of clients attempting to reconnect to a server over a period of time, and thus preventing a "Thundering Herd".
The relationship between these is:
 - If reconnectDelayHandler is specified, the client will wait the value returned by this function. No other value will be taken into account.
 - If the client specified TLS options, the client will generate a number between 0 and reconnectJitterTLS and add it to reconnectTimeWait.
 - If the client didn't specify TLS options, the client will generate a number between 0 and reconnectJitter and add it to reconnectTimeWait.
Supported Node Versions
Support policy for Nodejs versions follows Nodejs release support. We will support and build ts-nats on even Nodejs versions that are current or in maintenance.
License
Unless otherwise noted, the NATS source files are distributed under the Apache Version 2.0 license found in the LICENSE file.
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BiologyThe giant freshwater crayfish is a mere 6 mm long as a hatchling, and matures extremely slowly, living for up to 40 years (5). Reproductive maturity occurs at around nine years in males and 14 years in females, with females breeding just once every two years (2). Mating occurs in autumn and the eggs, attached to the female's swimming legs during development, hatch the following summer, remaining attached to the swimming legs as hatchlings for another month. Such a long reproductive process means that females spend much of their life with their young attached to their legs – a good strategy as fully grown adults have no natural predators (2). However, fishing of adult crayfish by humans results in the removal of not only the adults but all their young as well (3). The giant freshwater crayfish is omnivorous, eating primarily rotting wood and animal flesh, as well as leaves and insects that fall into the water. Juveniles tend to hide in shallow water where they are less at risk from their large predators including fish and platypuses. Adults hide under submerged logs in deep pools where they appear to tolerate each other, despite being aggressive elsewhere (5).


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On-field microbial community influences postharvest root rot in sugar beets
Sugar beets (Beta vulgaris L.) are grown in temperate regions and primarily used for sugar production. Due to limited capacities of the sugar refineries, sugar beets in Europe are stored after harvest for up to 60 days. Microbial degradation leads to sugar decrease during this time. To investigate disease impact on the microbiome level, bacterial and fungal community of field-grown as well as stored sugar beets was compared. Using a barcoded amplicon sequencing approach targeting bacteria and fungi, microbiome dynamics, differences, and potential functions were assessed. Moreover, microbial transmission from field-grown to stored sugar beets was investigated. Interestingly, the microbiome of beets affected by root rot in the field as well as in storage showed broad overlaps, and bioinformatics-based predictions indicated transmission of field microbiomes to the storage clamps. Root rot was accompanied by a loss in microbial diversity (Shannon index decrease of 5.5 to 4.5 (bacteria) and 4.5 to 3.5 (fungi)) as well as the replacement of Plectosphaerella and Vishniacozyma, as predominant species in healthy roots, with Penicillium, Candida, and Fusarium sp. in rotting beets. Furthermore, the Gram-positive Lactobacillus was the predominant bacterial genus in rotting beets. Along with taxonomic changes also a trophic specialization of the fungal community was observed. The overall findings can be implemented in new postharvest strategies following a microbiome-driven approach for biological treatments.
Kusstatscher, P., Cernava, T., Harms, K., Maier, J., Eigner, H., Berg, G. and Zachow, C. (2021). On-field microbial community influences postharvest root rot in sugar beets. Acta Hortic. 1325, 309-316
Beta vulgaris, storage rot, sugar beet microbiome, health indicator species


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Balance of Plant construction refers to infrastructure and electrical work at a wind farm. The BoP construction includes everything except turbines.
We are involved in wind farms through our Balance of Plant concept which covers the construction of the necessary roads, lifting areas and foundations, as well as underground cabling and transformer deliveries, which are needed for joining the electricity grid.
Building a road
In order to get the machines, supplies and equipment on site, every power plant project starts with the construction of a road.
Well-designed and efficiently implemented lifting areas allow the smooth implementation of the next stages of the project.
The construction of foundations is one of the most demanding tasks of wind farm construction. The soil of the site must be taken into account, as well as the size of the power plant.
Underground cabling's share of the costs is relatively small, but even more important – the electricity produced must be transferred undisturbed via the substation to the national grid.


Mushroom Man Day 1
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SWBAT develop interpretive questions.
Big Idea
How are interpretive questions incorporated into shared inquiry discussions?
Introduction to Interpretive Questions
20 minutes
 The Mushroom Man, written by Ethel Pochocki, is a complicated lesson in friendship. It is a good selection for shared inquiry because it requires students to interpret the character's motives and inner thoughts. Its vivid prose captures students' attention as they continually inference, predict, and analyze the character's motives to gain understanding of the story. These are complex tasks students must practice in order to find the central message of this story, revolving around an eccentric, lonely man who works in a mushroom farm. He is an outcast of society who strives to find companionship.
 As I present the Shared Inquiry Flip Chart, I focus on three types of questions that students need to understand: factual, interpretive, and evaluative. Once we review the definitions and examples, students learn that shared inquiry uses interpretive questions to guide its discussions because it requires text based evidence. Students do not need background information or personal experiences to answer interpretive questions because it can be attained from the text.
 We also discuss that it is important to read for different purposes. For this lesson, we will have a first and second reading. When we read for different purposes, we peel the layers of the story and find its hidden meaning. I review the instructions for first and second readings that is on the flip chart after discussing the purpose of each.
First Reading
20 minutes
Because of the complexity of this text, I chose to read aloud to my students for the first reading. As I read aloud, I instruct students to write notes on their post its using symbols and phrases as follows:
+ anything important
? anything confusing
! anything that you feel strongly about
Students are informed to listen attentively because they will be sharing their notes at the end of this reading. I also tell them that there are hidden meanings in this story that requires them to become story detectives and find clues. Therefore, students are held accountable for Note Taking and writing their reactions to text and sticking their post its on that section of text that inspired these reactions.
Second Reading
20 minutes
 I partner students who are compatible together for the second reading. Students read the story together with their partner. They convert their notes from the first reading into Interpretive Questions during their second reading. Students also use a Partner Rubric to make sure they are contributing wholeheartedly to their partners. Again, the rubric gives ownership to the students because they are made accountable to their partners. Also, the rubric gives not just a numeric score, but descriptive details on the quality of partnership students are striving for.
 In order for the partner rubric to work effectively, I established a culture of learning that encourages students to support one another. This nourishing environment was not created in one day. I started introducing the Cooperative Groups norms, roles, rules the first day of school. Students had discussions, modeling, and role playing regarding behavior during partnering and group collaborating. Then, I introduce the assessment rubrics and explained to students that a rubric is a map towards a goal. We must help each other follow that map by looking after one another so no one gets lost along the way. Once students understand the purpose of rubrics, hurt feelings are alleviated because the focus is on the action or skill, not the person. I also encourage students to celebrate successes. Balancing strengths and weakness during rubric assessments is an effective way to rate someone's performance. Through the continuous practice of expected behavior, students develop interpersonal skills. Non-cognitive skills, such as social skills, needs to be taught and reinforced.
Sharing Out
20 minutes
 At the end of this lesson, students share their interpretive questions with the class. We analyze these questions and select one for Day 2 of this lesson. Day 2 will focus on the shared inquiry discussion session using the selected interpretive question to guide the discussion.
 Students complete the partner rubric and partners give feed back to each other. Students constructively communicate their performance as well as their partners, using the rubric to indicate strengths and weaknesses in specific performance.
 Interpretive questions have more than one answer. The frequency of the question that students ask during the note taking process indicates that students have a natural curiosity about this particular topic. That curiosity leads students to back to the text to find answers. I select the question that arises most frequently because it naturally motivates students to search for text evidence that supports their perspective. The class chose the interpretive question: " Why did the mole and the mushroom man become friends?"


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Winter Chill Can Be Tough on Your Toes
19 February, 2014
ISLAMABAD: Sweaty feet and winter are a bad combination.
Not only do you run the risk of developing frostbite, but you could also be prone to trench foot and athlete's foot, experts say.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wet feet lose heat 25 times faster than dry feet. To compensate, the body shuts down peripheral circulation. Less blood circulating to the feet means less oxygen and nutrients, and skin tissue begins to die, a condition, which can lead to trench foot. Because wet feet get cold more quickly, they're also at an increased risk of developing frostbite. Athlete's foot, a fungal infection, is also more likely to thrive in moist, damp places such as feet when they're sweaty.
Fortunately, these prevention strategies can stave off all three of these conditions: * Check your feet regularly to see if they are wet. * If your feet are wet, dry them and put on a new pair of dry socks and dry shoes.
* Change your socks at least once a day. * Do not sleep with wet socks on. * Look for socks that are made of an acrylic fiber, not cotton. Acrylic wicks moisture away from the feet.
* Choose shoes that are waterproof and insulated, and be sure to check insulated shoes for leaks before use, advises Dr. Donald Hovancsek of the American Podiatric Medical Association. * Make sure socks and shoes are not too tight, as this can impede circulation.
* Cover your feet with antiperspirant. The active ingredient, aluminum hydroxide, keeps your feet from sweating.


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Methods: In 2000 an unidentified hospital staff member placed a 24 oz plastic flask of Nestle Coffeemate (Hazelnut flavor) into a nursing station refrigerator on the 8th floor of Local Hospital. A regional neurologist has casually noted the movements of the flask of proto-dairy product at intermittent intervals over time while scavenging for Diet Coke. The flask has been consistently identified over time by it's original expiration date (February, 2002) stamped on the rim.
Findings: The Coffeemate bottle has now been in the refrigerator for over 10 years. Careful observation (okay, lifting and shaking it a little from time-to-time) showed that its weight gradually decreased in the first several months of it's presence, then stabilized. While weight can vary depending on local gravity, the Earth's gravitational force has not changed substantially during this time, nor has the hospital been relocated to a planet with lesser gravity. The contents have not been directly inspected by the author during this time.
The bottle has remained on the same shelf (center shelf, refrigerator door) since its original placement. Its specific location on the shelf has varied (sometimes next to the Ranch dressing, at other times between the ketchup and mustard, and once briefly near a bottle of banana-based ketchup that a Filipino traveling nurse brought). Overall its location has been reasonably predictable within the limitations of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Schrodinger's cat.
Results: It's still there.
Discussion: There have been a number of postulates to explain this sort of object persistence. While local changes in Brownian kinetics or gravity are possible, the most likely cause of the flask's roughly unchanged location is attributable to the nature of Homo Sapiens. This local species appears to be disinterested in removing objects that are not the direct property of a given individual. Therefore, it's likely that only the specific animal which originally placed the Coffeemate on the shelf will be inclined to retrieve it, regardless of its current condition.
Its persistence, in spite of clearly being empty for several years, is likely due to one or more of the following possibilities:
1. The original owner no longer works at the hospital, or at least not on that floor.
2. The original owner has forgotten it's theirs, and therefore isn't touching it.
3. People are lazy.
It should be noted that item #3 is actually a unifying theorem for #1 & #2.
In conclusion, the author would like to note that I didn't put it there either, and so I ain't touching the freakin' bottle. The last time I tried to do something nice like that I almost got my hand chewed off by a rabid oncology nurse.