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Today IBM and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, together with Nokia, Pitney Bowes, and Sony, are announcing the creation of "The Eco-Patent Commons," a new collaborative effort focused on shared use of intellectual property to help the environment.
Together these companies are pledging dozens of patents in what we hope will be an expanding effort. As the industry moves to have greater openness and collaboration as part of their balanced intellectual property strategy, the Commons can help companies ensure that "green" is an essential part of that strategy.
The overview of The Eco-Patent Commons from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development website states that the goals are
- To provide an avenue by which innovations and solutions may be easily shared to accelerate and facilitate implementations to protect the environment and perhaps lead to further innovation.
- To promote and encourage cooperation and collaboration between businesses that pledge patents and potential users to foster further joint innovations and the advancement and development of solutions that benefit the environment.
The press release gives examples of some of the environmental benefits expected for pledged patents:
- Energy conservation or improved energy or fuel efficiency
- Pollution prevention (source reduction, waste reduction)
- Use of environmentally preferable materials or substances
- Water or materials use reduction
- Increased recycling opportunity
Patents in the Commons will typically relate to manufacturing or technical business processes that directly show an environmental benefit.
The idea for the Commons was originally proposed at a IBM Global Innovation Outlook conference. Today's Commons announcement follows IBM's patent non-assertion pledges for
- 500 patents to benefit open source in January, 2005,
- healthcare and education standards in October, 2005, and
- over 150 Internet, SOA, web services, and Web 2.0 core standards for interoperability in July, 2007.
Dave Kappos, IBM Vice President and Asst. General Counsel in Intellectual Property Law, and I recorded a podcast about this announcement that goes into greater detail. The press kit also has additional information.
Finally, if you and your company would like to participate, the Commons overview has contacts as well as this advice:
Contact your Intellectual Property (IP) function and examine your business's patent portfolio. Identify patents your business may want to contribute to the Eco-Patent Commons. Many businesses do not routinely patent innovations that benefit the environment, so some participants will have only a small number of patents to pledge. Contributing even one patent is sufficient for participation and can make a significant difference in helping to further sustainable development.
Selected Media Coverage:
- CNET: "Eco-Patent Commons shares earth-friendly tech", by Martin LaMonica
- Reuters, "IBM, Pitney-Bowes, others give free green patents"
- San Francisco Chronicle, "'Eco-Patent Commons' hopes to improve environmental innovation", by Tom Abate
- Bloomberg, "IBM Joins Sony, Nokia in Sharing Ecologically Friendly Patents", by Matthew R. Miller
- VNUNet, "IT industry forms green coalition", by Iain Thomson
- EARTHtimes.org, "IBM, Sony team up for Eco-Patent Commons", by Brian Holmes
- InfoWorld, "IBM, Nokia, and Sony back green-patent giveaway", by Ted Samson


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What you are looking at:
- The exptoolbar search results page, augmented with a visualization.
- Each conversation with search results gets its own wedge.
- Wedges can be distinguished because of the alternating background colors.
- Conversations that you sent a message to will have a red shading to them. The examples may be somewhat misleading because the account where a lot of my sent mail ends up is not part of the profile used to create the screenshots.
- Each message is placed in its conversation wedge…
- The radius is based on the 'age' of the message using a log-ish scale. Interpolation is actually linear at each level (one day, one week, one month, three months, one year, 5 years, 'forever'.)
- The angular placement within the wedge is based on the author of the message. Across all wedges the placement is the same. This helps 'bursty' parts of conversations (which are extremely likely) be made more obvious, while also helping to provide some understanding of conversation dynamics.
- Message shapes are determined by whether the message is starred (diamond), sent by a 'popular' contact (circle), or an unpopular one (cross). The use of popularity is a temporary measure because current gloda in trunk does not cache address-book lookups, and they are expensive. Once the new gloda search code lands with those changes, we can rely on the existence of an address book entry. (Starring a contact using the new message reader adds them to your address book.)
- Message opacity is determined by whether the message is a 'hit' or not. All messages in a conversation are eventually retrieved, though initially we only have the hits.
- Message color is determined by applied tags (using the closest tango color for the first tag), or whether the message is starred (closest tango color to yellow, where I think I had removed the yellow tango colors for some unknown reason, so we get green I guess). It's grey if the message has no tag or star.
- The subject of the conversation is displayed in the wedge.
Things that are happy:
- protovis is delightful, even at this early stage of its development.
- The radar-styled visualization looks fairly neat, and basically proves at least feature parity with my visophyte-based radar visualization.
Things that are sad (aka caveats):
- It would probably be better if the visualization was not radar-inspired. Besides the perceptual reasons, the subjects are harder to read than they would be in an equivalent linear-styled visualization.
- The visualization is not interactive. protovis officially has no interaction support yet, but if you look in the (only available minified?) source, it's almost there. It might be entirely there, but it didn't work for me immediately after a quick reading of the (indented) source.
- There is some low probability failure that occurs during the visualization updating as gloda backfills the message collections. If it happens on the last update, you can end up with a half-built visualization. Re-running the search will generally resolve the issue.
- The visualization does a pretty solid job of taking up all the screen real estate and has no way to be disabled, so you have to scroll past it every time.
- Perhaps showing the gravatars for the people involved in a conversation at the outer rim of the wedge, positioning them based on the author positioning we determined.
- Perhaps lose the radar motif.
- Your thoughts / patches!

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How to make origami box with lid
Folding an Origami Gift Box With Lid
Aug 13, · Origami Box with Lid - Learn how to make Origami box for candy The motto of this video is to share 'Easy-to-do' art and craft activities specially designed. This model may look hard, but if you just follow the instructions carefully, it should be pretty easy and the lid is almost as easy as the box. Step 1: Start with a square piece of origami paper. If you only have regular x11 paper, follow these instructions to make a square sheet. Step 2: Fold the paper in half from top edge to bottom edge.
To form the sides of the box, open the left and right sides. Tuck in the small triangle corners and tuck the flap over the the sides. Do this to both left and right sides of the box. This is one finished box. You can place goodies or a small gift and wrap the top. Or, you can continue to create a lid for your origami gift box. To create a lid, take the second piece of paper, and repeat steps 1 and mke Fold paper vertically in half, then fold paper horizontally in half.
Repeat steps 4 and 5: Fold each side into the middle vertically, mxke fold each side into the middle horizontally. Repeat Step oriagmi To form the sides of the box, open the left and right sides.
Do this to both sides of the box. You now have both a top and bottom to your gift box. You may tape the bottom of the box to secure the flaps. A perfect box to give a small gift! Supplies: Will need two sheets of square paper. Cardstock or origami paper works best. Open up paper to lay flat, the inside face up.
Fold the four corners into the middle. Repeat step 3: Open up paper to lay flat. Fold corners into the middle. Place the lid on top of the bottom. It lidd fit snug but how to unlock a kyocera zio m6000 too big, as seen in the photo. Did you blx this project? Share it with us!
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Introduction: Folding an Origami Gift Box With Lid
To form the sides of the box, open the left and right sides. Tuck in the small triangle corners and tuck the flap over the the sides. Do this to both left and right sides of the box. The origami box lid is just as easy as the box. In fact, it has almost the exact same steps except for some tweaks here and there. If you were able to succesfully fold the box, then you should be able to fold the lid. Step 1: Start with a square piece of origami paper. May 01, · The competed traditional origami box or masu box. If you want to fold a lid for your box you have a couple of options. First you can simply use slightly larger paper and fold the lid exactly the same way you did the box itself.
These instructions will show you how to make a traditional origami box also known as a masu box. Masu boxes were originally a square wooden box used to measure portions of rice during the feudal period in Japan. Masu boxes came in all kinds of different sizes ranging from about 0. This paper version is quite easy to fold and makes a perfect little box to hold small items like paper clips, candy or whatever you want.
Step 1 Start with a square sheet of paper with the white side facing up. Fold the paper in half horizontally. Crease it well and then unfold it. Step 2 Fold the paper in half vertically. Step 3 Fold the corner of the paper to the centre. Step 4 Fold the next corner to the centre of the model. Step 5 Fold the next corner to the centre of the model. Step 6 Fold the final corner to the centre of the model. Step 8 Fold the top part of the model along the dotted line to the centre.
Step 9 Fold the bottom part of the model along the dotted line to the centre. Step 10 Crease both these folds very well and then unfold them. Fold the left part of the model along the dotted line to the centre. Step 12 Fold the right part of the model along the dotted line to the centre. Step 13 Crease both these folds very well and then unfold them.
Step 14 Unfold the top and bottom triangles of paper. Step 15 Fold the right side of the model to the centre along the dotted line. Part of this crease is already here which will make it a bit easier. Step 16 Fold the left side of the model to the centre along the dotted line.
Step 17 Slowly pull the model open at the top following the dotted lines. The creases here are already made. Step 18 When you pull the model open it should take a shape that looks like this. The creases are all already made so everything should fall into place. Step 19 Fold the flap of paper down along the dotted line that intersects the two triangles. This will form the edge of the box.
Fold the top triangle of paper up a little bit to fit into place at the bottom of the box. Step 20 Fold the other side of the box now along the existing creases like you did in steps 17 and The paper should fall into place and give you a shape just like in step Step 21 Fold the top flap of paper down along the dotted line to form the edge of the box.
Fold the top triangle of paper up a little bit to also fit into the bottom of the box, just like in step The competed traditional origami box or masu box. If you want to fold a lid for your box you have a couple of options. First you can simply use slightly larger paper and fold the lid exactly the same way you did the box itself. Then continue to fold the model following the steps above just like you did before. Fold the paper to the centre when it asks you for the following steps. This will give you a slightly larger box that makes a perfect lid.
If you need help or clarification with any of these steps feel free to ask in the comments as well. It worked perfectly, now I have box to put my ring in. The instructions were easy to follow along to and I give this origami box a 4 out of 5 stars. Yeah, this is probably the hardest step. You need to open up the paper unfolding the two folds on each side. As you do that you need to also fold along the dotted lines there, those creases are already there.
This kind of pinches in the sides and will give you the 3D shape on the side that you see in the next step. You can use that next step as a reference. This is great — thanks!
Would love to know what size paper you need to make different sized boxes if you know? Else I will have to find out by practicing I suppose. Hope that helps!
Thanks for these instructions! Try un-folding the top layers back out to the left and the right. While you do that fold the bottom layer up along that horizontal dotted line while also making valley folds along the two diagonal lines. Those are all existing creases so as you unfold the top two layers back out you can kind of push the paper together and it should take on the shape in the next step.
Thank you for this. This one of the easiest tutorials I have come across, our schools KS3 maths classes will be making these now at Christmas! How did that work out! Kind of forgot how. So glad to find instructions again. Use crisp paper and make strong creases. Also at step 17 know where the bottom on the box will be and that helps make sense of those next few steps. My first box popped into place with these tips! The directions are perfect! Use crisp paper and make strong creases in the folding.
At step 17 know where the bottom on the box will be and take helped me with the next few steps. Using crisp paper and making strong creases, the box popped into place!
Thanks for this. I love having projects that I can do with just a piece of paper! You make it pretty much the same as the box itself just with a slight modification to one of the steps. I love this origami Masu Box I have memorized it by heart, making a bunch for my family. Who knew I would make a career out of making Boxes?! Step 17 is where the instructions got confusing. Everywhere else is easy to follow, I just dont understand step I guess thats just a classic thing for this site.
Everything is perfect, but just ONE step confuses the whole thing. This is such a cool origami box. I know haave a safe a place to put my phone. But step 17 is sooooooooooooooooooo confusing. Many years ago someone taught me how to make these boxes. I am a retired teacher. Each year my second graders would bring Christmas cards to class, after Christmas. I already had a stash for the first year.
I would select cards whose fronts had a design or picture that would show up on the top of the box when folded. I cut the cards fronts into the square needed for the box top. I cut the back of the card into a slightly smaller square for the box bottom. The students selected a card to make a cute little box that we would hang like an ornament on our class Christmas tree.
They wrote a special greeting to their parents on a slip of paper and put the note inside. They slipped a loop of yarn into the box before closing it to make a hang

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text: Scottish and northern English: very common patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew. See also Andreas. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain St. Regulus. The surname was brought independently to North America by many different bearers and was particularly common among 18th-century Scotch-Irish settlers in PA and VA. In the United States, it has absorbed many cognate or likesounding names in other European languages, notably Swedish Andersson, Norwegian and Danish Andersen, but also Ukrainian Andreychyn, Hungarian Andrásfi, etc.

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77 Ways to Pray with Your Kids
Whether you are just getting started with family prayer or wish to broaden your horizons, 77 Ways to Pray with Your Kids can help, offering practical, kid-friendly guides to Christian prayer practices both ancient and new. Features include:
- Age-appropriate adaptations for young children, older kids, and teens.
- Articles on a wide range of practices: Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary, Contemplative Prayer, Daily Examen, Lectio Divina, Novenas, and more.
- Talking Points…explanations of prayer practices that kids might have questions about.
- Cross-references to the Catechism, Scripture, and church documents.
- An appendix containing thirty-three common and useful Catholic prayers.
- A quick-find index makes it easy to find prayer ideas, and doubles as a checklist to track your progress.
- Expanded content and resources available online at Peanut Butter & Grace.
The book comes in two editions, one from Dynamic Catholic and the original edition from Gracewatch Media. Order from Gracewatch Media for the original edition (green cover) or any of these booksellers for the new edition:
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Little Lessons from St. Francis of Assisi: A Prayer for Peace
"Make me an instrument of your peace."
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis, beloved by people of all faiths around the world, beautifully captures the spirit of "the poor little man" from Assisi, as well as the aspirations of our time: for hope, for reconciliation, for peace.
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Sydney and Calvin Have a Baby
After her dream date turns tragic, geeky writing prodigy Sydney Camden just wants to retreat into the safe escape of her stories. She certainly wants nothing to do with Calvin, an annoyingly cute British ex-pat who also happens to be her rapist's cousin. But perhaps the Divine Author is writing her a much different love story than she expected….
Sydney and Calvin Have a Baby is a smart, funny coming-of-age story that doesn't flinch from the very real issues confronting teens today, but draws on Catholic wisdom to weave a story in which hope triumphs over despair, forgiveness vanquishes sin, and a culture of life triumphs over death.
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The Children's Book of Angels
Have you ever seen an angel? Many people in the Bible did!
Children are intrigued by angels, and we actually know a lot about them. Learn from this new, full-color book, packed full of angel info from the Bible, the saints, the Catechism, and Church tradition.
This title is currently only available at Holy Heroes. Look for wider availability in early 2020.
The Illuminated Rosary (Ovenbird Bindery Edition)
Here's The Complete Illuminated Rosary in a deluxe hand-crafted hardcover edition from Jill Krase at Ovenbird Bindery.. This is an heirloom gift edition designed to last two hundred years, so it can be passed down from one generation to the next. We've only printed twelve of these books, each of them numbered. Among the outstanding features of this edition:
- The interior is printed on 80# text weight Mohawk Superfine paper, widely regarded as the premier paper for fine printing. The paper is matte (uncoated), with a natural white color that's easy on the eyes, and calendared for a smooth, hard finish. This makes each page sturdy, yet flexible, with zero bleed-through.
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Turning Grief Inside Out: Surviving Pregnancy Loss with God's HelpDrawing on her own personal experience of pregnancy loss, Christine Hendersen offers practical and spiritual advice—as well as a hopeful path forward—for grieving mothers and the people who love them.
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Uncommon Wisdom: Wisdom Never Changes
Thaddeus Jeremiah Wisdom always said he was plain common folk. It's true that some might have seen nothing more than an ordinary, if kindly, elementary school cafeteria cook . . . but we kids always knew there was nothing common about Wisdom and his "upside, downside, hind-part-before-side, inside Kingdom of God."
Uncommon Wisdom: Wisdom Never Changes is a tale of the uncommon wisdom that only comes from a deep friendship with God . . . the kind of wisdom that never changes, no matter how much you grow up.
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Taking care and giving back. The power of a generous heart.
Assistance League charitable programs rely on hands-on involvement by our volunteers and spring from their generous hearts and minds. Each innovative program is designed to meet specific needs of individual communities. Assistance League member volunteers have achieved true transformation in their communities and have helped make a better world possible.
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Enrichment activities and experiences are essential to the development of well-rounded children. Art discovery lessons and youth exhibits, live theater, symphony performances, museum visits and scholarships for science camps are sponsored by various chapters to introduce fine arts to local school kids. Kids on the Block puppetry programs explore issues of disability, cultural differences, healthy eating and exercise, social problems and acceptance of self and others. As a gesture of kindness and camaraderie, Assistance League members befriend senior adults in assisted living facilities. They host parties and special activities and provide small gifts that bring cheer and encouragement to the older generation.
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The User's Perspective
Interperiod Equity and What It Means to You
The notion of interperiod equity really should be pretty straightforward, but it is described in a variety of ways that sometimes seem similar and other times seem quite opposite. GASB Chairman Bob Attmore describes it as the state at which current-year taxpayers have provided adequate resources to pay for the cost of current-year services. Another way to look at it is as a state of equilibrium in which a government is neither deferring costs to the future nor using accumulated resources to provide current-period services. It is important to note that for financial reporting purposes, interperiod equity is a relevant metric to assess accountability rather than a goal that is expected to be met in any specific reporting period. For users of financial statements, the concept of interperiod equity is particularly important because it addresses the implications of fiscal decisions a government makes today but that may be felt well into the future.
A financial reporting objective related to both accountability and decision usefulness, interperiod equity makes its first appearance in GASB literature in Concepts Statement No. 1, Objectives of Financial Reporting. In that document, the GASB uses companion notions like "living within our means" and "balanced budget" and "fairness" to help illustrate the concept. The idea is that by achieving interperiod equity, taxpayers of today pay for the services that they receive and the burden of payment for services today is not shifted to taxpayers of the future. Of course, whether interperiod equity is achieved is a policy decision of the government. From a financial reporting perspective, the extent to which interperiod equity has been achieved can be indicated and a determination of whether taxpayer contributions are appropriate can be assessed.
In Concepts Statement No. 4, Elements of Financial Statements, the GASB added a description of interperiod equity as "the state in which current period inflows of resources equal current period cost of services." When this is achieved, it goes on to say, "the burden of the cost of [current period] services is borne by present-year taxpayers and revenue providers" rather than "shifted to future-year taxpayers or revenue providers through an increase in the level of borrowing" or paid from net resources accumulated in past periods. It is easy to understand why the GASB considers this a relevant metric to assess accountability.
Interperiod equity should not be interpreted as meaning that governments should live only from year to year, and not do financial planning for the long term. Again, that decision is based on the policies of the government. For example, many would argue that it is appropriate to use long-term debt to pay for capital assets, or to accumulate resources annually over many years to do so.
How the GASB's Standards Address Interperiod Equity
As an example of the relevance of this concept today, the GASB is currently examining its pension and other postemployment benefits (OPEB) standards to determine, among other things, whether the existing standards help financial report users to assess the degree to which interperiod equity has been achieved and, if not, consider if the standards should be amended to better allow for that assessment.
Let us be clear—GASB standards do not take a position on whether it is most appropriate to pay for all costs in the periods they are incurred, or to accumulate assets over time to make future payments, or to shift current costs to future periods. The standards are objective in this regard. Rather, because it is clearly important to many kinds of users to be able to tell if costs are being covered within a given period or not, the standards require reporting of information that allows users to make that assessment.
Furthermore, it should not be assumed that governments that pass a burden of debt down the road for future generations to contend with do so because they are unscrupulous. More commonly, the explanations may be found in the political pressures of annually balancing the budget or a lack of a full understanding about the long-term implications of the benefit promises that were made to employees. Statement No. 45, Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers for Postemployment Benefits Other Than Pensions, was met with resistance from some corners when it was issued because it requires governments to recognize the costs of benefits as they are earned, rather than later when they are paid to retirees and to estimate and report the size of their long-term obligation. In retrospect, however, it has served to shine a spotlight on the magnitude of the costs of health insurance and other OPEB, allowing financial statement users a more comprehensively informed view of a government's financial commitments.
Interperiod equity is not limited to recognizing costs—expenditures or expenses—in the proper period, but also extends to revenues. A GASB pronouncement that addresses the concept of reporting revenues in their appropriate periods is Statement No. 48, Sales and Pledges of Receivables and Future Revenues and Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets and Future Revenues. Under the 1998 U.S. tobacco industry agreements with state governments that released the companies from present and future smoking-related liabilities, the companies agreed to make payments to the affected governments in perpetuity based on future tobacco sales. Some sought to securitize the money to be received in the future through bond sales. A question arose: Could they recognize all of the proceeds of the bond sales as revenue now? The Board concluded in Statement 48 that the answer is no from a financial reporting perspective—affected governments had to recognize the revenue over the periods to which the future inflows relate.
As governments seek ways to close budget gaps and meet capital investment needs, "public/private partnerships" are financing options that more and more governments are considering. The GASB is currently engaged in a project addressing service concession arrangements, which are a type of public/private partnership in which a public entity, like a state highway department, enters into an agreement with a private entity to build or operate a public asset, for example, a toll road. The project, for which a proposed Statement was issued in June (see the accompanying article), raises questions directly related to interperiod equity, including how inflows from upfront payments to the public entity should be recognized, and whether and how the government should report the property as a capital asset. In some circumstances, the GASB's approach to those questions involves amortizing such payments over the life of the contract or the capital asset.
The accrual basis of accounting itself is intended to ensure that costs and revenues are reported in keeping with the appropriate period and that the government is living within its means. Under full accrual, all flows of resources—and therefore all changes in net assets—during the year are recorded regardless of whether they involved cash flowing into our out of the government. When a government follows full accrual, it reports in each year's financial statements every transaction that occurs during the year that has an impact on its finances, even if cash did not change hands. The nature of this basis of accounting, then, is well-suited to allow users of financial statements to make judgments about what kind of job a government is doing with respect to interperiod equity.
The notion of fiscal sustainability considers whether a government is on a path that can be sustained into the future. Earlier this year, the United States Treasury Department published a report that concluded the current financial path the U.S. government is on is not fiscally sustainable. Without getting into the details, the current fiscal policies are projected to produce a relatively flat level of revenues in the next decades, but the corresponding debt service and entitlement program spending commitments are projected to grow by multiples over that same time horizon. During the course of the next generation, according to the projections, the federal government not only will lose its discretionary spending capacity, but also its ability to pay for entitlement programs will be severely challenged due to surging debt service payments.
The federal government has, until now, bridged its fiscal gaps by issuing additional debt rather than attempting to achieve interperiod equity. State and local governments, however, are generally required to balance budgets. The GASB has been studying the importance of the notion of fiscal sustainability to the users of state and local government financial reports and the kinds of information they use to assess it. The GASB will consider whether a project should be added to its current technical agenda to better address economic condition and fiscal sustainability reporting.
"What is to be done then?" you might ask. The purpose of this article is simply to bring these issues into focus and to show how this important concern of users is taken into account in standards of accounting and financial reporting. In keeping with the GASB's goals of improving transparency and providing better accountability, citizens and other users of financial statements ought to be able to look at financial reports and be able to discern the fiscal path a government is on.
For 25 years the GASB has worked to develop accounting standards for state and local governments that result in transparent financial reporting. At the same time, it has helped these entities to be more accountable to their citizens and taxpayers by giving them the tools to demonstrate their stewardship over the resources entrusted to them. A concept like interperiod equity is not in itself the solution, but it is certainly part of it.


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Anomalies in quantum mechanics: The 1/r(2) potential
An anomaly is said to occur when a symmetry that is valid classically becomes broken as a result of quantization. Although most manifestations of this phenomenon are in the context of quantum field theory, there are at least two cases in quantum mechanics—the two-dimensional delta function interaction and the 1/r2 potential. The former has been treated in this journal; in this article we discuss the physics of the latter together with experimental consequences.
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Ever heard of the fight-or-flight response? When you are looking down the throat of a hungry tiger, your body instinctively goes into red alert. You need to run, so your muscles get a boost, as do your heart and lungs to supply oxygen. On the other hand, everything not immediately necessary gets cast aside. That includes your guts, kidneys and reproductive organs among others.
Your kidneys are pretty much a bunch of tiny pumps attached to each other. Your bladder is a water balloon at the end of the pump. A bigger balloon is harder to pump into, but usually your kidneys can handle it. But now that we are in power-saving mode, suddenly your kidneys are hungry and tired.
It would be like if you only had 110V for a 220V pump. So your body decides to empty the balloon so your pump can work with less energy. Cue the feeling – 'I need to pee'.
On a side note, people wetting themselves has a bit different reason. When normal fight-or-flight is activated your body typically uses the sympathetic (excitement) nervous system. But when you are surprised, your body actually relaxes – this is because your parasympathetic (relaxation) nervous system also received a jolt. The parasympathetic nervous system happens to cover your bladder sphincters, and with a big enough jolt, the floodgates will open.


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- 1A person legally committed to prison as a punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial: a prisoner serving a life sentenceMore example sentences
- A third of all inmates are remand prisoners who are awaiting trial or sentencing.
- Certainly, the cost to society of convicted prisoners who commit further crimes as soon as they are released is a high one.
- The cells are used to hold prisoners awaiting trial, or following conviction, pending transfer to a main prison.
- 1.1A person captured and kept confined by an enemy or criminal: she may have been held prisoner before being killed 200 rebels were taken prisonerMore example sentences
- After conquering Troy, you will need to rescue some villagers that have been taken prisoner by an unknown enemy.
- He had allowed his dear friend, his sister in Christ, to be taken prisoner by their enemies.
- Taken prisoner, he was jailed and as a POW served time in Wakefield and Frongoch prisons.
- 1.2A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation: he's become a prisoner of the publicity he's generatedMore example sentences
- He was a suffering prisoner of emotions trapped in a cage, but yet he was not.
- She felt trapped, like a prisoner trapped in a jail cell with no luck of escaping.
- I am a virtual prisoner in my own home from April until mid October.
take no prisoners
- Be ruthlessly aggressive or uncompromising in the pursuit of one's objectives: they will be taking no prisoners tonight against bitter rivals WiganMore example sentences
- He was a mighty, and very aggressive warrior who took no prisoners in war.
- Football's about tough uncompromising individuals, who bleed real blood, take no prisoners and fight to the very end, yeah?
- It was not the best, but some of the pitches were bad and referees were like some of the players - they took no prisoners.
late Middle English: from Old French prisonier, from prison (see prison).


6 Ways to Optimize Your Transactional Emails
Give the people what they want.
Transactional emails may seem like the least interesting emails you send, but for customers they fulfill an important function. In fact, transactional emails are almost three times as likely to be opened and read because of the useful information they contain. Don't let this opportunity pass you by! Transactional emails can do much more than just deliver information.
What is a transactional email?
Transactional emails are sent out to document any kind of transaction or activity. Often we associate them with financial transactions, but this category of emails also includes account information updates, shipping updates, forum notifications, and any other email that is sent out in response to the action of a user.
In some cases, the actions of another user generate a transactional email. For instance, when you "endorse" a friend's skills on LinkedIn, they'll get an email notifying them. Check out all of these transactional emails generated by LinkedIn.
transactional emails generated by LinkedIn
What is the goal of transactional email?
The primary goal should be to communicate information to the recipient quickly and clearly. To this end, transactional emails should be formatted simply, using basic HTML. It should be easy to discern at a glance what the email is about and where the desired information is located.
Transactional emails also provide an opportunity to show your company's character (#4) and promote other products or services (#5), but these shouldn't get in the way of delivering information.
6 Ways to Optimize
How can you get the most out of transactional emails? Let us help you optimize your transactional emails in 6 simple steps!
1. Informational Subject Line
The subject line should clearly communicate the purpose of the email and who it is from. For instance, "Account Updated" is not as useful to the recipient as "Account Password Updated – Gizmo Services, Inc." would be. Put as much useful information in the subject line as you can. Using the right subject line can increase your open rate by leaps and bounds. Make sure that the subject doesn't sound like a promotional email.
Below, we have two similar emails from different airlines. The first is more useful because it contains the flight's confirmation number (useful information) and a good description of the contents of the email. The second isn't bad, but could do more.
Descriptive subject line
Non descriptive email subject line
2. Friendly "From" Address
Use a From address that encourages recipients to communicate with you, and lets them know who they're responding to. For example, _EMAIL_ lets them know exactly which department they're responding to. An ambiguous from address, like _EMAIL_, looks like it might be an address that's not monitored for incoming mail.
Generally, one should avoid using addresses that actively discourage customer response, like _EMAIL_. For instance, this shipping notification from Etsy has a "nereply" local-part (before the domain). Though common with shipping updates, this kind of address doesn't exactly cry out, "We're here to help!"
Etsy shipping order confirmation
This reservation confirmation from Open Table is a good example of a from address. Who the email is from is clear, and the local-part invites reply. "Member services" makes it clear what the purpose of this address is: to provide service to members.
Rioja reservation confirmation
A customer should feel like responding to an email is easy and straightforward.
3. Scannable Email Layout
Design your layout with an eye towards scanability. A customer should be able to identify the pertinent information in the email immediately. Stick to basic HTML design to make sure that the email works properly in all environments (and of course, test it with our email previews before you send!)
Take a look at this transactional email from Geico. This email's purpose is to inform the customer that their new ID cards are ready. The first link, at the top of the email, can be used to do this, but they've also added a nice big button in the center. The email is broken into short paragraphs, and uses bold font to attract attention to the most important sentence. Customers who are curious about what the Policyholder Service Center does can easily read through the bulleted list of services.
transactional email from Geico
4. Give It Some Character!
Start by covering the basic information the customer is seeking, for example a new comment has been posted to their forum post. Then try to add some unique touches to it. People like to know that the company they're dealing with is composed of humans instead of machines. Remember that adding character shouldn't make the email more difficult to understand.
For example, here is an appointment reminder from my dentist. It's easy to find pertinent information and useful links, and yet it has a lot of character!
dentist appointment reminder
5. Add a Pinch of Promotion
There's nothing wrong with promoting your products or services in a transactional email, just make sure that the pertinent information takes center stage. The rule of thumb is that a transactional email should be 80% informational and 20% promotional. One way to do this is to use the main portion of the body to give the customer transactional information, and reserve a small sidebar for other products they might be interested in. You could also include a navigation bar at the top of the email to remind them of the kinds of products you sell. The promotional material should never overshadow or obscure the transactional information.
Check out this transactional email I got from Southwest informing me of my flight details. They did a bit more than 20% promotional material (red), some of which comes above the transactional information (green). As a user, I would prefer the pertinent information to appear in the upper left part of the email just below the header, but this email is still easy to read and gather info from. The header provides a set of links that might be handy: check in, change my flight, or check my status. All in all, this is a well-crafted transactional email.
southwest flight status
6. Track, Evaluate and Evolve
You probably track the traffic from your promotional emails to see how effective they are, why wouldn't you track your transactional emails as well? Set up special landing pages for these emails and use A/B testing techniques to find which is more effective. Because these emails are widely read, they offer a great opportunity to interact with the customer and solidify your relationship with them. If you're not tracking, you're wasting time. Each of the steps above can be improved through analytics. For instance, you can test two subject lines for your shipping update email and see which gets more opens. Try different layouts and see which gets more click throughs and read times. Don't forget, though, that the primary purpose of these emails is to keep the customer informed and happy. A successful follow-up offer is only a secondary objective.
Tricks of the Trade
How do you make your transactional emails shine? Let us know in the comments down below!
Author: Alex Ilhan
Author: Alex Ilhan
6 thoughts on "6 Ways to Optimize Your Transactional Emails"
 1. Hi,
 thanks a lot for this input!
 We are just about to optimize the opt-in mails for our customers. We want to put on the google actions because customer can react directly from the subject line (buttons on subject line) what in my opinion gives a comfortable user experience.
 I know it's a bit controversial to this topic because the user doesn't see the embassy of the mail. But, gmail actions are based on schema.org which is an open standard and it may well be that many ESPs will follow google.
 What do you think about it?
 2. Hello Geoff Phillips
 I like your 6 Ways to Optimize Your Transactional Emails.thanks for the nice sharing.
 3. Thanks so much for this, Expedia def broke the 80/20 rule but it was a well executed email. I'd love to see the data behind it.
 I especially enjoyed the dentist example, it's great to see small biz get creative.
 4. Scanning through LinkedIn what should catch my eye but a SouthWest transactional email. Funny, my Creative team at Responsys (now Oracle) re-vamped the transactional program a few years ago. Thanks for noticing the structure, glad to know you enjoy the design. Might be about time to go revisit a mobile optimization strategy though 😉
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Eels from Murtosa
When we were young, every September our family ate fried eels that came from Murtosa, a small town in the estuary of the Vouga river. The eels were marinated in "escabeche," a sauce made with olive oil, white wine, onions, paprika, laurel, and vinegar. These ingredients were combined according to ancient rules of alchemy so that when the eels, the sauce and boiled potatoes were placed on the plate, they transformed into culinary gold.
Eels are mysterious creatures. They spend their early years in fresh river waters. After reaching maturity, they swim to the middle of the Atlantic ocean to lay their eggs in the Sargasso Sea. The baby eels swim back in search of fresh river water and the cycle of life restarts.
How do the infant eels know where to go? And why do the best tasting eels end up in Murtosa? These are inscrutable mysteries.
Before refrigeration was available, the Murtosa eels were a local delicacy. The fisherman ate them fried or in a "caldeirada" that combines the fish with potatoes, tomato, onion, garlic, olive oil, lard, herbs, and spices.
In the first half of the 20th century, some local cooks started marinating fried eels in escabeche sauce. First they packed them in wooden barrels and later in tin cans. These marinated eels gained great fame and popularity in the center of Portugal.
Over time, eels became scarce, the number of fisherman declined, canning factories closed, and it became hard to find marinated eels. So imagine our surprise when, strolling in downtown Lisbon, we found a store called 1942 that specializes in marinated eels from Murtosa! The cans come from a factory that has been processing eels since 1942.
We took this precious find home and opened the can slowly, preparing to be disappointed. But, when we placed the eels, the sauce and boiled potatoes on a plate, the old magic flavors came to life and we felt young again.
The 1942 store is located on the corner of Rua da Conceição and Rua da Prata in Lisbon (tel. 21-_PHONE_).
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How to Install a Hanging Mirror on a Door
Installing a hanging mirror on a door is a little different from hanging one on a wall. Hollow doors are not strong or dense enough to hold mounting screws, but you can support the mirror from the top of the door. With solid doors, a more traditional approach with screws should hold an average mirror. Extremely heavy mirrors are not suitable for hanging on a door, as the weight can cause the door to sag on its hinges.
Holllow Door Installation
 1. Use Over the Door Mirror Hooks
 2. Slip an over-the-door hanging hook over the top edge of the door, advises Mirror Coop.
 3. Attach the Wire to the Hook
 4. Hang the wire on the back of the mirror over the hook on the door. If the back of the mirror has a pair of D rings and no wire, string picture hanging wire between the two rings and twist the ends of the wire together until the wire is taut and secure.
 5. Stick the Bumper to the Door
 6. Peel the backing off a felt or rubber bumper and stick it to the door behind the mirror, toward the bottom edge of the mirror. It should be high enough behind the mirror not to show, but low enough to protect the mirror from bouncing against the door.
Solid Door Installation
 1. Position the Mirror
 2. Hold the mirror against the door where you want it to hang, with the back side facing out.
 3. Mark the Position
 4. Make a pencil mark on the door at the top of the mirror and at the left and right sides of the mirror.
 5. Take Your Measurements
 6. Measure the mirror from the top edge down to one D ring on the back. If the D rings have picture hanging wire strung between them, remove it.
 7. Measure down from the mark you made on the door for the top of the mirror to the location of the D ring, using the measurement you took in Step 3. Mark the door again at that location.
 8. Use a Level
 9. Place a 4-foot level horizontally against the door, aligning the upper edge of the level with the pencil mark you made for the D ring. Adjust the level, centering the bubble. OOK by Hillman recommends tracing the edge of the level onto the door with a pencil.
 10. Place the level vertically on the door and align the edge with the pencil mark you made for the left side of the mirror. Adjust the level until the bubble is centered, denoting that the line is plumb or vertically straight. Trace the edge of the level with a pencil until it intersects the level horizontal line. Repeat to make a vertical line on the right side.
 11. Take Your Second Set of Measurements
 12. Measure the mirror from the left side straight across to the center of the closest D ring. This measurement denotes where the left mounting screw goes.
 13. Measure across the horizontal line from the spot where the left vertical line intersects it, and mark the spot where the left mounting screw goes, using the measurement you took in Step 8. Repeat for the mounting screw on the right-hand side.
 14. Drill Pilot Holes
 15. Drill pilot holes into the door to a depth of approximately 3/4 inch at the mounting screw marks. Use a power drill and a drill bit that is slightly smaller than the diameter of the screw shank.
 16. Install Wood Screws
 17. Insert a 1-inch, coarse-thread wood screw into the door at each pilot hole using a Phillips head screwdriver. Leave the screw head raised up from the surface of the door approximately 1/8 inch.
 18. Finish Installing the Mirror
 19. Hang mirror on door by lowering the mirror onto the screws until the D rings catch the screws.
 20. Things You Will Need
 - Over-the-door-style hanging hook or wreath hanger
 - Picture-hanging wire (optional)
 - Adhesive-backed felt or silicone bumpers
 - Pencil
 - Measuring tape
 - 4-foot level
 - Power drill
 - Small-diameter drill bit set
 - 1-inch coarse-thread wood screws
 - Phillips head screwdriver
 Some mirrors have hanging mechanisms such as ribbons or cords that are only decorative and not intended to bear the weight of the mirror. Follow the manufacturer's mounting instructions, and use special hardware when recommended or provided.


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Cable cars, also known as ropeways or aerial tramways, don't get much respect. These types of transportation systems, in which a cabin or other conveyance is suspended from a fixed cable and pulled by another cable, are often thought of as tourist-movers. But cable cars can have some practical applications in urban settings. They are especially useful where inclines are too steep for conventional mass transit and where they can serve as feeders to bus and metro systems. They have been successfully applied in growing cities of the developing world, where slums are often clustered on precipitous hills surrounding urban centers.
Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group, a ropeway engineering company, published a brochure, "Aerial Ropeways as an Innovation Solution for Urban Transport," that outlines many of the benefits of cable car systems, including the following:
- They are a low-emissions form of transportation, as their motion generates less resistance than land-bound transport, so less electrical power is required to drive the ropes. Additionally, less energy is required for start-up because they move continuously.
- Their aerial position means they can be readily integrated into the cityscape and combined with other elements of the public transit network without encountering obstacles on the ground.
- They don't compete with traffic.
- They provide no-wait service, moving continuously without interruption. Service frequency can be adjusted to suit demand by varying the speed of the circulating rope, eliminating empty runs in off-peak times and waiting times during peak periods.
- They require little space.
- They are accessible to passengers with impaired mobility and wheelchair users because the cabin floor is level with the platform.
- They can be equipped with wireless connection allowing direct audio/CCTV communication between cabins and stations.
Critics note the potential safety issues presented by cable car systems. In the case of an emergency, such as a power outage, passengers will be stranded in the cabins. The Medellín system is addressing this issue by providing a communication system in every cabin should an emergency occur.
Below we describe several examples of cable car systems.
Medellín, Colombia's gondola lift system, called Metrocable, provides a complementary transit service to Medellín's Metro. In fact, Metrocable is a branch of Metro, and both are managed by the same corporation and can be used for a single fare.
Metrocable was designed to reach some of the least developed suburban areas of Medellín, poor barrios on the hills surrounding the city that cannot be reached by conventional public transit. Opened in 2006, Metrocable was intended to connect the inhabitants of these barrios to the rest of the city. It has succeeded in easing their commutes and has also helped revitalize some of the areas it passes through. "People in Santo Domingo [one of the barrios] used to say that they weren't part of Medellin," says a cable car engineer. "They had to take three separate buses to get to it. But now they feel that they are involved in the city."
Metrocable has also become popular among tourists because of its spectacular views of the valley. The newest line was inaugurated in February to connect tourists and locals to Park Arvi, a nature reserve just outside Medellín. The new line is expected to improve security in the area, reducing the presence of paramilitaries and guerrillas. It will also provide residents access to open space, something they don't always get much of.
In Algiers, Algeria, a cable car facilitates travel between the modern part of the city built on the level ground by the seashore and the ancient city on a steep hill. It serves as a connection to other mass transit modes, and brings tourists to Notre Dame d'Afrique (Our Lady of Africa), a Roman Catholic church on a cliff overlooking the Bay of Algiers.
Like Medellín, Caracas, Venezuela is in a valley surrounded by hills. Many residents live in the poor barrios in the hills and work in the valley.
In its heyday in the mid-1900s, the city's cable car connected Caracas with the Caribbean coast on the other side of the mountains. But the system was closed in 1988, and it was not until a few years ago that the Caracas side reopened. (For a more detailed history, see this travelogue in the Economist).
Today, the teleférico carries passengers to Avila Mountain, a national park, and as it's integrated with the Metro system, eases the commutes of barrio residents.
Taipei Maokong Gondola
The Maokong Gondola in Taipei, Taiwan opened in 2007 to connect passengers from Maokong, a popular tea-tasting destination, and the Taipei Municipal Zoo, located high up in the city's surrounding hillsides. The system was designed to ease traffic over the mountains and shorten travel time.
But the system has been controversial. The cable cars were suspended for more than a year following damage to the support pillars caused by typhoon-related mudslides in 2008. The temporary closing affected local small business owners, whose revenues dropped nearly 90 percent over the past 18 months, according to one news report.
Other problems have included lightning strikes, noise pollution, poor ventilation, and other technical glitches. Critics of the system cite weak management and government inefficiency. "What should have been a good thing has become a mess," wrote Ko Cheng-en in an op-ed piece.
The system finally re-opened at the end of March 2010, attracting large crowds with free rides and a cable car with a glass floor, suggesting that the system has become less of an everyday mobility solution and more of a tourist attraction. Nonetheless, there's no doubt that the Maokong Gondola has improved accessibility to some of the city's previously hard-to-reach destinations.


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The Gee Technology Learning Center (GTLC) has extended the teaching, research, and service reach of the TIM School by erasing geographic barriers and reshaping how education is conceived. To advance the School's travel and tourism mandate through innovation and research, the GTLC creates a virtual connection among faculty, students, colleagues, and resources located almost anywhere.
Designed to share TIM School resources with travel and tourism professionals within Hawaiʻi and across the Asia-Pacific region, the GTLC provides the technology infrastructure upon which an extensive series of professional programs, customized courses, colloquia, and degree programs have been developed.
Technology advancements, particularly the Internet, are redefining the business model. TIM School clearly recognizes that success is dependent on: knowing how to use the technologies of the travel and tourism industry, achieving a strategic understanding of technology's scope, and how this powerful force is restructuring the travel industry.
Three main program initiatives enable the GTLC to advance TIM School's mission through virtual collaboration and communication:
- Distributed learning: The GTLC supports TIM School's distance learning programs by making available synchronous and non-synchronous communication for online credit and non-credit courses. Travel industry professionals constrained by time or distance can pursue advanced education without relocating or interrupting their careers.
- Knowledge sharing: The GTLC supports TIM School's knowledge dissemination commitment by linking global problem-solvers with global thinkers. Virtual collaboration enables talents of resource people, regardless of their location, to be shared widely. TIM School faculty is recognized globally for research in sustainable tourism, technology and tourism, and cultural tourism research efforts. Through the GTLC, TIM School faculty can connect with academic and industry colleagues across the globe without the barriers of distance and cost.
- Professional programs: The GTLC supports TIM School's agenda to provide uniquely positioned professional programs by enabling speakers and participants to communicate and work together in a variety of forms. Course content is often customized to meet specific client needs. Material can be delivered face-to-face using web-based and using multimedia techniques. Enriched learning opportunities, available through the GTLC, provide participants with access to leading industry "thinkers" and enable them to gain valuable experience using the virtual collaboration tools of business.


Physical Chemistry 3rd edition
Physical Chemistry 3rd edition 9780321812001 032181200X
Details about Physical Chemistry:
Engel and Reid's Physical Chemistry provides students with a contemporary and accurate overview of physical chemistry while focusing on basic principles that unite the sub-disciplines of the field. The Third Edition continues to emphasize fundamental concepts, while presenting cutting-edge research developments to emphasize the vibrancy of physical chemistry today.
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are towards the right direction I think. Thanks. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 2:55
I think the best question is "write a reverse hashcode function" – yelliver Oct 17 '12 at 3:04
Actually any old string will do, any hashcode value will do. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 3:15
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I was wondering if there was a "universal" solution; e.g. some constant string XYZ, such that
 s.hashcode() == (s + XYZ).hashcode()
for any string s. Finding such a string involves solving a fairly complicated equation... which was beyond my rusty mathematical ability. But then it dawned on me that h == 31*h + ch is always true when h and ch are both zero!
Based on that insight, the following method should create a different String with the same hashcode as its argument:
 public String collider(String s) {
 return 0 + s;
If NUL characters are problematic for you, prepending any string whose hashcode is zero would work too... albeit that the colliding strings would be longer than if you used zero.
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Let me have a try whether the \0 solution will work or not. Thanks. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 4:28
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Use of rubber crumbs as drainage layer in green roofs as potential energy improvement material
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Today, green roofs are a building system which provides interesting benefits over traditional roof solutions. The most important advantages are the reduction of surface runoff in cities, improvement of the urban climate, biodiversity support, improvement of the durability of roofing materials, and, especially, energy savings. This paper has the aim of studying the performance of green roofs as a passive system for energy savings, within a wider objective of seeking constructive solutions suitable for sustainable and environmentally friendly architecture. This idea is tested at an experimental installation available at the University of Lleida, with several cubicles testing the energy performance of different construction solutions. This work raises the possibility of using recycled rubber from tires as a drainage layer in green roofs, substituting the porous stone materials currently used (such as expanded clay, expanded shale, pumice, and natural puzolana). This solution would reduce the consumption of these natural materials, which also require large amounts of energy in its transformation process to obtain their properties. Moreover it would provide a solution to the problem of waste rubber from the tires, known as rubber crumbs. Since the purpose of the drainage layer is the optimum balance between air and water in the green roof system, first the ability for draining of recycled rubber granules was studied and was compared with the offered by stone materials. The new solution using rubber crumbs is also studied to test if it would keep the same insulating properties that the green roof with stone materials presented in previous studies. Early results show that this extensive green roof system can be a good passive energy savings tool in Continental Mediterranean climate in summer, and that rubber crumbs can be an interesting substitute for stone materials used as drainage layer in this type of green roofs.


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A traditional herbal plant, calendula produces a fast-drying oil that can be used in paints and varnishes, surface coatings, lubricants, pesticides and cleaning solvents. Calendula oil is a safe substitute for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which have been banned or restricted in California, Europe and elsewhere. "The demand for VOC alternatives has greatly increased," says Gesch, who is part of a national team developing management practices for the new crop.
The plant: Annual oilseed with bright yellow flowers, 20-30 in. tall, with a strong taproot; seeds contain about 17% oil.
Production: Plant in very early spring as soon as hard frost risk has passed; harvest 100-120 days after planting.
Yield: In Midwest, 1 ton/acre or more.
In a corn-soybean rotation: Harvest window falls after spring wheat, before soybeans; residue may suppress soybean cyst nematode reproduction.


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Most combinatorial optimization problems are NP-hard, and require computation exponential to the problem size. How can we solve difficult tree-search problems approximately, using the analytical results of their average-case complexity? The answer to this question leads to a new approximation approach, the topic of this chapter. This new method makes use of the complexity transitions of branch-and-bound on incremental random trees, and is referred to as ε-transformation.
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Conditional compilation allows the use of new JScript language features without sacrificing compatibility with older versions that do not support the features.
Conditional compilation is activated by using the _USER_ statement, or using an _USER_ or _USER_ statement. Some typical uses for conditional compilation include using new features in JScript, embedding debugging support into a script, and tracing code execution.
Always place conditional compilation code in comments, so that hosts (like Netscape Navigator) that do not understand conditional compilation will ignore it. Here is an example.
/*_USER_ @*/ /*_USER_ (_USER_ >= 4) alert("JScript version 4 or better"); _USER_ @*/ alert("You need a more recent script engine."); /*_USER_ @*/
This example uses special comment delimiters that are only used if conditional compilation is activated by the _USER_ statement. Scripting engines that do not support conditional compilation only see the message informing of the need for a new scripting engine.


Selected works by Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane
1804 - 1865
Fitz Henry Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane, was a Cape Ann artist, printmaker and world-renowned American marine painter. With his subtle use of gleaming light, Lane is generally regarded as one of the finest 19th century practitioners of a style known as Luminism.
The Cape Ann Museum's unparalleled collection of Fitz Henry Lane includes 40 paintings, a rare watercolor (his first known work, painted in 1830) and 100 drawings, plus lithographic town views (all three that he did of Gloucester). The archives also include an extensive collection of Lane's letters.


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Pneumatic piezometers are used to measure pore water pressure in saturated soils. Applications include:
- Monitoring pore pressures to determine safe rates of fill or excavation.
- Monitoring pore water pressures to determine slope stability.
- Monitoring the effects of dewatering systems used for excavations.
- Monitoring the effects of ground improvement systems such as vertical drains and sand drains.
- Monitoring pore water pressures to check the performance of earth fill dams and embankments.
- Monitoring pore water pressures to check containment systems at land fills and tailings dams.
Slope Indicator's pneumatic piezometers employ a simple and reliable transducer that is free from zero drift. Long term performance is enhanced by corrosion-resistant plastic construction, polyethylene tubing, and in-line filters in all connectors. Compatible with both flow and no-flow reading techniques.
In a typical installation, the piezometer is sealed in a borehole, embedded in fill, or suspended in a standpipe. Twin pneumatic tubes run from the piezometer to a terminal at the surface. Readings are obtained with a pneumatic indicator.
The piezometer contains a flexible diaphragm. Water pressure acts on one side of the diaphragm and gas pressure acts on the other. When a reading is required, a pneumatic indicator is connected to the terminal or directly to the tubing. Compressed nitrogen gas from the indicator flows down the input tube to increase gas pressure on the diaphragm.
When gas pressure exceeds water pressure, the diaphragm is forced away from the vent tube, allowing excess gas to escape via the vent tube. When the return flow of gas is detected at the surface, the gas supply is shut off.
Gas pressure in the piezometer decreases until water pressure forces the diaphragm to its original position, preventing further escape of gas through the vent tube. At this point, gas pressure equals water pressure, and the pneumatic indicator shows the reading on its pressure gauge.
For more information
Please download the datasheet and manual for the Pneumatic Piezometer. You may also be interested in the datasheet and manual for the Pneumatic Indicator. These documents can be viewed and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.


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How are gases exchanged in plants?
Answer: When there is low concentration of carbon dioxide in the plant, it takes up some carbon dioxide from the air and if there is low concetration of oxygen it would take up oxygen from the air. Both gases are exchanged through the process of diffusion.
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Definition - What does Electrode Device mean?
An Electrode Device is a logging tool which is based on the arrangement of simple metallic electrodes which work at a low frequency. It includes conventional micrologs, electrical logs, laterlogs and various other microresistivity logs. The device is used for both measurement while drilling and wireline logs. The voltage and current in the Electrode Device can be measured on convenient electrodes or on the combination of electrodes. It is used to provide current via nonmetal objects and measure conductivity.
Petropedia explains Electrode Device
The Electrode Device is basically used for the purpose of logging and is considered as a logging tool which is basically the arrangement of metallic electrodes used in MWD and wireline logs. Appropriate electrodes or combination of electrodes are required for measuring the current and voltage in the device. The electrodes are the electromagnetic cells which are either anodes or cathodes. The electrons leave the cell at the anodes and enter the cells at cathodes and reduction takes place. Electrode devices are also used for measuring electrode resistivity.


temperature model, where a difference between the electrons excited by the laser pulse and the lattice's temperature is assumed. An analytical model based on this two-temperature model is designed and validated for percussion drilling with a circularly polarized beam in a low corrosion tool steel, which is used in this work. The model created in this work can be used to predict the results of the fs laser percussion drilling process and hence minimize the experimental expenses related to the determination of the optimal process parameters.
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- $20.9 million will be used to fund six projects to reduce salinity in the Colorado River.
- This will prevent 11,661 tons of salt from entering the river each year.
- The projects will benefit farmers and reduce water treatment costs.
- They were chosen based on competitive process.
February 15, 2024 — The Colorado River is a vital source of water for millions of people in the western United States. However, the river is becoming increasingly salty, which can harm crops and damage infrastructure. These new projects, announced by the Bureau of Reclamation, will help to keep the river healthy for future generations.
Six salinity control projects in Colorado and Utah were selected through a competitive process, open to the public.
According to Reclamation, this funding will prevent approximately 11,661 tons of salt each year from entering the Colorado River. Quantified economic damages due to salinity in Colorado River water is currently about $332 million per year in the United States. It is estimated that damages would increase to $631 million per year without the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program.
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"These awards will make improvements to off-farm irrigation systems like ditches and laterals in the Upper Basin States and prevent economic damages to downstream users by improving Colorado River water quality," said Clarence Fullard, program manager for Reclamation's Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program.
Salinity is a major problem in the Colorado River Basin. Salinity levels increase as the river flows south, primarily due to natural sources. These natural sources of salt were deposited as marine sediments millions of years ago. Additionally, irrigation and other human activities can add to salinity levels. High salinity levels impact agricultural production by causing lower yields and reducing the types of crops that can be grown. Salty water can also cause problems for municipalities and industries and reduce available drinking water supplies.
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Public accountability : the perceived usefulness of school annual reports
Tooley, Stuart & Hooks, Jillian (2010) Public accountability : the perceived usefulness of school annual reports. Australasian Accounting Business & Finance Journal, 4(2), pp. 39-59.
Annual reports are an important component of New Zealand schools' public accountability. Through the annual report the governance body informs stakeholders about school aims, objectives, achievements, use of resources, and financial performance. This paper identifies the perceived usefulness of the school annual report to recipients and the extent to which it serves as an instrument of accountability and/or decision-usefulness. The study finds that the annual report is used for a variety of purposes, including: to determine if the school has conducted its activities effectively and achieved stated objectives and goals; to examine student achievements; to assess financial accountability and performance; and to make decisions about the school as a suitable environment for their child/children. Nevertheless, the study also finds that other forms of communication are more important sources of information about the school than the annual report which is seen to fall short of users' required qualities of understandability, reliability and readability. It would appear imperative that policy makers review the functional role of the school annual report which is a costly document to prepare. Further, school managers need to engage in alternative means to communicate sufficient and meaningful information in the discharge of public accountability.
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Nothing to Write Home About
British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
In the context of surging interests in reconciliation and decolonization, settler colonialism increasingly occupies political, public, and academic conversations. Turning from the emphasis on Indigenous-settler relations and state policy, Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the colonial significance of trans-imperial families, the everyday, and silence in British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914.
Drawing on thousands of letters, Nothing to Write Home About is a detailed study offering insights into epistolary topics including intimacy and conflict, boredom and food, and what correspondents chose not to write about. Analyzing both the letters' content and their loaded silences, Laura Ishiguro traces how Britons used the post to navigate the family separations integral to their migration and understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. This book argues that these letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful, personal settler colonial order that continues to structure the province today.
Nothing to Write Home About is the first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism. By underscoring the entwined significance of family and the everyday in a formative period in British Columbia, it offers a timely new lens into the global and local dynamics of settler colonialism.
Scholars of history, post-colonial studies, literary studies, biography writing, space and cultural geography, Canadian Studies, British Studies, and in the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies will find this book to be of interest.
Laura Ishiguro has written a fine book. Her meticulous examination of colonial correspondence is engaging and illuminating. She displays a considerable sensitivity for the language used by white settlers to discursively claim British Columbia and normalise their presence there. Ishiguro is especially skilful in summarising her conclusions at the end of each chapter, fluently articulating the tangled voices of British settlers.
Nothing to Write Home About brings to light some of the less-tangible, subtler aspects of British settler colonialism. It does an excellent job of showing how to make meaning out of silences, omissions, and formulaic statements in the historical record.
Laura Ishiguro's adroit study of British settler correspondence carefully and pointedly intervenes in the historiographies of British Columbia, of the imperial world, and of settler colonialism. This book is something to write home about.
Laura Ishiguro is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, where she is a historian of settler colonialism, mobility, family, and the everyday in Canada and the British Empire. Her research has been published in a number of edited collections and journals, including a 2016 article in BC Studies – "Growing Up and Grown Up […] in Our Future City: Discourses of Childhood and Settler Futurity in Colonial British Columbia" – which won the 2017 Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism article prize. She has also coedited (with Esmé Cleall and Emily J. Manktelow) a 2013 special issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History on histories of family in the British Empire, and edited a 2016 special issue of BC Studies on histories of settler colonialism in British Columbia. She is an associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University (2017–20) and a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC (2018).
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1 "Bind the Empire Together": The Postal System, Family Letters, and British Columbia
2 "Affection Can Overstep Distance": The Letter as Trans-Imperial Family
Part 2: The Colonial Commonplace
3 "Absolutely Nothing Going on": Epistolary Emotion and Unremarkable Colonial Knowledge
4 "A Dreadful Little Glutton": Settler Food Practices and the Epistolary Everyday
Part 3: Family Faultlines, Fractured Knowledge
5 "Irreparable Loss": Family Rupture and Reconfiguration in Letters about Death
6 "Say Nothing": Epistolary Gossip, Silence, and the Strategic Limits of Intimacy
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Moby-Dick Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter Summary
- The novel returns to a playbook-style format with stage directions.
- In the evening, the carpenter is working on Ahab's new ivory leg by lantern-light.
- The blacksmith is working, too, in the background.
- The carpenter murmurs to himself about the leg as he works on it.
- Ahab visits the carpenter so the length of the leg can be measured.
- He asks the carpenter what the blacksmith is doing, and the carpenter explains that the blacksmith is making the buckle-screw.
- Ahab describes the blacksmith as a second Prometheus, and jokes that he's going to order him to forge a completely mechanical man.
- Ahab begins to talk to about creation, and the carpenter doesn't know whether he's talking to himself or not.
- Then Ahab asks the carpenter if, in addition to making the new bone leg, he can make Ahab stop feeling the old leg in its place, which, of course, he can't.
- Ahab laments the fact that he must depend on the carpenter's help, when he'd rather feel himself entirely free and independent.
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On 12 March 2021, at the Agricultural Extension Centre, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tuyen Quang province, a Memorandum of Understanding Signing Ceremony was held between the Provincial Agricultural Extension Centre, Agricultural Service Centre of districts and Minh Tam Poultry Breeding and Production Cooperative to coordinate the implementation of the model of linking cucumber production and consumption for 2021 in the province.
The Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony between enterprises and the State management agency marks the success of the association model of the two cooperatives of An Hoa and Minh Tam, and affirming the role of Rikolto in supporting farmers and businesses' development of production and business, linking enterprises with State agencies and farmers, thereby not only bringing benefits and economic efficiency to farmers, but also developing the agricultural sector in local and sustainable food systems.
The story begins with the An Hoa Agricultural Service Cooperative, Vinh Phuc province, specialising in growing cucumbers. Established in 2016, An Hoa Cooperative initially had only 5 hectares of cucumber cultivation, and mainly supplied to the free market. In 2018, Rikolto started to support the cooperative under the project "Development of sustainable agricultural value chains for small farmers in Vinh Phuc". Cooperative members are trained to improve production, business and market access capacities. Since then, the cooperative started to have major contracts with Big C supermarket chains in the North, businesses and industrial kitchens. Due to the increasing supply, in 2020 the cooperative plans to expand the raw material areas.
Cucumber fields in Tuyen Quang province
In September 2020, An Hoa Cooperative cooperated with Minh Tam Poultry Breeding and Production Cooperative in Son Duong District, Tuyen Quang province, to expand cucumber production areas in the province. With 12 households participating, and a starting area of 3.5 ha, after three months of implementation, the results exceeded expectations with a total yield of 175 tonnes/ 3.5 ha (equivalent to $11,000 / ha / crop) by 12 participating households. All this output of cucumbers is sold by An Hoa cooperative as per commitments. By the end of 2020, the number of smallholders in the model has increased to 200 households with a total area of 40 hectares.
In addition to signing contracts and providing quality plant protection products and varieties from An Hoa cooperative, from the beginning of 2021, households have also been instructed on production techniques and safety standards as well as commitment and responsibility by Rikolto and the local Agricultural Extension Centre. Mr. Doan, one of the participating farmers, shared as follows:
"My family at first only cultivated on 15 acres of farmland, then increased to 3 ha. With the selling price of about $0.2 / kg, my family's revenue was about $30,000 after only 3 months. Cooperatives also always complete purchases as per commitments and pay on time. We and other households all feel satisfied when participating in the model". Mr. Doan, Farmer member of the An Hoa Cooperative
On 12 March 2021, the memorandum of understanding signing ceremony between the Agricultural Extension Centre of Tuyen Quang province, the Agricultural Service Centre of districts and Minh Tam Cooperative was officially held, confirming the determination of the governing bodies in supporting model implementation. In 2021, Rikolto will continuously connect three stakeholders including businesses - state agencies - and farmers, along with the cooperatives, to expand raw material areas, provide technical assistance and monitor the implementation process.
It is expected that in 2021, the model's cucumber growing area and consumption will increase to at least 100 hectares with an estimated output of 4,000 tons / year, contributing to localities' fulfilment of the economic development target for the year.


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Definitely food is the new fashion! The bound between pop culture and food has never been stronger. As a culture, we are obsessed with chasing food trends, finding new food innovations, trendy ingredients more and more sophisticated on media or social media. Every day we try to reinvent ourselves. As 2022 comes to an end, let's see what the web says about the food trends for 2023.
A balance between health and indulgence will be on the menu in 2023, snacks like dehydrated vegetables or mushroom chips will continue to dominate. Globally inspired condiments, such as sauces, oils, and seasonings from nWest African shito sauce, Mexican salsa macha, the Indian achaar and other flavours are expected to hit the pantry in 2023. Environmentally friendly foods, such as alternative seafood, will help environmentally conscious consumers to keep an eye on the planet Earth when selecting specialty products. Businesses will place a greater emphasis on regenerative agriculture, more localised and biodynamic food systems, carbon farming, and indigenous farming practices. Natural, alternative sweeteners, such as pure maple syrup, jackfruit coconut sugar, and honey, are ready for a change in 2023.
1. Plant-based seafood
Plant-based is the strongest growing trend according to the food industry radar. Vegan and plant-based diets continue to grow more established, with an increasing number of consumers following the diet either part or full-time. As concerns about environment, health and animal welfare persist – plus with a greater variety of plant-based options available – many more consumers will enjoy indulging in plant-based meals in 2023. Meat and especially seafood alternatives will be all the rage in the coming year.
2. Gut Health foods
Fermented foods are one of the best sources of nutrition for gut health. Eating probiotic fermented foods has numerous other health benefits that extend beyond improving only gut health. Fermenting food has been practiced since 6,000 BC. However, in today's world, it is only gaining more and more popularity year after year.. Fermented foods include cheese, sauerkraut, and wine, but the trend extends far beyond these food staples. In 2023, we expect to see a lot more kombucha, kefir, kimchi, miso, tempeh, probiotic yogurt….and so on.
3. Special flours
Consumers in 2023 will reach for alternative flours as they seek out greater nutritional value. However, dietary goals like celiac disease and gluten-sensitivity play in the consumer choice for different types of flour as well. Rice and other flours made from seeds will be used for these reasons on a larger scale.
4. Better Poultry and Eggs
Egg and poultry producers already started to improve the life of birds and the quality of the chicken we eat. They are going beyond their better-than-cage-free animal welfare standards for laying hens, too; they're putting more focus on outdoor time and of what they eat.
Earlier this year, dates went viral on TikTok when a creator shared a Snickers-like recipe using the fruit, but the date frenzy is nothing new. However, brands are now experimenting with how we enjoy and cook with dates, and using the fruit as a sweetener—not only for at-home bakers, but also in the form of pastes and syrups. By transforming dates into, say, a syrup, we can enjoy them and their caramel notes in everything from ketchup and barbecue sauce to overnight oats.
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