Letter U Universe - Bible Theme
Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities and Worksheets
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Letter U Universe - Bible Alphabet Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities and Worksheets
Handwriting worksheet
Here are printable materials and some suggestions to present letter U. Visit related activities in the outer space theme.
What is the universe?
The universe is defined as all existing things, including the earth and heavens.
Alphabet Activity: Letter U is for Universe
Finger and Pencil Tracing
Trace the letter U's with your finger in upper and lower case as you also sound out the letter. Invite the children to do the same on their coloring page. Encourage the children to trace the dotted letter, and demonstrate the direction of the arrows and to pay attention to the numbers that helps them trace the letter correctly. During the demonstration, you may want to count out loud and as you trace so children become aware of how the number order aids them in the process.
Find the letter Us: Have the children find all the letter U's in upper and lower case on the page and encourage them to circle or trace/shade them first.
Coloring Activity
: Encourage the children to color the letter U and universe image with a variety of materials.
Letter U words: Letter U Worksheet and Mini Book (short U sound). These printable activities can be used to reinforce practice and to identify related words. Read suggested instructions for using the worksheet and mini-book.
Discuss other letter U words and images found in the worksheet. You can also display U posters and coloring pages or make a letter U classroom book. For related images visit: Letter U Printable Activities and letter U coloring pages and make your choice.
Letter U (long sound) Word Search & Handwriting Practice: The four search game features a universe image and letter U words with pictures and handwriting practice.
Advanced independent handwriting practice:
1. Print your choice of printable lined-paper and encourage children to draw a universe behind the page.
2. Drawing and writing paper: Encourage children to draw, color and decorate a universe and write letter U u.
Bible Activity > "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command..." Hebrews 11:3


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The ever-increasing demands for outdoor recreation have caused widespread ecological damages in many parts of the world, so that methods to contain deleterious impacts and maintain the quality of recreational experience must be earnestly sought. Besides the commonlyprescribed preventive and ameliorative actions on the resource-base, visitor management which can provide cost-effective and long-term solutions deserves more attention than hitherto. This paper evaluates a spectrum of relevant options including the subtle (influencing userbehaviour), through the intermediate (redistributing use), to the regulatory (rationing use).
The reduction of per caput impact can, naturally, raise the capacity of an area to accommodate continuing use. Minimum impact techniques can substantially curtail the largely inadvertent damage due to ignorance rather than malice, while recreational planning and management can take into account the changing user preference. Appropriate data to guide management decisions can be acquired through innovative non-contact approaches, including visitor observation, to solicit candid and spontaneous responses. Good-quality information, conveyed through different channels in ample time before a visit, can effectively modify user behaviour and perception. Formal and informal education, to inculcate a responsible attitude towards the natural environment, can bring long-range benefits. Citizen participation can furnish diversified and useroriented perspectives that are important for successful programmes. Copyright © 1989 Foundation for Environmental Conservation. All rights reserved.

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What is Dolmama
Dolmama was established in 1998. Starting it was simple but there were many problems to resolve, not the least of them was creation of a menu that would be interesting, tasty, good looking and typical Armenian, to be exact - Eastern Armenian. Most of the world familiar with Armenian food has had contacts with western Armenians (territory of Ottoman Empire) who where dispersed all over the world at the beginning of the last century after the tragic events of the Armenian Genocide. Armenia has very rich culinary culture, with many influences of nations surrounding it. In its turn, Armenian culinary has had a great impact on the culinary culture of the neighboring countries. Yogurt is a good example of this.. First time I heard about yogurt in the US, when Colombo yogurt was advertised on the radio in the early 70s. On the other hand, Eastern Armenian cuisine that developed on the current mountainous territory of the Republic of Armenia has overseen many hardships. Being part of the Soviet Union was not the least of them. Now, how boring can that be?
The task of Dolmama was to rejuvenate and give color to the menu and taste of that cuisine. It was hard and very easy at the same time. Since the local organic product to work with is very tasty and the Soviet Armenian cuisine had short history, it was easy to revitalize Armenian indigenous cuisine and be creative about it. In 1998 there were hard times in Armenia. It had just gotten itself out of the war and was in a grip of economic depression. So, it was a problem to physically open a restaurant. There were no chairs and no tables. To be creative we went around villages collecting "lavash" tables (Lavash is a paper thin bread. Its dough is rolled on such tables and the sheets are baked in ground pits called "tonir"). We restored the tables for our restaurant and we found an iron worker to make chairs by our design. A lot has changed since then but we still have some of those tables and chairs in our restaurant.
Creating our menu
Dolma, is the main meal of our menu and the name of the restaurant comes from it. Dolma is ground meat, beef, lamb or whatever you like, mixed with rice and herbs of your choice and wrapped in grape leaves. You may cook it in vegetable oil or butter, serve it cold or hot. We have done some changes in the way it is prepared. We replaced the ground meat with a slice of sirloin and made it tangier by adding rosemary and chili. Is it Armenian? I say, Yes, but then, who cares?
Khashlama, another favorite meal among Armenians, verbally meaning stewed meat. It is meat cooked in water. In "Dolmama" we replaced water with concoction of sweet, vermouthy wine and cream fresh. We made it more spicy and voilà, it is a lamb stewed in Dolmama style. Forgive me for brief description of the way we cook these dishes but it's better to taste it once then to read about it many times.
Sweet food given to us by an old recipe of Easter Pilaff includes rice with sweet raisins, dried fruit and nuts. The recipe prompted us that we could mix fresh peaches with green beans or make Khorovats (BBQ) with mulberry sauce. Making our menu has turned into a creative process. First it was going on in my head then the ideas were carried out through trials until achieving the goal.
Jirair Avanian Founder of Dolmama


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Cavitation Apparatus (SMT-FM-29)
Investigation of cavitation processes in a Venturi
Venturi nozzle with 3 pressure measuring points.
Adjustment of the flow rate via ball valves.
Pressure reducing valve, adjustable.
Thermometer for measuring the temperature.
Flow measurement using rotameter.
Manometer for displaying the pressure curve in the
Cavitation refers to the formation of vapour bubbles in flowing fluids due to strong low
pressure. As the flow velocity increases, the static pressure of the fluid falls to the vapour
pressure and leads to the formation of vapour bubbles. The bubbles are carried along by the
flow and implode if, with decreasing velocity, the static pressure rises above the vapour
pressure of the fluid. SMT-FM-29 is suitable for the demonstration of cavitation processes
using the example of a Venturi nozzle. Pressure energy is converted into kinetic energy and
vice versa in the Venturi nozzle. Vapour bubbles form in the narrowest cross-section. To
visualise the flow processes the experimental unit includes a Venturi nozzle made of
transparent plastic. There are three pressure measuring points on the Venturi nozzle: at the
inlet, at the narrowest point and at the outlet. The input pressure can be adjusted via a
pressure reducing valve. The flow rate and the pressures can be adjusted via two ball valves
which are located at the inlet and outlet of the pipe system.


I'm always looking for useful resources, here's one worth sharing.
Euratlas is an internet site that provides a variety of useful map resources:
There are three main sections to the site:
1 Historical Maps.
2 Geography Maps.
3 Antique Maps.
Historical Maps incorporates history maps for Europe, the Middle East and the World, plus historical atlases, maps of ancient Rome and vector / GIS maps. There is also access to support material and information on creating custom history maps. Geography Maps gives access to geographic atlases of Europe and the World. While Antique Maps offers access to a variety of digitized antique maps, as well as the Lesage Historical Atlas (1808) and the Peutinger Maps from 1265.
In addition the on-line Euratlas Shop sells historical cartography programs and maps, including educational software like historical atlases and digital resources for students, teachers, genealogists, scholars, journalists or graphic designers.


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This document has the following sections:
What is an Indexer?
Goal of an indexer
The main goal of an indexer is to create and setup some resource
automatically. The resources can be created depending on their
name or their extension. Once the resource has been created, the
indexer is also in charge of attaching the right frames to this
resource, like the HTTP frame, the filters and so on.
DirectoryResource (and subclasses) is associated to an indexer,
if no indexer is specified the DirectoryResource is associated
to the "default" indexer.
Description of an indexer
- Class and attributes of an indexer
- Usually, the indexer's class is
- The name of the indexer, ex: "icons"
- Last Modified
- Unused, but resent as, internally, it is a resource.
- Super Indexer
- The name of the parent indexer used when the current indexer
fails to index. By default, the super indexer is the "default"
- The sons of an indexer
- Used to index files matching exactly a name, mainly used to
index directories. You can specify that an "Icons" directory
will always be negotiable, for example. The default name (ie:
matching all directory names) is "*default*"
- Used to index files with a specific extension. For example,
"html" is a FileResource with an HTTPFrame set to give the
"text/html" content type to this file. Then all the "foo.html"
files will be indexed as "text/html" type object when accessed
by HTTP. The default extension (ie: matching all the extension
names) is "*default*". To index files with no extensions, you
must use the name "*noextension*".
- content-types (only for the Content Type Indexer)
- In some cases the file extension is not the only criteria,
for example when a PUT request occurs the indexer should use
the Content-Type header coming with the request (if there is
a content-type header). This is the job of the Content Type
Indexer. The Content Type Indexer
(org.w3c.jigsaw.indexer.ContentTypeIndexer), has one more
child, the content-types node. The associations between mime
types and resources are stored in this new child.
Since 2.0.2 the ContentTypeIndexer accept generic mime
types like text:*, *:xml or even
*:*. For example, if you define text:* as a
FileResource using a HTTPFrame (with a content-type set to
*none*) all content types like text/html, text/plain,
text/xml will be accepted.
Note: The mime types stored in the indexer are not
"real" mime types, the '/' has been replaced by a ':'. We
decided that because the '/' can create some conflicts with
the URLs in Jigsaw.
You can find a sample indexer configuration in this page.
Indexers in JigAdmin
The Indexers Space is exactly the same thing than the Documents Space except that
indexers classes are available in the "Available Resources"
window. You are still able to add, delete, configure resources
and frames but only in the indexers nodes (directories,
extensions and sometimes content-types). Of
course, you can also create new indexers (under the


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MafFilter is a program written in C++ with the Bio++ libraries. It is a command line program (that is, without graphical user interface) which uses the Bio++ Options (BppO) syntax. This syntax is of type 'keys'='values', which can be passed directly as arguments of the maffilter program
maffilter option1=value1 option2=value2... optionN=valueN
or more conveniently, stored in an "options" file (specified with param=option_file), or a combination of both:
maffilter param=option_file maffilter param=option_file option1=value1 option2=value2
See the Bio++ Program Suite (BppSuite) manual for more information.
MafFilter typically takes as input a MAF file and a series of commands which determine the output file(s) that will be written and where. Additional input files might be specified, such as gene annotation files (typically in GFF/GTF format). Here is the structure of a minimal option file:
DATA=example.file //A user-defined variable, representing the input maf file, without extension input.file=$(DATA).maf.gz //Input maf file, gzipped input.file.compression=gzip output.log=$(DATA).maffilter.log //Output log file maf.filter= //A coma separated list of filters, here empty (the programs only read the input file and exits).
The list of filters can be split on multiple lines for convenience, providing each line is escaped by a '\' at the end to indicate that the next line is a continuation of the current one:
maf.filter=Filter1,\ Filter2,\ Filter3
Please refer to the Bio++ Program Suite manual for more details, including the use of variables, priority of option values, etc.


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La Romana, located in the Dominican Republic, is known for its stunning natural beauty and offers several nature parks and attractions for outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers to explore. Here are descriptions of some of the prominent nature parks in the La Romana region:
- East National Park (Parque Nacional del Este):
- East National Park is a protected area that covers a vast expanse of pristine coastal and marine ecosystems. It is known for its diverse range of flora and fauna, including tropical forests, mangroves, coral reefs, and various bird species.
- Visitors can explore hiking trails through the lush forests and enjoy panoramic views of the Caribbean Sea. Snorkeling and diving opportunities are abundant, with the park's underwater world featuring colorful coral formations and marine life.
- The park also includes the beautiful Saona Island, which is a popular destination for day trips with its white sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters.
- Altos de Chavón:
- While not a traditional nature park, Altos de Chavón is a picturesque Mediterranean-style village perched on a hill overlooking the Chavón River. The village features cobblestone streets, artisan shops, galleries, and charming architecture.
- Visitors can explore the stunning architecture and enjoy the beautiful views of the surrounding landscapes. It's a popular spot for artists and art enthusiasts.
- Cueva de las Maravillas (Cave of Wonders):
- Cueva de las Maravillas is a natural cave system located in San Pedro de Macorís, near La Romana. The cave is renowned for its impressive stalactites, stalagmites, and underground lakes.
- Guided tours take visitors through the cave's chambers, where they can witness the mesmerizing rock formations and learn about the cave's geological and historical significance.
- Isla Catalina (Catalina Island):
- Isla Catalina is an idyllic island located off the coast of La Romana, known for its pristine beaches and clear waters. It's a popular spot for snorkeling and scuba diving, as the surrounding coral reefs are teeming with marine life.
- Visitors can relax on the beaches, take part in water sports, and explore the island's natural beauty. Some tours also include opportunities to visit the "Aquarium," a popular snorkeling site with an abundance of colorful fish.
- National Park of the East – West Side (Parque Nacional del Este – Lado Oeste):
- This is the western section of the East National Park, and it offers unique natural attractions. It's home to the La Cueva de Berna, a cave known for its Taino petroglyphs and bat populations.
- Hiking trails in this area allow visitors to explore the park's diverse ecosystems, including dry forests, mangroves, and limestone formations.
These nature parks and attractions in La Romana provide opportunities to experience the region's natural beauty, wildlife, and outdoor activities while enjoying the Dominican Republic's warm and tropical climate. Whether you're interested in exploring caves, hiking, snorkeling, or simply relaxing on beautiful beaches, La Romana offers a wide range of options for nature enthusiasts.


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I was preparing for the GRE exam, and was wondering what the difference was between a premise and an assertion. Any example which highlights the difference would be immensely helpful (something I haven't been able to find online).
An assertion is a statement of a fact or belief, while a premise is a statement from which another is inferred. For example, if we use the assumption X to conclude Y, then the premise X has been used to make the assertion Y.
Yes, they do seem very similar in that they are both related to 'assumption' or 'axiom' in an argument. You can read their dictionary definitions which will tell you what each are but it doesn't tel you what is important in the comparison.
A 'premise' is an assumption that is usually discovered, implicitly understood, or passively waiting (possibly even hiding), found by working backwards in an argument to a starting point.
An 'assertion' is an actively stated starting point, one made to eliminate there possibilities in forming an argument.
Both, like 'assumption' or 'axiom', are the starting points or base data of an argument, One may question all of these but for the validity of the argument one is expected to accept them as given. One may alter them but then that's a different situation for the argument.


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- 1 What is the purpose of daggering?
- 2 Who started twerking?
- 3 What is the Jamaican dance?
- 4 What Twerking means?
- 5 Why are there so many Jamaicans in London?
- 6 What does it mean to twerk on a guy?
- 7 What language do Jamaicans speak?
- 8 What type of music do Jamaicans listen to?
- 9 What is the most popular dance in Jamaica?
- 10 What does God say about twerking?
- 11 Why is it called twerking?
- 12 Is twerking a slang word?
What is the purpose of daggering?
The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation defines daggering as "a colloquial term or phrase used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry' sex, or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions." Therefore, "There shall not
Who started twerking?
The term twerking was actually coined in the city of New Orleans during the early '90's bounce scene. According to journalist Nik Cohn, "it started in the late 1980s, a wild mix of rap and Mardi Gras Indian chants and second-line brass-band bass patterns and polyrhythmic drumming and gospel call-and-response".
What is the Jamaican dance?
Bruckins, burru, dinki-minni, ettu, gerreh, gumbay, jonkunnu, kumina, maypole, myal, quadrille, tambu and zella. Dance is such a wonderful artistic expression, influenced by history and culture. Jamaica has a rich heritage of traditional dances, but today many of them are hardly known.
What Twerking means?
The dictionary describes twerking as dancing "in a sexually provocative manner, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in a low, squatting stance". It says the word in its current form has its roots in the early 1990s New Orleans "bounce" music scene, but the exact origin of twerk is uncertain.
Why are there so many Jamaicans in London?
Jamaicans have been present in the UK since the start of the twentieth century; however, by far the largest wave of migration occurred after the Second World War. The British government looked to its overseas colonies for help and encouraged migration in an effort to fill the many job vacancies.
What does it mean to twerk on a guy?
1. To move the body in a sexually suggestive twisting or gyrating fashion. verb.
What language do Jamaicans speak?
The official language is English, which is "used in all domains of public life", including the government, the legal system, the media, and education. However, the primary spoken language is an English-based creole called Jamaican Patois (or Patwa).
What type of music do Jamaicans listen to?
The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Reggae is especially popular through the international fame of Bob Marley.
What is the most popular dance in Jamaica?
Jamaica's Heritage in Dance
- Bruckins. Bruckins, as a member of the creolised group of traditional dances, reveals a unique mixture of African and European influences.
- Burru. This particular form of dance is a fertility masquerade found in Lionel Town and Hayes (Clarendon).
What does God say about twerking?
The Bible says to flee sexual impurity and immorality. Twerking is a dance form designed to stimulate sexual thoughts and feelings. The Bible may not specifically use the word "twerking" but it addresses the attitudes behind it.
Why is it called twerking?
The term twerking comes from the New Orleans' early 90s bounce scene. Modern day twerking is very similar to the Mapouka dance, and has existed for centuries. Twerking is also prevalent throughout the reggae and dancehall culture.
Is twerking a slang word?
A slang term for a booty-focused dance style that involves shaking and gyrating the rear end.


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For the function:
- getPhoto(String photoName, int userId, int width)
PhilosophyI've worked with dozens of rest API's and also created a few. Some conventions are very simple and easy, some are complex.
When creating an API you have three players to think about:
- The developer (probably you)
- The client developer
- The end user
The developer (you)You are your own client, and so are the developers that will inherit and maintain your code. Creating a self-explanatory API means making it easily expandable.
If you are developing a service layer or a controller layer, I suggest adding their name to the path, right after the host:
For the same reason, immediately after, put the short name of the function that handles the parameters:
The client developerIf you only had the client on your mind, using query parameters for everything would be the best choice, their order is non-abiding and they are all optional. But this will require creation of a special function for navigating to the right controller and make it imparseable to the user.
The end userIf you were only to think about the end user, you would probably use very few query parameters (e.g. id=123) and mostly path sections (e.g. photo/id/123). Path sections are cleaner looking and use one simple delimiter character ("/"), so users have an easier time navigating your API. But this is where user simplicity ends, and developers' complexity begins:
- Using a path for dynamic data like a user's id could cause some trouble:
- if the function can handle a null value
- if it includes special characters.
To sum it up:
Or in more general terms:
And here are a couple additional examples:
- Function: deAssociateUserAndPhoto(String userId, String photoId)
API: _URL_ user=123
- Function: MapService.getDistance(Point a, Point b)


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First time using the AWS CLI? See the User Guide for help getting started.
[ aws . ec2 ]
enable-volume-io
Description
Enables I/O operations for a volume that had I/O operations disabled because the data on the volume was potentially inconsistent.
See also: AWS API Documentation
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
Synopsis
 enable-volume-io
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
--volume-id <value>
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
Options
--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .
--volume-id (string)
The ID of the volume.
--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.
--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
Examples
To enable I/O for a volume
This example enables I/O on volume vol-1234567890abcdef0.
Command:
aws ec2 enable-volume-io --volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0
Output:
{
 "Return": true
}
Output
None


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from Dive into HTML5: Cache Manifest: Fallback section
/ /offline.html
i dont understand from the URL given what this block of code exactly does. does the fallback section mean when anything is not found, show the offline.html page
then network: * all resources will be cached? it says also
It uses common CSS, JavaScript, and images on each page. Each of these resources would need to be listed explicitly in the CACHE
this seems to conflict to network: * where it seems to say cache everything?
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There are three types of headings in a cache manifest, CACHE, NETWORK and FALLBACK. Anything that is not under a heading is implicitly set under CACHE. An explanation of each section:
CACHE: Files under this heading will be cached.
NETWORK: Files under this heading require an internet connection and so will be NOT be cached.
FALLBACK: Files matched by patterns under this heading (Such as the pattern "/", which matches all files) and have not been cached, will have a fallback file shown instead.
With regards to the block of code from Dive into HTML 5, there is an explanation of the "NETWORK: *" part just under it:
It means that, while you're browsing this hypothetical offline-enabled Wikipedia online, your browser will fetch images and videos and other embedded resources normally, even if they are on a different domain. (This is common in large websites, even if they aren't part of an offline web application. HTML pages are generated and served locally, while images and videos are served from a CDN on another domain.) Without this wildcard flag, our hypothetical offline-enabled Wikipedia would behave strangely when you were online — specifically, it wouldn't load any externally-hosted images or videos!
The following quote:
means that you must include all necessary CSS, Javascript and image files in the manifest under the CACHE heading. It does not conflict with 'NETWORK: *' because the NETWORK heading does NOT mean 'cache everything'. It actually means the opposite: that everything under the NETWORK heading requires an internet connection and should not be cached.
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I have found out more useful stuff about FALLBACK:
After a bit of experimenting, I tried various things including whether files in FALLBACK: should appear in the CACHE or NETWORK sections at all. The answer seems to be no.
As an example... FALLBACK: sign-up-portrait.png offline-portrait-1.png sign-up-landscape.png offline-landscape-1.png
I specified this in one of my micro sites recently. The intention is to show the sign-uppng files when online and the offlinepng files when offline. This works well. In particular the files on the left side of each line are implicitly as if they were in the NETWORK section, the site will always try to get them online. They must not be added to the NETWORK section as well, otherwise it seems to override what's in FALLBACK. Plus, happily, the files on the right are implicitly as if added in the CACHE: section so even if they are not used at first, they are cached on first load without having to explicitly add them to CACHE: although you can add them there too if you want. It makes no difference.
For this configuration, looking at the webserver logs, I see that each time the page is refreshed, apache logs a 304 against the manifest file and against the sign-uppng file that's required for that version of the page (there's a CSS media selector determining which, based on page size). So it's correctly always checking for the sign-uppng files as well as the usual manifest checking, which is exactly what I want.
For the sake of being thorough, I tried to see if the root file needs to be in the CACHE: section too. It turns out it doesn't! If your top level file is index.html and it has the manifest file specified in its html tag then the manifest file need not contain index.html anywhere, it's implicitly cached.
I am curious how far the app cache can extend. Can you include other html files that are linked to or in iframes? Or do those all need to have their own manifest files that are separate? Anyone care to comment?
A side comment about format, don't make the mistake I did, which is to put in... NETWORK file1.js
Missing the colon causes it to totally break, thinking that NETWORK is a resource in its own right.
It must be... NETWORK: file1.js
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Thanks for experimenting and coming back to leave the feedback!! I was just about to get started doing the same thing because I didn't understand how the stuff in the Fallback would be cached and if it wasn't explicitly specified somewhere – Kirn Feb 18 '13 at 4:44
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- Square Cream Frame
- Tissue Paper
- Mod Podge-Matte
- Painter's Tape
- Craft Knife/Razor Blade
- Glossy Accents
1. Using painter's tape, tape off the glass of
2. Using a paint brush, brush on a layer of Mod Podge to the front surface of the frame.
3. Lay a piece of tissue paper on top of the frame, gently pressing into the grooves of the
frame. Let dry for 30 minutes.
4. Gently brush on a layer of Mod Podge to the top of the layer of tissue paper. Lay
another layer of tissue paper on top of the other. Pressing gently into the grooves of
the frame. Let dry completely.
5. Gently brush on a layer of Mod Podge over the top surface of the frame/tissue paper.
6. Use a craft knife to cut along the inside edge of the frame, to cut away any excess
tissue paper. Make sure that it is dry before you do this, or it will tear the tissue
7. Using the Glossy Accents, adhere the sequins to the center of each indented circle on
the frame. Let dry.
8. Place photo inside of frame.


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Transcranial Doppler ultrasound can be used to detect emboli in blood flow in the brain. The presence of emboli is an indication of high risk of stroke. Embolic signals have characteristic transient chirps suitable for wavelet analysis. We have implemented an on-line intelligent wavelet pre-filter combined with a new frequency based neural network classification system (NFS) to produce a new online detection system. Initial results show an improvement in accuracy compared with the widely used FS-1 system. Our system makes, use of multi-scale wavelet denoising using an adaptive coefficient threshold. The pre-filtering system is combined with a detection system which uses a two layer neural classifier and a new auto-regressive event detector. For conditions such as carotid stenosis an improvement of 20% in detection accuracy was obtained. Our online (real time) intelligent wavelet amplifier and its matrix optimised form uses the matched filter properties of multiple coefficients from multiple wavelets to significantly enhance embolic signals and improve classification performance.
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Vatican City, Jul 19, 2018 / 23:00 pm
After publishing a highly controversial essay in July 2017 alleging the existence of an "ecumenism of hate" between Catholics and Evangelicals in the U.S., close papal confidantes Fr. Antonio Spadaro SJ and Marcelo Figueroa in a new article issue a scathing critique of the "prosperity gospel," which they say is based on a reductionist view of the American Dream.
In the new essay, run July 18 in the Jesuit-run magazine "La Civilta Cattolica," which is directed by Spadaro, the authors argue that the prosperity gospel, rooted in late 19th century America, is closely tied to the Protestant Evangelical movement in the U.S., and sees power, wealth and success as the result of one's faith, while poverty and misfortune are signs of a lack of faith.
"The risk of this form of religious anthropocentrism, which puts humans and their well-being at the center, is that it transforms God into a power at our service, the Church into a supermarket of faith, and religion into a utilitarian phenomenon that is eminently sensationalist and pragmatic," they said.
Spadaro and Figueroa, a Protestant who heads the Argentine section of Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, said the prosperity gospel is "a reductive interpretation" of the American Dream.


§ 62-26. Definitions.
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 Age means the calendar age of an individual 18 years of age or over.
 Creed means any set of principles, rules, opinions and precepts formally expressed and seriously adhered to or maintained by a person.
 Discriminatory housing practice means an act that is unlawful under sections 62-31, 62-32 or 62-33.
 Dwelling means any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as or designed and intended for occupancy as a residence by one or more families or any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure or portion thereof.
 Family includes a single individual or a group of individuals living together under one common roof.
 Major life activities means functions such as but not limited to caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning and working.
 Marital status means an individual's status as a single, married, divorced, widowed or separated person.
 Parenthood means a person's status as a parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of 18.
 Physical or mental disability means any physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities.
 Physical or mental impairment includes any:
 Senior adult means a person 55 years of age or older.
(Code 1968, § 11¼-1; Ord. No. O-22-93, § 1, 7-26-93)
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Guest speaker Robert Ward speaks to Daughters of the American Revolution
On Dec. 21, 2016, the ladies of the General George Crook Chapter of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) were delighted to host Planetary Science Field Researcher Robert Ward at their monthly meeting. Ward is renowned for his international meteorite recoveries and contributions to the scientific community. His knowledge of the field has been called upon for many documentaries and most recently, he appeared on the Science Channel's top-rated show, "What on Earth." He and his wife, Dr. Anne Marie Ward (a chapter member), are ambassadors to the Osiris Rex Asteroid Sample Return Mission and he has provided meteorites crucial to the calibration of the craft's payload.
Ward brought several meteorites with him to share with the chapter and gave an overview of the correlation between his recoveries and the advancement of planetary science research and understanding, as well as to space exploration.


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Predator-inducible defenses constitute a widespread form of adaptive phenotypic plasticity, and such defenses have recently been suggested linked with the neuroendocrine system. The neuroendocrine system is a target of endocrine disruptors, such as psychoactive pharmaceuticals, which are common aquatic contaminants. We hypothesized that exposure to an antidepressant pollutant, fluoxetine, influences the physiological stress response in our model species, crucian carp, affecting its behavioral and morphological responses to predation threat. We examined short- and long-term effects of fluoxetine and predator exposure on behavior and morphology in crucian carp. Seventeen days of exposure to a high dose of fluoxetine (100 µg/L) resulted in a shyer phenotype, regardless of the presence/absence of a pike predator, but this effect disappeared after long-term exposure. Fluoxetine effects on morphological plasticity were context-dependent as a low dose (1 µg/L) only influenced crucian carp body shape in pike presence. A high dose of fluoxetine strongly influenced body shape regardless of predator treatment. Our results highlight that environmental pollution by pharmaceuticals could disrupt physiological regulation of ecologically important inducible defenses.
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Tributes To Those Who Died During 9/11 Battle On Lake Champlain In 1814
While most of the country today remembers the attack on the U.S. 18 years ago, memorials are also being held in New York's North Country to commemorate the first attack on the U.S in 1814. During the Battle of Plattsburgh, the British fought Americans for control of Lake Champlain. More than 100 British and American soldiers are buried in unmarked graves on an unpopulated island that served as a field hospital. Every year on September 11th the American Legion and others gather at the memorial to lay a wreath and pay tribute. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley was on the island this morning.Crab Island is accessible only by boat. Most of the 40-acre limestone island is flush with scrub and poison ivy, but trails lead to a 100-foot-tall flagpole. Farther along the paths stands a stone obelisk. Both are dedicated to British, Canadian and American soldiers who died during the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh and are buried somewhere on the island.
Wednesday's wreath-laying ceremony began at the flagpole. "Ladies and gentlemen we're here to lay a wreath in honor of our veterans from the Battle of Valcour and the Battle of Plattsburgh who gave the ultimate sacrifice on October 11, 1776 and on 9/11/1814. We're going to lay a wreath in their honor and raise the flag."
(National anthem plays and gun salute)
"Okay we'll proceed down to the monument now where we'll lay a wreath in front of the graves."
The group then hikes about 10 minutes to the obelisk for another tribute. "Alright ladies and gentlemen we're going to lay a wreath here in honor of our vets that made the ultimate sacrifice and also for the veterans on Valcour Island."
Sons of the American Legion member John Rock is also an active member of the Friends of Crab Island. "There was a battle took place here on September 11, 1814 when Commodore MacDonough who held off the British with a small fleet and sent the British back home. And on this island there was a military hospital headed by Dr. James Mann, an army surgeon. And the casualties and wounded from the ships they brought them onto the island. And he treated the ones that he could and saved the ones that he could and of course some of them perished. And as they perished this became a burial site. There are 50 American vets buried on this island and they have been out here for now 205 years. And until we put their names up in 2002 their names had never been displayed. And they gave the ultimate sacrifice."
Rock adds that their tribute is unique because they include Canadian and British soldiers from the opposing side who are also buried on the island. "Because as the British fleet came down through Canada they did not have enough people on their ships to man their ships. So they stopped and took people at gunpoint and said you are now a member of the British Navy. So we don't know exactly how many are out here but we do know there are Canadians out here. There are 50 Americans as far as we know and there are 102 British and Canadians that are buried on the island."
Plattsburgh Supervisor Michael Cashman, who laid the wreaths during the two ceremonies, says Crab Island is a hub in the town's Battlefield Memorial Gateway project. "Crab Island represents the Battle of Plattsburgh. Just a little ways away is the northern tip of Valcour Island which represents the American Revolution. And then of course when it stitches back to the land side where the gateway is that's referred to as the Triangle of History. And on Lake Champlain there have been some of the most pivotal battles that ever occurred in the American story right here."
The Battle of Plattsburgh occurred on September 11th, 1814. The American naval victory is credited with leading to the Treaty of Ghent that formally ended the War of 1812.


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Palo Verde Tree
Palo Verde Trees commonly occur in the Southwest: the foothill, yellow or littleleaf palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata ) and the blue palo verde (Parkinsonia florida). Palo verde Spanish for green wood or stick alludes to the plant's greenish branches and trunk. Common names refer to location, bark tints or comparative leaf size.
Both species are spiny, green, multi-trunked, deciduous trees. Foothill palo verdes only reach about 20 feet in height and have more yellowish bark and duller yellow/white flowers. Blue palo verdes top out at 40 feet. Their twigs and young branches are bluish-green, as are the leaves, which are larger than the foothill variety. Both have twice pinnate leaves (leaves with two stems and opposing leaflets on each stem), with the foothill species having more abundant leaves growing on longer stems.
Pods contain from one to eight seeds, with one being far more common than eight. The foothill species pods have narrow waists between the seeds, which are lentil sized. Blue palo verde seeds are slightly larger and flatter, with thicker, harder shells.
The blue palo verde species grows primarily in washes. It requires more water than the foothill species, which grows more commonly in the uplands. The blue species occurs principally in fine soils, and the foothills species, in coarser soils. Foothill palo verdes often live for over 100 years and may reach 400 years. In contrast, blue palo verdes grow faster and die sooner, rarely reaching the century mark.
During their short flowering seasons, both species are clothed with thousands of five-petaled yellow blossoms. They attract numerous pollinators, including beetles, flies and social and solitary bees.
The trees can photosynthesize through their green bark, an important adaptation for a tree that drops its leaves during the warm season and in response to fall cooling. Palo verdes also drop stems and branches to combat drought.
Palo verdes serve as nurse plants for saguaro cacti by providing a canopy in effect, a microhabitat which offers warmth in winter and shade in summer. The slower-growing, longer-lived cactus will eventually replace its one-time protector.
Bighorn sheep, mule deer, feral burros and jackrabbits as well as other small mammals browse palo verdes. Numerous birds forage, perch and/or nest in the abundant branches.
Blue palo verde occurs across the Sonoran desert, growing from central and southwestern Arizona into southeastern California, and south into western Sonora, Mexico. Disjunct that is, separated populations occur in northern Sinaloa and Baja, California. Foothills palo verde grows through central and southwestern Arizona and extends south into Sonora, Mexico, and Baja, California.
Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first trained botanist to collect these plants. He obtained specimens near Hermosillo, Sonora in 1830.
Larvae of palo verde root borers (Derobrachus geminatus) feed on these trees. They grow up to five inches in length. Adult are up to three and one half inches long with long antennae.
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John Deere 4010
The John Deere 4010 was an American farm tractor in production by the John Deere Company from 1960 to 1963. The 4010 was the primary attraction of the new "10" series known as the "New Generation" or "New Generation of Power" which consisted of four and six-cylinder tractors first introduced in 1959 to replace the two-cylinder tractors which led to the great success of John Deere as a tractor manufacturer until that time. The "10" series tractors were introduced to John Deere dealers in dramatic fashion on August 30, 1960 when dealers from around the world were invited to Dallas, Texas where the entire new series was debuted at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium.
The 4010 was rated at 80 horsepower in 1960, but tested at 84 horsepower during Nebraska field testing trials making it one of the most powerful two wheel drive farm tractors at that time. The 4010 was the predecessor to the 4020 which is widely regarded as the most popular tractor ever produced by John Deere and perhaps any other tractor manufacturer in the United States. Although the 4020 would later hold greater popularity, it was the 4010 that catapulted John Deere into the modern era of farm tractor technology and design following its successful history as a tractor manufacturer that was by then experiencing waning market share due to its aging two-cylinder engine technology.
In addition to the advanced engine technology, the "10" series tractors offered many other upgrades from the older two-cylinder models including significantly higher horsepower-to-weight ratio, advanced hydraulics, more convenient and comfortable operator station as well as many other improvements. Of the "10" series John Deere tractors introduced in 1959, the 4010 was by far the most popular with more than 58,000 units sold from 1960 to 1963. The success of the "10" series John Deere tractors, led by the 4010, helped propel John Deere from a 23% market share in 1959 to 34% by 1964 when the 4020 was introduced making it the top manufacturer of farm equipment in the United States.
Elvis acquired a 1963 model 4010 in 1967, with his purchase of Twinkletown Farm. The tractor was shortly after taken to his Graceland home where it was on daily duty until 2008. Following its retirement and replacement with a fresh John Deere tractor, it was restored by students at Northwest Mississippi Community College and placed on display at the Elvis Presley Memphis Museum. A licensed 1/16 toy replica of Elvis's tractor was produced by the Ertl Company.
- Peter Easterlund. "TractorData.com John Deere 4010 tractor information". tractordata.com.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2016-01-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "John Deere 4010". agriculture.com.
- Foreword by Jerry Apps. My First Tractor: Stories of Farmers and Their First Love. Voyageur Press. pp. 67–70. ISBN 978-1-61673-981-2.


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Mechanical Systems for Scientific Lab Research
Phase II of the primary research facility of the School of Pharmacy's National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) at the University of Mississippi required an intricate HVAC and plumbing design. The construction of the four-story, 96,153 square foot building completed the two-building NCNPR complex, allowing researchers to readily translate basic research of natural products into clinical studies and commercial products.
- Extensive lab gas piping systems
- Four large custom air handling units
- 421 VAVs
- 14 Exhaust fans
- 172 Plumbing fixtures
- An elaborate laboratory airflow control system
The project is slated to achieve LEED Silver Certification. Lean construction methodologies were implemented through the pre-fabrication of piping assemblies. Approximately 70% of this mechanical project was prefabricated in order to reduce waste and drive efficiency.


On Wet Plate Workshops
Photo: John Brewer
Photo: John Brewer
We've seen a small explosion in interest in wet plate recently and more course providers are starting to offer wet plate courses.
Here's a little check list if you're wondering how best to choose your wet plate course or if you even need one.
1. Do I need to attend a workshop?
While wet plate isn't inherently difficult troubleshooting can be difficult. We would recommend going to a workshop if you can.
Before attending a workshop we would recommend you ask and check with the tutor what will be covered.
2. How many people will attend a workshop?
We teach a maximum of four on my own or six if we are assisted.
3. Will chemistry be covered explaining what each individual component does?
4. Is the workshop two days or longer?
For example, in our opinion wet plate cannot be learnt in one day.
Here are more factors to consider;
5. Will you get a comprehensive manual so that you can continue on your own?
6. Does the tutor have experience in teaching?
7. Will you get to make images of different sizes?
8. Will the tutor explain the different types of cameras and lenses suitable for wet plate and will you get to try them?
10. Is the tutor a practising wet plate artist?
11. Can the tutor show you his or her work first hand or on a website?
If the answer to any of these is no we would recommend choosing a different workshop… and it just so happens that the highly experienced wet plate artist John Brewer offers workshops at Double Negative!
Photo: John Brewer
Photo: John Brewer
Photo: John Brewer at Double Negative Darkrooms
Photo: John Brewer at Double Negative Darkroom
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NORWAY IS planning to extend its Breed Specific laws by banning a further three breeds of dog, following intense media agitation after a number of attacks on people attributed to bull terrier breeds.
The Norwegian Ministry of Justice is considering a ban on The American Staffordshire terrier, The Staffordshire Bull terrier and the Bull Terrier.
Norway introduced BSL in the mid 1990s, based on the UKs own flawed Dangerous Dogs Act, even going as far as banning the four breeds named in the DDA, named the American Pit Bull Terrier, the Japanese Tosa, the Fila Brasileiro and the Dogo Agentino.
This time around, the Norwegian Government is studying Germanys draconian Fighting Dogs laws, conveniently ignoring the fact that these have been shown to be unconstitutional, as well as deeply unfair and unjust. The Norwegians are considering an additional ban on any kind of Wolf Hybrid, which is said to include Irish Wolfhounds, Sarloos Wolfhond and the Czechoslovakian Wolfhound, although this may be a simple case of politicians failing to understand that the word wolf in the breeds name has nothing to do with the breeds ancestry.
Although no other breeds are listed in the extended BSL, the Ministry intends to frame the law in such a way to make it possible to ban any new breed comparable to fighting dogs according to its physical attributes, in much the same way as the German laws encompass many breeds purely on the basis of size.
The Norwegian Kennel Club is opposing the new legislation, saying that the Government should concentrate on punishing irresponsible dog owners whose digs cause a nuisance, rather than the wholesale banning of a breed. The term Punish the Deed, Not the Breed is being conveyed strongly to the Norwegian Ministry of Justice from anti-BSL campaigners across the world
Poul Poulsen, of the European Legislation Department of the Washington Animal Foundation, which is fighting BSL in the USA and Europe, urged dog owners to register their protests with the Norwegian Government, as well as Inge Lorange Backer at the Norwegian law department. "They must be made to see that BSL does not work," said Poulson.
Phil Buckley of the Kennel Club told OUR DOGS: "The Kennel Club is very dismayed to learn that Norway may now be following Germany's lead and example by attempting to proscribe against both the Bull Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and it would appear that Norway are simply looking to copy Germany and are using the same arguments to do so.
"It continues to astound us that, without any scientific evidence or statistics, overseas Governments, time and time again, take it upon themselves to come to the conclusion that Staffords and Bull Terriers are inherently aggressive to humans, when we are well aware that this is simply not the case. In any event, there is scientific evidence that proves conclusively that Breed Specific Legislation is not the answer and does not work, so we would reiterate the Domino campaign message of 'Punish The Deed Not The Breed'!
"We have written to the Norwegian Kennel Club offering our assistance as we are led to believe that they will be protesting against this draconian anti-dog legislation, and both myself and Caroline Kisko, KC Secretary, are travelling to the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday the 1st October for the European Pet Night to discuss various EU canine issues, so we'll take the opportunity to discuss this matter further with the MEPs. Whilst Norway is not part of the EU, it may still be the case that pressure can be brought to bear. On our return from Brussels, the Kennel Club and other concerned dog lovers, under the banner of the Domino campaign - _URL_ - will be looking at ways to assist Norwegian dog lovers and request help from UK dog owners to bring pressure to bear."
To register your protest against the proposed Norwegian BSL, please fill out the comments form at: _URL_
E-mail Inge Lorange Backer at the Law Department: _EMAIL_ - or contact the Norwegian Ambassador, Mr Tarald O Brautaset at: The Norwegian Embassy, 25 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QD, tel: _PHONE_ 5500.


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The concept of shifting or sliding baselines refers to the way that significant changes to an ecological system are mistakenly measured against a previous baseline, which may be significantly different from the original state of the system. The concept assumes an 'original state' exists and that a return to that state might be possible, if it could be determined and there was sufficient control of human interference. The concept has been important in both marine conservation planning and fisheries management. However, long periods of exploitation, observed and projected climate change, and the disappearance of some environments, suggest that a return to an original state is unlikely to be achievable in many systems. In addition, protection based on static marine protected areas is unlikely to meet common conservation objectives, as species and habitats are moving and species assemblages shuffling with the changing climate. An alternative to modeling single species distribution changes is to examine change in environmental proxies, such as sea surface temperature (SST). Here, projected changes in SST for the period 2063-2065 from a downscaled ocean model are used to illustrate the similarity to, and movements of, present pelagic environments within conservation planning areas off Eastern Australia. The future environment of small planning areas differs from their present environment and static protected areas might not protect range-changing species. Climate-aware conservation planning should consider the use of mobile protected areas to afford protection to species' changing their distribution, and develop conservation objectives that are not underpinned by a return to historical baselines.
marine protected area, range change, regional marine planning


The Luecke Farm Landmark You Can See From Space
In this week's Maphead column, Ken Jennings zooms in on the planet's biggest stretch of graffiti, courtesy of Jimmie Luecke in Texas.
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It's said that when John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, he joked, "There! Now the king can read that without his spectacles." Since 1776, Hancock's name has been synonymous with large writing, but America's gotten a lot bigger since then, and so has our writing. A five-inch signature just isn't enough anymore. Today, if you want to put your name on the map, you can literally put your name on the map.
Everything's bigger in Texas.
Jimmie Luecke was a young Texas state trooper who left the highway patrol in 1980 to try his hand at oil drilling. The Austin chalk oil boom made him a millionaire, and so he bought some land outside Smithville, Texas and settled down to raise cattle. In the late '90s, while clearing new grazing land on his ranch, Luecke decided on a Texas-sized display of ego. As he bulldozed up the brush, he left behind the word LUECKE in neat kilometer-tall letters. It was the biggest signature in human history.
NASA calibrates its instruments to Luecke's autograph.
The Luecke ranch lies directly along major flight paths, including most westbound flights out of Houston, so the giant name quickly became a landmark for commercial pilots. Luecke has been criticized online for clear-cutting so many acres of Lost Pines Forest, an isolated belt of loblolly pines that's unique in Texas. But at least he has some admirers at NASA. Luecke's "handwriting" is so precise that in 2003, NASA scientists were able to use the 2.5-mile-long name "for evaluating spatial resolution of astronaut photographs."
A disastrous brush fire threatens Luecke's good name.
In October 2015, a wildfire swept across the dry grass of Bastrop County, burning 4,582 acres and 64 homes. The Hidden Pines fire left the "Luecke" trees untouched, but investigators determined that it was a spark under one of the Luecke ranch's tractors that started the blaze. Luecke's attorneys says that the family isn't liable for the accidental damage, but 22 families who lost their homes disagree, and have filed suit.
Arab oil money challenges Texas oil money on the map.
For seven years, Luecke had a rival: Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, the flamboyant Emirati billionaire known as "the Rainbow Sheikh." Among Hamad's many eccentricities, he owns a custom globe-shaped motor home painted to resemble the Earth—but at exactly one-millionth scale! But in 2005, he took his apparent geo-geekery to a whole new level by carving his name in the sand of Al Futaisi island, off Abu Dhabi. The two-mile-long signature was made of connected canals that would fill with water when tides rose in the Persian Gulf. But in 2012, Hamad apparently bored of his billboard-for-aliens, and had it erased. Jimmie Luecke is once again the graffiti champ of planet Earth.


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Here we report in vitro and in vivo detection of self-assembled Au-imidazole by using near-infrared surface-enhanced Raman scattering (NIR-SERS). In vivo, the Au-imidazole structures were administered into tumor-bearing mice and detected noninvasively. The self-assembled Au-imidazole complexes were generated by the adsorption of imidazole molecules onto Au nanoparticles (NP) and were then characterized as aqueous suspensions by using NIR-SERS, angle-dependent light scattering with fractal dimension analysis, and visible extinction spectroscopy. The structure and optical activity was sensitive to imidazole concentration and Au NP size. Specifically, the Au-imidazole assemblies formed at lower imidazole concentrations had the lowest fractal dimension (Df = 1.2) and the largest Raman enhancement factors for the dominant NIR-SERS feature, a ring-breathing vibrational mode at 954 cm-1. Changes in elastic scattering intensify, fractal dimension, and surface plasmon absorption were observed with increasing imidazole concentration. The Raman enhancement factor was also found to range between 106 and 109 with different primary Au nanoparticle sizes. For the higher enhancement factor systems, NIR-SERS detection of Au-imidazole was performed with data acquisitions time of only 5 s. The largest enhancement was observed for the 954-cm-1 feature at an imidazole concentration of 1.9 μM when coupled to 54-nm-diameter Au NPs (the largest NP tested). Finally, we show the first demonstration of in vivo, noninvasive, and real-time SERS detection.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Analytical Chemistry


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Telemetry in Marine Environments are used for various mission critical applications. For near shore applications people use a cellular solution for telemetry. However when the distance from shore becomes bigger the best option for data transmission is Radio Telemetry.
Over the years Satel has been used in various applications, such as:
- Port Monitoring (Tide, Turbidity, Salinity, Current Speed and Direction)
- Mooring and Berthing operations
- Hydrographic Surveys and Oceanographic Surveys
- Offshore Measurements (Oil and Gas, Helideck Monitoring)
- MetOcean (Weather Sensors and Subsea sensors combined)
- AUV (Data transmission when the unit comes to the surface)
- Rig Moves
- Dredging Operations (Control of the pump station)
For environmental monitoring around rivers and lakes people are looking oftenly for a more cost effective solution. We recommend the 2N telemetry solution for transmission of various sensors over various interfaces.


Infinite Scroll With Photo Gallery in React
Michael Tong
Dec 2, 2020 · 5 min read
Infinite Scroll With Photo Gallery in React
Infinite Scroll With Photo Gallery in React
Photo by kimi lee on Unsplash
To understand the context of what and how infinite scroll works, you can read the following article: _URL_
This article is pretty much a react version of the article I just included. The focus of this article is to understand how infinite scroll works as well as how to display a loading indicator when images are being retrieved. By reading this article, I assume you have background and experience coding in react and javascript in general.
As mentioned in the article provided, we have to understand three things:
 - HTML that contains the images and a loading indicator
 - a CSS file that controls the animation of loading indicator and how big the images are
 - a javascript file that contains the logic to get images, the logic to detect when the user scrolls to the bottom of the page, as well as a timeout logic to give time to load new images when the user scroll down to get more images.
If this assignment is done in plain vanilla javascript, we have to use opacity to hide/display the loading indicator:
Scroll down to the bottom and you will see .loading and .loading.show CSS rule. This is the part where if the div holding the loading indicator has a subclass of show(added when the user scrolls to the bottom of the page), the loading icons show up.
With react, we no longer need to use opacity, and instead, we can jsx to conditionally display the loading indicator.
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Photo by Ferenc Almasi on Unsplash
React allow us to modularize a lot of our code and what that means is we can also modularize the loading indicator as well as the photo gallery.
Base on that, we can divide our code into the following:
 - photo gallery component
 - loading indicator component
Wow! The structure looks so different than what we have in the vanilla javascript implementation, which has an HTML, js, and a CSS file.
Technically, we can separate js and CSS files into one used for photo gallery and loading indicator. However, we can accidentally mix up CSS rules if there are CSS rules from the photo gallery component and loading indicator component named the same.
What will happen is one CSS rule overwrites another and that's why I kept everything into one HTML, one js, and one CSS file only.
To start, you need to run npx create-react-project infinite-gallery.
Afterward, under the src folder create a components folder and create a PhotoGallery.js:
Let's break down into chunks that we can understand. In our constructor, we set our initial state to have a placeholder for a list of photos, the current page to fetch photos from, and as well as a loading boolean. This boolean helps us determine whether to show the loading indicator or not. The boolean only gets shifted to true only when the user scrolls to the bottom of the page.
Also within the constructor, we added an onscroll event listener. We get scrollTop, clientHeight, and scrollHeight, which is used to determine whether or not we are on the bottom of the page:
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If we are on the bottom of the page, the loading state of the photo gallery gets set to true, effectively rendering the loading indicator. Afterward, we increment the page count so on our API call we will be getting different images every time.
After we retrieve the images, we add our images on top of the ones we have and set the loading state to false. On top of all this, we wrap the API call and setState in a debounce function. What this will do is wait for 1000 ms(can be as long as you want) before the API gets called. This is to prevent excessive API calls to be made to get images since the user can be scrolling to the bottom of the page again before the new images are retrieved.
How about when we initially load the page? That's where componentDidMount comes in. With the componentDidMount lifecycle method, we can get photos and populate the page before the page is even rendered.
Once the page renders, we populate the photos we have and if the loading state is turned on, then the loading indicator will show up.
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We talked enough about how the photo gallery. How about the loading indicator? How does that look?
Under the src/components folder, create a PhotoGallery.js with the following contents:
Similar to what we have seen in the vanilla javascript implementation, we have keyframes that dictates how the dots within the loading indicator moves.
However, we need to wrap the keyframes into global CSS in order for other CSS rules that use the animation key-frames to understand what they are.
Within the ball CSS, we set its width and height as well as the nature and the duration of the animation. AnimationTimingFunction determines the nature, animationDuration determines how long it will take, and animationIteration determines how frequently the animation occurs.
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One might ask…why creating this in a react application rather than a simple vanilla javascript application?
First of all, react provides an amazing mechanism to deal with the initial loading of data in the page. With vanilla javascript, you have to create a function to retrieve the data from an API and append it to a specific element in the HTML via jquery. That's not necessary the cleanliest way of initializing some piece of data in a page.
What if there are changes to the class name or the id of the particular div? Now your code is all broken and you have to go into the javascript file and change the id/class that you used to query the div for the photos.
With react, you don't need to worry about any of this! All you have to worry about is figuring the right lifecycle method to use and make the API call to dump the data into the local state. If the data is not ready, all you need is to set the loading state variable to true and show a loading indicator! That's it! You don't have to worry about using jquery to attach data to a specific node in the dom.
With that being said, understanding how infinite gallery is implemented in vanilla javascript will help us understand how dom-manipulation works. Furthermore, it helps understands the downside of mixing HTML, javascript, and CSS logic when all of this can be modularized into components.
That's it! Happy coding!
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Studying law & finance16/03/2013
This is probably the most frequently asked question I receive regarding my studies. However, so far I have not been able to provide a straight forward answer. That is mainly because there is no simple right or wrong answer. Instead of just thinking about the combination generally, the question should rather be targeted individually to a person studying these subjects. What are his or her underlying meanings, goals, and ambitions?
To start with, both degrees are widely recognized to require a lot of work. However, the working methods are completely different. Law studies require endless amount of hours spent in the library reading books, usually by oneself. In contrast, finance studies are typically spent in front of a computer screen enjoying the wonders MS Excel has to offer. In addition, finance studies are much more social, meaning that you have a lot of group assignments and lectures to attend, whereas law studies, at least in theory, can be conducted without a single group work or mandatory lecture.
Besides the studying methods, there is also another significant factor distinguishing the two degrees: the Finnish law degree is still an official degree. With an official degree I mean that all Finnish lawyers study almost all the same courses, with just minor variation. This means that both a corporate lawyer as well as a judge have received similar educational backgrounds. Therefore, at least in the beginning, Finnish lawyers are generalists, whereas finance graduates are educated to be specialists. Moreover, finance is a global subject whereas law is bound to the country where it is studied and thereafter practiced.
Then, to the core questions: what are the benefits/downsides of taking both degrees and are there any synergies between them? In my opinion the degrees support each other, at least to some extent. A corporate lawyer without the understanding of financials is useless. The same implies to e.g. a corporate manager with a business school background, not perceiving the frameworks where he or she is operating or what kind of legal liabilities and consequences arise from his or her actions. Sure, one can always consult a colleague but understanding both sides makes your life easier. What about the downsides then? Without any doubts the biggest drawback is the loss of time. Are you willing to sacrifice so much of your time for school? That is the question that a student going for a double degree has to ask themselves.
In conclusion, I believe that having a double degree is beneficial, at least for me. The combination widens your way of thinking and provides you more tools for solving various kinds of problems. One supports another. Moreover, having both degrees enables you to act more independently and provides more options. However, it is a question of choice and usage of the limited amount of time. Do you need to acquire the knowledge yourself or is it enough that someone else has it? Nevertheless, one must always decide whether he or she is a lawyer with a financial background or the other way around. Therefore, taking into account the amount of time one is willing to sacrifice for school, a balanced combination of the two might be the best choice.


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i-th person has weight
people[i], and each boat can carry a maximum weight of
Each boat carries at most 2 people at the same time, provided the sum of the weight of those people is at most
Return the minimum number of boats to carry every given person. (It is guaranteed each person can be carried by a boat.)
Input: people = [1,2], limit = 3 Output: 1 Explanation: 1 boat (1, 2)
Input: people = [3,2,2,1], limit = 3 Output: 3 Explanation: 3 boats (1, 2), (2) and (3)
Input: people = [3,5,3,4], limit = 5 Output: 4 Explanation: 4 boats (3), (3), (4), (5)
1 <= people.length <= 50000
1 <= people[i] <= limit <= 30000
import pytest from.Day13_BoatsToSavePeople import Solution s = Solution() _USER_.mark.parametrize( "people,limit,expected", [ ([1, 2], 3, 1), ([3, 2, 2, 1], 3, 3), ([3, 5, 3, 4], 5, 4), ([2, 2], 6, 1), ([3, 1, 7], 7, 2), ([2, 4], 5, 2), ], ) def test_num_rescue_boats(people, limit, expected): assert s.numRescueBoats(people, limit) == expected
from typing import List class Solution: def numRescueBoats(self, people: List[int], limit: int) -> int: people.sort() boats = 0 i = 0 j = len(people) - 1 while i <= j: i = i + 1 if people[i] + people[j] <= limit else i boats += 1 j -= 1 return boats
I tried every which way to not have to sort the list for this. I tried crazy stuff like using a HashMap to store calculations but if there's a better performing solution where you don't have to sort the list first, I am not currently capable of figuring it out.
In the above solution, we first sort the people by weight, lightest to heaviest. Recall there was a requirement:
Each boat carries at most 2 people at the same time
This kind of makes our job easier since we only need to check if the heaviest person + the lightest person can fit. If
heaviest + lightest > limit then no other combination of
heaviest and anything else can work.
Given that fact, we look at the heaviest and lightest in each iteration. If they both fit, we count one boat. If not, heaviest gets their own boat because It is guaranteed each person can be carried by a boat. We keep the index at the lightest person if that's the case and check them with the next heaviest person.
log N here and we go over the list once more to count the boats giving
O(N log N).


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The brilliant Dichroic optical properties of Dichroic glass are the result of multiple micro-layers of metal oxides. These thin layers of oxides have a total thickness of three to five millionths of an inch.
NASA developed Dichroic glass for use in satellite mirrors. Multiple ultra-thin layers of different metal oxides (gold, silver, titanium, chromium, aluminum, zirconium, magnesium, silicon) are evaporated on to the surface of the glass in a vacuum chamber.
The resulting plate of Dichroic glass can then be fused with other glass in multiple firings. Certain wavelengths of light will either pass through or be reflected, causing an array of colors to be visible. Due to variations in the firing process, individual results can never be exactly reproduced, each piece of fused Dichroic glass is unique


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I'm going to share with you a formula created by Dr. Todd Jones that explains what makes good art and literature. Jones is a celebrated philosophy professor with a significant background in anthropology.
Jones's BeDE Theory of Art Criticism:
Art or literature's only function—the only thing it is good at doing—is creating beliefs, desires, and emotions (or BeDE for short). Art fails at doing anything and everything else.
The BeDE theory is designed to tell you which works of art are comparatively better than other works of art in its class, based on how well it performs its function of creating beliefs, desires, and emotions within its audience.
What makes something "art" is a social fact—such as the concept of money or Tuesday. Society agrees that "x" is art, and therefore it becomes art.
Every work of art is constructed in such a way that it is most easily disposed to create certain beliefs, desires, and emotions in a particular audience (and not other types of BeDE).
Works of art that regularly produce (more reliably produce) higher-valued beliefs, desires, and emotions are more valuable than works of art that produce lower-valued BeDE.
What determines a BeDE score and what are high-valued beliefs, desires, and emotions?
Who are "people"? People can be a group as small as yourself, or as large as the world. Start with "you" (in the current moment) and then think about what is valued (on average) by progressively larger groups that you are embedded in. The idea is to find the highest BeDE value for the intended group—the more widespread and universal your values, the more people that will be included in your group.
Notice how beliefs impact desires, and desires impact emotions. A good story contains multiple chains of universal and highly valued beliefs, desires, and emotions. Creating a story based around a strongly held belief, that impacts a commonly held desire, that creates a strong primordial emotion is usually a recipe for success. In the lame example above, say the underdog David defeats Goliath, which keeps him alive and this heroism helps him find a mate, which leads to romantic love.
Creating BeDE is the storyteller's primary (only) job; to consume and impassion the audience with beliefs, desires, and emotions. An authentic story with universally high-valued BeDE will have the most appeal.


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Are your cookies raw in the middle, or have they become hard? How to tell when cookies are done is partly a matter of taste because what's crispy to some bakers is overdone to others. Just a minute or two in the oven separates gooey cookies from cookies that are still raw in the middle or crispy cookies from those that are too far gone. Fortunately, there are several ways to check if cookies are done to avoid these cookie catastrophes.
Set the Timer for the Minimum Time
First, before baking cookies, use an oven thermometer to make sure your oven is actually the temperature that is given on the oven dial.
Always check on cookies at the minimum time given in your recipe. You can easily cook them longer if necessary, but you can't "uncook" cookies that have baked too long and are now too hard or too brown. If they need a minute or two longer, be sure to reset the timer for those extra minutes. Thinking you'll just give them a bit longer without setting a precise time is a recipe for getting distracted and letting the cookies burn.
Lift to See the Bottom
Nearly all cookies will brown at least a little on the bottom while they cook, and some recipes even give you a color for which to look, such as slightly brown or light brown. For example, cookies like snowballs – also known as butterballs or Mexican wedding cookies – should not brown on top. The only way to know for sure that they're done is to roll one over and see that it's just slightly brown on the bottom.
Check the Edges
Many times, the recipe will tell you that the edges should be slightly brown or "just beginning to brown." Edges brown before the middle, so the edges can burn while the middle is still cooking. Some cookies – sugar cookies, for example – are best when the edges are set but not brown. You can check the edges visually without lifting the cookie, and with practice, you'll be able to see that the edges look more set than the center of the cookie, even when the edges are not yet brown.
If the recipe tells you to let the cookies cool on the cookie sheet for two minutes as chocolate chip cookie recipes do, that means the cookies will continue to cook while cooling because the sheet is still very hot. In these cases, you can experiment with the timing of removing the cookies from the oven.
The centers might look like they still need more cooking, and they will do that while they're resting on the cookie sheet. If you wait until the middle is totally cooked, you may find that your cookies are overdone after they cool on the cookie sheet.
Use the Toothpick Test to Know if Cookies Are Done
When cookies are thicker – like when baking brownies, which are essentially bar cookies – you can sometimes use a simple wooden toothpick to test and see if they're done. Insert the toothpick into the middle of the brownies or other bar cookie, and if the toothpick is free of cookie particles when you pull it out, they're done. In fact, they're probably done even if a few particles stick to the toothpick.
If it looks like batter is sticking to the toothpick, though, they're not done unless you're going for gooey brownies. If that's the case, only you can truly know when the brownies are done because cooking time depends on how gooey you like them. Just know that a minute is a long time to a cookie, and going from raw batter to gooey center can be the difference of only a minute or two.


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Voltage drop is a fundamental concern in any electrical system and it has been analyzed tremendously over time. Voltage drop in electrical circuits can be intentional by design or it can be problematic and difficult to troubleshoot.
This blog post is a very brief introduction to voltage drop and how it applies to wind and solar 12V battery charging and discharging.
One example of the "good kind" of voltage drop, or, voltage drop by design is our Smart Tech Power Meter, which constantly measures voltage drop across a known resistance value. This voltage drop can then be used to calculate the current traveling through the meter. Although this method of current "measurement" has existed for some time, Cutting Edge Power was the first to develop a product based on this theory designed specifically for wind & solar up to 60V DC and 200A.
Let's see how it affects battery and inverter wiring:
We can recall a couple of equations from Ohm's law that appear frequently in wind & solar power:
V = I x R
P = V x I
V = voltage (volts)
I = current (amps)
R = resistance (ohms)
It's important to understand that when referring to voltage drop through wires, we treat a wire as a resistor with a known resistance value in ohms. As the wire length increases, the resistance in ohms increases.
The first example we can analyze is the wire size for running a Trailblazer solar generator with a 4000W inverter very close to a battery versus the same inverter in your vehicle's trunk and running the wires the the battery in the front.
We know from Ohm's law that a 4000W inverter will need about 333 amps in order to output 4000W. Of course, we don't recommend running your inverter at max (think driving your car everywhere at full speed). But it should be designed for the max output of 333A.
Since wire size calculation is iterative, it takes a couple of tries to find the right size. We can use a calculator to do this quickly.
We can start with 10AWG:
As you can see, the voltage drop percentage is 11.09%
Cutting Edge Power recommends a 2% max acceptable voltage drop. However, 1-3% can be acceptable depending on other factors. For example, for the average DIY person, if going from 3% to 1% means you need to buy a new set of crimping tools, it might not be worth it.
So, we can try going up in wire size. Try it at 2 AWG.
When adjusting from 10 AWG to 2 AWG, the voltage drop changes to 1.73%, which is acceptable in most cases. It would be better if you could reduce the distance from 2 feet to 1.5 feet.
Where does the voltage go?? Power "lost" from voltage drop is dissipated as heat from the wire(s). If it's really bad, sometimes the wires get REALLY hot.
If your inverter keeps tripping the low voltage alarm but your battery voltage isn't low, you should investigate your voltage drop closely. If you don't order a parallel battery hookup kit from Cutting Edge Power, we don't know what your voltage drop could be and it becomes very difficult to troubleshoot.
Now you can see how changing the wire distance to 10 feet (from the battery to your vehicle's trunk) instead of 2 feet makes the voltage drop go way up:
The voltage drop percentage goes up to 8.67% and 1.04V. This means that if your battery is at exactly 12.0V, the actual voltage at the inverter will be dropped down to 10.96V. Most inverters will trip the low voltage alarm at around 11V, so designing a system with this voltage drop would not be acceptable.
As you can see, the wire size (gauge) and length are critical when calculating voltage drop. Following the above procedure and keeping the voltage drop percentage under 3% should set you up with an acceptable design. We didn't visit the "number of conductors" drop down, but it can be very useful when combining more than one wire in parallel.
If you want to avoid the headache of voltage drop calculations, you can rest assured knowing that Cutting Edge Power designs follow this criteria.
Now let's see how it affects solar panel wires:
Most 12V solar panels actually have an output voltage of around 18V. As you can probably already guess, adding extensions to your solar panels will definitely add voltage drop!
However, the important thing to know is that Cutting Edge Power has already done the voltage drop calculations for all of our products. We don't sell small gauge solar panel extensions or lengths that can put you in trouble because of the voltage drop.
All of our extensions are made with real 10AWG UL 4703 PV wire and the highest quality connectors we can possibly find.
Check them out here.